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reblog to hit spike with a chair i wanna see something

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seeing the reviews on serializd for btvs 6x19 is crazy. it is an unremarkable and dull episode, but it seems like the only reason why it's rated so low is because they're mad they can't wash spike's rancid balls anymore.

"IT WAS OUT OF CHARACTER" were we watching the same show? did you guys close your eyes and plug your ears with wax when his scenes were on? let me list the many, many examples that prove spike was not this amazing love interest in s5/s6 you all have cooked him up to be:

5x07: Goes to kill Buffy because she rejected him.

5x14: Chains Buffy up and says, "If you don't admit that there's something there, some tiny feeling for me, then I'll untie Dru, let her kill you instead."

Also 5x14: Has a creepy ass shrine filled with photos of her and her fucking clothes. He stole her fucking underwear.

Also 5x14: Gets angry at Buffy for rejecting him and says, "Why do you bitches torture me?"

5x18: SEXBOT. ENOUGH SAID.

6x07: "I hope you dance till you burn. You and [Dawn]."

6x09: Harasses Buffy about them kissing again, she tells him goodbye and he still follows her, ending their conversation with, "It's only a matter of time before you realize I'm the only one here for you, pet. You got no one else!"

Also 6x09: Realizes the chip doesn't work for Buffy, finds her and starts a fight, then says, "You came back wrong."

6x10: "And the next time you come crawling, if you don't stop being such a bitch, maybe I will bite you."

6x13: At the bronze, Buffy tells him "don't" when he's touching her, and his response is, "stop me," and he has sex with her. How respectful...

Also 6x13: Encourages her physical/mental isolation, "That's not your world. You belong in the shadows...with me."

6x17: "It's why you won't tell your pals about us. Might actually have to be happy if you did. They'd either understand and help you, god forbid ... or drive you out ... where you can finally be at peace, in the dark. With me."

6x18: Threatens to sic another vampire on Buffy if she doesn't tell her friends about them.

there are probably more examples i could find, but it would be absolutely ridiculous for anyone to look at this list and still think spike is some blameless wittle baby who was the victim of a so-called "character assassination."

and you know what else i find funny about seeing red? i see all this sympathy for james marsters, all this outcry for what joss "did" to spike, but i have rarely, if ever, seen anyone direct even a fraction of those emotions towards buffy, much less sarah michelle gellar herself.

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Ruth Wilson as Marisa Coulter HIS DARK MATERIALS — 3.04 "Lyra and Her Death"

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Piper is such a sweetheart though

She wanted Jason to get his memories back even if it meant he went home to another girl because that was better than him being lost and sad

She does not immediately hate Reyna despite her misgivings on the nature of her relationship with Jason

When she hoped Jason wouldn’t be the sacrifice Gaea was talking about she immediately accused herself of selfishness and changed her thinking to hoping nobody would be

She uses her charmspeak to make people feel better, such as charmpeaking the nerves out of Annabeth when she took the mark, and to save lives like when she yelled at Jason to wake up when he was freefalling to his potential death after fighting venti

When Percy and Annabeth got out of Tartarus, who was openly weeping for joy? Piper.

Don’t fucking talk to me about Piper McLean okay

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jason "my mom abandoned me so i need to earn everyone's love or they'll abandon me too" grace, piper "i need to force my dad to care for me and see me even if it's for the worse" mclean, or leo "my mom died and it's my fault and she was the only one who could love me unconditionally" valdez.

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You mean to tell me that the pevensie siblings had ruled Narnia for DECADES before they had to come back to their normal lives, taking in the fact that time never passed at all in their world, only for them to do algebra and latin again in school all over again?? I wish the psychological aspect of this was expanded more because wtf? They probably hadn't picked up an algebra/latin textbook in decades so they come back and forget basically anything they've learnt in school?? Would it have slowed down their learning progress? Is that why peter was sent to professor kirke's house specifically for tutoring?? because kirke could understand the impact of moving completely different worlds and adjusting to it knowing that he'd be too old to return, while simultaneously continuing his life like nothing happened?? Or am I just reading into it too much because this still kinda blows my mind lol. Their perception of time would've been really fucked up.

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when people say that jason grace dying of a stab wound is extremely stupid and anti climatic, and that it was made for jason to look 'weak', i couldn't disagree more tbh, bc it's so so symbolic. in blood of olympus, it was said that jason's soul was broken the moment he was stabbed with imperial gold, and it left more than just a physical scar on him, it damaged his soul. because only a few minutes prior, he had a bitter, soul crushing confrontation with his mother's spirit. jason told piper that she was the only reason he had the will to live at that particular moment, otherwise he would've crumbled down and let himself give in to death.

and then comes his life a few months later, jason lost his anchors, which was piper and leo, jason enrolled in edgarton which was located in the same area where his mother died in a car crash. he was already showing signs of spiralling, taking as many subjects/extra curricular activities as he could, getting as engrossed as he could in his minor gods project, to take his mind off of the prophecy.

all of this was more than enough to reopen jason's soul scarring, jason taking a hit with a spear, in the EXACT same spot as the previous stab, was the culmination of his soul withering for good. piper was there both the times he got impaled, this time though, when he crumbled to the floor, jason had completely given in to death, not bothering to put up a fight with his mind.

'the truth was enough to break jason grace'

his mind was damaged, broken and weary, and that was the real reason he died, not because he couldn't take on a physical stab wound.

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Bless the Maker and His water. Bless the coming and going of Him. May His passage cleanse the world. May He keep the world for His people. DUNE: PART ONE (2021) dir. Denis Villeneuve

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#he's the star of this show 🐰

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AGATHA ALL ALONG 1.09 "Maiden Mother Crone"

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer 2.07 — "Lie to Me"

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1x07 / 2x06 – 🦇 Happy Bangelween 🦇

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Cate what is the deets on Angel why do I want to cringe and cry. What’s the deal

magsy I wish I knew!!!! what I DO know is that Angel is not an outlier - he's very typical of the "first love" in a lot of teen vampire media. the looming in the background, the emotional constipation, the dark past that's SO dark it's basically a split personality that has to be kept in check: all of that describes Edward from Twilight and Stefan from TVD just as much as it describes Angel. and something about this character type is supposed to appeal to teen girls. the presumption here does seem to be a kind of parallel between monstrousness and masculinity, specifically, where men are terrifying but also somehow fascinating, and eventually girls will find a "good" one who has his true, monstrous nature locked the fuck down, and that makes him safe. this makes you and me squirm because we don't think any human beings have completely monstrous natures, let alone an entire gender. we think the wounds of sin don't destroy all the way down to the core, and we think those wounds can be healed in a holistic way that isn't just repression.

this is why we have to thank God every day for Scott McCall, the supernatural good-guy hero who is genuinely a good guy.

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@iwillrememberyoumarathon BANGEL — BETWEEN GOOD AND GOODBYE

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@pscentral​ event 20: antagonists -> marisa coulter you have never from your earliest years shown a shred of compassion or sympathy or kindness without calculating how it would return to your advantage

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— the blind assassin, margaret atwood