Main blog for @VeroNyxK84

Our Monday editor rhymeswithlungs is taking a Heralding hiatus for at least the next few months. We thank her for over three years of help so far, and hope that Real Life's rude demands on her time will cease soon and she'll be able to return comfortably.

In the meantime, we are looking for someone to step in as Monday editor or potentially take another day of the week.

Being a Herald editor means making one newsletter post a week, which may take roughly 2-4 hours depending on one's level of perfectionism. Most of the potential links come to us pre-gathered in one tidy Dreamwidth reading page. You'll also have help with turning the day's selection of links into a formatted list: you can either paste everything into our HTML template that already contains all the formatting tags, or use some alternative tools (including the fabled Pinboard!) that will do part of the pasting and sorting for you. We're happy to explain and show how everything works from the ground up. :)

For science!!!!

I present a list of 10 Spuffy fics I’ve read in May and June. They’re all one-shots, all published during the past two months as well (taking into account Sunnydale After Dark publishing date). Those marked with the 🎨 emoji were written for SAD’s Pen & Paint 2024.

IMPORTANT NOTE: This is a secondary blog

So I cannot follow or follow back from veronyxk84. Instead I will follow/back from my main tumblr: @ohupsydaisy (now mostly inactive).

MY CONTENT

BINGO STUFF

Bingo Masterpost — HERE

Bingo Tags — cards + blackouts + badges

ICON PACKS & FAN ART

Icon Tags — veronyxk84 icons + icon pack + icons

Fan art Tags — veronyxk84 art

FANFICTION & DRABBLES

All my fanfics & drabbles are set in the Buffyverse, with a main focus on Spuffy (Buffy/Spike). They are all published exclusively on Sunnydale After Dark and on my Dreamwidth journal (drabbles). Links are often shared here under the following tags:

Fanfic Tags — veronyxk84 fanfic + one shot + drabbles

Archive Tag — sunnydale after dark

Spuffy Fic Recs Tag — spuffy fic recs (coming in July)

MISCELLANEOUS

All my reblogs — vnk reblogs

My answers to asks — vnk answers

Signal boosts — signal boost

Headers and Dividers made by me with GIMP 2.10.38 Stock Image: Butterfly by ArtsyBee (Pixabay)

Your friendly neighborhood chief editor is traveling and may not be able to check the relevant inboxes every day. I have asked the other editors to pick up the slack when they can, but admin tasks aren't what they signed up for, so bear with us.

Things should be back to normal by May 19th at the very latest. Until then, we might not include submissions in the next Herald post (but a later post instead) and might take a while to react to asks and other messages.

you have to MANUALLY opt out of it as well.

to opt out on desktop, click your blog ➡️ blog settings ➡️ scroll til you see visibility options and it’ll be the last option to toggle.

to opt out on mobile, click your blog ➡️ scroll then click visibility ➡️ toggle opt out option.

We love to see the variety of Buffyverse events in the past few months, and it has given us a clearer idea of the limitations in how the Herald editors find out about works posted to Archive of Our Own. So here's a summary, because I don't think we have explicitly stated how this works, and it may be useful to know.

(1) We *generally* know about new AO3 works in these fandom tags:

"Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)"

"Angel: the Series"

"Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992)"

"Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Comics 1998)"

"Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Comics 2019)"

We weren't subscribed to the "Slayers: A Buffyverse Story" fandom tag until just now, but now we are.

Our track record with noticing chapter updates, however, is less consistent: we don't get automatic notifications about new chapters in an existing work, although some of us go check manually if we have time. Sometimes we link only newly completed works in the Herald and skip middle chapters of WIPs.

(2) We don't get automatically notified about AO3 works that have the lock icon (can only be accessed by logged-in AO3 users).

(3) And last but not least: if an AO3 work is in a collection and gets revealed some time after it was posted, there's a good chance we won't get a notification from AO3 about it. So it's very helpful to us when event mods (or participants) link the revealed works somewhere we'll see, for example, in the "btvs", "buffy the vampire slayer" or "angel the series" tag on tumblr or in a LiveJournal/Dreamwidth community or journal that su_herald_reading is subscribed to.