Love in the Time of Gay Vampires

[crazydiamondsue]

Can this marriage be saved? Or even baptized? There's a spell over the House of (My Last Name Deleted.) It began last summer when I allowed karabair and uberaeryn to lure me, at long last, into the Church of Joss Whedon and Latter Day Vamps.

Since's my husband's also a BtVS fan (he'd been watching it in reruns on the sly), he was initially excited about my getting into the fandom. His enthusiasm soon waned, however, when his fanboy sensibilities were affronted by the fact that I quickly surpasssed in my fan fervor. He would stare at me thinking, "No, *I'm* cool genre TV guy. *I'm* supposed to be the one clutching my action figures and quoting along with the cult favorite! Not you - you shouldn't be there, pawing through the checkbook and explaining that if we feed the dog cat food for a couple of weeks, we can afford to get two seasons on DVD..."

Then the fanfic thing happened and the slash fanfic thing happened, which lead to my husband, who has always cheerfully read anything I've ever written, avoiding me when I came at him with sheaves of paper and that gleam in my eye.

E: "Is this more stuff with Xander and Spike and hands in unusual places?"

cds: "Could be. Read it and see. It's good - wait 'til you read what I had Xander say."

E: "Why can't Xander be with Anya? Anya loves Xander. They're like Joanie and Chachi. You can't break up Joanie and Chachi!"

cds: "Sure I can. Joanie went crazy and Chachi fucked Pamela Anderson. Just read it."

E: "But, I'm Xander and if you're saying Xander's gay, you're saying I'm gay."

cds: "So you're gay, gay, gay. Just read it."

E: (pages flip) "Ooh, sad stuff with Anya. Good job. You suck."

cds: "Yeah, yeah, everyone loves the Anya. Get to the Alpha!Xander part."

E: "Eh."

cds: "Did you just 'eh' my slash?" (Yes, we really do talk in Buffy - he just emailed me that he was eating his pimento cheese sandwich - lunch be damned!)

E: "I liked it better when you were making jokes about Angel's hair and Buffy smelling like a Keebler."

cds: "Oh, bugger off, you brolly!"

So now, in an act of desperation, he's started his own fanfic, a diary of his favorite character, called The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Manly Bits Eviscerating Vengeance Demon, or his suggestion, Anya's Story. He's a Spanish professor, dammit, not a writer - but it's pretty good. I'll be archiving it on my site when he finishes it. (If we don't A - divorce over my bringing home a blond British guy to hook him up with or B) die in a gory crime of passion over use of our laptop.

And, this, my friends, is what I am doing rather than finishing my WIP or counseling students.

 

Comments

[spikendru.livejournal.com]

Oooh! I can't wait to read The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Manly Bits Eviscerating Vengeance Demon" but, um, it is going to be in english, isn't it? Erm, the whole thing isn't going to sound like a pretentious Freshman paper ( which I can't be blamed for wondering, considering the title),is it?

I feel your pain--my daughter used to be my first beta reader, until I started writing some R and NC-17 stuff, which got an "Ewww, gross, mom, you're not supposed to even know about that stuff, let alone write about it!" and when I slid down the slippery slope of slash, she stoped reading entirely and said "Let Phil [her close gay, male friend] read it. . . on second thought, don't, 'cause then he'll just quote it to me, and I really don't want to know anything about anyone's 'cold dead seed' or to hear the word 'cock' unless it is immediately followed by 'crows'. . . why can't you write nice, fluffy Willow/Tara porn, for Gawd's sake?"

[crazydiamondsue.livejournal.com]

second thought, don't, 'cause then he'll just quote it to me Hee!

Nah, it's in English. I suggested the Positively True... but he's going with Anya's Story. He was laughing at me last night because while he was in the living room watching "Pangs" and taking Anya notes, I was in the spare room writing Part 6 of SMCD and yelling back quotes: "Imaginary Xander is quite the machine!"

I'll let you know when he gets it finished and you two can e-bond with Anya love. :)

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

Okay, still laughing over the "Church of Joss Whedon and the Latter Day Vamps."

Ah, yes, the frustration over not having the nerdology degree that I do in the Buffy world. He pulls off Sid and Marty Kroft refs that boggle the mind, and I am all of the Joss ref. It's so cute when they lose the important battles.

[crazydiamondsue.livejournal.com]

One of my best LJ & RL friends is also of the House of Mormon, so I thought you'd both appreciate that.

And....Sid & Marty Kroft...we must get them together because I do not get the H.R. Pufnstuff thing. But I did love "Land of the Lost." My baby's main obsession is Trek, so I've had the nerd street cred by association for many years. Ours is a love formed by pop culture and genre obsession. We first knew we were meant to be while he was coming over to my apartment to watch "Next Gen" because his dorm TV was busted. 'Our song' was Dammit, Janet (until the actual wedding, when it was changed to soppy Bryan Adams because he didn't trust my bridesmaids to not yell out, "You beat the other girs...WITH WHIPS AND CHAINS!...to the bride's bouquet" in front of his pastor father. Ah, memories.

[paynbow.livejournal.com]

lol...dammit Janet *g*

Yeah, I've got my doctorate in Jossology with a minor in TNG and DS9...ahhh, my nerddom is nearly complete *g*

I love the title for his fic...I'm excited now *g*

And spikeNru-- don't worry, I'll always beta your smut *eg*

[crazydiamondsue.livejournal.com]

Dammit Janet will be played at our 25th anniversary, I've no doubt. I am working my way toward my doctorate in Jossology. Okay, I'm off to beta the Anya story, I'll keep you posted!!!!

[likeadeuce.livejournal.com]

hey, who else is a Mormon??? (though Marie Osmond's face lift twitches every time I claim the title.)

[crazydiamondsue.livejournal.com]

I was talking about you, oh Jell-O eating one. You'll have to lurk through Stoney321's lj...she's a keeper.

[likeadeuce.livejournal.com]

well, I knew ME. I just didn't know Stoney was. I must lurk, but really should sleep first! I keep saying that, yet it keeps not happening!