I want it made in gold

I write BtVS fanfic. Mostly Spangel but other pairings as well. Multishipper at heart. Adult.

[reallyreal-madeingold]

Intro/Pinned Post

Remaking my pinned post/intro post because... it need an update!

Hi! I'm Harlow, any pronouns, adult.

My main fandom is the Buffyverse and I'm a multishipper. I guess my main ship is kinda Spike/Angel? But I have so many ships.

This is my main blog. Mostly writing talk and shitposting. Also cats.

My sideblogs

Fandom/shipping sideblog: @spangelmybeloved

Riley/Briley/Spriley/Rangel/Whatever fandom sideblog: @riley-summers

Where I reblog gifsets of Riley sometimes: @riley-finn-daily

Whump sideblog: @whump-in-the-night (also @harlows-whump-stuff but that blog broke so I don't use it anymore).

Buffyverse rarepair writing group I run: @otherworldlychemistry

That's about it of my relevant sideblogs!

Where my writing is:

AO3 | Sunnydale After Dark | Elysian Fields | Twisting the Hellmouth | Chosen Two

(Note: I'm not active on Elysian Fields anymore-- I think all the stories I have archived there can also be found on Sunnydale After Dark, and I rarely write crossovers so I'm not really active on Twisting the Hellmouth. I also don't have much on Chosen Two yet.)

[girldraki]

[leavethepuddle]

@sarumans

[mmmcook1es]

[soulren]

“Ghosts are real” I can see how you could believe that

“Ghosts aren’t real” it’s very fair and rational that you believe that

“Ghosts aren’t real anymore” I’m about to hear a poem or very sad story

“Ghosts aren’t real yet” the fuck are you going to do

[kaijuno]

[halfricanloveyou]

that looks like a condom and the fact that everyone in the notes is saying “the orb” proves that no one on this website fucks

[meatmobile]

the fuck kinda bouncy-ball ass condoms are you using

[spiderworries]

the fact that someone thinks that looks like a condom is proof that no one on this website fucks

[spiderworries]

ok y’all it’s LITERALLY taken from the “wizard pondering his orb” image

it’s an orb. 

[spiderworries]

ok not to beat a dead horse but i found the ORIGINAL image and it’s cover art from a lotr themed ttrpg.

so

[0kkvlt]

No it isn't that's from 1993 you fucking poseur, it's from A SPY IN ISENGARD published in 1988 I'm SICK and TIRED of you people getting it WRONG

[witchsfists]

5 reblog additions later and this post is still best summarized by "no one on this website fucks"

[evilwizard]

say no more

[vastwinterskies]

how am I supposed to go to the supermarket without cavalry support

[weirdchristmas]

Kill 'em yourself, dear.

[retquits]

artistic rendition of how my cat fell asleep this morning

[retquits]

she hugs her own foot like it’s a stuffed animal i’m gonna throw up

[reallyreal-madeingold]

Ohhhh tell me more about Maggie & Faith and/or spangel sci-fi h/c? Those sound amazing 😍

Ooooh okay!

The Maggie & Faith one is pretty much "no plot, just vibes" at this point, but I can that it's mostly a Maggie character study with the premise of "what if Maggie & Faith had a relationship sort of like Faith & The Mayor." but slightly less villainous and with medical experimentation. Because of course.

The Spangel one is basically a sci-fi AU. It's not all h/c (title of the draft is misleading lol) but there is a lot of whump because... I wrote it, lol. But it's a plot heavy fic that also makes use of what TV tropes would call the "free love future" trope so it's not even pure Spangel either lol. But basically, many of the buffyverse characters in a sci-fi setting with some OCs too. it's got a bit ensemble cast.

I feel like these devolved into rambling lol well hopefully it's still interesting.

[leatafandom]

Omg of course it's still interesting!! I think that's fantastic I am even more interested now in the second one now 👀👀 a whumpy sci-fi setting with free love sounds so fun. Though also also I adore that vibe of Faith & Maggie that sounds really great, how that looks rather than the mayor. I feel like that dynamic would work so well with Maggie.

[reallyreal-madeingold]

Hehehe so glad you like the ideas! I need to work more on both of them. The Spangel one I have a decent amount written (nowhere near finished tho) and the other one i have. one paragraph lmao.

(and yes hehe i did sneakily post some buffy/maggie for rare kink buffet!)

[reallyreal-madeingold]

oooh please do tell about buffy/maggie longfic of doom. eyes emoji

Fun fact: it's the longfic of doom because i'm never going to finish it and I keep hiding from it (*cries*)

anyway....

It's. Sort of an S4 rewrite but unlike the actual s4 rewrite I'm working on, the main plot is. Uhm. Buffy suffering. (okay there's some of that in the S4 rewrite too but less)

This thing is actually two fics in a trench coat and if I ever finish, it'll probably be posted as a two fic series. The first part is very whump heavy gen with lots of OCs (hurt with a teeny tiny bit of comfort) The main plot is basically "Buffy gets captured by the Initiative at the beginning of S4 and spends literal months suffering". Then the second part is "Maggie comes to Sunnydale and she and Buffy develop an ill-advised attachment to each other" (still some hurt but a lot more comfort).

Anyway tiny snippet under the cut for you <3

“How bad is it?” Maggie asks, as she stands up, already heading towards the containment cells, not waiting for Riley to catch up. “Bad. I left Miller there to keep them from beating on her any further. But there was a lot of blood, ma’am.” “That’s unfortunate.” “I’m sorry. I should have caught it sooner.”  “Perhaps,” Maggie says, sliding her keycard through a door, stepping through, and continuing down the hallways. “But all we can do now is to mitigate the damage. Assigning blame can wait until the situation has been resolved.” “Right,” FInn says, fiddling with his pager as Maggie continues to stride down the hallway. He’s young and eager to please, ready to be molded into whatever shape she sees fit to shape him into. Exactly how she likes it. 

[reallyreal-madeingold]

Ohhhh tell me more about Maggie & Faith and/or spangel sci-fi h/c? Those sound amazing 😍

Ooooh okay!

The Maggie & Faith one is pretty much "no plot, just vibes" at this point, but I can that it's mostly a Maggie character study with the premise of "what if Maggie & Faith had a relationship sort of like Faith & The Mayor." but slightly less villainous and with medical experimentation. Because of course.

The Spangel one is basically a sci-fi AU. It's not all h/c (title of the draft is misleading lol) but there is a lot of whump because... I wrote it, lol. But it's a plot heavy fic that also makes use of what TV tropes would call the "free love future" trope so it's not even pure Spangel either lol. But basically, many of the buffyverse characters in a sci-fi setting with some OCs too. it's got a bit ensemble cast.

I feel like these devolved into rambling lol well hopefully it's still interesting.

[important-cat-pics]

[picascribit]

There are 2 types of fanfic:

fanfic that I like

fanfic that is none of my business

[annabelle--cane]

stop. analyse that text through the lens of its author's intentions and original historical context. okay now take the author out back and kill them dead and analyse that text as though it were published by your mutual yesterday and is in direct conversation with the contemporary discourse that's most relevant to your life. okay now pick your favorite angle of interpretation and come up with the strongest possible argument against it. now imagine that the text is your best friend and that it means you well and that you naturally give it every benefit of the doubt because you're on its side and you want the best for it. now imagine that the text wants you dead and it'll eat you if you don't eat it first. now pretend that you found this text locked away in a cave with no evidence of when or where it came from and you have to divine its meaning solely through its internal coherence and nothing else. okay now address the elephant in the room aspect of the text you've been ignoring because you find it boring or confusing or uncomfortable and become the number one expert on it. now spend forty minutes assigning all the characters dnd classes with at least three sentences of reasoning each. okay now do the cha cha slide.

[gondorrevealparty]

baseball interviewers will ask "how do you throw the ball so good" and Mariners players will casually drop that they have a headmate who plays the game for them

[reallyreal-madeingold]

WIP Tag Game

Thank you @leatafandom for tagging me!

RULES: make a new post with the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous, and tag as many people as you have WIPs. People can send an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and you post a snippet or tell them something about it.

I. I have too many to list but here's a few. No including anything that has chapters posted or exchange assignments of course :). This is all stuff that rots in my drafts. Hmm, some of these need to be moved to ellipsus.

no pressure tags: @boopsterliv @somekindofadeviant @evesock @fatalfaeri and uhmmmm idk who else to tag so if you see this consider yourself tagged.

Briley Medwhump Extravaganza

S4 fixit AU

Buffy/Maggie Longfic of Doom

Maggie & Faith

you're an organ donor for the cure, waking up in a tub of ice

spangel sci-fi h/c

Spike suffers medically