thedeadlyhook

jwaneeta added my story "The Dead Walk" onto this list, so according to the rules, I must pay it forward by recc'ing some more. This is a cleaned-up version of the list - I tried to reinstall at least people's LJ user links and as many direct links as I could - damn that cut and paste mode! My three recs are at the bottom.

So this is how it goes (pasted from the original post): I'll rec three writers, pointing out two of their stories that I love. These three writers will copy/paste the list to their journal and add three more. Kinda like a pay-it-forward thing. Recs cannot be repeated so each new person must read the list and make sure they don't rec a writer that's on it. Making sense so far? By the end of this there should be like a million billion recs!

Prior recs:
Here's the prior recs:

1.

reremouse Mainly for the newspaper!verse. I re-read every single story last weekend. A lot of the stories made me laugh, a couple made me cry, and a whoooole bunch made me need a cold shower! Also love the psychic!verse. The set up is wonderful and Xander's voice is very compelling.

2.

tabaqui. If you're not reading Changes then you're missing out on a hell of a great story! The simplest thing I can say about it is that it feels real. Like the series could actually have gone that way. The characters are beautifully portrayed, their voices are true and look! Derio! ::grin:: Second rec, I'm torn between Credence and Hero. I'll go for Hero. Cause it made me cry. It's a human AU in which Spike takes care of a kinda delusional Xander (that'd be putting it mildly). It's wonderful and like I said, it made me cry.

3.

crazydiamondsue. Sunday Morning Coming Down. Read it. No really, read it. Set post-Glory. The scoobs are dealing with Buffy's death. Spike and Xander get close and I don't know what happens next cause she hasn't posted it! ::pouts:: And also Rodeo. She wrote that for me ::proud grin:: It's a cowboy AU, set in a gay rodeo (did you know they had those? Cause I didn't!) Xander's the new guy and Angel's the old champion guy. It's hot and lovely and I'm still hoping for a sequel. ::optimistic smile::

4.

darkhavens I love her Grungefic, which was just updated yesterday. Powerful Season One Spander with Spike taking care of Xander who's grieving for Jesse. And she has oodles of drabbles which are lovely to read based on the open_on_sunday challenges. Great stuff.

5.

sukibluefiction. My dear friend has the wonderful From Out of Nowhere series which has romance and adventure and angst. Fun to read Spander. I got a sneak peek at her next one and boy is it good!! And her Facing Fear series about to finish up? Is freaking hilarious!! With a sick Xander and a Spike that's afraid of spiders it's a classic in the making!

6.

kyrieane If you haven't drooled over the Giovanni Series you are missing out on a lot of steamy Spander smut!! And her Ride a Cowboy series started the trend for Spike and Xander in leather chaps.

7.

cleeaz You just have to read Working Man, it's just fantastic. A wonderful portrayal of an independant and confident Xander. (The eye patch is incredibly sexy!) And I just love her WIP, Future Hope, i'm on the edge of my seat with that one. (Am also on my knees praying for a X/S/A threesome!)

8.

amejisuto Just two many bloody good stories to mention. Ame really has something for everyone. My favs. WIP Blood Ties, this is one of the best Mpregs ever written. It's funny, angsty and just makes you wanna rescue the boys and kick some ass! And the second one, Cats and Dogs. Spike and Xan get turned into domestic pets. Spike is a cat and Xan is a dog. Very funny, and Xan as a dog? Spot on. If he was a dog, he'd be just like this!!!

9.

flufshepherd I am just loving Fluffy's beatles playlist. H/C with Spike helping out a depressed Xander. And also love Sour Revenge, which is where Xander casts that naughty little love spell, but with a bloody good twist!!! ~gets on knees and begs for more of both~

10.

ficbitcabear. I started reading Bear’s Universally Speaking on bloodclaim and friended her. It’s a Season 3 – 4 Spander that is a sequel to her “Superheroes” story. (You don’t have to read “Superheroes” to get “Universally Speaking,” but you won’t regret it if you do.) It’s amazing – great interaction between S/X and wonderful dialogue. Then she answered spikeswilngslav’s request for brother!kink on fall_for_sx and started Catamite. It’s Human AU, and Spike and Xander are brothers. This story has nothing to do with kink – it’s all about the emotion.

11.

jstabe. I can’t remember how I started reading Jenn’s Playing Games, a role playing series with a partnered Spike and Xander and very willing Angel. She writes the role playing in character (i.e. if Spike is the “professor” and Xander is the “student” you see them in that moment in the scene.) It’s fantastic and lets me have Spander, Spangel and Xangel at the same time. She’s also started a new S/X WIP, “The Crush” (Season 4 Spander) Part One and Part Two. Lovely “Oh, crap – Spike is hot!” moments from Xander.

12.

adis723. Everybody’s entitled one wanky rec, right? Yes, she’s my beta and one of my best LJ friends. She’s also a fantastic writer and she’s working on an amazing post “Not Fade Away” WIP: Pay No Mind to the Rabble Spike/Xander/Other. Fantastic Dru voice, fantastic Illyria voice. Dru and Illyria in the same fic? Oh, hell yeah. And if you missed her Beatles Song Titles ficlet call, it’s here: Beatles Ficlets. My favorites are “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer” and “Why Don’t We Do It In the Road?”

13.

margarks She's writing a lovely S/X Human AU called 'Tumbleweeds' and yes - cowboys!!! Pretty and angsty, not too many chapters just yet, but there's Sherrif Angel and his boyfriend/brother of Will Wes!! Whoot! You'll be glad you read it.

14.

kimberly_fan is writing part two of 'It's Just a Jump to the Left', entitled 'Late Night Double Feature'. Look in her memories or mine. Absolutely lovely, slightly dark, angsty, sexy Spander with all kinds of kinks and twists.

15.

tesla321 is writing an Xover with the X-files in which MULDER is a vamp. 'Vamp!Mulder' or - 'There is no Seven' is fun, funny, sexy, has Spikey goodness and snarky Lindsey and... Go! Read!

16.

abundantlyqueer has written so MANY good things, but for a change of pace try 'Mardi Gras', a LOTRips set in New Orleans. VoodooPriest Viggo! Hustler!Elijah! Dom the Gambler and Orlando the movie star with a COMPLETE 'other' cast of a 'MardiGras!Verse' LOTR that never happened. It's dark and skeery and hot and angsty and weird and GOOD, so good.

17.

wesleysgirl doesn't often write Spander, but when she does I'm in heaven. I love love love Hold Me Down and Seeing Distant Things As If They Were Close.

18.

saussy writes great Spander, but you probably already know that. I'm trying to come up with names that not everyone knows, but everyone knows saussy, right? I writhe with joy every time she writes even a snippet of new fic. I keep hoping that she and witling will write more Basement of Debasement one of these days. Oh, and you must read Pantomime, saussy's contribution to The Spander Inquisition.

19.

jackson_rayne doesn't post fic often, but when she does it's worth celebrating. Her Sweet Revenge is one of my favorite S/X fics ever, and she's been continuing her wonderful Divided/Two's Company/Male Bonding series with snippets in her journal. Yeah, it's been months since she posted anything, but I still think she's worth a look.

20. Keelywolfe's "Strawberry Fields" Angel/Doyle,
http://www.livejournal.com/tools/memories.bml?user=keelywolfe&keyword=Angel+fics&filter=all
I wasn't sure about this pairing, before I read it, but the premise grabbed me.
And now, after reading, I'm sold, and look forward to the promised sequel. Such is my turn-around.

21. Then there was the gender-reversal, always fun stuff: Pet's "Girl", where Chipped!Spike wakes up...female.
http://www.obsessedmuch.net/guesses/fiction.html
I loved this, because I'm a sucker for Spander of any kind.

22. And, finally, the Buffybot as seen by Keswindhover. Poor Botty! So perky!
http://www.geocities.com/keswindhover/

23. All That's Left To You, by

treacle_a: Found this the other night. Real hanky stuff -- I generally have heart of stone when it comes to fic, but this got me right teary. Perhaps it was my mood. Anyway, if you want sweet and SAD, this is yer baby.

24. The Measure of a Man, by Gwynneth Rhys,

gywn_r. WIP. Human!Spike doesn't do anything for me under most circs, but Gyn can make anything good. Complications abound after Spike's cave request backfires and the resultant mess is angsty, dolorous and funny by turns.

25. The Dead Walk by

thedeadlyhook is a tasty, hurt-filled romp with Spike, Illyria and Connor. Of course I'm all over the deadlyhook's current sequel to Dirty Back Road, but you probably know about that one.

26. Kalima, aka

lordshiva's Time Travel For Pedestrians is an alternative Season 6 story that fascinates me in every way I can be fascinated by a fic - all the interesting questions, all the behind-the-scenes character development, and plenty we didn't get on Willow and Tara and magic and morality that I'm sucking up like melted ice cream. Fabulous WIP. Probably everyone's already reading this, but if they're not..

27. I've recc'ed

irfikos's story "Chain" before, but now there's a WIP sequel called That Other Road which has just started, but looks to be shaping up into quite the wonderful thing. Chapter 1 on Willow, Chapter 2 on Xander, Chapter 3 on Faith. I'm practically drooling for the next part. Like a Big. Sloppy. Drooling. Dog.

28.

germaine_pet's Menage. Short William/Angelus/Drusilla. I'm convinced this happened. It happened just like this. I'm calling it canon, okay? Beautiful character portraits of all three at a very certain point in time, and it takes a certain talent to write a good Drusilla, so this rec doesn't come lightly. Adult in the best way. Enjoy.