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Title: Delust or Dust
Rating: NC-17 for adult language and sexual situations
Warnings: Graphic sex (eventually) Probably blood play. And foul-mouthedness
Season/Pairing: BtVS Season 3, Buffy/Spike, Willow/Oz, Xander/Cordelia, Angel/his discontent, Giles/missing spatula
Spoilers: Starts with the episode Lover's Walk, so anything up until that point could be mentioned.
Genre(s): Comedy/Fluff, Romance
Betas: xtanitx who did actual beta work and my sister stoney321 who helped with the read-through and story crit.
Summary: Starts off with the episode "Lover's Walk" and then goes AU practically from the start. Spike has returned to Sunnydale, heartbroken that Drusilla has left him. When a delusting spell goes horribly wrong, how will the Scoobies react when the slayer gets involved with yet another vampire? Will Giles wipe his glasses in disapproval? Will Xander not understand but be too enamored with the visuals to say anything? Is Angel going to brood about it or will he do something more? WHAT WILL HAPPEN?
Chapter Word Count: 3,101
Disclaimer: The characters in this story are the property of Joss Whedon and Mutant Enemy and I in no way mean to infringe on anyone's rights, nor do I use these names for profit. This is for entertainment and Tom-foolery only. Carry on.
( Delust or Dust 1/? )
hollydb)
current mood: excited
megan_peta for letting me help plot, coordinate, and design how this thing would run. Also for making me a part of the administration. I’ve done behind-the-scenes stuff for eons now—it’s great to be an official member of the team.The ficathon is slightly unconventional from those with which you might be familiar. Instead of asking you what you do or don’t like or what you will or won’t write, we only ask the following…
Your story MUST begin with one of the following lines:
1) She'd gone as far as she could go; the door at the end of the hall was locked.
2) The sound of crunching bone was nothing compared to the man's screams.
3) Her voice echoed down the dark corridor. There was no answer.
4) Though she couldn't see him, she knew her words had rattled him.
5) It was the largest beast she'd ever seen, and she'd seen some large ones.
6) She knew the stench of blood.
7) It didn't matter that she knew she could toss him across the room in a blink. He was so quiet. So tempered. So deadly. She knew well how he fought.
8) Saying the words aloud made everything real.
9) She'd been watching him all night, just as he'd watched her.
10) Spike stepped forward, which proved to be a mistake.
11) They hadn't had much chance to speak at all, let alone discuss the events that had spanned the past twelve hours.
12) He knew there was absolutely no way he could stop her now.
13) Did he want to sit here and bide his time, or did he want to take a gut chance and confront his new Slayer?
14) There had to be a mistake.
15) When she opened her eyes, the shadows were still there.
16) If there was one thing she knew, it was that Spike couldn't be trusted.
17) She was so over the missions. Giles and his missions were going to be the death of her.
18) She swore to God, this thing between Xander and Angel was rubbing her last nerve—until a bleached blonde in leather swept across her vision.
19) Every. Thing. Hurt. Soon as she could move Buffy was totally going to beat the stuffing out of Spike and leave him out to talk to the sun.
20) Willow dug some more in her closet and pulled out a blood red shawl. "How about this? Will this do?"
Likewise, your submission must abide by the following:
Prompts (Choose one, but see if you can do all three)
- Giles endlessly searches for a spatula.
- Mention of the movie Howard the Duck.
- Xander must say the line, "Oh my God, that is huge!" in reference to a male character.
RULES
- Spike/Buffy is a must. This is a Spuffy community, after all. To not have this rule would be rather silly.
- Seasons 2-5. Season 6 and 7 are barred from this round because a lot of the provided lines would be easy to tack onto a Season 6 or 7 story, and we think it'd be more fun if you had to wrestle with it.
- AUs welcome, but keep it within a mystical world (i.e, one where vampires, et al still exist).
- Minimum length is 5000 words. Maximum length is up to you. If you want to write the hell out of this ficathon, we welcome it.
- You’re free to tackle as many of these starter-lines as you want. The more submissions we get, the happier we’ll be.
- Your submissions MUST include the following information in the subject heading: YOUR NAME, YOUR STORY’S TITLE
- The following information MUST be made in the body of the post:
o Disclaimers
o Spoilers, if applicable
o Pairings
o Rating
WINDOWS
You are free to begin with ANY of the 20 lines. However, there are deadlines set throughout the ficathon after which certain lines will officially retire, meaning stories submitted after the deadline will not be considered for the poll or by the judges.
Lines 1-7: September 15 - October 15
Lines 8-15: September 15 - November 15
Lines 15-20: September 15 - December 15
The ficathon will end officially on December 16. A reader’s choice poll will go up shortly, and, pending on how advantageous
megan_peta and I are feeling at the time, we might even formally judge the submissions to provide Judge’s Choice awards. That decision will be made at a later date. Important note: Your story doesn’t need to be finished by the time the ficathon ends, but the more we have to see, the more popular you’ll be among readers, which will better your chances in the reader’s choice poll. Likewise, if you choose a line that retires before your story is complete, no worries. As long as a story was started before a line was retired, you’re in the good.
The winners won’t be announced until after the holidays, but the poll WILL close before Christmas.
Sign-ups start today! You don’t have to tell us what lines you want or anything—just give us a name and an email address. The rest is up to you.
vyperman7)
A DVD HQ 90 second tribute to the musical episode of BTVS "Once More With Feeling". The video features a few happy moments between Tara/Willow, great Spuffy moments, and a lot of cool dancing moves from all the characters. Just a fun overall tribute showing off the different aspects of the episode. I wanted to post this here for Spuffy fans..
Edited on Final Cut Pro
Set to - Never Gonna be The Same Again from the Teen Witch OST
Make sure to choose the high quality option for better viewing experience after clicking the YouTube link..
http://youtube.com/watch?v=_5rDi-pe8Jg
spikeslovebite)Poll #1197857 How do you feel about participating in a fic-a-thon?
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All
How do you feel about participating in a fic-a-thon?
a) not crazy about writing for one but would love to read some fic.
24 (70.6%)
b) I'm dying to be involved in one of these as they are of the seemingly extinct spuffy activities of old 9 (26.5%)
c) Are you people off your tree? I'm abandoning this Community before you all implode. 1 (2.9%)
d) I *heart* the ticky boxes!!! 11 (32.4%)
Also, if you ARE interested, we would love your suggestions on a possible theme. We've had responses from three members to Megan's earlier post on this matter so far, and we can't wait to see what they might produce!
megan_peta)I know, it's been a while. Seems like everyone is crazy busy these days and I am certainly no exception. However, Uni break is coming up and I thought what better way to take a break from a writing degree than to organise a potentially juicy spuffy fic-a-thon?
The question is, are there enough writers out there interested in giving it a go?
Do you have any themes in particular you'd like to go over?
Do you have any suggestions?
Seems I am unable to do a poll (apparently you have to have a paid account. How much does that suck?) and I didn't wait for Holly to get back online to throw this out there. If your enthusiastic about ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif){kind=small}
seven_seasons running a fic-a-thon, reply to this post and let us know. We are completely open to suggestions at this point.
Looking forward to hearing from you all.
megan_peta)current mood: accomplished
And here are the winners. Be sure to pick up your participation banner - we personalized one for every participant.
Round 8 will begin on November 1. Stay tuned for announcements as to the specifics! We're heading out of canon-territory now. ^_~
( Winners! )
megan_peta)
We didn't have enough entries in several categories to necessitate voting in those categories, thus this round features a "best general" category compiled of all the fics which were submitted to make up for those fics submitted into one of the categories we had to crop.
Stay tuned for announcements pertaining to Round 8!
( Reader's Choice Poll )
hollydb)current mood: good
Title: Ghosts Appear and Fade Away
Author: Holly (holly.hangingavarice@gmail.com)
Rating: PG-13 (for a few words and hints at adult content)
Timeline: Immediately after Chosen
Summary: A prophecy. A choice. A martyred vampire, and the Slayer who loves him.
Categories: Chosen, Short, Reunion, Apocalypse
Disclaimer: The characters herein are the property of Joss Whedon and Mutant Enemy. They are being used out of respect and affection, and not for the sake of profit. No copyright infringement is intended.
( This way... )
tamakin)
Hey guys!!
Im here to announce the opening of a brand new awards community for all things Spike, the bigbad_awards!
Theres a whole fleet of bloody categories ready for nomination and anything can be entered - fics, wips, ficlets, drabbles, manips, banners, icons - as long as it's Spike centric. :D
As of today, it is also now OPEN FOR NOMINATIONS!! So please head on over, read the rules and flll out the nomination form. Feel free to friend it too, to help keep track of whats goin on :)
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Thanks spikeslovebitefor letting me post here *hugs*
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Title – The Dream 1/3
Warnings – Sex?
Pairings – Spike/Buffy, implied Spike/Harmony
Rating – Generally M but for chapter two make it NC-17
Disclaimer – I own nothing. Joss is God, I just skipped into his garden to play. Please don’t sue me.
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henriettaholden thank you so much babe. You have taught me so much by doing this for me!! So any mistakes found are all stubbornly mine.
Synopsis – Set season 5 during the episode Crush. After Dawn tells Buffy that Spike is in love with her, Buffy tries to dismiss the thought. But when she goes to bed, she starts having the strangest dream…
A/N – I was totally peaking about the word count on this and thought for sure that I wouldn’t get it or finish it before the 15th October came around. I hope you like it. I managed to use all three prompts too although I’m not sure exactly how I pulled it off.
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( The Dream 1/3 )