Buffy... What are the good fics?

[David Lewis]

Here we go for the fourth time. This time i'm on a Buffy kick, and I've been having rather poor luck at finding anything engrossing to read, and given
the success of my previous Sailor Moon, Dragonball and Tenchi Muyo fic searchs, and given the the huge variety of experience and depth of knowledge of the
subject of fanfiction here (and buffy mentions aplenty), I was hoping for some more suggestions? What in your opinion are the best Buffyverse stories out
there?

[jpub]

There's too damn many to even begin to mention. Give us an area you like to read to start.

[David Lewis]

I dunno... early seasons stuff? And maybe some Xander cetric ones? And any examples anyone's found of a GOOD self insert?

[M Fnord]

Hm... for Xander-centric fic, are you looking for plain or Super!Xander? I ask only because there's an infinite amount of Super!Xander fic out there, so
it's easier to find & classify than more canonical Xanderfic.
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[David Lewis]

Either I suppose, although I lean towards cannonical.

[jpub]

A good starting point is TTH. tthfanfic.org.

Also, do a websearch on the Xanderzone, wherever it is now.

[Foxboy]

"Here's Your Accordion" by Drakensis is a decent Type 2 SI.

I am a little disappointed it hasn't updated in forever though. {Like I'm one to talk in re: IWATDP]
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''

-- James Nicoll

[Evil Midnight Lurker]

Self-insert fic is almost unknown in Buffyfandom. Xander's Everyman qualities usually lead to SuperXander fics in their place...

--Sam

"This is graveness."

[bmull]

You could classify this as a second hand SI/crossover: Martian Manhunter. Veronica Mars gets put/merged into BtVS.

Edit: Fixed link.

[Bob Schroeck]

http://m-mcgregor.livejournal.com/]M. McGregor's fics, while unabashedly embracing Uber!Xander, are all very readable and well written. (And some, I must add, are unashamedly lemon.) In particuler, his http://www.livejournal.com/tools/memori ... filter=all]I Am What I Am is an amazing piece, more so because he offers a thoroughly annotated version that covers a lot of his thoughts, intentions and sources while writing.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

[Sweno]

I'll second McGregor as top quality author.
Lizbeth Marcs also makes my shortlist. Particularly for the Wisperverse series. (complete), Living History [url=http://www.fanfiction.net/s/1460890/1/]parts 1-38 (complete), and [url=http://www.livejournal.com/tools/memori ... BtVS%3Burl] (in progress)
A full list of her works can be found [url=http://liz-marcs.livejournal.com/239724.html]here. I'm also a fan of and [url=http://www.livejournal.com/tools/memori ... BtVS%3Burl]

[url=http://nwhepcat.livejournal.com/]Nwhepcat also great. I'm a fan of the snapshots series (Xander centric post season 7) The main components are Dormant Magics, Double Vision, This Little Light, and Xander's Slayers

And if you want your BTVS with a twist of DC comics try Lisa Roquin's Zeppo In Gotham
-Terry
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[Norgarth]

Hotpoint's Compelled series is pretty good.

http://www.tthfanfic.org/Series-461

This one is a Harmony center fic that starts as YAHF.

http://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-14415-7/ ... oddess.htm
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[CattyNebulart]

I second the compelled series.

Also there is this little gem : http://www.echonyc.com/%7Estax/Buffy/nw ... ittle.html

That granted in only tangentially a Buffy fanfic. (It's about a slayer called very far away.)
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