Fanfic Works In Progress (updates)

[Rachael]

Oh, and by the way - new threads are staying "stickied" until people start using them, just so that the new stuff stays easy to find. As they get used, I'll unstick them, to allow the ones used most recently to bob to the top.

[Julia, wrought iron-y]

Rachael said:

Oh, and by the way - new threads are staying "stickied" until people start using them, just so that the new stuff stays easy to find. As they get used, I'll unstick them, to allow the ones used most recently to bob to the top.

Cool.

[Lola m]

Rachael said:

All right: Ladies, Gentlemen, Spiny-headed lookin' things, we now have:

SEVEN independent threads for individual fics that appear popular and update frequently.

Fresh, clean, new threads for recommending slash and non-slash fic. It'd be very nice to keep that as just one-offs, and all WIPs updated in the WIP thread or in their respective threads, if they've got 'em. You know, to help me keep stuff organized, as it's going to fall to me to try and sort it out regularly and keep the mess at bay.

A new and exciting addition - a fanfic discussion thread. Mostly to separate the discussion of the fics from the recs/links, which will make it easier to find the links, and give y'all who want it a place to discuss the things you're really loving. (Not that the Main Board isn't good for that, too. But this is special. ;D)

Let's see...you'll already have noticed the archives thread, but still - we now have an archives thread, for storage of links to fanfic collections and fun livejournal communities. Sort of a library, really. Don't speak Latin in front of the books.

I think that's all for now. Suggestions and recommendations are always welcome. Even as I spend the rest of my natural life trying to rescue the "good stuff" from the old threads and keeping the new threads organized and making sure everyone sees the latest updates...oy with the poodles already.

I think I'll just nip out to the hot tub and kill myself....

Enjoy!

Wow!!

You may very well inspire me to do that whole "go through all my old bookmarks of sites to see which ones still exist and then post them on the LJ / website thread" thing that I was talking about. ;D ;D

Lola

But you'll be very humane when you do it, right?

**snickers over the dish of the day**

[Julia, wrought iron-y]

Nasty Shrew has updated "Dead Sunflowers with Chapter 10:

www.livejournal.com/users/nasty_shrew/11404.html?view=211084

Julia, this one probably should have a sticky; if anyone's looking for something completely different in S/X, not human AU but diverging from canon after "The Gift"- this is a good one

[Julia, wrought iron-y]

Protective Custody, Nassh and Cas, NC-17, maybe, Chapter 18, is here:

www.livejournal.com/users/nashmaveric/102655.html

Julia, haven't actually read it yet, very inefficient of me

[Nan-S'cubie Mascot]

DutchBuffy has a new WIP, "He ate a decorator once," on her site. Generally, all her stuff is published at The Crypt, too, but I haven't seen it there yet and some folk apparently have technical problems with The Crypt, so I'll list it at her site:

home.planet.nl/~dutchbuffy2305/decorator1.htm

It's a sequel to "He's the Light in Her Fridge" and "His Voice is Like a Mars Bar."

Pairing: Spike/Faith

Rating: R, by author

In a nutshell:

Lovers Spike and Faith arrive in New Orleans on his bike and enter the vampire court of Va Va Voom (not kidding here), the vampire Queen of New Orleans. Faith at first is unwillingly intrigued by the costumed, deliberately antique court/courtiers, then is abruptly turned off by its mix of the bizarre and the kinky and leaves, arranging to meet Spike later, elsewhere.

Don't know what the story as a whole is about yet, but DutchBuffy is a fine writer and I know it will be well worth reading.

[Julia, wrought iron-y]

OK, I'm doing it again; I am, eventually, going to make a post of all the tagfics I follow, but this one has risen to the level of recommendability, and updates so infrequently and sporadically that I deal with it more like a WIP than a tag fic.

"Aftermath" by Beadific and Lostgirlslair, R, Post NFA, Wes/Giles and Spike/Angel, many chapters long, the first book finished and 17 LONG tags on the first chapter of the second book. VERY plotty, decent character voices, good Spike-Giles and developing Angel-Wes interaction, very much a friendship centered rather than porny structure. Not as sterling an example of The Art of Writing as "Like Jazz" nor the terrific emo rush of "No More Snakes and Ladders" but a very nice thing, in its way.

www.livejournal.com/community/aftermath_fic/

Julia, I'm enjoyin the heck out of it as a story

[Julia, wrought iron-y]

Across the Miles, Raksha the Wolf, Chapter 6:

www.livejournal.com/community/bloodclaim/574243.html#cutid1

Julia, on to the next thing , et'c and so on

[Nan-S'cubie Mascot]

St_salieri, whose writing I've come to respect from Julia's recommendations, has a Kinkathon story of her own begun. It's called "Convergence."

In it, post-NFA Spike is deliberately returned, for reasons unknown, to S2 BtVS during the time Angelus is ascendent and his prior self is presumably confined to a wheelchair. In this first part, he runs afoul of Buffy....

It's at:

www.livejournal.com/users/st_salieri/102380.html?#cutid1

All parts will be archived, as they're completed, in this part of her Memories:

www.livejournal.com/tools/memories.bml?user=st_salieri&keyword=Fic:+Convergence&filter=all

[Nan-S'cubie Mascot]

Cyn Martin (jwaneeta), a particular online friend, has the first 3 chapters of what's undoubtedly delightful, wacky, and skewed. I adore her writing: she's the author of "Code of the Watchers," for instance.

The story is called "Clustering Round Young Buffy," (as usual) from Giles' viewpoint.

In it, Giles has become a god and, with Illyria, is a Guardian of the Deeper Well, where squabbling vampires Spike and Angel are also resident, in Giles' parole from hell; Andrew has come to visit, bearing tidings. A supernatural being, Drogyn's brother, bursts in to avenge his brother's death...except he doesn't know who's responsible and whales the tar out of Giles before being assured he has the wrong man and politely, apologetically departing. Then the four guys set out in haste for France, hoping to avoid the surviving brother's realization of the actual author of Drogyn's death.

Giles' supercilious haplessness is the main treat, so far.

Parts 1 and 2 are here:

www.livejournal.com/users/jwaneeta/78065.html?#cutid1

Part 3 is here:

www.livejournal.com/users/jwaneeta/78201.html?#cutid1

[Julia, wrought iron-y]

Shadowscast has updated "How the Light Gets in", S/X, post NFA, Post Shanshu Spike/world weary Xander, Illyria, Angel:

www.livejournal.com/users/shadowscast/44956.html?#cutid1


Julia, I was reading earlier parts of this story last night and wishing it would update

[Julia, wrought iron-y]

ezagaaikwe has finally updated her wonderful post NFA time travelling Spara, "The Long and Winding Road". I actually had very little to do with its production, except for a bit about riding double; I am so enamoured of her particularly fine grasp of Tara and Spike's characters that even if the story was not dense and plotty and full of detail I'd be a strong advocate for it; as it is it's close to perfect.

This part very soft R or PG-13

www.livejournal.com/community/spiketara/72989.html#cutid1

Julia, good day for fic, really

[Julia, wrought iron-y]

Protective Custody has updated with Chapter 19, this part NC-17.

www.livejournal.com/users/nashmaveric/103280.html

Julia, details above, too cranky to get verbose at the moment

[Nan-S'cubie Mascot]

Kallysten has updated Blurred Bloodlines (S/A, sort of):

www.livejournal.com/users/kallysten/288488.html

[Julia, wrought iron-y]

In Fron the Cold has updated:

www.livejournal.com/community/bloodclaim/580263.html?view=4754855

Julia, not a bundle of energy right now