There's only one All Human AU that I've ever rec'd and it is Crave. (Nauti has written others...but, well, they are pretty much your standard fare and not something I'd rec let alone admit to reading. ;-) )
Crave deals with some of the issues you were tackling in Influence of Demons, but in a completely different and far more in your face way. Nauti through this fic delves into the psychological stuff that fans use vampire/slayer as metaphors for. She rips those metaphors away. Discusses the slaying of demons, how parents demonize children, how children demonize their parents ...she also discusses addiction.
Spike/Buffy is basically Mommy!issues meets Daddy!issues head on. Then with an added wrinkle...of Buffy being married to Spike's son - who has serious Daddy issues, issues that sync quite nicely with Buffy's.
Nauti uses lines, dialogue, themes from Season 6 Buffy and S2 Angel in a way...that I haven't seen before. There's lots of interesting layers.
A lot of All Human fics make the mistake of being a rewrite of some favorite novel the writer has read - just with the Buffy characters in the lead roles. We don't learn anything more about them, except how Spike might play Elizabeth Bennet as a guy or Catherine in Wuthering Heights, and Buffy might play Heathcliff. (Yes, I've seen that.) This is more original and a lot more fun.
It's also really really smutty. She does BSDM rather well, and uses it to explore her characters inner demons and develop them. With Nauti - sex actually is plot, much like it was in Buffy and Angel. She shows what it really means to change the metaphor.
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Date: 2010-03-02 05:28 pm (UTC)much your standard fare and not something I'd rec let alone admit to reading. ;-) )
Crave deals with some of the issues you were tackling in Influence of Demons, but in a completely different and far more in your face way. Nauti through this fic delves into the psychological stuff that fans use vampire/slayer as metaphors for. She rips those metaphors away. Discusses the slaying of demons, how parents demonize children, how children demonize their parents ...she also discusses addiction.
Spike/Buffy is basically Mommy!issues meets Daddy!issues head on. Then with an added wrinkle...of Buffy being married to Spike's son - who has serious Daddy issues, issues that sync quite nicely with Buffy's.
Nauti uses lines, dialogue, themes from Season 6 Buffy and S2 Angel in a way...that I haven't seen before. There's lots of interesting layers.
A lot of All Human fics make the mistake of being a rewrite of some favorite novel the writer has read - just with the Buffy characters in the lead roles. We don't learn anything more about them, except how Spike might play Elizabeth Bennet as a guy or Catherine in Wuthering Heights, and Buffy might play Heathcliff. (Yes, I've seen that.) This is more original and a lot more fun.
It's also really really smutty. She does BSDM rather well, and uses it to explore her characters inner demons and develop them. With Nauti - sex actually is plot, much like it was in Buffy and Angel. She shows what it really means to change the metaphor.