The fic I mentioned is five shorts with the collective name Glory Be - and note, I didn't say they it was very well done, only that it WAS done. It comes of very much like a sudden outbreak of Porn World horndog-virus, unfortunately, but the repercussions are handled in a relatively thoguhtful manner (those being the third through fifth parts.) Total length is only about 40kb, but as the only example I know of of a Glory-redemption it's still noteworthy I think. - Oh, and beware of pr0n in the second part.
Custos makes a good point as well, but the direct comparison between the two particularly struck me because I wodnered about taking Xander's, er, encounter with Faith in The Zeppo as a divergence point, if he'd resisted the teenage libido and told her that he'd saved her because she's his friend, not out of hope of a shot at her, so that she didn't lump him in as Human Kleenex, Three-legged, Used, either becoming a voice in support of his part in the slayage or thye pair as a second unit as Buffy and Willow continued pushing him out, having tried several (entirely forgettable) fics in a row by the same author who liked breaking from that ep by either sending him to other places when a not-defused bomb went off in such close proximity to the hellmouth or having him injured by the not-defused bomb and awakened as a mutant/turned into a cyborg or super-soldier/re-possed by the Hyena for the healing factor/etc. and wished for a less heavy-handed approach to throwing the wrench in the works, then noticed I had Glory Be sitting around on disk but unread.
Holy crap was that ever a run-on. Oh well, it seems to still make sense when I read it over, so whatever. Faith not being in the slammer for those time frames - espescially Glory! - would surely have been welcome, though.
Also, Yay! New chapter of PotW!
- CDSERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see?
CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others.
Dr. Akagi will recover. Observe, Rei smiled. Shinji-kun, are these your clothes?
Ritsuko shot up like a spring loaded meerkat. What? Shinji-kun is naked?
See, Anata? Dr. Hentai is alive and well. - Innortal's _I Do_
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows
Custos makes a good point as well, but the direct comparison between the two particularly struck me because I wodnered about taking Xander's, er, encounter with Faith in The Zeppo as a divergence point, if he'd resisted the teenage libido and told her that he'd saved her because she's his friend, not out of hope of a shot at her, so that she didn't lump him in as Human Kleenex, Three-legged, Used, either becoming a voice in support of his part in the slayage or thye pair as a second unit as Buffy and Willow continued pushing him out, having tried several (entirely forgettable) fics in a row by the same author who liked breaking from that ep by either sending him to other places when a not-defused bomb went off in such close proximity to the hellmouth or having him injured by the not-defused bomb and awakened as a mutant/turned into a cyborg or super-soldier/re-possed by the Hyena for the healing factor/etc. and wished for a less heavy-handed approach to throwing the wrench in the works, then noticed I had Glory Be sitting around on disk but unread.
Holy crap was that ever a run-on. Oh well, it seems to still make sense when I read it over, so whatever. Faith not being in the slammer for those time frames - espescially Glory! - would surely have been welcome, though.
Also, Yay! New chapter of PotW!
- CDSERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see?
CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others.
Dr. Akagi will recover. Observe, Rei smiled. Shinji-kun, are these your clothes?
Ritsuko shot up like a spring loaded meerkat. What? Shinji-kun is naked?
See, Anata? Dr. Hentai is alive and well. - Innortal's _I Do_
--
"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows