Five Flavours of Spangel
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buffyversetop5A bit of a mishmash, this list. In the end, I just picked some favourites and then went 'large' at the end.
The Small Places, Angel/Spike NC17 by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
girlpire. girlpire has a wonderful, matter of fact sense of humour (so matter of fact it comes across as faintly surreal, I think), which is much in evidence in this story, in which Spike - very uncharacteristically - doesn't have a word to say for himself and yet manages to speak volumes.
The Sheet Anchor PG-13/R bypeasant_. Not strictly a Spangel fic, and Joss'd to high heavean, as the author readily admits, this is a jolly 18th century naval romp, in which, for various reasons to do with avoiding being punished by Angelus, young vampire William joins the navy.
Five Things Angel Never Says to Spike, NC17 bylyrstzha. One of my favourite Spike/Angel stories, beautifully written, in which the alley fight in NFA brings Angel an unexpected reward.
On the Rocks, Spike/Angel NC17 byfrimfram. I always end up reccing this story, but am more than happy to do so again. Spike catches up with a shanshu'ed Angel somewhere on the north-east coast of America. I swear you can smell the ozone.
I wanted to choose an example of a much older style of S/A fic to end with, to try and point newcomers to the fandom to old stuff they might have missed. Some of it reads strangely now, but there's a lot that's still worth reading. In the end, though, I couldn't choose an individual representative story, so I'll end with a link to Saber Shadowkitten's Spike/Angel fanfic archive, which contains S/A fics of all varieties, from dark as dark to fluffy as kittens. A look into Buffyverse fandom history.
The Small Places, Angel/Spike NC17 by
girlpire. girlpire has a wonderful, matter of fact sense of humour (so matter of fact it comes across as faintly surreal, I think), which is much in evidence in this story, in which Spike - very uncharacteristically - doesn't have a word to say for himself and yet manages to speak volumes. The Sheet Anchor PG-13/R by
peasant_. Not strictly a Spangel fic, and Joss'd to high heavean, as the author readily admits, this is a jolly 18th century naval romp, in which, for various reasons to do with avoiding being punished by Angelus, young vampire William joins the navy.Five Things Angel Never Says to Spike, NC17 by
lyrstzha. One of my favourite Spike/Angel stories, beautifully written, in which the alley fight in NFA brings Angel an unexpected reward.On the Rocks, Spike/Angel NC17 by
frimfram. I always end up reccing this story, but am more than happy to do so again. Spike catches up with a shanshu'ed Angel somewhere on the north-east coast of America. I swear you can smell the ozone.I wanted to choose an example of a much older style of S/A fic to end with, to try and point newcomers to the fandom to old stuff they might have missed. Some of it reads strangely now, but there's a lot that's still worth reading. In the end, though, I couldn't choose an individual representative story, so I'll end with a link to Saber Shadowkitten's Spike/Angel fanfic archive, which contains S/A fics of all varieties, from dark as dark to fluffy as kittens. A look into Buffyverse fandom history.
