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  1. Rec 4

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    'So how do you deal with it?' She asks—and even in her own ears, Fred's voice sounds small. 'When it stops? When the busyness stops?'
    They look at each other. Then Willow breathes out, a long breath. 'I think you, um...Break things off with your girlfriend and go to San Francisco and spend too many afternoons hanging out at the Institute of Science pretending you're thirteen again.'

    Fred and Willow meet up in San Francisco, the gay capital of the west coast, talk nerdy to each other and fulfill the Orpheus ship-that-never-was.
    It gets sexy, but not till Chapter 2. You also have to wade through a ton of contextulising flashbacks and vague fluffy plot. Sorry. Set between Why we Fight and Smile Time.

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    05 Jul 2026

  2. Rec 79

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    A response to Helga Von Nutwimple's Vamp-in-the-Box Challenge. Wolfram & Hart make a slight error, and bring Drusilla back instead of Darla at the end of Ats S1. Drusilla heads straight to Sunnydale and Spike, and in the process throws a monkey wrench into Buffy's thinking. Oh, and Riley left after "Restless."

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    03 Jul 2026

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    “You know you’ve got a willing slave,” were the words Spike sang. Buffy dismissed them at the time, her mind and her heart not ready to accept what that might mean. While Buffy finds herself on the wrong side of a demon mafia, Spike takes it upon himself to show her, and himself, the true meaning of his words.

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    16 Jun 2026

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    "Giles got turned into a cat?" Riley asks. "That guy can't catch a break."
    "Oh, no, common misconception," says Spike. "Rupert and human Rupert are different people."

    Or: Spike adopts a very dumb orange cat who helps him experience the power of friendship and, more importantly, psychologically torment Giles.

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    13 Jun 2026

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    “I know how we can defeat Glory!” Anya pronounced. Willow and Xander both looked up at her in surprise. Even Giles, over by the register with his tea, looked up in interest. “We run away!”

    Thanks to some research done by Anya, the escape in Spiral is to a different dimension, where hopefully they should be safe from Glory’s all-powerful grasp until the window for the apocalypse passes. But trying to get home will be another matter altogether, in a world where humans are slaves, vampires undergo peculiar transformations, and Cordelia Chase is the messiah. Reuniting with old friends doesn’t guarantee things will get any easier, especially if their enemies also team up to maintain the status quo. What does it mean to be The Key? How many regimes will Buffy overthrow? Is there no place like home?

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    13 Jun 2026