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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on May 18, 2005 15:31:49 GMT -5
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Post by makd on May 18, 2005 22:58:21 GMT -5
Hi, Everyone Sharing a fic - rec from LJ-land: Uberaeryn's written yet another silly, giddy, laugh-out-loud spangel story. This one's called, The $6,000,000.00 Dollar Man, and here's the link: www.livejournal.com/users/uberaeryn/98231.html#cutid1For Julia, who's unamusable today From makd, who needed the laugh uberaeryn provided.
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Post by Lola m on May 19, 2005 7:08:34 GMT -5
Hi, Everyone Sharing a fic - rec from LJ-land: Uberaeryn's written yet another silly, giddy, laugh-out-loud spangel story. This one's called, The $6,000,000.00 Dollar Man, and here's the link: www.livejournal.com/users/uberaeryn/98231.html#cutid1For Julia, who's unamusable today From makd, who needed the laugh uberaeryn provided. Uberaeryn, as others have said before me, is an evil genius.
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on May 22, 2005 20:10:51 GMT -5
From the other half of the OKC slash writers (and Christian Kane Softball Cheerleaders), Crazydiamondsue, here's an immediate Post NFA bit of Spangel, with lots of quotes, for Violethamster's birthday: www.livejournal.com/users/crazydiamondsue/75150.html?#cutid1Julia, all of a sudden my flist is raining fic after a scary drought
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on May 24, 2005 9:58:04 GMT -5
Clicking on links to links led me to this dandy S/X not-so-PG-13ish, long post-everything fic from Dira Sudys: dira.ficlaundering.com/bv/glance.htmlJulia, how dd we all miss this wonderful thing?
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on May 24, 2005 12:17:40 GMT -5
There's been a film clip floating around called "Emo Boys Kissing"- a party bet that gets way out of hand- and I've already recommended one fic inspired by the clip (by Entrenous88, above; the clip itself is linked in her fic). There's been others- mostly either PWPish or otherwise undistinguished- but today this fic was linked in Entrenous's journal, and it's quite another thing entirely; long, PG-13, sweet and a little sad. X/O with Willow as the ringmaster (and human AU, perhaps, not that it matters): www.livejournal.com/users/fydyan/30025.htmlJulia, very nice indeed
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Post by Lola m on May 27, 2005 21:02:41 GMT -5
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Jun 8, 2005 11:34:36 GMT -5
This is another story in the "Acts of Nature" group from Wesleysgirl and JaneDavitt, written as a gift for Moosesal. It's a prequal to "AoN, and expands on a night Xandre refers to, when he and John got up to some snogging in the Dunes. "Crossed Lines", Barely R, PG-13 if boys kissing isn't sufficient for an R rating: www.livejournal.com/users/janedavitt/346653.html?#cutid1Julia, asleepish, still
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Jun 8, 2005 11:37:24 GMT -5
Camisha has written a follow-up in this AU setting, and plans more; I'm feeling grumpy about human AU stuff lately. ANYTHING Camisha writes is well worth reading; she's out of town for a bit but promises much joy when she gets back online. Julia, I think the amount of "Meh" I have to shovel through lately is jading my palate
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Post by Nan-S'cubie Mascot on Jun 12, 2005 23:25:05 GMT -5
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Jun 19, 2005 23:09:42 GMT -5
I finally got enough time scraped together to read Tabaqui's "Babylon", an "apocafic" where Spike finds Xander a year and a half after NFA where the outcome is as bad, nearly, as it could be. I started reading it with the first chapter and it hit all of the buttons installed when a PIO from Fort Lewis came to my elementary school in October of 1962 and basically told us we were all going to die before we could get home to our mothers... anyway, so it grew to eight chapters and an epilogue and while the ending is not happy as in "and then they woke up and it was all a dream" it is organically justified, logically consistent, and satisfying. R, probably and in memories, here. Julia, very glad I read it all at once as a completed work
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Jul 2, 2005 13:46:17 GMT -5
(Second go at this; I had the recommendation written and found out that Proboards spellcheck makes ie on Mac OS 9.2 collapse) Shadowscast writes Xander and his point of view in an entirely convincing manner. This is Xander post Hells Bells, post Grave, post Chosen, after Africa has taught him about how much worse things can be than they were in Sunnydale and left him addicted to nicotine. This is Xander who is maturing and has a better understanding of what he wants in life, and what he needs to give to it. Shadowscast writes Spike who is complex and convincing. He is proud, independant, thorny and terribly lonely after a Shanshu which he never asked for or expected. At the beginning of the story the only advantage he sees to his newly human condition is that he has the power to keep Angel outside his door, and so he does. He is self-indulgent and sulky but still trying to make a life in the face of some pretty grave impediments. He is not defeated and wallowing as the Spike in Herself's "A Very Bad Thing," the notable other post Shanshu Spike story recently completed. Shadowscast also writes a frustrated protective Angel, a reluctantly adapting Illyria, Giles who is still attempting to make the young people learn to be autonomous, Andrew who is working on being an individual and not a minion, Willow and Kennedy trying to make a go of it, and she does so seamlessly. "How the Light Gets In" is the latest in a series of interrelated post-NFA stories which are archived here: shadowscast.popullus.net/fiction_list.html#BuffyAnd are listed in both the order in which they were written and the order of their internal chronology. "How the Light Gets In" rises to the level of NC-17 on a couple of occassions, always in service to the plot. It would be a very sad thing indeed if that fact keeps people from reading it, as it is, in many ways, the bst post NFA fic I've read. Julia, wonderful thing, it is.
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Jul 6, 2005 0:09:00 GMT -5
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Jul 10, 2005 18:30:45 GMT -5
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Jul 13, 2005 0:18:07 GMT -5
OK, I may not have made this clear over the years, but I have a lot of trouble with Wes/Angel fic as it is usually written, that is, with Wes either infantilized or way too crazy. "Therapy," by Kirvan, avoids that trap and gives us tough and lonely Wes, Angel torn up by the results of firing the AI crew, and an attempt, after "Disharmony", to give Wes what he needs to repair their friendship the way clothes repaired the rift with Cordy: www.livejournal.com/users/kivrin/156311.htmlThis is PG, maybe beginning to just barely kind of shade into PG-13 if you hold your head just right and squint a little. Julia, but the UST is all over it
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