viciouswishes just came up with this, and it seems immensely suitable for my last 2006 post. So, picked from rec posts I made throughout the year, the stories that I loved best in the past 12 months. Like viciouswishes, I left out my recent yuletide recs, so this goes until the start of December:


Alias

Still Life by kangeiko. Sydney's pov on the three First Gen Spies, post-finale. Beautiful, terse, and taking all the tangled web into account.

Able Seamen, same author: Jack 'n Arvin as young men, and lo and behold, 'tis angst-free, with a light comedy touch, and yet entirely in character for both. Adorable and just the thing to read if you don't want your heart ripped out by those two.

Cause & Effect by eirena: Sydney during No Hard Feelings in season 5. Back to the angst, and how. This is a brilliant take on Sydney and her reactions to late s5 events.


Battlestar Galactica

Judge Not by tkp. Post-Collaborators, an ensemble portrait, and absolutely brilliant.


Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel the Series


Who by Accident by callmesandy. Not just one of my 2006 favourites but general favourites, full stop. Great Buffy post-Chosen, great Connor post-NFA, it pulls of a tricky pairing (Buffy/Connor) in a convincing manner, it makes excellent use of Dawn and Robin Wood (and Mr. Wyndham-Price, who gets a cameo appearance through Buffy's Slayer dreams), it has the Buffyverse mixture of comedy and angst, and, still a rarety in fanfic, it has plot.


All Ways by kita0610. If you, like me, like the idea of Angel/Buffy/Spike as a concept but frequently have a problem with the executions (i.e. one usually can tell whether the writer primarily 'ships Buffy/Spike, Buffy/Angel or Angel/Spike, because the relationship in question is prioritized and the third party not given the same depth as the other two), this is what you've been waiting for. Set post-NFA, with all three characters rendered wonderfully well, and all the various relationships between them explored. I'm still awed.

Dr. Who

Tiny Human Heads by lordshiva. Probably my favourite post-Doomsday-story. Ten/Sarah Jane, but so much more. It's Ten after Doomsday and Sarah Jane being quite serious about her "No" to being a Companion again but being a friend anyway, it's Sarah Jane the journalist, and a story which New and Old Who fans alike can enjoy. (Meaning if you've seen Sarah Jane with Three and Four, you'll be thrilled, and if you haven't seen her anywhere except in School Reunion with Ten, you'll be thrilled as well.)

Farscape

But for Grace by hossgal. Rygel and Crichton (aka my Farscape OTP), the question of forgiveness, and of living. Set post-Peacekeeper Wars.


James Bond

Queen of Spades by astolat. Bond/M, and by now I'm sure really everyone has read it, but if someone hasn't, and even if that someone has not seen a single Bond movie: go. Read. Now.


The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (comicverse)

The Author of All This (Our Sorrow) by cesario. Mina Murray post after the second volume of League. This is Mina in all her complexity, and I adore it.


X-Men (comicverse)

For the Kingdom of Heaven by c_elisa. This? Based on the Gifted arc of Astonishing X-Men, wherein the cure is introduced, is how the cure storyline should have been handled in the movieverse and so was not. Terrific Hank McCoy, and no easy solutions.


X-Men (movieverse)

Coalescence by andrastewhite. The definite Charles Xavier portrait, if anything is, taking all three movies into account. Andraste's idea of just what made Charles decide re: Jean is still my favourite fanon.

Sandman


Take your carriage clock and shove it by amberite: Thessaly post-Wake. This is Thessaly in her sharp, unsentimental glory. *loves*


And that's it. Happy new year, everyone!