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I had trouble coming up with a theme, since this is literally "two fics I read this year and really loved" + "some other stuff I love." XD Anyway, I hope folks enjoy! I've certainly gotten a lot of enjoyment out of buffyversetop5 over the years. <3

( mix of characters and pairings behind the cut! )

sparrow2000.livejournal.com

There is no particular theme here, just five random recs from years gone by.

In Mine Eyes Dazzle by Victoria P (musesfool) Xander visits Angel after the events in Your Welcome. This is short, lovely and makes my heart ache in the best way.

( This way to more goodies... ).

petzipellepingo.livejournal.com

Five favorite Buffyverse stories, in no particular order :

1. OK, technically this isn't really a story however... The Art Project by

st_salieri.

2. Flight to Egypt , Spike by

powerofthebook.

3. Disenchantment , Spike/Buffy by

herself_nyc.

4. A Cricket From California , Spike/Buffy by

elsaf.

5. Nightswimming , Spike/Buffy by

calove.

sparrow2000.livejournal.com

Since we're on our flash forward, I'll start with some recs from one of my favourite annual communities -

summer_of_giles

Giles/Cordelia is not a pairing that I automatically think about, but I’m always surprised how well it can work if done well and in

aadler’s Better Left Unspoken, it is done very, very well. These are snapshots of Giles and Cordelia through the Sunnydale High years and beyond in a way that makes me both laugh out loud, and made my heart hurt. This is good stuff.

( More lovely Giles stuff )

sparrow2000.livejournal.com

Here are five longer fics from

summer_of_giles I really enjoyed.

Second Sight by

il_mio_capitano finds our intrepid Watcher thrown back to his 21 year old self, two months before Eyhgon. This isn’t about the Eyhgon incident, but it is about choices. I really liked the portrayal of Giles’ father in this fic, and his grandmother is wonderful - just remember to comb your hair and wash behind your ears before you meet her.

( More Gilesian goodness... )

dragonyphoenix.livejournal.com

1. Brace Yourself by Enigmatic Blue. Spike / Buffy. A rewrite of season 6 where Buffy more easily accepts her attraction to Spike. A ritual to free Spike of a curse has unexpected consequences. And, given this category, I’m pretty sure you know what those consequences are. *grin*

( the rest of the recs listened to sappy 80s love songs and are balling their eyes out )

dragonyphoenix.livejournal.com

As I was waiting for Buffyverse Top 5 to begin this month, these came to mind as in I didn't go looking at my bookmarks.

1. Indri's In the Morning of the Magicians. This is totally my head-canon for how Ripper and Ethan met. It has so many things going for it. Bourgeois Ripper who is put off by his friends' lifestyle. The story Ripper is telling himself keeps changing as he realizes he's not going to make it big as a musician. How Eyghon would not have been invoked without both Ripper and Ethan in the mix, but Ripper denies all blame, putting it all on Ethan. This is what breaks Ethan, taking the blame onto himself and thinking that he doesn't know how to have friends and that's what turns him into the Ethan from BtVS. It's a marvelous tale.

( the rest of the recs are at the halloween party / samhain ritual that I'm late for )

rbfvid.livejournal.com

Some of my favorite AU graphics.

( BtVS Agatha Christie Murder Mystery AU )

( BTVS characters at Hogwarts )

( Spike & Angel in a buddy cop comedy )

( Buffy & Spike with Babies )

( Dawn meets Spike )

rebcake.livejournal.com

Kitty Spuffy Art by

dualbunny (PG) — Just look at the cute!

Attack of the Cookie Monsters by

rahirah (PG) — A Barbverse domestic adventure in picture book format.

She Will Remember Him? by

moscow_watcher (R) — An AU S2 from Dawn's less-than-reverent POV.

Just the Once by

st_salieri (R) — Post-series domestic fluff with drunk!Buffy! Win!

Spaiku by

mere_ubu (PG13) — Haiku retellings of the following episodes: Something Blue Spaiku / Crushed Spaiku / Intervention Spaiku

rebcake.livejournal.com

Kitty Spuffy Art by

dualbunny (PG) — Just look at the cute!

Attack of the Cookie Monsters by

rahirah (PG) — A Barbverse domestic adventure in picture book format.

She Will Remember Him? by

moscow_watcher (R) — An AU S2 from Dawn's less-than-reverent POV.

Just the Once by

st_salieri (R) — Post-series domestic fluff with drunk!Buffy! Win!

Spaiku by

mere_ubu (PG13) — Haiku retellings of the following episodes: Something Blue Spaiku / Crushed Spaiku / Intervention Spaiku

moscow-watcher.livejournal.com

A Warm and Fuzzy Tale by

penny_lane_42
http://penny-lane-42.livejournal.com/133641.html
PG. Post-"Angel". Buffy/Spike, Illyria, Dawn. There is a third party in Buffy and Spike's bedroom, and Buffy is not happy about it. Writer uses a funny situation to reflex on serious questions: how our prejudices are born? how we hate? how we love? Delightful yarn - sweet but not saccharine.
( four more )

moscow-watcher.livejournal.com

A Warm and Fuzzy Tale by

moscow-watcher.livejournal.com

Strangers by

lusciousxander
http://www.livejournal.com/tools/memories.bml?user=lusciousxander&keyword=Strangers+%28Buffy/Spike%29&filter=all
~ 83,000 words. PG. Starts in the eighth season of BtVS, in February 2005. Buffy, Xander and their Slayers are living in a castle in Scotland. Grief pushes Buffy and Xander to do something really stupid: they have consolation sex, Buffy ends up pregnant and eventually gives birth to a girl. Things get more complicated when she discovers that Spike is no longer dead. Earnest, detailed exploration of Buffy's dilemmas in season 8, this story is simultaneously epic and intimate.
( four more )

moscow-watcher.livejournal.com

Strangers by

snickfic

1. Winds Blowing Chill, by

brutti_ma_buoni
Rulesverse
Buffy starts thinking about babies, but in the Rulesverse there are no quick fixes for the vampire reproduction problem, which leads to one of the more emotionally complex pieces of Spuffy babyfic I’ve ever read. Also: excellent Buffy voice.

( and the rest )

snickfic

1. Winds Blowing Chill, by

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!

( and the rest )

snickfic

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

1. Better Late Than Never (11 chapters), by

snickfic

1. Impossible, by Bitterness
AU S7
A huge, sprawling, plotty, ensemble-cast S7 AU. The Spuffy reunion and rebuilding is slow and cautious and occasionally fraught, but beautiful. The Buffy-Dawn relationship is wonderful, too. There's fun plot stuff and serious plot stuff. Even the actual pregnancy developments are handled gracefully and with aplomb.

( and four more )

snickfic

yourlibrarian

They're Advertising in the Skies for People Like Us by

musesfool - PG – River wanted to go to the academy, it was a place for special kids from all over. A ficlet full of quiet heartbreak for kids with other dreams. Crossover with SPN.

( Read more... )

yourlibrarian

They're Advertising in the Skies for People Like Us by

lusciousxander.livejournal.com

( Adorable and Funny )

katekat

1) Everything Changes (

starshine24mc , crossover with Torchwood, Giles/Jack Harkness, PG13)

Absolutely stunning little fic that goes with a lovely premise that Giles and Jack would totally run into each other in a dark alley one night. You don't really have to know Torchwood to read this, just know that while the Btvs verse is about monsters, the Torchwood verse is all about aliens instead.

( narrowing down to five was *much* harder than i thought it was going to be )

katekat

1) Everything Changes (

deird1

Here are five fics featuring less-common pairings.

( under here )

deird1

Here are five fics featuring less-common pairings.

( under here )

deird1

Here are five fics dealing with parents and their kids.

( under here )

deird1

Here are five fics dealing with parents and their kids.

( under here )

snickfic

These would be for

brutti_ma_buoni, who specifically requested them, except that I'm fairly sure she's read them all already (not to mention having written two of them herself). Alas. There clearly just isn't enough F/G or F&G fic out there...

All post-series.

( Faith/Giles! And Faith&Giles! )

snickfic

These would be for

angearia.livejournal.com

Here are five of my favorite Spuffy stories this year that wrench your heart and make you grateful for the ache.

( Read more... )

angearia.livejournal.com

Here are five of my favorite Spuffy stories this year that wrench your heart and make you grateful for the ache.

( Read more... )

snickfic

Babyfics are a major guilty pleasure of mine. These, however, have no guilt whatsoever associated with them. Five pairings, five different flavors ranging from sweet domesticity to character study to tear-your-heart-out angst.

( Click for more )

snickfic

riccadonna.livejournal.com

There's all flavours of fanfiction, but at this time of year I think sweet treats are classic...I want to offer magic brownies, buttered crumpets, cookie monsters, fancy donuts, and chocolate muffin doll vampires!

( here they are )

riccadonna.livejournal.com

quinara

These are five fics I associate with the time before I got my LJ in 2003, when the world of Spuffy fanfic was a very different place (or so it seems to me now). They've stuck with me to such an extent that it seems odd people haven't read them and they've probably influenced me more than I realise.

( Action/Adventure FTW! )

quinara

cordelianne.livejournal.com

Spike/Xander is my OTP, and I have high standards about how Spike and Xander are written. These five authors are people I’d point you to as excellent examples of good Spander writers (and good writers in general). They write both Spike and Xander really really well!

1.

reremouse - Small Imperfections, Adult. Spike and Xander in Savannah a few years after Sunnydale caved in. The delightfully slow pace of this WIP fits the pace of life in hot Savannah – and the slow developing of a relationship between Spike and Xander.

reremouse’s fic is always wonderful to read because it’s so witty, smart, funny and moving, and this is a WIP I encourage you to jump on (even if you’re resistance to WIPs) because it’s the type of story perfectly suited to the WIP format.( Click here for the other 4 awesome fics )

cordelianne.livejournal.com

rachaelagh.livejournal.com

Here are 5 Xander/Angel(us) fics that I really enjoyed. They range from the innocence of

lit_gal s “Kin of the Heart” to the darkness that is Angelus in The Dark World series (follows on from The Dark Verse) by

strickens_girl .

Kin of the Heart by

lit_gal Rating: PG13

( 4 more here... )

rachaelagh.livejournal.com

Here are 5 Xander/Angel(us) fics that I really enjoyed. They range from the innocence of

lit_gal s “Kin of the Heart” to the darkness that is Angelus in The Dark World series (follows on from The Dark Verse) by

strickens_girl .

Kin of the Heart by

lit_gal Rating: PG13

( 4 more here... )

moscow-watcher.livejournal.com

Sunshine by

shadowscast
Part 1, part 2
Future Fic, NC-17.
Two tunnels diverged in a grimy subway.
And I, I don’t know which one the demon went down.
Well, shit.
- Xander Harris, with props to Robert Frost
Thirteen years after Spike had mysteriously disappeared, Xander meets him by accident in the London underground. Where has Spike been all this time, and what is he hiding? In my (highly subjective) opinion,

shadowscast writes the best Xander ever; seeing her writing again after a year of absence was a great joy. In her new story she introduces a simple and effective plot device I never encountered before - a potion that allows vampires to walk in the sunlight for a brief period of time - and she ingeniously exploits the idea on both narrative and metaphorical levels.
( four more )

moscow-watcher.livejournal.com

Sunshine by

moscow-watcher.livejournal.com

Distance by

herself_nyc
NC-17, post-NFA. Buffy discovers amnesiac and crazy Spike in a slayer Council facility in Los-Angeles. Although he may be dangerous, she brings him into her new slayer headquarters. Note to Xander and Giles' fans: in the beginning these characters are very harsh and distrustful toward Spike, but their attitude gradually changes.
( four more )

moscow-watcher.livejournal.com

Distance by

moscow-watcher.livejournal.com

When we laugh at bad things that plague us, we look at them through the perspective of gods and have more freedom to deal with them. Spuffy relationship has always been plagued by impossible odds and incredible hardships. If we're able to laugh at them, Buffy and Spike are OK. Smile, people!

Don't Stop by

nautibitz
NC-17, post-Passion. Spike doesn't need his wheelchair anymore - but no one knows that yet. Buffy and Spike battle it out in a ghost town saloon. Throw in a lasso, a mechanical bull, an acid-spewing sewer beast, top-shelf whiskey, an elk head and a Journey song, and the sex just writes itself. Nauti at her best. Dialogues are stellar. Practically every line deserves to be a quote in a frame. (To read, you have to join Nauti's community

nautific)
( Four more fics )

moscow-watcher.livejournal.com

nautific)
( Four more fics )

lusciousxander.livejournal.com

1- the boy & the beast by

snowpuppies: Set in S4. This is so dark, but in a good way. You've got a cunning Spike, who's still dangerous even with a chip in his head. Great character-voices and... I don't wanna spoil it more for you, you've got to read this one.

( Check the other four... )

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