Recs Post #13

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Short short character study pieces here, some longer shippy angst, and something very silly.

Triplicate, by brutti_ma_buoni
A brief, chilling, sympathetic, entirely believable character study of Willow post-series. Not to be missed.

Reckless, by angearia
Another of Emmie's forays into Faith/Giles, this is the first one with explicitly shippy action in it, as well as a tour through Faith's head that'll just break your heart. A lovely piece.

Something, by gryfndor_godess
Absolutely gorgeous Spuffy suggestion of how things might have turned out post-S7 if Spike hadn't burned to death in "Chosen," but also very clever in subverting certain standard fannish expectations. Just excellently written. SEVERE ANGST WARNING.

Grauidus, by penny_lane_42
Lauren wrote happy fluffy established-relationship Spuffy mpreg! Awww. With possibility of more! I may be a wee bit biased about this one, folks. But: characterization is sympathetic yet clear-eyed, as usual with Lauren, and explicit mpreg details are few, for those of you who shy away from such. This is in the same fic universe as Infinitas Infinitio Infinitus, which is also lovely, but you can read this just fine without reading that.

Morning is Broken, by beer_good_foamy
And now for the very silly. One morning in S7, Dawn discovers beer bear in the fridge (good thing Spike wasn't living with them yet, eh?). It gets worse from there. Sort of a Jasper Fforde crossover, if you squint.

Comments

[angearia.livejournal.com]

Aw, yay! Recs!

Excusing myself so this doesn't sound like an ego trip, but some excellent fic here.

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I beg your pardon. All the fic I rec is excellent. /snooty

*g*

[angearia.livejournal.com]

:P

And hey, it's quite the array of fic! Dark Willow character study, Faith/Giles first person Faith pov, Spuffy mpreg (that's not super squicky!), Spuffy twisty goodness, and Beer Good's classic punnage humor

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Thank you! I try really hard to have some variety in these things - I've got at least a few people on the flist who aren't all-Spuffy, all-the-time folks. Weird, huh? *g*

Although, I try to rec farther afield usually, but this list is all recent and all straight off my flist. I just haven't been reading very far afield lately.

[angearia.livejournal.com]

Haha, if I hadn't just read Beer Good's ficlet, you would've got me, but yes I'd read these before too. Meaning my home is your home...? Aww.

I've gotten lazy in my reading habits. I tried going far afield a while ago and had a disastrous time finding anything good. So I like sticking with the authors I know, who'll deliver what I like.

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Or at least my library is your library. EVEN BETTER. Because when it comes to housekeeping, the bookshelves are better off than anything else in the place. *g*

[angearia.livejournal.com]

Awww I kinda love thinking of LJ/fandom as a library. Have I told you about my longstanding love affair with libraries? Epic.

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You haven't! But libraries are my safe places. You've heard the joke about the lady who when she's down in the dumps she gets a new hat? When I'm down in the dumps, I go to the library and get books. I don't even need to read them, necessarily - sometimes just the act of selection gives me a boost. All those things I want to know, all those stories I want to read, organized neatly in rows and right at my fingertips... *happy sigh*

[angearia.livejournal.com]

Yes. HI ARE YOU ME?

But yes, I understand. I get an instant happy from getting a book. Even if it's not a good book, it's a book and thus it is good. Libraries and bookstores are places I go to recapture that sense of wonder.

So me and libraries! I grew up in Minnesota and maybe it's the weather and the neverending winter when you're constantly stuck indoors, but it's a highly literate state and this is reflected in its libraries. Libraries are like churches and cathedrals in MN. Even the local tiny libraries are lovely. So my dad and I would always be going to the library and I could get lost in there for hours (he could, too). And every library has a few acres of land attached so my dad would take my dog, Molly, to walk while I'd get to searching for the perfect book. ♥

Libraries are my happy places.

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

Yay recs! :D

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:)

[brutti-ma-buoni.livejournal.com]

You know I think I've read all of these and enjoyed them.* I approve this message.


*Um... also mine. For which, thanks!

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:) As I told Emmie, I prefer to rec stuff from a wider range of sources, but it didn't happen this time. Next time, maybe.

[gryfndor-godess.livejournal.com]

I'm flailing at your very kind description. Thank you for reccing my fic!

*goes to read the other recs*

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You're very welcome. :)