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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Jun 30, 2006 23:09:42 GMT -5
Nasty Shrew has three short, brilliantly drawn fics: Spike/Drusilla (and Drusilla/pretty little girls), Xander/Angel with a lot of ambivalence, Xander/Lindsey with a side of Angel, and a slightly daft Xander/Spike with a glace of Ryan/Seth from "The OC." R, at most, and vastly amusing: nasty-shrew.livejournal.com/56222.htmlJulia, although not always in the "humorous" sense
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Jul 13, 2006 12:25:03 GMT -5
A year or more ago, Reremouse and Savoy Truffle wrote an AU human Spander series called "In From the Cold" wherein fry cook Xander gets involved with quiet bookish William and his reprobate twin, Spike (and given writers of lesser wit and ability, isn't that a set-up fraught with opportunities for infinite ickiness?). Now they've written a sequal, "Potential" where William has decided that Xander can do better, professionally speaking, and... well, it's a short, funny, and PG read: community.livejournal.com/trufflemouse/5029.htmlJulia, by the way, yesterday was about as dreadful as I thought it would be, although in different ways
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Jul 16, 2006 15:00:56 GMT -5
Savoy Truffle writes brilliantly of Africa, and lovingly of Spike and Xander. The two meet to very good effect in "Not Noisy or Excited" which wrapped up today with part two; link to part one in headers. savoytruffle.livejournal.com/73935.htmlJulia, leaving now, honest.
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Jul 18, 2006 21:32:01 GMT -5
Sweptawaybayou wrote a short piece of S/A which I read but may not have recommended due to pre-travel and floor repair time problems; Now Tabaqui has written a companion (link to the earlier piece in headers to her story): Angel and Spike's perspective on meeting in a church: tabaqui.livejournal.com/100979.htmlJulia, quite fatigued but soldieting on
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Jul 24, 2006 10:16:02 GMT -5
Mirielle719, "Habit of Leaving" for Summer of Giles; G/X, barely, PG: a look into the mind of men who'd rather fly away than face things: mireille719.livejournal.com/1306824.htmlJulia, notable for some great Giles-babble, and for future toast
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Aug 9, 2006 21:12:56 GMT -5
I may have put a femmeslash rec in the wrong thread. OOps. Anyway, Likeadeuce who is a writer who's been at this for a while, under another name which she found uncomfortably close to her real name, has written a sweet funny Gunn slash story for the Gunn Ficathon, "Five Things Gunn tried When Cordelia Told Him to Get a Hobby" PG-13ish, and the ship is part of the fun: likeadeuce.livejournal.com/582828.htmlJulia, must go check my records
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Aug 9, 2006 21:24:13 GMT -5
Moved from the wrongest possible threadf: "The Burkle-Summers Guide To Frozen Precipitation, Areas In Which It May Be Found, And Circumstances Surrounding Its Fall" by Glossing, a Buffy/Fred AU, post "Damage" barely R: www.exitseraphim.net/glossings/buffyfredsnow.htmlGlossing has a way of making things gracefully plausible, and her characterizations are always precisely drawn and entirely life-like and lively. Here, a Fred who takes some good advice heads for the council and becomes, first useful, and then indispensible. Julia, great stuff, this
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Aug 9, 2006 21:38:25 GMT -5
So, I did it again
Julia #doh2#
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Aug 18, 2006 16:56:26 GMT -5
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Sept 11, 2006 15:43:40 GMT -5
Mireille writes characters who breath and walk and gripe like humans; in "Charles Gunn is Alive and Living in Nebraska" this includes a post-Shanshu and badly adapted Spike. PG-13: mireille719.livejournal.com/1337658.htmlJulia, "Spike is drunk..."
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Sept 24, 2006 23:05:28 GMT -5
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Sept 27, 2006 17:05:21 GMT -5
For about the last six chapters of this fic, I've really missed Nan; she and I often exchanged PMs about pieces of writing which were giving us fits, one way or another, and this one has been driving me nuts for a long time: LazuliKat's Manifestation, a post-NFA NC-17 Spander which started out in promising fashion but, at the end, contained some of the factors which made "Repossession" very much a guilty pleasure, and at some points no pleasure at all. It's difficult to say when the wheels fell off for me, or why, and the plot is substantially more convincing than that of Repo, so I'm including the story in permanent recommendations without it being, really, a recommendation. I don't really like it very much, but I suspect others may like it quite a lot. I may have liked it quite well a year ago; it just doesn't speak to me now. And at least, at a mere 38 chapters, it will not devour ones life like Repo did; it is, in addition, pretty straight-forward in its story-telling, so one is not driven back through the chapters to try to figure out where THAT came from. Julia, but it just doesn't do it for me, sorry
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Post by Michelle on Sept 28, 2006 14:23:55 GMT -5
Witling made a call on her LJ; her Jolie is participating in a run to raise money toward cancer research--if we made a pledge, she would write a fic. That seemed like a win/win situation to me. Here, now completed, is her Spike/Xander story, Out of Africa. Scroll down to the 10 parts entitled "TNT Contribution fic #2." It's lovely, sad and sweet. Rated PG-13 at most, if that matters to you.
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Oct 3, 2006 23:35:01 GMT -5
Entrenous88, for the maleslash minis, a fic which is only slash by name and quite wonderful in any case. In the time after the kiss in the ruined factory, Oz still needs watched three nights a month, and the book cage is still in the library. "Break," PG, barely: entrenous88.livejournal.com/469407.html?format=lightJulia, posting this in both rec threads because it isn't overtly slashy, and should offend no-one, and entrenous is a grand writer.
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Oct 12, 2006 10:30:58 GMT -5
It may seem that I'm not reading slash any more, or reading it only in The Sentinel fandom; the truth is I still read a lot of slash but most of it is in the form of WIPs that go on forever (and McShep, when we don't have a SGA thread). "Drowning Not Waving" by Reremouse and Tabaqui hasn't gone on forever, although my involvement in it seems to have done so. If I've ever doubted the meticulous craftsmenship of these two writers, my experience beta-ing for them may have done so. Tabaqui and I had talked, in comments threads on her stories and mine, about my aversion for reading and writing horror and darkfic, and when they were developing this story they came to me for first reading of what was then an unrelievedly dark fic in the horror genre. It is still very dark and very horrific; it is also a story as humane and involving as anything they've ever written. Xander is in over his head at the first, nineteen, and with a baby to take care of, the mother long gone. the hand that reaches out to him is an evil, chipped Spike; a Spike who goes to Angel instead of Giles after he's chipped and who lives down to Angel's expectation. This is as graphic an Adult fic as I've read; anything more graphic is over my limits, and in places this fic exceeds my comfort zone by a couple of orders of magnitude. Xander is really not up to taking care of himself; he's already making gay porn movies when the story opens. Spike is really not good for Xander, or at all. The Angel Investigations people are their stalwart selves, for the most part, and Cordelia especially does everything she can for Xander and baby Julian. As I've said for thirteen chapters: read the warnings. Respect the authors' right to tell the story tghey're telling in the way they need to tell it. But don't avoid it entirely; it's a grand piece of writing and a tough lesson, and as fucked up as Spike and Xander are they are absolutely themselves, a Xander whose greatest weakness is underestimating his own abilities, a Spike whose greatest evil is his need to impress people. Cordelia and Gunn, particularly, are dandy; Wes and Angel are on stage less often but are sharply drawn. Julia, read it, but choose your day if you're going to read it all at once
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