Classic recs: 5 Buffy 'verse vids I love

[sparrow2000.livejournal.com]

Yay for this year's buffyversetop5. It's always a joy to rec favourite fandom things and enjoy discovering things I hadn't come across through other people's recs. Kicking off this year's Classic Recs sections with a few awesome vids.

Princess of the Streets by double_dutchess This is Spike/Dru and has Perfect editing to a perfect song from The Stranglers that could have been written for Dru.

( Follow Dru's whisperings to the rest of the pretty pictures... )

Buffyverse Top 5 2020 is Open!

[yourlibrarian]

As we all await your rec lists, I'd like to share a few statistics with readers (and do feel free to share this post).

This happens to be Top 5's 15th anniversary. This is particularly fitting because I have spent several months since our session last year, going through every post in the community (1,846 of them!) as part of an effort to locate recced content on AO3.

This gave me a unique perspective on patterns in the fandom as well as a good bit of nostalgia about participants and creators over the years. So I thought I'd share those observations as we kick off this year's celebration of works old and new. ( Read more... )

On a personal note, it was heartening when I found a fan long absent from the fandom on the archive. I would often be quite excited to find that a work I didn't expect would be there -- actually was! It was also sad as I came across many other references to names once frequently seen, but who have since left the fandom. There was even, in 2010, a post made at Top 5 with 71 comments which was a tribute to one of them.

Also a pleasant surprise is that, despite the devastation across older accounts caused by image hosts closing or changing their terms in the last 5 years, many images shared in Top 5 posts are still intact. To be sure, many aren't or show up watermarked now, but the number is not as lopsided as I expected.

One last factoid? The first Eurovision Contest crossover recced was in 2007.

Buffyverse Top 5 2020 is Open!

[yourlibrarian]

As we all await your rec lists, I'd like to share a few statistics with readers (and do feel free to share this post).

This happens to be Top 5's 15th anniversary. This is particularly fitting because I have spent several months since our session last year, going through every post in the community (1,846 of them!) as part of an effort to locate recced content on AO3.

This gave me a unique perspective on patterns in the fandom as well as a good bit of nostalgia about participants and creators over the years. So I thought I'd share those observations as we kick off this year's celebration of works old and new. ( Read more... )

On a personal note, it was heartening when I found a fan long absent from the fandom on the archive. I would often be quite excited to find that a work I didn't expect would be there -- actually was! It was also sad as I came across many other references to names once frequently seen, but who have since left the fandom. There was even, in 2010, a post made at Top 5 with 71 comments which was a tribute to one of them.

Also a pleasant surprise is that, despite the devastation across older accounts caused by image hosts closing or changing their terms in the last 5 years, many images shared in Top 5 posts are still intact. To be sure, many aren't or show up watermarked now, but the number is not as lopsided as I expected.

One last factoid? The first Eurovision Contest crossover recced was in 2007.