I've just done the defriending thing I said I was going to do a week ago. If you missed my post in which I asked lurkers to come forward and say whether or not they wanted to stay friended to this LJ, and you find yourself defriended but want to stay, leave a comment here.

Likewise, I'm aware that I may well have defriended some people who have only just arrived, and you may now be thinking, "Hang on a minute! I didn't even get the chance to find out whether I liked the stories or not!" If this is you, and you still think you would like to read them, likewise leave a comment here, and please don't take it personally.

Also, anindoorkitty, I friended you, as you requested, but so far you have not friended this LJ back. Please do so if you are still interested.

Thanks.

Hi again. Thanks for the response to the first chapters. Must admit, I hadn't realised until I posted them quite how short the Wesley POV sections of this story are. I hope no one felt too short-changed?

Anyway, I've decided to keep up momentum by posting the first Spike POV part this evening when I get home from work. As you'll see, it's a very different story to the Wesley one, though they are of course connected.

As before, I advise anyone who didn't read my pre-posting post on Tuesday, which talked about the structure of the story, to read that before setting about reading the new chapters, in the hope of avoiding confusion. Likewise, though I posted a summary of Coming of Age on Monday, that was really aimed at the people who'd already read it, as a refresher. If you haven't read it, you really do need to read it first or Age of Unreason won't make much sense.

Someone asked me if I had Coming of Age as a Word file. Unfortunately, I don't. The story exists on my HD as lots and lots of separate Word files and I've never found the time to sit down and combine them into one. Unfortunately, too, I'm very bad at tagging. Always forget to do it.

Here is a link to the first part of Coming of Age, which is friendslocked. I hope those of you who haven't read it will enjoy it, and if not, at least you'll know whether or not Age of Unreason is a story you're likely to enjoy before setting about trying to read it.

Finally, I've friended everyone who asked to be friended. However, I tend to unfriend people after a week or so if they don't friend this LJ back.

ETA: Likewise, if you haven't actually asked to be friended, I probably won't realise, so please leave a comment here.

Hi everyone. Will be posting another chapter in a moment but in the meantime, I thought I'd put up that poll I mentioned doing, to check the status of the many people friended to this LJ who haven't commented. I've tried to keep the questions as neutral as possible. Hope I succeeded.

[Poll #903979]

Hi. If you're here it must be because you want to read my very long, very kinky indulgence fic Coming of Age.

I'm not sure what to say here. My instinct is to try and put people off, which is silly. You're all adults and can make up your own minds whether a story like this is for you. Here follows a brief description of how I came to write the story in this rather bizarre way and some of what you can expect in it.

Firstly, I've been writing it on and off since February and it's very long indeed - 190,000 words exactly. I know this because all the sections are exactly 1000 words long. Quite why I decided to stick so religiously to this format, I can't now remember but I have done so all the way through, except for the epilogue, which is 2000 words. The story is long and rambly and though there is plot, things grind to a halt quite frequently for various kinky goings on and sometimes the way the story is set up - two parts from one character's POV followed by one part from another character's POV - slows things down a lot. Just warning you in case you're the impatient type.

Other details, as follows:

Setting: An AU, glass-darkly version of AtS season 5, though the plot also diverges in various places from points earlier in the series. Hopefully, these will be self-explanatory.
Pairings: Spike/Angel, Spike/Wesley
Rating: Very NC17 and containing the following bits of nastiness - non-con and semi-non-con, sexual torture, medical kink etc etc. This started off as a slave fic so it also contains the sorts of elements you'd expect to find in those, such as humiliation, objectification etc. There're also some gruesome bits and - because I know some people are very sensitive about these things - there is one chapter where a dog meets an unpleasant end.
Beautiful illustrations by sueworld2003, LJ layout by japewierd.

Okay, having done my utmost best to put you off, if anyone still wants to read the fic, please leave a comment below and I'll friend you. All fic posts will be flocked.