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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Apr 12, 2005 15:37:31 GMT -5
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Apr 12, 2005 15:39:14 GMT -5
Julia, you somehow neglected to say that this is the fine "I Spy," in which Spike seeks out Ethan in the latter's pub with the intention of terminating him with extreme prejudice...and doesn't. Neglect is the right word for it; forgot works, too. I can blame it on a lot of things but in any case I'm glad you caught my error. Julia, if memory serves part of it was the grand Comcast reality failure last week
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Post by Nan-S'cubie Mascot on Apr 18, 2005 14:04:13 GMT -5
Witling/Wiseacres has a perfectly daft tale in which Willow, Spike, and Xander are accidentally transported into a pan-dimensional library and a bit scrambled in the process. Spike is mute, Willow has his words and some of his temper, and Xander is unchanged...or is he? They have to figure how to get back to the Magic Box, where Giles is doubtless awaiting them anxiously. It's called "The One in the Library," and it's here.
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Post by Nan-S'cubie Mascot on Apr 19, 2005 10:21:32 GMT -5
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Apr 24, 2005 0:05:11 GMT -5
An untitled bit of Spander from Ladycat777, a birthday fic for Moosesal last Thursday which apparently got lost when I went to the dentist. Nice little schmangsty wobble in their relationship: www.livejournal.com/users/ladycat777/585704.html#cutid1Julia, having gotten some words out tonight
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Apr 24, 2005 23:08:48 GMT -5
This weekend seems determined to make me stop fretting that no more great fics would ever be written (sorry, just separation anxiety or something). Another example of a great writer revisiting an earlier storyline (this is pretty obviously a story in theAU of "Steam" and "Touched") and striking a rich vein. S/X, R-ish Two Ladies of Quality; Angel visits Sunnydale and learns something... So does Xander: www.livejournal.com/users/riani1/85757.html?#cutid1Julia, such a nice thing indeed
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Apr 25, 2005 12:01:06 GMT -5
Byrne, one of the collective which wrote the tangle of great characterization, hot smut, and unreadble format that is "Tea and Biscuits" was a runner-up in the "Bodice Ripper" Awards for this dandy little Gile-Ethan history from Randall's funeral to 2004 "By My Hand" (she says NC-17 by accident; on my current scale, hard R as there is no graphic sexual language): www.prettymuses.com/crypt/fics/bymyhand.htmlJulia, feeling a bit ooky
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Apr 27, 2005 17:36:49 GMT -5
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Apr 29, 2005 19:27:50 GMT -5
Wesleysgirl and JaneDavitt, between them, have written many very good fics, but they are able, working together, to make stories which are rich and detailed and full of life. This time, with "Saturation" they've started with an established Giles and Xander pairing similar in timing to "Act of Nature" but differing in circumstances and in the balance of the relationship. Into their well-settled domesticity comes a totally dispossessed Spike, shanshued, disoriented, and handed a one-way ticket and Giles' home address by a royally cheesed Angel. The story is driven by friendship, consideration, empathy, and the kind of communications screw-ups to be expected between guys, especailly when one of the guys is an ex-vampire unsure of his value in life. NC-17, which pretty much goes without saying for these writers. www.janedavitt.com/Saturation1.htmlor home.comcast.net/~wesleysgirl/fanfiction/Sat1.htmlJulia, 12 very long chapters
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on May 4, 2005 22:45:52 GMT -5
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Post by Nan-S'cubie Mascot on May 8, 2005 17:46:18 GMT -5
Entrenous has a silly but amusing tale in about 30 (32?) parts, "Shacking Up." Definitely R rated, but very little of what I call "plumbing" (though *some*). More about emotions/pairings than body parts. In it, the Scoobies (and Giles) decide it's time to disencumber Xander of roomie Spike. Instead, pretty much by committee, a new (gay) roommate is found. Problems ensue. Meanwhile, Oz and Willow are tentatively setting up a threesome with a reasonably agreeable non-canonical character, and the course of true love (with three) does not run smooth. As said, there is nothing like profundity here, and Buffy comes off as a total ditz. It's about on the level of your garden variety of matchmaking teenagers, trying to figure out who should be matched with whom, and the most dire fate imaginable is that someone should be "matchless." Xander is passively manipulated by just about everybody who takes an interest; Spike is hot; Willow is emphatically not gay, just kinky (as in threesome); Buffy is strong and clueless; and it all comes out all right (predictably) in the end. It's here.
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Post by Lola m on May 8, 2005 18:49:40 GMT -5
Entrenous has a silly but amusing tale in about 30 (32?) parts, "Shacking Up." Definitely R rated, but very little of what I call "plumbing" (though *some*). More about emotions/pairings than body parts. In it, the Scoobies (and Giles) decide it's time to unencumber Xander of roomie Spike. Instead, pretty much by committee, a new (gay) roommate is found. Problems ensue. Meanwhile, Oz and Willow are tentatively setting up a threesome with a reasonably agreeable non-canonical character, and the course of true love (with three) does not run smooth. As said, there is nothing like profundity here, and Buffy comes off as a total ditz. It's about on the level of your garden variety of matchmaking teenagers, trying to figure out who should be matched with whom, and the most dire fate imaginable is that someone should be "matchless." Xander is passively manipulated by just about everybody who takes an interest; Spike is hot; Willow is emphatically not gay, just kinky (as in threesome); Buffy is strong and clueless; and it all comes out all right (predictably) in the end. It's here. I have a great fondness for Shacking Up. It is light and fun. I love the love and banter between Willow and Xander - very season 1-3, very close and loving between them. It's not profound, perhaps, but it is very like the best of friendship scenes from early Buffy are pulled together to make a story. It doesn't have Willow and Tara, but instead a sweet Willow/Oz/OMC plot. The final chapters are perhaps anticlimactic and I would have preferred some sort of set up for a sequel, some new challenge presented. But all in all, if you want a happy, without being really out of character (provided you think of the fun-friendly-hair braiding side of the main characters) story, I'd recommend it. I love anst and deep and powerfully meaningful. But I also love . . . sweet and nice and fun.
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on May 9, 2005 21:27:01 GMT -5
Sorrell often writes mediocre S/X melodrama; Sorrell sometimes writes strange and wonderful near-surrealism (see "Tautology" on page 3 of this thread); Sorrell, today, has written a fic about the infinite improbability of Spike and Xander in a damned fine Douglas Adams voice. Do read "Inside Jokes": www.livejournal.com/community/bloodclaim/771710.html#cutid1Julia, snerking away madly
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on May 16, 2005 19:13:03 GMT -5
Uberaeryn, again, but very different for the playful silliness of the fic she wrote on my birthday. "Long Road Home", S/A NC-17, AtS s5 after, probably, "Destiny"; some things Spike hadn't told people and Angel suspects anyway: www.livejournal.com/users/uberaeryn/95514.html?#cutid1Julia, H/c of the psychosexual sort
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Post by Nan-S'cubie Mascot on May 17, 2005 20:03:34 GMT -5
One Lit_gal (whom I don't otherwise know) has written a substantial fic in 24 parts, eventually called "Beautiful Broken." In it, in the wake of the disastrous overthrow and collapse of the Initiative, demons are enslaving humans and training them to rigorous slave disciplines. They're treated pretty much like show horses being disciplined to dressage, only more pain is inflicted because it can be magically healed. Some of the training is sexual, and the story has occasional explicit sex, some non-consentual. Definitely an NC-17 rating. Xander is caught by these slavers and for six months he is trained...and broken. Then, at the story's opening (the rest is background), he's bought by Spike, who intends him to be a part of rescuing Willow and Tara from the demon slavers because of a promise Spike made Buffy...before she died. (Incidentally, Dawn doesn't exist, and Joyce is vividly alive.) This is mainly the story of Xander coming to terms with what he's been, is now, and may become. Spike supports him all the way. Because not only love is at stake, the story has a weight and straight-shooting blunt insights that make it much more than "ooh--a sex slave!" fluff. There are the occasional typos, but it's basically readable aside from that. The bulk of the story is here. Probably the final chapter, 24, will join in due time; for the moment, it's here.
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