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(Willy definitely told Xander he'd give him information in exchange for a positive yelp review)

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ANGEL THE SERIES | BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER S2E07 "Darla" S5E07 "Fool For Love”

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer, S04E04

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Twenty years ago the I Will Remember You Fic Marathon (IWRY) was born. Originated by Leni, then passed on to Chrislee, to Dark Star, and then Angelus2Hot, IWRY has remained the premiere event on the Buffy/Angel calendar and the centre of the B/A fandom itself.

This year we are hoping to mark these two decades of fan creativity and storytelling by making it the biggest IWRY in years. 

In this spirit, one of our team approached the current moderator to ask if we could join her in the running of the event. She did not feel this was necessary. We respect her decision and all the work she has put into keeping the marathon going these past years. We wish her nothing but the best with it now and in the future.

However, we believe IWRY is deeply rooted in our fandom as a collective and community experience. We want to create spaces and events where all who wish to participate can participate. It is for this reason we have decided to run our own I Will Remember You Fic Marathon.

Sign-ups for IWRY Fic Marathon are open now. 

If you are a writer or even just writer-curious, please put your name down and join us as we celebrate all things Bangel. We will accept any piece of fanfiction, of any rating, that is 500 or more words long and focused on the relationship of Buffy/Angel (and/or Buffy/Angelus). If drabbles are your jam, we will be happy to include those among the Another Minute bonus stories at the end of the event.

If you are neither writer nor curious, fear not! We would love to have you join in whatever capacity is best for you. Some roles to consider include:

Beta reading

Creating fanart, fanvids, edits, or GIFs

Supporting the writers with reviews & comments on fics

Taking part in our "Meet the Fandom" series

Helping us with the logistics behind the scenes

Promoting the marathon on your platform of choice

Anything we missed? Let us know!

If you are interested in participating in a non-writing role, email us at iwryficmarathon@gmail.com.

If you are a writer without an AO3 account, we have a number of invitations that we are happy to share. Just let us know on the signup sheet. If you are not a writer but would like to be active on AO3, just reach out to us directly via email.

The stories will be posted to a 2023 Collection on the I Will Remember You Marathon Archive. We will provide clear instructions about how to do this closer to the event.

Once again, we welcome you to the IWRY Fic Marathon and encourage you to take part in any way you can!

Please reach out to us here or at iwryficmarathon@gmail.com with any questions.

IWRY Fic Marathon Organising Committee:

Abby | Aboutafox | Bri | GraceNM | Kairos | Kean | Lea | Taaroko

Supported by:

calenlily | Fluffernutter8 | MrsGordo | MamaBewear | Najae

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ANGEL THE SERIES

— 1.10 “Parting Gifts”

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Buffy fans can have a little gaslighting

As a treat

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Pov: When buffy is your emotional support and only constant in your life

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One of the really fun things about Buffy the Vampire Slayer as a series is that they can’t have all the men looking like giants next to Sarah Michelle Gellar, who is objectively relatively short for a lead Hollywood actress, so you end up with so many supporting men that are short kings. Like. Oz, the ultimate short king. Hello? Need I say more? And secondly, you end up with Buffy regularly kicking ass in high heels which was a big win for gay women everywhere so I think we all really benefited from this situation.

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ANGEL THE SERIES | 5.22

Well, personally, I kind of want to slay the dragon.

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An old friend found this in a thrift store for me! It's got a lot of amazing stuff, and it's filled with extra character bits in the cover!

There's so much cool stuff in this yearbook I'll have to show some more

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Sarah Michelle Gellar (1999)

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She smashed all the mirrors. Why? Isn’t it obvious? The weight of her soul, she’s feeling it

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Wait no help. I’m actually laughing because Anya is not so very different from the vampires. She started out as human and then became a demon, except the different is she always had a soul. And vengeance demons do have souls because there was that whole “life and soul of a vengeance demon” thing. So she’s been out here killing people for a millennium with a soul. Meanwhile there’s Angel like “I’ve killed so many. Done horrible things until I got cursed with a soul which made me feel endless guilt about it. I can never atone. Never forget. How am I supposed to—“ *goes on for thirty minutes*

Then there’s Anya who’s been killing people with a soul for like 900 years longer: “yeah so anyway, one time I made this guy rip his own guts out and—“

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