Nominate for me your favorite Harry Potter, Buffyverse, Firefly, Gilmore Girls, or Veronica Mars novel-length fic. Any pairings or no pairings. HP is my favorite of these fandoms.

Hmm. I'm terribly fond of NWHepcat's Lilac City, which is a Xander novel set 7 years after Chosen. Really excellent stuff, well-plotted. Oh, and This Little Light is a novel about a new slayer set not long after Chosen, which is really excellent as well. [link]

I haven't read any novel-length Firefly. I do recommend Salieri's Firefly stories: Utopia is shatteringly good. She also writes fabulous Stargate, primarily slash. I think Noise might be novel-length.

Tripoli's The Cost of Doing Business is a long, plotty, messy Stargate story. Very sad. Gen, sort of.

Novel-length, novel-length... Peg Robinson and Macedon's The Talking Stick/Circle stories are a Voyager series that develops into an epic novel. Spins off from canon early in season 2, so there's no Seven, no Borg, and a lot of messy internal politics. Good stuff.

Kipler's Strangers and the Strange Dead is excellent X-Files. Not quite novel-length, though. Other long XF I'd recommend: Iolokus, of course. Fialka's Arizona Highways. Nascent's Pillar of Salt and Theory and Practice. Jill Selby's Mediocrity's Allure. Most of those should be at Gossamer.

Speranza's Chicago's Most Wanted is a long DueSouth story: plotty and damned funny. Slash.

Except if you're an OTP-er.

I'm not sure what this means, in this context, for some reason.

Thanks for the recommendations, everybody! This is fun. I now have a bunch of fic on my palm for infinite free reading yay.

I'm 2/3 of the way through Tissue of Silver and enjoying it thoroughly, though I prefer the Draco/Harry interactions in Invisible to See.

OTP is One True Pairing. So I assume that if you're totally invested in just one pairing, you wouldn't like that fic.

Oh. Ha, I get it. I knew what OTP meant, just not OTP-er I guess.

I like reading all pairings if they're done well. My personal favorites tend to be femslash pairings, but they don't tend to produce much in the way of great long fic from what I've been able to tell, so I maintain pairing flexibility for the format of my choice.

just not OTP-er I guess.

Er, I made it up. I don't actually have One True Pairing in that fandom, more Preferred Pairings.

My only OTP in any fandom is Clark/Lex. And, you know, I'm quite happy to read either of them with anyone else, because the thing of it is that I know that in canon they're dooooooomed.

dabs eyes with hankie.

Bless their hot little selves.

Now that I have finished watching the first season of Veronica Mars, I might as well start with the fan fic. Who has recs?

Vonnie does.

Who has recs?

Sorry, but despite being subscribed to the fic community, I've skimmed past most of it. All of the slash pairings leave me pretty cold, as does LoVe on the whole (I like it in canon, but not in fic for some reason.)

There is no novel length fic in Veronica Mars fandom, not yet anyway. (Now, if only shaye ever finishes her noir casefile she's threatening to unleash onto the world...) I've read a few multi-part plotty stories, which left me largely unimpressed, and the rest of the fic out there are mostly of the unbearably schmoopy Logan/Veronica variety. (I refuse to type the... you know, the name. The one that makes me want to KILL KILL KILL.) It also annoys me that the fic part of the fandom is entirely LJ based, as I hate linking to stories on LJ. [/crankypants]

That said, I've read some nice short fic. Boyfriend In Coma has 4 or 5 mostly Logan-centric stories on her fic-LJ, all of which I like a lot (esp. "A Past Is A Prologue" and "Snark Never Goes Out of Fashion".) [link]

Yahtzee has a killer story about the aftermath of the finale here. [link] Brilliant concept and deeply cynical in a scarily plausible way.

Adorable Wallace vignette set post WoCD: [link]

A fab Lianne story, sharp and brittle. [link]

That's pretty much all of the next BSO update. There is also a rec community in LJ called vm_fic, which will probably help you glean out the worst of the lot, but they rec a bit too indiscriminately, I found. [link]

Shaye linked to a few more stories a while back on her LJ. Lemme see; here we go.