I'm kind of just dipping my toe into the fan fic pool for the first time. I've seen an awful lot of S/B with child stuff or people getting married etc.. Not that I don't like romance, but I'm looking for something with less of a focus on the romance element. Also, like to stay away from the S/B romantic fic in general. Can anyone give me some recommendations for fics that are a little less romantic? Scary is fine, mature is fine, I have no limits on anything besides sap, really.
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Winnow - Apr 12, 2003 10:06:42 am PDT #4676 of 10000
Don't make me come down there!
Deena - Apr 12, 2003 10:11:40 am PDT #4677 of 10000
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
Winnow, you want s/b in particular? or does it matter what pairing?
Winnow - Apr 12, 2003 10:16:22 am PDT #4678 of 10000
Don't make me come down there!
Actually, probably anything but S/B pairing.
P.M. Marc - Apr 12, 2003 10:42:38 am PDT #4679 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Campfire Tales, a darkfic archive.
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These should get you started!
askye - Apr 12, 2003 10:58:00 am PDT #4680 of 10000
Thrive to spite them
Winnow---if you find some really good, dark twisted S/B could you let me know, that's pretty much the only way I like Spike and Buffy together and it's hard to come by.
Fay - Apr 12, 2003 10:59:04 am PDT #4681 of 10000
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
If it's non-romantic stuff you're after, Rheanna writes excellent Angel stories that read like episodes, and Yahtzee has some cracking stuff, some BtVS and some AtS. Phoenix Burning is a classic, written after the end of Season 5 and working on the supposition that Buffy doesn't get brought back to life until far into the future. (B/A, but it's far more plotty than shippy.)
Rhymes with Gleaming is a lovely take on Spike's siring (a little slashy) and After The Fall is a cracking series of stories set post -The Gift.
Min has a fondness for Buffy/Wesley and for less than cheerful takes on the Jossverse.
Ink is tiny, but it's one of my favourite pieces of Willowcentric fiction.
Am-Chau Yarkona - Apr 12, 2003 11:02:08 am PDT #4682 of 10000
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
Winnow- het only, or will you read slash?
Edit: I ask, because I started to rec stuff, and then wondered if what I like to read would actually be to your taste.
Fay - Apr 12, 2003 11:02:46 am PDT #4683 of 10000
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
And, if you're well-disposed to m/m, Herself's Manhattan Nocturne is very, very hard to beat. Spike and Dru in New York in the 1920s. NC17.
Actually what am I saying?
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P.M. Marc - Apr 12, 2003 11:10:57 am PDT #4684 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
for less than cheerful takes on the Jossverse.
Hey! I have some cheerful ones, missy! (And a vast assortment of pairings, het, slash, etc. And one songfic. Hee.)
[link] is the better link, though.
Winnow - Apr 12, 2003 11:29:31 am PDT #4685 of 10000
Don't make me come down there!
Ooh, all fantastic! Thanks for all the great links. Slash is totally fine with me.