Ficlet: Take Me To Your Leda

The first round of voting in the Twisting the Hellmouth CoA Awards, deciding who makes the cut for the second round, has now ended. I only made it through in one category, ‘Tabula Avatar’ in ‘Best Games Crossover’ (although I’m still up for two Mod Awards), and curiouswombat also only made it through in one category (‘Best Lord of the Rings Crossover’ for ‘Return of the Key’). I’m absolutely flabbergasted that she didn’t get through for ‘Best New Author’; I honestly didn’t think that anyone else stood any chance whatsoever against her and was regarding her victory as a forgone conclusion.

Yesterday I had a look at last year’s winners, wondering what my chances were, and was reminded that TtH does have an unfortunate preponderance of Super!Xander fans. The trend is for the most successful stories to be about Xander wearing a costume as a super-powerful entity in Season 2’s ‘Halloween’ and, usually, retaining those powers for ever after. I resolved to write the ultimate Super!Xander story and guarantee myself supremacy in next year’s CoA Awards. Unfortunately, although I came up with a persona for him of perhaps unparalleled power, I wasn’t able to take the project completely seriously…

Rating R, exactly 2,000 words.
( Take Me To Your Leda )

Ficlet: Take Me To Your Leda

The first round of voting in the Twisting the Hellmouth CoA Awards, deciding who makes the cut for the second round, has now ended. I only made it through in one category, ‘Tabula Avatar’ in ‘Best Games Crossover’ (although I’m still up for two Mod Awards), and curiouswombat also only made it through in one category (‘Best Lord of the Rings Crossover’ for ‘Return of the Key’). I’m absolutely flabbergasted that she didn’t get through for ‘Best New Author’; I honestly didn’t think that anyone else stood any chance whatsoever against her and was regarding her victory as a forgone conclusion.

Yesterday I had a look at last year’s winners, wondering what my chances were, and was reminded that TtH does have an unfortunate preponderance of Super!Xander fans. The trend is for the most successful stories to be about Xander wearing a costume as a super-powerful entity in Season 2’s ‘Halloween’ and, usually, retaining those powers for ever after. I resolved to write the ultimate Super!Xander story and guarantee myself supremacy in next year’s CoA Awards. Unfortunately, although I came up with a persona for him of perhaps unparalleled power, I wasn’t able to take the project completely seriously…

Rating R, exactly 2,000 words.

( Take Me To Your Leda )