beer_good_foamy

Inspired by gabrielleabelle's post on Buffyverse characters writing fanfic, here's a long overdue installment in the shelf!verse, in which our intrepid heroes find themselves trapped in the world of fiction.

Title: Shelf Life – part 4
Author: Beer Good (beer_good_foamy)
Fandom: Buffy s5-ish/Harry Potter (well, sort of)
Characters: Ensemble
Word Count: ~700
Rating: PG13 (possibly R if you're sensitive to the F word).
Summary: You take one Magic Box, one brand-new shelf of fiction, one spell gone slightly wonky, and suddenly our heroes find themselves fully booked. Geddit? Booked? Well, you will.
Previous parts here.

Book The Fourth: In Which Scotland Is A Silly Place

( I know it's kind of a secret and all, but... you didn't happen to have some of your fanfic in your backpack, didya? )

Happy comic!crack!day, everyone! OK, so I had a couple of different ideas left that I was considering using for comicsnarkathon, and since we'll soon have about six months in which to write carefully thought-out crack about #35, eventually I decided to just toss them all together into one rather gratuitous flashfic, fittingly titled...

Title: The Kitchen Sink Cracked From Side To Side
Author: Beer Good (beer_good_foamy)
Fandom: Season 8
Word Count: ~850
Rating: PG13
Warnings: ***Metamorphosis, character redeath, implied mutilation, canon events***
Summary: In the last days, everything happens at once.

The Kitchen Sink Cracked From Side To Side

( What the hell happened here? )

This is for gillo, shapinglight and rebcake, who requested Spike fic (with optional Dawn), and also inspired by recent posts by angearia and stormwreath.

Title: The Roots Of All Evil
Author: Beer Good (beer_good_foamy)
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, early s6-ish
Word Count: ~580
Rating: PG13
Characters: Spike, Dawn, Buffy
Summary: Girl with attention issues... vampire feeling lonely... crypt containing certain vampiric instruments... what do you think is going to happen? A truly hair-raising tale.

The Roots Of All Evil

( The final cut )

OK, this is purely for my own sake, so I'm hoping there's at least someone out there who thinks this is a good idea. I don't know if anyone else has ever thought there should be a Buffy/Dostoevsky crossover, or that Faith/Raskolnikov is a logical pairing, but...

Anyway, Chapter 2 of Shelf Life, in which our heroes get sent into Giles' bookshelf, this time finding themselves in 1860s S:t Petersburg. Written for still_grrr's Classic Literature month.

Title: Shelf Life
Author: Beer Good (beer_good_foamy)
Prompt: 153: Crime And Punishment
Fandom: Buffy s5-ish, w/crossovers
Characters: Ensemble
Word Count: 1764
Summary: You take one Magic Box, one brand-new shelf of fiction, one spell gone slightly wonky, and suddenly our heroes find themselves fully booked. Geddit? Booked? Well, you will.

Book The First: In Which There Are No Giants

Book The Second: In Which Nobody Gets Murdered

( On an exceptionally hot evening early in July... )

Hey, this is nifty:


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And on that note, this month is Classic Literature month at still_grrr, so let's see if I can create a sort of multi-chapter multi-crossover fic type thingy. The first challenge is "Ancient Greece to Renaissance", so let's step back to 1605...

Title: Shelf Life
Author: Beer Good (beer_good_foamy)
Fandom: Buffy (s5-ish)/Don Quixote of La Mancha
Characters: Ensemble
Word Count: 1605 (of course)
Summary: You take one Magic Box, one brand-new shelf of fiction, one spell gone slightly wonky, and suddenly our heroes find themselves fully booked. Geddit? Booked? Well, you will.

Book The First: In Which There Are No Giants

( Unhand me, villain! )

Told ya there'd be more!

Title: The Return of the Son of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons
Author: Beer Good (beer_good_foamy)
Rating: PG13
Fandom/timeline: Buffy, s3: "Amends". Except Dawn is in it.
Word Count: 1750 (this chapter)
Characters: Buffy, Faith, Joyce, Dawn.
Summary: It's Christmas in Sunnydale, Angel has been talked down from the hill and awww, isn't all that snow pretty. That can't be a bad thing, can it? I mean, this is Sunnydale, where the supernatural is always helpful and it's not like magical snow instantly covering the entire town could possibly herald the arrival of... FLESH-EATING ZOMBIE SNOWMEN?!?

He'll have a happy face, a happy smile
A happy point of view!
If you'll build me a snowman
Then I'll build one for you!
- Cannibal! The Musical

Chapter 1

Chapter 2: Stalkin' In A Winter Wonderland

( Stupid snow )

OK, this is embarrassing. I started this last year, then hit a snag and didn't manage to finish it before Christmas, and it seemed a bit silly to post holiday fic in March so I put it on the back burner. But here's a new attempt. It's basically finished now, and so I'm going to start by reposting the first chapter. The rest - right now it's looking like five chapters in toto - will be posted over the next few days. Really. I promise.

Title: The Return of the Son of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons
Author: Beer Good (beer_good_foamy)
Rating: PG13
Fandom/timeline: Buffy, s3: "Amends". Except Dawn is in it.
Word Count: ~1500 (this chapter)
Characters: Buffy, Faith, Joyce, Dawn. Canon pairings and crushes alluded to.
Disclaimer:: The characters belong to Joss, yada yada.
Warning: None in this chapter, but there'll be some very silly stuff later on.
Summary: It's Christmas in Sunnydale, Angel has been talked down from the hill and awww, isn't all that snow pretty. That can't be a bad thing, can it? I mean, this is Sunnydale, where the supernatural is always helpful and it's not like magical snow instantly covering the entire town could possibly herald the arrival of... FLESH-EATING ZOMBIE SNOWMEN?!?

Frosty the snowman is a fairy tale, they say
He was made of snow
But the children know
How he came to life one day.

Chapter 1: It Came Upon A Morning Clear

open_on_sunday had the prompt "brought to you by the letter S and the number 3". Here's one idea, vaguely post-series:

Pattern Recognition

"Because you always fall for the same people," Dawn said. "You have a type."

"I do not!" Buffy protested. "Angel, dark and mysterious. Riley, mister Normality. Spike, bad boy with the motorcycle and leather. Where's the type?"

"And your first motorbiking bad-boy boyfriend who was completely different from Spike was ...?"

Buffy groaned. "Pike. Whatever, so maybe I have three types. That still doesn't mean I'll date anyone who's..."

"B?" Faith walked in, tossing her a helmet. "Let's motorvate. The Harley's souped up, those vamps ain't gonna dust themselves." She frowned as Dawn collapsed in giggles. "OK, what's the joke?"

open_on_sunday's prompt is "Work." Which seems fitting since today's topic is "how to finance the Slayers post-'Chosen'" (see here and here).

Retroactive Salary
Post-series

"There," Willow grinned as she hit Enter. "One Watcher's Council account hacked. That oughta keep you guys in stakes for the next decade or so."

"Yeah, but..." Buffy still looked doubtful. "I know they're mostly dead and can't complain, but are you sure..."

"Hey sis, check this out." Dawn made a few last calculations on a scrap of paper. "Giles says the first Slayer was called roughly 8-10,000 years ago, so let's assume they owe minimum wage to every Slayer since, plus interest, adjust for inflation... huh." She frowned at the account information on-screen. "There should be more zeroes here."

Here's a mildly silly plotbunny that struck me when I was thinking of songs to use for still_grrr's "Classic rock" week. To be honest I'm not sure if Tom Waits can even be classified as rock, but hey, it's a great song anyway so I was happy to steal four words and a little bit of ambience from it.

Title: Trail Of The Pbuffalo
Author: Beer Good (beer_good_foamy)
Rating: PG13
Word Count: 760
Characters: Dawn, Faith, Vi, Rona, Giles
Summary: Just a small interlude from the everyday life of a couple of monster fighters. Some of them haven't been fighting monsters long, and others are slightly bored and ready to explain things to the newbies.

( And the drinks are on me tonight )