themadpoker

Hi flist! I know many of you have watched Buffy and Angel on account of your being amazing people with excellent taste (you are still amazing people with excellent taste even if you haven't). And see there is an Angel fic I want. Alot. It is the pre-series/season 1 Gunn fic. Specifically the Gunn fic that talks about Alonna and his crew and how they all banded together to hunt down vampires and are basically amazing. Because I fell in love with them as a group from the very first episode I saw them (you have no idea how happy I was when I realized Gunn wasn't going to be a one off character). And I know Angel fandom is enormous so there has to be someone out there who has written the epic Gunn and co. fic I so ardently desire. I just don't know where it is. Which is where I am hoping you will come in! Recs please?

P.S. If there's fic about Virginia Bryce I'd like that too. Thank you!

( What the hell Zeineb? Why did it take you over a week to get around to posting this? It's just you babbling about four stories! Babbling's supposed to be your specialty! )

Okay since I’m feeling guilty about not being able to give you a few recs (there was this AWESOME Chicago AU where it didn’t occur to me to save the URL because umm I’m a horrible person D=), you get a bonus fic!

Tanabata Jasmine by Nekotsuki This isn’t Saiyuki fic. This is Rurouni Kenshin. But seeing as it’s what I happen to be reading right now and this is a bonus you’ll have to excuse that.

See the remarkable thing about this fic is you don’t actually realize how absolutely amazing it is at first. The summary says: When Kenshin goes missing on the night of the Tanabata festival, will his friends be able to find him and bring him home? Not utterly horrible or anything but you don’t exactly expect anything revolutionary from that. And it does this to you throughout the fic. You just sort of read and keep reading because you’re really enjoying it and before you know it an hour has passed and your French homework is lying undone in front of you and you have to rush downstairs so your ride to school doesn’t ditch you.

Ahem. Well moving on from that oddly specific example: there are amazing things about this fic you only realize after you stop reading. Like ZOMG! Everybody’s so completely in character! And there is an OC villain who is likable! And it’s the author’s first fanfic in 12 years!

…Maybe we should kill her. People shouldn’t be able to write that well after such a long hiatus.

Point in favour: it’s ridiculously long and finished. I’m not actually done yet but if it keeps the same quality standard throughout as the first four chapters I do believe you’re in for an enjoyable read. :) Happy fic reading!