Today is crossover day at crack_van and I get one (only one) crossover to rec. So this is the one I chose, which apparently I haven't recced before on LJ, just linked to once.

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Title: Her Attention by nikitangel
Pairing: Sort of Mia/Letty, Faith/Letty. Faith's a big flirt.
Author on LJ: nikitangel
Author Website: Fic Tag on LJ
Why this must be read:

(Note, this was another story written for me. Because have I mentioned I really push Faith/Letty on people? A lot? Yeah, I do.)

"Her Attention" nicely captures all three women and their various attitudes. Set after Buffy the Vampire Slayer ended but before The Fast and the Furious, it revels in the way powerful women can size each other up and check each other out, and the way there's an edge to their flirting. Faith's awareness of her own sexuality is wonderful, as is her knowledge that she turns on other people just by strutting into a room.

There's some subtle bite to the exchanges between Letty and Mia, too, the way Letty demands so much from the people around her and how Mia is awkward in her love.

And, as always, there's Dom in the background, not even the point of the story, but always, always there.

"Her Attention" by nikitangel

I'm finally reading cleolinda's recap of Midnight Sun (which is a partial draft of Twilight from Edward's point of view). I think I started it before, but never finished it. Reading this has inspired me to start reading Midnight Sun itself (much like reading the recap made me get Breaking Dawn), which is available for free at SMeyer's website. It's the first half, I think, and I'm not sure it will ever be finished, which makes me kind of sad.

As usual, I couldn't care less about Edward and Bella, but oh, my foursome continues to be FABULOUS.

( spoilers for this rewrite of Twilight which may never be finished )

And so, inspired by this, I've been looking at twilight_slash just to see if there are any other foursome writers out there, and, um, not so much. I see a lot of:

+ Edward/Jasper
+ Alice/Bella (Well, duh. Alice brings the homoeroticism like woah.)
+ Rosalie/Bella
+ Carlisle/Jacob (Huh. I do believe that Carlisle likes the boys as well as the girls, but I hadn't put this one together. I will think on it some.)
+ Far less Edward/Seth than I expected.
+ Edward/Jasper/Alice (Yay for more than two!)
+ FINALLY EMMETT/JASPER THANK YOU WORLD

So basically I want to write lots and lots of foursome. Yeah.

Speaking of my boy Emmett, crimson_keys asked for prompts awhile back, and I suggested Emmett and Paul (from The Lost Boys) because Emmett is hot and funny and Paul is (in fandom at least) hilarious. (No, seriously, I was looking for the funny. If I wanted the hot, I would have requested Emmett, Rosalie, and Dwayne, and, um, maybe I shouldn't let myself get distracted by that train of thought.)

ANYWAY. Keya wrote the story, and she brought the hot, but she also brought the emotional depth. "Battling Demons" has Paul and Emmett being funny, and being hot, and then being serious and deep (and bisexual). It wasn't at all what I expected, and I'm a little surprised I love it, because of the subject matter, but I do. (Warning for possible triggery self-injury.) And mostly it is disturbingly, deliciously hot in the way I like my vampires.

Also lately I have been reading azephirin's "Cracked Stars Shining", which is a Harry Potter/Supernatural/Buffy the Vampire Slayer crossover of epic proportions. It has Hermione/Dean (and Genevera/Sam, though it's told from Hermione's point of view (mostly) and so the focus is H/D) and some really hot sex. There are a bunch of appearances by other characters, most of which I can see as fantastic extrapolations from the source (though Spike reads more to me like Hank McCoy from X-Men). It's a long story, 165k and counting, and it is incomplete. I really enjoyed it, though, and there's a scene which pretty much crystalizes what I'm looking for in a male bottom or submissive, which is, you know, not exactly submission except in that moment, that scene, that bit of sex. Yeah. I really, really like this story, and I can't wait for more.

(Speaking of TLB, I'm watching Tales from the Darkside, and I finally found a werewolf episode, and the kid is reading Fangoria in a way which reminds me SO MUCH of Sam reading the vampire comics in TLB it made me grin. Also, I totally called the "plot twist" which just goes to show that I know far too much about werewolf stories. That or I am one with media, which is what Keya thinks. That or there really is nothing new under the sun.)