Ken: That... was not... permitted.
Buffy: Yeah, but it was fun.

~~Anne~~



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Giles: Uh, I wish we had time to celebrate properly. However, we have two victims: Jeff Orkin and, uh, now Platt. Uh, maybe there's something they had in common.
Faith: Missing internal organs.
Giles: Besides that.
Oz: Debbie. Well, victim number one, Jeff. He was in jazz band with us. They used to horse around.
Faith: They were screwing?
Oz: I don't think so, but he hid her music comp book once.
Buffy: And we know that Debbie knew Platt. I mean, she was seeing him and way vocal about not having love for the guy.
Oz: Add this and stir. I just saw Debbie a minute ago sporting a nasty black eye.

~~Buffy Episode #38: "Beauty and the Beasts"~~



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Our floating backup editor [personal profile] nondenomifan helped us get through a busy summer, and is moving on. And former chief editor and now regular Sunday editor [personal profile] thenewbuzwuzz is looking to retire from editing sometime soon. Many thanks to both of them!


This means we are looking for someone to step in as Sunday editor or potentially take another day of the week. (Other good options right now are Monday or Wednesday.)


Being a Herald editor means making one newsletter post a week. After some training and a few test posts, it will generally take roughly 2-4 hours (once a week) depending on one's level of perfectionism. Most of the potential links come to us pre-gathered in one tidy Dreamwidth reading page. You'll also have help with turning the day's selection of links into a formatted list: you can either paste everything into our HTML template that already contains all the formatting tags, or use some alternative tools (including the fabled Pinboard!) that will do part of the pasting and sorting for you. We're happy to explain and show how everything works from the ground up. :)


If once a week sounds like a bit too much, we are also open to training a new floating backup editor, and a new tumblr-only volunteer. (Tumblr-only volunteers help by reblogging things on a particular day to the sunnydale-digest.)


To find out more, feel free to contact me (burnhername) by commenting on this post. Or you can reach out via email at sunnydaleherald@gmail.com. You can also send sunnydaleherald an ask on tumblr.


Being an editor means being a part of a long tradition of supporting the Buffyverse fandom. The Sunnydale Herald is one of the longest running fandom newsletters, publishing on various sites since 2004! It would be awesome to hear from you, and you won't have to commit to anything until you're sure!

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BUFFY: Okay, Soliloquy Girl, I just wanted to ask about your egg.
CORDELIA: My egg?
BUFFY: Yeah. Your egg. The one Mr. Whitmore gave you.
CORDELIA: It's in my bear.
BUFFY: So, your egg isn't acting odd or anything?
CORDELIA: It isn't acting anything. It's an egg, Buffy, it doesn't emote.

~~Bad Eggs~~



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Weekend happiness

  • Sep. 8th, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Following a bit of a grey and wet start with an impending chill in the air we've had a few days of sunshine.

Saturday and Sunday were both warm and if not sunny throughout had bursts of sunshine and I was able to spend a chunk of time on both Saturday and Sunday afternoon down on the allotment.

Despite being somewhat neglected over summer there were courgettes to harvest (and a ton of windfall apples which I will be picking up and stewing tomorrow). I got a significant amount of clearing for winter started which made me feel productive. Something about gardening and allotment feeds my soul in a way that few things do.

I also had a bit of a B&Q spree and bought a load more bulbs for the remaining pots at home - which will be planted over the next couple of weeks because gosh darn it I am finally learning to pace myself in the last few days of my 61st year.

I have varnish/stain for the back door and paint for the gate/front door some of which I intend to apply tomorrow as I celebrate the start of my 62nd year riding this burning hunk of rock through space.

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Willow: “It just made me feel like I was right back in high school.”
Xander: “Dumb jock! If it wasn’t for you, HE still would be.”
Willow: “I mean, I know the Percy thing isn’t really important, it’s the dead guy on the bed.”
Xander: “Yeah, that’s bad, too.”

~~Doomed~~



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XANDER: We're getting married.
DAWN: Oh my god.
TARA: Congratulations!
WILLOW: That ... that's ... wow.
XANDER: It's a big wow.
ANYA: I ... I thought you were waiting for the right moment.
XANDER: I did.
BUFFY: (quietly to Giles) Did you know about this?
GILES: No. Unless I blocked it from my memory, much as I will Xander's vigorous use of his tongue.
(Giles removes his glasses and begins to clean them. Buffy watches this with an expression of outrage.)
BUFFY: Is that why you're always cleaning your glasses? So you don't have to see what we're doing?
GILES: Tell no one.

~~BtVS 6x06 “All The Way”~~



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Almost a month since my last post

  • Sep. 6th, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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I really need to get back into the habit of posting rather than just reading along!

Update Chez Ruric:

I had 2 weeks off at the end of August where I had plans to achieve things but did nothing because I was mentally and physically exhausted. Then I looked back at the end of 2024 and saw a similar kind of entry and things must change in late 2025/26. So I am making adjustments.

#project65days is plodding along - things are very slowly being sorted. I've started tackling my main Gmail account which at the beginning of the year had some 26,000 archived emails. I've had the account for 15 plus years and there's important stuff to keep in there along with everything else. I'm down to 16,500 stored emails and feeling quite proud of my progress! I mentally lighter with every 100 deletions.

Flat - between #project65days and the current round of #orjenise100 which has just started things are improving. I've started chipping away at the chaos in my bedroom, have bought a load of new houseplants as Lidl had large and medium sized pants at good prices which will make things feel greener. The ex is away mid September which means I can commandeer his washing machine and catch up on a backlog of washing.

Front garden - I got my act together last week and tidied the tiny front garden and pruned the roses. And I resolved not to try and do all my autumn window box and basket planting in one hit - which stresses me out and takes all the fun out of it - but rather space it out and do a few things at a time. So far I've planted a pot of pinks, a hanging basket, a window box of pinks for outside the kitchen window, bought and potted a new hebe.

Still to plant - 2 window boxes and 2 pots and sort out the raised bed in the front garden, 3 window boxes for in front of the living room windows, 2 window boxes and 4 large pots for the porch roof.

Winter prep still to do - sand and varnishing the exterior of the stable door into the garden, sand and paint the front gate and front door, touch up the White paint in the porch exterior and interior.

Back garden - so much pruning and sorting to do. Not worrying about that until October!

Allotment - harvesting and winter prep. I'll be down there for what's left of today, all day tomorrow and Tuesday.

Right - off to make coffee and then down to the lottie.

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Anya: I thought - maybe we could go out tonight, for our anniversary.
Xander: Anniversary?
Anya: It’s been exactly one week since we copulated. - Did you forget?

~~Fear Itself~~


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WILLOW: Well, you do sometimes get that way.
ANGEL: You know, I never used to. (sits on her bed) Things used to be pretty simple. (Willow types) A hundred years, just hanging out, feeling guilty... I really honed my brooding skills.

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GILES: (smiling) Oh God, Buffy.
GILES: You're alive. You're here. And you're still ... remarkably strong.
BUFFY: Huh? Oh. Sorry.
GILES: Willow told me, but I didn't really let myself believe ...
BUFFY: I take a little getting used to. I'm still getting used to me.
GILES: It's, uh ... you're ...
BUFFY: A miracle?
GILES: Yes. But then, I always thought so.

~~Buffy Season 6 Episode #104: "Flooded"~~



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BUFFY: What happened to Xander?
GILES: He kept poking me with his hook. (Buffy picks up an item from the counter) I sent him over to charmed objects. With any luck he'll poke the wrong one and end up in an alternative dimension inhabited by a 50-foot Giles that squishes annoying teeny pirates.

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Code deploy happening shortly

  • Aug. 31st, 2025 at 7:37 PM

Per the [site community profile] dw_news post regarding the MS/TN blocks, we are doing a small code push shortly in order to get the code live. As per usual, please let us know if you see anything wonky.

There is some code cleanup we've been doing that is going out with this push but I don't think there is any new/reworked functionality, so it should be pretty invisible if all goes well.

MASTER: Yes. Come forth, my child. Come into my world.
BUFFY: I don't think it's yours just yet.
MASTER: You're dead!
BUFFY: I may be dead, but I'm still pretty. Which is more than I can say for you.
MASTER: You were destined to die! It was written!
BUFFY: What can I say? I flunked the written.

~~BtVS 1x12 “Prophecy Girl”~~




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