Double Dutchess (original) (raw)

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.

My meagre 6 LJ posts during the whole year suggest that my fannish production for 2021 was limited. But I did make some artwork as well as multiple vids, and those are very time-consuming. (At least for me -- I know there are vidders who can churn out vids at a pretty high speed, but I have no idea how they manage to do that.)

Anyway, my list is below the cut.

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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).

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

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This vid was my main entry for the Spring 2021 round of seasonal_spuffy (theme: truth or dare). It is packed with sex scenes from Season 6, and gets pretty steamy. So, rated R and possibly not worksafe.

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.

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It's here! My Fandom Trumps Hate 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:

If you like, you can download it -- here is a Dropbox link (44 Mb).

And note to everybody who reads this: I have again signed up for Fandom Trumps Hate. You can find my 2021 offers here (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.

Time to revive an oldie. Because 2020 sucked all over the world, I thought I'd revise and re-use the image below. The original version was made for noel_of_spike in 2016. That year also sucked, but on a smaller scale than 2020. I wish everybody a much better 2021!

Credits
Art by the late, amazing Franco Urru (slightly edited by me) from the IDW "After The Fall" comics
Virus image from pixabay