thoughts on the remix
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deird1For this year's remix, I got ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
aadler. Which makes my job easier - lots of good fic to choose from - but also harder - because it's so well written that I don't really like to change anything.
As it was, I've remixed foraadler before, three years ago, so I limited myself to his more recent fic.
I really wanted to choose Maxima Culpa or As Moonlight Unto Sunlight, but I couldn't come up with anything to do with them. They were awesome, but already rather complete.
Then I hit Into The Abyss.
Of course, that's the thing about multi-part fics. I read the first five parts, and spent the entire time nodding my head and thinking "Yes, this will be remixable." I would take the slowly blossoming romance between Jane and Giles, and spread it out over several encounters, across several years. There would be emails! And phone calls! Hurrah!
...and then I hit part six. And it turned out to not be that story at all.
Instead, it was the story of Jane, and her quest for vengeance. Giles was just there as an onlooker, mostly.
The story was, I might add, entirely in character for Giles. Often I am inspired to remix by someone seeming somehow out of character, and attempting to resolve that. In this case, it was the sheer in-character-ness of Giles that spurred my remix. Because - yes. Giles would react precisely like that. He would be sympathetic to Jane's plight, but still consider her actions "against the rules". One simply does not kill humans for personal vengeance, no matter how much one might wish to.
Buffy and Angel, I thought, would both feel the same way.
Willow and Faith would be less concerned with the rules, but would both maintain that their personal histories had taught them that they shouldn't go along with things like that.
Xander, Dawn, and Wesley, though? They would all, I believed, share a single reaction: "faster, pussycat, kill, kill".
I decided to go with Dawn.
aadler. Which makes my job easier - lots of good fic to choose from - but also harder - because it's so well written that I don't really like to change anything.As it was, I've remixed for
aadler before, three years ago, so I limited myself to his more recent fic.I really wanted to choose Maxima Culpa or As Moonlight Unto Sunlight, but I couldn't come up with anything to do with them. They were awesome, but already rather complete.
Then I hit Into The Abyss.
Of course, that's the thing about multi-part fics. I read the first five parts, and spent the entire time nodding my head and thinking "Yes, this will be remixable." I would take the slowly blossoming romance between Jane and Giles, and spread it out over several encounters, across several years. There would be emails! And phone calls! Hurrah!
...and then I hit part six. And it turned out to not be that story at all.
Instead, it was the story of Jane, and her quest for vengeance. Giles was just there as an onlooker, mostly.
The story was, I might add, entirely in character for Giles. Often I am inspired to remix by someone seeming somehow out of character, and attempting to resolve that. In this case, it was the sheer in-character-ness of Giles that spurred my remix. Because - yes. Giles would react precisely like that. He would be sympathetic to Jane's plight, but still consider her actions "against the rules". One simply does not kill humans for personal vengeance, no matter how much one might wish to.
Buffy and Angel, I thought, would both feel the same way.
Willow and Faith would be less concerned with the rules, but would both maintain that their personal histories had taught them that they shouldn't go along with things like that.
Xander, Dawn, and Wesley, though? They would all, I believed, share a single reaction: "faster, pussycat, kill, kill".
I decided to go with Dawn.