For nearly a year you did disappear.
It's hard to find readers when you do not write.
Fan of Xander, you are not.
But Faith and Buffy are tight.

Anyway, since you wrote that Dawn story, I've been sifting through your collection. Not everything is too my taste but what is is very good. And remember, if you're not updating, it makes it very hard for people to find your stories.

(sorry about the poetry. I read that other review and it seemed appropriate. Except that there's a reason I don't do prose.)
-Nate

My non-like of Xander is sort of a running theme through my stuff, both because I think he got in Buffy's face too often in the series (I'm VERY protective of canon Buffy), and also because I think he was just an ass in general far too often, in the guise of being the 'everyman' character. That being said, I TRY not to go all the way to the point of Character Bashing... but according to several reviewers, I fail in that attempt from time to time.

I'm glad you're finding things to like in my... I guess 'back catalog' is what you'd call it? Certainly if you're okay with Faith/Buffy, there's a fair bit of material there for ya. And my first completed novel, 'Virtue of a Warrior' is there if you want some very dark, very angsty Faith. (Though I sort of cringe a bit at parts of it now, especially the first three chapters or so. You can pretty much skip those if you find them putting you to sleep; it does get a bit better after that).

And yep, you're right, I've been very quiet for a while now. The response to the new Dawn story has been really good, though, and I've been reminded of how nice it feels to have people reading and enjoying my stuff.
I certainly hope to post regularly from now on, both on that one and on several other things that have been sitting idle (two of the Dawn stories, plus the Buffy/Faith epic romance).

Thanks for letting me know your thoughts on the stories, and I hope you enjoy the ones still to come.

And I came back and read it again, and it was still wonderful and sweet.
Do come back and write again soon, and thank you. :)

Beautiful. It made me cry.
Thank you.

O_O
Wow.
Strong praise indeed.
Thank YOU.

Hey, I hope you don't mind me writing this, but in comparison to your other stories (those I've read bot here and on fanfiction.net) I don't like this one very much. It's just too easy for my liking, you know? Give Faith almighty power, make everyone happy and give the Slayers their happy ending ... Don't get me wrong, I love their happy-endings, but the special thing about B/F-fics how they have to get through to it, overcome all their obstacles, their past and everything ... So in my opinion in this story you kinda took the easy way out.

I don't intend this to be offensive or anything, I think you're a really good writer (your 'Bedtime-story' is the epic proof!), I just wanted to voice my opinion.

If only this fic you'd continue,
I'd be fast in your retinue;
But might second thoughts this case be best?
If this is more, then others less.

Faith is a Goddess of high repute,
but Harmony would this dispute.
And never mind that ditzy blonde,
Illyria's wrath hath Epics spawned.

Goddesses three demand your time.
Is Dreamsmith lucky? Not his spine.

Continue this fic you rhymingly say,
But with due respect I must tell thee ‘nay’.
For there are few stories I’ve finished to date,
And quite a few more whose endings await.

Faith is a Goddess, in this you speak true,
Illyria’s might shines in shades of blue.
Deified Harmony has great self-esteem,
(Hold on a moment, I detect a theme!)

By the beard of Odin, and the hammer of Thor!
There’s a definite pattern here I can’t ignore!
Are Goddessy-girls all I can write?
Is there any escape from this horrible plight?

I have now the answer, the perfect solution,
And hereby commit to this resolution:
From this moment forward it’s all about Xander!
To all of the fangirls will I now pander!

Xander in slashfics, with Giles and with Oz!
On Twisting the Hellmouth those get great applause.
So why buck the system, or fight ‘gainst the tide?
The Xander apocalypse can’t be denied!

[And then DreamSmith froze, in mid-tirade,
He saw what he’d written and grew greatly afraid.
Xanderfic only? Xander the ass?
This horrible thing must not come to pass!]

“I take it all back!”, he shouted aloud,
“So what if my readers are not a huge crowd?
I’ll write what I write and hold my head high,
The weight of opinion I’ll gladly defy.”

Of the Goddesses three, of which he could write,
There wasn’t a one he could beat in a fight.
And truthfully dude, why fight them at all?
Each one of them lovely, a sight to enthral.

Faith is the tough girl, but vulnerable too,
As sharp as her knife, with a center like goo.
Illyria’s majesty can’t be denied,
(All who have dared have quite promptly died).

Yet Harmony has to be my current fave,
Sweet and yet bitchy, timid yet brave.
I think I’ll go now and work on her story,
To further chronicle her golden-haired glory.

Glory? Oh crap; there’s yet another,
A Goddess whose tales I long to discover.
(Have you noticed yet that I have ADD?
You’re lucky you EVER get chapters from me)

Back now to Harmony’s story I’ll go,
And return with lots of neat things I can show.
Although those two others will get their turns too,
(Glory, I’m pointedly ignoring you).

Caminus thank you for taking the time,
To send a review (and to threaten my spine?)
Writing this poetry isn’t my style,
But thinking it up has at least made me smile.

(^_^)

Wow! Faith a goddess... my dreams come true. Very beautiful story.

First I just want to say how much I enjoy your writing. I came upon Faith and Buffy’s Super Happy Bedtime Story when I was searching for a Buffy and Satsu story. I though perhaps it might be a good substitute, but it’s like I hit the jackpot without even knowing it. When I finished A Day, a Knight, and Another Day, last week I was left wanting more. (My only complaint for that story is that it ended).

So yesterday I did a search for Faith and Buffy stories looking for some substitute fiction I can read until your next story in the F&B SHBT series. I read and skimmed a few stories from various writers and they were pretty good. But they didn’t satisfy. Not at all, really. Actually they were pretty lousy compared to yours.

So I came back to your stories and found this nice little treat. And from the first sentence it was like “Ah, yes! This is what I’ve been craving.” You write incredibly well. Very true to life reactions and emotions, and so descriptive and poetic. And laugh-out-loud funny, too. I don’t write and so it’s hard to put into words. But here’s what I’m talking about:

Faith looked back at her, and the dark-haired Slayer flashed Buffy a smile.

"Hey there." She took in Buffy's look of disbelief, and shrugged helplessly.

"Merry Christmas?"

What a perfect Faith entrance! What a great line. I love it! LOL moment.


Looking down, she saw the newborn vamp sitting, still half in the grave, trying to be small and unnoticed. She took out another stake, crouching beside him.

"Sorry."

Another LOL moment completely Josh Whedonish.


An errant ray of moonlight made her dark eyes glitter as she gestured behind her.

Wow! That’s just beautiful! That’s poetry.


So thank you, thank you, thank you. Please don’t stop writing. Where do you want me to send the copy of Mass Effect and the Xbox 306? Though if you’re playing video games you won’t be writing so I take that back.

This was a wonderful story. I'm glad it had a happy ending, after all the suffering all the characters went through in the show. It also makes a great universe to play around in for possible future stories.

Thanks for sharing this with us.

Glad you liked it.

Happy endings: I love happy endings, but for some reason I tend not to write them very often.
Or maybe it's just that I take so long to finish stories that I've not yet gotten to most of them.
^_^

I SO want to do more in this universe; I've started new stories set there, more than once, but so far haven't been able to carry through.
Eventually, though.

As always great story. I have enjoyed reading all of your stories. Thank you.

I loved it, from beginning to end.
and I really liked that you didn't clichè the thing by having Willow or Anya the caster.

--I loved it, from beginning to end.--

::Beam::
^_^!

VERY nice - I had a feeling it wasn't going to be something as simple as wishes, but I wasn't quite expecting Faith to be the goddess. Excellent!

Thank you sir!
(Hm! Your profile is interesting. You write RPG's? It doesn't really show in this story, since there's almost no action in there, but in most of my stuff you can see traces of my many years of running RPG's. Laying out the fights and NPC actions, describing the environments for the players--I mean 'readers', making sure the rules of the 'verse are spelled out clearly... more than one person has pegged my background after reading a story. Not sure if that's a compliment or something I need to correct....)

Anyways, thanks for the review.
(And sorry for all the typos in this story; I hadn't realized how bad it was till I reread it, but Ack!)

Have always loved this story.

One of these days, I'd like to know how we get from Interludes, Of Things That Are Not, Virtues, to Bedtime Story. ;) Kira and Faith make for a fascinating relationship.

Thanks.
I see a lot of embarassing glitches in it, now that I'm rereading it, but I'm still fond of this one.

Linking together the different stories....
Man, I've got so much of this that I COULD write that it's daunting.
(I do that a lot; map out huge plotlines for stories--The new thing, with Harmony? I can do seven novel's worth, easy. Kinda sad, really.)

So, yeah. The stuff is there. Now, so long as some scientist somewhere invents that immortality serum in time, I'll be able to get all of it written down eventually.
^_^

If someone were granting wishes around me, I'd wish to be half as good a writer as the people who post their stories here. Then maybe I could write stuff like what you have.

Ummm. That was supposed to be a compliment.

Damn. Seems like no one's granting wishes around me!

Oh, well.

I'm enjoying the story. Thanks for writing it!

(Seriously -- enjoying; thanks.)

Seriously, thank you.
^_^

I wrote this one more years ago than I like to remember, but there's some nice stuff in there.
Hopefully I'm better at the writing now, though.

This keeps getting better and better … and you said you had a hard time with drama. Even though you've written this from Buffy's POV, I'm totally empathizing with Faith right now.

So, um, let's see. Constructive criticism. It's hard to think of much to criticize about this, but one thing I have noticed is a lack of "Buffyisms". Not that big a thing, it's just a thing.

Another well written chapter. And so quick to update, too! ;-)

If guilt over Jenny's death is to be a factor in Buffy's giving Faith a chance, I might have dwelt more on Buffy's angst about that here, but perhaps you'll do that in future updates. I'm certain that you know more about writing fanfic than I do.