Paint Splatter Giles by 51kas81. I quite liked the portrait style!

My favourite platonic love in the history of ever by EumHowAboutISucceed. Cool tribute to Willow & Xander. ( Read more... )

Since we're on our flash forward, I'll start with some recs from one of my favourite annual communities - summer_of_giles

Giles/Cordelia is not a pairing that I automatically think about, but I’m always surprised how well it can work if done well and in aadler’s Better Left Unspoken, it is done very, very well. These are snapshots of Giles and Cordelia through the ( Read more... )

Buffy in Japanese - by lilyginnyblack, a meta series on Tumblr analyzing the effects of translation on the series and the choices made in how different characters are portrayed. ( Read more... )

I didn't think I'd get the chance to do another post, but that just shows what I know. Here are five more pieces of work from 2017 I really enjoyed.

( Lays down the trail of breadcrumbs... )

Five favorite 2017 works of fan art, in no particular order :

1. Season Eleven screen captures by teragramm.

2. "Ripper" Giles by rbfvid.

3. Buffy the Slayer also by rbfvid.

4. Buffy with her memories by boiiko.

5. Drusilla - "Everything I put in the ground withers and dies" again by rbfvid.

Five favorite 2017 drabbles, in no order :
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Here are five longer fics from summer_of_giles I really enjoyed.

Second Sight by il_mio_capitano finds our intrepid Watcher thrown back to his 21 year old self, two months before Eyhgon. This isn’t about the Eyhgon incident, but it is about choices. I really liked the portrayal of Giles’ father in this fic, and his grandmother is wonderful - just remember to comb your hair and ( Read more... )

Sticks head above the parapet...I'm not around much the next couple of weeks, so I'm going to front-load my entries, so apologies for the spamming.

A lot of my reading this year came from summer_of_giles. One of the days was an open call for drabbles, using the last line of the last drabble as the first line of the next drabble challenge. They were all great ( Read more... )

A couple of years back I did a post of crossovers. I’m a sucker for a well done crossover, and in all these cases you don’t need to know the other fandom for the story to work just fine. Here are five that I really like - BTVS crossed with five separate fandoms.

Thrift by Te and Pares is a crossover with The Sentinel. Blair Sandburg comes to ( Read more... )

So okay, I tried hard to come up with a theme and that was taking too long so I decided to just post a list of 5 classic stories I go back to and read over and over again. There's fluff and angst and absolutely no thematic or tonal connection between any of these stories - except my love.

1) The Key to Her... Heart? by Purplefeen: What do you get ( Read more... )