I Pimp, Therefore I Am: Buffyverse Top 5 Classic Recs Edition for Halloween

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Buffyverse Top 5 Classic Recs: Starting at midnight GMT on October 31 (6 PM EST in the U.S. on Oct 30) Buffyverse Top 5 will be celebrating Halloween through all the time zones for  four days. Fics, vids, artwork, etc of ANY age across the Jossverse, including crossovers.

Last January was my first time participating in the annual Buffyverse Top 5 and I'm not a list-maker by nature, but this was as addictive as popcorn sprinkled with smoked applewood salt and ground rosemary.

dragonyphoenix asked a VERY important question for this round: "There are stories I'd like to rec but can't find links to. Can I list my top 5 stores I'd rec if I could find the links?" Fortunately the answer to that is "Yes". This is timely and relevant if you're like me and your desktop computer with hundreds of links and bookmarks was recently turned into a rather pricey charcoal briquette.
(The other day I spent hours searching through molly_may's journal just to find the link to her superb meta on Giles in S7 to share with bone_dry1013. I kid you not. You don't even want to know how much time it took me to find stultiloquentia's Self Indulgent Post-NFA Spuffy Ramble, a fic I love with all my heart, because I couldn't remember how to spell "stultiloquentia". This is embarrassing, kids.)

I'm thinking I may cheat a bit and do a list of "favorite meta writers" rather than favorite metas. I mean, how do you decide which of the_royal_anna's or beer_good_foamy's metas are "best"? How do you decide which sunset is more beautiful, which pearl more lustrous, than all the others?  I am also planning on doing at least one or three posts on my favorite fan videos; fan vids get less love in this part of fandom here on LJ, IMO, than fics do; this is tragic and must be corrected.  Some of them will actually be by people other than nvrbnkisst. Prepare to be shocked.

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Thanks hon! I probably won't have much that people here don't already know quite well but that's the point of this round - it's about the "classics".

What's amazing to me is that so much material is still available all these years later.