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Fashion Theme Icons by debris4spike. I like how this set was a bit different from the icons I normally come across. Some great expressions for Faith and Vi, and I liked how Drusilla seems to be emerging from the dark.

standard evil by happinesssdeceit. "A collection of materials supporting Dr. Horrible’s application to the Evil League of Evil." ( Read more... )

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Alone by garnigal. Little look at how Buffy takes stock after Sunnydale disappears.

( 550 ) faith in buffy the vampire slayer by hieroglyph. Part of a project to icon all of her appearances throughout BtVS and Angel.

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As we run our sessions over Halloween, there are always some new works from last year that didn't get caught up in the rec net. So here are some of them!

Willow in Triangle by girl4music looks at Willow's behavior generally as well as the infamous "gay now!" line.

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Seven wallpapers by facethestrange representing each season of BtVS.

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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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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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This year's session of Top 5 closes in 25 hours! So if anyone's still got recs to make this year, post soon or save them for next year :)

With our sessions running late in a year, we don't catch everything still to come. But it's still new to Top 5, so here's a shiny new set of works!

1) Footprints by kerk_hiraeth. Being a librarian, Giles knows the value of ephemera. ( Read more... )

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We're down to the final hours of our session, and here's one last recs list of 2019 works from me.

Thanksgiving with the Burkles, 2019 by shadowscast. This ficlet is not only a new work from her in the Buffyverse but it's a sequel! (And also perfect for this new month).

Villains by electric_heart. Fun icon of the Troika. Also I quite liked her pairing icons.

Excardiation by beer_good_foamy. "After Buffy runs away from home, Joyce finds herself bringing home a curious flowerpot from the gallery." Well you know that's not going to go well.

Roses Are Red, Angelus Is Blue by thenewbuzzwuzz. A series of scenes tied together with roses, covering up the scent of denial.

Change, Like Sunshine by still_lycoris. "When Wash first joined the crew, he thought Zoe was Mal's lady. He was quite wrong about that." And Mal was quite wrong about it disrupting a smoothly working ship.

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Buffy, Slaying Vampires Since 1996 by shiruji. I have to quibble about the date since it was either earlier with the movie or the TV debut was in 1997, but a cute icon nonetheless!

All the Children I've Had to Say "Good Bye" To by protoneoromantic. Such a strong finish to this, and a title with such a punch when you know who it's said by.

Comics Buffy by misbegotten. Lovely set of Buffy comics icons. No. 5 is my favorite but the Xander one is also striking.

Night Flight by JolieMariella. Wing AU Spike fanart.

The Ballad of Wishverse Giles by thenewbuzwuzz. Giles POV poem. I'd say "fun" but the episode theme wasn't on the happy side, so I'll just point out that it's clever instead ;)

yourlibrarian

We've now moved into the final days of our session and are focusing on recs from 2019! To kick us off, here are some of mine:

No. 6 Buffy/Angel dots by electric_heart. I thought the style was snazzy!

Buffy to finish out 2016 by artofjph. I liked the sort of jagged look that suited Buffy's inner state.

P.O.T.D. by Twinkles. Painted Illyria and Fred. What I really liked about this was the way the artist captured Fred's smile so well.

No. 17 Faith in battle by pureimagination. I quite liked this close up of her, it really gets across action in a close up.

Daddy Angel by pureimagination. Not as many icons out there of Angel cradling a baby even though he did so quite a few times and there's so many kidfics out there!

yourlibrarian

Am I the only one having trouble posting to or even loading LJ? This has been going on for days for me. I had this post set to go and got a 500 error only to find that the post was lost and didn't go through.

WIP Spike on a Bike by sanshodelaine. Much as I enjoy DVD commentaries I like seeing artworks posted in progress, and this is certainly wonderfully done.

Anatomy of a Willow Outfit by tarastheory. Doing an Outfit of the Day tied to specific BtVS episodes, this was a fun look at fashion which isn't always so fashionable these days ;)

Headers + Icons | Road Trip by sintonia. Wonderful colors and composition of Buffy, Spike, and the DeSoto looking more springlike than one would have ever imagined!

My Sweet Babies by peskysaku. Black and white Spike and Xander -- I think they're absolutely wrong about being alone in the ship.

This was my fifth rec but I discovered that the whole community seems to be gone. Anyone know what happened?

Sweet Fred, Remote Buffy by timetobegin. Adorable over the shoulder icon of Fred and I quite liked the thoughtful, behind-the-glasses Buffy.

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1) Lie to Me by watcherspet. One thing that Tumblr has been great for is for the development of gifsets as a fandom art form. While many of them are just nice collections of scenes, my favorites are the ones which serve as a sort of meta, usually by juxtaposing images (within or across fandoms) or by adding text in a form of commentary.

This was one of my favorites from this past year. The use of these scenes stand in sharp contrast to Giles' efforts to provide a sort of reductive but comforting promise.

2) Someone Needs to Stop Me by Palizinhas. A little Jenny/Giles bit of humor. I'm sure he's not the only librarian to have thought about this.

3) Scooby Aesthetic Spreads by Alien Commune. Yet another form of fanwork that hasn't been around as long.

4) Ebullient Faith by timetobegin. I love the way #7 captures Faith's energy. Wonderful set of icons all around.

5) A little headcanon of mine that takes place after the Prom by Official Rapunzel Fitzherbert. Drawing of Buffy and Giles, wonderfully emotional. "I just like to imagine that they had their ice cream. And there was lots of shmoop."

yourlibrarian

Just a reminder that it's time for your 2018 recs! And don't forget there are more recs being shared on LiveJournal that you can browse.

BtVS pattern by lenny-way-you-want-it. Pencil and ink sketches of different objects, I would love to see this made into a fabric for fannish clothes! ( Read more... )

yourlibrarian

Time for your 2018 recs! And don't forget there are more recs being shared on Dreamwidth that you can browse. Here are some to kick us off:

Sunrise by iseetheyelloweyed. A Saint Sebastian oriented Buffy and Angel fan art – a pretty fascinating take and the colors seem perfect. ( Read more... )

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Everything I put in the ground withers and dies by restfield. Striking manip of Drusilla.

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Burn #5 by Tinny. This icon of Sweet is, well, sweeeeet. ( Read more... )

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When I was doing my last post about icons I enjoyed this year, I realized that I had enough icons made by

sweet_lyri to do a post of icons made by her. So here are 5 icons, that I enjoyed and were made by the talented

sweet_lyri.

1.

teragramm.livejournal.com

Here are 5 icons, in no particular order, made this year, that I thought were exceptionally beautiful.

1.

holtzmann

2.

nadya149

3.

longerthanwedo

4.

scarred_loretta

5.

scarred_loretta

yourlibrarian

1) Old Reliable Willow by annadrewthat. Mike and I have often quoted this exchange to one another as one our favorite bits of Buffy dialogue :) ( Read more... )

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I want to thank the mods for keeping this comm open for all of us to look back and celebrate the wonderful works and people in our beloved fandom. It's all too easy to dwell on the negative, and forget all the amazing things happening all around us.

So, may I have your attention a little longer for some awesome fanwork creators worthy of wider celebration and special mention:

From

thenewbuzwuzz: Blackout Spuffy poetry made from shooting scripts. Such creativity!

1. Fool for Love (VAMPIRE...)
2. "Angel", "Doppelgängland" and "Welcome to the Hellmouth" ("what's it like where you are?...", "good girls...", "past SHATTERS...")
3. "Hush" and "Some Assembly Required" ("- CONTINUING - MORNING...", "at the graveyard...")

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Who ever gets tired of icons, or amazed that we can still find new and interesting takes on images that have become very familiar over the years? Well, here are some that definitely caught my attention.

Buffy #10 by longerthanwedo. I liked the psychedelic, cosmic look of this icon. Also #14 of Willow and Tara looks particularly dreamy.

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Whistling Past the Graveyard by x_art. Wonderfully steamy manip of Lindsey and Angel.

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There were so many amazing fanworks in 2016 that I wish I'd taken better notes! Off the top of my head, I give you five fantastic pieces of artwork from five artists:

Artwork: Mr. Trick
By

chasingdemons
The hardest part was picking only one image by the amazing Danna. But! I don't think I've ever seen another artwork of Mr. Trick! I couldn't be happier seeing this fashionable, retro glamor shot of Mr. Trick, a minor yet memorable BtVS demon. (Who alone, as a bonus, commented on the unnatural lack of POC in this supposedly SoCal town. Joss, was that your conscience speaking?) Anyway, this artwork is just gorgeous! (Also, whatever skincare regimen Mr. Trick's using to get that glowing-from-within look, I want it.) ;)

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Dawn Meets Cordy by onegirlinalltheworld. So this isn't a fic about pre-series Dawn but I thought it was a nifty idea about how Dawn and Cordelia might have bonded in S2.

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red-satin-doll.livejournal.com

So while I was sorting through files for my previous post in order to include one of my favorite of

teragramm's icons I realized "Oh but she also produced this one....and hey, what about this one....and I really loved this banner...." So the only sensible thing to do was make another post: 4 icons and one banner. Icons are listed chronologically. This is an artist I tend to associate with clear, bright colors (especially "teragramm blue"), but obviously she is every bit as skilled with muted tones and deeply saturated effects. Once again, I'll let the images do the talking:

1) Drusilla retro (Center Crop) for

btvsats20in20 Round 10 (June)

2) Faith #2 for

whedon_elite Challenge 123 (July)

3) Buffy "Happiness" for

btvsats20in20 Round 12 (August)

4) Tara #3 for

btvsats20in20 Challenge 58 (November)

5) Winged Buffy Banner (February)
Speaks to my soul, my Buffy-loving heart, and my Winged Buffy kink all at once. Dean Jackson's quote suits the character beautifully as do the ethereal, almost abstract wings that resemble extensions of her gown fluttering in the breeze, rather than literal feathered wings.

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A continuation of sorts from my previous post: more icons, all from various

slayerstillness challenges during the year excluding Challenge 39 covered in my previous post. Once again, verbiage will be kept to a minimum so the art can do the talking; and artists listed in alphabetical order by name. (Otherwise I'd never get done here.)

I have set a restriction on myself for these posts: To list the artists only once within each post (so no duplicates, This was a helluva lot harder than I realized when you've got artists so fantastically talented and prolific like

sweet_lyri,

teragramm and

tempertemper. Complicating things is the fact that

slayerstillness seems to have a smaller pool of regular participants than some other comms. (But don't quote me on that):

1) Drusilla by

emmatheslayer for Challenge 57 (November)

BTW, I've seen other icons use this framing device and even this exact texture since then, but none so effectively.

2) Buffy IWRY (It Hurts Every Day) by

muirthemne for Challenge 47 (June)

One of her only icons that round that did not take home a prize is the one that is my favorite. Go figure

3) Dawn by

sweet_lyri for Challenge 40 (March)

Her Dawn set for

btvsats20in20 was also superb. It's a departure from the style she's established this year of deep shadows.

4) Angel heart graffiti by

tempertemper for Challenge 38 (January)

Sinister, witty and visually striking.

5) Buffy (A Father's Love) by

teragramm for Challenge 51 (August)

In all honesty and with all due respect to the other wonderful artists I adore, this icon is probably in my top 5 for the entire year, if I was really truly forced to pare it down.

red-satin-doll.livejournal.com

I was trying to cull through all the 2015

slayerstillness entries when I realized that nearly half of the "top 5" from that comm actually came Challenge 39 "Love is in the Air" (the Valentine's challenge). So why fight it? This was one of my favorite challenges/prompts from any of the icontests this year, in a completely "Can we do it again? Can we do it again?" way. Artists made icons of canon and non-canon pairings and everybody brought their A-game. So, herewith are 5 of my favorites from that round (with kudos to moderator

starry_night for her inspired prompts:)

Once again, the list is ins alphabetical order of artists' names) and as with my previous post, I'll eschew my usual verbosity and let the images speak for themselves:

1) Buffy/Tara #3 (Please may I make a home in you?) by

kwritten

2) Willow/Oz by

rua1412

3) Cordy/Xander by

sweet_lyri

4) Spuffy #2 by

teragramm

5) Fred/Gunn by

tempertemper

red-satin-doll.livejournal.com

I wanted to do an icon post inspired by

kikimay's post one year ago but found it impossible to narrow the hundred of icons I've seen this year to just five, so I decided in the interest of fairness - and spreading the love to as many talented folks as I could - to divide the posts up by icontests. This first one is for

whedon_elite The icons are listed in alphabetical order of artist's name (not preference).

1) Faith 5x5 (brighter version) by

double_dutchess for Challenge 123 (July)

2) Illyria #1 by

julie_izumi for Challenge 112 (March)

3) Beneath You (Spuffy) by

sandy_s for Challenge 128

In fairness this entire post could have been five icons from this challenge alone.

4) Eskimo Willow by

xclaire_delunex for Challenge 133 (Dec)

This one is also a tiny "cheat" in that it was an alt rather than an entry.

5) Tara Family Golden Glow by

xlittledreams for Challenge 115 (April)

yourlibrarian

1) Giles Wallpapers by angelus2hot. A variety of Giles pairings in black and white. I particularly like the Giles/Buffy one with the clock for both its relaxed tone and the watch reminiscent of both Giles and their age difference. ( Read more... )

chasingdemons.livejournal.com

I love seasonal coms, don’t you? It gives everyone a reason to show off their best work. Here are five of my favorite seasonal com posts in 2015:

Lies My Lover Told Me
fiction posted by

shapinglight at

summer_of_giles
Post-Chosen, Giles and Olivia meet and talk about then and now. The conversation goes in a direction that is not what Giles expected. As usual with shapinglight’s work, the characters are realistic and the dialogue is searing and brilliant.

( See my pics below the cut )

kikimay

Hi, guys! I'm here too and this is a post about my TOP 5 Buffy icons.

But do you know how difficult it is to make a post about favorite icons and actually pick just 5 of them? I have SO MANY! So I tried to use a criterion to facilitate my task: all these icons are about the ladies in the Buffyverse - especially Buffy herself and Dawn - and the dominant color is pink. The great thing about this choice is that it allows me to eventually make more posts (Favorite icons in Black, in Red and so on) and share all my love for these awesome and mini works of genius.

(The order is not about best or less best, it's just to facilitate myself)

IMPORTANT! EDIT: I forgot about the rules - because I'm actually the worst - so I'm making some edits with other choices. All icons totally made in 2014.

( TOP Buffy pink icons of DOOM - 2nd version )

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1) Bring Home the Dawn by argentumlupine. Podfic performance of the fic by Mercurie. "Robin watches his mother go out on patrol every night."

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When I Ruled the World by kallysten. Pretty apt choice for the Fanged Four, and a nice "story of us" to remember them by.

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Faith by

valyssia - #18 - There are a number of nice pairing icons in this post of Faith and Buffy or Willow and Buffy but this solo one of Faith is a stunner.
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1) Inara and Zoe wallpapers by

thedothatgirl - Worksafe – Rich colors and nice composition.

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Happy Halloween by

uglybusiness -- Worksafe -- A little late for Classic Recs but still a great wallpaper for next year!

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Happy Halloween by

uglybusiness -- Worksafe -- A little late for Classic Recs but still a great wallpaper for next year!

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Hatted Willow by

velvetmemory - #6 – A small set of Buffy icons but with appealing coloring.

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Hatted Willow by

velvetmemory - #6 – A small set of Buffy icons but with appealing coloring.

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While We Have The Sun by Lim – Worksafe – Lovely lyrical vid that captures the warmth of the Firefly series.

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While We Have The Sun by Lim – Worksafe – Lovely lyrical vid that captures the warmth of the Firefly series.

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Also, I can kill you with my brain by

ale_skyz - Worksafe – I also liked the Zoe one under Artist Choice #4, but this one under Artist Choice 10 was a nice juxtaposition of cap and quote.

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yourlibrarian

Also, I can kill you with my brain by

ale_skyz - Worksafe – I also liked the Zoe one under Artist Choice #4, but this one under Artist Choice 10 was a nice juxtaposition of cap and quote.

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Giles and Buffy by

thedothatgirl
http://thedothatgirl.livejournal.com/88500.html
Drawing.
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Giles and Buffy by

thedothatgirl
http://thedothatgirl.livejournal.com/88500.html
Drawing.
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lusciousxander.livejournal.com

1) Xander-love post by

moscow_watcher: Xander love shown through fun icons that remind us of how awesome Xander is!
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Sexy, manly hands! Click on the icon and you can see more sexy hands! :)

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