Real Name: Yawp
Pronouns: She/Her
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Last Active: November 12, 2024
Membership Status: Member
Skin: a little romance
I've been lurking on this penname for years, but my works elsewhere in the world are under My_Barbaric_Yawp. What can I say? Branding was a mystery to me in 2013. Call me Yawp--all my internet friends do.
Other things to know: I'm queer and everything I write is informed by queerness, even the very het fics. I also think every character in the Buffyverse could be queer except for Warren, but that's mostly just because I don't want to invite him to the picnic, not because I don't see his potential for queerness. Fair warning: everyone else can and will be redeemed if I get my hands on them.
Finally, my one firmly held guiding star of belief is that Spike is lesbian-coded. This is my hill, and I will die on it.
Profile picture is Death and the Maiden by Edvard Munch, which is a fav of mine and seems pretty apt for Spuffy...
Happy reading!
Fic for the EF 2023 Satisfaction shindig. Title to be read in the tone of the inestimable Sidney Poitier demanding a European vacation from James Earl Jones in Sneakers (1992). ("Tahiti is not in Europe…")
Artists: None
Characters: Buffy, Spike
Genres: Fluffy/Comedy, HEA/HFN, Humor, Lighthearted, Romance
Warnings: None
Event: 2023 Satisfaction-athon
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 778 Hit Count: 634 ePub Downloads: 15
Published: February 13, 2023 Updated: February 13, 2023
In which Spike gets smarter and propositions Buffy on night one, and Buffy accepts because Angel is MIA and would you look at those cheekbones? Cue a teenage romp of an affair in which Spuffy discover the joys of emotional availability in a partner, Angel discovers the joy of a woman with a plan, Cordy makes the plan and enjoys the hell out of it, and Dru gets to live her best life without any man holding her back…
You know how Goodbye to Everything That I Knew is a slow burn of carefully constructed intimacy leading to sweet married sex?
This story is the complete spiritual opposite of that…
AU starting in Season 2x03, School Hard. Written for EF’s 2024 April Challenge Month. Response to BewareTheKiller’s Scotty Doesn’t Know Challenge.
Artists: cd85
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Giles, Willow, Xander, Angel, Cordelia, Drusilla
Genres: Fix-It, Fluffy/Comedy, HEA/HFN, Humor, Lighthearted, Porn w/ Plot, Queer Themes, Romance
Warnings: Adult Language, Buffy/Other (Temp), Cheating/Infidelity, Sexual Situations, Spike/Other (Temp), Underage Sex
Challenges: Scotty Doesn't Know (Authors Choice of Name)
Event: April Challenge Month 2024
Completed: No Chapters: 6 Table of Contents
Word count: 13,281 Hit Count: 4,646 ePub Downloads: 44
Published: April 05, 2024 Updated: May 17, 2024
In which one brave fic writer tries to answer the question: just how many Spuffy HEA reunions can one big drabble collection take?
Based on Board Two Prompts for the EF 2023 Drabblemania event. Title from “B Movie Box Car Blues.”
Artists: scratchmeout
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Giles, Willow, Xander, Andrew Wells, Angel, Clem, Dawn, Faith Lehane, Mr. Gordo, Oz, Riley Finn, Robin Wood
Genres: Angst, Drama, Dramedy, Established Relationship, Fix-It, Fluffy/Comedy, HEA/HFN, Humor, Hurt/Comfort, Lighthearted, Resurrection, Romance
Warnings: Adult Language, Blood Play, Buffy/Other (Temp), Cheating/Infidelity, Dubious Consent, Suicidal Ideation
Event: Drabblemania 2023
Completed: Yes Chapters: 25 Table of Contents
Word count: 23,691 Hit Count: 53,047 ePub Downloads: 84
Published: July 01, 2023 Updated: July 31, 2023
You are about to enter another dimension. A dimension not only of sight and sound, but of the subconscious mind. Your next stop: Exquisite Chaos.
Banner artists, from left to right: harmony, bewildered, and scratchmeout
Artists: bewildered, harmony, scratchmeout, yellowb
Categories: Challenge Response
Characters: Ensemble
Genres: Action/Adventure, Dramedy, Fluffy/Comedy, Lighthearted, Porn w/ Plot, Porn w/o Plot
Warnings: Sexual Situations, Violence
Challenges: The Eighth Annual I-Cant-Believe-This-Is-Still-Running Unofficial-But-Blessed Elysian Fields Exquisite Corpse Challenge
Event: April Challenge Month 2024
Completed: Yes Chapters: 6 Table of Contents
Word count: 21,171 Hit Count: 889 ePub Downloads: 18
Published: April 27, 2024 Updated: June 30, 2024
Or, the Season Six Fake-Dating Fix-It that nobody asked for…
Entry for EF Truce 2023 Anniversary Event; AU Post Season 6x08, Tabula Rasa; Title from “Goodbye to You” by Michelle Branch.
Artists: cd85
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Willow, Xander, Anya, Clem, Dawn, Tara
Genres: Dramedy, Fix-It, Fluffy/Comedy, HEA/HFN, Humor, Queer Themes, Romance, Slow-Burn
Warnings: Abuse, Adult Language, Depictions of Bigotry, Mental Health Issues, Sexual Situations
Event: Truce Challenge 2023
Completed: Yes Chapters: 30 Table of Contents
Word count: 70,755 Hit Count: 47,064 ePub Downloads: 398
Published: October 01, 2023 Updated: April 19, 2024
In which Buffy finds her fix, her man, and herself, not necessarily in that order…
AU Season 5x01, Buffy vs. Dracula; Written for the EF 2024 Monster Mash Mini-Event; Title from the song by Daft Punk. (Writing Spuffy has made me a song title person—I’m so sorry…)
Artists: cd85
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Giles, Willow, Xander, Anya, Riley Finn, Tara
Genres: Fix-It, Fluffy/Comedy, HEA/HFN, Humor, Lighthearted
Warnings: Adult Language, Blood Play, Buffy/Other (Temp), Dubious Consent, Sexual Situations
Event: Monster Mash 2024
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 5,812 Hit Count: 1,007 ePub Downloads: 52
Published: March 10, 2024 Updated: March 10, 2024
Secret Santa 2022 gift for RavenLove12. Title from the song “Walking in the Air” from the 1982 animated film The Snowman, of which this is a crossover fic. For the less fluffy Amends (3.10) fix-it fic also inspired by this prompt, see: This Year's for Me and You
Artists: None
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Original Characters
Genres: Established Relationship, Fluffy/Comedy, HEA/HFN, Lighthearted, Road Trip, Romance
Warnings: None
Event: Secret Santa Fic Exchange 2022
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 2,007 Hit Count: 775 ePub Downloads: 16
Published: December 04, 2022 Updated: December 04, 2022
In which Spike runs away with Dru’s newest pet and straight into Buffy in the middle of her darkest night. Can one female dog save love’s bitch and the one woman he can’t seem to stop himself from rescuing? Only Lady knows…
Season 3, Episode 12, “Helpless” AU. Written for EF Betrayal 2024 Anniversary Event. Title from Help! by the Beatles.
Artists: cd85
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Giles, Faith Lehane, Joyce, Kralik, Original Characters, Quentin Travers
Genres: Action/Adventure, Dramedy, Fix-It, HEA/HFN, Hurt/Comfort
Warnings: None
Event: Betrayal Challenge 2024
Completed: No Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 612 Hit Count: 173 ePub Downloads: 4
Published: October 30, 2024 Updated: October 30, 2024
Or, the one where Spuffy go on a routine patrol and accidentally acquire a family…
EF 2023 Secret Santa gift for Julikobold; Title from the song of the same name. (The text of which I’ve just discovered comes from Christina Rosetti??? C’mon, Spike would be all over that with all his little Pre-Raphaelite fanboy heart…)
Artists: MillennialCryBaby
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Giles, Andrew Wells, Original Characters
Genres: Established Relationship, Fluffy/Comedy, HEA/HFN
Warnings: None
Event: Secret Santa Fic Exchange 2023
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 2,761 Hit Count: 681 ePub Downloads: 14
Published: December 01, 2023 Updated: December 01, 2023
In which the Scoobies take a crash course in self-discovery thanks to one woman with a plan and whole lot of magic. Also sex--lots and lots of Spuffy sex.
Set after Thou, sun, art half as happy as we…, my chapter for the 2024 Exquisite Corpse. Title from Air and Angels by John Donne, because I never know when to stop and you can't make me...
Artists: cd85
Categories: Season 4, Episode Rewrite
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Willow, Xander, Anya, Clem, Guardian, Tara
Genres: Dramedy, Erotica, Established Relationship, Fluffy/Comedy, HEA/HFN, Humor, Lighthearted, Mystery, Porn w/ Plot, Queer Themes, Romance
Warnings: Adult Language, Sexual Situations
Event: Mystery Month 2024
Completed: Yes Chapters: 5 Table of Contents
Word count: 11,758 Hit Count: 1,364 ePub Downloads: 42
Published: July 07, 2024 Updated: August 04, 2024
In which Spike helps (a lot), Riley figures himself out (a little), Angel remains completely and totally Angel (more's the pity), and Buffy maybe solves her man problems once and for all. Oh, and Drac's coming to the party, too. What could possibly go wrong?
AU Post 5x01 - Buffy vs. Dracula
Artists: Irandamay
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Angel, Original Characters, Riley Finn
Genres: Action/Adventure, Dramedy, HEA/HFN, Humor, Mystery, Queer Themes, Road Trip, Romance
Warnings: Adult Language, Buffy/Other (Temp), Sexual Situations
Completed: Yes Chapters: 13 Table of Contents
Word count: 26,175 Hit Count: 9,296 ePub Downloads: 138
Published: February 16, 2023 Updated: April 09, 2023
The first rule of fight club is no talking about fight club, right?
The second rule is no, really, no talking—Vegas rules, yeah? What happens in fight club stays in bloody fight club. No spilling the beans to your chatty little girlfriends.
(That means you, Harris.)
The third rule of fight club is definitely don't tell the Slayer. She'd never let him live it down.
***
When Oz decides running away from his problems isn't the solution, he turns to the one person in town who seems to have a handle on his demon: Spike.
In which Oz and Spike save the Scoobies, get the girl, and change the future through the power of friendship, anger management, and…healthy communication?
AU post 4x09 - Something Blue. EF April Challenge Month 2023 Response to Ethereal Demon's If Oz Had Stayed Challenge.
Artists: Irandamay
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Giles, Willow, Xander, Anya, Oz, Riley Finn, Tara
Genres: Dramedy, Fix-It, HEA/HFN, Humor, Queer Themes, Slow-Burn
Warnings: Adult Language, Suicidal Ideation
Challenges: If Oz had stayed
Event: April Challenge 2023
Completed: No Chapters: 2 Table of Contents
Word count: 5,992 Hit Count: 1,206 ePub Downloads: 16
Published: April 12, 2023 Updated: April 30, 2023
A Spuffy rewrite of Season 3.10 - Amends.
Inspired by my Secret Santa prompts from RavenLove12, but it got out of control. Title from “Fairytale of New York” by The Pogues. For the much fluffier gift fic, see: I Can Fly So High Above With You
Artists: None
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Giles, Willow, Xander, Angel, Faith Lehane, Joyce
Genres: Angst, Drama, Dramedy, HEA/HFN, Romance
Warnings: Adult Language, Attempted Suicide, Buffy/Other (Temp), Mental Health Issues, Sexual Situations, Suicidal Ideation
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 12,374 Hit Count: 1,153 ePub Downloads: 50
Published: December 04, 2022 Updated: December 04, 2022
Written for the 2024 Exquisite Corpse. AU Season 4, Episode 3 - The Harsh Light of Day; Title from The Sun Rising by John Donne.
Artists: cd85
Categories: Season 4, Episode Rewrite
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Willow, Joyce, Parker Abrams
Genres: Dramedy, Fix-It, Fluffy/Comedy, HEA/HFN, Humor, Lighthearted, Romance
Warnings: Adult Language, Buffy/Other (Temp)
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 5,531 Hit Count: 512 ePub Downloads: 23
Published: July 07, 2024 Updated: July 07, 2024