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the monumental levels of cope necessary to kid yourself into believing spike isn’t good at oral is truly history making. what can i say except lol

Spike from Buffy

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are you guys seeing this shit

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SPUFFY in 7x01: END OF DAYS

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I just know that I’m not a superhero - saving the world no matter what - material bc when I watched Buffy getting kicked out of her own house after she sacrificed everything for these people, I would simply curse them out and then I would hop on a plane to Europe and let them die for all I care…

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Bruh I love your blog. I don't always agree with you but damn I always respect the way you frame your thoughts. Especially the one about Spike loving Buffy in s5.

thank you !! i haven’t been as active lately but my spuffy love is evergreen and it means a lot to me that my words are appreciated at all :)

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my spuffy hot take is i don't actually think spike was in love with buffy before s4/s5. drusilla tells spike she's leaving him post s2 because he's in love with the slayer, but the way i interpret that is not that spike is in love with buffy at that precise moment but that drusilla can see that spike will be deeply in love with buffy at a certain point in time and so her relationship with him has no future. i imagine that drusilla experiences time a bit differently, so she doesn't say it in those terms. but i think that's what she means. i find spike & buffy's interactions in early s4 to be more fun if she doesn't mean all that much to him yet. but then of course it grows without either of them noticing until that moment in s5 when he realizes and he's like oh i hate this

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late s5-early s6 “firmly best friends but would individually vehemently deny that fact for vastly different reasons if asked” spuffy 🥰🥰🥰

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one of the many insane things about fool for love is that they were like “how do we work a Spike Backstory episode into the main narrative” and what they came up with is “buffy needs to know more about her own history and identity and the only way for her to know more about herself is for him to tell her” like hmmmmmm HMMMMMMMMMMMM

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I love that in 2x22, after Buffy and Spike killed that vampire in front of Joyce, and Joyce asked what was going on, Buffy looked at Spike. The way we look at people when we don't know what to do, and want their silent thoughts, or to seek strength. Buffy had literally just formed an uneasy alliance with Spike less than an hour before, and yet when it came to whether or not to reveal her true self to her mother, to possibly change their entire relationship, Buffy still looked to Spike for advice or strength. It was like from the very get-go, she trusted him. She might not have consciously realized it, but she did.

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7x01 | 7x22

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Spuffy is great because it’s so predator/prey but working out who is actually the predator and who’s the prey will give you a headache

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as someone whos just recently finished buffy your blog is a breath of sorely needed fresh air its like opening a window on a spring day; ESPECIALLY after reading some terrible btvs takes at least i know in my heart i can just come here and be at peace with opinions that are correct and factual actually 😌

omg thank you !!

there’s a lot of bad (often weirdly misogynistic) takes in this fandom. especially stay away from buffy reddit lol. but spuffy spaces have a high degree of media literacy in my experience. spuffy actually helped me want to understand plots and characterization more deeply. it’s such a good story, so rich for analysis!

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I just realized that we've never actually seen Spike and Buffy hug. We've seen them kiss, we've seen them have sex. But never a hug. The closest was when they cuddled in 7x21.

Idk why that struck me so hard. I think it's just that there's something so loving and intimate about a hug. It indicates a fondness for the person you're hugging. I mean not always, sometimes people hug without feeling, but most of the time. Buffy hugged Riley and Angel. But never Spike. Not even when he got his soul back. There's something rather...sad about that to me. I'm not sure if "sad" is a good enough word. Maybe heartbreaking. So much love grew between them. I forever hate that Spike's response to Buffy's "I love you" was to say: "No, you don't. But thanks for saying it." Because I absolutely think she did. I guess I can see him reacting that way out of self-hatred, but it still bothers me. Maybe they thought it would be too cheesy for him to say it back, but I don't think so. He expressed his emotions for her in actions, and sometimes words, but when he was ensouled, he never once told her that he loved her(unless I'm forgetting something, which is possible but I doubt it given how many times I've watched that season). There could be many reasons for that. Perhaps his ensouled self couldn't bear to have her reject his love. Or he didn't want to subject her to his feelings. Or he felt like he didn't deserve her love, so there was no point in expressing his. Maybe he simply didn't want to make things awkward. Possibly it was a combination of some or all of those. I could be missing an option(feel free to weigh in).

Regardless of the reason, an ensouled Spike never told Buffy he loved her. So I think it would have been meaningful for him to say it back. And I'm sure James Marsters had the chops to manage to say it in a way entirely differently from the way soulless Spike said it. I think he could add an air of vulnerability to the words. A softness.

It just feels like a missed opportunity to me. I get why they(probably) didn't want to do it, but I think it could have worked.

ETA Spike actually did tell Buffy he loved her in 7x21. Though he said it within the context of a speech telling her how amazing she is, without an expectation of her saying that she loved him back. It was a simple statement, like saying the sky was blue. It felt totally different from the way he said it in seasons 5-6. Which was exactly what I spent this whole post saying I wanted lol.

I still would have preferred him to say that he loved her back.

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer | “Gone”

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sorryyyyyy but spike tossing a cigarette on the ground in front of buffy as a way of announcing his presence is so cute. sweet little microcosm of their relationship. he causes a bit of mayhem and she swiftly puts a stop to it. crushes the cigarette under her shoe. that's her job. and he knows that's what she's going to do. he knows what the outcome will be. but he tosses the cigarette anyway. mutual enrichment. he's just playing. and she understands and it makes her smile.

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BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER | 6.06