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[sunnydaleherald]

The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Saturday, December 16th

CORDELIA: You don't eat food. ANGEL: Oh, I can. It doesn't keep me alive, but, you know, sometimes I get a hankering. CORDELIA: You had a hankering for turkey, ham and roast beef sandwiches? ANGEL: (points to one) You missed the vegetarian. CORDELIA: Soup and salad, too? What is going on here? ANGEL: (quietly) I forgot what you liked. CORDELIA: Why didn't you ask me? ANGEL: Well, you said, why is everyone asking you if they can get you anything, and-and I didn't wanna *do* that... CORDELIA: So you did this - instead. ANGEL: (quietly) Yup. CORDELIA: I love you.

~~Dead End~~

[Drabbles & Short Fiction]

12 Days of Christmas 2023 #6: Again This Year by apachefirecat (Spike/Buffy, Dawn, Ensemble, PG-13/T)

Untitled by Tasha Stark (Buffy, Supernatural crossover, not rated)

The Merry Month of Magnus Presents... An Unexpected Visit by JSBirsa (Buffy/Spike, PG)

[Chaptered Fiction]

Keeping Up With the Scoobies, Chapter 25 (complete!) by Takara_Phoenix (Buffy/Spike, Ensemble, T)

Days of Future Past, Chapter 35 (complete!) by a2zmom (Buffy/Angel, M)

Fuel’s Aflame, Chapter 17 by wickedrum (Buffy/Spike, not rated)

Buffyverse Flashfic, Chapter 12 by NotASlayer (Buffy/Anya, T)

Hope is the thing with feathers, Chapter 5 by wildflowerr_wildfire (Buffy/Spike, not rated)

Advent Calendiles, Chapter 16 by HAL1500 (Giles/Jenny, G)

Swimming Against the Current, Chapter 8 by dwinchester (Gage, Ensemble, T)

Out of Africa, Chapter 1 by Passion4Spike (Buffy/Spike, T)

From Apocalypse and Motherhood, Chapter 1 by bangelus9, MIA_SAN_MIA (Buffy/Angel, G)

Multiversal Adventure, Chapter 41 by aTasteofDarkness (Dirk_Grey) (multiple female characters/OC, E)

Vampire Whxre, Chapter 4 by ClowniestLivEver (Buffy/Spike, Adult Only)

As You Wish, Chapter 5 by Melme1325 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

Out of Africa, Chapter 2 by Passion4Spike (Buffy/Spike, PG)

You Kiss Me, Chapter 1 by scratchmeout (Buffy/Spike, PG-13)

What the Drabble? Chapter 54 by VeroNyxK84 (Buffy/Spike, R)

A Very Summers Winter, Chapter 16 by VeroNyxK84 (Buffy/Spike, PG-13)

Spuffy's Little Helper, Chapter 16 by Alyot (Buffy/Spike, PG-13)

Last Hurrah, Chapter 1 by ClowniestLivEver (Buffy/Spike, R)

Side Effects, Chapters 3-7 (complete!) by by hulettwyo (Buffy/Spike, Adult Only)

[Images, Audio & Video]

Artwork: Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas by honeygirl51885 (Buffy/Spike, worksafe)

Artwork: queer little Jewish witch in her tartan skirt by tiredtiresias (Willow, worksafe)

Artwork: Spike by odd-critter (worksafe)

Fanvid: Buffy & Dawn Full Of Grace by Angelus_clips

[Reviews & Recaps]

Honestly how I feel about BTVS ep 3x10 Amends by juanabaloo

Video: The Season Buffy Became Great [Season 2] by Andrea Lopez

Podcast: Slayers a Buffy-verse Story Review by Gamster's World

Video: English 203: Defining Horror - Video Essay by SadieJamesMagdaline

[Community Announcements]

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[Fandom Discussions]

Where the Wild Things Are has to be thee most insane episode premise by fox-toothed

Bangel and Xanya parallels by oveliagirlhaditright

two women casting a spell together by three-blogs-in-a-trenchcoat

Buffy Rewatch Discussion Thread #1 continued by multiple posters

Comical Quotes by Moptop

Sadie Hawkins by November

The Body by theturquoisecat

What's your favourite musical score piece from Buffy the Vampire Slayer or Angel? by writeitregreddit

ANGEL one part that made me almost just stop.watching by Nonnarules58

was buffy supposed to have an orgasm in the scene where angel drinks her blood? by SafiraAshai

Which scenes make you cry and why? by Simple-Formal-8588

For those of you who aren't techno pagans, here are some helpful computer terms by V48runner

Fantasy Draft: the perfect Buffy season by anthonyjad

Unanswered Questions? by Inevitable_Force320

Angel gets a lot of hate by Extra_Honeydew4661

Do you think Buffy was falling for Spike in S6? by aeryn1227

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[theajaheira]

2018 fic writing roundup

tagged by @catty-words​ !! thank u darling

i have this lingering suspicion that the 92k mess that is imperfections has a tendency of bumping up my word count, but also i’ve been writing particularly A Lot this year. so. yikes. this’ll be a mess

Total 2018 Word Count: 465,233 (so uh. yikes squared?) Total 2018 Hits: 16,798 Other 2018 AO3 Stats: Kudos: 1,592; Comment threads: 457; Bookmarks: 186; Subscriptions: 121.

Total 2017 Word Count: 171,640   Total 2017 Hits: 9,156 Other 2017 AO3 Stats: Kudos: 841; Comment threads: 172; Bookmarks: 126; Subscriptions: 40.

Links and Titles to 2018 Works (buckle up kids)

ten questions for new year’s eve (6,669 words) lonely s4 giles meets jenny on new year’s eve. basically fluff laced with some light angst, which i think set the tone for most of my writing this year

forever (4,738 words) some assorted femslash ficlets from tumblr that i immediately forgot about after february. it of course got buried under a deluge of jenny fic but there’s still some cute stuff there! i had a lot of fun in particular writing about bb willow and the beginnings of her attraction to girls

she’s your destiny (9,560 words) AHHHHHH I FORGOT I WROTE THIS. blessings of writing This Much. soulmate au with buffy/willow and giles/jenny where like. none of them are soulmates but they fall crazy in love anyway.

the happy-ending bouquet (3,851 words) set in 2018. giles and jenny have been married for something like 15 years and are still very happy and in love. basically just an endless deluge of fluff

personas (2,729 words) hhhhh i hesitate to count this as a 2018 fic, because i technically posted it in summer 2017 and then deleted it for reasons unknown (even to me). but there aren’t enough fics that explore jenny’s fractured sense of identity and her broken heart and i love my girl so much. so. wrote that.

something real (2,173 words) my valentine’s day fic!! a friend and i share the headcanon that jenny would have finally shoved her way back into giles’s heart if not for the love spell throwing her off, so. wrote a fic where that happened, albeit somewhat angstily.

direct, but not unwelcome (4,478 words) this fic always makes me cringe, a little; the office verse was written largely for faith and tara, and writing giles and jenny in it was a decision i don’t entirely like (mostly bc there really is no narrative place for either of them). but it has a few good lines ig?

putting a ring on it (2,370 words) giles and jenny proposal fic!! a little wobbly in places imo but still so fun to write. those two deserve all the fluff

the second choice soulmates (6,942 words) the inevitable faith/tara sequel to the soulmate au!! i had it planned from the second i started writing the first fic in that series, and i had a lot of fun with it. in which faith and tara have to deal with their soulmates being in love with each other, and end up falling in love themselves.

nightmares and the aftermath (1,205 words) the first fic i wrote in the ripper au! ripper has a nightmare; jenny talks him through it.

the inherent complexity of falling in love (3,519 words) more soulmate au nonsense!! this time with solely giles and jenny!! 

let’s stay together (857 words) i say that this is “a series of vignettes in which ben, ann, and leslie are dating” but really it’s just one. i’ve kept it in bc i really wanna write more than one. ben/leslie/ann is such a blessed ship and there are no fics for it! which is ridiculous! because they really should all be dating!! leslie has two hands y’all

moments of connection in an uncertain world (3,351 words) the olivia/jenny fic that set that amazing ship on its course. set in asoue; jenny’s identity in the narrative is ambiguous bc jenny’s identity in every narrative is ambiguous. mystery bicon

amends (remixed) (2,988 words) i’m like 99 percent sure i spite-wrote this fic after watching amends bc that really seems like something i would do. in which ghost jenny makes sure buffy, angel, and giles all know that she doesn’t blame them for a single thing.

it’s a family affair (11 chapters) jenny, married to giles and mom to two daughters, loses her memory. i meant for this to be an exploration of jenny and giles’s relationship + jenny as a character, but with hindsight i feel like i kinda rushed it. maybe someday i’ll come back and expand this a little?

maybe i’m in love (24 chapters) CRIES. this fic was posted all in one day and got buried under the deluge of fic i wrote this year and i am still so sad that it remains forgotten. even by me. like i forgot it existed till now. but it is the treasure of my heart and i am still not sure what i can possibly do for calendiles day 2019 that will even come close to “slow burn giles/jenny series rewrite in script format.”

dragonslayers (8,048 words) i go back and forth between whether adding a sequel to a sappy-happy-ending fic was actually needed, but i had a lot of fun writing jenny and anya and tara being friends and adopting a dog. those girls deserve so much better.

tech support (1,315 words) jenny works at angel investigations, and giles meets her when he and buffy drive up to la to get a book. unabashed fluff.

family ties (2,294 words) giles introduces jenny to his dad and the aunts. i had giles call himself “rupert” for the entire fic and forgot to explain why i made the choice to do so (and there was a damn good reason!!!) so every time i see this fic....Regret™

i like you (992 words) the product of me realizing “wait, i never wrote a fic about my Very Specific Headcanon that giles and jenny had sex after school hard!!!” and then going ahead and writing that fic. not explicit; lots of giles and jenny being dumb and in love

take me now! (3,460 words) the sister fic to my other jenny/olivia fic! in this one, jenny’s a watcher and olivia’s the sweet librarian who has her all blushy.

the grieving process (9,771 words) this fic! was! such a trip to write! i wanted to write something where giles’s s6 issues were confronted. originally i wrote a jenny’s-alive fic where he goes to her place in la after leaving buffy in tabula rasa, but the mood of that fic was miserable and hostile, so i changed things ever so slightly. and then it became “giles goes to jenny after buffy dies,” and that transitioned into “giles actually finally gets to have an outlet for his emotions,” and then it became a very soft fic that i love very much.

unsolved mysteries (1,704 words) a modern jackaby au! where jenny cavanaugh has trauma-related anxiety and eats pretzels w jackaby in a hall closet! surprisingly soft.

the cleanup crew (2,968 words) post-ted; buffy calls jenny and giles in to help her with ted’s robot body. because that ep was a hot mess and too many things were tied up too fast.

princess charming (2,754 words) written thanks to a throwaway line from the grieving process! about jenny saving fred in pylea! @theforestlesbian​ mentioned in a review that this fic came off as “the adventures of jenny” and that was the best compliment ever.

untraditional, unconditional (4,223 words) ripper au! ripper and jenny get married! i don’t think i will ever write a better calendiles wedding than this one.

gettin’ bi (1,215 words) jenny and giles come out to each other. that’s really it.

intimacy (1,058 words) some root/shaw fluff. g o sh at some point i really should finish poi huh

the battle’s done (and we kind of won) (5,026 words) post-chosen; jenny inexplicably comes back from the dead, and giles works thru the messy aftermath of s7.

chaos, vengeance, love (1,412 words) giles’s exes talk over his grave. (and yes, i do mean jenny and ethan.)

buffy summers, muggle-born (6,075 words) buffy goes to hogwarts! this was meant to set the scene for a loosely connected string of fics, but i could never decide whether i wanted them to be chaptered fics or oneshots. i do have like 3 large chapters saved to my computer, tho :/

a eulogy (920 words) jenny calendar, as told by how she’s remembered.

survivors’ guilt (4,690 words) in which giles dies instead of jenny, and jenny and buffy deal with it poorly. my only problem w this fic is that i really wish i’d explored the messy aftermath of what might have happened if jenny had brought giles back. 2019 project y/y?

regarding honor and honesty in the workplace (43 chapters) CRIES IN JENNY/LILAH. given that i did not shut up about this fucking fic for a good 3 months, i don’t think it needs a summary.

maybe we could have a thing (3,184 words) giles and jenny’s first date!! canon told us they went out beforehand and it really did need to be ficced.

the most important words (2,753 words) passion fix-it! how many of these have i written dfshlsdhdf. anyway, by some lucky stroke, jenny doesn’t die, but she’s understandably kind of a mess. giles tries to help.

that brown-eyed technopagan (2,821 words) ripper au! willow has a HUGE crush on jenny calendar, who in this ‘verse is in her senior year at sunnydale high. lots of high school shenanigans.

seven new and very bad songs about jenny (8,597 words) another ripper au fic, this one about what it takes for ripper to finally give in and kiss the girl.

love of mine (282 words) one of the two fics i have written that involves giles grieving jenny. angst abounds.

the adjustment period (4024 words) i wanted to write about how weak vamp jenny is for her gf, so i returned to the grand romantic gestures ‘verse and explored that. femslash calendiles!!

love, scotch, and late-night parties (2,539 words) the aftermath of eyghon in the ripper au. jenny wants to be smothered in attention from ripper; ripper wants to give jenny the space he thinks she needs. basically the exact opposite of canon with the exact same inability to communicate.

father and son (3,761 words) in which ripper examines his relationship to his dad, and worries about treating his new son the same way. (spoiler alert: he obviously does not.)

imperfections (46 chapters) TECHNICALLY i added a few new chapters in 2018. i stg i’ll at least get closer to finishing it this year.

happily ever after (2,005 words) set after the dire king! jenny and jackaby being dumb and in love and experimenting with “the mechanics of ghost-human relations.”

cardboard robot (2,097 words) ripper au: halloween edition! ripper gets a pumpkin stuck on his head and sings about jenny, who Definitely Doesn’t Like Him What Are You Talking About Shut Up.

tea, with honey (3,295 words) a modern jackaby au, where jenny’s trauma really is trauma with no ghost metaphor. jackaby, darling of my heart, is still just as sympathetic.

very really married (6 chapters) THIS I WILL FINISH IN 2019. FOR REALS. i have too many unpublished chapters on my laptop to NOT finish it. set in s1; giles and jenny get drunk married in las vegas pre-canon. which, of course, adds a whole new level of complexity to both of giles’s new jobs.

coping (2,611 words) i really wanted to write about jenny and eyghon, bc there are like 0 fics that address the absolute mess that canon throws at that woman. so i did. very angsty with no clear happy ending, bc that’s what happens when you write canon compliant fic about jenny calendar.

yours (2,747 words) my first foray into writing phryne and jack! and, if the 4k-and-counting wip is anything to go by, definitely not my last. 2018 brought me a lot of things, but watching mfmm all the way through was definitely one of the best.

family ties (2,640 words) catch me crying about river and the ponds for the rest of my life, probably. centered around river’s graduation from luna university and her relationship with her parents.

decently clothed (1,516 words) lots of dumb calendiles fluff!! based on a paragraph from a btvs novel; jenny and giles go clothes shopping. it’s exactly as cute as it sounds.

making things right (1,060 words) passion fix-it that came to me when i thought “what if jenny survived, but didn’t even care that she’d almost died, bc what really mattered was that she’d fixed things with giles and buffy?? lmao how badly would that fuck giles up, knowing that she placed earning his trust over her own life???” and then i wrote it bc i love pain

bless her soul (6,294 words) s3. jenny comes back wrong. lots of explorations of the guilt that buffy, giles, and angel harbored for jenny’s death, with none of the pain of using jenny solely as a mouthpiece for evil. so like. amends done right.

dear friend (1 chapter, so far) a you’ve got mail calendiles au that i really do intend to work on some more in 2019.

haunted (15,622 words) WHAT a note to end 2018 on. a (mostly) non-supernatural au in which jenny, after an intense & awful trauma, leaves sunnydale and buys a ridiculously inexpensive mansion in england. why was it so cheap? because giles, the ghost who lives there, has been scaring off buyers. naturally, jenny is not easily rattled.

Favorite Fic: it’s hard to choose bc i wrote so many but for now i’ll pick bless her soul. writing the-first-as-jenny and playing up scooby guilt while still getting to bring jenny back for a happy ending??? that was just so much fun.

Hardest Fic: very really married. absolutely. i was in a v weird place while writing that fic, so that certainly didn’t help, but that fic has been giving me Trouble since i started writing it.

Do You Plan to Take Prompts in 2019? always!!

What was the best thing about 2018? friendsssss!!! i’m entering 2019 with a lot of solid friendships, which really wasn’t the case in 2018. 

What was the worst thing about 2018? tbh the answer will always and forever be “my mom” until i am out of this house

Any last thoughts for 2018? how the FUCK did i WRITE more than half of the fics i have posted on ao3 in THIS YEAR ALONE. 55 FICS. i’m REELING.

Goals for 2019

finish the cheesy au g/j multichapters i started

maybe start work on a detective au sequel? i miss that ‘verse

more ripper au fic!!!!!

more jenny/olivia!!!

more jenny centric fic in general like It’s What She Deserves

SOMETHING about jenny and angel. i talk big talk about how much that dynamic fascinates me but i only ever touch on it in fic. it’s never the central focus.

finish the phryne/jack fic i’m working on, and maybe...tentatively...write more?

[vacanpaathy]

FAITH LEHANE BIO

BASICS

Full Name: Faith Lehane           Orientation:  Bisexual Age range: 16+                         Shipping availability: Open Occupation: Slayer                   Muse Availability: Main

Called in 1998 when her predecessor Kendra Young died at the hands of Drusilla, and the last Slayer to be called by the original succession line abolished in 2003. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Faith had a difficult upbringing and life, which left her with various trust and emotional issues. Though she found some stability with her Watcher, Faith retreated to Sunnydale when they were brutally murdered by the vampire Kakistos, where she became a friend and ally of Buffy Summers and the Scooby Gang. However, numerous events and circumstances took a toll on Faith's better judgement and she defected to the side of the evil Mayor Richard Wilkins, helping him to carry out his Ascension, able to find the stable father figure she always wanted. On the day before the climactic Graduation Day battle, Faith was critically injured by Buffy and put in a coma, from which she awakened eight months later.

She proceeded to wreak even more havoc in Buffy's life and then attempted to kill Angel in Los Angeles as part of a deal with Wolfram & Hart. However this was a ruse by Faith in order to get Angel to kill her instead as Faith had actually become remorseful of her past deeds and wanted to end her life. Nevertheless, with help from Angel, she came to terms with her past and willingly surrendered herself to the L.A.P.D. to face the consequences of her actions. Three years later, Faith busted out of prison to assist Angel Investigations in containing the recently released Angelus, subsequently returning to Sunnydale with Willow Rosenberg after Angel was re-ensouled to assist the Scoobies in their battle against the First Evil and its army. 

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BTVS SEASON 3

Basically anything that would fall in that season. Potentially up for some alterations later as I solidify things.

BTVS SEASON 7

Basically anything that would fall in that season. Potentially up for some alterations later as I solidify things.

ATS

From her time fucking around in LA and in Prison and all that.

AUs

ENTER THE WISHVERSE

the Alternate Universe created by Cordi’s “I wish Buffy had never come to Sunnydale” wish. Idk i just want it

NEVER THE SLAYER

She was never Slayer, just a totally normal gal. While running away she ends up in Sunnydale when she stumbles into this world by accident and is immediately over her head because like….. Hellmouth. No one is safe.

FAITH, THE SLAYER OF THE VAMPYRE 

FAITH is the Slayer who gets the 7 season TV series about her escapades with her Scooby pals saving the world on the Hellmouth in Sunnydale.

FAITH THE VAMPIRE AND SLAYER

Faith gets turned, when??? Good question. Open for LOTS of different variations. Mechanics in the works. Options for Souled and Unsouled versions.

GENERAL CROSSOVER - SPOOKY STUFF

Still retains the majority of her canon info like being a chosen magical super demon killer but with some of the more BTVS-specific stuff put to the side to better mesh with other paranormal / supernatural / fantasy fandoms / premises when needed. Exact details will vary thread to thread.

GENERAL CROSSOVER - NO SPOOKIES

For when other muses are distinctly non-magical and meshing the two won’t really work well. Faith does Crime. 

[vacanpaathy]

DRUSILLA BIO

BASICS

Full Name: Drusilla Wright                Orientation: Bisexual Age range: 16 - 100+                        Shipping availability: Negotiable Occupation: Evil                                Muse Availability: Tertiary 

Drusilla was a vampire who possessed innate psychic powers as a human. She was tortured to insanity and sired by Angelus, who had murdered her entire family before her eyes in order to turn her into his "masterpiece". Drusilla later sired the young London poet William Pratt, who took the name Spike and became her long-time paramour.

Despite her childish insanity, Drusilla was a cunning and dangerous adversary, and indeed, one of the few vampires to have battled Buffy Summers, Angel, and their respective teams over a prolonged period of time while managing to survive to menace them another day. There is no doubt she owes some of her survival to her tendency to stay in the shadows rather than engage in outright assaults.

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BTVS SEASON 2

you know, the season she was actually in Sunnydale

ATS SEASON I FORGET

that time she was hassling Angel, more here when I get to it in my rewatch.

VAGUELY, DRUSILLA

I mean she didn’t fucking cease to exist when not in LA or Sunnydale, so here’s the broader Mainverse for her. She’s Somewhere, doing Something, with Someone. Vaguely. 

AUs

YE OLDE

Back when she was a human in the mid-late 1800s in London, ranges from about 16 to early 20s.

YE OLDE VAMPYRE TYMES

like the other one but for when she was a vampire not a human, ranges from late 1800s until early 90s in Prague. 

ENTER THE WISHVERSE

the Alternate Universe created by Cordi’s “I wish Buffy had never come to Sunnydale” wish. I have NO fucking clue how she and Spike play out in this verse but Drusilla’s out there SOMEWHERE.

HUMAN THE WHOLE TIME

Is a Totally Normal Human Cis-Female™. 

GENERAL CROSSOVER - SPOOKY STUFF

Still retains the majority of her canon info like being a vampire and being from the 1800s but with some of the more Buffy-specific stuff put to the side to better mesh with other paranormal / supernatural / fantasy fandoms / premises. Exact details will vary thread to thread.

GENERAL CROSSOVER - NO SPOOKIES

For when other muses are distinctly non-magical and meshing the two won’t really work well. Drusilla’s a Totally Normal Human Cis-Female™ if very odd and very spiteful. She owns an antique shop and studied museum shit in college. She’s hardcore.

[vacanpaathy]

BUFFY SUMMERS BIO

BASICS

Full Name: Buffy Anne Summers    Orientation: [ NERVOUS LAUGHTER ] Age range: 14-21+                          Shipping availability: Open with discussion Occupation: Slayer, Student,          Muse Availability: Main  Human disaster                 

Buffy Anne Summers was a Slayer who was activated in the late 20th century.  Buffy was originally living in Los Angeles; but, due to an incident involving a gang of vampires at Hemery High School, she moved to Sunnydale with her mother. There, she acted as guardian of the Hellmouth for seven years before the town's destruction in mid-2003.

Initially a reluctant hero who constantly wished for nothing more than a normal life, Buffy eventually grew to embrace her destiny. Buffy was unique as a Slayer in many ways; she refused to sacrifice her ordinary life for her supernatural destiny, often operated as part of a team with her friends the Scooby Gang. Buffy was one of the longest-lived Slayers and returned from death not once, but twice, coexisting with another Slayer, an act that disrupted the magic surrounding the traditional line. During their war with the First Evil, Buffy enacted a plan to activate every Potential Slayer in the world, abolishing the traditional line of Chosen Ones.

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SEASON 5 

Basically anything that would fall in that season. Potentially up for some alterations later as I solidify things.

SEASON 6

Basically anything that would fall in that season. Potentially up for some alterations later as I solidify things.

SEASON 7

Basically anything that would fall in that season. Potentially up for some alterations later as I solidify things.

SEASON 4

Basically anything that would fall in that season. Potentially up for some alterations later as I solidify things.

SEASON 3

Basically anything that would fall in that season. Potentially up for some alterations later as I solidify things.

SEASON 2

Basically anything that would fall in that season. Potentially up for some alterations later as I solidify things.

SEASON 1 

Basically anything that would fall in that season. Potentially up for some alterations later as I solidify things.

AUs

PRE- SUNNYDAE

Basically the movie. Buffy living in LA, learns she’s the Slayer, gains and loses her first Watcher, goes up against Lothos gets expelled for setting the gym on fire. Runs away with Pike to Las Vegas.  

ENTER THE WISHVERSE

the Alternate Universe created by Cordi’s “I wish Buffy had never come to Sunnydale” wish. Buffy is a much more grimdark person, living only for her job as the Slayer with no friends or family. You can tell it’s the Dark Timeline™ because she’s wearing cargo pants.

NEVER THE SLAYER

She was never Slayer, just a totally normal gal. Moves to Sunnydale with her mom after the divorce, and is just trying to reestablish herself as a popular girl when she potentially stumbles into this world by accident and is immediately over her head because like..... Hellmouth. No one is safe.

LATER DOWN THE LINE

Buffy was totally normal until later on and THEN she was activated. When and who came before her is up in the air atm.

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE AND SLAYER

Buffy gets turned, when??? Good question. Open for LOTS of different variations. Default is the Master at the end of S1. Options for Souled and Unsouled versions.

GENERAL CROSSOVER - SPOOKY STUFF

Still retains the majority of her canon info like being a chosen magical super demon killer but with some of the more BTVS-specific stuff put to the side to better mesh with other paranormal / supernatural / fantasy fandoms / premises when needed. Exact details will vary thread to thread.

GENERAL CROSSOVER - NO SPOOKIES

For when other muses are distinctly non-magical and meshing the two won’t really work well. Buffy’s a Totally Normal Human Cis-Female™. She’s a paramedic / ER type.