Plot Bunny seeks good home

[speaker_to_customers]

I'm taking a leaf from theohara's book and offering up plot bunnies to anyone interested rather than starting yet more WIPs. So, here's one that I'd love to write but won't.

I'm a Giles/Drusilla shipper. I'd have loved to see something come of the "Becoming Part 2" kiss. So, alternative S4 scenario. Instead of reacting to Spike's Slayer obsession by shagging Chaos/Fungus Demons, Drusilla returns to Sunnydale intending to rid herself of her rival by terminating Buffy with extreme prejudice - and is captured by the Initiative and chipped. She escapes, throws herself on the Scoobies' mercy, and generally fills the Spike role in S4 onwards, but inevitably there are differences and a Giles/Drusilla romance gradually develops. Spike's own presence or absence, and chipped or unchipped status, is up to the author.

This would have to be long. It would be hard to do convincingly. But I think that in the hands of a sufficiently talented writer it could be very good indeed.

If nobody takes me up on it I'll do it after I finish all scheduled WIPs and series fics. Probably in 2007.


I've passed 20,000 words on "The Cloak of Mist" and I'm hoping to have it finished this weekend.

That will give me 5 days to do the other story I've promised for the watchersdiaries ficathon; not long enough to do a reasonable job on the scenario I had planned, so I'll something from the Roxyverse background material where I've done all the research and outlining already. "Deid Canny", the story of how Jack became a vampire in 1613 after the Kalmar War.

Next is my story for bogwitch's Spike/Tentacle ficathon, for Valentine's Day; I've done 1,500 words of a planned 3,000 already so that should be no problem. "Attack of the 50-Foot Willow".

Then I've promised claudia_yvr a new chapter of "Life in Shadow" for her birthday on February 19; I've made a start already, and I should make it.

Then "Lithium" to complete the Nirvana Trilogy, and then on with the main WIPs "Pandora's Boxer" and the BuffyBot stories. And "The Immigrant Song" if I get really horny; or continuing "Alone" if I get really depressed.

Comments

[killerweasel.livejournal.com]

wow, that dru/giles thing sounds really cool plot bunny.

[speakr2customrs.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I definitely think so, but getting a chance to do something with it is just not possible unless I drop a story that I'm already committed to. So I hope someone takes me up on it.

[elisi]

You are very busy! And the plot-bunny is very intriguing! I'm really not going to take you up on it though, since I'm trying to write this Spuffy story, and once that's finished I have another plotbunny! *sigh* It's a good one, but it's sort of stuck after 3 chapters. Up till there is all sat in my head, ready to be written down. After that - blank.

Anyway, I'll stop talking about myself now - re. your proposal I always thought it'd be interesting to see how Angelus would have done, had he been chipped. Although that would be a romance-less story I'm afraid. ;)

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

'Re your proposal' - he's proposed to you? - Aagh I'm married to a potential bigamist!!

Good job you're not available!!

[elisi]

Heeeee! :)

Well, no proposal in that sense. I meant 'plot-bunny'. (And also I really don't know if I could live with a furry alien... do you get orange hairs all over the house?)

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Not so badly since we got the Dyson!

[indri]

Dear Mr Customers,

I have just read "I Was Made for Loving You Baby" and I have a complaint. There are only seven chapters. This is clearly insufficient for a witty and kind-hearted fic featuring some of my favourite pairings. Violent Elizabeth Bott is a fine creation who deserves more words devoted to her, especially if she continues to make jokes about British TV programs. I am therefore pleased to read, in your missive above, that more will be appearing sometime in the future. I hope you will not take it amiss if I express a cordial impatience in this regard.

Yours sincerely,
Indri indri
A Lemur

[speakr2customrs.livejournal.com]

Sorry.

Chapter 8 was giving me problems; during it there are a lot of things happening without Violet's knowledge, and working out at what point she'd become aware of them was tricky. I shelved it for a while to get on with other projects, got too caught up in those projects, and before I knew it months had passed.

I'll return to Violet Elizabeth in March, I promise.

[indri]

No apology necessary (quite the contrary). And my own record in this regard is not stellar.

[agilebrit.livejournal.com]

Ooooh, intriguing! *looks over list of WIPs and other Plot Bunnies* Ummmm...Not sure I have the mad skillz that would require. YEAH! That's the ticket!

*sighs and puts it in the Hutch anyway*

*shakes fist at the world in general*

[speakr2customrs.livejournal.com]

*sighs and puts it in the Hutch anyway*

Now I've got a Drusilla/Starsky plot bunny hopping madly around the back of the red Ford Torino.

[violethamster.livejournal.com]

You should so write that. No matter how long it takes. I'd watch your lj for it for years and years, whining mentally to myself that you hadn't posted the darned Giles/Drusilla fic yet.

Your bunny has spawned a Giles/Drusilla bunny in my head. A sad, mutated, depressing little baby bunny.

[speakr2customrs.livejournal.com]

Your bunny has spawned a Giles/Drusilla bunny in my head. A sad, mutated, depressing little baby bunny.

Leave it in a cage, and don't feed it, and it will be all dead, just like the last one.