The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Wednesday, July 9th

  • Jul. 10th, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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ANGELUS: Why do you get to be Marley's ghost?
FAITH: (sits) 'Cause I'm dying, dumbass.
ANGELUS: Not soon enough.
FAITH: Way I figure, I've got one last job: baby-sit the psycho 'til they shove a soul up your —
ANGELUS: Not gonna happen.
FAITH: (stands) Then, I'm whatever... dust in the wind. Candle in the wind. There'll be a general wind theme.

~~Orpheus ~~



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The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Tuesday, July 8

  • Jul. 8th, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Cordelia: So anyway, I come outta the bathroom, and she comes running at me. Screaming! With a stick! 'I'm gonna kill you! I'm gonna kill you!' I swear!
Boy: Who?
Cordelia: Buffy!
Harmony: The new girl?
Boy: What's her deal?
Cordelia: Well, she's crazed.
Harmony: Did you hear about her old school?
Cordelia and the boy both shake their heads.
Harmony: Booted.

~~Buffy Episode #2: "The Harvest" ~~


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R.F. Kuang: Yellowface (Book Review)

  • Jul. 8th, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Very entertaining satiric novel set in and about the publishing industry. Our first person narrator, June (white), is a writer with a debut novel which didn't make a splash and won't even, so her agent tells her, get a paperback edition, in stark contrast to her college friend Athena Liu's (American Chinese) work: Athena has three novels already published, just secured a Netflix deal and celebrates that and finishing the first draft of her newest work with June when she dies an accidental death by pancake. June doesn't just dial 911. She also makes off with Athena's manuscript, about which only she knows, edits, rewrites and publishes it. Presto, success, at last! ! But wait! There's no lack of sharp-eyed foes waiting, social media is truly a jungle, and June might be her own worst enemy....
( Very vague spoilers ensue )

The novel has the right kind of length for this story - which is to say, less than 400 pages - so the various buildings up of suspense - will June get away with it being the big, but not the only one - are not drawn out too long, and there's not a gigantic cast of characters. Said characters reminded me of comedy of manners types - very stylized, often types for certain ways of behaviour - fittng the satire format. The only other thing of R. F. Kuang's I'd read before was Poppy War, a fantasy novel of a very different type, so I'm impressed by her range. Otoh, if Poppy War was so grim that I emerged emotionally exhausted and sure I would go through the experience again (while being glad I had done so in the first place), Yellowface felt like a slick writty automaton which you observe once and marvel at its cleverness but don't feel the need to do it again. But I will certainly continue to keep out an eye for this author.
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The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Monday, July 7th

  • Jul. 7th, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Drusilla: I can't see her. The Slayer. I can't see. (looks back up) It's dark where she is. Kill her. Kill her, Spike. Kill her for me?
Spike: It's done, baby.
Drusilla: Kill her for princess?
Spike: I'll chop her into messes.
Drusilla: You are my sweet... my little Spike.

~~School Hard~~


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The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Sunday, July 6th

  • Jul. 6th, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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BUFFY: Yes, Agent Finn, Riley. Tell him we're having a problem with Spike's chip. No, his chip. Spike.
SPIKE: (shakes his head) Listen, pet?
BUFFY: No, no, Finn is his last name. Yeah. Well, did he used to work there and then he got transferred? (Spike's chip goes off again, he thrashes on the stairs unnoticed by Buffy) Oh, is this actually a flower shop, or is this one of those things where I'm supposed to play along to show that I know it's really secret ops? Oh, maybe I shouldn't have said that. Oh, OK, right. Well, if some guy named Finn shows up to buy flowers— Yeah. Thanks. (hangs up, turns to Spike) Wrong number. Or a giant government conspiracy, one or the— (notices he's recovering from an episode) Spike?

~~The Killer in Me~~


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  • Jul. 6th, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Ironheart Episodes 4 - 6:

  • Jul. 6th, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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( Spoilers do wonder whether they they teach Goethe and Marlowe at MIT. )
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The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Saturday, July 5

  • Jul. 5th, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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SPIKE: I'm a hero really. I mean, to be cast such an ugly lot in life and then to rise above it. To seek out better, nobler things. It's inspirational, isn't it? And the two of us... natural enemies, thrown together to stand against the forces of darkness. Utter trust. No thought of me biting you, no thought of you staking me.
BUFFY: Depends on how long you keep on yapping.

~~BtVS 6x08 “Tabula Rasa”~~



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Barbara Kingsolver: Demon Copperhead (Book Review)

  • Jul. 5th, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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Aka a 2022 novel set in the Appalachians during the late 1990s and early 2000s with the euphemistically called "Opiod Crisis" very much a main theme, and simultanously a modern adaptation of David Copperfield by Charles Dickens. The last Copperfield adaptation I had seen or read was the Iannucci movie starring Dev Patel in the title role which emphasized the humor and vitality of the novel and succeeded splendidly, but had to cut down the darker elements in order to do so, with the breathneck speed of a two hours mvie based on a many hundred pages novel helping with that. Demon Copperhead took the reverse approach; it's all the darkness magnified - helped by the fact this is also a many hundred pages novel - but nearly no humor. Both adaptations emphasize the social injustice of the various systems they're depicting. Both had to do some considerable flashing out when it comes to Dickens's first person narrator. No one has ever argued that David is the most interesting character in David Copperfield. As long as he's still a child, this isn't noticable because David going from coddled and much beloved kid to abused and exploited kid makes for a powerful emotional arc. (BTW, I was fascinated to learn back when I was reading Claire Tomalin's Dickens biography that Dickens was influenced by Jane Eyre in this; Charlotte Bronte's novel convinced him to go for a first person narration - which he hadn't tried before - and the two abused and outraged child narrators who describe what scares and elates them incredibly vividly do have a lot on common.) But once he's an adult, it often feels like he's telling other people's stories (very well, I hasten to add) in which he's only on the periphery, except for his love life. The movie solved this by giving David - who is autobiographically inspired anyway - some more of Dickens`s on life and qualities. Demon Copperhead solves it by a) putting most of the part of the Dickens plot when David is already an adult to when Damon/Demon is still a teenager (he only becomes a legal adult near the end), b) by making Damon as a narrator a whole lot angrier than David, and c) by letting him fall to what is nearly everyone else's problem as well, addiction.

( Spoilers ensue about both novels )

In conclusion: this was a compelling novel but tough to read due to the subject and the unrelenting grimness. I'm not saying you should treat the horrible neglect and exploitation of children and the way a rotten health system allowed half the population to become addicts irreverently, but tone wise, this is more Hard Times than David Copperfield, and sometimes I wished for some breathing space in between the horrors. But I am glad to have read it.
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The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Friday, July 4th

  • Jul. 5th, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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ANYA: Anya Christina Emanuella Jenkins, twenty years old. Born on the fourth of July, and don't think there weren't jokes about that my whole life, mister, 'cause there were. "Who's our little patriot?" they'd say, when I was younger, and therefore smaller and shorter than I am now.

~~Checkpoint~~


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uc_xmen drabble-a-thon/prompt meme

  • Jul. 4th, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Thursday, July 3

  • Jul. 3rd, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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Buffy: You have to take care of them now. You have to take care of each other. You have to be strong. Dawn, the hardest thing in this world ... is to live in it. Be brave. Live. For me.

~~The Gift~~



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    • Her Lullaby, Chapter 2 (Buffy/Spike, G) by violettathepiratequeen
    • The Hex Generation, Chapter 1 (Crossover with Star Trek, M) by storiwr
    • New Benediction, Chapter 7 (Buffy/Angel, M) by Deez Boots
    • Something Borrowed, Chapter 11 (Buffy/Spike, M) by Geliot99
    • Tether, Chapter 1 (Buffy/Faith, E) by evesock
    • today doesn't count, Chapter 43 (Buffy/Spike, M) by modestlobster
    • Bullet for My Valentine [Prequel], Chapter 5 (Spike/OC, E) by frozendeadgirl
    • Chasing the Light, Chapter 30 (Angel/Lindsey, E) by CloudSeeker
    • Hold Fast the Thread, Chapter 30 (Giles/Faith, M) by SchrodingersKatInABox
    • What if you hadn't left? What if you hadn't stayed? What would have changed?, Chapter 1 (Angel, NR) by Laqt15
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    • The Proof Is In The Gouda, Chapter 1 (Buffy/Spike, R) by simmony
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    • Home For Strays, Chapter 5 (Buffy/Spike, PG-13) by violettathepiratequeen
    • A 200th Go, Chapter 5 (Buffy/Spike, R) by BewitchedXx
    • Something to Believe In, Chapter 17 (Buffy/Spike, R) by Maxine Eden
    • Bert and Ernie Present: Drabblemania 2025, Chapter 6 (Buffy/Spike, PG-13) by clarissadalloway
    • Mile Markers and Blood Moons, Chapter 12 (Buffy/Spike, R) by JamesMFan
    • Adventures of a Retired Slayer, Chapter 16 (Buffy/Spike, R) by EnchantedWillow
    • Refractions, Chapter 6 (Buffy/Spike, R) by CheekyKitten
    • The Second Coming, Chapter 9 (Buffy/Spike, PG-13) by tempestt
    • More THan Just a Dream, Chapter 3 (Buffy/Spike, R) by scratchmeout
    • Holidate, Chapter 1 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17) by scratchmeout
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    • Something to Believe In, Chapter 18 (Buffy/Spike, R) by Maxine Eden
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BTS IS BACK

  • Jul. 2nd, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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So … BTS did a liveshow recently (when they video stream casual conversation for fans, responding to questions viewers type into the chat and such) and announced that they’ll have a studio album coming out in spring 2026, accompanied by a world tour. It’ll be their first world tour in 7 years! First there was the pandemic (which led to the cancelation of 2020’s scheduled Map of the Soul tour, for which I had tickets), and then they went into the military. They hadn’t even done a live show with all of them together since September 2022. (The first member of the group joined the military at the end of 2022, and the last member was just discharged less than 2 weeks ago.) They were all emotional about being all together again after so long.

There’s been some confusion among muggles (lol, non-ARMYs) about whether BTS have broken up, since they’ve all been doing solo work over the past couple of years and not group projects. But the group never broke up. The entire time that they’ve been doing solo work, they’ve been describing and defining themselves as members of BTS. The group was just not able to be working together for logistical reasons, as all members joined the military at various times, so it was a great opportunity to explore their own independent music.

All the members of BTS have different musical and performance interests, which can only be expressed so much while performing as a group. Their management company has always encouraged them to pursue their own individual projects if they wanted to, but their schedule with BTS was so taxing that most of them really didn’t have the time/energy to do side projects.

They staggered the dates when each of them entered the military, so that the ones who went in later had time to do solo projects before joining up, while the first ones to join had time after they were discharged. So, for example, Yoongi/Suga did a solo tour before he joined the military in September 2023 (he was just discharged a week or two ago). Hobi/j-hope did the reverse, joining the military earlier (in April 2023) and doing a solo tour at the start of this year after his discharge. There was a period of only a few months when all seven members were in the military, because they scheduled it so that the rest of the time there was always at least one of them out, making music.

Each of them, while they were free but other members were in the military, took this time when BTS as a whole was separated as an opportunity to each pursue their specific passions. One member, for example, really likes jazz, and so he produced a bunch of very jazz-influenced music. Another had always wanted to have time to improve his piano skills, and so worked on that and added more piano playing to his solo performances. One went full on into mainstream hip-hop. A few of them wrote deeply introspective albums about their personal emotional struggles. All seven of them had a chance to really explore their own personal musical interests as individuals who make up BTS.

But now they’ve all completed their mandatory military service and are starting up group projects again. One member (Jin) will be in the U.S. throughout the latter half of this month on his solo tour, so that’s apparently when a lot of work will be done on the album, since during the liveshow they specified they’d be following him to the U.S. to work on it.

There’s also a live album that will be released in just a couple of weeks. It’ll be their first group album release since June 2022’s anthology “Proof.”

It’s an exciting time to be BTS ARMY! Now that they've announced a tour in spring 2026, I have more motivation than ever to save money! The tickets I bought more than 5 years ago were more than $300 each, so who knows how much they'll cost now! (TicketMaster is such a scam.) Plus airfare and such...
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The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Wednesday, July 2nd

  • Jul. 3rd, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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(a small pink pig is loose in the school hallways, until Buffy picks him up)
MR. FLUTIE: (talking to pig) Lordy, Herbert! Gave Mr. Flutie quite a scare, didn't he?
MR. FLUTIE: (talking to students) Students, I'd like you all to met Herbert, our new mascot for the Sunnydale High Razorbacks!
(The students all clap.)
BUFFY: He's so cute!
MR. FLUTIE: He's not cute. No! He's a fierce Razorback! (more clapping)

~~The Pack~~



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  • Jul. 2nd, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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1) As part of [community profile] sunshine_revival's first challenge: "Creative Prompt: Shine a light on your own creativity. Create anything you want (an image, an icon, a story, a poem, or a craft) and share it with your community."

I just shared some necklaces I made a few months back over at [community profile] everykindofcraft. I did a lot of beading in the first 13 years after I took it up, but things have been rather start and stop in the last 10. A craft store closeout + a challenge from a relative got me making some new things in the last few months. That probably also contributed to my starting [community profile] everykindofcraft here, because I saw various people posting wonderful stuff that not many people were seeing, whereas on Pillowfort some general craft communities there are always getting posts.

Hopefully we can get more crafters sharing here!

2) Have been watching a slew of Apple+ shows as our subscription cutoff nears. The miniseries Disclaimer was framed in an interesting way, one which I suspect had a lot more clarity in multimedia than in the book, but perhaps not. It uses multiple narrative voices and POV for the narration, including second person, first person, and some omniscient narrative. This was pretty relevant because of who was being framed (literally) and who actually got to have their voice(s) heard. ( Read more... )

3) Surface is a story told in a much more straightforward manner even though it also involves an unreliable narrator of sorts in that our central character had memory loss and is trying to piece together her past which also involves a parental mystery. ( Read more... )

4) Also saw the movie Wolfs, which is fine but largely a vehicle for us to watch Pitt and Clooney do fun stuff. ( Read more... )

5) Finished The Big Conn and Cowboy Cartel, two documentaries about big crime. I found the former much more interesting, even though I'd heard about the case before. What was probably the most striking about both was the role of the media in precipitating change. ( Read more... )

6) Careme was marketed as the story of the first celebrity chef, who served Napoleon, Tallyrand and others. It was certainly about far more than cooking. ( Read more... )

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The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Tuesday, July 1

  • Jul. 1st, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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BUFFY: You realize that Anya's probably seducing R.J. even as we speak.
WILLOW: My God. You think so?
BUFFY: Well, I wouldn't put it past her. She's recently evil, you know.
WILLOW: Well, so am I. Why should I miss out?

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Kink Hub Theme of the Month: "Sex on the Beach"

  • Jul. 2nd, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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Kink Hub: A Sharing & Reccing Community for Kink Fics

Links:  [community profile] kinkhub | Community Rules | Posting Guidelines | Monthly Themes & Free-For-All | July: Sex on the Beach

Description: Kink Hub is an 18+ comm for anything kink fic, where you can self-promote, share and rec fanfics of all fandoms and original works. RPF is welcome.

For the month of July, the theme for all shared fics is "Sex on the Beach", which means any kinks related to outdoor fun (no actual beach required) and/or alcoholic beverages (no cocktail required). If you've written or read fics featuring any related kink, you're very welcome to share the links to them in this comm.

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The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Monday, June 30

  • Jun. 30th, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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WILLOW: It says that Meredith and two other girls in the car were killed instantly. They were all on the Fondren High Pep Squad, on the way to a game.
BUFFY: You know what this means.
XANDER: That Fondren might actually beat Sunnydale in the cross-town body count competition this year?
BUFFY: She wasn't killed by vampires. Somebody did dig up her corpse.
CORDELIA: Eww! Why is it that every conversation you people have has the word 'corpse' in it?

~~BtVS 2x03 “Some Assembly Required”~~



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Rebuilding journal search again

  • Jun. 30th, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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We're having to rebuild the search server again (previously, previously). It will take a few days to reindex all the content.

Meanwhile search services should be running, but probably returning no results or incomplete results for most queries.

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