omg what the hell this is funny ;)

I'm really not sure what to make of this story, but it managed to intrigue me enough to read through its rather brief entirety (which is saying something these days) so I feel obligated to review what I can.

First of all, the author is a catch. She's talented, absolutely. Grammatically, spelling-wise and structurally, she knows the basic fundamentals of writing well enough to play with the rules and charm a reader into following along.

She also knows the ridiculously short attention spans of most fanfic readers as most chapters are barely a page long, which though smart is also mildly irritating for someone who enjoys making a meal out of reading something worthwhile.

And that's what this seems to be. Except...

Okay, so here's what I've pulled from this brief, well-written if addled concoction. It, at first and if viewed as a whole while temporarily ignoring the insidious final 'chapter', could be viewed as a severely underrated (i.e. non-reviewed) lynchian effort at twisting the world of BtVS to the point where everything the reader remembers pops like a grape under an angry palm, an eerie, offset piece of fiction where you remained pleasently and yet somehow tensely confused.

These short verses or chapters are unpredictable, dreamlike and vaguely menacing. Xander not speaking a sensible word, Willow and Tara seemingly switching roles of stutterer and stutteree, touching each other and smiling at Spike as if there was something they know that he should definitely know, the faceless denizens of Sunnydale High watching, whispering and refusing to answer Spike's seemingly simple question.

This all felt very 'Twin Peaks' to me; I dug it. And the painting, oh, the painting. Spike walks into the art room and sees a blonde chick painting Buffy's death. Wonderful. What does it mean? F if I know. But Harm says she created Elizabeth, and I was hooked.

Yet there are detractors to this enjoyable foray into wierdness. The alternative title describes this as a product of too much bad fanfic, so it could all be a parody of stuff I refuse to read long enough to get the joke. Also the 'not so' epilogue/final chapter/remix or whatever it is has put me in the awkward position of getting pissed at a writer for ruining a story I've only invested fifteen minutes of my life reading.

But I genuinely enjoyed the story that was being told. Could've gone a million places. This is what happens when nobody reviews, I guess. The writer gets pissed and it only takes a paragraph to mar all the awesomeness that had proceeded it.

Pff. Whatever.