My Top 5 Guh! worthy series for 2005
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buffyversetop5The fics this year that made me go GUH! All have a incredibly hot sex (evoking the state of 'guh-ness'), fun plot, and many more than one chapter. Also, no matter how angsty they get, they all have that tricky kind of happy ending that makes me pleased I spent all that time reading. Oh, and they're all slash except for the last one.
Title: This One Does
Creator’s Name:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
uberaeryn
Pairing: Giles/Spike
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Sexual content
Link: HERE
Why I chose this: This is one of the first, and most effective, Giles/Spike I've read. Not only because the sex is so blisteringly hot, but because there's a great deal of back and forth before Giles can really accept Spike. It starts during S4, when Spike is imprisoned in Giles' bathtub, and goes on from there. Also, because reading it through to the end always gives me that warm feeling that all is right with the world.
Title: Saturation
Creator’s Name:janedavitt and wesleysgirl
Pairing: Giles/Xander/Spike
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Threesome, hints of kink
Link: HERE
Why I chose this: Giles and Xander are living in England when Spike comes back into their lives (post everything). So hot it nearly burns the eyes, and so good you'll want to cuddle your computer. Janedavitt & Wesleysgirl make it all work, without making you feel like you're reading excessive emotions -- and they'll never leave you wondering why it seems like there are too many limbs too.
Title: Petverse Charity Fic
Creator’s Name:thebratqueen
Pairing: Angel/Wes/Spike
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: D/S, kink (although it's not 'pets' in the sense of kittens & puppies)
Link: HERE and the full PET archives are HERE
Why I chose this: Although most of this 'verse was written in 2004 (and the fic began in 2003), this particular moment was written early 2005 and is a totally sweet and wonderfully sexy summation of Wesley's relationship with the two vampires. And the series itself? Kinky, burning, and beloved.
Title: No More Snakes and Ladders
Creator’s Name:reremouse and 
tabaqui
Pairing: Spike/Xander (and then some Wesley on the side)
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Some violence/gore, lots of nudity, Vamp!Xander (but eventually, and it's not horrible) - ALSO, there is NO way you will finish this in a night - it's tag!fic (but it's good! it actually ends)
Link: HERE
Why I chose this: Wow, looking back on this fic, it's one of the most complex and readable tag!fics I've ever read. It's post everything, and Xander is working on the Hellmouth and finds an injured Spike in the rubble. The relationship between the two is magnificent, and one of my favorite Xander stories - where he reclaims himself, in a sense, and Spike helps him do it. Yum.
Title: Third Time Lucky
Creator’s Name:janedavitt
Pairing: Giles/Faith/Wesley
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Violence, threesome, some kink, MAJOR angst.
Link: Inspiration fic HERE and actual story HERE
Why I chose this: So Wes is brought back after NFA, and boy is he angry, and hurt, and wants to be Faith's Watcher again, but not always in a comfortable way. This fic is almost too much for me, because it's so passionate and these three people are so emotionally clenched in one way or another that you're not sure it's going to work... and yet, Janedavitt does make it work, in so many ways.
Title: This One Does
Creator’s Name:
uberaeryn Pairing: Giles/Spike
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Sexual content
Link: HERE
Why I chose this: This is one of the first, and most effective, Giles/Spike I've read. Not only because the sex is so blisteringly hot, but because there's a great deal of back and forth before Giles can really accept Spike. It starts during S4, when Spike is imprisoned in Giles' bathtub, and goes on from there. Also, because reading it through to the end always gives me that warm feeling that all is right with the world.
Title: Saturation
Creator’s Name:
janedavitt and wesleysgirlPairing: Giles/Xander/Spike
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Threesome, hints of kink
Link: HERE
Why I chose this: Giles and Xander are living in England when Spike comes back into their lives (post everything). So hot it nearly burns the eyes, and so good you'll want to cuddle your computer. Janedavitt & Wesleysgirl make it all work, without making you feel like you're reading excessive emotions -- and they'll never leave you wondering why it seems like there are too many limbs too.
Title: Petverse Charity Fic
Creator’s Name:
thebratqueen Pairing: Angel/Wes/Spike
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: D/S, kink (although it's not 'pets' in the sense of kittens & puppies)
Link: HERE and the full PET archives are HERE
Why I chose this: Although most of this 'verse was written in 2004 (and the fic began in 2003), this particular moment was written early 2005 and is a totally sweet and wonderfully sexy summation of Wesley's relationship with the two vampires. And the series itself? Kinky, burning, and beloved.
Title: No More Snakes and Ladders
Creator’s Name:
reremouse and tabaqui Pairing: Spike/Xander (and then some Wesley on the side)
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Some violence/gore, lots of nudity, Vamp!Xander (but eventually, and it's not horrible) - ALSO, there is NO way you will finish this in a night - it's tag!fic (but it's good! it actually ends)
Link: HERE
Why I chose this: Wow, looking back on this fic, it's one of the most complex and readable tag!fics I've ever read. It's post everything, and Xander is working on the Hellmouth and finds an injured Spike in the rubble. The relationship between the two is magnificent, and one of my favorite Xander stories - where he reclaims himself, in a sense, and Spike helps him do it. Yum.
Title: Third Time Lucky
Creator’s Name:
janedavitt Pairing: Giles/Faith/Wesley
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Violence, threesome, some kink, MAJOR angst.
Link: Inspiration fic HERE and actual story HERE
Why I chose this: So Wes is brought back after NFA, and boy is he angry, and hurt, and wants to be Faith's Watcher again, but not always in a comfortable way. This fic is almost too much for me, because it's so passionate and these three people are so emotionally clenched in one way or another that you're not sure it's going to work... and yet, Janedavitt does make it work, in so many ways.
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Date: 2005-12-31 10:27 pm (UTC)I was starting to fear I'd read none, but then I remembered
And yes, WOW I'm disorganised!
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Date: 2006-01-04 11:14 pm (UTC)Thank you so much!
So glad you enjoyed the story so much, and wow, we're up there with some good writers!
:)
Can i ask a huge favor? The link you provided links to Square One - and the reader misses both prologues. Could you use this url instead?
http://www.livejournal.com/community/snakes_ladders/496.html#cutid1
It links to Xander's prologue, which is the first part, and there are links to all the rest from there.
Thank you so much!
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Thanks!
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