Five favourite vids from 2016 -- BtVS (Spuffy) and AtS

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Night Time, My Time by Faith SummersProduction (Spuffy).
The kind of Spuffy vid I like best: not your standard romantic fare, but dark, sensual, atmospheric and intense.


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Top five 2016 Elysian Fields Fics

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1) Second String by Solstice: Spuffy. He has lost two Slayers. She’s just lost her Watcher. Now they’re stuck with each other and neither is particularly happy about it. Drabble series set in an AU. (An AU where Spike is Buffy's watcher. All the character arcs were incredible, and for once Riley is written fairly here. My favorite part was Xander falling in love with a gender shifter demon who prefers to stay male. Check out how cute they look together:


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Five 2016 ficlets that tell a big story

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I’ve said many times before, but it bears repeating that I love baudown’s ability to tell a big story so economically. What Gives is a series of drabbles in which Xander tends to Spike’s injuries and Spike allows himself to be tended to.

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Five Short Spuffy Stories posted at sb_fag_ends (Part 1)

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sb_fag_ends is a community for posting short Spuffy works. I love short pieces, and you can find some of the best here! Here is just a sample:

The Faerie Queen by shapinglight (1,000 words)
Titania, the queen of fairies is looking for the slayer. Spike gets in her way . Whimsical and atmospheric, it has such an unreal quality, and yet Spike is perfectly true to character. One of shapinglight’s many talents.

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Five Short Spuffy Stories posted at sb_fag_ends (Part 2)

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sb_fag_ends is a community for posting short Spuffy works. This is my second post of excellent drabbles and ficlets.

Prague by drizzlydaze (729 words)
The Council sends Wishverse!Buffy to Prague to intercept Spike and Drusilla just as the mob is closing in. It’s… fascinating.

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Top 5 Stories I Was Led to By a Meta

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Today my Tumblr feed included Alkeni's meta Amy Madison: A Dark Mirror and a Distant Echo. I'm not always big on meta but I did like this. It inlcuded a link to two of her stories, also about Amy Madison. I followed one of Alkeni's bookmarks and discovered stories by ScienceOfficerWillowRosenberg. So all of these recs come from me browsing off of a meta.

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Five short gems on Elysian Fields

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These are very different fics, from hilarious to angsty there's something for everyone, but they are all good for a quick read, all between ~600 and ~2,300 words. All rated PG13 and less.

http://dark-solace.org/elysian/viewstory.php?sid=4675
Requiem for a Poodle by zabjade
A week after Chosen, Buffy thinks about unlikely heroes. Angsty, bittersweet, but wonderfully written. 590 words.

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