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  1. Death by Chains

    With A Bared Sword

    In the canon TL, it was Ryan Steiner working in cahoots with Psycho!Kat. But here, Kate is sane and focused on fulfilling her responsibilities rather than conniving at regicide/matricide and usurpation, so my lead suspect is Ryan. Of course, drakensis isn't above throwing us a curveball, so...
  2. Death by Chains

    Trace Coburn’s Plot-Tribble Sanctuary (snippets and offcuts, mostly Buffy-related)
    Threadmarks: She Came All The Way from America

    A test-balloon for something that came to me a couple of weeks ago. What if the Council influenced events so Buffy went somewhere other than Sunnydale? Right now it’s just Buffy dealing with culture shock, but we all know that’s going to be the least of her problems soon enough.... – –...
  3. Death by Chains

    Trace Coburn’s Plot-Tribble Sanctuary (snippets and offcuts, mostly Buffy-related)
    Threadmarks: After-Action Report, Action of 13/14 December 1993

    As noted in my previous snippet (for which I have received several likes but, alas, no comments), Fun in the Sun wants to turn into a proper fic, and part of that revolves around the fact that as a Slayer, whether or not Taz gets to take 'time away' from her Calling is not necessarily up to her...
  4. Death by Chains

    Trace Coburn’s Plot-Tribble Sanctuary (snippets and offcuts, mostly Buffy-related)
    Threadmarks: “Fun in the Sun (Club)” pt.1 — two styles for comparison

    Sure enough, my NSFW snippet “Fun in the Sun (Club)” wants to turn into a near-full-length fic — I’ve written over 7k words in the thing and still haven’t gotten to the bits that would get me an X rating from the MPAA, let alone to the end of the snippet or the rest(!) of the plot — and I find...
  5. Death by Chains

    Trace Coburn’s Plot-Tribble Sanctuary (snippets and offcuts, mostly Buffy-related)

    Not so much a snippet, as a mother/daughter exchange that occurred to me as I was mulling over certain backstory events: “You realise that your relationship is technically illegal.” “Mama, if the cops ever have a go at me, it’ll be for ‘having an SKS’, not ‘having the S-E-X’.”
  6. Death by Chains

    Trace Coburn’s Plot-Tribble Sanctuary (snippets and offcuts, mostly Buffy-related)

    They say that you should be able to sum up a character’s core drive in one word. Taz’s word is “Justice”: there is just too much about the world that is wrong and unfair, and she wants to fix it, even if it means beating it into the right shape with her own two hands. As shown by her first...
  7. Death by Chains

    Trace Coburn’s Plot-Tribble Sanctuary (snippets and offcuts, mostly Buffy-related)
    Threadmarks: Alt-historical background: Operation MATCHBOX

    A little of the world-building behind the [alt-history] situation in New Zealand during the timeframe of Taz and Misha’s adventures. = = = = = Operation MATCHBOX was a CIA-sponsored arms-smuggling program whereby Stormhawk agents and logistical apparatus, with the complicity of CIA...
  8. Death by Chains

    Alea Iacta Est - a Worm AU Fanfic

    AFAIK, “cop it on the chin”/“to cop something” as slang for receiving a negative/painful event (usually as a direct impact) is Commonwealth English, rather than an Americanism. I know I saw it in WW2 accounts of Charlie Upham receiving his first VC on Crete, with someone yelling “Oh, no, the...
  9. Death by Chains

    Trace Coburn’s Plot-Tribble Sanctuary (snippets and offcuts, mostly Buffy-related)
    Threadmarks: With ‘Allies’ Like These

    An out-take from the next installment of Valhalla Can Wait, showing us one of the worst enemies with which a Slayer or Watcher will ever have to contend. (Image links are crucial. I spent a lot of time on those props, dammit!) – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –...
  10. Death by Chains

    Valhalla Can Wait [Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Original Characters]
    Threadmarks: Rolling out the welcome wagon

    95 Vigor-Brown Street (Zyrianov residence) Napier, New Zealand 15:41, Friday, 18 March, 1994 Taz stalked down the driveway, her mouth a hard line. Even Miss Geoghan’s impromptu pizza party (she and Steve had split a large meatlover’s) and Misha’s quick thinking to solve the problem of...
  11. Death by Chains

    Trace Coburn’s Plot-Tribble Sanctuary (snippets and offcuts, mostly Buffy-related)
    Threadmarks: Ripping Off The Band-Aid

    An out-take from Distance and Perspective, once the Scoobies reach Martinique and meet up with their ‘colleagues’. And yes, it’s probably a little Sue-ish to have Taz read people off like this, but if they decide they want to return the favour, she’ll stand there and hear them out. And then...
  12. Death by Chains

    A Darker Path [Worm Fanfic]

    While inspiring a piece of canon gives me a warm fuzzy, I find the greater part of said warm fuzzy is just seeing Ashley coming to a better place, both materially and mentally. Her power and the situation(s) it’s constantly put her in have had her on the ropes since she was thirteen, constantly...
  13. Death by Chains

    A Darker Path [Worm Fanfic]

    And once again, we see how if Ashley was just a very slightly different person, the sudden turnaround her life has undergone in the last week or so would make her go back to her (habitable, furnished!) apartment (with a working TV and free (if slow) internet and a useable kitchen where she can...
  14. Death by Chains

    A Darker Path [Worm Fanfic]

    ... Jesus Christ and all the Saints. Okay, I’m not super-familiar with Damsel of Distress, because I haven’t read many fics involving her, but after that chapter... does anyone else feel like Damsel Ashley needs all the hugs ever? I knew powers in Worm existed to not help people, but cripes...
  15. Death by Chains

    Earning Her Stripes (Worm AU fanfic)

    Oh, gee, what a shame. Coil's misfortunes so distress me that I am sure to break out in tears any second now. :p
  16. Death by Chains

    Trace Coburn’s Plot-Tribble Sanctuary (snippets and offcuts, mostly Buffy-related)
    Threadmarks: Negotiations

    In which Misha has to give a bitch her pedigree: – – – – – – – “Wizards” video parlour, Hastings Street That same time Misha took a deep, steadying breath, then gave Danny’s mother a steady look across the change-kiosk, trying to keep his temper under control. “I’m sorry; I don’t...
  17. Death by Chains

    Valhalla Can Wait [Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Original Characters]
    Threadmarks: In Fair Napier do we lay our scene

    Enlisted Mess, Price Barracks Ladyville, Belize 07:31, Thursday, 17 March, 1994 Belize Time [13:31, Thursday, 17 March, 1994 Zulu Time (GMT)/02:31, Friday, 18 March, 1994, NZ Time] Hundreds of men were taking their breakfast, as they did every morning, and with DPM camouflage so favoured by...
  18. Death by Chains

    Valhalla Can Wait [Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Original Characters]
    Threadmarks: Prologue

    Everyone knows the canonical life-story of Buffy Summers, the Sunnydale Slayer; it’s an epic tale of heroism, tragic romance, mental trauma, and survival despite often-impossible odds. But everyone is the hero of their own life-story. Whether it’s an epic, a tragedy, or a grim warning tale with...
  19. Death by Chains

    Trace Coburn’s Plot-Tribble Sanctuary (snippets and offcuts, mostly Buffy-related)
    Threadmarks: Family: can’t live with ’em, can’t kill ’em

    A little bit of world-building, showcasing my spin on a canon character’s ‘origin story’ and what he was up to before we met him in canon to make him so different from the bloke we saw on-screen... – – – – – – – Enlisted Mess, Price Barracks Ladyville, Belize 07:31, Thursday, 17 March...
  20. Death by Chains

    Trace Coburn’s Plot-Tribble Sanctuary (snippets and offcuts, mostly Buffy-related)
    Threadmarks: There's what you want, there's what you need... and then there's what you get....

    [Time for a quick outtake, kind of my riff on the Buffy/Joyce conversation from Becoming. For context: Elena, Taz’s mother, has known about Taz being the Slayer from Day One, and is... far from completely enthused. Taz has convinced her to take her and her best-friend Misha on a road-trip to...
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