buffyversetop5 | Entries tagged with pairing: buffy/spike

Five 2022 pieces of fan art, in no particular order:

1. Spike/Buffy by nmcil12.

2. Spike/Buffy also by nmcil12.

3. Giles/Ripper by monsoonhazard .

4. Giles/Joyce/Buffy by

emmatheslayer.

5. Spike/Buffy again by nmcil12.

gillo

For me the year has been all about starting up our shiny new website, sunnydaleafterdark.com. Lots of work went into it from a dedicated team, and now it holds hundreds of fics, art and other cool things.

Many folks have reposted from elsewhere, but some of the material is exclusive to the site, so that's the only place you'll find it. Here are five stories worth the reading:

Not a Monster [NC-17] by Grief Counselling (formerly dampersandspoons) and Dusty - still a WIP but lots of chapters there already. Two outstanding writers at the peak of their form.

I Hear a Very Gentle Sound [R] by VioletMoon - a lovely, touching one-shot set in S6.

PS: Not A Date![R] by VeroNyxK84
S7 Spike gives Buffy care and support when she really needs it. Very sweet.

Aeternum in Anno [NC-17] by Chelle shortish but good as Buffy lives the year after Spike went up in flames.

Daisy in the Dark [PG-13] by Dusty. Spike can't stop visiting Buffy's grave. He meets someone else mourning a person they cared for.

thenewbuzwuzz

In the last couple of months, both of these Spuffy archives have expanded their rules to allow posting standalone artwork. Erotic art is thriving on both sites, but for this post, I'll link my more worksafe favorites that everyone can view without logging in. The ratings are what the artists put on the whole series in which the works are posted.

Morning (from "take me out, and take me home") by MillenialCryBaby (G)
I couldn't pick just one work from this incredibly sweet and pretty series, so I picked the one that includes thumbnails of multiple others.
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double_dutchess

1. Giles & Wesley cartoon by cryotrash
2. Seasons 2-4 and season 5-7 in a nut shell (Spike & Buffy) by theboneyaard
3. Dawn and Spike at Thanksgiving in S4 by spikedru
4. Well well well if it isnt the blowjob brothers (Spike and Angel, don't worry: worksafe) by calupos
5. [s5e14] she’s not ready to face reality yet (Buffy/Spike) by renegade-inator

double_dutchess

Five artists worth mentioning for their entire oeuvre during 2022.

1. https://www.tumblr.com/whatshisfaceblogs

The continuing epic quest to draw each of Buffy's outfits for all episodes of BtVS.

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sparrow2000

Here’s my final list for this year’s buffyversetop5. Five awesome vids created this year.

Spuffy Abridged by Double Dutchess. Done for this year’s Seasonal Spuffy with The William Tell Overture as the soundtrack, the editing in this is awesome. Also worth checking out is the vid it was inspired by - Buffy the Vampire Slayer Abridged by Rowena - the link is in the DD’s description.

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dragonyphoenix

Apologies. It's technically the 29th here as it's shortly after midnight, but I'm not focused on 2022 works with these fanworks. I just didn't realize how late it had gotten.

Buffy Summers by Veruca - something about Buffy's expression in this image just gets me
( The rest of the works are picking out their costumes for next Monday )

dragonyphoenix

These fics may or may not be new, but I've found them in the past year.

Not Another Teen Massacre! by Yellow Caballero - Buffy comes to a Sunnydale where the kids already know how to save themselves, and they just might save her too.

Sunset by The Eclectic Bookworm - "Passions" but Jenny's pregnant.

Ask the Things You Shouldn't Mis0s by Punch Kicker 15 - Willow's spell lets MIss Kitty Fantastico understand human speech. Humans are complicated.

The Girl Who Courted Death by Off Your Bird - I'm giving you the author's summary 'cause it's just that good: Due to a misfortune of genetics, Buffy is never Called as a Slayer. Instead, she grows up in L.A. with a different set of challenges and trials, unaware of the supernatural world. That is, until a chance encounter with the Slayer of Slayers changes her life—and everything afterward—forever.

The Power of Voodoo by Lucid Screamer - Xander, who dressed as the Goblin King for Halloween, is creating a labyrinth in Sunnydale. WiP that's going in a very interesting direction.

apachefirecat

Here are my five.

First, there's the Spuffy video I turn to whenever I'm trying to get the words flowing but having issues...

Watch on YouTube

Then we have my personal favorite of all BtVS photomanips I've ever seen shared at this year's Summer of Giles: Family Portrait"> with Rupert Giles and Buffy and Joyce Summers.

An older fic, but one that was new to me and not only took me by surprise but made me interested in a pairing I'd never thought previously I could get behind (Spike/Willow) - Heights.

My favorite Angel story of all time, starring Lorne and a special friend - Psychic Friend.

And I'll leave y'all with another favorite video to help get those Spuffy Muses flowing! There are some really beautiful shots of James/Spike here.

Watch on YouTube

petzipellepingo

Five favorite Buffyverse stories, in no particular order :

1. OK, technically this isn't really a story however... The Art Project by

st_salieri.

2. Flight to Egypt , Spike by

powerofthebook.

3. Conundrum , William/Drusilla by

rebcake.

4. 14 Forever , Random Slayer by

perletwo

5. Nightswimming , Spike/Buffy by

calove.

And while I'm at it let me put in a shout out for the very much missed, Open on Sunday , a source for many of the best Buffyverse works.

yourlibrarian

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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thenewbuzwuzz

I guess my Spike fan is showing. Three of these are Spike-centric.

Lines Composed a Few Miles Above the Cheers & Beers Poetry Reading by JayeMaru (Spike, G)
I like how Spike is both a reader of poetry and a poet in this work and how his life experience informs his reading of Wordsworth's poem.
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yourlibrarian

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... )

roselynnthornwood

1 “control” by The_Eclectic_Bookworm

Giles and Jenny switch up their usual roles for a change.

2 “The Edge” by TheSigyn

Spike and Buffy use role play and BDSM to overcome trauma in their pasts.

3 “Tradition and Protocol” by antennapedia

A dedication ritual between Watchers and their Slayers requires some painful experiences.

4 “Sanctuary” by DHW

A post-canon Buffy/Giles fic that puts Fifty Shades to shame.

5 “The Rough Stuff” by TheScholarlyStrumpet

Another Buffy/Giles PWP with BDSM vibes. What can I say, I clearly have a type. 😂

yourlibrarian

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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yourlibrarian

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

thenewbuzwuzz

China Girl from Poetry by William Pratt - VERSUS by SPIKE by MissLuci (whole chapter rated R but poem is not sexual or otherwise graphic)
MissLuci wrote a whole multichapter story full of Spike's poems and Buffy's reactions to them!! This poem is about Spike killing Xin Rong, written from the perspective of pre-series soulless Spike. Note that the prose section at the bottom of the chapter is rated R for Spuffy smut.

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double_dutchess

Only one of these is from 2020, but I received kind permission to post the list anyway, so here goes!

Customize your own Playmobil Spuffy by

flowspuffy: I loved playing with Playmobil as a kid, so it was great to see a Playmobil Buffy and Spike at

seasonal_spuffy this year.

( More fancraft ahead! )

double_dutchess

Spike by scranndo

Spike and Xander by manabombs

Spike by dewberrysolar

Spike by flummoxed angel (plus bonus Giles and Wesley)

Buffy and Spike by astrangertomykin (could be considered slightly NSFW?)

double_dutchess

I don't usually read WIPs, but I am making an exception for these ones, because they're just so good or because I know they're going to be good. I may be cheating a bit here, as several of the WIPs in this list were not started in 2020, but since they all got updated this year I think it still counts. To compensate, two of them are REALLY recent.

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petzipellepingo.livejournal.com

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sparrow2000.livejournal.com

I promised a second 2020 Buffy 'verse vid post, so here it is.

The Preacher by heda reyes. This is dark, angsty and gorgeously done.

( Even more video beauties this way... )

thewiggins

thenewbuzwuzz is a staple of the online BtVS fandom. She not only participates here each year, but helps run Seasonal Spuffy and the Sunnydale Herald. But one of her greatest contributions to the fandom, in my opinion, is her advocacy for poetry as a fanwork medium. I certainly never would have tried it if it hadn't been for her inspiration. Here are a few of my favorite buzwuzz poems.

The Limericked Adventures of Bob the Hellmouth Cop
This was the poem that started it all for me. It was the winner of a contest on the now sadly defunct Sunnydale Fanfic Club podcast and her episode opened my eyes to the potential of fandom poetry. (Actually, the podcast wound up introducing us both to each other's work, eventually leading to our ongoing beta exchange.)

The poem itself is priceless. Using the limerick format to explore the POV of a clueless Sunnydale cop is just too good. I mean, consider this stanza:
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petzipellepingo.livejournal.com

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petzipellepingo.livejournal.com

In no special order :
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petzipellepingo.livejournal.com

5 Drabbles from times past

In no particular order :
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petzipellepingo.livejournal.com

Stories I love, in no particular order :

"Flight to Egypt" by

powerofthebook. A scene from Not Fade Away.

"Standoff" by

powerofthebook. Spike/Dawn

Death is no gift by

kaymickbee. Giles reflects

Postcards from the end by

renee2939. The gang post-"Chosen"

Nightswimming by

calove. Spike, Buffy and a swimming pool.

petzipellepingo.livejournal.com

In no particular order :

Girl Talk .

rahirah dissects Buffy's love life in fictional format.

Metaphors in Season Six by

elisi.

Fanged Four dynamics revisited by

selenak.

In which I talk about my favourite subject. Lots. - which is Spike and Buffy - by

the_royal_anna.

Season Seven essays by

sylva_rerum, with help from

elisi.

thenewbuzwuzz

Two well-researched products of international collaboration, two stories by people tapping into their own local lore, and a delightful joke oneshot.

(1) A taniwha from New Zealand, in Seek a Desolate Shade by wolf_shadoe a.k.a. Twinkles (Spuffy, NC-17, 23,737 words, complete)
The reason this list exists and the BEST THING EVER, because Twinkles is familiar not only with the folklore but also with its symbolic meanings in existing art and its presence in contemporary everyday life. And there's artwork. And this is thoughtful and magical and epic and fun. [ETA: I did want to mention that Angel is pretty evil in this story. Also, maybe there should be a sadness warning for parts of it... but still very worth reading, I thought.]

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petzipellepingo.livejournal.com

In no particular order :
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In no particular order :
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yourlibrarian

1) Illyria Writes a Poem (What country, friends, is this?) by Stultiloquentia. I'd thought this was recced here before, but I didn't find it in a search. Loved the end, see if you don't agree? ( Read more... )

thenewbuzwuzz

Largely by tumblr user impalementation, because I stan.

[Re: transformation and redemption in Angel's and Spike's arcs] by impalementation and left-handed-moth
Excerpt: "transformation and redemption become harder, more interesting problems when you try to solve them with characters that actively resist those narratives."

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yourlibrarian

1) Medley of Extemporanea by idyll. Angel and Lindsay meet again in Pittsburgh post-series, and neither of them is the same as they once were. An intriguing concept of how they might come to a middle ground. ( Read more... )

yourlibrarian

Every year I come across content I hadn't seen or read before but I usually am not able to read most of them during Top 5 session itself. But when I get a chance to later, I like to give them an extra thumbs up.

1) Hot Chicks with Superpowers by jess9191. Recced at last year's session, this does a fun job of blending together all the kick gals with kicks from the Whedonverses to Blow by Ke$ha. Entertaining enough to run on repeat. ( Read more... )

thenewbuzwuzz

All right, here's my last post for this session. Somehow the LiveJournal side of the comm ended up having a much more equal distribution of lists by different reccers. :D

stain the moon by yellowb (assorted ships and characters, PG-13)
It's a set of fun haiku with lovely strong character voices and POVs.

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flowspuffy.livejournal.com

I have already recced five short Spuffy fics and this is will be my last entry for this year. It's a list of five multi-chaptered Spuffy fics. All of them have been published and completed in 2019. Hope you enjoy some of them!

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flowspuffy.livejournal.com

Can you believe that more than twenty years after the show first aired numerous fanfics are still being written and published? It shows that BtVS really has stood the test of time and that the fandom is still alive and kicking. Yay! So from all those wonderful new stories here are five which are short and Spuffy and have been first published in 2019.

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yourlibrarian

Editable World Map of Spuffy Fic Recs by thenewbuzzwuzz who "mapped the settings of some Spuffy fic I have recced in the past. For example, "One Gazelle in All the World" by baphrosia takes place in the Serengeti, so I stuck a pin in Serengeti National Park and put the fic title and author in the description. So. Theoretically, one could use the map to find fic recs based on setting." It's open to edits so you can both browse it and make the map grow!

Que Sera, Sera aka. Doris' Day by kerk_hiraeth. Short ficlet that reminds us how the Three Caballeros might well have gone in quite a different direction with many more paths branching out.

gaycember — day 1 — Willow Rosenberg by ant-agony. This struck me as such a contented Willow.

In the Flower Bed by iseetheyelloweyed, a Spuffy artwork set in a rather macabre garden.

And as we begin November:

10 Reasons Pangs is Great by spuffybot. Not only did I find the point about Willow and Angel's relationship interesting to consider, but it was also good to see this representation of what I suspect a lot of fans do, which is to rewatch certain holiday Buffy episodes as part of their traditions.

thenewbuzwuzz

Beautiful by zabjade (G, 500 words)
Sweet and happy.
"She supposed she should be at some fancy, stuffy restaurant for her birthday, considering her age, but she loved this little dance club they’d found. They played “retro” (how weird was that, the music of her youth being retro now?) music that you could really dance to, both slow and fast."

Little Sister by Barb C (@rahirah) (T, 34,352 words)
featuring retirement, moisturizer, and adventures. It's been recced here before, by feliciacraft, for action-packed amazingness and technical feats of prose. I also really love the way the conflict is resolved. (And there, I told myself not to rec Barbverse because everyone already knows to read the Barbverse, but two recs snuck through anyway.)
"I'm only fifty-four. Isn't that too young to be old? I mean, God, Jess is only nine! Didn't the baby boomers pass a federal statute against being a grandmother before your own kids are all in their teens?"

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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.

thenewbuzwuzz

1. Mocktober Madness first-line-last-line challenge drabbles on @giles-shorts by @littleotter73 and @il_mio_capitano
I was happy to see this comm come to life - and with such a neat game.
One of my favorites: Apologies by @littleotter73 (Giles and his Citroën, FRC - Fan Rated for Children)

2. The Big Moments by jjscm (45 different BtVS and AtS characters and counting, G)
A great reminder of how many interesting people inhabit the Buffyverse. <3 I'm increasingly in awe as jjscm gets into more and more obscure characters. And you can request your fave in the comments! :)
One of my favorites: Wood (Robin Wood, Nikki Wood, G)

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yourlibrarian

If That Mockingbird Won't Sing by Doyle. Last year I was sent a pointer to this fic that I think has been recced here before, but it is a wonderfully creepy contribution to the season!

Wild and Wonderful by solstice. Recced at an earlier Top 5 session, I read this earlier this year and found it a delightful ride of Dawn and Spike on a road trip during the S2/S3 hiatus. It's always fun to see stories imagined of the Dawnverse and I thought Dawn was a convincing kid. Bonus, the maps on each chapter showing their route.

Rewritten by TheSigyn. Another story recced here, "A magic crystal is kicked aside rather than shattered, and an old world is closed behind. How do you move forward in a life without a history? And what if your history isn’t what you thought it was?" I quite liked the ending which took a different approach from many a fanfic in having it both ways, but also in hinting at the cost of happiness no matter how it's achieved. ( Read more... )

snickfic

I had trouble coming up with a theme, since this is literally "two fics I read this year and really loved" + "some other stuff I love." XD Anyway, I hope folks enjoy! I've certainly gotten a lot of enjoyment out of buffyversetop5 over the years. <3

( mix of characters and pairings behind the cut! )

thenewbuzwuzz

Are you guys getting tired of me yet? :D

This list is a sequel to my lists here and here, which were in turn inspired by the Fic Master List - Menstruation in the Buffyverse by ClawofCat. This one's mostly, but not entirely, Spuffy smut.

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thenewbuzwuzz

Two that were written earlier.
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And three written in 2019.
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yourlibrarian

1) All This Has Happened Before by hazellazer. "It was LA, of course. He saw plenty of platinum blonde women in skimpy red dresses, he just didn't usually see them in his office." Super idea for a Dollhouse and BSG crossover.

2) Happy Holidays by sueworld. Photo manip of a holiday clad (and unclad) Buffy and Spike looking quite festive!

3) Drusilla Caged by laurappel. I liked the split human/vamp face and the idea of Dru as one of her birds.

4) Spander Happy Holidays by catvampcrazines. Bet we'd all like a set of shippy Christmas tree baubles!

5) James Masters (Spike) by Jenn Jamison. There's something about the softness of this technique that I quite liked.

thenewbuzwuzz

...sorted by ascending number of Spike legs. I wasn't planning to make this post, but

yourlibrarian got me thinking about sorting criteria, and then I had to.

0 Spike legs:
the Narwhal!Verse
and as one specific fanwork rec from that verse:

double_dutchess' Narwhal!Spike manips (worksafe)
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thenewbuzwuzz.livejournal.com

Arranged in order of most to least perceived seriousness.

Last Summer's Corn (Riley)
by

trixiefatcat
Rating: not rated, worksafe
Site: LiveJournal
Year: 2006
(via Stultiloquentia's Jossverse Poetry Masterlist, all hail)

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My other rec posts will be on the Dreamwidth side of the comm.

petzipellepingo.livejournal.com

In no particular order :
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