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.
rating: other
Winter Lights [2/6]
Title: Winter Lights [2/6]
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.
Winter Lights [1/6]
Title: Winter Lights [1/6]
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.
Illustrated Fanfic: Winter Lights [Master Post]
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.
- 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
Fic: What Lay Onward and What Behind, Chapter 2 (Rated R)
Here’s the next installment of What Lay Onward and What Behind. Runs ~2700 words long. I plan to have the rest finished within a week. Thanks for reading!
Fic: What Lay Onward and What Behind, Chapter 1 (Rated R)
I cannot resist another offering to seasonal_spuffy (hallowed be thy name!), a spanking-new-fic that will be finished in the next week. Thanks again to the mods and all my fellow participants for this spectacular round of Seasonal Spuffy!
Title: What Lay Onward and What Behind
Author: feliciacraft
Continuity: Set a decade after “Chosen”
Warning: Buffy/Other
Length: ~3400 Words
Rating: R
Betas: all4spike (who speedily ran the piece through her fine comb), baphrosia and dragonyphoenix, for their special guest critique, who are just the kind of critics a writer’s dreams are made of. Thank you all so much! This is a work in progress, so all remaining errors are mine.
Author’s Note: Since my wonderful f-list has encouraged me to hold fast and steady to my own artistic vision and not to pander, note the Buffy/Other (F/M) in this story. Also: I’ve never been to Japan or Cambodia (layovers don’t count, I think). Let me know if anything doesn’t ring true. Otherwise, much praise is due to Google.
Feedback: Yes, yes and yes please! Won’t you be so kind?
Who’s that Lady – part 3 of the Magic Man series (parts 1 & 2 are now posted on AO3)
“Hey, Buffy.”
“Hey, yourself, Willow. Thanks for coming. We’ve had a development, and we were hoping you could help.”
Fic: “Ipseity” Chapter Three: Giles [3/3 (posted here), 3/27 (overall)]
Title: Ipseity. Chapter Three: Giles
Author: Spuffy_Luvr
Setting: Starts at the end of “Chosen”, and goes off-canon from there.
Rating: R (language)
Word Count: 1900
A/N: This is a long story (27 chapters). It’s fully written, but still in the process of being betaed and edited. I’ll be posting the first 3 chapters today, and the rest to AO3, EF, and FF.net in future weeks.
A/N2: Thanks to my betas, margueritedaisy, All4Spike, and foxstarreh
Fic: “Ipseity” Chapter Two: Buffy [2/3 (posted here), 2/27 (overall)]
Title: Ipseity. Chapter Two: Buffy
Author: Spuffy_Luvr
Setting: Starts at the end of “Chosen”, and goes off-canon from there.
Rating: R (language)
Word Count: 2500
A/N: This is a long story (27 chapters). It’s fully written, but still in the process of being betaed and edited. I’ll be posting the first 3 chapters today, and the rest to AO3, EF, and FF.net in future weeks.
A/N2: Thanks to my betas, margueritedaisy, All4Spike, and foxstarreh
Fic: “Ipseity” Chapter One: Dawn [1/3 (posted here), 1/27 (overall)]
Title: Ipseity. Chapter One: Dawn
Author: Spuffy_Luvr
Setting: Starts at the end of “Chosen”, and goes off-canon from there.
Rating: R (language)
Word Count: 3350
A/N: This is a long story (27 chapters). It’s fully written, but still in the process of being betaed and edited. I’ll be posting the first 3 chapters today, and the rest to AO3, EF, and FF.net in future weeks.
A/N2: Thanks to my betas, margueritedaisy, All4Spike, and foxstarreh
Fic: Making It [PG]
A little somethin’ somethin’ for Free For All day…
Title: Making It
Medium: Fanfic
Pairing(s): Buffy/Spike (Joyce/Hank)
Rating: PG
Length: ~1,500
Timeline: S4 post-Hush in an AU setting
Warnings: Schmooooooooooooop
Summary: Positive thoughts bring positive results, that’s what Joyce always used to tell the girls. It’s her polished-up, momish version of ‘fake it until you make it’.
Notes: A little coda to Reciprocal. Originally part of the main story, I cut this scene at the last minute, and have since expanded it. Thanks to herself_nyc for the original beta; any subsequent mistakes are my own. Concrit is welcome. Enjoy :)
Fic: Fire in the Soul (6a/9)
A new chapter of my San Francisco story/travelogue! It’s been awhile, but the end is in sight! I’m sorry not to have a self-contained piece for this round, but I’m determined to finish this seasonal_spuffy WIP. (How do you novel-length authors do it?)
Title: Fire in the Soul (6a/9)
Author: Rebcake
Rating: PG13
Word count: 2075
Pairing: Spike/Buffy, with Dru and OCs.
A/N: Thanks for the quickie beta by MiAmor. NOT comics compliant.
Summary: A few years after Sunnydale’s spectacular demise, Buffy and her crew are getting on with their lives in San Francisco. A not entirely unwelcome blast from her past (Spike! It’s Spike!) blows into town, but he’s brought more than the generally allowable amount of baggage with him.
Fic: “Bed Wrinkles In Time” (1/1)
Just a short ficlet from me today. I took a bit of a risk with the decidedly unsexy subject matter; I hope you like it anyway. :)
Bed Wrinkles In Time
By: caia
Rating: PG
Setting: 2030
Genre: Humor/Schmoop
Warnings: mentions of medical stuff, but nothing graphic.
Standard disclaimer: The characters aren’t mine, just the story.
Blurb: Buffy is fifty, and not pleased about some of the indignities that go with that.
Feedback: Yes, please.
Free-for-all day fic – more After the Deluge.
I was amazed and grateful for comments and readers when I posted a chapter of After the Deluge on Monday. Thank you everyone who did either!
Here, as it’s free-for-all-day, is another chapter. No, don’t faint. 1,212 words, PG13.
Broken (Chapter 9)
Disclaimer: I don’t own anything that you recognise.
Summary: Buffy is missing when Spike returns to San Francisco. Comics verse – goes au after Season 9 Vol 10. Dawn’s distraught and turns to Spike for help. Meanwhile Buffy’s struggling to keep herself together. Can they find her? This was originally written for the last Seasonal Spuffy round and I hope to finish it this time. Amazing banner made by wonder and ashes!!
Author: Waddiwasiwitch
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Adult Language, Torture
The Genleman Returns, Part 2
The Gentleman Returns
Slaymesoftly
season 3
rated R
Part Two Continue Reading
The Gentleman Returns, Part 1
So, being without my laptop for almost three weeks meant I totally missed my posting day, in spite of the fic having been completed weeks ago. (note to self – sometimes it’s a good idea to store things in more than one place…) Thanks to gillo who so ably filled in for me that day. And extra thanks to abelina who not only was my extra set of eyes on this fic as I wrote it, but who stepped in to take over my assigned mod duties at Seasonal Spuffy this round.(Any typos on the fic are probably the result of my tinkering even as I’m posting and not a failure of Abelina’s eagle eyes.)
Anyway, it’s Free For All Day now and my fic is ready to go. I think I’ll post it in three separate posts as it’s a bit over 20,000 words and one or two probably isn’t going to do it. This fic is the fourth (and last) in a series that began with an old semi-pwp ficlet set during the Halloween episode in season 2, and continued in two other ficlets set in that same AU season 2 world. By the time the third fic ended, Spike and Buffy were realizing that their “truce” was a bit more than that. But, it was season 2, Spike was still in love with Dru and Buffy was still in love with Angel (although not real fond of Angelus…) and, yeah, a Spuffy relationship wasn’t an option. Not then, anyway. This longer fic takes place a year later.
Behind the cut are the first two chapters of The Gentleman Returns. The next two installments will go up as quickly as I can get to it.
Title: The Gentleman Returns
Author: Slaymesoftly
Era/season: Season Three
Rating: R
Genre: AU early seasons?
So Rudely Interrupted (Spike/Buffy, PG13)
Title So Rudely Interrupted
Author brutti ma buoni
Rating PG13
Words 6000
Setting post-series
A/N Also contains London, Dawn, Giles, a Bad Dragon, rogue Team Angel and a bleakish AU post-Chosen and NFA. Thank you to my flist who voted for a significant proportion of these elements to appear, and apologies as always to quinara for what happens to the dragon.
Genre reunion
Casablanca
Hello. It’s my posting day today, so here’s another fic with a terrible title (I have a history of those on this comm). Hope you enjoy.
Setting: post-series
Rating: PG13/R (for language)
Beta: Many thanks to rebcake for the very speedy beta.
Disclaimer: Not for money, don’t sue, etc.
Author’s note: this ought by rights to be a really angsty fic, but it just didn’t come out that way.
5660 words
Fic: A Spuffy Scene in Which a Resurrected Buffy Has a Hard Time and Spike Tries to Help, Rated R
My last scheduled post! If you read just one piece from me today, could you please make it this one?
Far from a final version (as with any major decision I make in life I need to let it settle and “sleep on it”) but I was up until 2am this morning hashing it out, so this is very much my focus right now. It’s alternate Season 6 in the Edge of Sorrow ‘verse and Buffy has been resurrected! Not surprisingly, she’s having a hard time. But it’s no big deal, and Spike will save the day, right? I’m calling this piece simply, “Slayer, Resurrected”. Word count: 4115.
We’re getting to the plot twist at the heart of Edge of Sorrow here, with a reveal(!) at the very end on which I’m very interested in hearing feedback, because it will drive the rest of what is probably going to end up a novella-length story.