Five top holiday stories for 2006

[jans-intentions.livejournal.com]

There is no way I can fit in all the wonderful works I've seen this year, but here are a few.


1. shapinglight writes a story with an obscene-mouthed Spike as he gets into a tussle with evil Santa. Poor Spike still thinks he has to protect Dawn from the realities of life, but of course that isn't the case. This is laugh-out-loud fic: The Night Before Christmas.

2. apreludetoanend writes a delightful and sly pre-slash bit of spander (and even if you don't care for spander, read it, it's very well-crafted and poignant and her Spike voice is wonderful) with You Missed Christmas.

3. electricalgwen offers five Spike drabbles on past Christmases. Extremely enjoyable! Five Christmases Spike'll Never Forget.

4. spikesfool does a bit of fun fantasy spangel with The Woodcutter, the Witch, and the Enchanted Prince.

5. vikingprincess offers an interesting and hot take on spawn with her still on going fic Snowbound. Full of delicious twists on character and some fun debates about literature (and yes, hot spawn, of course.)

Comments

[yourlibrarian]

Very apropos list! I've only read the first so there's lots to look forward to here.

[jans-intentions.livejournal.com]

Yes, I thought this was perfect to go with buffyversetop5. I very much enjoyed all of these works and more.

[velvetwhip.livejournal.com]

I loved that fourth story! I shall have to check out the rest!


Gabrielle

[jans-intentions.livejournal.com]

I hope you enjoy them. There were so many this year I finally gave up trying to rec them all.

[velvetwhip.livejournal.com]

I know what you mean. I'm making some lists right now (trying to find a way out of writing...hee) and I am having a hard time narrowing things down.


Gabrielle

[jans-intentions.livejournal.com]

LOL, I'm doing the same thing! I'm worming out of writing MH right now. But this is still work, right? *laughs*

[jans-intentions.livejournal.com]

BTW, do you affliate? I'm not quite clear even now on what that's about, but I'd be happy to affliate noel_of_spike with you as I think we have something in common. I've actually just plugged you there. ^_^

[velvetwhip.livejournal.com]

Absolutely!


Gabrielle

[petzipellepingo.livejournal.com]

The first story was just wonderful fun.

[jans-intentions.livejournal.com]

Yes, it was wonderful, wasn't it? *g*

[yourlibrarian]

We haven't so far, though I'm not averse to it. My understanding was that affiliates are similar types of communities (like say, fandom newsletters, or the darker ring). So I guess for Top 5, affiliates might be other rec communities?

Thanks so much for the pimp! I need to get a few announcements out today too. Oh, and what about making an entry for Noel of Spike at

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We haven't so far, though I'm not averse to it. My understanding was that affiliates are similar types of communities (like say, fandom newsletters, or the darker ring). So I guess for Top 5, affiliates might be other rec communities?

Thanks so much for the pimp! I need to get a few announcements out today too. Oh, and what about making an entry for Noel of Spike at <A HREhttp://community.livejournal.com/buffyversetop5/49661.html>The Community List</A>? It's now got a permanent link on our front page.

[jans-intentions.livejournal.com]

Oh, right, I remember that from last year. Noel is new so I'd forgotten. I don't think your link worked there.

Well, I'll put it in our user page we've affliated with you and announce it with my next recap of posts. We don't really do recs, but we're sort of holiday-end of the yearish.

[yourlibrarian]

Erp, yes. Don't know what happened there. It's here:
http://community.livejournal.com/buffyversetop5/49661.html

I've also added noel_of_spike to the Newbie Guide listing. That's also linked from our front page and you can see it here:
http://community.livejournal.com/newbieguide/13052.html

[vikingprincess]

thank you for including Snowbound! I think I'm going to work on that today - I feel inspired now! :)