The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Friday, April 10th

Apr. 11th, 2026 12:39 am
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Xander: Excuse me, but have you ever heard of knocking?
Jonathan: We're supposed to get some books. On Stalin.
Xander: Does this look like a Barnes & Noble?
Giles: This is a school library, Xander.

~~Passion~~

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The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Thursday, April 9th

Apr. 10th, 2026 01:32 am
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Cordelia: If you hang with me and mine, you'll be accepted in no time. Of course, we do have to test your coolness factor. You're from L.A., so you can skip the written, but let's see. Vamp nail polish?
Buffy: Um, over?
Cordelia: So over. James Spader?
Buffy: He needs to call me!

~~Welcome to the Hellmouth~~

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The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Wednesday, April 8

Apr. 8th, 2026 11:27 pm
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JOYCE: Buffy, terrible things have happened. What were you doing?
SPIKE: What, your mum doesn't know?
JOYCE: Know what?
BUFFY: That I'm, uh... in a band. A-a rock band with Spike here.
SPIKE: Right. She plays the, the triangle.
BUFFY: Drums.
SPIKE: Drums, yeah. She's, uh, hell on the old skins, you know.
JOYCE: Hmm. And, uh, what do you do?
SPIKE: Well, I sing.

~~BtVS 2x22 “Becoming, Part 2”~~


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Naruto: What Brings Us Together

Apr. 8th, 2026 09:37 pm
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Fandom: Naruto
Pairings/Characters: Senju Tobirama/Uchiha Madara
Rating: Mature
Length: 6,014 words
Creator Links: [archiveofourown.org profile] Askerian
Theme: forced marriage, arranged marriage, asexual & demisexual characters

Summary: "Oh," Izuna said -- delicately, while studiously reading his folder, "I'm afraid we need someone with a ... strong personality for Naohime."

"Why's that?" Hashirama replied, just as painfully polite.

The daimyo's mediator kept watching them and scratching little pointy words in his notebook.

"Because if your man doesn't prove that he's dangerous and has the personality to use it on her if she pushes him, it's going to turn abusive," Madara drawled.

Hashirama stared at him for a blank second. The daimyo's envoy stopped writing; even his stone-faced Aburame bodyguard arched her eyebrows over her darkened spectacles.

Tobirama stretched out across the table without another word to take back one of the folders Izuna had spread around him.

--

The daimyo is over the whole Uchiha/Senju war. They're going to become one people if they know what's good for them.

Madara hates it enough without having to marry a woman too.

Reccer's Notes: Fun oneshot! Hot, with a really interesting relationship dynamic, and I also love how it touches on gray asexuality <3

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The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Monday-Tuesday, April 6th-7th

Apr. 8th, 2026 06:06 am
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BUFFY: Ask me a question. Ask me anything.
GILES: Who's president?
BUFFY: We're checking for Buffy, not a concussion.

~~Who Are You ~~


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Bridgerton: A Red Thread of Convenience by ronandhermy

Apr. 7th, 2026 09:37 pm
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Fandom: Bridgerton
Pairings/Characters: Anthony/Kate
Rating: teen
Length: 46k
Creator Links: [archiveofourown.org profile] ronandhermy 
Theme: Arranged marriage, AU, fork in the road, marriage of convenience, happy endings, marriage

Summary: At the age of eighteen Kate Sharma, after sending a desperate letter to her father's homeland, receives aid in the form of a letter from Lady Danbury who has arranged a match for the young woman. With only a letter, a promise and hope, Kate takes her mother and sister and sails to England where she is to marry Lord Anthony Bridgerton.

Reccer's Notes: I really enjoyed this take on how Kate and Anthony might have met when they were younger, and all the changes it would have brought.

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The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Sunday, April 5

Apr. 5th, 2026 09:24 pm
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Riley: “Fill me in.”

Forrest: “Well, the way I got it figured the Slayer is like some kind of boogey man for the Subterrestrials, something they tell their little spawn to make them eat their vegetables and clean up their slime pits.”

Riley: “You’re telling me she doesn’t exist.”

Forrest: “Oh, wait a sec. Am I bursting somebody’s bubble here? Maybe this is a bad time to tell you about – the Easter-bunny? (Laughs) Sorry, sorry, it’s a myth, Rye. All part of that medieval folklore garbage kooks dream up to explain things we deal with every day.”

~~S4E11: Doomed~~


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FIC: Broken Roads & Better Days

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Apr. 5th, 2026 02:00 pm
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  • So happy For All Mankind is back!
  • Feels like the last couple of years Joel Kinnaman is everywhere! Now he plays one of the main roles in the first season of Detective Hole. I'm always happy to see him, he's always in the kind of shows I enjoy - Altered Carbon, Johan Falk, The Killing, For All Mankind etc.
  • AO3 is out of beta! I.. don't know how to feel about this. I think I'd kind of had it in my mind that it's going to be beta even though it's been more or less stable for more than a decade now as far I as I can tell. In any case, it's so odd not seeing that little "beta" in the name 🫢 🤔 
  • For the first time ever, I was able to update my local AO3 development install without problems! So now I too have the stable version of otw-software 🎉 🥂
  • I saw on OTW's Jira, that they have opened a ticket for creating a production version docker of the software! My understanding is that that will be the version that is meant for other people to create their own sites with? And that a development version is the only one that has been available until now. Should be interesting!

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The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Saturday, April 4

Apr. 5th, 2026 01:02 am
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XANDER: "I think we did great. We knocked em dead. Which they already were."
WILLOW: "We knocked 'em deader!"
ANYA: "They weren't very well organized. If they had all rushed at Buffy they could have killed her right away."
BUFFY: "Thanks Anya. That won't keep me awake all night."
JONATHAN: "Vampires only form nests to make hunting easier. They're not big on the cooperation. They mostly like to hang out all creepy and alone in the shadows."

~~BtVS 4x17 “Superstar”~~


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Star Wars: trade your heart for bones to know by blackkat

Apr. 3rd, 2026 11:33 pm
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Fandom: Star Wars
Pairings/Characters: Jaster Mereel/Jon Antilles
Rating: mature
Length: 126k
Creator Links: [archiveofourown.org profile] blackkat 
Theme: arranged marriage, novel-length, epic works, worldbuilding, psychic powers, never met in canon, marriage of convenience, cultural differences, AU, fork in the road.

Summary: A week after an attack that nearly killed him and his son, Jaster Mereel finds Mostross dead on a battlefield. His killer is a Jedi, grievously wounded, who Jaster takes into his care. By Mandalorian tradition, Jon Antilles owes him a life-debt, and Jaster is cunning enough not to let such a thing slip away.

It's meant to be an entirely political arrangement. It doesn't stay that way for long.

Reccer's Notes: Blackkat is a very prolific author who does an excellent job of taking medium-obscure Star Wars characters and doing really interesting things with them. Jaster Mereel is Jango Fett's adoptive father, and the Mandalore. (In canon, he was killed by Montross.) Jon Antilles is a Jedi who was abused by his Master growing up, but also learned some really obscure and difficult Force tricks from her, and spends his life wandering the galaxy alone as the Force wills. You don't have to know much more than that, as blackkat weaves a really interesting story about them, fleshing them both out deeply from what canon gives us.

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The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Friday, April 3rd

Apr. 4th, 2026 12:33 am
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Snyder: Whoa, Summers! You drive like a spaz!

~~Band Candy~~


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The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Thursday, April 2nd

Apr. 3rd, 2026 02:21 am
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PUPPET ANGEL: Lorne...
LORNE: My little prince! Ohh... what did they do to you?
PUPPET ANGEL: Nina... tried to... eat me.
LORNE: (yells out) Medic! (to Angel) You're gonna make it, Angel. Just don't stop fighting. (yells out) Doctor! Is there a Geppetto in the house?!

~~Smile Time~~

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Apr. 2nd, 2026 03:52 pm
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In news the first - Archive of Our Own is officially out of open beta! It looks so wrong to not see the little 'beta' there after site header in superscript on the top left corner. (I do wonder if the timing was done on purpose, considering April's Fools "omega" joke where they changed it to say omega instead of beta there so when they removed the omega they just didn't have to replace it with anything.) Reading the article, I also realize I was mistaken, I'd always thought I'd gotten my account the day it went to open beta but it turns out it was the day after.

Kind of hilarious they put out a badge for it:

Circular badge with the words 'I was here for beta' with an AO3 logo


In news the second - all of Farscape is legally on youtube!! (here's the playlist)

In news the third - useful links update has been completed!! All links checked and either work or mention that they do not and a backup is provided if possible (I leave up links to sites that appear to just be having hiccups rather than being closed down to check randomly later on and will remove if it turns out they're down for good, but since I've had ones that were down when I started checking but up by the time I finished I try not to delete them unless I'm sure it's gone and anyway, it's only a dozen overall.) I am always amazed at how many links *do* die between checks, even in the 6 months since I did it last this time, and how alternate/backup links had to be chased down or resources removed. As always, if anyone finds a freshly dead link (or has a great resource for me to include) please let me know!

Between the twelve posts there are just shy of 2.5k links. Slightly over 250 of those are wayback machine links. Thank you internet archive, you are a wonder.

And in news the fourth - have two weeks of [community profile] recthething recs (MDZS fic and and tumblr art in a bunch of different fandoms):

all the lies on your resume by someitems (58k)
Summary Snippet: After Wen Ning is cursed at his workplace under mysterious circumstances, Wei Wuxian goes undercover as his replacement to help find out what’s really going on. He unearths a web of nepotism, lies, malicious cultivation and evil schemes. But his biggest discovery of all may be that his feelings for former college crush (and current coworker) Lan Wangji refuse to stay buried in the past. (interesting modern-with-cultivation AU where WWX is a curse investigator and ends up being reunited with LWJ)

Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood
- He’s just too cool to not draw him, okay?… (Roy and Riza with neat fire affect)

MDZS/Untamed
- Visitor (gentle and touching art of a-yuan and LWJ when LWJ was recovering after the whipping)

Merlin
- Something eternal (gorgeous)
- Merlin and Gwen (love the depth B&W adds to this)
- Emrys: The Greatest Sorcerer; The Biggest Liar (love the dual look of this)
- Fuck You Kilgharrah! (Merlin's only yelling what most of us were thinking at various points during this show, 2 part comic)

and, while not exactly a fandom, fannish at least:
Happy 15th birthday to Nyan Cat! (the original animation and a cake for it, drawn by its original artist)
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The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Wednesday, April 1

Apr. 1st, 2026 07:14 pm
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Wesley: "Are you all right? You haven't said two words since we left the office."
Cordy: "Oh, I was just thinking about those kids."
Wesley: "Yes. That place was pretty awful."
Cordy: "And I thought my first apartment was bad. Can you believe people actually live there?"
Wesley: "Well, it certainly gives one a sense of perspective, doesn't it?"
Cordy: "Yes, it does. - And I think, prespectively speaking, I might want to - prostitute myself to billionaire David Nabbit."

~~Angel Episode #20: "War Zone" ~~


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Round 185: Arranged Marriage

Apr. 1st, 2026 07:48 am
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Two gold rings photographed on top of a dictionary opened to the definition of marriage. Text: Arranged Marriage, at Fancake.
Our theme for April is arranged marriage!

Since this is a Flashback Round where we revisit a theme from the early days of the comm—arranged marriage was a Cupcake Round back in 2014—this month it doesn't matter if a work has already been recced for this theme, go ahead and rec it again!

The tag for this round is: theme: arranged marriage

If you're just joining us, be sure to check out our policy on content notes. Content notes aren't required, but they're nice to include in your recs, especially if a fanwork has untagged content that readers may wish to know about in advance.

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The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Monday-Tuesday, March 30-31st

Apr. 1st, 2026 05:35 am
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She turns as a man enters the bank office. Buffy puts on her biggest smile, stands.
BUFFY: Hello.
MR. SAVITSKY: Sorry to keep you waiting. Carl Savitsky. Loan Officer.
He sits behind the desk across from Buffy. She sits also.
BUFFY: Buffy Summers. Loan applier-for.

~~Flooded~~

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Existing pinch hits 1-2, 4, 6, 8; new pinch hits 9-11

Mar. 31st, 2026 07:31 pm
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Assignments are due April 25, 11:59PM UTC (countdown), just under 4 weeks from now.


PH 1 - Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's x2, Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, Metal Fight Beyblade | Beyblade Metal Saga, ベイブレードバースト | Beyblade Burst (Anime), Pocket Monsters | Pokemon (Anime 1997-2023), ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 | JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken | JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
https://autoao3app.fandom.tools/#/UnsentLetters2026/user/Audrelite

PH 2 - Minecraft: Story Mode (Video Game) x2, The Protomen x2, Bionicle (Generation 1) x2
https://autoao3app.fandom.tools/#/UnsentLetters2026/user/bluerosekatie

PH 4 - Wolf Hall Series - Hilary Mantel, Wolf in White Van - John Darnielle, Beau Travail (1999)
https://autoao3app.fandom.tools/#/UnsentLetters2026/user/fullborn

PH 6 - Bugsnax (Video Game), Crossover Fandom (Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles / Keroro Gunsou), Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon), Keroro Gunsou (Anime)
https://autoao3app.fandom.tools/#/UnsentLetters2026/user/malachiical

PH 8 - Dune (Movies - Villeneuve), Stormlight Archive - Brandon Sanderson, The Worst Journey in the World - Apsley Cherry-Garrard
https://autoao3app.fandom.tools/#/UnsentLetters2026/user/primeideal

PH 9 - CLAIMED

PH 10 - Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022), The Secret History - Donna Tartt, Anne with an E (TV)
https://autoao3app.fandom.tools/#/UnsentLetters2026/user/lookatmoi

PH 11 - CLAIMED

To claim a pinch hit, please comment on this entry (all comments are screened) or e-mail unsentlettersexchange @ gmail with your AO3 name and the pinch hit number or recipient name.

I've been made aware that at least one PH claim by email never reached me, so if you claim by email and do not receive a reply within 1-2 days, please also leave a comment on this post just in case.
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Dark Shadows: The Wide Winged Moon by Kark

Mar. 30th, 2026 10:29 am
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Fandom: Dark Shadows

Pairings/Characters: Magda Rakosi/Sandor Rakosi, Angelique Bouchard Collins/Barnabas Collins, Barnabas Collins/Julia Hoffman, Nicholas Blair, Aristede, Andreas Petofi, Quentin Collins

Rating: Gen

Length: 93,699 words

Creator Links: AO3 Profile

Theme: Siblings

Summary: What if Julia loses her memory? What would happen if Blair had to actually help the Collins family? The answer was obvious: He'd hate it. He'd hate it soooo hard.

Reccer's Notes: Siblings come in all flavors, and this fic explores the dynamics of a witches' coven brother and sister, Angelique and Nicholas. With Satan as "parent," how is the more familiar sibling relationship different? How is it the same? Author delves delightfully into the question, as well as the all-too-human found-sibling relationship of Quentin and Julia.

Fanwork Links: The Wide Winged Moon
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The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Sunday, March 29

Mar. 29th, 2026 10:13 pm
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Buffy: "Oh my God. He's going to do the entire speech."

Willow: "Man, just ascend already."

~~S3E22: Graduation Day (Part II)~~


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