It's that time again, folks, when we look back over everything over our most recent Seasonal Spuffy session (Spring 2012) and go enjoy all the things we missed the first time through. I'd like to point out that this was our fourteenth round of Seasonal Spuffy, going back seven full years, which is an age ago in Internet terms. And even this round we had people participating who'd never participated before. Go us!

Post-series settings were by far the most popular for fic this round, although season six came in at a strong second. Once again, as has been the trend lately, a number of people made fanmixes.

As usual, be sure and speak up if I've put your fanwork in the wrong place. Also let me know if you see anything else that needs fixing - misspellings, broken links, incorrect description of your fic/art, missing work, etc. If you prefer to be listed under your LJ name rather than your DW name, let me know that, too. And finally, let me know about updates to works in progress and I'll update the links here.

( Fic Arranged by Season )

( Fic Arranged by Author )

( Art and Graphics )

( Multimedia )

Belatedly, I'm very happy to announce that the winner of our banner contest is nvrbnkisst! Check back soon for this round's layout by lutamira.

( banner reveals under the cut )


Don't forgot to follow seasonal_spuffy over on DW, where posting has started - you can subscribe to the RSS feed at sspuffy_dw if you want entries to show up on your LJ flist. :)

Which will run through Thursday! Best of luck, all. <3

( five gorgeous banners under the cut! )

Please vote EITHER at LJ or DW; duplicate votes won't be counted. As I made an oops, there are two separate polls here - please vote in either the first or the second, not both. <3

Poll #1833761 round 14 banner poll
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 52

I want this banner!

Poll #1833764
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 0

alternately, I would like...

So, when I went to make the signup sheet, I realized that we were several people short of making a full schedule! I know we can find more lovely folks who'd like to contribute to this round. So if you haven't signed up yet, please comment here by Friday 3/30 and I will squeeze you in. Also, folks who are currently on the schedule - if you are making multiple fan works and would like a second day, that may be an option if I can't get enough people to cover all the days. Comment here as well!

I am also taking banner submissions until Friday - we've already had several awesome submissions, but we have room for a few more! Email your banner to seasonal.spuffy@gmail.com with the subject "banner contest." <3

C&P the text below and tell your friends!
Hey, folks! <span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='http://seasonal-spuffy.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='http://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png' alt='[community profile] ' width='16' height='16' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='http://seasonal-spuffy.dreamwidth.org/'><b>seasonal_spuffy</b></a></span> is now about to begin its 14th round, but there's a problem - we still have open spots on our roster. Want to write some totally amazing fic? Make some icons? A fanmix? A vid? This is a wonderful way to keep our community alive and vibrant, and support us in our new Dreamwidth home. <center>SEASONAL SPUFFY WANTS YOU.</center> Late sign ups run from now until Friday 3/30. Open dates are first claim first serve, but there's a place for <b>everyone</b> who'd like to contribute. Banner submissions remain open until Friday as well. <center><a href="http://seasonal-spuffy.dreamwidth.org/787383.html">sign me up! (DW)</a> -- <a href="http://seasonal-spuffy.livejournal.com/475951.html">sign me up! (LJ)</a></center>

( the lineup )

Sign-ups for Round 14 of seasonal_spuffy end on March 22nd at midnight GMT! Banner submissions end on March 30th. You know you wanna play!


This way to the sign-up page on DW / or LJ


Spread the word:
<center><a href="http://seasonal-spuffy.dreamwidth.org/786453.html"><img src="http://i1220.photobucket.com/albums/dd450/lutamira/seasonalspuffy.jpg"> <big>This way to the sign-up page on DW</a> <a href="http://seasonal-spuffy.livejournal.com/475586.html"> / or LJ</big></a> </center>

Welcome to the 14th round of Seasonal Spuffy and the second round of seasonal_spuffy on Dreamwidth. fenchurche, gillo, lutamira and I will be your mods for this round. Yay, new mods! (Thanks also to our returning team of taggers!)

Under the cut, ( A refresher on how you can get a DW account, participate without one, and follow the community from LJ )

Whew! Now onto our usual rules and guidelines for signup!

1. Round 14 of seasonal_spuffy will run from April 20 - May 25.
Window A: April 20 - April 26
Window B: April 27 - May 3
Window C: May 4 - May 10
Window D: May 11 - May 17
Window E: May 18 - May 24
Free For All: May 25

2. Sign ups will end on March 22 at midnight GMT. I will post the schedule the following day.

3. When you sign up, please use the following form:
DW username AND LJ username:
Window preferences:
Likely medium(s):
Special considerations:

4. The theme for this round will be "The Dance." As always, YOU DO NOT HAVE TO MAKE USE OF THE THEME. Ignore it, go wild with it, it doesn't matter.

5. The 24 hour grace period will continue this round. I do strongly recommend against using it if at all possible. Some do not like sharing their day, and that's understandable. But, that being said, the grace period is there for the mods' convenience. Instead of sending me a panicked email when you forget your date, you can post within the grace period, no questions asked. Any longer than that, and you'll need to wait for the free-for-all at the end of this round.

6. On that note, depending on how many people sign up, you may end up sharing your date. Please let me know in the special considerations if you absolutely cannot share your day. Please also know that it's first come, first served. If you sign up at the last minute, the chances of having to share increase greatly, so please keep this in mind. The same is true for other special considerations. (Also remember that later dates generally fill up the fastest, so if you need a late date, prepare to share.)

7. Once again, let me reiterate that this is a friendly community. Please report any flames to me immediately, and I will take the appropriate action. Trolls are not welcome here, but at the same time, let's not bait them.

8. Seasonal Spuffy accepts any kind of vid, fanart, or fic that has never been posted anywhere else before. You may repost material in your own journal, or you may link to your journal in your seasonal_spuffy entry. As long as the post is made nearly contemporaneously, we'll let it slide. For those who are interested in contributing but not creatively minded right now, we welcome podfic. Just make sure you have okayed it with the author of the story you're recording. Making your podfic available in both .mp3 & .m4b formats is recommended.

9. BANNER CONTEST: Submissions are due by March 30 and voting will begin the following week. When submitting, please send your banner directly to seasonal.spuffy@gmail.com. No more than two banners per person, please. Include your LJ/DW name and "Round 14 Banner Submission" in the subject heading of the email. I would prefer to be sent the file directly, but a link is also acceptable if you're okay with hotlinking the picture for the poll. The maximum dimensions are 800 x 400px. File format should be jpeg, gif, or png. If you'd like to make a matching icon for the mods to use, that would be totally awesome (but is not required).

10. On the free for all day, all contributions are welcomed, regardless of whether you have signed up for this round.

Any questions may be asked below, or at the mirrored post on DW. You may sign up here or at DW, whichever is most convenient for you.

This next round of Seasonal Spuffy will see some changes to the mod lineup, as my beloved and excellent co-mod snickfic is stepping down. I'm also hoping to get some additional help on the mod team. Do you love seasonal_spuffy? Have you ever wanted to get involved? Would you like to contribute something other than fic, art, vids, etc to this fabulous enterprise? Are you familiar and comfortable with DW? This post, it is for you.

right now, I'm looking for 2-3 people to fill the following spots:
planning co-mod: someone who'd like to help me with long-term plans for the community. This can be as basic as picking a theme for each round and as complex as fielding technical issues (with the RSS feed, DW, etc).
hands-on co-mod: someone who has easy access to/spends much of their day on the computer and can help me catch any problems with or questions about posting while each round is in session.
layout designer: I am pretty good at picking up HTML & CSS for someone with sporadic interest and zero training, but it's not really my metier. You would be in charge of handling DW + LJ layouts for the community every round. (If you are interested in helping with other technical aspects, that would be a plus! but not required.)

It's possible that you might be interested in filling more than one of these roles, which would be awesome! I'm looking for at least 2 and maybe 3 people who want to be Seasonal Spuffy co-ninjas. <3

Also, if you're interested in tagging (a lower-key commitment), volunteer slots are always open.

(Thanks for keeping Seasonal Spuffy alive! We'll be back for Round 14 later this spring.)

[DW post here]

thanks to the new community import feature on Dreamwidth, all of seasonal_spuffy's content (including comments & tags) has now been imported to seasonal_spuffy.

If you need to edit a post you made on the LJ comm, you can login to DW using OpenID to edit it.

Here it is once again: the Seasonal Spuffy masterlist, this time for our Fall 2011 session, September 15-October 20. Once again we had a fabulous turnout of authors and artists producing a wonderful array of Spuffy goodness.

I'm always interested in new trends as found in Seasonal Spuffy, and this was definitely the year of the fanmix. I'd never even heard of fanmixes until quinara made one for the Spring 2010 session, but last session we had four and this session we had eight. Plenty to listen to, if Spuffy-flavored tunes are what you're in the mood for. Also this session was a heavy emphasis on late- and post-season Spuffy, with the first five seasons being represented by a grand total of two fics. Wow.

As usual, be sure and speak up if I've put your fanwork in the wrong place. Also let me know if you see anything else that needs fixing - misspellings, broken links, incorrect description of your fic/art, missing work, etc. If you have very strong feelings about being listed under your LJ name rather than your DW name, let me know that, too. And finally, let me know about updates to works in progress and I'll update the links here.

If you haven't yet, go enjoy the works of our wonderfully creative and maybe give them some love (= comments) while you're at it. Thank you, all, for another wonderful session of Spuffiness.

( Fic Arranged by Season )

( Fic Arranged by Author )

( Art and Graphics )

( Multimedia )

Original entry posted at Dreamwidth. Feel free to reply here or there. ( DW replies)

It's come to my attention that the feed from the DW Seasonal Spuffy comm has gone awry, and in fact hasn't been updated since 9/29. No posts from the comm have come through the feed since then. Your mods are on the case, and hopefully we can sort out what's happened in short order.

In the meantime, here's everyone whose posts you might have missed:
The Real Me, by itsayamsham - S6 - bodyswap comedy
Originally Normal, by tennyo_elf - AU S7
Icons and Signatures, by tennyo_elf
Love's Rebirth, by tennyo_elf - digital painting
Icons and Friends Only Banner, by stnia
Icons, by useryourlove
Burning in Blue, by useyourlove - jazz fanmix
What You've Got, by this_caia - S6 fluff
Elegies Part 1: Words for the Faded, Chapter 1, by useryourlove - Dollhouse/Buffyverse crossover
And Take My Waking Slow, by snickfic - post-NFA post-apocalyptic

seasonal spuffy on your LJ flist
Add our RSS feed, sspuffy_dw, and all DW entries will show up right on your flist. Remember not to comment on the LJ entries and click over to comment on DW. Click here to add the feed to your flist.

commenting on DW
You can comment using your DW account, your LJ account (using OpenID), or anonymously. We're flexible!

posting
With a DW account: Join the community. Post! It's just like LJ.
Without a DW account: Login using the community poster account [locked post - you must be a member of the LJ comm to read]. Post! It's just like LJ.

header/tagging
Remains the same! Header and tagging guide located here.

sundries
Need a DW code? Last-minute questions or concerns? Comment here or send an email to seasonal.spuffy@gmail.com

Here you go! Voting for the banner contest will be live until September 14, when a winner will be announced. Please vote either here OR at LJ. I will be double checking the votes, but, you know, honor system. <3

( three banners under the cut... )

Poll #1775062 Round 13 Banner Contest
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 106

I like this banner the best!

( under the cut! )


As usual, comment with any corrections - I've done my best to make this schedule correct and to accommodate everyone's schedules, but errors do happen sometimes.

Stay tuned for some upcoming posts: our BANNER CONTEST (submissions are still open and run until August 22, check out the signup post for details) and detailed instructions on how to use DW and post/read/comment from LJ.

We've decided to reschedule fully importing the community until after this round because DDoS issues with LJ have made doing so completely in a timely manner problematic. The first week of November is now our target date for community maintenance. ( more info )

Now that business is out of the way…

…signup for Round 13 of Seasonal Spuffy at DW or at LJ

…promote Round 13 of Seasonal Spuffy with this gorgeous banner by moscow_watcher!
!

just c&p the text below into your own post on LJ/DW/Tumblr:
<center> <img src="http://i54.tinypic.com/28tkr2q.jpg" alt="seasonal spuffy - round 13 - september 14 - october 20 - it's awesome!"> <a href="http://seasonal-spuffy.dreamwidth.org/8200.html">signup at dreamwidth</a> - <a href="http://seasonal-spuffy.livejournal.com/472765.html">signup at livejournal</a>

…subscribe to seasonal_spuffy on DW or add sspuffy_dw to your friends list on LJ to follow the community from your flist.

This is just a note to say that the scheduled Friday maintenance on the DW Seasonal Spuffy comm has been extended through Monday 10pm EST while ladyofthelog continues working on importing posts from seasonal_spuffy. This means that, to avoid a flood of old posts on your flist, you may want to hold off resubscribing to the DW Seasonal Spuffy comm and/or the RSS feed (sspuffy_dw) until Tuesday or temporarily unsubscribe if you haven't already done so. An announcement will be made on both comms as soon as maintenance is finished.

From Thursday, August 4th at 6 AM EST to Friday, August 5th at 6 AM EST, seasonal_spuffy is going to be flooded with posts - I am copying all of the entries from seasonal_spuffy and unfortunately the tool I'm using to do this does not backdate entries. I suggest that you temporarily unsubscribe from the DW comm or defriend the LJ feed sspuffy_dw, otherwise your friendslist/rlist will be in sad disarray. I will post in seasonal_spuffy when the DW comm is safe to subscribe to again.

When entries are transferred to DW, you will be still be able to edit them using the community poster account. Tags will remain intact, but unfortunately comments will not copy over.

First things first: we are making a BIG CHANGE this round, which is that Seasonal Spuffy will no longer take place on LJ. We're moving the community to seasonal_spuffy on Dreamwidth, where snickfic and I (verity) will be returning as your mods.

Under the cut, ( how our move to DW will take place, and how you can get a DW account, participate without one, and follow the community from LJ )


Whew! Now onto our usual rules and guidelines for signup!

1. Round 13 of seasonal_spuffy will run from September 14 to October 20.
Window A: September 15 - September 21
Window B: September 22 - September 28
Window C: September 29 - October 5
Window D: October 6 - October 12
Window E: October 13 - October 19
Free For All: October 20

2. Sign ups will end on August 15 at midnight GMT. I will post the schedule the following day.

3. When you sign up, please use the following form:
LJ username AND DW username:
If no DW username: I would like a DW code OR I would like to post to the DW community using the community poster account
Window preferences:
Likely medium(s):
Special considerations:

4. The theme for this round will be "joyful play." As always, YOU DO NOT HAVE TO MAKE USE OF THE THEME. Ignore it, go wild with it, it doesn't matter.

5. The 24 hour grace period will continue this round. I do strongly recommend against using it if at all possible. Some do not like sharing their day, and that's understandable. But, that being said, the grace period is there for the mods' convenience. Instead of sending me a panicked email when you forget your date, you can post within the grace period, no questions asked. Any longer than that, and you'll need to wait for the free-for-all at the end of this round.

6. On that note, depending on how many people sign up, you may end up sharing your date. Please let me know in the special considerations if you absolutely cannot share your day. Please also know that it's first come, first served. If you sign up at the last minute, the chances of having to share increase greatly, so please keep this in mind. The same is true for other special considerations. (Also remember that later dates generally fill up the fastest, so if you need a late date, prepare to share.)

7. Once again, let me reiterate that this is a friendly community. Please report any flames to me immediately, and I will take the appropriate action. Trolls are not welcome here, but at the same time, let's not bait them.

8. Seasonal Spuffy accepts any kind of vid, fanart, or fic that has never been posted anywhere else before. You may repost material in your own journal, or you may link to your journal in your seasonal_spuffy entry. As long as the post is made nearly contemporaneously, we'll let it slide. For those who are interested in contributing but not creatively minded right now, we welcome podfic. Just make sure you have okayed it with the author of the story you're recording. Making your podfic available in both .mp3 & .m4b formats is recommended.

9. BANNER CONTEST: Submissions are due by August 22 and voting will begin the following week. When submitting, please send your banner directly to seasonal.spuffy@gmail.com. No more than two banners per person. Include your LJ name and "Round 13 Banner Submission" in the subject heading of the email. I would prefer to be sent the file directly, but a link is also acceptable if you're okay with hotlinking the picture for the poll. The maximum dimensions are 800 x 400px. File format should be jpeg, gif, or png. If you'd like to make a matching icon for the mods to use, that would be totally awesome (but is not required).

10. On the free for all day, all contributions are welcomed, regardless of whether you have signed up for this round.


Any questions may be asked below, or at the mirrored post on DW. You may sign up here or at DW, whichever is most convenient for you.

Let the fun begin!

Come one, come all and check out the goodies posted by our participants during the Spring 2011 Session of seasonal_spuffy , April 1 - May 7. Thank you, participants, for this feast of fannish delights!

I always enjoy finding the 'themes' of in each session. This time around there was a lot more S8 fic (to be expected, I think) and also a definite S6 trend (unexpected). We also went multimedia in a big way this time around, enough to give it its own category: we ended up with four vids, four fanmixes, and quite a few podfics. Nifty.

As usual, be sure and speak up if I've put your fanwork in the wrong place. Also let me know if you see anything else that needs fixing - misspellings, broken links, incorrect description of your fic/art, missing work, etc. And finally, let me know about updates to works in progress and I'll update the links here.

( Fic Arranged by Season )

( Fic Arranged by Author )

( Artwork )

( Multimedia )

Thanks to everyone who contributed, commented, or just peeked in! <3

Title: Fire in the Soul (2a/?)
Author: Rebcake
Rating: PG13, this chapter
Word count: 1140
Summary: A few years after Sunnydale’s spectacular demise, Buffy and her crew are getting on with their lives in San Francisco. A not entirely unwelcome blast from her past blows into town, but he’s brought more than the generally allowable amount of baggage with him.

A/N: This half-chapter takes place the morning after the events of Chapter 1. Alas, it's just a couple of gals sitting around talking, but more plot is coming soon (tomorrow?) on my journal. I'll link from the bottom of this chapter when it's up.


( Obligatory Sunday morning family phone call... )

I was hoping to get more icons done for today, but alas, gainful employment intervened. However, I did manage to whip up some season 8 icons for your viewing pleasure. (And using pleasure, one hopes!)

( +8 )

 Hi guys! I've been enjoying all the awesome things that have come out of this community this month, and since it's open posting day I thought I'd give it a shot. Thanks to the mods for keeping it up and running, and for providing an opportunity for lurkers like myself to contribute without having a slot!

Title: Blame it on the Black Star
Author/Creator: smellslikecorruption
Era/Season/Setting: Season 2-4
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Superstarverse (?)
Length: ~3500
Summary: How might have important events gone differently in a universe where Buffy wasn't Sunnydale's go-to superhero? Snapshots of the Spuffy relationship in the alternate history created by Jonathan's spell.
Disclaimer: None of it belongs to me. 


( Blame it on the Black Star )

Hello everyone! I've been admiring all the wonderful entries we've got this month, and now I planned to contribute with something of my own! Big thanks to the mods for keeping this up, and to all the other contributors for spreading the Spuffy love. I hope you enjoy!

Teasers:


( 30 icons, 4 banner/icon-sets and 1 header this way! )

The header is a lie. But here's a link to the next chapter of Home Is Where They Have To Take You In. From this chapter on, the rest of the fic will be posted on my journal (or at DW). This is the last chapter being posted tonight, but I may have time to do another one tomorrow.

Chapter Three

As promised, I'm back with one more chapter to celebrate seasonal_spuffy . If you want to continue following this fic, I'll be updating it fairly regularly (couple of times a week at least) on my livejournal. Or you can find it at Elysian Fields or the Bloodshedverse).

Thanks so much to the mods for putting this together. It's been a lot of fun, and I can't wait for the next go round. :)

First there was Chapter 1 , Chapter 2 , Chapter 3 , Chapter 4 , Chapter 5 & Chapter 6


Title: DUST
Author: knifeedgefic 
Era/Season: Season 4 (post “Harsh Light of Day” and “Fear, Itself” but before “Beer Bad”)
Rating: Mature/NC-17 (strong language, sexual situations, adult content)
Genre: other?
Betaed by: goblin_dae , yakimama , and subtilior 

Summary: She'd kicked his butt, taken the Gem and sent it off to Angel. Buffy thought she'd seen the last of Spike. Clearly, she’d been too optimistic. That he was in her house, in her room, waking her out of a sound sleep and asking for (okay, demanding) her help meant that something had to be majorly wrong. They weren't due for another apocalypse, but ... why else would a vampire make a truce with the Slayer?

( A well lubricated Spike would be a whole lot easier to handle. )