Plot bunny

What if a ghost kept calling 999 to re-enact the last few moments before it's own murder?

More generally I was thinking what if people really did call for help from the scary things, what a 911 operator in Sunnydale would have to deal with, how a 999 operator could get involved.
Or what one would overhear.
Like on the phone to the ambulance people- "What do you mean you've got no pulse? You're moving and speaking, of course you have a pulse..."

I just liked the idea of a story from such a perspective- its very outside yet would get involved at the most intense moments.

So what does 'death' mean in BtVS & AtS?

Fanfic is big with the warnings. ( Read more... )

Another thing that gets in the warnings is if it is a death fic. ( Read more... )

In BtVS and AtS, the usual kind of death is in a severe minority. Sometimes characters die and stay dead, which makes calling that 'death' pretty simple. But sometimes characters die and come back as a vampire, revenant, messenger, zombie, higher power and/or ghost. Or potentially are replaced by an exact duplicate from another dimension / a copy of themselves from some moment in time before their death. In *canon* they do all of that. What we can imagine happening to them gets pretty much boundless.

So what I'm wondering is, do any of those situations count as death? I mean if you were warned something was a death fic and the 'dead' character got back up again further down the page, would you feel the warning was unnecessary? Or would you want to be warned even if a canonically alive character turned up from the first in some more exotic state, say if Xander starts the story as a vampire? ( Read more... )

The trouble with warnings is that they can take all the suspense, twists and stings out of a story. The helpful thing is that they take they help you not wander into more sting than you are up to. But a misleading label can lose readers who would otherwise like your story. So I'm wondering.

Giles drabble

be made a drabble
http://www.livejournal.com/community/open_on_sunday/546482.html

For Giles, love had always had dark eyes. Ethan, who saw him as he wanted to be seen, his reflection in those eyes as dark as he wished to be. Jenny, who saw a man when others only saw a walking library, eyes as dark as their nights together, and the nights they never had. Olivia, dark eyes in a dark face, who couldn’t cope with the darkness looking back. All his lovers, so much different, always the same eyes. Deep and dark and sparkling. Mischief, humour, desire- sparks in the darkness, stars in the sky. Like looking into forever.

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