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28 March 2026 @ 01:26 am
The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Thursday, March 26th and Friday, March 27th  
Lilah: I'm starting to like you, Wes. Don't go making more of this than it is. I'm not one of the doe-y eyed girls of Angel Investigations. - Don't be thinking about me when I'm gone.
Wesley: I wasn't thinking about you when you were here.

~~Tomorrow~~


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26 March 2026 @ 05:05 pm
The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Wednesday, March 25th  
GILES: Buffy! (approaches them) Buffy... Might I have a word?
BUFFY: Have a sentence, even.

~~Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered~~

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24 March 2026 @ 07:19 pm
The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Tuesday, March 24  
Angel: “You’ll want to move away from the door now, father.”
Dad: “Go through it, but don’t ever expect to come back.”
Angel: “As you wish, father. Always, *just* as you wish.”
Dad: “It’s a son I wished for – a man – instead God gave me you! A terrible disappointment.”
Angel: “Disappointment? A more dutiful son you couldn’t have asked for. My whole life you’ve told me in word, in glance, what it is you required of me, and I’ve lived down to your every expectations, now haven’t I?”
Dad: “That’s madness!”
Angel: “No. The madness is that I couldn’t fail enough for you. But we’ll fix that now, won’t we?”

~~Angel Episode #15: "The Prodigal"~~



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24 March 2026 @ 02:05 pm
The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Monday March 23rd  
DREG: ... most tingly and wonderful Glorificus...
GLORY: (trying on a shoe) Please, call me Glory. And get up, looking at you is hurting my neck.
DREG: (gets up) Forgive me, shiny special one. I beg of you to rip out my inadequate tongue.
GLORY: (reaches out her hand) Gimme.
Dreg grins and walks forward, sticking out his tongue. Glory waits till he's close enough and then grabs the scroll.

~~Shadow ~~

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22 March 2026 @ 10:23 pm
The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Sunday, March 22  
Buffy: I'll just lay that one off on my partner. (looks up, worried) Who'd I get?

Willow: Well, there were an uneven number of students, and you didn't show, so...

Buffy: (in shocked disbelief) I'm a single mother?

~~S2E12: Bad Eggs~~




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22 March 2026 @ 12:58 am
The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Saturday, March 21  
XANDER: They'll never know how tough it is, Dawnie, to be the one who isn't chosen. To live so near to the spotlight and never step in it. But I know. I see more than anybody realizes because nobody's watching me. I saw you last night. I see you working here today. You're not special. You're extraordinary.

~~BtVS 7x12 “Potential”~~




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21 March 2026 @ 01:25 am
The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Friday, March 20th  
RILEY: Were you ... were you just smelling her sweater?
SPIKE: No. (Riley glares at him) Well, yeah, all right, I did. It's a ... predator thing, nothing wrong with it. Just ... know your enemy's scent, whet the appetite for a hunt. (He sniffs the sweater again) Ah, that's the stuff! Slayer musk, it's bitter and aggravating!

~~Shadow~~


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19 March 2026 @ 04:09 pm
The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Thursday, March 19th  
EVE: I mean, I understand. You're running the whole circus now, a lot of pressure, especially with your hands-on policy. No pun intended. I'm sure you could use a release.

ANGEL: No releasing, just bathing. That's what one does after bashing open a demonic pinata full of rancid Tabasco. What do you want, Eve?

EVE: You stood me up. We had a 7:30, Angel, a meeting.

ANGEL: Oh. Right. Uh... I'll get my pants.

~~Life of the Party~~



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18 March 2026 @ 09:54 pm
The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Wednesday, March 18  
Jenny: Pretty flimsy excuse for coming by to see me.
Giles: You should have heard the ones I threw out. I just, I wanted to, uh... see how you were doing.
Jenny: I'm doing pretty good, actually. I've stayed out of mortal danger for three whole weeks. I could get used to it.

~~Ted~~




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17 March 2026 @ 07:52 pm
The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Tuesday, March 17  
CONNOR: Cordy! Cordy!
CORDELIA: What?
CONNOR: Are you okay?
CORDELIA: Sure. Except for the morning sickness that can’t tell time.
CONNOR: Good. I mean, that you’re okay.
CORDELIA: Why wouldn’t I be?
CONNOR: Angelus. He was here again.
CORDELIA: Excuse me? (off his look; innocent) He was?
CONNOR: Downstairs. He caught Fred alone, used a fake charm. Fooled her long enough to take everything we had on whoever the Beast was working for.
CORDELIA: That son of a bitch…

~~Angel Season IV Episode #80: "Release"~~




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17 March 2026 @ 07:29 pm
The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Sunday-Monday, March 15-16th  
JOYCE: (faces Buffy again) We got a very exciting shipment in at the Gallery. (glances around the room) I, um, thought I'd hang a few pieces in here.
JOYCE: It cheers up the room.
BUFFY: (looking at the mask) It's angry at the room, Mom. It wants the room to suffer.

~~Dead Man's Party~~


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17 March 2026 @ 06:53 pm
Tag change for the Hulu Pilot - on the Sunnydale Digest on tumblr  

We have changed our tag for the Hulu Sequel that was not picked up, which was named New Sunnydale. Previously the tag was "Hulu Sequel" but now we are tagging it "Hulu Pilot". (If it had been picked up and named New Sunnydale, that would have become the new fandom tag.) Our other fandom tags include: btvs, ats, buffy comics, slayers: a buffyverse story - to name some but not all. See the full list on our tags page.

Reblogs of "hulu sequel" have been changed to "hulu pilot" for the Digest. We will be updating our tags page soon.

There have been a lot of posts about the Pilot not getting picked up. A double Herald covering Sunday and Monday is delayed, but will be released sometime Tuesday (US time). It will include a lot of posts about the pilot. These will be labeled so you can read or avoid them as you like.

We anticipate this surge of activity about the pilot to die down at some point. Perhaps it will lead to more new viewers watching the original show (or movie). Perhaps it will lead to more fan art, fan videos, and fan fiction as people channel their pilot hopes and dreams into creative fanworks. We will see, and continue to document it in the Herald Newsletter.

As always, if you are interested in joining the crew that puts out one of the longest running (since 2004) fandom newsletters, reach out. We can always use a backup editor or more tumblr rebloggers.

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17 March 2026 @ 04:45 pm
The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Sunday-Monday, March 15-16th - Bonus: Hulu Pilot version  
ENJOY THIS SPECIAL HAND CRAFTED BONUS NEWSLETTER FOCUSED ONLY ON HULU PILOT DISCUSSION FROM REDDIT AND TUMBLR.
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15 March 2026 @ 12:15 am
The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Saturday, March 14  
BUFFY: Kathy's evil. I'm an evil fighter. It's simple... I'm gonna have to kill her.
WILLOW: You have to kill her? Don't you think you could just switch rooms, or something?
BUFFY: Well I would, but it's not just me in danger from Kathy. Look.
WILLOW: Toenails?
BUFFY: Evil toenails. I took them off the floor last night when she was in the bathroom. She thought I was asleep.
WILLOW: Good thinking, 'cause in the middle of the night those toenails could have attacked you and left little half-moon marks all over your body.

~~BtVS 4x02 “Living Conditions”~~




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14 March 2026 @ 01:04 pm
Performing some traffic maintenance today  

Happy Saturday!

I'm going to be doing a little maintenance today. It will likely cause a tiny interruption of service (specifically for www.dreamwidth.org) on the order of 2-3 minutes while some settings propagate. If you're on a journal page, that should still work throughout!

If it doesn't work, the rollback plan is pretty quick, I'm just toggling a setting on how traffic gets to the site. I'll update this post if something goes wrong, but don't anticipate any interruption to be longer than 10 minutes even in a rollback situation.