Thanks so much for this comment. I have to say that I'm pretty happy with this story. I don't think it's the cleanest thing ever--I wrote it really fast--but it says a lot that I wanted to say, and have wanted to say for a long time. I wish I'd said it sooner, because now there aren't as many people around to discuss it with me.
But anyway, I've never understood wingfic and always found rather silly, until I saw snickfic prompt "Faith wing!fic", and then a lot of things clicked in my brain so hard it was like a field of locusts in there. It is weird and rich and awesome, which I've thought about many fandom id kinks, but haven't thought to find in wingfic before.
I was thinking about writing porn, because I could totally see these two shacking up, but one thing I've wanted to write for a long time was a Buffy/Faith fic that was a mirror to the Angel Gets A Puppy Fic, in which Angel/Spike dance around each other, but the central theme is learning to understand each other, and friendship. I thought I still might put porn in anyway, but then when Buffy was salving up Faith's wounds, I realized how liberating it was not to have to take it anywhere. I definitely thought of our recent conversation, too :o)
I think it's cool too the things you picked out, because I almost deleted the Spike-is-the-only-one-invited detail many times, because yes, it doesn't quite fit, but I liked it. I rewrote "I have no faith" from a bunch of different things, and ended up really disliking it, because I feel it's too blunt, but I did want Faith to have a sort of conflict between her feelings about what's real and what she wishes was real, as represented by the wings and her name. I also reworked the paragraph with the hamburgers several times! Just so there would be the right level of detail about the problems with this situation.
I actually didn't think about why I kept putting her in the barn. I just wanted her to feel trapped, and now it makes more sense to me!
There's also a lot more Buffy/Spike in this than I've ever written before, and I was rather surprised about it.
Anywho, thanks so so so much for reading this. I'm glad you liked it.
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But anyway, I've never understood wingfic and always found rather silly, until I saw
I was thinking about writing porn, because I could totally see these two shacking up, but one thing I've wanted to write for a long time was a Buffy/Faith fic that was a mirror to the Angel Gets A Puppy Fic, in which Angel/Spike dance around each other, but the central theme is learning to understand each other, and friendship. I thought I still might put porn in anyway, but then when Buffy was salving up Faith's wounds, I realized how liberating it was not to have to take it anywhere. I definitely thought of our recent conversation, too :o)
I think it's cool too the things you picked out, because I almost deleted the Spike-is-the-only-one-invited detail many times, because yes, it doesn't quite fit, but I liked it. I rewrote "I have no faith" from a bunch of different things, and ended up really disliking it, because I feel it's too blunt, but I did want Faith to have a sort of conflict between her feelings about what's real and what she wishes was real, as represented by the wings and her name. I also reworked the paragraph with the hamburgers several times! Just so there would be the right level of detail about the problems with this situation.
I actually didn't think about why I kept putting her in the barn. I just wanted her to feel trapped, and now it makes more sense to me!
There's also a lot more Buffy/Spike in this than I've ever written before, and I was rather surprised about it.
Anywho, thanks so so so much for reading this. I'm glad you liked it.