Penname: MillennialCryBaby
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Pronouns: She/Her
Location: Canada
Member Since: March 14, 2021
Last Active: December 12, 2024
Membership Status: Member
Skin: onethousand
Author

Intersectional feminist. Cat lover. Writer of too many porch scenes 

Former lurker but stepped onto the other side and loving it. Always down to chat meta and critical analysis so feel free to DM me.

*Currently focusing on a full story edit of You Can Stay, with the hope to finish the fic completely by 2025.

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Stories by MillennialCryBaby
After by MillennialCryBaby [R] Likes: 28 Comments: 14
Summary: It’s the end of the world and they have a hell god hot on their heels. Is it too soon to be thinking about what might happen after?
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: cawthraven
Artists: MillennialCryBaby
Categories: Season 5, Missing Scene
Characters: Buffy, Spike
Genres: Angst, Romance
Warnings: Adult Language, Sexual Situations
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 1,420 Hit Count: 600 ePub Downloads: 21
Published: October 13, 2023 Updated: October 13, 2023
afterglow by MillennialCryBaby [NC-17] Likes: 42 Comments: 13
Summary: Half of her is bathed in sunlight and all of him is in shadow.
Smut with feelings.
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: cawthraven
Artists: None
Series: Porch Lights
Categories: Post-Series
Characters: Buffy, Spike
Genres: Angst, Erotica, HEA/HFN, Porn w/o Plot
Warnings: Adult Language, Sexual Situations
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 1,303 Hit Count: 737 ePub Downloads: 28
Published: February 05, 2023 Updated: February 05, 2023
Again by MillennialCryBaby [G] Likes: 43 Comments: 15
Summary: The world was ending and Spike was on her porch ready to fight—again.
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: cawthraven
Artists: MillennialCryBaby
Series: Porch Lights
Categories: Post-Series, Holiday Fic
Characters: Buffy, Spike
Genres: HEA/HFN
Warnings: Adult Language
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 2,566 Hit Count: 1,202 ePub Downloads: 26
Published: December 10, 2022 Updated: December 10, 2022
Call Home by MillennialCryBaby [PG] Likes: 58 Comments: 22
Summary: Oh technology with its confusing buttons, but what the heck is a voice command?
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: cawthraven
Artists: MillennialCryBaby
Categories: Post-Series, Crossover (AtS)
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Willow, Xander, Angel, Dawn, Fred
Genres: Fix-It, Fluffy/Comedy, HEA/HFN, Lighthearted, Resurrection
Warnings: Adult Language
Challenges: Whatever you want to call it.
Event: April Challenge Month 2024
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 4,689 Hit Count: 909 ePub Downloads: 31
Published: April 30, 2024 Updated: April 30, 2024
Calling My Name by MillennialCryBaby [PG-13] Likes: 74 Comments: 25
Summary: Spike's been called a lot of things since he met Buffy.
 
Written for the Elysian Fields ‘Called Challenge'.
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: Brooke724
Artists: MillennialCryBaby
Categories: Season 2, Season 3, Season 4, Season 5, Season 6, Season 7, Post-Series, Challenge Response
Characters: Buffy, Spike
Genres: HEA/HFN, Resurrection
Warnings: Adult Language
Event: Called Challenge 2021
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 2,875 Hit Count: 1,544 ePub Downloads: 41
Published: October 25, 2021 Updated: October 25, 2021
Exquisite Chaos: Part 2 by yellowb, fortes775, Kanita, SzmattyCat, simmony, MillennialCryBaby, Maxine Eden [NC-17] Likes: 63 Comments: 42
Summary:

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

Beta and Sensitivity Readers: bmerb, cawthraven, EllieRose101, goodbyetoyou, Lady Emma, MiseEnPlace, ShirtyBird
Artists: bewildered, harmony, scratchmeout, yellowb
Series: The Exquisite Universe
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: 895 ePub Downloads: 19
Published: April 27, 2024 Updated: June 30, 2024
Exquisite Complications: Part 1 by yellowb, Kanita, JayeMaru, incendie, SzmattyCat, MillennialCryBaby, BewitchedXx, ClowniestLivEver [NC-17] Likes: 69 Comments: 53
Summary:

It's a turvy-topsy world.
 

Banner artists, from left to right: BewitchedXx, Dynamite, and ClowniestLivEver

Beta and Sensitivity Readers: bmerb, cawthraven, MiseEnPlace
Artists: BewitchedXx, ClowniestLivEver, Dynamite
Series: The Exquisite Universe
Categories: Artwork, Challenge Response
Characters: Ensemble
Genres: Action/Adventure, Dramedy, Established Relationship, Fighting, Fix-It, Romance, Slow-Burn
Warnings: Adult Language, Sexual Situations, Violence
Challenges: The Seventh Annual Blessed-But-Not-Official-Elysian-Fields Exquisite Corpse Challenge!
Event: April Challenge 2023
Completed: Yes Chapters: 7 Table of Contents
Word count: 21,596 Hit Count: 1,737 ePub Downloads: 26
Published: April 27, 2023 Updated: June 09, 2023
Flukes by MillennialCryBaby [NC-17] Likes: 127 Comments: 68
Summary: The fact that Buffy kept finding herself in these situations with Spike was all just a series of flukes.
Smut in drabble form.
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: cawthraven
Artists: MillennialCryBaby
Categories: Season 5, Drabbles
Characters: Buffy, Spike
Genres: Porn w/o Plot
Warnings: Adult Language, Dubious Consent, Sexual Situations
Event: Drabblemania 2023
Completed: Yes Chapters: 5 Table of Contents
Word count: 500 Hit Count: 1,983 ePub Downloads: 17
Published: July 27, 2023 Updated: July 31, 2023
Hands Off by MillennialCryBaby [NC-17] Likes: 84 Comments: 32
Summary: It started off as most of Willow’s spells did—with good intentions. And as with all the ones that came before, it ended with some weird consequences.
This time, "consequences" meant Spike was now in control of Buffy's pleasure. She was going to kill him...but maybe she'd get some satisfaction first.
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: cawthraven
Artists: MillennialCryBaby
Series: Hands Off
Categories: Season 4
Characters: Buffy, Spike
Genres: Erotica, HEA/HFN, Lighthearted, Porn w/o Plot, Under Magical Influence
Warnings: Adult Language, Dubious Consent, Sexual Situations
Event: 2023 Satisfaction-athon
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 11,153 Hit Count: 1,943 ePub Downloads: 81
Published: February 13, 2023 Updated: February 13, 2023
Past Featured Story
High and Mighty by MillennialCryBaby [NC-17] Likes: 391 Comments: 161
Summary: She knew it wasn’t entirely responsible to get high with a vampire in her backyard. But her house was filled with loud potential slayers and he was looking at her with that head tilt. Didn't she deserve to catch her breath once in a while? 
Season 7 fix-it fluff with smut and a little bit of introspective angst.
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Categories: Season 7
Characters: Buffy, Spike
Genres: HEA/HFN, Romance
Warnings: Substance Use/Addiction, Sexual Situations
Completed: Yes Chapters: 8 Table of Contents
Word count: 37,816 Hit Count: 10,575 ePub Downloads: 165
Published: May 07, 2021 Updated: May 31, 2021
Hush Now by MillennialCryBaby [NC-17] Likes: 78 Comments: 24
Summary: As he fell to his knees, Spike even had the arrogance to hold his pointer finger up to his lips as if to say: shh, love—don't draw attention.

A smutty take on "Hush".
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: cawthraven
Artists: MillennialCryBaby
Series: Hush Now
Categories: Season 4
Characters: Buffy, Spike
Genres: Lighthearted, Porn w/o Plot, Under Magical Influence
Warnings: Adult Language, Dubious Consent, Sexual Situations
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 5,070 Hit Count: 1,975 ePub Downloads: 62
Published: November 22, 2022 Updated: November 22, 2022
Past Featured Story
If I Loved You Less by MillennialCryBaby [NC-17] Likes: 268 Comments: 104
Summary: How long had Spike been gone? 147 days. 148 at midnight. Except maybe today won't count?
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: None
Categories: Post-Series
Characters: Buffy, Ethan Rayne, Spike
Genres: HEA/HFN, Resurrection, Romance
Warnings: Character Death, Sexual Situations, Spike/Other (Temp)
Event: Mystery Ficathon 2021
Completed: Yes Chapters: 5 Table of Contents
Word count: 18,675 Hit Count: 6,498 ePub Downloads: 136
Published: July 05, 2021 Updated: August 07, 2021
in picture frames by MillennialCryBaby [G] Likes: 81 Comments: 49
Summary: When you're stupidly in love, you find time for the romance. Even between apocalypses.
A series of seven softer Spuffy moments depicted through vector illustrations.
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: None
Artists: MillennialCryBaby
Categories: Artwork
Characters: Buffy, Spike
Genres: Established Relationship
Warnings: None
Completed: Yes Chapters: 7 Table of Contents
Word count: 72 Hit Count: 4,000 ePub Downloads: 8
Published: September 19, 2022 Updated: October 16, 2022
Like Old Times by MillennialCryBaby [NC-17] Likes: 19 Comments: 8
Summary: Angel had no idea how he got here, but what was one night for old time's sake?

Established Spuffy and well...Angel just can't stay away from these two.
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: cawthraven
Artists: MillennialCryBaby
Categories: Post-Series
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Angel
Genres: Erotica, Established Relationship, Porn w/o Plot, Queer Themes
Warnings: Adult Language, Blood Play, Buffy/Other (Temp), Sexual Situations, Spike/Other (Temp), Threesome(s)
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 9,320 Hit Count: 532 ePub Downloads: 31
Published: December 13, 2023 Updated: December 13, 2023
Mail by MillennialCryBaby [PG] Likes: 90 Comments: 33
Summary: Spike was starting to get antsy about the post. Random parcels had been messing with his unlife in all kinds of different ways of late: ressurecting him, making him corporeal. What could this one do to him?

But the handwriting on the label made him pause—he could sense her in every drop of ink. What could she possibly be mailing him?
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: cawthraven
Artists: MillennialCryBaby
Categories: Post-Series
Characters: Spike
Genres: Romance
Warnings: None
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 1,378 Hit Count: 1,069 ePub Downloads: 23
Published: September 04, 2022 Updated: September 04, 2022
On The Steps by MillennialCryBaby [NC-17] Likes: 234 Comments: 117
Summary: They had to stop meeting like this.
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: cawthraven
Artists: Irandamay
Series: Porch Lights
Categories: Season 4, Season 5, Season 6, Season 7, Post-Series, Canon-Compliant, Missing Scene
Characters: Buffy, Spike
Genres: HEA/HFN, Romance
Warnings: Mental Health Issues, Sexual Situations
Event: Mystery Ficathon 2022
Completed: Yes Chapters: 5 Table of Contents
Word count: 12,708 Hit Count: 4,053 ePub Downloads: 65
Published: July 04, 2022 Updated: August 03, 2022
Shh, Love by MillennialCryBaby [NC-17] Likes: 53 Comments: 15
Summary: No one in town has a voice but the two of them have found their own way to communicate. Sequel to Hush Now.
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: cawthraven
Artists: MillennialCryBaby
Series: Hush Now
Categories: Season 4, Episode Rewrite
Characters: Buffy, Spike
Genres: HEA/HFN, Lighthearted, Porn w/o Plot
Warnings: Adult Language, Sexual Situations
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 6,643 Hit Count: 944 ePub Downloads: 33
Published: November 12, 2023 Updated: November 12, 2023
slow burn by MillennialCryBaby [NC-17] Likes: 66 Comments: 29
Summary: In retrospect, it was silly for Buffy to think that Christmas shopping on the Hellmouth could be easy. Now, Christmas shopping on the Hellmouth with Spike? Of course things went weird.
A Secret Santa gift for the_big_bad
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: cawthraven
Artists: MillennialCryBaby
Categories: Season 5, Time Travel, Historical
Characters: Buffy, Spike
Genres: HEA/HFN, Lighthearted
Warnings: Adult Language, Sexual Situations
Event: Secret Santa Fic Exchange 2022
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 8,043 Hit Count: 932 ePub Downloads: 53
Published: December 22, 2022 Updated: December 22, 2022
slumber by MillennialCryBaby [NC-17] Likes: 40 Comments: 14
Summary: Post-resurrection life was exhausting. Who could blame Buffy for finding rest where she could?
Sometimes I wonder when you sleep—are you ever dreaming of me?
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: cawthraven
Artists: MillennialCryBaby
Categories: Season 6, Canon-Compliant
Characters: Buffy, Spike
Genres: Angst, Erotica, Romance
Warnings: Adult Language, Sexual Situations, Suicidal Ideation
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 2,220 Hit Count: 681 ePub Downloads: 23
Published: August 06, 2023 Updated: August 06, 2023
Snap Dragon by MillennialCryBaby [NC-17] Likes: 68 Comments: 34
Summary: Sometimes the best parts of waking up on Christmas morning are not the presents under the tree.
This fic is an Elysian Fields 2021 Secret Santa gift for Yummysushi17.
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: Brooke724
Artists: Irandamay
Categories: Post-Series
Characters: Buffy, Spike
Genres: Erotica, Established Relationship, HEA/HFN, Porn w/o Plot
Warnings: Sexual Situations
Event: Secret Santa Fic Exchange 2021
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 3,824 Hit Count: 1,223 ePub Downloads: 32
Published: December 19, 2021 Updated: December 19, 2021
Stand Off by MillennialCryBaby [NC-17] Likes: 43 Comments: 16
Summary: Why did Buffy think that Spike was just going to forget he could have a little fun with her from a distance? This time she was going to level the playing field.
Sequel to Hands Off.
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: cawthraven
Artists: MillennialCryBaby
Series: Hands Off
Categories: Season 5
Characters: Buffy, Spike
Genres: Erotica, Established Relationship, Fluffy/Comedy, HEA/HFN, Lighthearted, Porn w/o Plot, Under Magical Influence
Warnings: Adult Language, Dubious Consent, Sexual Situations
Event: Truce Challenge 2023
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 4,121 Hit Count: 638 ePub Downloads: 41
Published: October 31, 2023 Updated: October 31, 2023
Stay by MillennialCryBaby [NC-17] Likes: 88 Comments: 38
Summary: In all the uncertainty, one thing was clear—she wanted him to stay. 
 
A finale rewrite starting at Touched. 
 
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: cawthraven, Holly
Artists: MillennialCryBaby
Categories: Season 7, Episode Rewrite
Characters: Buffy, Spike, Angel, Caleb
Genres: Angst, Fix-It, Romance
Warnings: Adult Language, Sexual Situations, Violence
Event: Betrayal Challenge 2024
Completed: Yes Chapters: 2 Table of Contents
Word count: 20,907 Hit Count: 1,287 ePub Downloads: 74
Published: October 16, 2024 Updated: October 16, 2024
Take Me Out by MillennialCryBaby [NC-17] Likes: 33 Comments: 19
Summary:

Buffy knew there was a chance Spike could take her out one day. She just thought it would be more death than date.
 

aka: As You Were ends a bit differently.

Beta and Sensitivity Readers: cawthraven
Artists: MillennialCryBaby
Categories: Season 6
Characters: Buffy, Spike
Genres: Fix-It, Road Trip, Romance
Warnings: Sexual Situations
Event: Road Trip Challenge 2022
Completed: No Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 2,013 Hit Count: 544 ePub Downloads: 5
Published: October 17, 2022 Updated: October 17, 2022
Past Featured Story
Time, Curious Time by MillennialCryBaby [NC-17] Likes: 131 Comments: 57
Summary: The last time you felt free, was when none of that mattered 'cause you were with me.
A few hours ago, Buffy watched Spike die closing the Hellmouth. So how did she find herself kissing him three years prior?
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: Brooke724, cawthraven
Artists: Irandamay
Categories: Season 4, Season 7, Post-Series, Challenge Response, Time Travel
Characters: None
Genres: Fix-It, HEA/HFN
Warnings: Character Death
Challenges: "Something Blue" Time Travel (Author's Choice of Name)
Event: April Challenge 2022
Completed: No Chapters: 2 Table of Contents
Word count: 5,491 Hit Count: 2,771 ePub Downloads: 19
Published: April 25, 2022 Updated: August 13, 2022
Waking Up In Vegas by MillennialCryBaby [NC-17] Likes: 89 Comments: 36
Summary: The spell might have worn off before they found a chapel, but its aftermath is stuck with them as they wait out the sun in Vegas.
A Secret Santa gift for Bewildered.
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: cawthraven
Artists: MillennialCryBaby
Categories: Season 4
Characters: Buffy, Spike
Genres: Fluffy/Comedy, HEA/HFN, Road Trip, Under Magical Influence
Warnings: Dubious Consent, Sexual Situations
Event: Secret Santa Fic Exchange 2023
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 10,859 Hit Count: 1,009 ePub Downloads: 65
Published: December 12, 2023 Updated: December 12, 2023
Water by MillennialCryBaby [PG-13] Likes: 18 Comments: 9
Summary: Three things were true: Mom was sick, the dishes needed to be done, and Buffy had no idea that there was a vampire in her basement.
A short one shot exploring grief. originally part of the 2024 Exquisite Corpse.
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: cawthraven
Artists: MillennialCryBaby
Categories: Season 5, Missing Scene
Characters: Buffy, Spike
Genres: Angst, Hurt/Comfort
Warnings: Adult Language, Buffy/Other (Temp)
Completed: Yes Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Word count: 3,360 Hit Count: 283 ePub Downloads: 15
Published: August 04, 2024 Updated: August 04, 2024
Past Featured Story
who could ever leave me, darling? but who could stay? (you could stay) by MillennialCryBaby [NC-17] Likes: 620 Comments: 211
Summary: Buffy wakes up alone in bed during "Into The Woods". What happens when she asks the best bloodhound in town to help find her missing boyfriend?
Beta and Sensitivity Readers: Brooke724, cawthraven
Artists: MillennialCryBaby
Categories: Season 5, Challenge Response, Episode Rewrite
Characters: Buffy, Spike
Genres: Angst, Road Trip, Romance, Slow-Burn
Warnings: Adult Language, Sexual Situations
Challenges: Out of the Woods
Completed: No Chapters: 13 Table of Contents
Word count: 69,597 Hit Count: 17,463 ePub Downloads: 144
Published: August 09, 2021 Updated: June 28, 2023