[identity profile] seren-ccd.livejournal.com
Fandom Category: Harry Potter/Supernatural/Buffy: The Vampire Slayer/Veronica Mars (whew)
Pairing: Hermione Granger/Dean Winchester, Ginevra Weasley/Sam Winchester, Faith Lehane/Xander Harris
Fic Title: Cracked Stars Shining series
Author: Azipherin, Author at Ao3
Link: http://archiveofourown.org/works/21206?view_full_work=true
Rating/Warning(s): NC-17, explicit sex, violence, language, mentions of rape
Genre: Romance, drama, angst, action/adventure, supernatural, mystery
WIP?: Yes, but don’t let that stop you! It’s already reached epic proportions.
Special rec: 2/31
Author’s Summary: For some, the war is over; others are still living battle to battle. New York is a good place to lie low for a while, but no one can hide forever.

Why This Must Be Read: What’s better than a fic that has Hermione Granger paired up with Dean Winchester? A fic that has Hermione Granger paired up with Dean Winchester while living in New York where she works at a supernatural bar run and owned by Xander Harris. Any description I give here isn’t going to do this story justice. It is everything I ever wanted out of Harry Potter, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Supernatural. The characters are intelligent, strong, sensual and the story draws on all the various myths of each fandom. Not to mention New York itself being a bit of its own character. Oh, and did I mention the incredibly well-written sex? Settle in a for a long, fullfilling, sexy read. Don’t forget to check out the Ginny/Sam stories as well! It’s become my personal canon.
[identity profile] skysamuelle.livejournal.com

Fandom Category: Buffy The Vampire Slayer/Angel
Pairing: Buffy Summers/Spike 
Fic Title: Distance
Author: Herself
Link: http://www.echonyc.com/~stax/Buffy/herself/distance.html
Rating/Warning(s): Mature for aganst and sexual situations
Genre: Romance, Hurt/Comfort, Angst
WIP?: No

Why this must read: the story is long and extremely well-developed. The authertakes her time to espress in chilling, sometimes unpleasant detail Buffy's emotional state in her new role of 'global Slayers' leader', her being wrapped in layers and layers of denial where her feelings and past relationship with Spike are concerned. She starts by being convinced that she doesn't care all that much about neither of his 'deaths', yet when Faith lets her to know that an amnesiac, psychotic Spike was found in LA, she flies from Europe in a hurry to 'fix 'him. Although Spike doesn't remember her or anything of his past, he still responds to her, and so Buffy stays at his side, trying to handle both her distress of facing this 'William' who is so much like Spike whilet knowing nothing of their complicated history, and his distress in dealing with his complete amnesia.
This unexpected blank slate and their proximity ultimately allow Buffy to know Spike in ways she never quite dared in past, and as every layer off denial slowly falls away, she finds herself helpless against feelings she has not experienced since Angel first lost her soul. And although she is happy like never before, Buffy begins to be terrified that Spike will hate her once he remembers everything she hid from him, thinking she is only using him and demeaning him once more.
Once i started reading this fic, i litterally coul not stop until I had finished - I love how much Buffy grows here, how she learns to love with all of her heart even if it means setting herself up for a fall. I love even more the role reversal industriously orchestrated throughout the plot- everything Spike offered to a recalcitant Buffy in season 5,6 and 7, Buffy offers back to him during this story, always fearing that he will someday spurn her as she spurned him. It's simply a gorgeous, intense, perfect epilogue to both the series.  
[identity profile] reeceer.livejournal.com
Fandom Category: Buffy, the vampire slayer, Angel
Pairing: Buffy Summers/Angel
Fic Title: If You Drive Me Back
Author: carlyinrome
Link: http://carlyinrome.livejournal.com/390050.html
Rating/Warning(s): PG-13
Genre: Post-series
WIP?: no

Why This Must Be Read: Post-series, Angel is found as an amnesiac human and it's up to Buffy to take care of him. Glorious, moving writing that gets this bittersweet atmosphere that just... oh, it's so beautifully painful and gorgeous. Watching Buffy move around him and everything she can and can't tell him, and how all those feelings are just beneath the surface. I loved this piece.

snippet of the fic )
[identity profile] stars-inthe-sky.livejournal.com
Fandom Category: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Pairing: Beyonc
é Knowles/Jay-Z
Fic Title: Beyonc
é the Vampire Slayer
Author:

Link:
http://archiveofourown.org/works/63333
Rating/Warning(s): A couple of explicit sex scenes, but definitely not PWP.  Also some violence, given that vampire/demon slayage is involved.
Genre: Romance, action, RPF/AU
WIP?: No
Author's summary:
Beyoncé and her Watcher Kanye go to Jay-Z's mansion to retrieve Rihanna, who's just been called as a Slayer. It ends up being slightly more complicated than anticipated.

Now, I know next to nothing about rap/hip-hop/R&B.  I know next to nothing about these four artists in particular, although I'm aware of their respective hit songs and Kanye West's Twitter feed.  And I definitely don't read RPF fic.  It squicks me.  But this one is 100% worth making an exception for.  

The premise:
Beyoncé is a Slayer.  Kanye West is her Watcher.  Newly-called Rihanna is mogul Jay-Z's ward.  Hijinks ensue.

Worth reading just for Watcher!Kanye, but Slayer!Beyoncé is also a pretty great creation, a totally competent badass who knows herself and her responsibilities.  The romance between her and Jay-Z is slowly and carefully spun out, and while this fic is certainly het, there's also a perfectly good demon-to-defeat plot that could stand alone without the romance--or in a more traditional Buffyverse fic, even.  There's also a cameo by Buffy Summers herself and some awesomecakes
fanart to boot.
[identity profile] spazzticity.livejournal.com
Fandom Category: Lord of the Rings/Buffy crossover
Pairing: Buffy Summers/Aragorn, background Arwen/Aragorn, Arwen/Legolas
Fic Title: First Knight
Author: Asha Dreamweaver
Link: Twisting the Hellmouth link or ff.net link.
Rating/Warning(s): Teen
Genre: Crossover, epic, AU, drama/romance
WIP?: Yes (57 chapters out of 61 complete)

Why This Must Be Read: Epic fic is epic.

Long, plotty, exploring all the characters and taking the story over the span of years, this story just builds and builds and builds. And this doesn't just cover the LotR movies like most crossovers; this begins pre-movie and then explores a lot of aspects not shown in the movie, so it's original. Summary: Buffy is sent to Middle Earth to help bring down Sauron. Her duty, like the Istari, is not to confront Sauron directly but to help those fated to face him bring him down. More specifically, she has to help the King of Gondor get his throne. Will Arwen and Aragorn’s love stand against the shadow? Will Legolas be able to keep a secret, which if revealed, could shatter the lives of those he cares for? Will Buffy be able to fulfil her duty? Will Denethor be able to put aside his animosity for the man who would supplant him? Will the ringbearer reach Mount Doom, or will he be cut down before he reaches his goal? And will Boromir resist the lure of the ring?
anr: (btvs: giles/anya: i don't understand)
[personal profile] anr
Fandom: Buffy: The Vampire Slayer
Pairing: Anya Jenkins/Rupert Giles
Fic Title: All Your Tomorrows
Author: [livejournal.com profile] jennyo
Link: http://archive.shriftweb.org/archive/8/allyour.html
Rating/Warning(s): PG-13
Genre: Character
WIP? No
Special Rec: 13/31

Why This Must Be Read: There's something very beautiful about this story, in the way it's structured and paced and written. With an extremely well handled second person pov -- and an absence of quotation marks to separate the dialogue from the text -- their conversations flow smoothly throughout, keeping you enthralled from start to finish. Just lovely.
[identity profile] samescenes.livejournal.com
Fandom Category: Angel the Series/Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Pairing: Faith/Xander
Fic Title: Sleeper
Author: [livejournal.com profile] booster17 @ [livejournal.com profile] boosterific
Link: here
Rating/Warning(s): PG15
Genre: angst, post-series
WIP?: no

Why This Must Be Read: In this story, Xander Harris is no longer recognisable as Xander Harris, comic foil, The One Who Sees. And he will break your heart. This story deserves more than one reading - it's bleak and sparse and, somehow, it doesn't stretch too far that the characterisations are not believable. The end feels like a knife in the heart.
ext_4047: (buffy: scooby gang stare)
[identity profile] nomelon.livejournal.com
Fandom Category: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Pairing: Buffy/Angel
Fic Title: Fair Play
Author: [livejournal.com profile] chrisleeoctaves
Link: http://chrisleeoctaves.livejournal.com/198159.html?style=mine
Rating/Warning(s): NC-17
WIP?: no

Why This Must Be Read: This is Buffy/Angel pegging fic. It's funny and hot and is both believable and in character.
ext_4047: (buffy: scooby gang stare)
[identity profile] nomelon.livejournal.com
Fandom Category: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Pairing: Buffy/Angel
Fic Title: If You Drive Me Back
Author: [livejournal.com profile] carlyinrome
Link: http://carlyinrome.livejournal.com/390050.html?style=mine
Rating/Warning(s): PG-13
WIP?: no

Why This Must Be Read: Angel loses his memory and Buffy goes to claim him. I love this Angel, free from his heavy burden, so himself and so not himself. It made me pine for the good old days of Buffy before everything fell apart.
[identity profile] ed-84.livejournal.com
Fandom Category: Buffy, the Vampire Slayer
Pairing: Willow/Angel, Willow/Angelus (one-sided obsession), Willow/Spike
Fic Title: Take Your Time
Author: Carrie
Link: http://yankee-kiwi.home.mindspring.com/TakeYourTimeChaptersPage.html
Rating/Warning(s): PG-13
Genre: AU, Epic, drama,
WIP?: no

Why This Must Be Read: So, I normally would not be interested in a Willow/Angel(us) or Willow/Spike story. At all. But damn if this author doesn't make me entirely reconsider my stance on this, while writing an epic that *gasp* stays true to all the characters present. I know what you're thinking: a Willow/Angelus fic in character? But, dude, read it to understand. Angelus isn't suddenly a good vampire, and Willow never stops ringing true to the hesitant Wiccan we see on screen during the first few years of BtVS.

The story's idea is pretty awesome - Willow tries to do a spell, Post-Becoming, to save Angel but accidently gets sent back in time to before Angel was sired as a vampire. Spike gets dragged along for the ride. So, then, they're trapped in a time/world not their own, and things unfold in a complicated way. The story is looooongg and plotty, and there's a sequel that is, I think, left abandoned. I still recommend reading it anyway, because I like how this story has repercussions and changes the 'verse.

Excerpt )
[identity profile] violacoye.livejournal.com
Fandom Category: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Pairing: Buffy Summers/Spike
Fic Title: What She Deserves and Lovingkindness
Author: Herself ([livejournal.com profile] herself_nyc_fic)
Link: What She Deserves and Lovingkindness
Rating: NC-17
Warning(s): Deals with the aftermath of sexual violence. BDSM. Also contains slash.
Genre: Angst, Romance
WIP?: No

Why This Must Be Read: I wrote up three different blurbs for this recommendation talking about the gorgeous prose that often reads like poetry, the complicated manner in which Buffy and Spike come together, and the way in which Herself deals with both the events of Grave and the rest of season six. But, in the end, I think what draws me most to What She Deserves and Lovingkindness is the search for unattainable atonement throughout the stories by all of the characters. Although the story is about Buffy and Spike, the rest of the Scoobies are not neglected and some, like Willow, shine. Everyone in this story has made mistakes, and the story is about how they accept the fact that those mistakes can never be atoned.

This story is dark, make no mistakes. But it is beautiful and complex with a wonderful original character who serves as an appropriate foil for the obsessions that surround Buffy and Spike. This is a story that will haunt you after you are done. I highly recommend it, perhaps even to those who do not typically support this ship.
[identity profile] stars-inthe-sky.livejournal.com
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel the Series
Pairing: Buffy/Angel
Blurb and Recs under the cut )
[identity profile] stars-inthe-sky.livejournal.com
Fandom Category: Buffy the Vampire Slayer / Angel
Pairing: Buffy/Angel
Fic Title: We're Always Saying Goodbye
Author: [livejournal.com profile] biggrstaffbunch
Link: http://biggrstaffbunch.livejournal.com/102066.html
Rating/Warning(s): G
Genre: Romance, post-Chosen/NFA
WIP?: Nope

Why This Must Be Read: The author summarizes, "They come full circle, one way or another. A short introspective on a Shanshu. Because there are never enough imaginings of this particular situation." I loved a lot of things about this fic, enough that I'm reccing it here, which I haven't yet done in the many months since I joined. Without spoiling anything, the author does a wonderful job of painting their relationship in simple but expressive tones, and I think she captures their mutual devotion in spite of the endless hurdles and hardships thrown by life (and Joss). The pacing is also remarkable--the fic takes place after the conclusion of both TV series (the comics seem irrelevant one way or another here, to the best of my knowledge), so after several lifetimes of fighting and fast decisions and pain, it's sweet to see the pair get to slow down together, and the author renders the scene beautifully. There's also a small dose of humor that makes the characterization that much better. Enjoy!
[identity profile] americangrl69.livejournal.com
Fandom Category: Buffy The Vampire Slayer
Pairing: Spike/Willow
Fic Title: Better Than Harry Potter
Author: satanslut
Link: Better Than Harry Potter
Rating/Warning(s): PG-13
Genre: Romance, Fluff
WIP?: No
Summary: Willow tries to read while Spike sitting. Spike has a better idea for how to pass the time.

Why This Must Be Read: I love this fic. It always makes me smile when I read it. The author has written Spike so perfectly. It's one of my favorite Spillow fics. Plus it's fluff and you can't go wrong with a little fluff now and then.


Fandom Category: Buffy The Vampire Slayer
Pairing: Spike/Willow
Fic Title: She Is
Author: satanslut
Link: She Is
Rating/Warning(s): PG-13, mentions of sex, mentions of Willow/Tara and Buffy/Spike
Genre: Romance, Drama
WIP?: No
Summary: Lying in bed, Spike thinks about the woman sleeping next to him.

Why This Must Be Read: I love this story so much. I love that Willow seems to bring the good out in Spike and yet she doesn't even know. I just love all the thoughts he has while he's lying next to her watching her sleep. It's just a great little fic.
[identity profile] americangrl69.livejournal.com
Fandom Category: Buffy The Vampire Slayer, The Muppets
Pairing: Dru/Super Grover
Fic Title: Dru's New Love
Author: Lucinda
Link: story here
Rating/Warning(s): PG-15, implied muppet sex (very implied)
Genre: Crack, Crossover, Humor
WIP?: No
Summary: Spike discovers that Dru has hooked up with someone even worse than a Chaos demon.

Why This Must Be Read: This is just too funny not to read. Seriously, how much more cracky can you get? It was one of the first fics I read on Twisting The Hellmouth. I loved it then and I still love it now. If you're looking for cracky pairings this should do it.

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