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kwritten (Kelsey)'s fics, but alas, choices must be made.
oh you're here, too? (Buffy, Anya, Willow, Dawn/Faith) Already on the shortlist of my favorite post-Chosen fics, and unique in Anya's key role as the women of the 'verse "redefine 'adulthood' and all that implies".
slipping right down (Buffy/Tara, Dawn/Allison Argent) The second part of Kelsey's blurring the lines series inspired by my Buffy/Tara fic rec post from one year ago; Kelsey's summary Buffy's memories continue to blur between realities and Tara searches for a cure doesn't come close to capturing the raw power of this story. Bonus: Dawn is the protagonist of part 3, faces in the mirror.
finding a balance (Buffy/Tara, AU season 4; also on AO3); a retelling of "Hush". Kelsey created a second Buffy/Tara series that seems at first to intersect with Blurring the Lines but is in fact a separate 'verse and the polar opposite of BtL - warm, domestic, nurturing "fix it fics" of the very highest order in which the women of the 'verse struggle to support one another and more often than not, get it right.
The other parts of the finding a balance verse are not easy to find but they're worth seeking out because each story in the series gets better and better:
part 2: her bark is worse than her bite (Buffy/Tara, Dawn, AU S6/7) written for my prompt: thunder/courage; tara being as flawed and human, not a golden goddess of perfect wisdom and forgiveness; keyverse okay.
part 3: what you want and what you get (Oliva, Buffy/Tara, Dawn, Anya, Sam, Sunggyu*, Giles; AU S6) Another gift for me from my prompt Buffy, Olivia, a decent meal; I told Kelsey this year that I had envisioned a scene of Olivia comforting Buffy in a kitchen sometime vaguely S6 or post series, making sure Buffy ate a meal and ending up consoling a still grieving Slayer; but I had no idea how to write it and asked her if she would tackle it instead. The result is a thousand times better than anything I could have hoped to come up with: Olivia Williams never wanted children. She definitely didn’t want a whole household of traumatized teenagers incapable of even asking for help because they no longer knew how.
Bonus: aftershock (Joyce, Buffy, Faith, Dawn, mention of Giles; AU-Helpless, Keyverse compliant) another fill of one of my October meme prompts, for Joyce, Buffy, Dawn, post-Helpless or Gingerbread. The women of the 'verse come together to aid Buffy and rescue Joyce from Kralik. Joyce does a little rescuing of her own; Giles proves himself to be quite useless. More lovely domesticitity as only Kelsey knows how to write it.
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Date: 2015-01-19 07:32 pm (UTC)Gabrielle
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Date: 2015-01-19 07:54 pm (UTC)Now if only I could find the other....
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Date: 2015-01-19 11:14 pm (UTC)(what have you done?((note: the Olivia/Buffy fic is actually titled "what you want and what you get" - "a light in the dark" is a Willow-centric fic)
also - because you wanted it:
original taxes posting (http://kwritten.livejournal.com/153455.html?thread=1302895#t1302895)
now also on ao3 (http://archiveofourown.org/works/3200696)
((and yes I know I need to update my archive I'm so sorry!))
Thanks to everyone for their lovely comments and to you, babe, for this rec post. I am seriously in shock.
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Date: 2015-01-19 11:53 pm (UTC)Fixed, thank you for catching that! Someday I will NOT post these things in a tearing hurry at the very last minute.
also - because you wanted it: ORIGINAL TAXES POSTING NOW ALSO ON AO3
*HAPPY DANCE* THANK YOU! I adore that fic so so much - it deserves it's own post.
And no hurry on the archiving - I see you're dealing with way bigger shit than that, sweetie. As long as I can find your fics one way or another. Take care of you first.
I am seriously in shock.
You shouldn't be, you're an amazing writer.
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Date: 2015-01-20 01:55 am (UTC)Oof 2014 was a heavy fic year
Thanks so much for giving the Anya piece a shout out. It's one of my very favorites.
Lol that poor taxes fic it really should have been put on ao3 months ago.
(Thanks bb. RL is a cruel mistress.)
*blushing forever*
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Date: 2015-01-20 04:54 am (UTC)Me too. I just made another rec post of random fics and included taxes? in it. I love that universe you created.
I just adore what you want and what you get to no end - I've reread it more than any of the other fics in the balance verse at this point. I had this vague idea of a scene between Olivia and Buffy that kept turning into something teary and maudlin and you created a work of art.
I'm proud of you for writing Willow this year though; I get the impression she's not your favorite, so kudos to you, hon.
Your talent really blows me away, and that's no lie, no exagerration.