TaraLJC, Chemistry (photomanip)

A technically-accomplished (except that the female model's arms are too damn skinny), smoothly sexy Chlex manip. I like the mood of urban sophistication; it nicely captures what the two of them could and should have in common.

Livia, Many Waters

Disclamer: This is another Livia story where I contributed a bit of the plot, so you can take this rec with a grain of salt if you like. All the painful implications of the Kents' choice not to tell Lex about Desiree's powers in one little story. An uncomfortably vivid sense-story that fills in nicely one of the many gaps of this season's Lex characterization.

Thamiris, Actaeon

This little vignette has some lovely grace notes and hits three of my weak points: Martha POV, Lex-with-cancer, and...compassion. Perhaps because of the story's small scale, its intellectual superstructure is more effective, less labored and intrusive, than I find it to be in many of her other stories.

Christina Kamnikar, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in Mazatlan.

I really haven't been reading much Buffy fic lately, since I stopped watching the show altogether after the S6 finale. However, this is a riff off that finale. Christina shows how it's the small choices, the day-to-day, mundane things, that really determine your moral direction, or lack of it (as opposed to, say, hanging on a cross and raving). I also really liked the sense of Jonathan's history with the other characters, and the observations about Sunnydale karma.