Buffyverse Top 5
Top 5 is a seasonal recs community for all fan-created material in the Whedon fandoms. This AO3 community collects works that have been recced during our annual sessions, which began in December 2005. We are not open for direct submissions as our content is tied to material that has been recced. The Top 5 community held its final annual session in October 2023.
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Due to a mysterious agreement between the forces of evil and the Powers that Be Xander finds himself the property of one William the Bloody.
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- Part 1 of Bargain
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Buffy was Chosen when she was sixteen instead of fifteen. She moves to Sunnydale for her junior year of high school. Everyone else is proportionally older as well. That's it. That's the only change.
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- Part 2 of Older'verse
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Ever wonder what Rupert Giles was like during his career as a watcher? Before Sunnydale? I did. What did he do after returning to the fold and before moving to Sunny SoCal?
An introduction to our certain gentleman as he began...or perhaps re-began...his career as a watcher. Only to find that all paths in life are twisted in the end.
This story will run roughly parallel with Buffy's story as a little girl to teenager (Buffy's A Life Before)
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- Part 1 of Fractured Histories
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FULL SERIES UP! A Spike/Buffy bantery brawl-turned-sex romp set in a ghost town saloon in late Season 2. Throw in a lasso, a mechanical bull, an acid-spewing sewer beast, top-shelf whiskey and a Journey song, and the sex just writes itself.
Originally published in 2008. Winner of 10 awards including "Best of the Best Lighthearted", "Best Comedy", "Best Sex", "Best Characterization" and "Best Songfic".
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That Dark Abyss by Jedi Buttercup (jedibuttercup)
Fandoms: Firefly (TV 2002), Pirates of the Caribbean (Movies)
25 Aug 2023
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Spacers were, by and large, a superstitious bunch. And though Mal had largely given up his faith with all his hopes and dreams at the end of the war, he wasn't entirely immune.
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Wesley has a late night conversation with Rutherford Sirk. Two former Watchers who took two very different paths to get to the same place.
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30 Oct 2023
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Men Like Them by NAOA. "Wesley has a late night conversation with Rutherford Sirk. Two former Watchers who took two very different paths to get to the same place."
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Topher, holidays, and poking at old wounds.
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always out of season by grayintogreen. "Topher, holidays, and poking at old wounds."
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This set of icons is made for round 21 gen10in30 with a theme of Fashion. Anyone who knows me would say that fashioon and I don't go together ... so chose some of the gals from BtVS over the seasons -
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I like how this set was a bit different from the icons I normally come across. Some great expressions for Faith and Vi, and I liked how Drusilla seems to be emerging from the dark.
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TW Warren Mears (I used more or less the bare minimum of him...)
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29 Oct 2023
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Here's one about the Trio, because not all bad guys in the Buffy 'verse have horns and tails
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And for one final stake through the heart, I give you Not Too Late, which is Xander/Anya in all their messy, emotional, flawed relationship glory.