Wednesday, December 7, 2011

[menomegirl.livejournal.com]

Lawson: Seems like you're doing pretty well for yourself. It's a far cry from all those years you spent in the gutters, eating rats.
Angel: You've been following my life. I'm touched.
Lawson: I just check in every decade or so. Imagine my surprise when I found out that Mr. Vermin-eater himself was suddenly fighting evil and running Wolfram & Hart. Mind explaining that one to me? Those two don't exactly go hand in hand.
Angel: It's complicated.
Lawson: Find that's true about most things these days. I don't mean to sound like an old man, but ... we used to live in simpler times, didn't we? Never thought I'd miss being on that sub. Things made a kind of sense. "Keep your head down..."
Lawson & Angel voiceover: "Watch each other's backs, and stay alert."

~~Why We Fight~~

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[Drabbles & Ficlets]

• Forging a New Alliance by aaronlisa, Faith, Xander, PG-13. Written for winter_of_faith.
• rebcake recs Once More, With Lorne by hello_spikey.
• Overcome by brutti_ma_buoni, Spike/Buffy, PG.
• Porny Advent 7 by hello_spikey, Spike/Wesley, PG.
• Prince Charming by hello_spikey, Buffy/Spike, PG.
• I Will Keep My Promises My Dear by smells_corrupt, Buffy, Spike, PG.
• Shiny Amulets and Fragile Trust by telaryn, BtVS/Leverage crossover, Parker, Faith, Nate, Eliot, PG.

[Chaptered Fiction Updates]

• Welcome to the Neighborhood Chapter 4 by yakimama, Buffy/Spike, Dawn, R.
• Could Have Had It All Chapter 12 by hezio2, BtVS/SPN crossover, Dean/Buffy, Sam/Dawn, Willow/Oz, Willow/Tara, Xander/Anya, R.
• Masters Of Thornfield Chapter 136by naughty_fae, Spike/Xander, NC-17. *Journal NWS*
• Metastasis Part 5 by bookgodess15, Spike/Xander, PG-13.
• Family Confidential, Chapter 42 part 1 and Chapter 42 part 2 by miss_kuddel, Willow/Tara, PG-13.

[Community Announcements]

• Challenge 209 is up at btvs_hush.
• The challenge for I've Got You Under My Skin ends on Friday at btvsats_guys.
• escapade_con has made a post about the brand new Sandy Herrold Memorial Scholarship, which is designed help a new vidder attend Escapade. Check it out! Even if you aren't able to donate, they need nominees.

[Fandom Discussion]

• The Meta Arsenal: Stakes, Fangs and Other Symbolic Weaponry in "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" by lostboy_lj.
• feedbackathon is hosting a community discussion on what makes good feedback.

[Articles, Interviews & Other News]

• SlayAlive's Q&A with Rebekah Isaacs for Angel and Faith #4 is complete.

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[menomegirl]

Lawson: Seems like you're doing pretty well for yourself. It's a far cry from all those years you spent in the gutters, eating rats.
Angel: You've been following my life. I'm touched.
Lawson: I just check in every decade or so. Imagine my surprise when I found out that Mr. Vermin-eater himself was suddenly fighting evil and running Wolfram & Hart. Mind explaining that one to me? Those two don't exactly go hand in hand.
Angel: It's complicated.
Lawson: Find that's true about most things these days. I don't mean to sound like an old man, but ... we used to live in simpler times, didn't we? Never thought I'd miss being on that sub. Things made a kind of sense. "Keep your head down..."
Lawson & Angel voiceover: "Watch each other's backs, and stay alert."

~~Why We Fight~~

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[Drabbles & Ficlets]

• Forging a New Alliance by aaronlisa, Faith, Xander, PG-13. Written for winter_of_faith.
• rebcake recs Once More, With Lorne by hello_spikey.
• Overcome by brutti_ma_buoni, Spike/Buffy, PG.
• Porny Advent 7 by hello_spikey, Spike/Wesley, PG.
• Prince Charming by hello_spikey, Buffy/Spike, PG.
• I Will Keep My Promises My Dear by smells_corrupt, Buffy, Spike, PG.
• Shiny Amulets and Fragile Trust by telaryn, BtVS/Leverage crossover, Parker, Faith, Nate, Eliot, PG.

[Chaptered Fiction Updates]

• Welcome to the Neighborhood Chapter 4 by yakimama, Buffy/Spike, Dawn, R.
• Could Have Had It All Chapter 12 by hezio2, BtVS/SPN crossover, Dean/Buffy, Sam/Dawn, Willow/Oz, Willow/Tara, Xander/Anya, R.
• Masters Of Thornfield Chapter 136by naughty_fae, Spike/Xander, NC-17. *Journal NWS*
• Metastasis Part 5 by bookgodess15, Spike/Xander, PG-13.
• Family Confidential, Chapter 42 part 1 and Chapter 42 part 2 by miss_kuddel, Willow/Tara, PG-13.

[Community Announcements]

• Challenge 209 is up at btvs_hush.
• The challenge for I've Got You Under My Skin ends on Friday at btvsats_guys.
• escapade_con has made a post about the brand new Sandy Herrold Memorial Scholarship, which is designed help a new vidder attend Escapade. Check it out! Even if you aren't able to donate, they need nominees.

[Fandom Discussion]

• The Meta Arsenal: Stakes, Fangs and Other Symbolic Weaponry in "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" by lostboy_lj.
• feedbackathon is hosting a community discussion on what makes good feedback.

[Articles, Interviews & Other News]

• SlayAlive's Q&A with Rebekah Isaacs for Angel and Faith #4 is complete.

Thursday, December 8, 2011

[emelye-miller.livejournal.com]

Xander: You don't know what you're talking about.
Willow: Xander, he was obviously in charge.
Xander: He was a puppet! She was using him!
Willow: He didn't seem like the type of guy who would let himself be used.
Xander: Well, that was her genius! He didn't even know he was playing second fiddle. (turns behind him) Buffy.
Buffy: Huh?
Xander: Who was the real power? The Captain, or Tennille?

~~Ted~~

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[Stand-alones, Ficlets and Drabbles]

• Porny Advent Drabble #8 by hello_spikey, Spike, R.
• Festive Ficlet #10 by brutti_ma_buoni, Illyria, Liliah, PG.
• Memento Mei by glimmergirl, Jenny, Buffy, Joyce, PG. Erasure poem of alias_sqbr’s Memento Vivere (The Plural of Momento Mori is Memento Mori for erasureathon.
• Father of Lies by brutti_ma_buoni, Buffy/Spike, PG. For sb_fag_ends.

[Fandom Essays and Discussion]

• The Feminist Filter: Surprise, by gabrielleabelle.