Saturday January 4th - Sunday January 5th 2014

[gillo]

(Giles' place. Giles tries to extract the tracking device from Spike's flesh)

SPIKE: Oww! Watch it. That hurts.

GILES: It doesn't appear to be a bullet. It's too deeply embedded to be a tranquilizer dart.

SPIKE: (grumble) Also not tranquil.

GILES: Some sort of . . . illumination emanating from it. It's blinking.

SPIKE: I don't care if it's playing 'Rockin' the Casbah' on the bloody Jew's harp, (human growling) just get it out of me!

GILES: Anya, there's a bottle of Cognac in the cabinet next to the sink. Can you get it for me?

SPIKE: What? You're gonna get snockered now?

GILES: It's not for me, you prat. If I'm gonna operate on you then I need you anaesthetised. It's going to take some time.

XANDER: We don't have any. That blinking thing. My pseudo-soldier memory bank tells me that's a tracer.

GILES: A what?

SPIKE: A what?

XANDER: It's like a homing beacon. And if commando guys are reading the signal, they're coming home.

~~The "I" in Team ~~

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[Drabbles]

• Hers by ChokolatteJedi Buffy/Faith.

[Short Fiction]

• Poetry for my Broken Heart by theladymerlin Angel(us)/Spike (William). R.
• Impromptu Angel/Spike/Wes smut by flaming_muse Angel/Spike/Wes. Explicit.
• Connected by brutti_ma_buoni Willow, PG13.
• Moon Magic by LitGal Riley, Faith. Crossover with Harry Potter. Mature.
• wanderlust by SavageDefender Buffy & Faith. General audiences.
• A Simple Game of Chance by Jessia Giles, Buffy, Willow, Xander. PG.

[Chaptered Fiction Updates]

• All Night Long - Chapter two by fluffybkitty Buffy/Faith. R.
• Watcher, until the next is called - Part 3 by astartelydianna Buffy/Giles. NC17.
• Advent - Chapter 1 by 3hours Ensemble. FRM.
• Matchmaker, Matchmaker.: KELOID by naughty-fae Spike/Xander. NC17.

[Images & Videos]

• The Sins On My Back or Deliver Me From This Hell by comlodge Spike/Riley.

[Community Announcements]

• Time to nominate at the Willowy Goodness Awards, as announced by velvetwhip

[Assorted recs]

• Five Favorite Fics suggested by dragonyphoenix
• 4 Spuffy Manips ... & 1 Spangel suggested by debris4spike
• 5 Manips - Spike, His Family ... & Buffy , like the previous recs, all by comlodge
• A list of fanworks in 2013 by scribesds
• 5 Buffyverse Writers Who Posted Classic Fic to AO3 in 2013 suggested by rebcake
• Five Terrific Fics from Fanfiction.net linked by punch_kicker15
• A discussion of the work of blondebitz by velvetwhip
• Five Fine Fics by elviswhataguy linked by punch_kicker15
• A reminder of the excellent work of Marcus Rowlands and links by dragonyphoenix

[Fandom Discussion]

• Dawn Summers: Free Will and the Created Girl by kwritten
• Musing on Xander by slaymesoftly - planning a Xander-focus rewatch.
• Shades of Gray: Examples of Ethics, or Lack Thereof, in Buffy considered by dragonyphoenix
• Femslash discussed by brutti-ma-buoni
• Best Of / Worst Of Character Moments: Angel- After The Fall (or S6, if you will) Issue 1 discussed by harsens-rob and
• Best Of Worst Of Character Moments: BTVS, S8 - Issue 1