Winter Lights [5/6]

This entry is part 6 of 7 in the series Winter Lights

Title: Winter Lights [5/6]
Media: fanfiction & fanart
Creators: the_moonmoth, wolveswithhats, kylathelurker, bewildered
Rating: PG-13
Characters: Buffy, Dawn, Giles, Andrew, OFC
Pairings: Buffy/Spike
Setting: Set shortly after ‘The Girl In Question’ and imagining it took place a little earlier than its air date.
Length: ~18,000 total (each chapter ~3,000)
Warnings: Attempted suicide and character death (both off-screen, but discussed)
Summary: Life, death, love, grief. Buffy takes a mission in the Arctic Circle with a slayer who never wanted to be and an enemy that barely compares to the one inside her own head.
Go here for notes, acknowledgements and chapter list.

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Winter Lights [4/6]

This entry is part 5 of 7 in the series Winter Lights

Title: Winter Lights [4/6]
Media: fanfiction & fanart
Creators: the_moonmoth, wolveswithhats, kylathelurker, bewildered
Rating: PG-13
Characters: Buffy, Dawn, Giles, Andrew, OFC
Pairings: Buffy/Spike
Setting: Set shortly after ‘The Girl In Question’ and imagining it took place a little earlier than its air date.
Length: ~18,000 total (each chapter ~3,000)
Warnings: Attempted suicide and character death (both off-screen, but discussed)
Summary: Life, death, love, grief. Buffy takes a mission in the Arctic Circle with a slayer who never wanted to be and an enemy that barely compares to the one inside her own head.
Go here for notes, acknowledgements and chapter list.

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Winter Lights [3/6]

This entry is part 4 of 7 in the series Winter Lights

Title: Winter Lights [3/6]
Media: fanfiction & fanart
Creators: the_moonmoth, wolveswithhats, kylathelurker, bewildered
Rating: PG-13
Characters: Buffy, Dawn, Giles, Andrew, OFC
Pairings: Buffy/Spike
Setting: Set shortly after ‘The Girl In Question’ and imagining it took place a little earlier than its air date.
Length: ~18,000 total (each chapter ~3,000)
Warnings: Attempted suicide and character death (both off-screen, but discussed)
Summary: Life, death, love, grief. Buffy takes a mission in the Arctic Circle with a slayer who never wanted to be and an enemy that barely compares to the one inside her own head.
Go here for notes, acknowledgements and chapter list.

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Illustrated Fanfic: Winter Lights [Master Post]

This entry is part 1 of 7 in the series Winter Lights

Title: Winter Lights [0/6]
Media: fanfiction & fanart
Creators: the_moonmoth, wolveswithhats, kylathelurker, bewildered
Rating: PG-13
Characters: Buffy, Dawn, Giles, Andrew, OFC
Pairings: Buffy/Spike
Setting: Set shortly after ‘The Girl In Question’ and imagining it took place a little earlier than its air date.
Length: ~18,000 total (each chapter ~3,000)
Warnings: Attempted suicide and character death (both off-screen, but discussed)
Summary: Life, death, love, grief. Buffy takes a mission in the Arctic Circle with a slayer who never wanted to be and an enemy that barely compares to the one inside her own head.

Notes:

    • Inspired heavily by the London Grammar song Sights.
    • This is a very personal story and a lot of people helped me out with it along the way. My very great thanks go to angearia for looking over an early version, torrilin for answering my questions about huskies, and yavannie82 and bewilde for excellent and comprehensive betaing, through which they have made this fic so tight it could float. Bottomless appreciation also to kylathelurker for a superlative alpha-read, cultural input and seemingly unending support and enthusiasm. They all helped me make this as good and as accurate as possible – any remaining mistakes are my own.
    • Further thanks to my lovely, generous and incredibly talented artistswolveswithhats, kylathelurker and bewilde who have produced some truly stunning illustrations for this story. Their art is indexed and credited below. Some pics are still on their way, however, so keep an eye out :) If you enjoy their work along with mine, I hope you will remember to let them know.
    • This story is now also available on AO3 and EF.
    • Constructive criticism is always welcome, and in fact encouraged. Enjoy!

Links:

Chapter 1 – “Whatever important place a hedgehog would have to go.”

Chapter 2 – “Here there be bloody dragons.” | Art by kylathelurker

Chapter 3 – “I don’t like you enough to put it into smaller words.” | Art by wolveswithhats | Art by kylathelurker

Chapter 4 – “I don’t know. I don’t know anymore.”

Chapter 5 – “Don’t die on a dark night.” | Art by kylathelurker | Art by bewilde

Chapter 6 – “That border at the edge of the campfire.”

 

Originally posted at http://seasonal-spuffy.livejournal.com/516315.html

I Walk Alone

matter_of_time_thumb.jpgTitle: I Walk Alone
Author: comlodge
Charachters: Spike and Buffy
Medium: Art Picspam – heavy emphasis on the spam
Rating: PG
Setting: S5
Disclaimer: Joss does not even own them, damn it!
A/N: This is one of my fave Spuffy scenes and I liked the way the camera slowly panned them. From intent to murder to silent comforter. That Spike! He walks his own path and so does Buffy. A nice excuse to make a Photoshop action to clean up, textureise and present a bunch of images. Forgot to make an icon. And durn uploaded in order instead of reverse. One at a time add then it is. 28 images you scroll quickly to get one of those old time flickering films. :D Thans to Greenday who sometimes sound quite nice, for singing about our star crossed kids.

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More comic icons – free for all day

Creator: double_dutchess
Form: icons
Era: comics season 10

Thanks to all who have made this Seasonal Spuffy such a great event with their wonderful contributions! Here is mine: a set of S10 comics icons. If anyone’s interested in any of them, snag away. (Don’t forget to check out the comic icons made by teragramm as well!)

Original artists: Steve Morris (6/7), Megan Levens (2/16), Rebekah Isaacs (all the rest).

Teaser:

     

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The Journey of Spike and Buffy

spuffy_moments_thumb.jpgTitle: Spuffy Memories
Author: comlodge
Characters: Spike and Buffy
Medium: Art – Wallpaper
Rating: M – depictions of violence
Disclaimer: They belong to someone else.
A/N: Some snaps of some my fave episodes and scenes in the journey that was Spike and Buffy from S4 to S7. One almost always begins with Something Blue for Spuffy. There was so much more to their engagement than a simple wish of “Why don’t they just get married.” The happiness, the intimacy, the thoughtfulness from both. Feelings to linger in both long after the spell.

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A Matter of Time

matter_of_time_thumb.jpgTitle: It’s Just a Matter of Time
Author: comlodge
Characters: Buffy & Spike
Medium: Art – Icon, Wallpaper
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: Not my characters but they should be.
A/N: An homage to the comics finally seeing the light and drawing the Spuffy!!! It’s about time!!! Comic Canon!! In colours of red and gold for the passion and truth of their love.
Winner at the 2015 No Rest for the Wicked Arwards

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And my dreams

dreams_thumb.jpgTitle: My Dreams
Author: comlodge
Charachters: Spike/Buffy
Medium: Art – icon, Banner, Wallpaper
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: Not my characters or clips. My Photoshop skills
Season: S6
A/N: I loved this particular scene from Dead Things in S6 and thought of it immediately when I was listening to the song behind Blue Eyes by the Who. I thought the line I’ve used is particularly suited to Spike and Buffy at this particular time. Their relationship is the wrecked house. He is still a demon who struggles to have a conscience worthy of the Slayer he loves and his love for her is drawing him out of the dark, into the light. Buffy is struggling to come back to life, to feel again, to get past the harsh reality of losing her place in heaven and the feelings that being with Spike is changing those lights from dark hysteria into the colours of life. Their relationship burns them both even as they struggle to achieve the dreams they each hold deep inside…

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You love so hard…

you_love_so_hard_thumb.jpgTitle: You Love So Hard
Author: comlodge
Medium: Art – Icon, Wallpaper, Banner
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: For play
Season: S7
A/N: I love this scene. Soft, a changing in their relationship, a new beginning after the horrors of S6. I’ve used the colours of passion and love – reds and purples – with a touch of gold for the truth and purity of his love for her and finally hers for him. The blues are for their strength and the texture for the depth of their passion, A tender moment that acknowledges what they recieve from the other.

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Bouncing Back – A Spuffy Banner

ssicon_2015.jpgTitle: Bouncing Back
Author: comlodge
Medium: Art – Banner
Rating: PG
Season: S7
A/N: For me the scene of Buffy sleeping in Spike’s arms is the turning point, the boucing backpoint in the battle against the first. The good guys are in chaos having ousted Buffy and about to suffer a defeat under the new leadership. Spike’s belief and unselfish devotion to Buffy gives her heart, she retrieves the Scythe and gathers her troops back to her leadership, finds in those last moments that she can and does love and Spike finally gains his humanity in his ultimate sacrifice…

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Seasonal Spuffy – Graphics Once More With Feeling

And here we are  – Spuffy in the comic books Buffy Season 10 and their “Second Chance” at sharing their lives together in a loving relationship that is based on equality and acceptance of their lives –  both the light/positive and the dark/negative aspects that are part of who Buffy and Spike are.  We shall see if Joss Whedon and Dark Horse will finally place Buffy on this very important new phase of her life – moving on from her earlier love experiences and allowing herself to find happiness with Spike.  As for Spike- he has been loving this woman for so long but he has also made some very important changes for his own life that has taken him away from his “love’s bitch” existence and he knows that he no longer wants to live at the outer edges of her life.  We shall see – but Buffy and Spike have placed “all their Spuffy eggs in the Soul Basket”  and I just hope that this time they will find love together.

Original Art – Steve Morris Issue #4  – Dark Horse Comics

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Seasonal Spuffy – Graphics

Another study from what I think is one of the best episodes of the entire BS6 – the triad of “Dead Things”  “Older and Far Away” and “As You Were” have always, in my interpretation of the series, been more a reflection of Buffy’s dreamscape nightmare inner demons and her emotional trauma than a statement of Spike’s real world and the premise that Spike is wanting to drag Buffy into the darkness of his world.  I’ve always felt that Spike is primarily reacting to the parameters and rules that Buffy set up from her first kiss in “One More With Feeling” and eventually led to the tragic events of “Seeing Red.”

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Season Spuffy – Graphic Studies Season 6 and 10

First of all big Thank You to the lovely folks who run Seasonal Spuffy and congrats to all the participants for all the new works they created for the Spuffy fans –

I have three Graphics that contrast the events of Spuffy in Season Six and the current comic book Season 10.  Hope you like them – as always, your feed back is always appreciated.

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24 Icons [btvs S2, S5, S7, spike/buffy]

Hey everyone! It’s been a long time since I made icons, I used photoshop for two years almost just for work and I was out there thinking `do you remember when I had that obsessive-compulsive disorder?´ I miss that! I played around with a different textures and I have to admit, I was not sure of anything again but that’s fine, this is so compulsive and obsessive and fantastic, you have brought me back. Thanks and enjoy! ;)

.| [01-09] 5×22 The Gift.
.| [10-16] 2×22 Becoming Part 2.
.| [17-21] 7×20 Touched.
.| [22-23] 7X02 Beneath You.
.| [—-24] 7×01 Lessons.

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