Reading spikendru's beautifully introspective Regrets...I've Had a Few brought to mind an early favorite that I encountered while I was still discovering fanfic on the internet - in fact I found it on FanFiction.net (which I haven't been on in years) in the summer of 2002 just after the end of S6. We fans had no idea what ME planned for S7 but that ( Read more... )

I realized I haven't added to my list of favorite BtVS fics in ages so here I go again. I usually don't like/remember drabbles or single stories - I love to be immersed in looong fics with many chapters but over the years I've read a handful of PWP stories that had something special in them that caused them to remain in my memory for all that time ( Read more... )

In the usual course of events fan writers occasionally turn pro. Nan Dibble was one who did the opposite. As Ansen Dibell she wrote a few SF novels and at least one non-fiction book - Plot (Elements of Fiction Writing) before turning to fanfic. Though the Blood series (4 complete books and one forever unfinished) is technically Spuffy (but not ( Read more... )

Sometime after "Crush" (ep 5.14), Giles wakens in Spike's crypt to find that he's been turned by Drusilla. Thus begins 
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I just realized I haven't posted a review since January. I think I've had a block because I've been debating with myself if I should actually rec these as they appear to have been abandoned by their creators with only a very small chance of their ever being completed. However they are so very memorable that I decided to post them and let people ( Read more... )

If you love Xander, Sands Of Time by James Walkswithwind and wolfling is a fic for you. This is more than a Spander fic. It is a true Xander-coming-of-age fic unfolding in a long series divided into 7 stories so far. I believe this fic actually was begun very early into the run of BtVS possibly in the first season or very early in S2 as Spike, beautifully ( Read more... )

This story is a different change of pace--it's neither slash nor Spander. In Cuckoo in the Nest by liz_marcs we get to see Xander's life and the events of canon through the eyes of Tony Harris. Xander's homelife is devastatingly bleak as Tony takes great delight in taking his bitterness out on Xander who he sees as the reason his life hasn't worked out. Liz ( Read more... )

Amnesia!Spike by mahaliem is a very funny fic that begins in S6 with Spike being hit on the head while defending Dawn and developing amnesia. When he finds a lover's note in his crypt he realizes he has a secret lover and becomes determined to find out who it is, coming to the erroneous conclusion that it's Xander. This is my lol fic that I read when I ( Read more... )

Lex the Ruthless, Childe of Spike by Scorpio goes AU sometime in S5 when Willow sets up a spell into the past to investigate Lex, Spike's Childe, who was supposedly dusted in Prague when Drusilla was hurt. The spell accidentally sends Xander into the past where he runs into William the Bloody, Drusilla and Darla as they hunt Nazis in war-torn ( Read more... )

Civilised Conversations by Melissa begins on the eve of the big battle in "Chosen" when Xander comes down to the basement to ask a favor of Spike--he wants to go for a walk. Together they make a tour of Sunnydale and of Xander's life. They flirt, they kiss, they have the talk that we all wished they could've had in canon. A beautiful, bittersweet ( Read more... )