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We all know the whole 'unneeded breath' thing is silly, right? We do, right?
Vampires may not need oxygen to live, but they do need to breathe in order to speak. Fine.

But does it make sense to anyone else (as it does to me) that their breath would feel rather on the cool side? They have no body heat of their own. They derive it from drinking blood. But does that warm them up so much their breath would be as warm as a human's?

Opinions, anyone?

I've been meaning to make this post for a while. Can't remember how many times I've written it in my head. I just haven't managed to find the will to write it all down properly.

I'm also not sure whether I should flock this post or not. It probably doesn't matter. We'll see.

As you know, I've been rewatching BtVS in its entirety. I'm now near the end of season 5. I meant to post as I was going along, but then the official rewatch started on fantas_magoria so I wasn't sure I should. But here are a few muddled thoughts which probably don't belong over there anyway.

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Forgive the not very good icon. I made it myself.

I have no time at the moment, but anyway, some thoughts (which I'm sure someone else has already thought and expressed more eloquently) on (according to Joss Whedon) Loki being 'the new Spike.'

ETA: I should probably state that when Joss said this, he was probably just referring to the fan (or fangirl) reaction to Loki being similar to the reaction to Spike, not implying that he thought the characters were that similar in other ways.

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I don't have a Treme icon, (if anyone knows where I can get one, please tell me), so Lester from The Wire will have to do.

I didn't mean to go so long without posting (it's two whole days!) but I've been writing. Yes, really. I'm 4000 words into the last in my Spike/Giles season 7 series, and beginning to think I may actually finish it this year after all. Hoorah! I've also written several more chapters of that Ten Years After thing, but am not much closer to working out What Is Going On.

Speaking of Spike/Giles, what is wrong with the 'ship anyway (as opposed to other non-canon 'ships like Spike/Xander)? I saw a rather good comment fic the other day on a community actually called comment_fic, in a post entitled 'Ships of Shame. Apparently, according to the writer of this post, Spike/Giles is one of those. I don't get it. Can anyone explain why (beyond the obvious, Spike is Evil etc, etc, because that doesn't seem to bother the Spander 'shippers as far as I can see)?

But anyway, yay! for writing. The other thing I've been doing this week is finally starting to watch Treme. This is the first David Simon show I've watched since The Wire (I have Generation Kill on the shelf but am reluctant to tackle it), and so far I love it to bits.

Mild spoilers behind cut, as I've only seen four episodes of season 1 as yet. No spoilers please.

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Further to my last writing post, about Ao3, I can see I need to work on my fic summaries. Also, it seems that if I wanted the stories I was posting on the site to get mentioned on, say, su_herald, I should have been putting today's (or whichever day it was's) date on them, as killerweasel said. Is that right?

Anyway, not what this post is about. No, this post is about trying to write stuff (in fanfic, I mean, as I've never written anything else) you don't actually believe, and whether the results are ever convincing, and also about unintentionally writing stuff you never meant to. More behind cut, with spoilers for some of my own stories, should anyone care about those.

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Okay, so following on from my post about endings yesterday - which got rather sidetracked in places, must admit, but that's what happens when an author (ie. Joss) comes back and spoils a perfectly good ending - some more about endings, fanfic etc.

There have been various posts recently about the deadness (or otherwise) of the author. I haven't commented because, frankly, I can never think of anything clever enough to say, and besides, as in most things, I change my mind all the time.

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This sort of post (ie. where people talked about their own fics) were quite common back in the day, now not so much. But whatever. I was bored at work yesterday and this was the result. Also, I'm procrastinating about starting the next story in my Spike/Giles season 7 series.

Recently, someone was kind enough to read my 2006 fic (boy, that long ago!) Vampire Winter, and leave feedback. When answering their comment, I got sucked into re-reading the story myself.

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So recently, I started re-watching BtVS season 5 for the first time in ages. Got as far as FFL then had to stop with no idea when I'd get the chance to watch more.

Last night, I managed three more eps, ending with Into the Woods, and have some thoughts about that ep and the end of Buffy/Riley behind cut.

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Further to my comics post of the other day. I promise I’ll stop after this. I know very few people on my flist are interested.

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Last spammy post of the day, and yes, not really quite the right icon, but I couldn't find one of Comics!Magneto.

So, anyway, probably no one is at all interested in this except me, but...

Spoilers behind cut for the Buffy comics and for recent X-Men storylines

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