Citations:redemptionista

Noun: "(Buffy the Vampire Slayer fandom slang) a fan who wanted Spike to be redeemed"

 * 2012, Keith Topping, Hollywood Vampire: The Apocalypse - An Unofficial and Unauthorised Guide to the Final Season of Angel, unnumbered page:
 * What is absolute nirvana to a Bangel (a Buffy/Angel 'shipper) will, likely, utterly infuriate a Spuffy (Buffy/Spike 'shipper) while The Redemptionistas (see www.tabularasa.com) battle it out with The Ducks and The Evilistas in a seemingly never-ending game of 'my vampire's better than your vampire.'
 * 2014, Elizabeth L. Rambo, "I've Got a Little List, or, 'You Guys Wanna Team Up and Take Over SunnydaleU?'", in Buffy and Angel Conquer the Internet: Essays on Online Fandom (ed. Mary Kirby-Diaz), page 11:
 * Once we were joined by a Dunnett reader who described herself as also "lurk[ing] madly on several Buffy lists" and who introduced SunnydaleU not only to Psyche's (now defunct) script and transcript site, but also to the Spike "redemptionistas" of the Bloody Awful Poet Society (BAPS), the floodgates were open (mack29, "REALLY late").
 * 2012, Keith Topping, Hollywood Vampire: The Apocalypse - An Unofficial and Unauthorised Guide to the Final Season of Angel, unnumbered page:
 * What is absolute nirvana to a Bangel (a Buffy/Angel 'shipper) will, likely, utterly infuriate a Spuffy (Buffy/Spike 'shipper) while The Redemptionistas (see www.tabularasa.com) battle it out with The Ducks and The Evilistas in a seemingly never-ending game of 'my vampire's better than your vampire.'
 * 2014, Elizabeth L. Rambo, "I've Got a Little List, or, 'You Guys Wanna Team Up and Take Over SunnydaleU?'", in Buffy and Angel Conquer the Internet: Essays on Online Fandom (ed. Mary Kirby-Diaz), page 11:
 * Once we were joined by a Dunnett reader who described herself as also "lurk[ing] madly on several Buffy lists" and who introduced SunnydaleU not only to Psyche's (now defunct) script and transcript site, but also to the Spike "redemptionistas" of the Bloody Awful Poet Society (BAPS), the floodgates were open (mack29, "REALLY late").
 * 2012, Keith Topping, Hollywood Vampire: The Apocalypse - An Unofficial and Unauthorised Guide to the Final Season of Angel, unnumbered page:
 * What is absolute nirvana to a Bangel (a Buffy/Angel 'shipper) will, likely, utterly infuriate a Spuffy (Buffy/Spike 'shipper) while The Redemptionistas (see www.tabularasa.com) battle it out with The Ducks and The Evilistas in a seemingly never-ending game of 'my vampire's better than your vampire.'
 * 2014, Elizabeth L. Rambo, "I've Got a Little List, or, 'You Guys Wanna Team Up and Take Over SunnydaleU?'", in Buffy and Angel Conquer the Internet: Essays on Online Fandom (ed. Mary Kirby-Diaz), page 11:
 * Once we were joined by a Dunnett reader who described herself as also "lurk[ing] madly on several Buffy lists" and who introduced SunnydaleU not only to Psyche's (now defunct) script and transcript site, but also to the Spike "redemptionistas" of the Bloody Awful Poet Society (BAPS), the floodgates were open (mack29, "REALLY late").