The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Thursday, September 30

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XANDER: Spike's sex-bot. Why didn't they just melt it down into scrap?
ANYA: Maybe Willow wanted it.
XANDER: I don't think Willow feels that way about, about Buffy. I mean, I know she's gone through a lot of changes, but-
ANYA: To study it.
XANDER: Right. Robotics. Science.
ANYA: Pervert.
XANDER: Other pervert.

~~The Gift~~

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[Drabbles & Short Fiction]

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• Apocalypse or Not? (Spike/Xander, T) by forsaken2003
• It only hurts when I breathe (Willow&Giles, past Willow/Kennedy, G) by Mouselafay
• The Stanford Slaying Society (Dawn x Connor, G) by calenlily
• Oneshot series: Album Fic: Prospekt's March and Album Fic: Yourself or Someone Like You (Giles/Buffy, rated T to E) archived by froxyn
• Mystery Date (Giles/Buffy, G) by TheScholarlyStrumpet
• The Man Who Loves You (Giles/Buffy, T) by ElleV
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• [Janna had been using fake names for as long as she could remember, but...] (Giles/Jenny, not rated) by jessannperreault

[Chaptered Fiction]

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• The Love of the Bullied, Chapter 20 (Spike/Xander, R) by forsaken2003
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• love is blindness (i don’t wanna see), part 3 (Spike/Buffy, not rated) by tobeakindofman
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• Living On The Hellmouth. Chapter 1 (Spike/OC, Xander&OC, Scoobies, T) by HarriettWithTea98
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• These Endless Days, Chapter 4 (Spike/Buffy, PG-13) by violettathepiratequeen
• The Tiger is Out, Chapter 27 (Spike/Buffy, R) by Cosmic Tuesdays
• A Time for Everything, Chapter 14 (Spike/Buffy, Spike&Dawn, NC-17) by Nik84
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• Games Xander Plays, Chapter 2 (crossover with Champions RPG, Xander/Buffy, FR15) by Balder
• Death Is Buffy's Next Great Adventure, Chapter 60 (crossover with "Harry Potter", Buffy/Tom Riddle, FR15) by Sharie

[Images, Audio & Video]

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• Digital painting and process video: Spike (worksafe) by geekgriffon
• Artwork: Jenny doodle 1, Jenny doodle 2, Jenny doodle 3 (worksafe) by mouselafay

[Reviews & Recaps]

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• Chosen/Season 7 by bootywranglers and others
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• PODCAST: Pop Culture Role Call: Put It On Your Toe - Angel S01E03 - In the Dark

[Recs]

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• @dreadfulcalendarwoman may have affected my ability to watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer by jessannperreault

[Community Announcements]

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• Everything you need to know about the Called Challenge at Elysian Fields (posting starts October 1st)

[Fandom Discussions]

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• I’ve seen this weird retroactive criticism... of the way “[Joss] writes” female characters by hitchcock-block
• "Midnight Mass" crossover headcanon by eightieskat
• Drusilla could have shown up in Angel season 5 [and killed some babies] by noamchomsky420
• [How wild it is that btvs s6 and ats s3 were airing at the same time] by imvisiongirl
• I’m sorry but I unironically thought Spike’s poetry was good by atlasshrugd, millenialslayer
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• Why was Harmony there? [AtS season 5] (cont'd) by Stake fodder, thrasherpix
• What would AtS season 5 look like with Cordelia instead of Spike? (cont'd) by Stake fodder
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• Joyce's ups and downs by Stoney, vampmogs, HardlyThere
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• Is Warren mostly loathed because... by biscuitscoconut and others
• Why couldn't Cordelia go to college even though she was accepted in many of them? by jdpm1991 and others

[Articles, Interviews, and Other News]

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• Photo: My Buffy The Vampire Slayer VHS (worksafe) by eyes-like-a-pisces
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• Writers' drafts of "The Replacement" and Jane Espenson's commentary shared by lets-steal-an-archive via Matthew Pateman

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