Fic recomendations, again.
Posted: 2007-08-23 04:40pm
I did try looking for one of the previous threads but it would have been necromancy to use it so...
Once again list the decent fanfics you have found and link em here.
For now I'll add M.Mcgregor to my past recomendation. As a Buffy and Xander fan, authors such as M.Mcrgeor hold a special place for me, he manages to write Xander tales without bashing or the other FAR too common failings of many of the Xander fic writers out there. (And can someone explain why this would be, one of the things that draws me to Xander as a Char is his loyalty and love for his friends. So why then do people insist on writing tales where that part of him is thrown away?)
Live Journal page For a while he wasn't updating and he has many unfinished tales, that is a free warning but recently he has come out of this slump and has been updating his latest story every day. See Noir Evil
The story really is hard to summerise so I'll partly cheat and use his own brief summary 'They say Xander killed them all. They say Xander’s crazy. Xander says he’s crazy too. It’s only Xander’s imaginary friend who says otherwise.'
To expand, as far as anyone can tell most of the slayers are dead, and Xander is the prime suspect, using guns and explosives. Video tape evidence along with DNA evidence seems to back up this theory, he's been captured by the US Government, tried and sentenced, and now they are tortouring him to find out why he did it.... It's been going on for a while, and thats where the tale picks up.
The other tale by M.Mcgregor to really recommend is I am what I am This is the tale the author feels is his best work, his central story, the one he is most proud of, and well deserves that recomendation. It's a time traveling Xander who has lived a full life going back to the infamous Halloween with Ethan Raine madness and the effect this has on matters.
It deals with everything I think, that in tales of a time traveler might get missed off, just how much can he change, if he changes too much what will he lose along the way... I won't spoil it, but damn it this story is great. Along with the simple pain of being a widower twice and now looking at his two former wives and not knowing if they will ever love him in that way again.
The author gets Xander, he has written a few Xander gains powers stories and yet his cardinal rule seems to be, no matter what happens to Xander, Buffy is still the slayer, and in the end, something about the Slayer Spirit trumps the odds, the Slayer is built to win, and will find a way, it just has a special something that keeps Buffy the hero.
Well there we go, partly recomendations and partly a example of what I look for in a Buffy story, yes a focus on Xander is preferred but it better be a Xander that I can recognise and it better not be a bash tale.
Once again list the decent fanfics you have found and link em here.
For now I'll add M.Mcgregor to my past recomendation. As a Buffy and Xander fan, authors such as M.Mcrgeor hold a special place for me, he manages to write Xander tales without bashing or the other FAR too common failings of many of the Xander fic writers out there. (And can someone explain why this would be, one of the things that draws me to Xander as a Char is his loyalty and love for his friends. So why then do people insist on writing tales where that part of him is thrown away?)
Live Journal page For a while he wasn't updating and he has many unfinished tales, that is a free warning but recently he has come out of this slump and has been updating his latest story every day. See Noir Evil
The story really is hard to summerise so I'll partly cheat and use his own brief summary 'They say Xander killed them all. They say Xander’s crazy. Xander says he’s crazy too. It’s only Xander’s imaginary friend who says otherwise.'
To expand, as far as anyone can tell most of the slayers are dead, and Xander is the prime suspect, using guns and explosives. Video tape evidence along with DNA evidence seems to back up this theory, he's been captured by the US Government, tried and sentenced, and now they are tortouring him to find out why he did it.... It's been going on for a while, and thats where the tale picks up.
The other tale by M.Mcgregor to really recommend is I am what I am This is the tale the author feels is his best work, his central story, the one he is most proud of, and well deserves that recomendation. It's a time traveling Xander who has lived a full life going back to the infamous Halloween with Ethan Raine madness and the effect this has on matters.
It deals with everything I think, that in tales of a time traveler might get missed off, just how much can he change, if he changes too much what will he lose along the way... I won't spoil it, but damn it this story is great. Along with the simple pain of being a widower twice and now looking at his two former wives and not knowing if they will ever love him in that way again.
The author gets Xander, he has written a few Xander gains powers stories and yet his cardinal rule seems to be, no matter what happens to Xander, Buffy is still the slayer, and in the end, something about the Slayer Spirit trumps the odds, the Slayer is built to win, and will find a way, it just has a special something that keeps Buffy the hero.
Well there we go, partly recomendations and partly a example of what I look for in a Buffy story, yes a focus on Xander is preferred but it better be a Xander that I can recognise and it better not be a bash tale.