(no subject)

[tabaqui]

Rec meme!!
Snitched from nashmaveric via sukibluefiction

I'll rec three writers, pointing out two of their stories that I love. These three writers will copy/paste the list to their journal and add three more. Kinda like a pay-it-forward thing. Recs cannot be repeated so each new person must read the list and make sure they don't rec a writer that's on it. Making sense so far? By the end of this there should be like a million billion recs! Or something. Just thought it'd be fun ::smile::

So here goes nothing. If it doesn't work then hey! You get recs!:

1. reremouse. Mainly for the newspaper!verse. I re-read every single story last weekend. A lot of the stories made me laugh, a couple made me cry, and a whoooole bunch made me need a cold shower! Also love the psychic!verse. The set up is wonderful and Xander's voice is very compelling.

2. tabaqui. If you're not reading Changes then you're missing out on a hell of a great story! The simplest thing I can say about it is that it feels real. Like the series could actually have gone that way. The characters are beautifully portrayed, their voices are true and look! Derio! ::grin:: Second rec, I'm torn between Credence and Hero. I'll go for Hero. Cause it made me cry. It's a human AU in which Spike takes care of a kinda delusional Xander (that'd be putting it mildly). It's wonderful and like I said, it made me cry.

3. crazydiamondsue. Sunday Morning Coming Down. Read it. No really, read it. Set post-Glory. The scoobs are dealing with Buffy's death. Spike and Xander get close and I don't know what happens next cause she hasn't posted it! ::pouts:: And also Rodeo. She wrote that for me ::proud grin:: It's a cowboy AU, set in a gay rodeo (did you know they had those? Cause I didn't!) Xander's the new guy and Angel's the old champion guy. It's hot and lovely and I'm still hoping for a sequel. ::optimistic smile::


4. darkhavens I love her Grungefic, which was just updated yesterday. Powerful Season One Spander with Spike taking care of Xander who's grieving for Jesse. And she has oodles of drabbles which are lovely to read based on the open_on_sunday challenges. Great stuff.

4.sukibluefiction. My dear friend has the wonderful From Out of Nowhere series which has romance and adventure and angst. Fun to read Spander. I got a sneak peek at her next one and boy is it good!! And her Facing Fear series about to finish up? Is freaking hilarious!! With a sick Xander and a Spike that's afraid of spiders it's a classic in the making!

6. kyrieane If you haven't drooled over the Giovanni Series you are missing out on a lot of steamy Spander smut!! And her Ride a Cowboy series started the trend for Spike and Xander in leather chaps.

7. cleeaz You just have to read Working Man, it's just fantastic. A wonderful portrayal of an independant and confident Xander. (The eye patch is incredibly sexy!) And I just love her WIP, Future Hope, i'm on the edge of my seat with that one. (Am also on my knees praying for a X/S/A threesome!)

8. amejisuto Just two many bloody good stories to mention. Ame really has something for everyone. My favs. WIP Blood Ties, this is one of the best Mpregs ever written. It's funny, angsty and just makes you wanna rescue the boys and kick some ass! And the second one, Cats and Dogs. Spike and Xan get turned into domestic pets. Spike is a cat and Xan is a dog. Very funny, and Xan as a dog? Spot on. If he was a dog, he'd be just like this!!!

9. flufshepherd I am just loving Fluffy's beatles playlist. H/C with Spike helping out a depressed Xander. And also love Sour Revenge, which is where Xander casts that naughty little love spell, but with a bloody good twist!!! ~gets on knees and begs for more of both~

From crazydiamondsue:

4. ficbitcabear. I started reading Bear’s Universally Speaking on bloodclaim and friended her. It’s a Season 3 – 4 Spander that is a sequel to her “Superheroes” story. (You don’t have to read “Superheroes” to get “Universally Speaking,” but you won’t regret it if you do.) It’s amazing – great interaction between S/X and wonderful dialogue. Then she answered spikeswilngslav’s request for brother!kink on fall_for_sx and started Catamite. It’s Human AU, and Spike and Xander are brothers. This story has nothing to do with kink – it’s all about the emotion.

5. jstabe. I can’t remember how I started reading Jenn’s Playing Games, a role playing series with a partnered Spike and Xander and very willing Angel. She writes the role playing in character (i.e. if Spike is the “professor” and Xander is the “student” you see them in that moment in the scene.) It’s fantastic and lets me have Spander, Spangel and Xangel at the same time. She’s also started a new S/X WIP, “The Crush” (Season 4 Spander) Part One and Part Two. Lovely “Oh, crap – Spike is hot!” moments from Xander.

6. adis723. Everybody’s entitled one wanky rec, right? Yes, she’s my beta and one of my best LJ friends. She’s also a fantastic writer and she’s working on an amazing post “Not Fade Away” WIP: Pay No Mind to the Rabble Spike/Xander/Other. Fantastic Dru voice, fantastic Illyria voice. Dru and Illyria in the same fic? Oh, hell yeah. And if you missed her Beatles Song Titles ficlet call, it’s here: Beatles Ficlets. My favorites are “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer” and “Why Don’t We Do It In the Road?”

My own recs:

This seems to be a pretty Spander-heavy rec list, which is cool, but i'm gonna mix it up a little. ALL of this stuff is amazing.

First, margarks She's writing a lovely S/X Human AU called 'Tumbleweeds' and yes - cowboys!!! Pretty and angsty, not too many chapters just yet, but there's Sherrif Angel and his boyfriend/brother of Will Wes!! Whoot! You'll be glad you read it.

Then, kimberly_fan is writing part two of 'It's Just a Jump to the Left', entitled 'Late Night Double Feature'. Look in her memories or mine. Absolutely lovely, slightly dark, angsty, sexy Spander with all kinds of kinks and twists.

tesla321 is writing an Xover with the X-files in which MULDER is a vamp. 'Vamp!Mulder' or - 'There is no Seven' is fun, funny, sexy, has Spikey goodness and snarky Lindsey and... Go! Read!

Last but not least, abundantlyqueer has written so MANY good things, but for a change of pace try 'Mardi Gras', a LOTRips set in New Orleans. VoodooPriest Viggo! Hustler!Elijah! Dom the Gambler and Orlando the movie star with a COMPLETE 'other' cast of a 'MardiGras!Verse' LOTR that never happened. It's dark and skeery and hot and angsty and weird and GOOD, so good.

Comments

[mofetash.livejournal.com]

I have read some of the best fic ever from following links in your lj..thank you so much.....since I am not a writer.....guess I don't fit the rules for this one, but look forward to much much browsing(happy sigh)

[tabaqui]

Oh, i'm glad!! When i've 'found' a good story, i want as many people to enjoy as possible.
Just be sure and TELL them good they are!
:)

Fic me baby!

[outsideth3box.livejournal.com]

Well, ok, now I need to read some of these stories I haven't encountered before. So all be prepared to get a lot of these from me. Please help me find the story called "Hero" that was recc'd so highly?

Thank you

Re: Fic me baby!

[tabaqui]

Hey, hello. That'd be my story and you can find it either in my < href="http://www.livejournal.com/tools/memories.bml?user=tabaqui&keyword=Hero&filter=all">memories or at my website, Scarecrow Horses.

Enjoy!