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Of Old Mystics: It's not a secret that Giles / Ethan is one of my favorite pairings in the 'verse. When Giles, now head of the Council, rescues Ethan from the Initiative, they learn they have a destiny. Prophecies, not only for Slayers, ya know? The two men have to learn to trust each other. Giles has to learn to trust his magic. Ethan has to learn to reconnect with a more natural form of Chaos. Ooh, and they get Slayers who are two delightful girls. It's just awesome.
Tarnished: Trekker's one of those amazing authors who'd been gone from the fandom before I discovered it, but happily the stories remain. Than you Wayback Machine! After Buffy's death, Giles is stuck in some dead-end Council job, and then Ethan shows up, sort of like a cat really. And Ethan gets pulled into the fight against the First.
Dr. Squidlove's New York: Divorced Dad Xander is so realistic.And the poor guy can't really explain to his wife why he refuses to let his girls take the subway anywhere. That's so great because obviously he'd be "No, that's way too dangerous" but it's New York. Everyone takes the subway! It's awesome that Giles has been trapped in some demon dimension all those years and nobody noticed. Giles sticks around in New York for Xander who is completely oblivious. There are rat demons and feelings and it's just an excellent story.
Sands of Time: In season 1, Giles realizes how truly awful Xander's parents are. So he adopts Xander and so much changes from there. Seeing Xander acting like an excited kid cause he gets to go to a bookstore; Eeee! Oh, and grandma Giles. I love her. But there's still trauma for the poor boy to deal with. This one has a twist ending that is ... *jaw drop*.
And last by definitely not least Indri's In the Morning of the Magicians: First of all ... *does happy dance*. I had no idea this was up on AO3 now. This is my head-canon for Ripper's and Ethan's backstory. There is no way anyone will convince me it happened differently. It's full of incredible and realistic characters, so much so that if Indri wasn't part of that electric koolaid acid groove scene in London, I'll eat my hat. As I've been working on this list, for each story I've been thinking that I need to go back and reread it. This one I'll be reading first.

Or now gone. The loss of Open On Sunday is particularly devastating because it ran for a long time and many drabbles there were recced, but few of them made their way to another space like AO3:

1) Long List of Grievances by

waddis - Heh to Andrew wearing on Spike's very short nerve. ( Read more... )

lusciousxander

1) Sands of Time by James and Wolfing: I can never describe how much this story means to me. It was the first fanfic I ever read. It holds a special place in my heart. It's Xander angst at its finest and I'm a huge Xander angst fan. I love the Xander/Giles relationship here, perhaps even more than the Xander/Spike relationship. I love the chapter about Giles' family and Xander meeting them for the first time. I also love the part where Xander tastes his father's blood on Spike's lips - so chilling!

2) The Giles Thing by DrSquidlove: Another Xander fic I adore! It had probably the best portrayal of Xander's parents that I've ever seen in fics, and IMO the closest to the show's canon. The author writes the relationships between the characters so perfectly, and the characters' reaction to the relationship between Xander and Giles, especially Buffy and Joyce, was amazing.

3) Cuckoo in the Nest by Liz-Marcs: Told completely from Tony Harris' unreliable narration! I loved watching the show through Xander's father's eyes! A wonderful character study.

4) Sidelines by Anna S: The perfect "What if Xander was the gay Scooby instead of Willow" fic!

5) Late Night Double Feature by Kimberly A: The sequel for Just a Jump to the Left which I adore because it's the closest of an unrequited love story where Xander is in love with Spike while Spike is oblivious that I can find! Xander faces the consequences of the time loop in the previous fic, and realizes that making changes in his relationship with Spike isn't quite as easy as he'd like.

yourlibrarian

1) Buffy works based on Al Parker illsutration by Laura Birdsall. A collection of earlier work, I particularly love the ghost Joyce watching Passions with Spike.

2) Moving On, Forward (Come in Lost Soul) by pushingcrazies features a pairing I hadn't seen before or even thought about before. A rewrite of AtS S4 with Jonathan and Andrew hiding out in L.A. rather than Mexico, and soon enmeshed in the issues Angel's team is having. ( Read more... )

sparrow2000.livejournal.com

It's

buffyversetop5 classic recs time again, and to start off my lists this year I wanted to give kudos to authors who can remix - who can take someone else’s story and put a new spin on it, or expand it in an unexpected way. Here are five Remixes that I love.

Walking Higher by Liz Marcs in which Xander visits each of his old friends. This one just kills me and I defy you not to be bawling like a baby by the end. It’s also got a really effective mix of 2nd and 3rd person voice that works beautifully for the narrative. This is a remix of Winter Garden by kirvin.

( More remixes right this way )

sparrow2000.livejournal.com

I didn't think I'd get the chance to do another post, but that just shows what I know. Here are five more pieces of work from 2017 I really enjoyed.

( Lays down the trail of breadcrumbs... )

dragonyphoenix

1 Bread by Tulipp - AU - After Glory’s defeat, Willow and Tara’s relationship using bread as a metaphor.

( The rest of the recs are desperately trying to recuperate from the pre-Halloween bashes. Oh, wait. That's me. )

sparrow2000.livejournal.com

Here are five Giles/Xander fics, which is my second favourite ship. These range from the ridiculously cute to the ridiculously angsty.

Starting with cute, The Beginning of Knowledge by

mireille719 is some lovely incremental snapshots of Giles and Xander’s relationship in which Xander buys post Valentine’s Day chocolate and Giles folds laundry.

( This way for the pretties... )

dragonyphoenix.livejournal.com

1. rebelrsr’s Forging Bonds - dom/sub ‘verse with Tara as the dom.

2. Naughty Fae’s Whitechapel - Spike/Xander in an all human AU based on Ripper Street

3. Deja Without a View -

velvetwhip’s masterful retelling of

aadler’s amazing Dust Over Pompeii for the Circle of Friends remix. Willow/Riley. I could have chosen to remix this story but I looked at it and told myself it was an impossible remix. I was so very, very wrong.

4.

booster17’s Sleeper - Xander/Faith. If I describe the story, I’ll give it away. This has been one of my faves since I first read it.

5.

drsquidlove’s New York - Xander/Giles. This is an amazing epic. I really can’t sum it up better than the author: Xander is thirty-seven. Divorced. Two kids. 4000 miles from Sunnydale and his Hellmouth childhood. Also, straight. Only someone forgot to tell Giles. In fact... where the hell is Giles?

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 )

lusciousxander.livejournal.com

These are my go-to fics when it's dark and I'm all alone and I'm scared or freaked out or whatever.

( Read more... )

dragonyphoenix.livejournal.com

1. In James' and Wolfling's Sands of Time series, Xander avoids a beating at home by showing up on Giles' doorstep. His life diverges from there.

( the other entries are at a concert holding up their lighters like torches )

dragonyphoenix.livejournal.com

Yay! I thougth this was starting tommorow but it's today! Oooh, and loving the batty background.

Of course I'm going to start with slash. Wow, and every single one of these has Giles in it. Fixated much?

1. Indri's In the Morning of the Magicians is now my head canon for Ripper/Ethan, how they met, and why they invoked Eyghon. Delightful.

( the rest of the recs have started a donnybrook over what kind of porny music they should be playing )

lusciousxander.livejournal.com

1) Forget-me-not by

mierke: Ten years have passed since Chosen. Buffy, Xander, Willow and Giles meet by the crater where Sunnydale used to be every year to catch up on what's happening in their lives. Bittersweet and sad, shows you how the Scoobies have drifted apart yet still make time to see each other and catch up. Just like blood-related families on Christmas and Thanksgiving.
( Check out the rest! )

sparrow2000.livejournal.com

Five terrific fics from

summer_of_giles 2013.

The Last Watcher by

shapinglight is Giles/Ethan and a brilliant reminder that sometimes Giles at his most civil is also Giles at his most terrifying. Just lovely.

( For more Giles loveliness... )

dragonyphoenix.livejournal.com

5 recs where Xander is paired with someone other than Spike.
I know, why would anyone write a non-Spander fic, but the stories are actually good, and yes, three are by the same author. I really like them!

1) The Carpenter and the Wood by justhuman
Xander/Mr. Pointy. Funny as all get out!

It wasn't a nefarious booknapping plan. It was much more like a jellybelly-napping plan. Giles kept a stash in the middle drawer of his desk.

( Read more )

lusciousxander.livejournal.com

1) New York by

drsquidlove: Xander is thirty-seven. Divorced. Two kids. 4000 miles from Sunnydale and his Hellmouth childhood. Also, straight. Only someone forgot to tell Giles. In fact... where the hell is Giles?

drsquidlove is the awesomest writer out there! She manages to hook so many fans up on her fics and she writes Xander/Giles! It's a hard pairing to sell, but she does it so well. I've always been a fan of Xander/Giles, but I've never been a huge fan of it until I read

drsquidlove's fics. She knows how to make an impossible pairing believable.

Also, what makes

drsquidlove a great writer is how her fics aren't just about the main pairing, but expand to their relationships with other characters which creates a very complex character driven story.

( Check out the rest! )

catbirdfish.livejournal.com

A list of five fics I enjoyed in 2011.

( Read on... ) P.S. Mods, I'm not sure if I'm supposed to tag my entry, but either way it won't allow me to.

lusciousxander.livejournal.com

So,

crazydiamondsue revisited fandom in 2010 after three years of absence. She always manages to fill fandom with joy! And Xander love ♥

1) Meta Fantastic: Massive meta rec to almost everything in the Buffyverse. Great save-in-memories post for whenever you're looking for a good meta to read.
( Check out the rest! )

brutti-ma-buoni.livejournal.com

delilah_joy: The Twinkie Affair, Giles/Xander PG
Sweet, hesitant post-series fic, in which these two finally connect

( Read more... )

brutti-ma-buoni.livejournal.com

delilah_joy: The Twinkie Affair, Giles/Xander PG
Sweet, hesitant post-series fic, in which these two finally connect

( Read more... )

lusciousxander.livejournal.com

Five Favorite Movie Posters for Fics by

katekat1010

( Check them out... )

lusciousxander.livejournal.com

1) Wide open arms of hell by

drsquidlove: It's the end of the world. Xander could probably handle that, if he didn't have to face it alone.
( Check out the rest! )

seductivembrace.livejournal.com

Spike and Xander together...

Not Ready by

slaymesoftly. An AU twist on the events after “The Gift” in which Xander and Spike end up being Dawn’s primary caretakers.

( ...and with other people )

seductivembrace.livejournal.com

Spike and Xander together...

Not Ready by

slaymesoftly. An AU twist on the events after “The Gift” in which Xander and Spike end up being Dawn’s primary caretakers.

( ...and with other people )

sparrow2000.livejournal.com

I’ve shamelessly pillaged my end of year round up to put together this list. I’m a Spander girl, but I also love seeing Xander in other combinations, so here are five stories that I adored in 2010 with Xander and a variety of other people who are not Spike! I may have to lie down after typing that.

Rare B-Sides by

crazydiamondsue is lovely, tantalizingly almost Xander/Giles. It’s got perfect dialogue and the most wonderful pop culture references.

( Lures you with chocolate towards more pretties… )

Current Location: Vancouver Island, British Columbia

sparrow2000.livejournal.com

crazydiamondsue is lovely, tantalizingly almost Xander/Giles. It’s got perfect dialogue and the most wonderful pop culture references.

( Lures you with chocolate towards more pretties… )

Current Location: Vancouver Island, British Columbia

brutti-ma-buoni.livejournal.com

Fics I loved which I haven't seen recc'ed yet, but oh, for a linking theme... it's mainly Giles in a number of guises, but one Darla-fic sneaked in. My favourite characters being written well, in relationships of varying states of happiness and snark: a joy.

wesleysgirl, Life is What Happens When You're Making Other Plans, very, very sweet human AU, Giles/Wesley in their cautious, repressed selves. Not a vampire in sight, but a great deal of bookbinding talk, which is utterly in character.

( Read more... )

brutti-ma-buoni.livejournal.com

drsquidlove.livejournal.com

Malibu Xander's Dream House

delilah_joy
Rating: NC-17

One of the most original and hilarious fics I've read. Giles and Xander are compelled to accept their new role as a demon's dollhouse toys, in order to avoid being eaten. delilah's brain is a strange and wonderful place.

( 4 more awesome Giles/Xander fics )

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 )

reremouse.livejournal.com

Five WIPs worth waiting for in 2008 and beyond. My criteria are great writing, memorable plots and super in-character characterizations. Also WIPness.

Item Title or Description: So Crazy It Just Might Work
Creator’s Name:

savoytruffle
Pairing: Xander/Spike, ensemble
Rating: Mature
Why: Because it's Angel: The Series with Xander in Los Angeles instead of Cordy and

savoytruffle is the master of the form. Gay!Xander fits surprisingly well into Cordy's shoes (only not literally - because hello, male) and banters with Angel better than anyone. I'd be reading this story even if Xander's wiles hadn't convinced a newly chipped Spike that fighting the good fight at Angel's side (or - y'know - a few feet to the left, possibly above or ahead of him. Wherever the excitement is) sounds like a good idea. Each part is a rewritten episode complete in itself. There's no truffle quite like this truffle for reminding me why I love Buffy.

( Four more )

reremouse.livejournal.com

Five very worthy Xander/Giles stories. My criteria include believable character motivation, a pleasing twist to the narrative and in-character voices.

Item Title or Description: Fifth Portent Of The Apocalypse Of Bees
Creator’s Name:

nwhepcat
Rating: Mature
Why: Whenever

nwhepcat writes slash, it's a special treat and her Xander/Giles is no exception - it's atmospheric and quiet and completely in character. Xander is recovering from a long illness. And Giles makes a joke.

( Four more )

cordelianne.livejournal.com

Here’s my five favourite Giles/Xander fics by authors who consistently impress me with their grasp of Xander’s character (they write him with humour!), plus they totally get that Giles isn’t just some stuffy old guy!

1.

savoytruffle - You Can Be a Winner at The Game of Life, Mature. Early early Season 4. Giles is in trouble, Xander is weak, Giles is silly, Xander is smart. This is a funny story with an undercurrent of seriousness (and backstory) that just propels you along.

savoytruffle is the master of narrative flow and it shows in this fic, plus her Xander and Giles voices are top notch. This is the kind of story that reminds me how very talented a writer she is.

( Click here for the other 4 awesome fics )

spiralleds.livejournal.com

Remix Redux is one of those ficathons that not only gets me writing, but gets me reading outside of my low hanging fruit/familiar authors standard mod. The following are my five favorite Jossverse fics from

remixredux08 that I read (as I didn't manage to read all that were a part of the ficathon), but didn't beta:

Title:
She's Getting Married (The It's Not to Us Remix)
Author:

secondalto
Rating: PG
Fandom/Characters: Angel the Series/ Angel, Spike, Buffy
Why I chose this: Fabulous funny expansion of

mommanerd's original drabble. By the time I reached the "Are we there yet?" I thought I was going to lose it.

( Here be four more. )

Current Mood: accomplished

deird1

What happened while Cordelia was a higher being?

And what happened after that?

( five fics )

katekat

There are so many talented authors in the buffy verse - and here's a writing pair that turns out fantastic works, whether they're writing the fic together or seperately. Here's an assortment of the fantastic things they gave us to read this year....

1. Everything Xander Knows About Time Travel (He Learned From Back To The Future)
(Giles/Xander, FRAO) by

soft_princess and

mireille719
Summary: Xander has to go back in time, to the 1970s, to retrieve an artifact that will save the world. Guess who he finds there?
Why should you read this? It's a great back in time story, and of course there's some interesting encounters between Xander and the guy who calls himself Ripper!

( getting 5 more recs in before the final bell! )

hobgoblinn.livejournal.com

One of my first LJ friends, and in fact the reason I ventured out here at all, is

antennapedia. I have learned so much, and seen so many new possibilities from her writing. Here are my favorites from her numerous 2007 offerings, in no particular order:

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yourlibrarian

1 . Two Fusilliers by

tabaqui - NC-17 – One of the great things about the S/A relationship is that sense of long association that gives things between them a certain inevitability. I think that’s played with a lot here, as well as their fundamental differences.

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jans-intentions.livejournal.com

( Five of my favorite personal slash icons )

antennapedia.livejournal.com

Here are five of my favorite Giles stories in progress. All of these were either started or moved along in 2006. As with all WIPs, feed the authors to get more! Let them know how much you appreciate their work.

( Five Works in Progress... )

katekat

There's nothing like a little heat!

( this way to the hot fics )

antennapedia.livejournal.com

My Gilesmania continues with five ficathons that gave me lots of good stuff to read.

The Giles H/C ficathon, organized by

headrush100
Thirteen stories in the mode of everybody's favorite fic kink. Okay, one of my favorite fic kinks.

( Four more ficathons after the cut... )

katekat

Hey, if I'm hooked, you should be too, right? Actually, there are some fics on this list that are completed, so don't be afraid...

Neverland by

tabaqui
Paring: S/X
Rating: NC17 eventually...
Status: WIP

Why? OMG. I hit refresh on her journal page every day just to see if Tabaqui has put up anything new, until I discovered the notify function! This is a dark and fairly haunting retelling of the Peter Pan tale, but with Spike and Xander involved (and it may sound farfetched, but Tabaqui inserts them both into the story so seemlessly that you don't feel pushed or pulled or jolted with the crossover). But be warned - this is NOT the Pan Disney captured. Oh no, this Pan is the stuff of nightmares, a darkling child you would never want to show up at your window. I love when people take a darker look at fairy takes, and Tabaqui is the perfect woman to do it.

( this way for the other four! )

antennapedia.livejournal.com

For the months of June and July,

summer_of_giles gave us a new Giles fan creation, every day. Here are five of my favorite things people made for this community.

( Three stories, and two sets of icons... )

lirm35m.livejournal.com

OMG!!! I never thought I'd make it! My last old-school rec list!!! (Don't worry, I've been saving links all year, so I'll be back for the 2006 rec period... lol) Anyway, these are authors who have (seemingly) finished writing in the fandom and who's work you might want to check-out before they not only stop writing, but start pulling their fics off the net:

( Come and get 'em while you can still find 'em )

lirm35m.livejournal.com

( This Way to My Top 5 Giles Fics )

antennapedia.livejournal.com

Five stories with Giles paired off.

( Got shagged, cuppa tea, got shagged, cuppa tea... )

noelia-g.livejournal.com

five Giles' fics that I loved this year.

( insert witty line here )

Current Mood: accomplished

noelia-g.livejournal.com

five Giles' fics that I loved this year.

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Current Mood: accomplished

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