Greetings, After Dark-ers! Can you believe it’s October already?!?
There’s a lot happening here at Sunnydale After Dark! First, we wrapped up our Spooky September event this weekend. You all have graced us with 30 new works for our site, including a mix of one shots, chaptered fics, art work, videos and drabbles. Awards have been distributed to 18 artists, 25 authors, 13 betas and 23 commenters. A huge thank you to Double Dutchess for designing our Spooky September awards - Look at these pretties!
Since October is still spooky season, you’ll see our Spooky September fics cycling in place of the ‘Stories that Slay’ this month. Be sure to check them out and leave our participants some love. Thank you to everyone who contributed!
Secondly, we have some site updates to share with you! D’Hoffryn has been busy as usual. Under Browse → Events you’ll now see a more visually appealing ‘Events’ page highlighting the banners from our past events. These banners are clickable and will take you to a listing of all the past event fics. Enjoy this walk down memory lane!
We’ve also added a much-requested category to the site - META-ANALYSIS! If you’ve written any sort of meta-exploration of Spuffy as a couple, feel free to post it under ‘Essay (Spuffy)’. If you’d like to share analysis of any other individual characters or themes of BtVS, these can be posted under ‘Essay (BtVS)’.
**Seeing as how we are a Spuffy site, please keep any ship analysis focused on Spuffy only.
Finally, we must bring you one bit of bad news… One of Sunnydale After Dark’s founders, sandy_s, has chosen to step down from her admin role here at SAD. Sandy has done some phenomenal work here and was a critical force in launching Sunnydale After Dark and making it the place it is today. Sandy has been very passionate about her work here, but she has a very full life outside of fandom and was having a hard time keeping up with the pace here at SAD. She leaves us on good terms and we remain forever grateful for her contributions to the site. While we’ll miss her as an admin, we look forward to her continued contributions as a member of the SAD community!
Happy October, all! Holidays will be here before we know it…
--GetItDone, Dusty & Chelle on 10/02/23 12:15 am 6 Comments
Aww, the awards are super pretty as usual, thank you @Double Dutchess! 💞
And it's a great idea to keep the Spooky September entries rotating in the carousel. Sadly the majority of them are a little out of my comfort zone (I read carefully all the warnings, author notes, and even some comments), so I had to pass on most of them. Forgive me, I'm a big old softie. 🙏🏻
And the events page looks terrific! 😍 Thank you to our hard-working Techromancer.
I'm so happy about the Meta category!
And also so sad about you, @sandy_s stepping back as a mod. I hope to be seeing you a lot around here and on Discord!
Updates are all good! and the awards are awesome. Kudos to our Techromancer. So sorry to see Sandy go. It was lovely to re-connect/re-discover her after so many years. But she does have a busy life, so understandable. Hoping she will continue to hang around.
Some great changes! I look forward to reading the new meta (that is already getting posted!) when I have time. And the caroussel on the homepage will make it easy to keep up with all the Spooky September story updates. There's one not so great change of course: sad to hear that sandy_s will be retiring as a mod. Many thanks to her for all she has done for SAD!
Double Dutchess has knocked it out of the paaark with these rewards, y'all!! Especially the author one 
but all of them, really!
THANK YOU to our favourite techromancer for the lovely new Events page!, to all the mods for this fabulous event ❤️, and most especially to Sandy for all that she's done up to now!! I'm sorry you're taking a step back, Sandy, but I am soo in favour of doing it for whatever reason you deem necessary 
I hope you'll still enjoy Spuffy in whatever form you'll want, and thank youu for helping in giving us this amazing place!!
META IS HERE! I look forward to reading your essays, guys! It's going to be interesting and bring such a fresh new perspective to the site. We'll be deep-diving into all kinds of topics and I look forward to seeing where it goes. As Angelus once said ...
The site updates are beyond incredible and I'm forever in awe of D'Hoffryn's mad skills. I don't know how he does it but I think that there is Dark Magic and probably chicken feet involved.
Sandy, I'm beyond sad to lose you but I'm so glad that you were a part of my journey with SAD. Your presence is felt all over this community and the work you did here was invaluable. I was a fan before I knew you and now, I'm still a huge fan but also a friend. Huge hugs!
Spooky September was amazing, everyone! I can't wait to see what's next. I have it on good authority that it's gonna be pretty awesome.