Summer of Giles

For pookitoots who was the other person (along with gilescandy, the_huffster and protoneoromanic who I made posters for earlier in the summer), who signed up for THREE days this summer...


Prison Changes A Man

(made before she posted her awesome poster that she made herself...lolz. click the little image for the full size version)

Once, a long time ago (literally two years), I put up a movie poster request post. And even though it’s a couple of years later, I hope the authors will forgive me for the delay and still be excited. I also wanted to thank a couple of people who have put some amazing hard work into pimping and early sign ups of this Summer of Giles. Without further ado, I’d like to introduce you to a bunch of awesome fics by seldomifever, skargasm, 0_ruthless_0, gilescandy, kaymickbee, harmony033, loreofthefaye, shapinglight, protoneoromanic, il_mio_capitano, and xspike4evax!

Here’s a teaser:


( Contained herein are 11 movie posters of 11 awesome Giles-related fics, enjoy!  )

Before the summer started I opened up an graphics offer post for anybody who wanted a movie poster. Due to some ongoing computer problems I wasn't able to get them all done for today, but I do have the first 8! And hopefully I'll be able to finish the rest for my next posting day. In the meantime,

( I give you the scary, the wondrous, the heart-pounding, the silly, all in visual form, many that were posted right here at SOG. )

Please check out the stories these are based on (each image links to the story) and let the authors know if you liked!

Hi all! I hope you've been having fun at SOG so far! For my first day I have the following for you guys - they're Giles + a bunch of characters doing his debonair thing in a Film Noir kind of way. Directly inspired by film noir movie posters (and for at least one, using it as the base for a manip) I give you 8 different Noir!Giles...

teasers:


( As the first line of the Maltese Falcon runs....[Rupert Giles]'s jaw was long and bony, his chin a jutting v under the more flexible v of his mouth. )

Sorry this is so late in the day all! Thank you guys so much for offering Giles!definitoins in my last post - I took these words from the suggestions made and got as many as I could done between then and now. I hope you like!

( Oh Giles, he is a man of many words, but few absolute definitions )

Here are a couple more of that 'series' I was talking about.

For Giles & Wes though, it's not so much one single moment, but instead a series of them standing just too close to each other, looking so cute in their suits and cleaning their glasses together.  The way Wes is so absolutely silly and Giles is so sardonic just makes me grin. 

( So i give you 'The Two Watchers' )

polly1esther 's hilarious vid The Odd Couple totally reminded me that for a brief moment (well, sorta half a season) Giles & Spike lived together as uneasy roommates.  There was teasing, and blood drinking, and some astonishment at the guitar playing.  

( So I give you my version of the odd couple )

And finally... there are very few times when Giles and Oz directly interact (though I can think of some fairly fraught ones pertaining to Oz getting to his cage on time in highschool). But there's this one moment in Season 4 in Harsh Light of Day where Oz says what he says in the poster below, and Giles almost stops what he's doing to listen to an album, when they're in perfect accord. And I LOVED that moment.

( So I give you 'Music Men' )

Hope you like!

and again, you are welcome to use these images in any capacity you like (even to make new artworks of them!). All I ask is that you a) credit, and b) let me know what you do so I can see what you made :D

I'm doing this series (so yes, there will be more) of moments when I felt like Giles had great chemistry with another character.  One of my favorite comes from Bad Girls, when Wesley first arrives, and Buffy and Giles are in perfect accord.  Just thinking about that scene makes me smile.

( so i give you 'please' )

The second actually comes from a moment that makes me tear up just a little - it's from the musical, when Tara and Giles are both acknowledging that they can't continue their relationships with two other people in the same form - because that's destructive for them both.  The staging of this scene is so beautiful it breaks my heart.  I always wondered what might happen if they were able to comfort each other, even just as friends.

( And so I give you... 'stay' )

Hope you like! 

and again, you are welcome to use these images in any capacity you like (even to make new artworks of them!).
All I ask is that you a) credit, and b) let me know what you do so I can see what you made :D

It's started!  It's really started!  and i have more for you - these are designed as movie posters / book covers and are kind of character studies of Giles through the early seasons (1-4)! 

teasers
 

( oh giles, you are awesome, every season )