Fic: Five Black and Gold Rings

My first finished Buffyverse fanfic!

geocities.com/beccaelizabeth/ethan/fiveblackandgoldrings.htm
Five Black and Gold Rings
https://archiveofourown.org/works/51441

Five things that never happened to livejournal.com/users/beccaelizabeth/95872.html the ring Giles wears.
https://beccaelizabeth.dreamwidth.org/97053.html

Giles pre-series, G/E in parts, nothing graphic.

8855 words

beta by mireille719, then tweaked by me, so any remaining mistakes are all mine.

Any kind of feedback welcome, even the kind where you tell me all the ways it is all wrong. I might cry and hide under the desk, but you are welcome to say it.


[edited link March 2022, geocities being long gone, and livejournal]

Publicising fic

Okay, now I've written my shiny little gem of brilliance (!) obviously I want to share it with the Whole WORLD!!!!! But, um, I don't want to be insane about it. So far, I've linked it from here and from stay_and_gloat. It is prety much topicy on giles_slash, being about Giles and at least partly slash. But I havent posted there yet. I'm getting the urge to not only do that but also go search interests until I find all the vaguely Gilesy vaguely fic related communities and Tell Them ALL!!!!!

Plus I'm on a lot of mailing lists. GilesSlash, HardRayne, RayneMakers, RipperRayne, UCSL all have interest in Giles, Ethan, and/or Giles/Ethan, so I could tell all of them all about it. Which in the case of some Ethan lists would be the first mail they've had all year. Huh. Useful. And yet story not very Ethany.

But the thing is, I don't know if I should go post everywhere. I mean I have no idea if there's a maximum number of lists you can be on topic on at once before it turns into spam. But I obviously want lots and lots of readers. So far yahoo says my story has had 21 page views, and about half a dozen of them were me checking it worked right. Which is whole plural numbers of reader, so yaaay, but I keep on reloading to see if there are more :eyeroll:

So the other reason I'm not sure how many places I should mention this is because I'm pretty much being insane about it as it is.

Anyways, thoughts?