5 Long Spuffy Fics

[snickfic]

Where "long" = "more than one chapter."

1. Better Late Than Never (11 chapters), by cindergal
post-Intervention
Spike and Buffy head back to the 1970s to retrieve an artifact to help them defeat Glory. Sweet and hopeful and very quietly romantic. Plus: time travel! and Ripper!

2. The Indefinite Article (2 chapters), by rahirah
Barbverse; NC-17
After losing his temper one time too many, and afraid of doing his family further damage, Spike decides it's time to get himself one of those soul things. It goes badly. Full of angst, soul exploration, and Barb's usual wonderful prose.

3. Fin Amour (6 chapters), by angearia
AU S5
Buffy never wanted to be pregnant with a mystical Key, but nobody asked her. Meanwhile, Spike's just trying to help, and getting nowhere. Emmie says she began this piece as "as a dare to write a powerful love story that had no sex in it," and she does a marvelous job. Angsty but also joyful (despite the major character death). Just gorgeous.

4. To Apprehend Air (3 chapters), by quinara
S7
One morning, Spike wakes up without his soul. He wants it back. This launches a quest to a faraway fantasy dimension with lots of soul exploration along the way. Also has lots of Anya being awesome.

5. Something (4 chapters), by gryfndor_godess
post-Chosen
Absolutely gorgeous Spuffy suggestion of how things might have turned out post-S7 if Spike hadn't burned to death in "Chosen," but also very clever in subverting certain standard fannish expectations. Just excellently written. SEVERE ANGST WARNING.

Comments

[angearia.livejournal.com]

Oh! I haven't read all of these! The time travel one with Ripper is extremely tempting. :D

Buffy never wanted to be pregnant with a mystical Key, but nobody asked her. Meanwhile, Spike's just trying to help, and getting nowhere.

Perfect summary. I may need to hire your services in future...

[snickfic]

cindergal doesn't write very much, but she's excellent when she does!

I just realized that I've mentioned you in every one of these so far. I must like your work, or something...

[angearia.livejournal.com]

I just realized that I've mentioned you in every one of these so far. I must like your work, or something...

It's all part of my (completely coincidental) masterplan to seduce you with mpreg, Faith/Giles, and babyfic.

[snickfic]

Hey, no complaint here! :)

[natural-blue-26.livejournal.com]

Now I am curious how exactly Faith/Giles is possible... o_O

[snickfic]

Well, a start from this year. :)

[natural-blue-26.livejournal.com]

Why thank you :)

[eilowyn.livejournal.com]

Because you come up with all these fabulous lists every year, I like to pretend you have open tabs from February, just so you remember different posts, because that's the only way I can imagine you keeping everything in order.

[snickfic]

Actually, I stole a secret from Emmie: I have a "2010" memories tag, and I just stick things in it whenever.

And then I spent an hour an hour and a half an unreasonable amount of time yesterday organizing everything I wanted into lists of five, with an addition here or there to fill out a category. (But it worked! Everything I want, now in a list! I'll be posting periodically.)

It is possible organizing things into lists and alphabetical order is something I do for fun. *sigh*

[petzipellepingo.livejournal.com]

Excellent choices, thanks for posting.

[quinara]

One morning, Spike wakes up without his soul. He wants it back.

:D Thanks so much for the rec! And for putting me in such good company!

[slaymesoftly.livejournal.com]

Have only read three of these (all wonderful choices), so have something to look forward to. Thanks!

[debris4spike]

Thank you for those - 4 of the 5 I somehow missed ... you can't have too much Spuffy, can you?

[cindergal.livejournal.com]

Thank you for reccing me! ::is flattered::

[snickfic]

Totally deserved. I want more people to read it!

[yourlibrarian]

Heh to the qualification of long :D That first one sounds so intriguing, I must try that out soon.

[jennylayne.livejournal.com]

Thanks, I have read a couple of these so I can tell by your choices that you have very good taste :)

[gryfndor-godess.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much for reccing me! :)

[snickfic]

You are most welcome. It really was a wonderfully written piece, even though I was mad at the end. But you'd set it up really cleverly and it was totally legit.

Still, are you going to write us some happy Spuffy someday? Everything I can remember reading has been so sad, and I want your beautifully-written Spike and Buffy to get a happy ending. :)

[gryfndor-godess.livejournal.com]

*blushes* Thank you for your kind words. I have written some happy Spuffy before, actually. And most of the stories in my head are happy/schmoopy and/or funny; unfortunately most of them are also novella length and I just haven't had the time to write them yet (although it's one of my 2011 goals...); I have my verse plotted out for at least a decade, so goodness knows there are enough plot bunnies.

Two happy Spuffy stories I've written are "Superlative" for Seasonal Spuffy (http://community.livejournal.com/seasonal_spuffy/413744.html) and "In Progress" (http://gryfndor-godess.livejournal.com/68258.html), which is just on my LJ. The first is my attempt at humor, and the second is future-happy-Spuffy-family-with-child fic, if you like that sort of thing.

Thank you for the encouragement! It is very motivating. :)

[natural-blue-26.livejournal.com]

Ooooh! Long fics! ♥ ♥ ♥

[moscow-watcher.livejournal.com]

Great collection.