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Introduction

Slash, het, gen, the works. Um. I was devoted to Buffy for a while. Now I'm not. But I still read fic sometimes, and I'm mildly obsessed with the Other Realms and history lesson archives. I finally got hooked on Angel, but not enough to go buy it after I finished a former housemates seasons 1-3.

Darla/Drusilla

Lady Sings, by Te and Jane St Clair, is Darla and Dru on the road, bittersweet delirious and lyrical and full of mood. Darla remembers marks like that, though, henna and ochre just barely visible on dark, dark skin. Crackling female in the darkness, somewhere in the Franco-Spanish world at the low end of the Mississippi. Before Angelus.

Giles/Anya

All Your Tomorrows, by Jennifer-Oksana, is Giles/Anya in a convincing way. Anya is a character I have trouble ever seeing in a fully functional relationship, given who and what she is, and this fic acknowledges the difficulties of a relationship between Giles and Anya. Ia'nka's been dead eleven hundred years. Let her sleep.

So Many Things To Tell, by Ozfan, made me see the wonder that is good Giles/Anya (which is odd, since the author doesn't seem all that convinced of the pairing). I'm quite partial to them both individually, especially Anya, and there's something very right about them together here. I especially like the characterization of Anya, doubts and all, and her problems fitting in. After another long silence Anya becomes impatient. "This is tense, isn't it?" she finally says. She looks around. "What were all the other post-near-apocalypse gatherings like?"

Buffy/Spike

Before Buffy/Spike ever appeared on the show, I actually liked the pairing. Now, the only way I can see it is ending bitterly, and I like Sophia Jirafe's No Need for Lucifer to Fall a good deal more than how it was done on the show. Dark, cruel, and painful. She is a candle flame, a fighting butterfly meant to tear itself wing from thin steel wing in its battle for life.

Gen

Mary Borsellino has a knack for bright, clear images within an economy of words. Tawny is rather experimental in style, but here the delirium of run-together sentences works well, and it's hard for me to imagine it working as well otherwise. Tara was one of my favorite characters on the show, and I quite like Dawn. I sang in the choir at school oh holy holy there was a girl named Janet her hair was the colour of the sky at sunrise all pinky from the rosewater dyes the drugstore sold. (gen, I think)