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genuinely Ted is on of the most horrifying episodes of Buffy and it’s a shame the episode is largely written off as bad. Unfortunately, nobody believing you about your mother’s creepy boyfriend is something which happens all too often in real life, but the added element of Ted drugging Joyce into complacency, as well as Xander and Willow so they won’t ask questions, is downright terrifying. Ted is quite literally a serial killer moving in on his next target, Joyce, and Buffy is in his away. Ted acts to isolated her from her friends and family, and to ensure no one will believe her, even after Ted threats to hit her. And with the reveal of Buffy’s time in a mental institution in season 6, Ted’s threat becomes even deeper, he is actively using Buffy’s worst fear against her. While the concept is played seriously, had Ted not been revealed to be a robot in the end and Buffy truly killed a man, the episode would delve into psychological horror thriller territory.

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“edible complex,” yellowjackets (2.02) // faith lehane

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Oh my God everyone kicking Buffy out and putting Faith in charge is the FUNNIEST moment of collective girlfailure in all of Buffy. Genuinely a number one. Faith has been out of prison for less time than a Hulu Trial and they’re just like “put her in charge we are SICK OF THIS BLONDE BITCH” and it goes exactly as you expect. Nothing but respect for my idiot in chief

It's so fucking funny bc Faith doesn't even really want it, it's just pretty much her being a victim of her own Hotness Bubble like

The Potentials are all freaked out and bummed over how Their Lives Are All In Danger and Buffy's been stressed so she hasn't been the fun parent lately. Then Faith rocks up - they don't KNOW her. But she's SO hot. She's funny. She's got this rep. She's got slaying experience. And, crucially, she's really exuding this kind of dirtbag ex con zen that these idiot teenagers IMMEDIATELY misread as competence.

List of things Faith is competent at by season 7

-slaying (I'll give her that!)

-looking good in tank tops

-being pretty chill when people take shots at her over the whole Going Evil Phase

-being stabbed

-sustaining head trauma

-i mean getting her ass absolutely handed to her repeatedly without dying

-being gay for buffy

You'll note this list does NOT INCLUDE any sort of leadership skills. She's literally JUST hot and kind of charming.

She is the deadbeat dad who has the kids on the weekend and doesn't make them stick to bedtimes or do their homework and she let's them play M rated video games and say "bitch."

AND THEY PUT HER IN CHARGE. THE SLAYER WHOSE MOST NOTABLE ACCOMPLISHMENTS ARE FAILING TO END THE WORLD AND SUCCEEDING AT GIVING HERSELF BRAIN DAMAGE.

And what does she do when she's in charge? Almost immediately receive another traumatic brain injury.

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BTVS 7x19 Empty Places alley scene (x)

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@jennycalendar your tags are unfortunately very correct

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Power couple 🔥 👁️

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shes so cute i hope she doesnt get tortured by society and lose her will to live

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Buffy Summers and religious symbolism is always so interesting to me. I’m obsessed with Giles’ throwaway line in restless to Olivia when she accuses him of being too harsh with Buffy, telling her ‘it’s my business, blood of the lamb and all that’. Because Buffy is the sacrificial lamb that Giles is raising to die and he knows this. He is the one that most understands Buffy’s fate. He cannot afford to see Buffy as his daughter because he knows it is necessary for her to die for the world to keep turning. And knowing what comes next, he distances himself over and over again. Buffy is Isaac, carrying her own altar because it is too heavy a burden for Giles to bear. And even though Giles loves her, he still ties her to the altar and picks up the knife in the name of the authority above him.

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You’re in her dms, I’m in those cryptic, prophetic dreams she keeps having. We’re not the same

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kind of the most interesting thing to me about faith btvs is the way she almost seems to know that her only purpose in the narrative is to be buffy's shadow self and she's really really mad about it. like in "consequences" buffy is like. faith no one is asking you to be like me. but faith can't hear what she's saying because on some level she senses that she is being compared to buffy and she is the 'bad slayer' to buffy's good. so she's like ok i'll just be your evil foil then since that's what you (the narrative) want me to be. she seems aware that this is her role and resigned to it and furious about it while buffy is totally clueless as to why she is acting this way. in s4 she steals buffy's body and it's not even really about wanting buffy's life it's about wanting to not be in her shadow anymore, to put buffy in her shadow, to be Buffy The Vampire Slayer the tv show protagonist. but ultimately she is confronted with the reality that she is not and cannot be buffy. she literally has to go to another tv show to escape her fate as the shadow self. and once she's there she has no purpose anymore and she tries to get herself killed and instead she is forced to keep living and figure out what she wants to be when she is not stuck being a narrative foil to buffy summers. and that is just so so so interesting to me and i wish later-seasons ats and btvs had done anything with that at all

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STILL thinking about revived 15yo buffy from the end of the boom studios angel comics. the fact that they brought her back to life to fight some vampires without thinking about the potential consequences is NUTS. not one single thought was given to how she might feel about being brought back to serve a single purpose after having been dead several years. and i think that's neat so i drew her

good thing they have an oversized therapy dog at the hyperion in this universe otherwise who even KNOWS what they'd do with her. the poor girl

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posts that portray buffy as the sole aggressor in season 6 spuffy annoy me. like even if we disregard seeing red it's just not true? for example, she absolutely does beat the shit out of him in dead things, but the same episode also features the balcony scene. the sex itself in that scene is um. i'll be generous and call it dubious consent on buffy's part. also the entire time spike is telling her that none of her friends truly love her and he's the only one who could possibly understand her etc. which is classic abuser shit. and again, don't get me wrong, i'm by no means saying that the toxicity is one sided. but the idea that it was just buffy hurting spike the whole time is demonstrably false.

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xander coming back to see buffy and willow after he left anya at the altar and they're like "you don't have to explain 🥺 we all make mistakes" (willow is currently pining after her ex and buffy just cut things off with her situationship) like that is PEAK Scoobies. the three of them should always be single and miserable together.

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer | 7.12 - “Potential”

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— Whouffaldi | inspired by @starpeace's text post

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This is so nice. Having everyone together for my birthday.