Best Smut

For Keeps by Garden's Gnome
Web: Grotto of the Garden's Gnome

Rating: MA
Summary: Irvine is forced to celebrate his birthday without his lover...or is he? Clubbing kinkiness!

Morning Ritual by Keishi
Web: Tarred & Glittered

Rating: MA
Summary: Shameless PWP from Squall's POV. The gunblader wakes up to find a surprise in his bed.

Pairing: Squall/Irvine
Rating: MA
Summary: A peek into Squall’s journal, set after the game ends.

Lonely Together by Krystal Epyon
Rating: MA
Summary: Irvine seeks out Squall to share another memory. [Set directly after Trabia Garden.]

Confessions in the Night by rzynaRune

Rating: MA
Warnings: Don't mind the bit of sap in the beginning.
Summary: our two boys. two nights. two confessions. But will
everything work out right?

Two's Company, Three's a Nightmare by Purple Penguin
Web: Penguinland

Rating: MA
Warning: Lemon, Rinoa bashing.
Summary: Everyone goes away on holiday from garden for a month and typical Squall plans to stay at garden all alone but Rinoa has other ideas and Irvine "accidently" misses his train.

Best Angst

Watch the Sky by ESR (kiwi & martinique)
Web: English Summer Rain

Rating - MA
Pairings: Squall/Zell, Squall/Irvine
Summary - Squall, misbehaving.

Best Fluff/Humour

Sobriety by KNW

Rating: MA
Pairing: Irvine/Squall. Squall/Laguna.
Warning: Minor incest.
Summary: Squall finds Christmas Eve to be a very mortifying time of year.

Best Kink

Submission by Tina aka: dragons78061

Rating - MA
Warning: Includes mild bondage.
Summary - Squall submits to Irvine's kink to be dominate and finds a few thrilling kinks of his own.

Not So Vanilla by Keishi

Rating - MA
Warning: watersports, utter strangeness
Summary - PWP. Who knew Squall could be kinkier than Irvine during sex?

Best Epic

In the Cards by Garden's Gnome
Web: Grotto of the Garden's Gnome

Rating - MA
Summary - A new danger is threatening the Garden students. How will they win when the trouble comes from within?

Chapters 1~2~3~4~5~6~7~8~9~10~epilogue

Best Alternate Pairing

Red is not Racy by Garden's Gnome

Web: Grotto of the Garden's Gnome

Rating - MA
Pairings - Zell/Squall & Irvine/Seifer
Summary - The boys run out of fuel returning from a night out. What do you do for entertainment in the middle of nowhere with a cute guy?

Voyeur by Keishi

Rating - M
Pairing: IrvinexZell, implied IrvinexSquall
Summary - Squall's POV. A bet in which everyone wins.

Best Ficlet

Poker by Garden's Gnome
Web: Grotto of the Garden's Gnome

Rating - M
Summary - Squall can play more than just Triple Triad

Scents by Keishi

Rating - T
Summary - Squall reveals his favorite scent.

Mile High by FireKat

Rating - MA
Summary - Irvine decides to make a short trip more interesting.

Best Challenge

Sniper Slut in the Wrong Basket by clueless_psycho

Challenge: Sniper Slut Challenge

Rating: MA
Summary: Crossover with Fruits Basket, after Meifu, Irvine was transferred back to Tokyo and met the Sohmas
Notes: Based on scribblemoose and Gwen's'Sniper Slut' stories. Takes place after scribble's Sniper Slut in Meifu

Jokes by Purple Penguin
Web: Penguinland

Challenge: Chocobo Challenge

Rating: K+
Pairings: SquallxIrvine
Summary: Irvine interferes in Squall's life and ends up shoveling Chocobo shit at the stables.

Another Side, Another Story by Tripsoverhercats

Challenge: The BodySwap Challenge

Rating: T
Summary: A retelling of the first two discs of FFVIII: if Irvine and Squall had swapped roles, what might have changed or stayed the same? (And I swiped the title from a Kingdom Hearts short…)

Best Alternate Universe

Squall Leonhart and the Seven Shumi by Garden's Gnome
Web: Grotto of the Garden's Gnome

Rating: K
Summary: When the royal heir to the Estharian throne out-shines her daughter, the jealous queen seeks to make her child the 'fairest of all'.

Just a Taste by Dark Squall

Rating: MA
Warnings: Irvine/squall, pretty rough sex. Neither character is human.
Summary: The boy had taken all the attention away from him. Irvine couldn't just let him get away with that.