Fanfic Author Appreciation #4

[desoto_hia873]

Most of my reading prior to LJ was at All About Spike, partly because I liked Spike as a character so much, but also because it was the first archive I found with such consistently good stories. (Maybe we should have an archive appreciation week too?)

After coming to LJ, however, I found new authors I hadn't heard of before. Lots. Lots that I've read and lots more that I haven't had time to read yet. It's hard to pick from among them, but here are a few of my favourites:

jwaneeta writes delightfuly insane prose in the style of P.G. Wodehouse. Her story A Proper Funeral stars Giles, Spike, and Angel, and is side-splittingly funny. jwaneeta has an unusual past and uses it to great effect when she does commentary on her own story The Code of the Watchers with Sister Angelus. Just reading jwaneeta's posts can be wildly entertaining, whether she is expounding on the loveliest desk in the storied annals of deskery or mourning frozen octopi that look like tiny used condoms with tentacles. Check her out.

thenyxie is a wonderfully talented writer with an incredible range. I've pimped it before, but I'll pimp it again: In The Alley (How It All Comes Down) is her take on what happened after the scene faded to black at the end of Not Fade Away and it is brilliant. In my mind, it's canon. Song of the Open Road takes a look at the post-Chosen lives of the surviving BtVS characters and is equally wonderful. Season of the Witch was written for her own Tales of the Slayers Ficathon and tells the story of a Slayer in the days of the Salem witch trials.

stoptocheer is an author I just started to read recently - she does a fantastic Xander. The Tale That The Watcher Tells looks at what might have happened if Xander's and Giles's roles had been reversed in The Wish. Not only is it a great story, but it gets rid of the plot hole in the original episode (see my post here). Seven Conversations Xander Harris Never Had With Rupert Giles sums up Xander's character perfectly and The Inherent Ineluctability of One's Fate is a great alternative ending to BtVS S6.

More tomorrow!

Comments

[jwaneeta.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the incredibly kind words, and thank you for the link to
thenyxie. I only read In The Alley (How It All Comes Down) once, forgot her name and could never find it again.

And I'm definitely going to check out the others. Love those juicy recs.

[desoto-hia873.livejournal.com]

You're more than welcome. Sr. Angelus deserves to be shared with the world. (But is the world ready for her? :-)

[jedi-penguin.livejournal.com]

Wow! stoptocheer is fantastic! Thanks for the recs.

[stoptocheer.livejournal.com]

!!!! Thank you so much, seriously. :)

[desoto-hia873.livejournal.com]

You are most welcome. Seriously. :-) It's hard to 'break in' to LJ when there are so many established authors already here. I like to spread the love. And the readers!

I always read your stories as soon as I see them - unless they have a particularly naughty rating. 'Cause I do alot of reading at work (bad fangirl!) and don't want to get caught. (Why can't they just pay me to review fanfic??)

[stoptocheer.livejournal.com]

You're right; LJ is a hard forum to get into and it's still less than a year since I first saw a single ep of BtVS, so I'm still a total newbie. :D

And yay! I just posted two fics that aren't too naughty, if you want to see. :D *loves*

Thank you!