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The theme for the upcoming Fall round, which marks the 15th anniversary of seasonal_spuffy, is "Fairy Tales Retold".

Are you already working on your entries? I am!
And if you have no time to make anything yourself, you can supply a prompt for someone else to work on.


This banner was created by thenewbuzwuzz, and credits can be found here.

Not sure if it was the smartest thing to do, but I signed up for Round 2 of buffyversebingo.



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This is my free-for-all contribution to the recent round of Summer of Giles. It had been a while since I last made icons, so I made a set of icons with memorable quotes by or about Giles. Feel free to snag if you see any you like!

Teasers:









Icons:

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The next step of making the shoebox diorama was selecting, editing and printing the comics images I wanted to use. Luckily, the Thursday before the summer solstice was my first day back at my workplace, and this meant I could abuse the colour printer at work to print the images. I forgot to print a few of the images, so not all of them are full-colour (most notably the Klimt poster and Buffy’s scarf). I printed out most images in multiple sizes, because it was difficult to estimate the best size and I hadn’t had time to make exact measurements.

For the actual physical execution. I started with the most important piece, that of Buffy and Spike of the bed. I wanted to make the bed three dimensional, but there was no way I could do that with Buffy and Spike themselves. So this ended up as a bit of a strange mix of two and three dimensional (images 1 and 2). I did the same thing with the dresser: the dresser itself is three-dimensional, but the vase with flowers and the tissue box on top of it are two-dimensional. This can be clearly seen in image 1 below, which also shows the backside of the dresser (made of the same cardboard box as the bed).



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Hey, how are you all doing? I'm having some time off work (well, more or less) and finally finding the time to post some things to LJ. Starting with the shoebox diorama of Buffy and Spike's bedroom that I made for the Summer Solstice free-for-all over at seasonal_spuffy. With thanks to teragramm for the term “diorama” term, which sounds a bit grandiose to my ears, but so much better than “peepbox” which I used originally.

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My final entry for this year's Spring round of seasonal_spuffy, based on a suggestion by flowspuffy. Also, inspired by some posts SMG made on her instagram.

It's early 2020. Buffy and Spike Summers-Pratt are happily married. He has shanshued; she has retired from slaying. Then they get a call...


Original photos: Sarah Michelle Gellar | James Marsters

Summary: What do you get when you try to let a neural network write Spuffy fan fiction? Here you see one of many possible results. Some highlights: Spike losing his virginity while on LSD; an upsetting Buffy/Spike kiss leads to Spike's arrest; some Riley bashing for those who like that sort of thing; and Angelus owning a comics shop.
Word count: 1271 words
Rating: general audiences

About a year ago, I made some attempts at using AI to automatically generate Buffy fanfic. It didn't go that well, to be honest, but I decided to give it another try for this year's Spring round of seasonal_spuffy. I went for a longer story this time, and of course I tried to make it Spuffy (with varying success). The result was weird but fun!

So how was the story made? Everything except the words in bold was written by GPT-2, a state-of-the-art machine learning model for automatic text generation, using this online demo: https://talktotransformer.com/. You only need to give it a starting line as a prompt and then it generates a paragraph of around 100 words. To create a longer story, I fed each ending line back into the model to generate the next part, adding some words of my own to finish incomplete sentences and to (try to) get the story back on the Spuffy track.



Banner credits: screencaps hdbuffy.tumblr.com, font LCD Mono by Samuel Reynolds, background photo by mahdis mousavi on unsplash


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I'm working on another vid at the moment, but I took a break from that and managed to squeeze out a short vid for this year's Spring round of seasonal_spuffy. This is Spike's very own "pity ditty", set to a song by The Smiths. It's a lovely song, but I must admit one of the main reasons I picked it, is that it's under two minutes :-)

WARNING: contains some clips from Seeing Red.


Made using the HD Buffy episodes from hdbuffy.tumblr.com

This is the first post with my contributions for this year's Spring round of seasonal_spuffy, which ended last Monday. And an excellent round it was too! So many wonderful and creative contributions. You can find links to all the goodies in this index post.

The theme of the round was "Enemies with Benefits", and I made three banners for this theme to participate in the banner poll. They didn't stand a chance against the competition (so many great banners!), but as always, it was fun to participate.

The first three banners below were the ones I entered for the contest (I only made a very slight improvement to the third one). The last two are variations that I didn't enter.
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