Double Dutchess

So, I'm having a bit of déjà-vu here, because once again this journal is only showing empty spaces where images used to be. That's because the image hosting site I've been using for the last 6 years shut down without notice yesterday. I've made an account at another image hosting site and have started replacing some links (not on this journal but elsewhere), but I'm not sure if I'm up to the task of re-uploading 6 years' worth of icons, wallpapers, banners and other images, and then fixing the links not just on here but in other spaces too. In any case, if I'm going to do it, it's going to be a looooooong process, so please get used to seeing empty spaces here for the foreseeable future.

To be honest, I don't really expect it to be a big problem because I haven't posted here for over a year now, so not many people are likely to stumble across this journal, but still.

For this Fall's round of seasonal_spuffy the theme was "Walk Through the Fire". It reminded me of "Fire" by The Pointer Sisters. To me, the lyrics of "Fire" just scream Spuffy, and I thought it was nice to do a vid from Buffy's pov for a change. Also, it's just a great song! Note: the vid is possibly not entirely worksafe due to some Spike nudity and sexy scenes, but mostly just kissing (lots of it).


( Credits for the vid )

I also submitted a banner for the banner poll, which you can see under the cut below. (In full size the width is 900px.)

( Walk Through The Fire banner )

For the past round of seasonal_spuffy (theme: Truth or Dare) I made three banners. I made the first two for the banner contest, and the first one actually won! Then again, only 5 banners competed in total. I really hope more will be entered in the next round.

The third banner, which was a Fandom Trumps Hate gift, is a fic banner for "Something White", the second story in thenewbuzwuzz's  meerkat AU.

( Banners under the cut )

It's here! My fandomtrumpshate 2020 gift for sea-changed, who made a generous donation to some charities that are doing really important work. I can't express how happy I was when sea-changed told me they wanted a Spike vid to this particular song, because I love both Spike and the song a lot. The vid took me a long time to make (for a large part because I was distracted by work and other projects), but sea-changed was there every step of the way with valuable feedback that made the vid a lot better than it would have otherwise been. In short, multiple big thank yous to sea-changed! I hope you will keep enjoying the vid, even though you've already seen innumerable intermediate versions of it ;-)

Anyway, here it is, the very final version:


And a note to everybody who reads this: I have again signed up for Fandom Trumps Hate, and you can find my 2021 offers here (again a vid, and artwork). Bidding starts Monday! I challenge you to come up with a new vid request for me that is as much fun to make as this one has been.

Finally, there are some other good folks who are also offering Buffyverse art and fic; you can find all Buffyverse offerings here.

It's time again for making an inventory of my fannish production from last year. It's mostly Spuffy, because 95% of it was done for seasonal_spuffy.

Vids

• Please, please, please vid for the Spring round of Seasonal Spuffy

Wallpapers / banners / manips

• Beeped manip for the Spring round of Seasonal Spuffy
• Enemies with benefits banners for the Spring round of Seasonal Spuffy
• Fairytales* banners for the Fall round of Seasonal Spuffy
• Shirtless woodcutter Spike (and fairy Buffy)* wallpaper and banners for the Fall round of Seasonal Spuffy
• Storyteller -- Sleeping Beauty* wallpaper for the Fall round of Seasonal Spuffy
• Spike in a Winter Wonderland manip for nekid_spike

Icons

• su_herald  editor icon for thenewbuzwuzz (as a fandomtrumpshate gift)
• Giles quotes for summer_of_giles 
• My own editor icon for the su_herald  (a revised version of one of the Giles quotes icons, "Research Beckons")

Other artwork

• Buffy and Spike's bedroom diorama, regular and Christmas version, for the summer and winter solstices at Seasonal Spuffy, respectively.
• Making of the bedroom diorama part one and part two.
• Bye bye 2020 comics edit

Gif sets

• Sweet Surrender* for the Fall round of Seasonal Spuffy
• Fool for Love* for the Fall round of Seasonal Spuffy

Something fic-like

• "It's a great story, don't" fic generated using AI for the Spring round of Seasonal Spuffy (already a lot better than my attempts from the year before!)

Entries marked with * also served as prompt fills for my bingo card from buffyversebingo .