#chasingfictions

[thegingerwrites]

Fanbinding: am i a stranger to you? by @chasingfictions

Summary:

Just then, the last of the blood slipping from that boy into Spike, him and Dru grabbing for each other with their fangs in each other’s mouths, then walking hand in hand up Fifth Avenue, all the way back home, a little prayer croaks out of him, before he realizes enough to grab it back— Please. Please, let it be like this always. - (In which New York City is one of the various loves of Spike's unlife, he can’t stop thinking about the Slayer, and in which, mostly, he just really wants to belong somewhere, if anyone will have him.)

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I was inspired by the folks at the Renegade Bookbinding Guild and their Binderary 2024 events to try my hand at binding some of my favorite works of fanfiction. This one is the fifth part of chasingfictions my blood tastes like laughter series and has had a special place in my heart since 2021. I'm from NY and I read this between classes my first semester back at school during the pandemic and Spike's love for the city seemed to perfectly resonated with my own so I wanted to commemorate that in print!

This is the first text block I've ever sewn by hand. At four signatures, this seemed like a perfect starter project. I'm learning that part of designing books is doing it by ✨vibe✨ The gray/white/silver/gold marbled cover said New York to me, sort of a glass and concrete with a bit of shine aesthetic. I went with red end papers because vampires. The typesetting isn't too fancy but I really wanted to find an art deco ornament to separate sections of the fic. It took me a while to figure out how I wanted to decorate the spine. I originally used a gold foil quill to trace the text of the title and author but then went over it with a paint pen recommended in one of the Binderary sessions last month and fell in love with the effect. I can't believe my hand was steady enough to get it that clean 😅

[spuffyarchive]

maybe i'm ready to love you by chasingfictions [NC-17]

“Buffy?” He almost never used to call her Buffy. Did he? Always Slayer, or pet, or love. Or like, he’d use her name, but it always sounded odd, in his mouth. All tender, touchy. Like, like he was making eye contact with her, just by saying it. "Spike." She wonders if it feels the same, for him. His name, her tongue. - (Or: Spike’s gone, and Buffy doesn’t care. No, really, she doesn’t. Cross her heart.)

[dykecinema]

47 for wrapped game <3

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I’m Your Man- Mitski

[ngalitzine]

hi bestie i dont know if u take gif requests but if u do can i ask for a parallels set of laszlo wwdits 4x10's "if i'd've known i'd be born with a thick cock" joke vs spike btvs 7x20's "i didnt ask to be this good looking and athletic, we all have crosses to bear" joke ? it's horny victorian vampire wife guy dad hours

shsjskks ANYTHING FOR YOU but this rly made me laugh out loud so i gotta publish it 😭

[spikedaily]

:))) so hyped this blog exists :))) delightful :))) literally good for him :)) so nice for Our Boy :))) he's hired himself out as an attraction :))

it's what he deserves 😌😌

[jennycalendar]

wait hi thinking about prophecy girl has me thinking about the jenny-cordy dynamic do u have any headcanons

@lockwxlff asked me this back in JANUARY my inbox is so profoundly dead . i have the time to answer this now so i will! before i am lost to academia again!

anyway i have always thought that cordelia actually really looks up to jenny -- jenny's fashionable, sarcastic, blunt, and assertive, AND she has no interest in the general opinion of the masses, which for bb cordy (who cares a lot about what other people think) is probably hugely inspiring. i would actually say that cordelia is the one scooby girl who authentically has the HIGHEST opinion of jenny -- for willow, even outside of her school bus sized crush on jenny that we all know was a thing, it's more about wanting to be cool and assertive and sexy herself and wanting to be liked by someone she thinks is cool and assertive and sexy (which is more about willow than about jenny), and buffy up until the angelus thing is probably just like "this is my new stepmom who i am trying to make friends with :)" which is very benign and sweet.

THING IS THO cordelia does not actually ever EXPRESS this take to jenny, EVER, because she thinks that it would be, like, totally gauche to admit that she thinks highly of a teacher, no matter how cool the teacher is. so sometimes she will go out of her way to do something nice for jenny and it will baffle literally the entire scooby gang, jenny included.

jenny meanwhile has seen cordelia being a shit to other kids and is kind of just like. this girl has issues and i'm not going to sit her down and untangle them when she's actively hurting other people, especially when she is very obviously too stubborn to listen to adults, so i am just going to intervene whenever i see her doing something shitty. (i think that jenny WOULD have tried once or twice to pull cordelia aside when new to the sunnydale scene, but this would have ironically been BEFORE cordelia had decided to like jenny, so jenny's efforts did nothing whatsoever.) i think that view of cordelia starts to change a little bit when they're working in close quarters together, but mostly it's a change from "this girl has issues" to "?????????????" because jenny just does not have time to parse why the fuck cordelia is suddenly ALWAYS listening to her. she's already working on "how to ruin my relationship with my soulmate so that i don't have to learn how to be in a long-term relationship" and that's taking up most of her time in canon.

[someonefantastic]

hello just wanna say I love all ur coffy week posts so much !!!!!!!! u r feeding the coffy ecosystem and it’s so vital .

hi!!!! holy cow thank you!!! that means SO much to me because I literally go !!!! every single time I read your tags on any of my posts (or really any post). you have the BEST tags and insights!!! also i just love coffy sm so happy to be of service 🫡

[willowrosenboob]

bonjour right back @ u spuffy opinion pls <3 🔥

passing the talking stick <33333

I don't think this is news to anyone cause i literally never shut up about it, but I love dead things so much. I get finding it uncomfortable or unpleasant to watch but it's objectively such a BRILLIANT episode!!! and recently one of your tags on a post had got me thinking. you had said something about about how they have such range in that episode, and they literally do!!!!! and it made me think about how in order to love the shadow you have to witness all the worst aspects of them first and see that reflected in you in order to love it, and love yourself in return. nothing better encapsulates it like the chosen "i love you" "no you don't" parallel. and I just love all the discomfort and gentleness and performance and authenticity, it's all there and it's perfect!!! and they know each other so well but sometimes it's like they don't know each other at all because one has a soul and is capable of change but is unable to do so at the time, and the other doesn't have a soul and isn't capable of change but can't see it and wants to so badly. and the tragedy is there because they both want to try!!! they want that tenderness and trust between them but their identities are so stuck in their perceived natures and how they should or shouldn't act. I could seriously go on about this episode for hours. it is endlessly brilliant and I'm glad that people are starting to appreciate it more. dead things deserves all the love in the world <333333

also I was clearing out my old drafts and I once said that dead things is to spuffy shippers what amends is to bangel shippers and I totally still stand by that. they couldn't be further apart in tone, but both episodes are overall disliked by the general fandom but loved amongst certain factions of shippers (though certainly not all), and they both have a character attempt literal or metaphorical suicide as an attempt to punish themselves and they are discouraged by their ambiguous love interests, but deciding to live is ultimately out of their hands and afterwards they have to confront their identities and actively work towards bettering themselves. plus there's the contrast between normal domestic life and the darkness and self aware nature of the supernatural, but that's kind of a buffy standard at this point

tysm jaime it's so much fun to be unhinged about spuffy <33333 the girlies have come so far 😭😭😭