The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Tuesday, May 27

May. 27th, 2026 07:25 pm
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ANGEL/CONNOR: (unison) Now we realize how happy you made us,
Oh, Jasmine…
And you came and you gave without taking
And we’ll keep you forever,
Oh, Jasmine…
GUNN: We should be doing this every night.

~~Angel Season IV Episode #85: "The Magic Bullet"~~


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May. 27th, 2026 05:07 am
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Much thanks to [personal profile] fancyflautist who was a longtime Editor but is currently on an extended sabbatical. Thank you for all of your work over the years!

Thanks also to [personal profile] nondenomifan for re-joining us as an Editor since the end of April. She is a previous Editor and is currently posting the Herald on Thursdays. Note that our posted schedule is not up to date right now, as [profile] fatalfaeri has been taking a break but returning in June. I will be updating it before June.

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gimme the ring, kissed and told

May. 26th, 2026 07:18 pm
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Now you know I'm not a big basketball fan but with the Knicks in the finals I will probably be talking about it some, especially since the Mets are so terrible and it looks like the Habs might not be moving on. I don't wanna root for the Canes. I do not like them! But I cannot root for VGK, so it is what it is.

Anyway, this was a fun article about Victor Wembanyama, the Spurs center, and the "Read like Wemby" campaign a library in San Antonio started. (Ignore the snobs in the comments talking about how he should read "real" literature instead of SFF - they are not serious people.) I love when libraries do stuff like this and they are always doing cool stuff like this.

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you had them sign an accountability contract

May. 25th, 2026 10:40 pm
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New York Knicks are going to the NBA Finals! Go New York Go New York Go! Bing bong!

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The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Monday, May 25th

May. 26th, 2026 01:29 am
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FREDDY: Murder? What murder? You're not here about the review?
OZ: The review?
FREDDY: Yeah. Last Thursday. (Freddy leafs through a paper on his desk, hands it to Oz.)
OZ: (reading) Dingoes Ate My Baby play their instruments as if they have plump Polish sausages taped to their fingers.
FREDDY: Sorry man.
OZ: (shrugs, sets down the paper) No, it's fair.

~~Earshot~~

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The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Sunday, May 24

May. 24th, 2026 03:32 pm
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ANYA: You're going away for a *week*? That's great!

GILES: Yes, yes, everybody seems delighted about it. (picks something up to read)

ANYA: Well, I get to run the store, right?

Giles looks alarmed.

~~S5Ell: Triangle~~


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you're dangerous, you don't know what you want

May. 24th, 2026 06:36 pm
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Frequently when we reschedule something because of a bad weather forecast, the weather turns out to not be that bad after all, but this weekend, it was the smart move. It seems to have finally stopped raining for bit after it rained heavily for most of yesterday and all of today. It's been a real chilly and kind of gray spring, tbh, those few days of high 80s/low 90s notwithstanding.

Anyway, I've taken the chance to try out some recipes - yesterday, I made chicken meatballs with garlic butter orzo, which is good and I have some leftover, but I would say that the meatballs are sort of unnecessary? And the garlic butter needs a little more seasoning imo - some rosemary and oregano and basil would not go amiss - but the orzo in garlic butter is good stuff.

I also made Ina Garten's shortbread, though I kept the teaspoon of almond extract from the pecan shortbread and covered them with chocolate sprinkles - I made the dough yesterday and then baked them off this morning. 20 minutes was probably a minute or 2 too long in the oven, but they still taste good.

I also baked a loaf of bread, on which I might make French bread pizza tomorrow. We'll see. I might also bake some kind of lemon cake, since I have a bunch of lemons, but maybe not. Again, I'll see how I feel. But for dinner tonight, I made these ricotta and breadcrumb balls. Which again, I seasoned to my own taste rather than following the instructions. They're pretty good if you like ricotta.

I think that's one of the most important things you can do when you learn to cook - learn to make things taste the way you like them. I save a ton of recipes and have a bunch of cookbooks, but mainly I need them for measurements and techniques, not flavorings. I mean, don't get me wrong, sometimes they will come up with a combination that would never have occurred to me which is delicious! But a lot of the time, I'm going, I'll swap in X for Y and I will like it better. If there are too many of these in one recipe, then it's not really that recipe (not that I would comment to say so!), but the technique might be useful just the same.

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The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Saturday, May 23

May. 23rd, 2026 11:17 pm
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BUFFY: Tell Giles... tell Giles I figured it out. And, and I'm okay. And give my love to my friends. You have to take care of them now. You have to take care of each other. You have to be strong. Dawn, the hardest thing in this world... is to live in it. Be brave. Live. For Me.

~~BtVS 5x22 “The Gift”~~


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The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Friday, May 22nd

May. 23rd, 2026 01:12 am
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ANDREW: You're English, right?
SPIKE: (frowns at him suspiciously) Yeah.
ANDREW: I've seen every episode of Doctor Who.

~~Smashed~~

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The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Thursday, May 21

May. 22nd, 2026 01:28 am
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Joyce: Buffy, terrible things have happened. What were you doing?
Spike: What, your mum doesn't know?
Buffy glares at Spike.
Joyce: (to Spike) Know what?
Buffy: (faces her mom) That I'm, uh... in a band. A-a rock band with Spike here. (shoots Spike a look)
Spike: Right. She plays the, the triangle.
Buffy: Drums.
Spike: Drums, yeah. She's, uh, hell on the old skins, you know.
Joyce: (unconvinced) Hmm. And, uh, what do you do?
Spike: Well, I sing.

~~BtVS, E34 - "Becoming, Pt. 2" ~~


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and he goes down swinging

May. 21st, 2026 05:58 pm
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Still with the don't wannas, but for once our All Staff call was mostly interesting (though it never fails to baffle me that people put their requests for different soda in the vending machine in the anonymous complaint form instead of just asking the office manager dude about it - as I said to my boss, no questions about COLAs but always questions about colas, which evoked a real out loud laugh from her so you know, score) and I got the 2 main things I had to do this week done, so tomorrow can just be waiting around for other people to send me their meeting materials (I loathe how they have no consideration for me and my summer Friday sign-off at 2:30 pm, but the C-suite level folks are always like that).

In other news, now I am not seeing Baby Miss L this weekend, because the weather is supposed to be rainy and chilly, so the party was postponed till next weekend. It's fine. I have gotten some lovely videos and pictures of her dancing at a wedding she attended last weekend, and that will suffice for now.

So Tuesday night, I turned off the Knicks game while they were down by double-digits in the 4th quarter and went to bed. Imagine my surprise to learn that they had tied it up and then won in OT! Let's hope they can win in regulation tonight.

And finally, I knew Mike Keenan was a piece of shit, but there's some stuff in this article about the 1994 Rangers (gift link) that I did not know. Interesting read. They won then and haven't since, so I guess it might really have to last a lifetime.

Now I have to figure out what to have for dinner. I guess it could be quesadillas again. Idk.

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and it's on target every time

May. 20th, 2026 09:36 pm
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I had a bad case of the don't wannas today, and I don't anticipate it getting better tomorrow or Friday, but we finally start summer Fridays this week and have a 3 day weekend, so hopefully that will help. I could barely stay awake until 5 pm, so after I logged off, I napped hard, and had one of those dreams where I think I've woken up, but no, I'm still asleep and then I think I've woken up from that, but no, I'm still asleep, over and over until I finally do actually wake up and am like, how did I think I was awake in those dreams, it was so clearly not reality? Anyway, it was in the middle of a big thunderstorm and there is nothing better than being cozy in bed during a thunderstorm, so that was all right.

I did want to talk about a couple of books I've read!

What I've just finished
I don't think I ever said anything after finishing The Last Contract of Isako, but I liked it. It's a noir detective story set in a far-future colony that has lost contact with Earth, and the titular Isako is a corporate samurai on her last contract. I really liked her - she was a 50yo woman in a profession best handled by younger people and she knew it. ( spoilers )

I'm seeing Baby Miss L this weekend, so I bought her some books and also read them:

- We Will Rock Our Classmates: A Penelope Rex Book by Ryan Higgins, which was ADORABLE. Baby Miss L liked the first Penelope Rex book, so I think she will like this one, in which Penelope signs up to play guitar in the class talent show, as well.

- Interrupting Chicken by David Ezra Stein, which was super cute. It's bedtime and little red chicken wants a bedtime story but then she keeps interrupting when her papa tries to tell her one.

- The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Daywalt (Author) and Oliver Jeffers (Illustrator), which was cute but a little samey for me as an adult - I bet kids love it.

I also reread Parade of Horribles so I think I understand some of it much better but some of it is still a little ...opaque. I'm going do another reread with my notes document open so I can check off stuff that got answered (or not) and add all the new stuff that will now have to be resolved (or not). I will say that while there were some fantastic moments, it's not my favorite book - it's probably in the lower half of my personal rankings, tbh, because I feel like ( spoiler ) I'm also thinking about how supposedly Dinniman said that books 9 and 10 are really one book split into two? And I can think of several ways to manage that, so I'm very interested to see how he does it.

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The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Wednesday, May 20

May. 20th, 2026 11:43 pm
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GILES: (weakly) In order... to be worthy...
ANGELUS: Yeah?
GILES: (weakly) You must perform the ritual... in a tutu. Pillock!
ANGELUS: All right. Someone get the chainsaw.
SPIKE: (wheels himself in) Now, now, don't let's lose our temper.
ANGELUS: Keep out of it, sit 'n' spin.
SPIKE: Look, you cut him up, you'll never get your answers.
ANGELUS: Since when did you become so levelheaded?
SPIKE: Right about the time you became so pig-headed. You have your way with him, you'll never get to destroy the world. And I don't fancy spending the next month trying to get librarian out of the carpet.

~~BtVS 2x22 “Becoming Part 2”~~


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The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Tuesday, May 19

May. 19th, 2026 06:19 pm
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Doyle: "How are you going to explain this to Harry, huh?"
Richard: "Oh, Harry will understand. She loves and accepts our culture, just like loved and accepted yours."
Dad: "Nick, what's this?"
Nick: "You said, get a utensil."
Dad: "This is a shrimp fork. He's going to eat the guy's brains with a shrimp fork?"
Nick: "Well pardon me if our ancient ancestors didn't leave behind any former-husband-brain-eating forks."
Dad: "Get a soup spoon, you moron."

~~Angel Episode #7: "The Bachelor Party"~~


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The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Sunday May 17 and Monday May 18

May. 18th, 2026 03:16 pm
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GILES: Buffy, I—I-I know you're tired.
BUFFY:(resolute) I'm beyond tired. I'm beyond scared. I'm standing on the mouth of hell, and it is gonna swallow me whole. And it'll choke on me.

~~S7E10: "Bring on the Night"~~


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put it in the books!

May. 18th, 2026 11:44 pm
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what a fucking wild night of sports. the Mets scored TEN RUNS in the TWELFTH INNING and the Nats brought in a position player to pitch, and the umpires had to call the replay officials to find out if that was allowed! Spoiler: It was, because it was after the 10th inning? Or something? If you're within a regular 9-inning game, I think you have to be losing by 8 or winning by 10 before it's allowed, but apparently the rules change in extra innings. who knew? #LFGM

ANYWAY. It was bonkers, and then I turned away just in time to see the Canadiens score the winning goal in OT in Game 7!!! I would have been okay with either team winning, and now I just need them to beat Carolina and whoever comes out of the West to win it all and lift the Cup!

And tomorrow, the Knicks are back in action and will hopefully do well and go to the finals! #go ny go ny go

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maybe take me with you, we can hide

May. 17th, 2026 10:28 pm
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Usually, I shower at night, but last night, I stayed up too late reading and didn't feel like delaying bedtime so I put the shower off until this morning. While I was in there, I noticed a spider, but it was on the far wall, and I was naked and without my glasses, so I let it live and it disappeared somewhere (the whole room is tiled, floor to ceiling, so I don't know where? but also. I don't want to know where).

This evening, I had to wash my hair, so there I was back in the shower, and I turned off the water and stepped back while I was lathering the shampoo, and there was the spider, dropping down from god knows where right in the middle of my shower!

So I had to get out - with my hair still full of shampoo - grab my glasses and a paper towel, so I could kill it, because come the fuck on, spider, that is not okay! The shower is sacrosanct!

It's a good thing I still have to stay up for an hour to detangle because I would not have been able to go to sleep right away after that, omg.

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the way you hold your knife, the way we danced til three

May. 17th, 2026 06:26 pm
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Yesterday, I made these ricotta cheesecake bars, for which I had to shell 62g of pistachios (oh, the humanity!), and they are okay, but either there is not enough butter or I had too much graham cracker crumb because the crust does not cohere. (I used pre-smashed crumbs because that is what I had and probably used too much. Recipes really should give you some sort of measurement beyond "7 or 8 graham crackers, crushed" for these things.)

I also made KAB pretzel rolls (half the recipe) and as always, they are delicious, even if the whole boiling step is annoying. I definitely recommend them, and if like me, you never remember that they have a small amount of butter (2 tbsp) that needs to be softened ahead of time, you can always just substitute the same amount of olive oil, also like me. *wry*

With the LIRR on strike, I'm not going into the office this week (I had already decided that anyway), so I didn't have to do any other baking, and I just bought some spring mix and grilled chicken strips so that'll be lunch for the week.

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The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Saturday, May 16

May. 16th, 2026 11:22 pm
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GILES: "Have you heard of a group called the gentlemen?"
SPIKE: "Group of what?"
GILES: "The gentlemen."
SPIKE: "Dunno."
GILES: "You certain?"
SPIKE: "No. We're out of Weetabix."
GILES: "We are out of Weetabix because you ate it all - again."

~~BtVS 4x10 “Hush”~~


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The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Friday, May 15th

May. 15th, 2026 10:15 pm
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JOYCE: I wish that someone had bothered to tell me that there would be tennis being played!

~~Listening to Fear~~


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