Mmmmm, AU Spuffy fic

I'm bored. Last night I went out with some friends and had a great time and discovered a beer I actually like. That has nothing to do with the boredom, mind, just one of those things I felt like mentioning. We went to a German place on 7th Street and Avenue C and had yummy food a beer. Good times. I then cam home and had my second sex dream in 12 hours, which I'm thinking is saying something. At least the second one didn't wake me with the intense desire to buy Nipple Clamps. My subconscious is a strange, strange place.

Anyway, I slept until nine which was choice and then woke up to find my roommate and her boyfriend gone which was a treat. I like my roommate, but I like being home alone, too.

So I got groceries and coffee and changed my sheets and spackled a bit (and, really, who doesn't love a good spackling from time to time?) and watched the ATAS (ATAS?) interview with JM, NB, MT, AH, JW, MN, and Ray and Kerry whose last names currently escape me while I cleaned out my bag and took off my nail polish.

But now I'm bored. Don't get me wrong, there is much I could do. Like homework that has been sadly neglected or making food for the week or er, I'm sure there's something else I could do. But I'm not. I am, instead, going to rec my favorite AU Spuffy recs. Damn it. Because I want to. And, to spare my friends list, even a little bit, I am going to use cut tags -- sort of. It's a thing. And I am blatantly ripping off thefourthvine's format. Just so we're clear.

And, so you know, these are fics that I read and reread because they are so, so engrossing and I love them and saved them in Word so that if I was somewhere without internet access (I think those places still exist) I can still read them. I love these Spuffy AU’s and what to have their little alternative universal babies.

So, here you go (in alphabetical order)(and these are all pretty much smut-tastic except for some which really aren’t)(and I don’t really discuss that much about the characterizations and stuff because everyone interprets them differently)(and most of these can be found at the Spuffy Archives, but I am mostly linking to the authors site, if they have them, because it’s nice to get hits):

( Best high school fic wherein Spike and Buffy are completely different and hate each other with a fiery passion but band together to try to win Angel and Dru back and end up falling for each other much like you know they would and Angel is a bastard )

( Best fic where Spike is a young curmudgeon and Buffy is a young, divorced single mother and Spike is very secure in his hatred of women in a slightly misogynistic way but really he’s been hurt and is afraid to put himself out there and Giles is his mid life crisis dad and Spike bonds with Buffy’s son, Liam and Angel is a git and sappy (snerk) )

( Best fic in which Buffy and Spike used to be friends but Spike got popular and Buffy didn’t and Spike is actively mean to Buffy and then one day she saves his life and they tentatively become friends and then Spike falls in love with Buffy but is wracked with guilt by the way he’s treated her and Riley is a bastard )

( Best fic where Buffy’s dysfunctional parents die in a car crash so she moves to Sunnydale to live with her Uncle Giles who lives next door to Jenny Calendar and her nephew William and part of Buffy’s inheritance dictates she has to travel abroad for a year which ends up being three years and when she gets back to the states William is now Spike and a hottie and Buffy was always in love with Angel and he seems to finally be reciprocating the love but maybe not and she is strangely and (not so) unexpectedly drawn to Spike and Angel is a bastard )

( Best fic in which high schooler Buffy has very inappropriate relations with her teacher, Spike, and when they are threatened to become exposed he fells in order to save her reputation, but then they meet up again a few years later when he happens to be her college professor and she happens to be engaged to Riley and Spike has *issues*/Clem voice and uses erotic poetry in class in order to seduce a student and I wonder who that could be? I don’t think Angel is in this and Riley is, mostly, clueless and Tara has ulterior motives )

( Best fic in which Buffy is a lawyer and her ex, Spike, is accused of a crime he didn’t commit and Angel is played by a cat )

( Best fic where Buffy flees California to New York to escape her life and overbearing father and Spike is nicely aggressive but also vulnerable and I learned that if you can Scotch Guard a cardboard box and have a nice weather-proof home in Central Park which, being in New York, is a useful bit of knowledge and Angel is a bastard though off screen, so to speak )

( Best use of lulling )

( Best historical fic where Buffy flees her house after she is forced into an engagement with evil, misogynistic Caleb and ends up with William the isolated who lives in the cursed Angelus mansion and Ethan is evil and Xander gets double teamed, though not by Buffy and William )

( Best fic where Spike and Buffy are engaged and in love and have been for years and Spike uses the word ‘cad’ and the characterizations rock and the whole thing just brings me gobs of happiness and I love this fic like Spike loves Buffy and vice versa and it’s one chapter short of being finished and has been for months and I know that fic is a privilege and the author owes me nothing but I want to see how it ends and stuff! And I love this fic. And Angel is a git )

( Best gratuitous sex that manages to incorporate a really enjoyable plot and be steaming hot and play with delicious kinks and Spike is a lawyer and it is so fucking hot and Angel is a bastard )