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Bwahahahahha. Yes. Finally! Done! Check it out here!

With many, many thanks to my bro Tom, I have a new splash page, a new index, and another new page where I intro my interest in the fandoms (this is going to get expanded quite a lot later). Perri, of course, is still responsible for the rest of the graphics. I also posted working links to seven of the nine stories I've completed since October 2002, including:

Fill in the Blank (Alias, Julia POV)
When Stavros Met Sofia (Alias, Sydney & Weiss on assignment)
Rational(e) (Battlestar Galactica 2003, Gaius Baltar POV)
Disneyland (Buffy, post-Chosen)
Five Ways the World Won't End (And One Way It Could) (Buffy, S7-AU)
A Path Back (due South, S2 vignette)
Nicotine Disdain (Pretender, short short)

The two Bootstrap Bill Stories will go up later this week, once I track down a graphic thing I need to make it work.

*bows* *falls on face* *zzzzzzzzz......*

Talk About the Weather by Viridian5
Vir writes my fave Andromeda stuff: Beka & Harper almost bro/sis interaction, pre-series. The contrast between bred-in-space Beka and Earth-in-the-blood Harper is never more obvious than in this short little slice of life on an alien planet.

Let Down by Pares
Due South: gen, short & snarky. Two Rays. One overly-polite Frasier, per usual. Dief. And a hotel fire. Heheheh. Dawn wrote one of my fave X-Files fics; this is also going on my fave Pares picks.

Draco Malfoy, the Amazing Bouncing... Rat? and epilogue by Maya
Okay, first? It's fluffy. Fluffity fluffity fluff fluff fluff. Don't expect anything else, appreciate it for what it is. Second? It has Fanon!Draco, just this side of DracoStu, or maybe I mean Draco!Stud. Draco as interpreted by Elvis? Maybe. And third, it's Draco/Hermione. Ack! And yet, I still enjoyed it, because the snark is there, and the silliness is plentiful, and there are big surprises on occasion. Draco gets turned into a rat, gets adopted by unknowing Gryffindors, and it only gets stranger from there. Try it, it might be your kind of insane.

Family Issues by Marcus Rowland
He finally finished it. Yayyy! Buffy/Men in Black crossover; although to be fair, it's more like "extended guest appearance by the MiB". They're integral to the plot, but they exit stage left at about 3/4 of the way in. It still works, though. Set during S6, pre-"Dead Things" through "Hell's Bells", the MiB have some concerns in Sunnydale that end up effecting Willow, Spike, Warren, Buffy, and the rest of the Scoobies. One of the better AU's for the Depressing Season, with plenty of humor, action, and characterization that reads better than parts of canon. Parts of the timeline are hard to follow, but if you hang on, it all gets sorted out in the end.

Five Things That Never Happened to Anya by Elisabeth
Oh, I adore this AU challenge. It gave us such good stuff. Summary: "Two deaths, three men, and five ways Anya's life could have unfolded." Funny, painful, ironic, sweet. Made me miss Anya all over again.

Winter Night Phantoms by Jennifer-Oksana
Ow, ow, ow, ow. Wes - and Lilah - after she died, before & after she came back. "Or: we are defined by our desires, not by our memories." JennyO rips on your heartstrings again, as Wes is haunted (or is he?) by what he had to do in the Hyperion basement. (Damnit, I *need* to see more of them in Season 5!).

Where Fools Go: Happily Ever After by Lizbeth Marcs and Sydney Taggart
Interesting AU, based off a previous story, that asked "What would happen if Willow's actions in "Grave" had long-lasting consequences for Xander?" This AU is set post-Chosen; Faith & Xander friendship; the beginning of an ongoing series. I like the characterization of our main two protagonists, as well as the Angel crew, and there is some eerie, creepy stuff happening that plays off the dangling plot threads of S7 very well. On the other hand, I don't like the Buffy characterization at all (but I don't think we're supposed to), and the rest of the Scooby gang doesn't exactly stand out either - although I think there may be plot reasons for that which will get explored in the next story, I assume. Anyway, definitely worth a look, and I'm happily waiting for the next one.

And now, zzzzzzz....

Up way too late, but almost in bed... One good thing about season/series finales: everyone brings out the stories they've been working on for a while, or gets inspired by the end-of-season stuff to write things that would otherwise languish. Before the BtVs/AtS stuff proper though, my fave difficult, impossible-to-find-a-decent-set-of thing: crossovers.


Actualize This by Helena Handbasket
Stargate/Invisible Man/Sentinel crossover, Gen. Oh what joy it is, to watch manly men doing manly things... and whining about having to attend 'sharing' team conferences, as Jack, Danny, Hobbes, Darien, Blair and Jim are forced to do here. Excellent characterization all the way through, a goofy mystery plot, funny dialogue, and the joy of balanced interaction.

The Soul Stealer by Nathan Alderman
An oldie but goodie X-Files/Due South crossover, exploiting the best of both shows with cleverly interlocking plots, elements that are perfect for each genre, and one or two sly in-jokes. Again, the balance is all, and even if you're only a fan of one of the shows, you'll be happy with this story, since it reads as if either cast could be guesting on the other show.

Dates of Wars by Last Scorpion
Smallville/Buffy crossover; Clark/Dawn, Lex/Buffy.
Read "Double Date" and "Second Date" first (both at the Buffy Archive), but enjoy this series for both the silly elements, the eminently logical flow, and the original take on Lex and Buffy. Not to mention lots of people calling Clark on his lame alibis. I enjoy this one especially since I'm so blocked on my own Clark & Dawn series, and reading Last Scorpion's stories reminds me why I want to finish it.

Now for the Buffy stories, a very mixed bag off the latest Buffy Archive updates:

Threnody of Wildflowers by Yavi Asad
"They're calling it the 'Miracle Bowl'. Hundreds of different flowers and plants filling up a large dirt pit the size of a small town." Post-Buffy series coda; very, very satisfying to me, with imagery that stays with you. Poignant and sweet.

Unwoven by Rosevare
Another answer to the Five Things That Aren't True challenge, from the lyrical Rosevare. Fred, five possible AU's: "She is/was never there." All plausible, all gripping, making the cipher that is Fred more accessible even when she's not all there.

Friends and Other Disasters By Jennifer-Oksana
JennyO hits another one out of the park with one of her long (non-tortuous) plotty fics, ending up in a place you don't expect after the S7/S4 finales. "Spike--maybe--returns from the dead to frustrate the increasingly distant Angel and Hart team. But is he just a red herring to distract the team from something far more important?" A v. amusing look inside the (possible) S5 offices of Wolfram & Hart, twists & turns, great Lilah, very good Fred stuff, and a tantalizing conclusion. Go, JennyO.