Here is the voting for challenge #122 with 14 lovely entries. Thanks to everyone who entered icons.

Rules:
- Vote for your three favourite icons. Please also vote best colour and best use of theme (which was negative space) this week (these don't have to be different ones from your three favourites, repeats are okay in these special categories).
- Submit your votes as a comment, using this template:
1st place: # 2nd place: # 3rd place: # best colour: # best use of theme: #
- Don't vote for yourself or tell others to vote for you. But encouraging others to vote would be very much okay.
- Voting ends monday, 27th may, between 6PM - 9PM (GMT).

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I found a story called Absurd written by Mcee and the description sounds really interesting. I found it listed on a site called Pointy Stakes: S/X/Other recommendations, however when I click on the provided link the webpage is no longer there. Does anyone know where I can find this story?

Absurd by Mcee
Xander and Anya take care of Spike after his torture at Glory's hands.

Thanks for any help in advance.

Title: Disciplinary Action
Author: tardisjournal
Summary: You're the newest member of Torchwood. You screwed up.
Characters: Ianto, You
Rating: PG-13, for language
Spoilers: None
A/N: Written for the spanking_world Drabble/Ficlet Fest 2013

X-posted. Please forgive me if this is deja-vu all over again.

Title: Disciplinary Action
Author: tardisjournal
Summary: You're the newest member of Torchwood. You screwed up.
Characters: Ianto, You
Rating: PG-13, for language
Spoilers: None
A/N: Written for the spanking_world Drabble/Ficlet Fest 2013

X-posted. Please forgive me if this is deja-vu all over again.

10 Reasons Why "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" Still Slays
We celebrate the tenth anniversary of the series finale with a list of what made it great

Ten years ago, the UPN network (remember them?) aired the series finale of Joss Whedon’s cult masterpiece, Buffy the Vampire Slayer. What started as a mid-season replacement in March 1997 became a critical and popular success that put the fledging WB network (now known as the CW) on the map. With Sarah Michelle Gellar as the titular ass-kicking heroine, the show ran for seven seasons (though it switched networks after the fifth) airing its series finale on Tuesday, May 20, 2003. The snappy writing and supernatural milieu (which foretold the current mania for all things vampiric) made it a fan favorite. Whedon's flair for blending highbrow aspirations with a pop culture sensibility made it a classic.

Here are 10 reasons why Buffy the Vampire Slayer still slays:
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10 Years After The 'Buffy The Vampire Slayer' Finale, 10 Things We'll Always Love About The Show

by Chris Harnick and Laura Prudom

Buffy the Vampire Slayer" gave viewers a world rich with witty, independent women, fantastic monsters, hellish high school sagas and so much more.

It's been 10 years since Joss Whedon's TV masterpiece ended -- May 20, 2003 was the last time a new episode of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" aired -- and we still can't get enough of the show. Buffy's adventures continued on in comic books written by and executive produced by Whedon, but there's still something to say about the world crafted on the series.

In honor of the 10th anniversary of the "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" series finale, here are 10 things we'll always love about the show.
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Title: Of Ghosts and Men (20/?)
Rating: R
Characters: Sam Winchester, John Watson, guest stars.
Wordcount: ~ 5,300 for this chapter
Warnings: As per the warnings for the entire story: language, disturbing images and themes, i.e. non-explicit violence, mentions of off-screen torture, suicide and mental-health trauma, etc. Nothing that can't be found on at least one of the shows, including some homoerotic subtext.

Chapter Twenty

Chapters: One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight, Nine, Ten, Eleven, Twelve, Thirteen, Fourteen, Fifteen, Sixteen, Seventeen, Eighteen, Nineteen

Ten Years On , Buffy/Willow/Faith by brutti_ma_buoni.

The 10th Annual Slayers Convention by deird1.

Forget Me Not , Buffy/Xander/Willow/Giles by mierke.

Keeping Each Other , Willow/Faith by local_max.

Five By Five, Part One and Five By Five, Part Two , Faith/Buffy by aisalynn.

First and Last , Faith and One and the Same , Drusilla/Buffy by snowpuppies.

And Then the World Falls , Spike/Illyris by zfirefly9x.

Three drabbles by leni_ba.

Chapter Four of Away From the Numbers by entrenous88.

debris4spike re-watches "When She Was Bad" .

Thinky thoughts on Spike/Buffy by blackfrancine. And yes, I know this is flocked but for those of us who can read it, it's just neat.

Spike/Buffy gifset and picspam by coalitiongirl.

Buffyverse icons by jensenfan86.

The AVClub gives us the original UPN promos for the BtVS finale.

Thinky thoughts on the role of Spike in the comics by shipper.

FYI, Amazon will begin licensing fanfiction </a>.

Title: TSOII: The Unbroken Ones
Rating: NC-17
Author: MissAnnThropic
Characters/Pairings: Dean/Castiel
Spoilers: Sequel to The Shattered One
Summary: After the world doesn’t end, Dean and Castiel face an even more daunting challenge… raising their son together. Sequel to my fic “The Shattered One”
Disclaimer: None of it’s mine. I’m just a sad little fangirl that spends her days writing fanfic and watching DVDs of her favorite shows :(
Masterpost/Previous Parts: HERE

The Unbroken Ones - Part Thirty-Six