Summer 2010 fics recommendations

[moscow_watcher]

This is my very belated post of summer fanfiction recommendations. I would do it earlier, but all the heated debates about issue #36 distracted me for a while... So, without much preamble:

Comments

[angelus2hot]

What a wonderful list, so many talented authors in one place!

Thank you so much for including one of my fics!

[moscow_watcher]

You're welcome, honey!
Yes, our fandom is incredibly creative - Joss puts the characters in such misery that we can't keep from defending them and making them a bit happier in fanfic. :)

[diebirchen]

Oooooooo! Big thank you!! And about all the characters suffering, did any, and I do mean ANY, couple get a happy ending in the entire TV series? Well, I suppose that Willow's invisible parents were happily married, maybe?

[moscow_watcher]

Welcome, honey! Hope my list will be useful for you!

And about all the characters suffering, did any, and I do mean ANY, couple get a happy ending in the entire TV series?

Willow/Kennedy maybe. But only becaise Joss hadn't time to torture them properly. But he already started doing it in comics :)

Well, I suppose that Willow's invisible parents were happily married, maybe?

Well, it Joss didn't write about them, they probably were a happy couple... :)

[diebirchen]

Nope! Willow seemed well-suited to Oz and Tara, but not really Kennedy, who seemed a selfish, egocentric at heart. It would probably never have worked out in the long run, sez me. And ya know, back to the Rosenbergs, as a parent myself, the invisible and apparently blasé parents of many characters bothered me. O.K. Willing suspension of disbelief and all that, but Geeze Louise! And if we get into the sex lives of fictional characters, what about all those Disney characters? Donald Duck had nephews, Grandma Duck, and a girlfriend, but no parents, no wife, nor children. Ditto Mickey Mouse minus the grandmother. What was with that anyway? Were Huey, Dewey, and Louie orphans to prevent us from positing the married sex of cartoon married couples? Was it the early TV twin-beds-required rule even for real married couples like Ozzie and Harriet? But I digress. I know; I know. I'm an aberrant personality type. But I agree with like Oscar Wilde who said, "Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

[moscow_watcher]

Nope! Willow seemed well-suited to Oz and Tara, but not really Kennedy, who seemed a selfish, egocentric at heart. It would probably never have worked out in the long run, sez me.

My guess is that Joss doesn't care about "the long run"; he's interested in conflicts, drama, pain. He just hadn't time to bring it on Willow and Kennedy.

[rebcake]

Mmmmmm. Salty fan-ficcy goodness...

Thanks so much for doing this, darling! You are the queen of fandom public service! *besos*

Also, thanks for the recs. I know I promised to finish that WIP and post it in a public forum...but it's all hard and stuff! They talk too much!

[moscow_watcher]

*blushes*

Thank you for the compliment, love!

I hope that you'll unlock "Whose Torment Is This, Anyway?" sooner of later...

[quinara]

Ooh, thanks for reccing me! What a lovely list. :)

[moscow_watcher]

Thank you honey - for wonderful stories and for sb_fag_ends. *hugs*

[cindergal]

Thanks for the recs, and for including me, sweets! I'm very flattered. It was really nice to see "complete" in the description, too. *g*

[moscow_watcher]

I'm happy to have your fic in my list, hon. And every time I add "complete" to description, my heart rejoices. I know how hard it is to to write a plotty story with interesting, memorable finale. And you totally nailed it!