Illyria Drabbles: To Rain in Hell & From Hell to Texas

We can has heat! The new central heating unit has been installed. Not quite finished, they’re coming back this morning to lag pipes, seal holes, and take away the old one, (and give me the bill!), but we were warm last night and I was able to take a badly-needed shower.

My hypothesis about the requirements for a fic to be popular on ‘Twisting the Hellmouth’ has been upgraded to a Theory; my Super!Xander ficlet 'The Incredible Xander' is already rapidly climbing towards 1st place in my ‘hits per chapter’ stats there with over 1,000 in less than a day. Meanwhile ‘The Cloak of Mist’, the best thing I’ve ever done, is down in second-last place with 77. It doesn’t feature Xander.

The current challenge on TtH is for Angel: the Series fics. Quite a while ago I did an Illyria drabble that was meant to be the first of a series telling a coherent story. I got distracted, as I’m afraid often happens, and I never even put it into Memories; I can’t even find the drabble myself now.

On the 29th of January, however, deird1 posted a mind-blowingly superb Fred/Illyria post-NFA ficlet called Shell Game. It reminded me of what I’d meant to do and, after a little re-watching of ‘Angel’ episodes on the SF Channel, I’ve picked up where I left off with a 250-word second instalment. I’m reposting the first one too as the original LJ post is lost. The first part is 100 words, the second 250, rating PG, totally ignoring the comics 'canon'. These are very definitely NOT my humorous punning stuff. Part 3 will probably follow in a day or two.

( To Rain in Hell )

( From Hell to Texas )

Illyria Drabbles: To Rain in Hell & From Hell to Texas

We can has heat! The new central heating unit has been installed. Not quite finished, they’re coming back this morning to lag pipes, seal holes, and take away the old one, (and give me the bill!), but we were warm last night and I was able to take a badly-needed shower.

My hypothesis about the requirements for a fic to be popular on ‘Twisting the Hellmouth’ has been upgraded to a Theory; my Super!Xander ficlet 'The Incredible Xander' is already rapidly climbing towards 1st place in my ‘hits per chapter’ stats there with over 1,000 in less than a day. Meanwhile ‘The Cloak of Mist’, the best thing I’ve ever done, is down in second-last place with 77. It doesn’t feature Xander.

The current challenge on TtH is for Angel: the Series fics. Quite a while ago I did an Illyria drabble that was meant to be the first of a series telling a coherent story. I got distracted, as I’m afraid often happens, and I never even put it into Memories; I can’t even find the drabble myself now.

On the 29th of January, however, dierd1 posted a mind-blowingly superb Fred/Illyria post-NFA ficlet called Shell Game. It reminded me of what I’d meant to do and, after a little re-watching of ‘Angel’ episodes on the SF Channel, I’ve picked up where I left off with a 250-word second instalment. I’m reposting the first one too as the original LJ post is lost. The first part is 100 words, the second 250, rating PG, totally ignoring the comics 'canon'. These are very definitely NOT my humorous punning stuff. Part 3 will probably follow in a day or two.

( To Rain in Hell )

( From Hell to Texas )