Herself
| Fan | |
|---|---|
| Name: | Herself |
| Alias(es): | herself_nyc |
| Type: | writing |
| Fandoms: | Buffyverse, Firefly, Black Sails |
| Communities: | @Dreamwidth |
| Other: | @Sunnydale After Dark |
| URL: | @A03 @All About Spike; @Bloodshedverse |
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Herself is a fan author, active in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer fandom since September 2001.
Her fiction usually features Spike, and she's best known for her angsty adult Spike/Buffy. The Deadly Hook crowns her the reigning queen of Buffy/Spike angst, and describes her Spuffy stories as excellent mixtures of agony, sex, and deep thoughts; to read Herself is to drink a mason jar full of tears. In a good way.[1] Stultiloquentia describes her style as really something else—bird-skeleton graceful and a little eerie.[2]
Herself also writes Spike/Xander, Buffy/Angel/Spike and other het & slash BtVS pairings, as well as occasional Angel and Firefly works. In addition, she has published one story in the [[Black Sails] fandom, *The Putative Earl.
All her completed fanfiction is archived at Archive Of Our Own.[3] If any of the links in this article take you to dead places, use this link to take you to her works on A03.
Notable Works
- Bittersweets series -- classic Spuffy AU saga, diverging from canon after season 6 'Wrecked'. Cupidsbow writes of the series opener, [2]: This story ... describes female pleasure as a hot, real, uncrass thing; sexuality is a central part of this Buffy's physicality, and while she's shown to be broken, she's still Buffy, making the hard choices. ...Herself has captured the overwrought romantic that's at the heart of Spike, without re-working him into something less, well, spikey.[4]
- Manhattan Nocturne -- historical Spike story. Indri writes: Spike shags the locals in Herself's lyrical Manhattan Nocturne[5]
- What She Deserves & Lovingkindness -- pair of AU novellas set after season 6 'Grave'. Xanphibian writes Herself knows these characters, shows you their hearts and their souls, makes you ache and break and mend with them. She ...[has] them work out how they feel, what they feel, separating the past from the present while showing just how much the past affects them. The story is just stunning...[6] Mustang Sally writes (of 'What She Deserves'): It's not a *fun* story, it's not one of the hearts and roses, Titanic Spuffy reunions that have been clogging up the 'net recently, but the writing is witty, powerful, and executed with all of Herself's skill and flair. ... It's a Scorsese film of a fic, with all the noir, blood and sweat that Marty handles so well.[7]
- Mating by Herself_nyc, Out of sorts, out of place, and in danger of being out of her mind soon, if something didn't change, Buffy needed a change of scene, even if it ended up being humiliating. Set Post-NFA Buffy/Angel/Spike
References
- ^ Just Stake Me Fanfiction (accessed 20 April 2012)
- ^ Stultiloquentia's Jossverse Recs (accessed 20 April 2012)
- ^ [1] (accessed June 30, 20022)
- ^ Crack Van: All Wrong by Herself (NC-17) (accessed 20 April 2012)
- ^ Blood and Weetabix Recommends (accessed 30 June 2022)
- ^ Crack Van: What She Deserves/Lovingkindness by Herself (NC-17) (accessed 20 April 2012)
- ^ Better Buffy Fiction Archive: Herself (accessed 20 April 2012)