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Two recent genfics with some things in common but rather different results:

Title: All In A Day's Work
Author: Beer Good (beer_good_foamy)
Fandom: Buffy/Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
Rating: PG13
Word count: ~850
Warnings/Notes: Poking fun at national stereotypes.
Characters/Pairing: Buffy, Xander, Yoshimi
Summary: To be fair, Buffy wasn't entirely sure how she was supposed to stop a giant robot about to attack Tokyo. But still, being told someone else would handle it felt a bit weird.
A crossover with the Flaming Lips song "Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots, Part 1" (lyrics). You don't need to be familiar with the song to read it, though a certain awareness of Japanese monster movies helps.

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Title: The Pieces That Prevailed
Author: Beer Good (beer_good_foamy)
Fandom: Buffy, mid-season 7
Rating: PG13
Word count: ~1200
Characters/Pairing: Willow, Xander, Giles, Buffy; nods to Willow/Tara and Willow/Jenny
Summary: As logic stands, you couldn’t meet yourself from the future. But logic broke and Willow bumped into her high school self on Main Street. Then what?

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Title: Total Perspective Vortex
Author: Beer Good (beer_good_foamy)
Fandom: Buffy, post-season 6
Rating: PG13
Word count: ~1100
Characters/Pairing: Willow, Miss Harkness (mentioned in "Lessons")
Summary: Willow in England, post-"Grave". It's one thing to have people tell you everything's connected. It's another to feel it.
Written for spook_me and the prompt "Shapeshifter" and this image.

It (whatever "it" is) rains a lot in England. It probably has to, with all those lakes. She learned about the water cycle in science class: evaporation, condensation, trepidation, precipitation, etc. It's perfectly natural, but still hard not to find weird after growing up in a desert. Something inside Willow is insisting against better knowledge that things should stay where they are, what they are. Water in the sea, clouds in the sky, plants on the ground, alive people alive and ... all that stuff.

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Title: The Ghost Who Walks
Author: Beer Good (beer_good_foamy)
Rating: PG13
Word Count: ~1400
Fandom: Buffyverse
Characters: Buffy, Dana
Warning: General angst. Mystical mental illness. Mention of character death.
Summary: Way post-series (2040-ish). Buffy pays her semi-annual visit to one they could never save.

"Hi. How are things?" Buffy's learned to avoid certain words and phrases, be careful with others. Stick to the passive tense and avoid pronouns as much as possible; there are days when they get switched around in here.

"Same," Dana replies. "You died."

Title: Trail Of The Pbuffalo
Author: Beer Good (beer_good_foamy)
Rating: PG13
Word Count: 760
Characters: Dawn, Faith, Vi, Rona, Giles
Summary: Just a small interlude from the everyday life of a couple of monster fighters. As the new Slayers start to get more slayage experience, it's time to fill them in on some crucial but little-known history concerning Slayers, demons, certain urban legends, and just how the hell the Council made its fortune.

"Huh?" Faith mentally rewound the conversation, then grinned, leaned into Vi's personal space and looked at her seat. "Oh, yeah. Definitely a four-skin job."

Figured I'd post a few unrelated drabbles I've written recently and am pretty happy with.

As usual, it all belongs to Joss, yada yada yada.

( Buffy & Ford, 'Lie To Me' )
( Giles & Willow, s5 )
( Jonathan & Andrew, 'Conversations with Dead People' )
( Angel & Cordy, unspecified )
( Spike & Giles, 'A New Man' )
( Larry, 'Graduation Day' )
( Angel, between s3 and s4 )

Title: You're Already Caught
Author: Beer Good (beer_good_foamy)
Rating: PG13
Word Count: 632
Warning: Character: DEATH
Fandom: Buffy/Discworld
Summary: Missing scene from "Chosen". One of Buffy's old nemeses tries to interfere with the Slayer spell, but you know how karma's a bitch...? Or, well, a rat in Amy's case.

Death awaits you all with nasty, big, pointy teeth.

Title: Looking Just Like A Ghost
Author: Beer Good (beer_good_foamy)
Rating: PG13
Word Count: ~2500
Warning: Character death, slight blasphemy.
Pairing: Mentions of Angelus/Darla, Angel/Buffy.
Disclaimer: These characters are the property of Joss Whedon and Mutant Enemy etc. If Buffy Summers had never come to Sunnydale, I wouldn't have made any money off fanfic about her. (I still don't.)
Summary: Wishverse backstory: When Buffy doesn't show up, Angel has to try and stop The Harvest all by himself. But he's alone, and he's about to run into some people who know him very well.

Written (somewhat late) for soundingsea's Freewheelin' Ficathon, and loosely inspired by Bob Dylan's "Highway 61 Revisited."

Don't be stupid. You can't fight these people. Get out of here.

Title: Merry Christmas (I don't want to fight tonight)
Author: Beer Good (beer_good_foamy)
Rating: PG13
Word Count: ~700
Characters/Pairing: Buffy, Joyce, Hank
Disclaimer: All characters are the property of Joss Whedon and Mutant Enemy, and unless he gives them away for Christmas, he's the only one making money off them. The title belongs to the Ramones.
Summary: Christmas in the "Normal Again"-verse.

Christmas in the "Normal Again"-verse

OK, here's a new one. (Technically, it's a rewrite of a very old one, but it'll be new to most people.)

Title: Nativity In Black
Author: Beer Good (beer_good_foamy)
Rating: PG13
Word Count: ~880
Characters/Pairing: Buffy, Willow
Timeline: Slight rewrite of "Bargaining"
Disclaimer: I'm so not Joss, that I'm not even Joss Stone.
Warning: It's halloween.
Summary: It just wasn't the same without her.

( Follow me now, and you will not regret... )

lusciousxander reminded me that I hadn't posted this here. Apologies if it's too shippy; it's mostly a character study, IMO.

Author: Beer Good (beer_good_foamy)
Title: Driving Away From Home
Characters: Xander, Tara
Timeline: Immediately after "Tabula Rasa"
Rating: PG-13
Length: 500 words exactly!
Summary: So Tara leaves Willow and she needs a ride back to campus. Xander's a gentleman, so he offers. But Xander is also Willow's best friend...
Disclaimer: Joss owns the characters. Joss has character. I have none.

( Driving Away From Home )