Maz's confused virtuality

Bewitched won the award for best series at the No Rest for the Wicked Awards. The judges' statement was: Oh my... let's get a thing straight! Everyone needs to read this story! Everyone needs to discover this author! To say that I am chuffed to bits, would be a vast understatement.

Thank you, again, to the kind person who nominated it.

And I got this -
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Thanks also to angelus2hot for the lovely banner

Title: Bewitched, Chapter 36/37
Pairing: S/X
Rating: Overall NC-17
Summary: Valentine's Day arrived and Dru dipped her finger in the brew, giving it a stir. That was two years ago and the fall-out is still falling, although it's almost finished now.
Word Count: 5,420
Betaed by sparrow2000 and DJ, for which, many thanks. Thanks also to Sparrow for conflabbing on plot twists and forms.
Comments: Are greatly appreciated, loved and cherished.
Disclaimer: here.

The prologue is here, with a link to the other chapters, or you can find the whole thing, in reverse order, in tags, or in the correct order, in memories. There's a menu of links on the right hand side of my main journal page.

If you were reading this story before it went on hiatus, after chapter 27, there is a recap post here with a link to chapter 28 and all chapters following.


Many thanks to katekat1010 for allowing me to use her original manip which you can find here.

( Chapter 36 )

ice-cream has been nominated at the UFO Awards - The Universal Fanfic Open Awards, for stories completed in 2008.



Thank you to whoever did the nominating and to the person who seconded it.

There is just one category per fandom - 'Best of' and it is nice to see that, while not the biggest selection, BtVS is nowhere near the smallest. Someone has been busy, because there were no nominations from BtVS in 2007 and only one in 2006. This year there are 15.

So go look. Click on the banner, to see who else has been nominated. And thank you again to my nominator.

I just got an email saying that Blood on a Sundial got nominated at The White Knight Awards, in the Academically Dangerous category and Ice-cream got nominated in the World Without Shrimp AU category.

Which is a lovely surprise and has made my morning. Thank you the the kind person, or persons, who did that.

Voting starts on Monday (hint, hint *g*). Actually, there are some great stories there. So go, read, and vote for whoever. I guarantee you'll have fun, if you haven't read them already.



It also gives me a chance to try out this clever thingy, where an image is also a link. *g* Never tried that before.

Let's see if it worked. *presses the Post button*

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I discovered something today - apparently my friends page stops at skip=900. I didn't know that. It's only two and a half weeks, for goodness sakes. I don't know how much I've missed as a result. Hopefully any ongoing series will post another chapter soon and then I'll just be confused at the apparent lack of continuity. *Growls*

But this morning I heard some really nice news. BoaS won a runners up award at the forbiddenawards. And a Judges Choice. I got pretties to prove it ( if you look under the cut )

A short one this week. I wrote the first draft of this last night, which made for a pleasant and relaxed day today. *g* So I went back and did some tidying up of earlier chapters. Nothing huge, mostly small corrections of things that got missed in the beta'ing process. Please do let me know if you see any more. A quote from Shakespeare as a title seemed appropriate.


Title: To thine own self...
Part 38 of the Blood on a Sundial series.
Previous parts, in reverse order, are here or in my memories.
Fandom: BtVS
Prompt: #54 - Cry Havoc
At: tamingthemuse
Summary: Spike, Xander, AU in Season 2. We are talking slow burn here, people.
Disclaimer: here.
Rating: Pg
Word Count: 1,070

( To thine own self... )
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swweeks made me a banner. Which was lovely and unexpected and the first time I've received a graphic for no other reason than, just because.

So I had to show it off, didn't I?

And the reason? Well, that was lovely too. She said -
For me, one of the challenges of writing is the description of movement, showing what the character is doing so that the visual image the reader has is as clear as if he were standing there watching. thismaz has no such difficulty. Yesterday, I remarked to her that someone should dub her the master of movement. Well, rather than waiting for "Someone" to do so, I am investing myself with the authority and do so now.

So thank you swweeks, as I said before, I am chuffed to bits.

ETA: I asked if anyone knew who the original artist was, so I could credit, so thank you to Annon and to tabaqui for identifying the original work as by Michael Parkes.

I went and had a look on his web site and it says: All Images © 1975-2004 Michael Parkes®. World Rights Reserved.
No images may be downloaded or reproduced, and trademarks may not be used without permission.

So I have taken it down. It was a lovely thought though, and I am grateful.

It was called Puppetmaster and you can see it here: Puppetmaster


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The prequel to this story, Observations, has been nominated for the White Knight Awards. Thank you to the lovely person who did that.
The whole saga can be found, in reverse order, here



Road Trip 6/6 plus epilogue
Timeline: Three years after Observations, which was set during some sort of AU season 7, where The First never arrived.
Disclaimer: here.
Summary: What do you do when your just travelling around and you come across a puzzle? More importantly, what do you do if you are a vampire with a soul and his human pet?
Note: Beta'ed by the wonderful maggie77. Thank you Maggie.
Note 2: I have never written Angel before, so I would be very grateful if any Angel writers could tell me if I have got the voice right. Any helpful suggestions welcome.


( Part 6 )

Epilogue, tomorrow.

Observations got nominated for the forbiddenawards. Isn't that nice of someone? I've got a big smile.....

And I am happy with that, because I don't expect more. I mean, check out the competition. There is a wonderful collection of stories there and it's great just to be listed among them.

*whispers* Yes, I know you told me last week sexymermaid but it didn't feel real until I saw it in writing.