So, hey. Hi! Good to meet you.  Joining Elysian Fields has me writing fanfic again!

'I reject your reality and substitute my own' disclosure:  'Pratt' is merely one final insult to Spike that is not canon here, and the portmanteau is 'Bungel,' because Buffy deserves more of the alphabet.

What you can expect:  Though it's the fantasy-horror genre, logic and realism (e.g., consequences follow events or actions).  Main characters will be more consistent in behavior.  No overarching head canon; some things, like just how strong Buffy is or how controlling Willow is, will vary fic by fic.  My stories strongly tend toward the happy end of the spectrum.  If you want misery, abuse, or for all loves to end tragically, well, there's canon for that.

About:  For a long time, I had a single story to tell, 'Life Hard,' so less about me and more about that story. I've been writing this from approximately 2006 until now. Yeah. 2006-2017, on and off, and still editing/rewriting in 2018. Raised children, changed jobs, changed hair color, watched plenty of other television shows. Still, one story, until recently.

All characters will be treated with respect, all laws of Buffyverse (underdressed male vampires, for example) followed, everything that appeared on screen is canon and all canon will be given its due (even the bits I violently disagree with), and all new characters serve deux ex machina or exposition purposes (I'll kill them off as quick as possible). I started writing before the comics and haven't read them, so canon is what was broadcast. Being far, far less strict than Joss, I want all our heroes to be happy, all of them… but, along with Peter S. Beagle, it’s Spike I worry about most, and he has so very far to travel.

Twenty years into BtVS, and it's still tickling imaginations. How cool is that? First episode I ever saw was the season two finale, Becoming Pt. 2. I'd heard good things, so I watched the last forty minutes or so. I figured the redhead in the hospital gown would pop the soul back in and the cute couple would hug, roll credits, because that's how television worked back then. Yeah, I stood there in front of the television with my mouth hanging open for almost a full minute. I was hooked.

Exceed expectations, much? Most of my career has been in academics, where there are journals dedicated to these crazy high school kids, how they talk, how they feel, how they deal. In pop culture, the ripples of this show have spread so very wide. No other show has ever made me want to write story for someone else's characters. It's kind of presumptuous to say this, but I think it's because Buffy aired just before the golden age of television. The writers pushed against the structure of television at that time, but couldn't get too radical. So many stories had to go untold in canon because of the era in which it was filmed. So, we tell those stories ourselves. These flawed, complex characters are... sticky (hey, they were sticky before I got hold of them). It's both exciting and nerve-wracking to share my work, but it's beyond cool to be in the company of other people who will always dwell in the Buffyverse, too.