The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Sunday, January 9

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GILES: In this scenario, I am your mother?
BUFFY: Wanna be my shiftless absentee father?
GILES: Is there some sort of, um, rakish uncle?

~~Life Serial~~

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[Drabbles & Short Fiction]

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• Tender (crossover with Black Widow, Xander, T) by Vashti
• 5 times Rupert Giles bumped into Ms. Calendar during the summer of ‘97 (Giles/Jenny, G) by summers-maclay-lehane
• Swinging of the Pendulum (Buffy/Angel & Dawn, T) by OveliaGirlHaditRight
• The Sound of Music (Buffy/Angel, G) by OveliaGirlHaditRight
• Maybe If I Tell Myself Enough (Buffy/Angel, G) by OveliaGirlHaditRight
• "B" (Buffy/Faith, not rated) by secretlyasummers
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• Some stream-of-consciousness Buffy pov post Life Serial (Buffy, Spike, not rated) by disaster-vamp
• Swinging of the Pendulum (Buffy/Angel & Dawn, T) by oveliagirlhaditright
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• Tender (crossover with Black Widow, FR13) by Vashti

[Chaptered Fiction]

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• Faith's Bus Station Adventure, Chapter 1 (Faith/OC, E) by LadiesWhoLunch
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• What Happens in Quarantine..., Chapter 14 (Spike/Buffy, NC-17) by bewildered
• The Slayer and the Vampire, Chapter 11 (Spike/Buffy, PG) by violettathepiratequeen
• Missing Piece, Chapter 2 (Spike/Buffy, NC-17) by incendie
• The Tiger is Out, Chapter 64 (Spike/Buffy, R) by Cosmic Tuesdays
• Daughter of Aurelius, Chapter 41 (Spike/Buffy, NC-17) by Loup Noir
• The Fairytale, Chapter 2 (Spike/Buffy, NC-17) by Dusty
• Chosen One, Chapter 15 (Spike/Buffy, R) by all_choseny
• Deeper than Blood, Chapter 11 (Spike/Buffy, NC-17) by Blackmysteria
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• Broken Chain, Chapter 3 (Connor, FR18) by McQueen

[Images, Audio & Video]

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• Manip: Our family (Spike/Buffy & OC, worksafe) by little-miss-buffy
• Gifs: honey by Halsey (Buffy/Faith, worksafe) by buffysource
• Artwork: BtVS lego minifigures (Spike, Buffy, Willow, Xander) by the brother of foolforbuffy
• Artwork: BTVS “Every Outfit” “Prophecy Girl” (Buffy, worksafe) by whatshisfaceblogs
• Digital painting: A study of Tara (worksafe) by wvelyn
• Manips: All the twists & bends (Buffy, worksafe) by slayersandprivateinvestigators
• Artwork: BTVS Characters - Disney style (Buffy, Cordelia, Dawn, Tara, Oz, Willow, worksafe) by antidam0n
• Gifs: I don't damsel well (Buffy, worksafe) by scullys
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• Song and fanvid: Full of Faith (Faith) by Anthony Swan

[Reviews & Recaps]

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• btvs season 7 episodes ranked by fallingtowers
• Buffy and Angel’s Romeo and Juliet-ness in the comics kind of drives me insane by oveliagirlhaditright
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• BOOM! Buffy the last vampire slayer #1 (continued) by Priceless and others
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• What would you rate Angel Season 6? by shonenhikada and others
• Favourite fight scene in Buffy? by Lizcatherine and others

[Recs / In Search Of]

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• Spuffy and Spangel fic recs by trenchcoat-full-of-recs
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• Angel "meta" essays? (Does anyone know of any notable people/blogs that write this kind of material about AtS?) by cuddlyvampire

[Community Announcements]

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• A Year in Review at Elysian Fields

[Fandom Discussions]

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• Snowflake Challenge #5 (talk about an idea you wish you had the time / talent / energy to do) by sparrow2000
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• I just can’t buy that Buffy… could get anywhere near Northwestern acceptance by avoidingdestiny, girl4music, and others (multiple reblog threads)
• i wish we got more scenes with faith and dawn by faith-thee-slayer
• Re: Buffy and Shadowhunters crossover OTP by takaraphoenix
• Confused by Twilight!Angel by oveliagirlhaditright
• The scene where Angel was pretending to be Angelus in “Enemies” by oveliagirlhaditright
• Buffy & Giles (a relationship that... is so devoted and at the same time so complicated and painful) by roselightfairy
• Sapphic representation in Buffy the Vampire Slayer season three by sapphicpoetspost
• Re: why Faith doesn't get Buffy's Valium 18th birthday demon murder surprise by herinsectreflection
• Prophecy Girl made it seem like people they know getting brutally murdered... wasn’t a regular occurrence by millenialslayer
• The Scoobies’ response to Harmony becoming a vampire by ex-vengeancedemon, girl4music
• I'm wondering how Giles got to “school librarian” as a career by roselightfairy, jessannperreault, rachaeljurassic
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• Openly discussing Buffy being the slayer in front of Amy by EmEeeCee, thrasherpix
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• Buffyverse fanon discontinuity (continued) by multiple authors
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• Poll: Members of r/Buffy, when did you start watching BtVS? by Excellent-Durian-509
• Who is the strongest? by nobodythinksofyou
• Favorite Under-Explored Relationship? [AtS] by rednax2009
• Was Cecily Spike's Vengeance Demon? by brentus86
• Buffy working at DMP by leiamoonglade
• I completely forgot Kal Penn was on the show by Monctonian and others
• Anyone remember Buffy RP chat rooms? by spidersonthemoon
• Team Angel Opinions? [Angel Investigations] by depressing_joke and others
• Atmosphere on set by AiyanaPass
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• Further thoughts on Xander/Anya and Buffy/Angel by yourlibrarian, wayward, heterocosmica

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