Thanks for this. That actually looks like a cool fic. Even better that it's complete. Agree with you there. I hate WIP's. Except I start reading them before their completed. Your method actually makes more sense.
The fic I've read lately is unfortunately all WIP.
Half Gifts by Automated Alice (can't remember url but if you look under Half Gifts in google you can find it.) It takes place right after Grave, goes AU. Spike has ended up in England living at Giles with Willow. The story starts with Buffy's visit to him in England and they work out their issues. It also has a good plot outside of B/S - dealing with what is happening in Sunnydale, the Watcher Council etc. I've met Alice. Good writer. Angsty. Likes dark stuff, especially David Lynch.
Summer Son - http://www.naturalblues.org/redrover1980fic/ Weird fic in progress. Automated Alice recommended it. Young writer. Lots of problems. But the writing is oddly compelling. Everyone's human. Action takes place in 1950s and 1980s. Very angsty and dark. And I may go torment her if she doesn't complete it!
Chain by irikios on allaboutspike.com - best AU Season 6 I've seen. This one wonders what would have happened if Warren and the Troika took Spike after he got beat up in Dead Things and manipulated his chip so that he became their slave. (Something ME hinted at doing in Season 6 but never did). It gets really dark. Spike is tortured pretty brutally by Warren. But outside of the Spike bits, it follows Season 6 pretty closely. Also does a good job of exploring Spike's internal conflict regarding good over evil sans soul. Another one, I've considered berating for leaving their work unfinished!
Non-WIP's:
If you like slash - Subtleties by eliade is really good. If you can't find it, let me know, I have it saved on my hard drive. Xander comes into a windfall of money and is sent to locate Spike (souled Spike) in NY, where he's gone in a funk. It's five years in the future. AU fic. Since Spike and Anya never died. Lots of sex. But the characters and relationship are developed in an interesting way. Angsty.
There's a hilarous short fic by Mikelesq called The Metaphor Suffers, found here: http://www.allaboutspike.com/fic.html?id=590 I won't give a summary since it's only a page fic and it would ruin the joke.
Herself's Disenchantment isn't bad. Some nice parts here and there. Basically takes place ten years in the future. Buffy finds a human Spike, sans memory, on an island in the Pacific. Lots of sexual hijinks ensue. I prefer Gwyn's Heliotrope which can be found on allaboutspike - which seems to build on the relationships a bit more. And then there's the after Grave fic - Wisteria's Traffic Conditions is very angsty, Herself's What She Deserves (Buffy finds Spike with a soul in NY), 98 Octane by Wisteria, and the 10,000 miles to Sunnydale fic by Wisteria. All dark. All angsty.
Agree - WIP is better than reading dreck. I've been reading way too much Spike fic. LOL! Something not many people know about me...;-)
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Date: 2003-09-11 09:45 am (UTC)The fic I've read lately is unfortunately all WIP.
Half Gifts by Automated Alice (can't remember url but if you look under Half Gifts in google you can find it.) It takes place right after Grave, goes AU. Spike has ended up in England living at Giles with Willow. The story starts with Buffy's visit to him in England and they work out their issues. It also has a good plot outside of B/S - dealing with what is happening in Sunnydale, the Watcher Council etc. I've met Alice. Good writer. Angsty. Likes dark stuff, especially David Lynch.
Summer Son - http://www.naturalblues.org/redrover1980fic/
Weird fic in progress. Automated Alice recommended it. Young writer.
Lots of problems. But the writing is oddly compelling. Everyone's human. Action takes place in 1950s and 1980s. Very angsty and dark.
And I may go torment her if she doesn't complete it!
Chain by irikios on allaboutspike.com - best AU Season 6 I've seen.
This one wonders what would have happened if Warren and the Troika took Spike after he got beat up in Dead Things and manipulated his chip so that he became their slave. (Something ME hinted at doing in Season 6 but never did). It gets really dark. Spike is tortured pretty brutally by Warren. But outside of the Spike bits, it follows Season 6 pretty closely. Also does a good job of exploring Spike's internal conflict regarding good over evil sans soul. Another one, I've considered berating for leaving their work unfinished!
Non-WIP's:
If you like slash - Subtleties by eliade is really good. If you can't find it, let me know, I have it saved on my hard drive. Xander comes into a windfall of money and is sent to locate Spike (souled Spike) in NY, where he's gone in a funk. It's five years in the future. AU fic. Since Spike and Anya never died. Lots of sex. But the characters and relationship are developed in an interesting way.
Angsty.
There's a hilarous short fic by Mikelesq called The Metaphor Suffers,
found here: http://www.allaboutspike.com/fic.html?id=590
I won't give a summary since it's only a page fic and it would ruin the joke.
Herself's Disenchantment isn't bad. Some nice parts here and there.
Basically takes place ten years in the future. Buffy finds a human Spike, sans memory, on an island in the Pacific. Lots of sexual hijinks ensue. I prefer Gwyn's Heliotrope which can be found on allaboutspike - which seems to build on the relationships a bit more. And then there's the after Grave fic - Wisteria's Traffic Conditions is very angsty, Herself's What She Deserves (Buffy finds Spike with a soul in NY), 98 Octane by Wisteria, and the 10,000 miles
to Sunnydale fic by Wisteria. All dark. All angsty.
Agree - WIP is better than reading dreck. I've been reading way too much Spike fic. LOL! Something not many people know about me...;-)