Yay for the return of buffyversetop5. Thank you to petzipellepingo and yourlibrarian for continuing to host this lovely celebration of our fandom every year.

Since we’re running up to Halloween, here are five stories that make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. This is a mixture of pairings and canon characters.

For All My Pains A World of Sighs by baudown makes my heart ache at the ( Read more... )

Favorite 2017 meta posts, in no particular order :

1. Meta on the vampires of the Buffyverse by hannahforlove.

2. Meta on Fred and Illyria by deird1.

3. Meta on Buffy's relationships with Spike and Angel by itsnotmymind.

4. Meta on School Hard by molly_may.

5. Meta on Faith's mental state by itsnotmymind.

So here are my Top 5 Post-Chosen Spuffy Recs that are superclassic (at least a decade old):

1) Disenchantment by Herself. This story made me fall in love with Spuffy! The depiction of a Buffy in her 30s, still alive, kind of ok, but just so lonely in a way she couldn't even articulate. Some angst, but the joy Buffy feels at her unexpected reunion ( Read more... )

Don't fall over dead, I actually do read other pairings occasionally! (AO3 links this time)

( Fics, Not Candy, Sorry! )

Dawn Meets Cordy by onegirlinalltheworld. So this isn't a fic about pre-series Dawn but I thought it was a nifty idea about how Dawn and Cordelia might have bonded in S2.

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Some classic Dawn-insert fics, arranged from shortest to longest.

Small Spaces by deird1. Dawn and Wesley slowly become friends. Starts from season 3. G-rated.

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Or, it's "Buffy-centric angsty shortfic", to be more specific. Stories arranged from longest to shortest.

Third Wheel by shapinglight aka Glassdarkly (Angel/Buffy & Darla, PG-13). Set during 'Surprise', this is a slightly AU BtVS season 2, in which Ethan Rayne's costume spell in Halloween had rather different consequences ( Read more... )

In no particular order...
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Kitty Spuffy Art by dualbunny (PG) - Just look at the cute!

Attack of the Cookie Monsters by rahirah (PG) - A Barbverse domestic adventure in picture book format.

She Will Remember Him? by moscow_watcher (R) - An AU S2 from Dawn's less-than-reverent POV.

Just the Once by st_salieri (R) - Post-series domestic fluff with drunk!Buffy! Win!

Spaiku by mere_ubu (PG13) - Haiku retellings of the following ( Read more... )

In general, I tend to be a fan of late season or post-series Buffy/Spike fanfiction, but sometimes there's nothing more fun than reading a story in which those two crazy kids get together a little sooner than in canon.

The Perfume of Kismet, by Gwyneth Rhys - After the events of "Becoming", Buffy runs into a familiar face in Los Angeles.

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