5 Excellent stories from Indri's rec list

[dragonyphoenix]

I'm unsure of exactly when Buffyverse Top 5 ends, so I'm getting this in before work. Indri has written what may well be my favorite Buffy fanfic of all time In the Morning of the Magicians, Giles and Ethan, the electric Kool-Aid funky Satan groove year, in the early seventies. I decided to share stories from her rec list but a lot of the links were dead so I've been looking up stories; I've started posting a list of her recs here if anyone else is interested. I can't say they're the top 5 because I haven't read all the stories in her list yet.

Herself NYC captured captured Spike's darker side, the vampire's indifference for human life, but also something of the poet who cares for something higher, and I'm thinking of the poet where he tells her to run like hell if she sees him again, in Manhattan Nocturne.

Corinna's Ang-Nuo: a recently resouled Angel finding sanctuary and studying the Dao in a monastery promises not to harm a soul under their roof in a country is war torn.

In Peasant's If, Dru dies accidentally. The other three's confusion in their grief ... it's just a great portrayal of their inability to confront the loss. Amazing. Very well done Note: this one's locked to AO3 users only.

Nora Charles' White Satin Pumps: Willow's equally lost in her own grief but she hides it better until she can't hide it at all.

Fallowdoe's Don't Be Kind. Spike asks Willow to sort through his things if he doesn't make it. Right, I just reread the ending and have tears in my eyes. Also I think I need to read every story Fallowdoe's ever written.

Comments

[yourlibrarian]

We're closing in roughly 8 hours so you've still got time!

And I think it's a great idea to repurpose her recs, especially since it filters out what is still available somewhere. Have you tried the Wayback Machine for the dead links?

[yourlibrarian]

Also, just to let you know that If is locked to AO3 users only, if you could mention that.

[dragonyphoenix]

I haven't tried the Wayback Machine yet but I do plan to.

[yourlibrarian]

It may end up being of more limited use for LJ addresses than for other sites because so many people disabled webcrawler access on their accounts (I did too). But it's always worth a shot.