Bachelor Boy. [Angel/Oz, NC-17] Oz keeps on flipping that coin. Vague spoilers for AtS s5.
Bath and a Story. [Angel/Connor, NC-17] Connor's the past and the present for Angel. Not so much the future.
Set mid-s4 before "Soulless". Zyre and Ros encouraged earlier drafts. Many thanks to Kita and Flowery Twat for helpful and reassuring betas.
Boxing Day. [Angel/Oz, NC-17] The day after Christmas is for visiting friends. For Dolores and Kate.
Call Me Koufax. [Angel/Oz, NC-17] Oz turns up at the pier. Again.
Dear to Us. [Angel/Buffy, R] Friendship's something grown-up and bizarre for these two. Spoilers for AtS s5 and BtVS s7. For Kita, of course.
Delight Becomes Pictorial. [Angelus/William, NC-17] William needs to learn his lesson. Again.
Dionysus Wept. [Angel/Lindsey, NC-17] Lindsey's the only one in the wine cellar who doesn't smell like fear.
Hideous Courtesy. [Angel/Xander, NC-17] You're going to rot in a hole in the ground.
Killing Silence. [Angel/Oz, NC-17] Oz finds beige!Angel. Biting occurs.
Warnings: Pseudo-bestiality, wolfdick, and bloodplay; they're a vampire and a werewolf, don't you know.
Let Me Alone. [Buffy/Angel, PG-13] Angel watches Buffy for the last time; as Job said to God, "thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions: so that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life."
For Coppersinger in Leni_ba's B/A ficathon. The request was: Inclusion of the phrase "You can compromise on a new suit, on the dream house, maybe, but never compromise on the girl," from the TV show Ed, something handmade (other than food) and a "big no to an unhappy ending and any kind of seafood/fish." Well, there's no fish, I can say that. Spoilers for AtS s5; set just after 5.11, "Damage".
Mirror/Shard. [Angel/Spike, NC-17] Scenes play out to their ends. Kita asked for brutal A/S. I complied.
Monsters Ball. [Angel/Oz, Lindsey/Oz, NC-17; RPG, series, &c.] Cowritten AU with Kita: What if Oz went to LA after leaving Sunnydale the second time?
Satyriasis, A Self-Test. [Oz/Angel(us)-Devon-Giles-Michael-Xander-Wesley] Oz is the highest-scoring person ever to fail to graduate.
For the Ozslash ficathon, the challenge was to write Oz/everyone. This is what I managed to come up with.
Small Illuminated Dying Things. [Buffy/Angel/Oz, NC-17] "The sky has shores where life is avoided/and there are bodies that shouldn't repeat themselves in the dawn". Possible-future fic from Monster's Ball.
Take Your Vampire to Work Day. [Angel/Oz, NC-17] Oz wakes up in the new Los Angeles.
Standalone piece from a larger BtVS-AtS-Love & Rockets crossover project, Neon Groves. For Kita.
A Temporary Limited Advantage. [Angel/Oz, NC-17] Angel and Oz, fighting on several fronts. Could be part of Monster's Ball.
This Stranger. [Angel/Xander, R] Xander's got stuff he needs to know. Set about ten minutes after the end of "Prophecy Girl". For the Season One Lyric Wheel challenge; lyrics from Darcy.
Dear to Us. [Angel/Buffy, R] Friendship's something grown-up and bizarre for these two. Spoilers for AtS s5 and BtVS s7. For Kita, of course.
Let Me Alone. [Buffy/Angel, PG-13] Angel watches Buffy for the last time; as Job said to God, "thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions: so that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life."
For Coppersinger in Leni_ba's B/A ficathon. The request was: Inclusion of the phrase "You can compromise on a new suit, on the dream house, maybe, but never compromise on the girl," from the TV show Ed, something handmade (other than food) and a "big no to an unhappy ending and any kind of seafood/fish." Well, there's no fish, I can say that. Spoilers for AtS s5; set just after 5.11, "Damage".
Ordinary Girl. [Buffy/Lilah, NC-17] She knows it was all her fault. Sick little PWP set in LA the summer Buffy ran away and changed her name to Anne.
Small Illuminated Dying Things. [Buffy/Angel/Oz, NC-17] "The sky has shores where life is avoided/and there are bodies that shouldn't repeat themselves in the dawn". Possible-future fic from Monster's Ball.
Spin the Giles. [Giles/{Anya, Buffy, Oz, Willow, Xander}, PG-13] Spin the Bottle with Giles and the Scoobies. Cowritten with megl42.
What Guile is This? A Luddite's Love Story. [Giles/Buffybot, NC-17] Post-"The Gift", Giles grieves in the worst possible manner.
Bath and a Story. [Angel/Connor, NC-17] Connor's the past and the present for Angel. Not so much the future.
No Such Boy. [Connor/Lindsey, NC-17] "Recall the sophism attributed to Chrysippus: 'Whether you lie or whether you speak the truth, in either case you lie'." Spoilers through Angel season 5. For Mosca's Free Verse Challenge.
Long Day's Journey/To Gethsemane. [Connor/Wesley, NC-17] "Go and feel the tempter's power; Your Redeemer's conflict see, watch the anguish of this hour; Do not hide or turn away." Set just after the close of "Long Day's Journey" (AtS 4x09) when Wes declared "We need Angelus". Title, imagery, summary from: James Montgomery, "Journey to Gethsemane" (1820).
These Reasonable Taboos. [Connor/Wesley, NC-17] "It's a summer's day,/And I want to be wanted more than anything else in the world" (Frank O'Hara). Written for ros_fod in the summer session of the Angel Book of Days. She wanted close-to-canon Connor set the summer between S3 and S4.
Box of Pretty. [Cordelia/Lilah, NC-17] "Please, I was you. With better shoes." Kate was jonesing for Cordy/Lilah, fucking, and high heels; this is a shameless and pointless attempt to feed that hunger.
Self-Portrait in a Coma Patient. [Cordelia/Gunn friendship, R] Gunn visits Cordy. In a couple different places. Spoilers for AtS s4. Written for hold_that_thought in the autumn Book of Days challenge, this is also for J.H. Entirely, with love.
Who Loves the Sun. [Cordelia/Oz friendship, PG] Who cares that it makes flowers since you broke my heart? Set just after "Lovers Walk". For swmbo, another story for the Back in the Day ficathon.
One Taste. [Dawn/Tara, Dawn/Kit, PG] At the end of "Potential", Dawn remembers Tara.
The Sunnydale Book of the Dead: Excerpts. [Dawn/Oz, Giles/Oz, NC-17] In the Wishverse, six yogas for grief and vengeance.
The Aesthetic Gentleman. [Devon/Giles/Oz/Xander, NC-17] In the pornverse of Other Fish, Oz insists they all need some pampering. Smut ensues.
For Dolores. As he pointed out, this picture called out for some fanfic.
A New Age. [Devon/Oz, Devon/Lindsey, NC-17] I’ll come running to you, honey, when you want me. Stand-alone part of the Monsters Ball universe; c.s3, Oz is with Angel and Lindsey is officially incommunicado.
Satyriasis, A Self-Test. [Oz/Angel(us)-Devon-Giles-Michael-Xander-Wesley] Oz is the highest-scoring person ever to fail to graduate.
For the Ozslash ficathon, the challenge was to write Oz/everyone. This is what I managed to come up with.
SoCal Regional Mating Rituals. [Devon/Oz/Xander, NC-17] Devon needs Xander's assurance that everything's copacetic between Oz and that Inuit chick. Smut happens.
The Baleful, Ingenious, and Curious Memory-Theater of One Ethan Rayne. [Ethan/Giles, Giles/Oz, R]. "[His madness] will not be seen in him there; there the men are as mad as he."
Idlewild. [Andrew/Ethan, NC-17] Every mouth is a hell. Or a heaven. Slight crossover with X2.
Signs and Tokens. [Giles/Ethan, Giles/Lupin, Giles/Oz, PG] Giles was so much older then; he's younger than that now. For Mer's Back in the Day Challenge. Crossover with Harry Potter.
Sunnydale Perigees. [Ethan/Oz, NC-17] There is nothing to teach Oz and he is impossible to charm. Yet Ethan can't leave well enough alone. Thanks for inspiration to Kita, Meg, Ruby & Sheila. This is for Mer.
The Aesthetic Gentleman. [Devon/Giles/Oz/Xander, NC-17] In the pornverse of Other Fish, Oz insists they all need some pampering. Smut ensues.
For Dolores. As he pointed out, this picture called out for some fanfic.
The Baleful, Ingenious, and Curious Memory-Theater of One Ethan Rayne. [Ethan/Giles, Giles/Oz, R]. "[His madness] will not be seen in him there; there the men are as mad as he."
Book of Daniel. [Giles/Oz, NC-17; novel] Xander called the time between "Prophecy Girl" and "When She Was Bad" the "most boring summer ever"; Jenny accused Giles of keeping his nose buried in a book the whole time. Maybe it wasn't so bad. Includes shorter succeeding pieces.
Coming True. [Giles/Oz, NC-17] "It is not that the beautiful totality of the individual is amputated, repressed, altered by the social order; it is rather that the individual is carefully fabricated in it." Wishverse fic.
Compassing Wonders. [Giles/Oz, NC-17; novel] For the Verona Beach challenge, an AU set in the world of Luhrmann's Romeo+Juliet where guns and gaudiness contend with lust and peace for the upper hand. In progress.
An Everywhere. [Giles/Oz, R] After leaving Giles, Oz catalogues. Part of It's Like Jazz.
Lemon Candy and the Marenschadt Text. [Giles/Willow, PG-13] The Marenschadt contains magic secrets Giles doesn't think Willow's ready for. Thanks to Zyre for talking me through this. For Gwynnega, part of Mer's Back in the Day ficathon.
Monochrome. [Oz, Giles/Oz, Oz/Willow, NC-17] Oz listens to some classic rock.
Part of the Jazzverse. For Kit.
Not Unlike Blushing in a Pleasant Face. [Giles/Oz, R] "Now we may easily conceive, that this tenderness is not any natural endowment, which appears in the carriage of man to man; but it is a saving grace."
kindkit wanted a nonmiserable story from me. flowery_twat wanted pomegranate porn. I read the Song of Songs -- "4:3 Thy lips are like a thread of scarlet, and thy speech is comely: thy temples are like a piece of a pomegranate within thy locks" -- and some whacked-out Puritan commentary on it and this is the result of all three events. Title & summary from the Puritans who'd string me up and flay me alive for this.
Other Fish. [Giles/Oz/Xander, X] Giles comes home early. Smut ensues.
Present Tense. [Giles/Xander, R] Giles nearly forgets to give Xander his graduation present.
Satyriasis, A Self-Test. [Oz/Angel(us)-Devon-Giles-Michael-Xander-Wesley] Oz is the highest-scoring person ever to fail to graduate.
For the Ozslash ficathon, the challenge was to write Oz/everyone. This is what I managed to come up with.
Scenes from the Floating World. [Giles/Oz, R] Courtship takes its own time.
For Kate.
Signs and Tokens. [Giles/Ethan, Giles/Lupin, Giles/Oz, PG] Giles was so much older then; he's younger than that now. For Mer's Back in the Day Challenge. Crossover with Harry Potter.
Spin the Giles. [Giles/{Anya, Buffy, Oz, Willow, Xander}, PG-13] Spin the Bottle with Giles and the Scoobies. Cowritten with megl42.
The Sunnydale Book of the Dead: Excerpts. [Dawn/Oz, Giles/Oz, NC-17] In the Wishverse, six yogas for grief and vengeance.
What Guile is This? A Luddite's Love Story. [Giles/Buffybot, NC-17] Post-"The Gift", Giles grieves in the worst possible manner.
Whimper No More. [Giles/Xander, NC-17] "Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing,/Strong and content, I travel the open road." Sequel to "Present Tense". Title and summary from Whitman's "Song of the Open Road".
A Wolf, Leaping. [Giles/Oz, NC-17] Kate dared me to write "something involving big dogs, Oz with a wolf tattoo, and Giles."
Self-Portrait in a Coma Patient. [Cordelia/Gunn friendship, R] Gunn visits Cordy. In a couple different places. Spoilers for AtS s4. Written for hold_that_thought in the autumn Book of Days challenge, this is also for J.H. Entirely, with love.
Box of Pretty. [Cordelia/Lilah, NC-17] "Please, I was you. With better shoes." Kate was jonesing for Cordy/Lilah, fucking, and high heels; this is a shameless and pointless attempt to feed that hunger.
Nothing for the Tin Man. [Oz/Wes, Lilah/Wes, NC-17] Remember me sometime when I am far away, and I will try and do the same. Set at the close of AtS s3.
Ordinary Girl. [Buffy/Lilah, NC-17] She knows it was all her fault. Sick little PWP set in LA the summer Buffy ran away and changed her name to Anne.
Dionysus Wept. [Angel/Lindsey, NC-17] Lindsey's the only one in the wine cellar who doesn't smell like fear.
Monsters Ball. [Angel/Oz, Lindsey/Oz, NC-17; RPG, series, &c.] Cowritten AU with Kita: What if Oz went to LA after leaving Sunnydale the second time?
A New Age. [Devon/Oz, Devon/Lindsey, NC-17] I’ll come running to you, honey, when you want me. Stand-alone part of the Monsters Ball universe; c.s3, Oz is with Angel and Lindsey is officially incommunicado.
No Such Boy. [Connor/Lindsey, NC-17] "Recall the sophism attributed to Chrysippus: 'Whether you lie or whether you speak the truth, in either case you lie'." Spoilers through Angel season 5. For Mosca's Free Verse Challenge.
The Aesthetic Gentleman. [Devon/Giles/Oz/Xander, NC-17] In the pornverse of Other Fish, Oz insists they all need some pampering. Smut ensues.
For Dolores. As he pointed out, this picture called out for some fanfic.
Bachelor Boy. [Angel/Oz, NC-17] Oz keeps on flipping that coin. Vague spoilers for AtS s5.
The Baleful, Ingenious, and Curious Memory-Theater of One Ethan Rayne. [Ethan/Giles, Giles/Oz, R]. "[His madness] will not be seen in him there; there the men are as mad as he."
Beware of Owner. [Larry/Oz; Larry/Spike, R] He's just a dumb jock, so all he knows is that time's running out and he's fumbling the ball. Inspired by the revelatory "What the Living Do" by Kyra Cullinan, and like that story, set in the Wishverse. Thanks to Meg, Minervacat & Te for shredding it with kindness.
Book of Daniel. [Giles/Oz, NC-17; novel] Xander called the time between "Prophecy Girl" and "When She Was Bad" the "most boring summer ever"; Jenny accused Giles of keeping his nose buried in a book the whole time. Maybe it wasn't so bad. Includes shorter succeeding pieces.
Boxing Day. [Angel/Oz, NC-17] The day after Christmas is for visiting friends. For Dolores and Kate.
Bring Your Own Lampshade. [Oz/Xander, NC-17] If being afraid is a crime, they hang side by side. Spoilers through "Chosen". Rubywisp wanted Oz/Xander but couldn't make her mind up between high school and present-day; she's getting both and a little more. Title and summary from The Replacements' "Swinging Party".
Call Me Koufax. [Angel/Oz, NC-17] Oz turns up at the pier. Again.
Coming Back. [Jonathan/Oz, PG-13] Oz comes back for his best friend.
For Zyre. For many, many reasons.
Coming True. [Giles/Oz, NC-17] "It is not that the beautiful totality of the individual is amputated, repressed, altered by the social order; it is rather that the individual is carefully fabricated in it." Wishverse fic.
Compassing Wonders. [Giles/Oz, NC-17; novel] For the Verona Beach challenge, an AU set in the world of Luhrmann's Romeo+Juliet where guns and gaudiness contend with lust and peace for the upper hand. In progress.
Could Be. [Oz/Xander, up to NC-17] A collection of moments from a longer, ever-unfinished project.
Diamond Dogs. [Oz/Spike, NC-17] You'll catch your death in the fog. Set between AtS 5.08, "Destiny", and 5.10, "Soul Purpose". For Mer on her birthday.
An Everywhere. [Giles/Oz, R] After leaving Giles, Oz catalogues. Part of It's Like Jazz.
Family Romance. [Oz/Tara/Willow, NC-17] Ghosts can be realer than people.
Sequel to Green-Eyed Monsters, so, like that story, set in the Birthdayverse. For Doyle in the Polyficathon.
Green-Eyed Monsters. [Doyle/Oz, NC-17] In the early Birthdayverse, Oz and Doyle hit the town.
Killing Silence. [Angel/Oz, NC-17] Oz finds beige!Angel. Biting occurs.
Warnings: Pseudo-bestiality, wolfdick, and bloodplay; they're a vampire and a werewolf, don't you know.
Mono/Chrome. [Oz, Giles/Oz, Oz/Willow, NC-17] Oz listens to some classic rock.
Part of the Jazzverse. For Kit.
Monsters Ball. [Angel/Oz, Lindsey/Oz, NC-17; RPG, series, &c.] Cowritten AU with Kita: What if Oz went to LA after leaving Sunnydale the second time?
A New Age. [Devon/Oz, Devon/Lindsey, NC-17] I’ll come running to you, honey, when you want me. Stand-alone part of the Monsters Ball universe; c.s3, Oz is with Angel and Lindsey is officially incommunicado.
Nothing for the Tin Man. [Oz/Wes, Lilah/Wes, NC-17] Remember me sometime when I am far away, and I will try and do the same. Set at the close of AtS s3.
Not Unlike Blushing in a Pleasant Face. [Giles/Oz, R] "Now we may easily conceive, that this tenderness is not any natural endowment, which appears in the carriage of man to man; but it is a saving grace."
kindkit wanted a nonmiserable story from me. flowery_twat wanted pomegranate porn. I read the Song of Songs -- "4:3 Thy lips are like a thread of scarlet, and thy speech is comely: thy temples are like a piece of a pomegranate within thy locks" -- and some whacked-out Puritan commentary on it and this is the result of all three events. Title & summary from the Puritans who'd string me up and flay me alive for this.
Other Fish. [Giles/Oz/Xander, X] Giles comes home early. Smut ensues.
Pretty Rad. [Oz/Xander, X] Maybe it was a clothes fluke. Again.
Set in s3, after "Lover's Walk", probably before "Amends". For the magnificent Kate Bolin's august 33 birthday. May the Oz in your head always be prettier than pretty.
Satyriasis, A Self-Test. [Oz/Angel(us)-Devon-Giles-Michael-Xander-Wesley] Oz is the highest-scoring person ever to fail to graduate.
For the Ozslash ficathon, the challenge was to write Oz/everyone. This is what I managed to come up with.
Scenes from the Floating World. [Giles/Oz, R] Courtship takes its own time.
For Kate.
Signs and Tokens. [Giles/Ethan, Giles/Lupin, Giles/Oz, PG] Giles was so much older then; he's younger than that now. For Mer's Back in the Day Challenge. Crossover with Harry Potter.
Simpatia é Quase Amor. [Oz/Riley, NC-17] "The identity of a place does not derive from some internalized history. It derives, in large part, precisely from the specificity of its interactions with 'the outside'." Written for Zyre in the summer '03 slashficathon. Meg assisted with the countless birthing pains.
Six Paramitas for the Wolfman. [Oz, R] Oz and the six precepts for Buddhist aspirants.
Reinterpretation of Nestra's Seven Virtues Challenge ["write seven 100-word drabbles, one based on each of the Seven Holy Virtues of Christian theology"] using a system better suited to Oz. All expository quotations save the last are from Way to Go by Khentin Tai Situ Pa; the last is from the Buddha's Prajna Sutra.
Small Illuminated Dying Things. [Buffy/Angel/Oz, NC-17] "The sky has shores where life is avoided/and there are bodies that shouldn't repeat themselves in the dawn". Possible-future fic from Monster's Ball.
Spin the Giles. [Giles/{Anya, Buffy, Oz, Willow, Xander}, PG-13] Spin the Bottle with Giles and the Scoobies. Cowritten with megl42.
SoCal Regional Mating Rituals. [Devon/Oz/Xander, NC-17] Devon needs Xander's assurance that everything's copacetic between Oz and that Inuit chick. Smut happens.
The Sunnydale Book of the Dead: Excerpts. [Dawn/Oz, Giles/Oz, NC-17] In the Wishverse, six yogas for grief and vengeance.
Sunnydale Perigees. [Ethan/Oz, NC-17] There is nothing to teach Oz and he is impossible to charm. Yet Ethan can't leave well enough alone.
Thanks for inspiration to Kita, Meg, Ruby & Sheila. This is for Mer.
Take Your Vampire to Work Day. [Angel/Oz, NC-17] Oz wakes up in the new Los Angeles.
Standalone piece from a larger BtVS-AtS-Love & Rockets crossover project, Neon Groves. For Kita.
A Temporary Limited Advantage. [Angel/Oz, NC-17] Angel and Oz, fighting on several fronts. Could be part of Monster's Ball.
Who Loves the Sun. [Cordelia/Oz friendship, PG] Who cares that it makes flowers since you broke my heart? Set just after "Lovers Walk". For swmbo, another story for the Back in the Day ficathon.
A Wolf, Leaping. [Giles/Oz, NC-17] Kate dared me to write "something involving big dogs, Oz with a wolf tattoo, and Giles."
Basement, Displacement. [Spike/Xander, NC-17] "A lot of Daddy anger has more to do with unrealized dreams than with messy rooms." Pure and utter porn.
A Better You. [Spike, William, R] So I had a dream about fan fiction and characterization. S/X, to be precise, even though Xander wasn't exactly present in the dream. It led to a very odd parable. Spoilers for "Chosen".
Beware of Owner. [Larry/Oz; Larry/Spike, R] He's just a dumb jock, so all he knows is that time's running out and he's fumbling the ball. Inspired by the revelatory "What the Living Do" by Kyra Cullinan, and like that story, set in the Wishverse. Thanks to Meg, Minervacat & Te for shredding it with kindness.
Delight Becomes Pictorial. [Angelus/William, NC-17] William needs to learn his lesson. Again. Title from Dickinson's #45: 'Delight becomes pictorial/When viewed through pain'. Kita requested A/S and bondage. I live to serve.
Diamond Dogs. [Oz/Spike, NC-17] You'll catch your death in the fog. Set between AtS 5.08, "Destiny", and 5.10, "Soul Purpose". For Mer on her birthday.
In the Midst of It All. [Spike/Xander, NC-17; series] Just what is going on down in the basement? Late S7 Buffy spoilers.
Me More Than You. [Spike/Wes, NC-17] Spike's hurt, Wes comforts. Or is it the other way around? Post-s5/s3.
Mirror/Shard. [Angel/Spike, NC-17] Scenes play out to their ends. Kita asked for brutal A/S. I complied.
Ophthalmology. [Spike/Wes, NC-17] The aftermaths of "Chosen" and "Home": One way they could have played out. For the 'Behind Blue Eyes' challenge.
Other Victorians. [Spike/Wes, NC-17] Spike & Wes meet up at a porn store, mid s5/s3.
Ten First Kisses That May Never Have Happened. [Spike/Xander, NC-17] Metaslash.
Family Romance. [Oz/Tara/Willow, NC-17] Ghosts can be realer than people.
Sequel to Green-Eyed Monsters, so, like that story, set in the Birthdayverse. For Doyle in the Polyficathon.
One Taste. [Dawn/Tara, Dawn/Kit, PG] At the end of "Potential", Dawn remembers Tara.
Peripeteia. [Tara/Veruca, NC-17] It's a disconfirmation followed by a consonance. For Bunny.
Houdini. [Virginia/Wes, PG] Virginia knows when to escape. For Sheila.
Houdini. [Virginia/Wes, PG] Virginia knows when to escape. For Sheila.
Long Day's Journey/To Gethsemane. [Connor/Wesley, NC-17] "Go and feel the tempter's power; Your Redeemer's conflict see, watch the anguish of this hour; Do not hide or turn away." Set just after the close of "Long Day's Journey" (AtS 4x09) when Wes declared "We need Angelus". Title, imagery, summary from: James Montgomery, "Journey to Gethsemane" (1820).
Me More Than You. [Spike/Wes, NC-17] Spike's hurt, Wes comforts. Or is it the other way around? Post-s5/s3.
Nothing for the Tin Man. [Oz/Wes, Lilah/Wes, NC-17] Remember me sometime when I am far away, and I will try and do the same. Set at the close of AtS s3.
Ophthalmology. [Spike/Wes, NC-17] The aftermaths of "Chosen" and "Home": One way they could have played out. For the 'Behind Blue Eyes' challenge.
Other Victorians. [Spike/Wes, NC-17] Spike & Wes meet up at a porn store, mid s5/s3.
Satyriasis, A Self-Test. [Oz/Angel(us)-Devon-Giles-Michael-Xander-Wesley] Oz is the highest-scoring person ever to fail to graduate.
For the Ozslash ficathon, the challenge was to write Oz/everyone. This is what I managed to come up with.
These Reasonable Taboos. [Connor/Wesley, NC-17] "It's a summer's day,/And I want to be wanted more than anything else in the world" (Frank O'Hara). Written for ros_fod in the summer session of the Angel Book of Days. She wanted close-to-canon Connor set the summer between S3 and S4.
Family Romance. [Oz/Tara/Willow, NC-17] Ghosts can be realer than people.
Sequel to Green-Eyed Monsters, so, like that story, set in the Birthdayverse. For Doyle in the Polyficathon.
Lemon Candy and the Marenschadt Text. [Giles/Willow, PG-13] The Marenschadt contains magic secrets Giles doesn't think Willow's ready for. Thanks to Zyre for talking me through this. For Gwynnega, part of Mer's Back in the Day ficathon.
Mono/Chrome. [Oz, Giles/Oz, Oz/Willow, NC-17] Oz listens to some classic rock.
Part of the Jazzverse. For Kit.
Spin the Giles. [Giles/{Anya, Buffy, Oz, Willow, Xander}, PG-13] Spin the Bottle with Giles and the Scoobies. Cowritten with megl42.
The Aesthetic Gentleman. [Devon/Giles/Oz/Xander, NC-17] In the pornverse of Other Fish, Oz insists they all need some pampering. Smut ensues.
For Dolores. As he pointed out, this picture called out for some fanfic.
Basement, Displacement. [Spike/Xander, NC-17] "A lot of Daddy anger has more to do with unrealized dreams than with messy rooms." Pure and utter porn.
Bring Your Own Lampshade. [Oz/Xander, NC-17] If being afraid is a crime, they hang side by side. Spoilers through "Chosen". Rubywisp wanted Oz/Xander but couldn't make her mind up between high school and present-day; she's getting both and a little more. Title and summary from The Replacements' "Swinging Party".
Could Be. [Oz/Xander, up to NC-17] A collection of moments from a longer, ever-unfinished project.
Hideous Courtesy. [Angel/Xander, NC-17] You're going to rot in a hole in the ground.
In the Midst of It All. [Spike/Xander, NC-17; series] Just what is going on down in the basement? Late S7 Buffy spoilers.
Other Fish. [Giles/Oz/Xander, X] Giles comes home early. Smut ensues.
Present Tense. [Giles/Xander, R] Giles nearly forgets to give Xander his graduation present.
Pretty Rad. [Oz/Xander, X] Maybe it was a clothes fluke. Again.
Set in s3, after "Lover's Walk", probably before "Amends". For the magnificent Kate Bolin's august 33 birthday. May the Oz in your head always be prettier than pretty.
Satyriasis, A Self-Test. [Oz/Angel(us)-Devon-Giles-Michael-Xander-Wesley] Oz is the highest-scoring person ever to fail to graduate.
For the Ozslash ficathon, the challenge was to write Oz/everyone. This is what I managed to come up with.
SoCal Regional Mating Rituals. [Devon/Oz/Xander, NC-17] Devon needs Xander's assurance that everything's copacetic between Oz and that Inuit chick. Smut happens.
Spin the Giles. [Giles/{Anya, Buffy, Oz, Willow, Xander}, PG-13] Spin the Bottle with Giles and the Scoobies. Cowritten with megl42.
Ten First Kisses That May Never Have Happened. [Spike/Xander, NC-17] Metaslash.
This Stranger. [Angel/Xander, R] Xander's got stuff he needs to know. Set about ten minutes after the end of "Prophecy Girl". For the Season One Lyric Wheel challenge; lyrics from Darcy.
Whimper No More. [Giles/Xander, NC-17] "Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing,/Strong and content, I travel the open road." Sequel to "Present Tense". Title and summary from Whitman's "Song of the Open Road".
The Aesthetic Gentleman. [Devon/Giles/Oz/Xander, NC-17] In the pornverse of Other Fish, Oz insists they all need some pampering. Smut ensues.
For Dolores. As he pointed out, this picture called out for some fanfic.
Bachelor Boy. [Angel/Oz, NC-17] Oz keeps on flipping that coin. Vague spoilers for AtS s5.
The Baleful, Ingenious, and Curious Memory-Theater of One Ethan Rayne. [Ethan/Giles, Giles/Oz, R]. "[His madness] will not be seen in him there; there the men are as mad as he."
Basement, Displacement. [Spike/Xander, NC-17] "A lot of Daddy anger has more to do with unrealized dreams than with messy rooms." Pure and utter porn.
Bath and a Story. [Angel/Connor, NC-17] Connor's the past and the present for Angel. Not so much the future.
A Better You. [Spike, William, R] So I had a dream about fan fiction and characterization. S/X, to be precise, even though Xander wasn't exactly present in the dream. It led to a very odd parable. Spoilers for "Chosen".
Beware of Owner. [Larry/Oz; Larry/Spike, R] He's just a dumb jock, so all he knows is that time's running out and he's fumbling the ball. Inspired by the revelatory "What the Living Do" by Kyra Cullinan, and like that story, set in the Wishverse.
Book of Daniel. [Giles/Oz, NC-17; novel] Xander called the time between "Prophecy Girl" and "When She Was Bad" the "most boring summer ever"; Jenny accused Giles of keeping his nose buried in a book the whole time. Maybe it wasn't so bad. Includes shorter succeeding pieces.
Box of Pretty. [Cordelia/Lilah, NC-17] "Please, I was you. With better shoes." Kate was jonesing for Cordy/Lilah, fucking, and high heels; this is a shameless and pointless attempt to feed that hunger.
Boxing Day. [Angel/Oz, NC-17] The day after Christmas is for visiting friends. For Dolores and Kate.
Bring Your Own Lampshade. [Oz/Xander, NC-17] If being afraid is a crime, they hang side by side. Spoilers through "Chosen".
Call Me Koufax. [Angel/Oz, NC-17] Oz turns up at the pier. Again.
Coming Back. [Jonathan/Oz, PG-13] Oz comes back for his best friend. For Zyre. For many, many reasons.
Coming True. [Giles/Oz, NC-17] "It is not that the beautiful totality of the individual is amputated, repressed, altered by the social order; it is rather that the individual is carefully fabricated in it." Wishverse fic.
Compassing Wonders. [Giles/Oz, NC-17; novel] For the Verona Beach challenge, an AU set in the world of Luhrmann's Romeo+Juliet where guns and gaudiness contend with lust and peace for the upper hand. In progress.
Could Be. [Oz/Xander, up to NC-17] A collection of moments from a longer, ever-unfinished project.
Dear to Us. [Angel/Buffy, R] Friendship's something grown-up and bizarre for these two. Spoilers for AtS s5 and BtVS s7. For Kita, of course.
Delight Becomes Pictorial. [Angelus/William, NC-17] William needs to learn his lesson. Again. Title from Dickinson's #45: 'Delight becomes pictorial/When viewed through pain'. Kita requested A/S and bondage. I live to serve.
Diamond Dogs. [Oz/Spike, NC-17] You'll catch your death in the fog. Set between AtS 5.08, "Destiny", and 5.10, "Soul Purpose". For Mer on her birthday.
Dionysus Wept. [Angel/Lindsey, NC-17] Lindsey's the only one in the wine cellar who doesn't smell like fear.
An Everywhere. [Giles/Oz, R] After leaving Giles, Oz catalogues. Part of It's Like Jazz.
Family Romance. [Oz/Tara/Willow, NC-17] Ghosts can be realer than people.
Sequel to Green-Eyed Monsters, so, like that story, set in the Birthdayverse. For Doyle in the Polyficathon.
Green-Eyed Monsters. [Doyle/Oz, NC-17] In the early Birthdayverse, Oz and Doyle hit the town.
Hideous Courtesy. [Angel/Xander, NC-17] You're going to rot in a hole in the ground.
Houdini. [Virginia/Wes, PG] Virginia knows when to escape. For Sheila.
Idlewild. [Andrew/Ethan, NC-17] Every mouth is a hell. Or a heaven. Slight crossover with X2.
In the Midst of It All. [Spike/Xander, NC-17; series] Just what is going on down in the basement? Late S7 Buffy spoilers.
Killing Silence. [Angel/Oz, NC-17] Oz finds beige!Angel. Biting occurs.
Warnings: Pseudo-bestiality, wolfdick, and bloodplay; they're a vampire and a werewolf, don't you know.
Lemon Candy and the Marenschadt Text. [Giles/Willow, PG-13] The Marenschadt contains magic secrets Giles doesn't think Willow's ready for.
Let Me Alone. [Buffy/Angel, PG-13] Angel watches Buffy for the last time; as Job said to God, "thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions: so that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life."
For Coppersinger in Leni_ba's B/A ficathon. The request was: Inclusion of the phrase "You can compromise on a new suit, on the dream house, maybe, but never compromise on the girl," from the TV show Ed, something handmade (other than food) and a "big no to an unhappy ending and any kind of seafood/fish." Well, there's no fish, I can say that. Spoilers for AtS s5; set just after 5.11, "Damage".
Long Day's Journey/To Gethsemane. [Connor/Wesley, NC-17] "Go and feel the tempter's power; Your Redeemer's conflict see, watch the anguish of this hour; Do not hide or turn away." Set just after the close of "Long Day's Journey" (AtS 4x09) when Wes declared "We need Angelus".
Me More Than You. [Spike/Wes, NC-17] Spike's hurt, Wes comforts. Or is it the other way around? Post-s5/s3.
Mirror/Shard. [Angel/Spike, NC-17] Scenes play out to their ends. Kita asked for brutal A/S. I complied.
Mono/Chrome. [Oz, Giles/Oz, Oz/Willow, NC-17] Oz listens to some classic rock.
Part of the Jazzverse. For Kit.
Monsters Ball. [Angel/Oz, Lindsey/Oz, NC-17; RPG, series, &c.] Cowritten AU with Kita: What if Oz went to LA after leaving Sunnydale the second time?
A New Age. [Devon/Oz, Devon/Lindsey, NC-17] I’ll come running to you, honey, when you want me. Stand-alone part of the Monsters Ball universe; c.s3, Oz is with Angel and Lindsey is officially incommunicado.
No Such Boy. [Connor/Lindsey, NC-17] "Recall the sophism attributed to Chrysippus: 'Whether you lie or whether you speak the truth, in either case you lie'." Spoilers through Angel season 5. For Mosca's Free Verse Challenge. Thanks to Lar and Kita for reassuring readthroughs.
Nothing for the Tin Man. [Oz/Wes, Lilah/Wes, NC-17] Remember me sometime when I am far away, and I will try and do the same. Set at the close of AtS s3.
Not Unlike Blushing in a Pleasant Face. [Giles/Oz, R] "Now we may easily conceive, that this tenderness is not any natural endowment, which appears in the carriage of man to man; but it is a saving grace." Kindkit wanted a nonmiserable story from me. flowery_twat wanted pomegranate porn. I read the Song of Songs -- "4:3 Thy lips are like a thread of scarlet, and thy speech is comely: thy temples are like a piece of a pomegranate within thy locks" -- and some whacked-out Puritan commentary on it and this is the result of all three events. Title & summary from the Puritans who'd string me up and flay me alive for this.
One Taste. [Dawn/Tara, Dawn/Kit, PG] At the end of "Potential", Dawn remembers Tara.
Ophthalmology. [Spike/Wes, NC-17] The aftermaths of "Chosen" and "Home": One way they could have played out. For the 'Behind Blue Eyes' challenge.
Ordinary Girl. [Buffy/Lilah, NC-17] She knows it was all her fault. Sick little PWP set in LA the summer Buffy ran away and changed her name to Anne.
Other Fish. [Giles/Oz/Xander, X] Giles comes home early. Smut ensues.
Other Victorians. [Spike/Wes, NC-17] Spike & Wes meet up at a porn store, mid s5/s3.
Peripeteia. [Tara/Veruca, NC-17] It's a disconfirmation followed by a consonance. For Bunny.
Present Tense. [Giles/Xander, R] Giles nearly forgets to give Xander his graduation present.
Pretty Rad. [Oz/Xander, X] Maybe it was a clothes fluke. Again.
Set in s3, after "Lover's Walk", probably before "Amends". For the magnificent Kate Bolin's august 33 birthday. May the Oz in your head always be prettier than pretty.
Satyriasis, A Self-Test. [Oz/Angel(us)-Devon-Giles-Michael-Xander-Wesley] Oz is the highest-scoring person ever to fail to graduate.
For the Ozslash ficathon, the challenge was to write Oz/everyone. This is what I managed to come up with.
Scenes from the Floating World. [Giles/Oz, R] Courtship takes its own time.
For Kate.
Self-Portrait in a Coma Patient. [Cordelia/Gunn friendship, R] Gunn visits Cordy. In a couple different places. Spoilers for AtS s4. Written for hold_that_thought in the autumn Book of Days challenge, this is also for J.H. Entirely, with love.
Signs and Tokens. [Giles/Ethan, Giles/Lupin, Giles/Oz, PG] Giles was so much older then; he's younger than that now. For Mer's Back in the Day Challenge. Crossover with Harry Potter.
Simpatia é Quase Amor. [Oz/Riley, NC-17] "The identity of a place does not derive from some internalized history. It derives, in large part, precisely from the specificity of its interactions with 'the outside'." Written for Zyre in the summer '03 slashficathon.
Six Paramitas for the Wolfman. [Oz, R] Oz and the six precepts for Buddhist aspirants. Reinterpretation of Nestra's Seven Virtues Challenge ["write seven 100-word drabbles, one based on each of the Seven Holy Virtues of Christian theology"] using a system better suited to Oz.
Small Illuminated Dying Things. [Buffy/Angel/Oz, NC-17] "The sky has shores where life is avoided/and there are bodies that shouldn't repeat themselves in the dawn". Possible-future fic from Monster's Ball.
SoCal Regional Mating Rituals. [Devon/Oz/Xander, NC-17] Devon needs Xander's assurance that everything's copacetic between Oz and that Inuit chick. Smut happens.
Spin the Giles. [Giles/{Anya, Buffy, Oz, Willow, Xander}, PG-13] Spin the Bottle with Giles and the Scoobies. Cowritten with megl42.
The Sunnydale Book of the Dead: Excerpts. [Dawn/Oz, Giles/Oz, NC-17] In the Wishverse, six yogas for grief and vengeance.
Sunnydale Perigees. [Ethan/Oz, NC-17] There is nothing to teach Oz and he is impossible to charm. Yet Ethan can't leave well enough alone. This is for Mer.
Take Your Vampire to Work Day. [Angel/Oz, NC-17] Oz wakes up in the new Los Angeles.
Standalone piece from a larger BtVS-AtS-Love & Rockets crossover project, Neon Groves. For Kita.
A Temporary Limited Advantage. [Angel/Oz, NC-17] Angel and Oz, fighting on several fronts. Could be part of Monster's Ball.
Ten First Kisses That May Never Have Happened. [Spike/Xander, NC-17] Metaslash.
These Reasonable Taboos. [Connor/Wesley, NC-17] "It's a summer's day,/And I want to be wanted more than anything else in the world" (Frank O'Hara). Written for ros_fod in the summer session of the Angel Book of Days. She wanted close-to-canon Connor set the summer between S3 and S4.
This Stranger. [Angel/Xander, R] Xander's got stuff he needs to know. Set about ten minutes after the end of "Prophecy Girl". For the Season One Lyric Wheel challenge; lyrics from Darcy.
What Guile is This? A Luddite's Love Story. [Giles/Buffybot, NC-17] Post-"The Gift", Giles grieves in the worst possible manner.
Whimper No More. [Giles/Xander, NC-17] "Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing,/Strong and content, I travel the open road." Sequel to "Present Tense". Title and summary from Whitman's "Song of the Open Road".
Who Loves the Sun. [Cordelia/Oz friendship, PG] Who cares that it makes flowers since you broke my heart? Set just after "Lovers Walk". For swmbo, another story for the Back in the Day ficathon.
A Wolf, Leaping. [Giles/Oz, NC-17] Kate dared me to write "something involving big dogs, Oz with a wolf tattoo, and Giles."
Shorter Pieces. Various characters, mostly BtVS/AtS with some HP. Drabbles and less-than-stories.
