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Title: Pub Crawl

Author: kangeiko

Canon: Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Pairing: Rupert Giles/Ethan Rayne

Rating: Mature [R]

Word Count: 2,680

Summary: Giles and Ethan go on a pub crawl during the S4/5 hiatus.

Recommendation: Comment Hiatus ~ A partial hiatus in that I'll post a rec but I won't do the write up because I'm really behind and real life is getting in my way.

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Recommendation #3,321

Title: The Power of Persuasion

Author: JaneDavitt & Wesleysgirl

Canon: Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Pairing: Rupert Giles/Ethan Rayne

Rating: Explicit [NC-17]

Word Count: 51,937

Summary: Set in the spring after Giles returns to England following 'Tabula Rasa'. London is suffering mysterious power cuts and Giles is feeling bored. Ethan's got an answer to both those problems.

Recommendation: Comment Hiatus ~ A partial hiatus in that I'll post a rec but I won't do the write up because I'm really behind and real life is getting in my way.

Link to the Story on AO3

Recommendation #3,320

Title: Getting to the Point

Author: psychoadept

Canon: Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Pairing: Rupert Giles/Ethan Rayne

Rating: Mature [R]

Word Count: 5,476

Summary: Set in Season 7, shortly after "Lies My Parents Told Me." It's been three years. Maybe they've both changed. The title comes from Call and Answer by the Barenaked Ladies, which I had playing on repeat a lot while I was writing this. Lyrics at the end.

Recommendation: Comment Hiatus ~ A partial hiatus in that I'll post a rec but I won't do the write up because I'm really behind and real life is getting in my way.

Link to the Story on AO3

Recommendation #3,319

Title: Freedom

Author: LadyRa

Canon: Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Pairing: Rupert Giles/Ethan Rayne

Rating: Mature [R]

Word Count: 8,214

Summary: Ethan wants Giles back in his life now that the slayer is dead.

Recommendation: Comment Hiatus ~ A partial hiatus in that I'll post a rec but I won't do the write up because I'm really behind and real life is getting in my way.

Link to the Story on AO3

Recommendation #3,318

Title: Something Borrowed

Author: aliceinwonderbra

Canon: Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Pairing: Buffy Summers/Faith Lehane

Rating: Explicit [NC-17]

Word Count: 8,405

Summary: Willow's grieving and does a teensy little spell. Buffy and Faith get caught in the crossfire. Set during 'Something Blue,' in a modified Season 4 where Faith never swapped sides in S3 and has remained in Sunnydale.

Recommendation: Well this is just so much better than the original. ;D

Link to the Story on AO3

Recommendation #3,293

Title: Too Much Distance

Author: regenderate

Canon: Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Pairing: Buffy Summers/Faith Lehane

Rating: Not Rated

Word Count: 4,864

Summary: The apocalypse is over, and Buffy keeps finding excuses to be with Faith. Faith wants to know why. Post-Chosen Fuffy. Partially inspired by every single other post-Chosen Fuffy fic I've read, but I'm of the mind that you can never have too many.

Recommendation: What we have here is some good old-fashioned battle fatigue and a side of lack of communication but one of those is easier fixed that the other.

Link to the Story on AO3

Recommendation #3,292

Title: The Moral Failings of Melvil Dewey and Other Previously Unremarked Upon Facts

Author: aliceinwonderbra

Canon: Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Pairing: Buffy Summers/Faith Lehane

Rating: Teen [PG]

Word Count: 6,007

Summary: The one where everyone knows how Faith feels except sweet, clueless Buffy.

Recommendation: Back when this show was on, I didn’t really have the awareness needed to sense the vibes just rolling off Faith. Looking back though the mind boggles that it wasn’t to most obvious thing in the world.

Link to the Story on AO3

Recommendation #3,291

Podfic & Cover Art I made based on Wordsmith's “Remember Me?”.
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer Pairing: Xander Harris x Spike
Rated: Teen Format: MP3 & Streaming Length: 00:34:47

What if Spike and Xander had woken up next to each other in Tabula Rasa?

It has been quite a long time since I was able to wrangle my muse into letting me write something. Once again it is porn. In addition to having written the porn I was also trying something that I was inspired to try after a conversation here a couple of years ago about trying to make porn that only needed a few tweaks to redress it for another pairing. Kind of like porn-ish Mad Libs. Anyway, I have a few flavors already if this is your thing but there are more to come. :D

Testing the Waters by Ursula Haldane
Chapters: 1/1

Rating: Explicit
Word Count: 1400-ish

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Additional Tags: Plot What Plot/Porn Without Plot, Panty Kink, Panties, Praise Kink, Anal Sex, Anal Fingering, Oral Sex, Sort of, Rimming, Also Sort of, Under-negotiated Kink, Consensual Kink, Porn Libs, No Beta, We Die Like Writers

McDanno ~ Hawaii Five-0
Spander ~ Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Luztoye ~ Band of Brothers
Lawrusso ~ Cobra Kai
Dexray ~ Daredevil
Sambucky ~ The Falcon and the Winter Soldier
Zimmerworth ~ BlacKkKlansman
Reddie ~ IT
Malbuck ~ Band of Brothers
Moreid ~ Criminal Minds
Gabechin ~ Hawaii Five-0
McShep ~ Stargate Atlantis
Wesvis ~ Common Law
Johnlock ~ Sherlock
Darlenn ~ The Walking Dead
Tomharry ~ Star Trek Voyager
Sterek ~ Teen Wolf
Hanbrough ~ IT
McShifty ~ Band of Brothers
Fitzmack ~ Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Bradnate ~ Generation Kill
Forthur ~ Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Title: Postsecret

Author: whichclothes

Canon: Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Pairing: Xander Harris/William 'Spike' Pratt

Rating: Explicit [NC-17]

Word Count: 18,455

Summary: Begins during BtVS S6, shortly before Once More with Feeling. A visiting demon causes secrets to be spilled, and those secrets change our boys' lives.

Recommendation: Here is another oldie but goodie that I'm not sure how I've gone this long not rec'ing. It's a quiet and gradual domestication, and that is just what I need every so often.

Link to the Story on AO3

Recommendation #2,300

Title: Hard-Bitten

Author: whichclothes

Canon: Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Pairing: Xander Harris/William 'Spike' Pratt

Rating: Explicit [NC-17]

Word Count: 46,124

Summary: Post-series. Xander stops at the entrance to a sewer tunnel and sees Spike huddled against a wall. As Xander touches Spike, Spike slams him to the ground and bites him.

Recommendation: I'm actually a little surprised that I've not rec'ed this one before. It is good stuff. I love a good post-series story that brings these two together. I even liked the OC in this one. Poor Spike, I hate feeling that my emotions are out of my control, something that has been brought on with all of the stress of last year, but Xander is so wonderfully supportive.

Link to the Story on AO3

Recommendation #2,299

Title: Moving On, Forward (Come in Lost Soul)

Author: pushingcrazies

Canon: Angel | Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Pairing: Jonathan Levinson/Dennis Pearson; side of Winifred 'Fred' Burkle/Charles Gunn/Wesley Wyndam-Pryce

Rating: Explicit [NC-17]

Word Count: 203,089

Summary: Jonathan and Andrew are on the run to Mexico when a chance encounter in Los Angeles sets them on a new path - one with consequences neither could have foreseen.

Recommendation: Uh, this was so good! I love long plotty stories about minor and background characters that both flesh them out and let them change thing by their inclusion in the main plot but also don't make them something other then what they were. Jonathan and Andrew are not suddenly super powered, they are themselves thrust into new circumstances and given new opportunities. I also loved that they don't magically know all the things that are going on with the regular Angel and Buffy cast. I loved the building of the relationship between Jonathan and Dennis it was so good. *sigh* I can't say enough good things about this one.

Link to the Story on AO3

Recommendation #2,298

Title: Agartha

Author: sharkie335

Canon: Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Pairing: Xander Harris/William 'Spike' Pratt

Rating: Explicit [NC-17]

Word Count: 8,735

Summary: Spike and Angel need help from Xander.

Recommendation: I love the thought of Xander being the man for the job simply because of who he is, a human who has given a lot in the service of good. The bits with Illyria are pretty funny, and I love Xander's idea for the distraction.

Link to the Story on AO3

Recommendation #2,245

Title: Three Dog Nights

Author: Bedtime

Canon: Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Pairing: Xander Harris/William 'Spike' Pratt

Rating: Explicit [NC-17]

Word Count: 21,338

Summary: Spike catches Xander reading a book on seducing non-mortals, and offers three nights of hands-on "lessons" in the subject-- which is just wonderful, since the non-mortal Xander had been hoping to seduce was Spike.

Recommendation: That is some industrial strength obliviousness there Spike. ;) And Xander, bless him, is a lot smoother than he or any one else gives him credit for.

Link to the Story on AO3

Recommendation #2,244

Title: Wicked Plans

Author: MissE

Canon: Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Pairing: Xander Harris/William 'Spike' Pratt

Rating: Explicit [NC-17]

Word Count: 4,132

Summary: Frustrated after Willow's 'my will be done' spell, Spike starts to make plans.

Recommendation: The power of suggestion is very effective in the hands of a motivated bad guy. It is hot like burning when that turns around on him though. ;D

Link to the Story on AO3

Recommendation #2,243

Title: Shadowlands

Author: lunabee34

Canon: Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Pairing: Xander Harris/William 'Spike' Pratt

Rating: Mature [R]

Word Count: 34,460

Summary: Xander finds out that Spike is still alive.

Recommendation: Oh man, I love this so much. It's climbed swiftly up the latter of my favorite Spander stories of all time. I remember cringing at what an ass Andrew made of himself during his appearance on Angel, but I love the thought of that not being him and that he was equally embarrassed at his performance. I love the thought of Xander going to LA determined to extend his hand in friendship to Spike and ending up with so much more. I love Xander and Andrew being geeky BFFs and I love that everyone's ending got to be happier than in the show. Top marks all around.

Link to the Story on AO3

Recommendation #2,242

Title: Longest. Day. Ever.

Author: shadowscast

Canon: Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Pairing: Xander Harris/William 'Spike' Pratt

Rating: Mature [R]

Word Count: 18,197

Summary: I play with the Groundhog Day trope. Spike and Xander live with the consequences.

Recommendation: Groundhog Day AU! This was fascinating as it was from the perspective of Xander who is not caught in the time loop, and oh how different that is. I love that he still manages to be surprising.

Link to the Story on LJ

Recommendation #2,141

Title: Everlasting Love

Author: amejisuto

Canon: Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Pairing: Xander Harris/William 'Spike' Pratt

Rating: Explicit [NC-17]

Word Count: 18,197

Summary: Weird weather invades Sunnydale and Xander tries to bring the Scoobies together to figure out what’s happening, while at the same time he figures out that his vampire roommate has a crush on him.

Recommendation: Well, I loved this. Weather troubles with a Hellmouthy twist (it sadly looks like real life weather reports nowadays), Xander remembering how they trusted Spike while Buffy was "away", and Dawn getting some much needed attention. And all the good things. :D

Link to the Story on LJ

Recommendation #2,140

Title: Who Ya Gonna Call

Author: kirasmommy

Canon: Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Pairing: Xander Harris/William 'Spike' Pratt

Rating: Mature [R]

Word Count: 23,523

Summary: Challenge Response: Xander goes to visit his Uncle Peter...in New York!

Recommendation: This is one of my all-time favorites because looking at Buffyverse through the lens of the Ghostbusters is too funny. The thought of vampire's souls being stuck following around their demon-possessed bodies is pretty depressing, but the tone of the story is wacky and fun like the Ghostbusters movies.

Link to the Story on FFN

Recommendation #2,139

Title: Good Mojo

Author: Whichclothes

Canon: Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Pairing: Xander Harris/William 'Spike' Pratt

Rating: Mature [R]

Word Count: 20,747

Summary: Based on this prompt from reremouse: Post-Chosen Xander needs a place to live. It's Spike's turn to take Xander in. Why is he homeless? What happened? And why did he have to turn to Spike?

Recommendation: This is some good stuff. I love the slow quasi-domestication in a new place, all those lovely Croatian details. But more than that I love that both Xander and Spike get to feel forgiven, needed, and valued for who they are. Xander is a lot more badass than he thinks he is.

Link to the Story on AO3

Recommendation #2,138