I love when I get to kick off the season! This one isn’t sexual, but it’s all about coming back to each other and the contradictions implicit in their relationship after Seeing Red.
Title: Enemies with Benefits; Friends with Obstacles
Author: Garnigal
Era/season/setting: Season 7, Episode 2 (Beneath You)
Rating: PG
Title: Two Spuffy Drawings
Creator: Fra_Apples (MaggieLaFey)
Warnings: One of the two is slightly NSFW.
Hello all!
I’ve recently practiced with a bit of drawing and of course I chose Spuffy as my subject. I hope you like the results, and yes, I do consider them complete even though some parts may seem unfinished… I can only copy pictures when I draw, and in this case the original pics were just a bit too shadowy. (*coff coff* Buffy’s hand *coff coff*)
I apologise if the picture quality isn’t ideal but I hope you can still like them! And if you feel like it isn’t NSFW please let me know and I’ll remove the warning.
Last but not least: I ALWAYS love and welcome critiques and tips to improve. If you have any, do feel free to let me know :) and if you feel like suggesting scenes/pictures to draw, suggest away!
Title: Friendly Enemies
Author: slaymesoftly
Non-canon season three, fic
Rating: PG
AN: A sequel to last round’s “P.S. You Suck” Banner by Double_Dutchess
Beta by all4spike
Title: Crossword day / Happy Winter Solstice
Creator: Double Dutchess
Setting: comics / post-series
When I read that today is Crossword Puzzle Day, I knew I had to do something with that lovely comic cover for Buffy Season 9 #7 by Phil Noto:
Title: Improved “Something Blue” mood theme
Creator: thenewbuzwuzz
Notes: I’ve tinkered with the mood theme I posted for the fall round: added some more moods:
Title: Make Up
Author: Fancyflautist
Setting: post-series
Rating: PG-13
A/N: I’m already committed to posting one fic a day up until Christmas on my own journal, so I figured I’d just post this one here for the event and link it on mine instead! This is lightly inspired by an Ariana Grande song called Make Up, and also the Buffyverse Bingo prompt “Seeing Red” which I wanted to take in a different direction than just writing around the episode.
Also there’s an AO3 tag called “no beta we die like men” and I feel like that fits this situation. Please let me know any mistakes you find so I can correct ’em.
Title: The Naked Vampire Incident
Author: Zab Jade
Setting: BtVS season 4
Rating: PG-13
WARNING: Buffy/Other, this is pre-Spuffy, though the vibes are definitely there. It’s a oneshot connected to a longer Spuffy story.
Summary: Everything changed after Maggie Walsh used an experimental virus on her soldiers and her creation…
After a horrific attack by Adam, Spike is staying in the basement of the Summers house to recover. Takes place during the events of the prologue for The Umbrella Initiative
Title: I’m No Good At Writing Love Letters
Author: the_wiggins
Era/season/setting: Season 4, just after “Something Blue”
Word count: 3,830
Rating: PG
Warnings: Some slight references to Buffy/Riley
Summary: Willow’s spell has ended, the engagement is off, and Buffy’s more than ready to get her life back to normal. But then she finds a letter that Spike wrote to her while under the influence of the spell.
Author’s Note: Thanks to Teragramm for the beautiful banner and to thenewbuzwuzz for her always insightful feedback as a beta. Any remaining errors are 100% my fault. Constructive criticism always welcomed.
Title: All in the Family
Author: spikes_heart
Era/season/setting: Buffy Season 4, Angel Season 1
Notes: A huge part of the first three chapters is borrowed from Buffy’s 4th season – Something Blue, written by Tracey Forbes. Everything you recognize is their respective writers’ property, and not mine. Interspersed, you will find my small changes, until canon is left behind (mostly).
Warning: There is the slightest bit of canon Buffy/Angel and a hint of un-reciprocated Buffy/Riley. Nothing explicit.
Rating: PG for now
Summary: What if Buffy brought back a little surprise after her encounter with Angel in I Will Remember You?
Banner Credit: Twinkles
Rather than wait till tomorrow, I think I’ll go ahead and post my own SS entry today. Based on a previous entry by killersnot (who is responsible for both the lovely banner and the title/prompt) here is a one-shot (I think) set between season 2 and season 3. Very AU, obviously, as Buffy and Spike never met during that summer (as popular as the idea has been for years), but this almost could have happened. No idea if anything else will grow from it, but it will be clear that it could. Unbeta’d, so if you see something, say something.
Title: PS, You Suck
Author: Slaymesoftly
Setting: between season 2 and 3
Rating: PG
Word count: 4800
Banner by: killersnot
Title: Photographs
Author: fancyflautist
Era/season/setting: Post-series
Rating: PG-13
A/N: This story takes place in an AU in which the show happened later, closer to the 2010s-ish. Hence smartphones and selfies *finger guns*
Title: All in the Family
Author: spikes_heart
Era/season/setting: Buffy Season 4, Angel Season 1
Notes: A huge part of the first three chapters is borrowed from Buffy’s 4th season – Something Blue, written by Tracey Forbes. Everything you recognize is their respective writers’ property, and not mine. Interspersed, you will find my small changes, until canon is left behind (mostly).
Warning: There is the slightest bit of canon Buffy/Angel and a hint of un-reciprocated Buffy/Riley. Nothing explicit.
Rating: PG for now
Summary: What if Buffy brought back a little surprise after her encounter with Angel in I Will Remember You?
Banner Credit: Twinkles
To all our USA friends – wish you all a wonderful Thanksgiving Day and for all our non USA Spuffy friends – hope you have a lovely day. It’s not a Spuffy Thanksgiving without a tribute to PANGS. I’ll watch Pangs today while I work on my current painting – perfect way to spend some of my Thanksgiving Day. Link for a current looking back review of Pangs https://bloody-disgusting.com/editorials/3593830/revisiting-buffy-the-vampire-slayer-thanksgiving-episode-pangs/
Pangs comes in #18 this year in the WIRED Best Ever Thanksgiving Day episodes – https://www.wired.com/story/best-thanksgiving-tv-episodes/
Can’t go by without posting something for Thanksgiving Day – I have so many things to be thankful for this year but especially my good health and recovery. Some of my best Spuffy friends know I had breast cancer surgery few months ago and I’ve had awesome great results – So this is a very special celebration this year. To all my Spuffy friends and all those who participate in Seasonal Spuffy – thank you for all the wonderful years of stories, artwork and vids and Spuffy Fan Love. Plus, another super nice Thanks is for our lovely Thanksgiving Day snow – I love when we get snow as it does not happen often here in Abq.
Fan Love indeed – got these great stamps when I sent for some Buffy Stamps – wanted to share them so I kept this simple.
Story Title: Postcards From the Edge. Season 3 of the Mortal Allies Series
Chapter Title: Good Boy, Spike
Author: Passion4Spike
Banner by: PaganBaby
Rating: PG (for series so far, for language)
Story Title: Postcards From the Edge. Season 3 of the Mortal Allies Series
Chapter Title: Hate You, Too
Note: You might miss a couple of ‘inside jokes’, but do not have to have read prevoius stories to follow this (at least that is my goal! If you find it too confusing, I would love to know. I tried to, through the chapter, explain in broad strokes what’s happened thus far). But if you are intrested in the previous episodes, you can find them here.
Author: Passion4Spike
Banner by: PaganBaby
Rating: PG (for series so far, for language)
Season/Setting: Season 3 after Band Candy but before Faith’s new ‘watcher’, Mrs. Post, shows up.
Summary: Yeah, Spike, the master vampire, had joked that he’d send her postcards, and he had left that one on her door before he screeched out of town, again, with Dru, again. But would the Slayer of Slayers really send the Slayer of Vampires postcards? And would she even read them, if he did? Teetering on the razor’s edge between friends and enemies, which way will they fall?
Hello, all! This is my first time participating in Seasonal Spuffy! And I am LATE. Wooo. My internet service isn’t working right now, so I’m throwing this post up here via mobile several minutes after my posting day. I hope that’s…kind of fine. I did try swearing at my laptop, but it didn’t help. I’ll try fixing tags etc. once I can log in on my laptop. Mobile keeps trying to eat this post!
My meager offering for you: a banner, a title, and a writing challenge prompt thingy. Totally up for grabs. Let me know if you’d like the banner personalized!
And here is part two…it’s all one story, but I wasn’t sure it would fit in one entry.
Beautiful banner by sintonia!
Title: The Moon Calls My Name
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Desperate to find out if Fred is still out there in the universe, Spike makes an impulsive decision to send a mystical message in a bottle. Someone else gets his message. (Set in Angel the Series, Season Five in a semi-AU universe after Illyria took over Fred’s body.)
Disclaimer: I own nothing. Joss owns all.
Author’s notes: I did weird stuff with fonts on purpose as an experiment. Apologies if it’s overly cheesy and too on the nose. It’s fanfiction, and I hope you don’t mind me indulging in a bit of playing. This is unbetaed, so any errors are my own.
Also, I wrote the first two short parts and shared them with badwolfjedi a long while ago but stopped writing it. Then, the theme of Seasonal Spuffy came up and I knew I had to finish it. Thank you to the mods for hosting another round! Your efforts are so appreciated. *hugs*
Written with lots of support from sintonia! Thank you so much for your kind and thoughtful comments while I was plugging along on this little fic and annoying you with little tidbits and drafts.
This is dedicated to wonderful OffYourBird for her birthday. I promised her a birthday fic and then totally fell off from doing it. Happy super-duper belated birthday!
Beautiful banner by sintonia!
