Your picks for everything fannish

Just a reminder to everyone that tomorrow is the final day for mixed Classic + 2021 posts. Saturday kicks off our 2021 Flash Forward weekend until we close at midnight UTC on November 2!


Feel It Still by double-dutchess. Just when you think that Buffyverse vids have tapped everything, here's one on Spike (along with Buffy, the most overvidded character) and yet it feels fresh and energized and modern. ( Read more... )

This list became unexpectedly difficult when two of the five recs I had prepped ended up linking to deleted accounts! That seems a high percentage in less than a year?

1) Five People Whose Loan Applications Were Approved At Sunnydale Securities Bank (And One Whose Wasn't) by beer_good_foamy. "So how does Sunnydale… work, exactly? Well, it's a long and complex story of corruption and denial, but let's check in with one of the cogs that make the wheels spin. Remember the loan officer who turned Buffy down in "Flooded"...? Here's his Sunnydale story in six installments, occasionally interacting with the main storyline." The devil is in the details, alright.

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Join your co-mods petzipellepingo and yourlibrarian in celebrating Halloween through all the time zones until midnight UTC on November 5 (check that in your time zone). Share your all-time favorite recs of fics, vids, graphics, anything and everything fandom has produced in all the Whedon fandoms -- and, as always, crossover content is most welcome!

Classic Recs is running on both LiveJournal and Dreamwidth, with the option to copy posts onto Pillowfort. Top 5 is also open for recs tagged with # buffyversetop5 at Twitter. Post at whichever you wish. And if you like the treats someone has shared, let them know by commenting!

One request is that if you happen to know that the work being recced is available at AO3, please use that link for it as it will make it easier to invite creators to include their work in our AO3 Collection. But works are welcome wherever they can be found. (Please alert readers if the work requires a login to view.)

Today kicks off our Classic Recs weekend for pre-2021 content. Recs for all time periods will be welcome starting Monday the 25th. Then next Saturday, October 30 will begin our Flashforward 2021 session to highlight current works until we close.

Do let us know if you have questions or need any help understanding what/how to post -- we'll be glad to hear from you!

seasonal_spuffy, Truth or Dare, will run from Monday, May 10th through Tuesday, May 23, on Dreamwidth and LiveJournal . Links to all new entries will be available during the round on both of these sites and also on tumblr and Facebook, the Elysian Fields Discussion Group on Facebook, and in the General Discussions section of BuffyForums.

If you didn't sign up, you're still welcome to post any new Spuffy work on the 2 free-for-all days:
Monday, May 24th and
Tuesday, May 15th. And if you would like to participate in another way, remember that anyone can currently comment on any Seasonal Spuffy post with or without logging in.

Just a reminder that they are also looking for anyone who might be interested in becoming a Seasonal Spuffy mod. If you are interested in joining the “Mod Squad” please respond to their post or message any of the mods below:

teragramm, gillo, or slaymesoftly or email sspuffy@gmail.com.

Our friends at Seasonal Spuffy have announced sign ups for Round 30.

The Spring 2021 round of Seasonal Spuffy starts on Monday, May 10, and runs through Tuesday, May 25, on LiveJournal and Dreamwidth. The theme for this round is Truth or Dare. The theme exists to inspire, not limit. You are free to interpret the theme however you wish or do your own thing instead.

Sign up for a posting day by choosing a day in the schedule and leaving a comment on that post.

Dates: March 1 to April 1

For anyone who has ever created any meta, the March Meta Matters Challenge community will be running again to help keep you going (or get started!) on archiving your meta works on AO3.

While creators have often used multiple sites to host their works, one type of work has generally been left out of fans' efforts at archiving and preserving fanworks -- meta. In many cases, meta posts have not been copied anywhere else other than the location where they were first posted, leaving them hard to find and particularly vulnerable to loss.

So what if we can make a small dent in getting it saved? The March Meta Matters Challenge is focused on not just new meta, but making sure older meta gets a chance to be read and remain a part of fandom history. While new meta is also encouraged, the priority for Meta Matters is to make sure meta doesn't vanish with sites or personal accounts when those get closed or moved.

This is a month long event that kicks off on March 1. There are no signups and anyone can participate, as anonymous comments are enabled at the Dreamwidth community.

If you have any questions about MMM, look over how the challenge works, or visit our FAQ or leave a comment!

Our friends at seasonal_spuffy are asking for participation in a poll to determine when the community rounds will be open. "We've been thinking that we might be able to save ourselves some work as mods, in a number of obvious and less obvious ways, and maybe even make it easier for all of us to plan our year, if we didn't make that decision anew for each round. The length of the rounds might change as needed, and we'd still have polls about themes and such, but we would always know when the rounds are scheduled to start.

So, if Seasonal Spuffy ran at the same time each spring and fall, what time should it be?"

Visit their post to weigh in.

1) Fiction Banners by teragramm. I don't tend to see these very often anymore unless a Big Bang fic is involved. I liked the sleek yet different look in these two works.

2) And I Won't Feel a Thing (The Rinse and Repeat Remix) by SegaBarrett. " Billy has everything he ever wanted." I like the fact that Billy having what he wanted doesn't change who he is, it's just the same steps to different music.

3) Vantage Point (Remix of Heights) by Corina (CorinaLannister). "Spike and Willow go on patrol together with Spike being the powerhouse fighter and Willow helping him out with her telepathic abilities. But who is helping who really?" I read this together with the original story (written last year) and found that it was the final lines in both the original and remix that stuck with me. Spike and Buffy as Heathcliff and Catherine is a little off to me, Angel being rather more Heathcliff-y. But then that says so much about Willow's frame of mind, she should know that. Spike reminds her, but she does tend to forget it.

4) Restoration by circular_infinity. Buffy & Angel's missing scene after her return. Part of what struck me about this story was the way Angel thinks of her with an artist's eye as he sees her again, "Part of her demeanor speaks of grief. It eases as she nears him, but it's still there like a layer of priming on a canvas."

5) Junior Deviants by Aadler. "Not everything fell apart in the last days of Sunnydale. Some things came together." First off, hardly anyone remembers or writes about Dawn's friends in early S7, especially since the show didn't either after the spinoff idea went nowhere. And this one has a nice surprise at the end. Second, so happy to see drabbles on AO3 since very few of them end up there!

Lastly, I didn't include this in my list because it's commercial not fannish – which in itself has become a harder thing to tease apart in these last 15 years given people's platforms on YouTube and fannish news outlets, Patreon and even commercializing individual websites. But I did find the concept of this quite entertaining: I've Never Seen "Buffy The Vampire Slayer" So I Watched The Pilot And Finale And Nothing In Between

A bit of art, meta, fic, and icons :)

1) to be fair, I wasn't listening by double_dutchess. Fun set of Giles icons with quotes.

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