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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

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BtVS – Spuffy: The Long Way Home

Buffy:

You’re just convenient. (Wrecked)

It doesn’t change anything… but if you’re wildly curious, yeah, it hurts. (Hell’s Bells)

I have feelings for you. I do. (Seeing Red)

I—I feel for him. (Him)

‘Cause I’m not ready for you to not be here. (First Date)

But… he is in my heart. (Chosen)

I love you. (Chosen)

BtVS Season 8

Somehow, Buffy got the news Spike’s been back – and apparently she hasn’t liked a bit that he didn’t look for her. When they meet again a couple of years after his resurrection, she is very pissed at him:

But she has never forgotten Spike; she dreamed of him:

and as soon as they meet again, she fantasizes repeating their time together:

She did say she missed THAT sex earlier in the year:

BtVS Season 9

Spike, who had gone away with his ship, after the Twilight debacle, returnes to San Francisco and is warmly welcomed by Buffy:

And she keeps flirting with him…

When Buffy thinks she is pregnant and decides to have an abortion, she asks Spike to come and help her:

Until this point, Buffy thinks Spike doesn’t love her anymore – maybe because he didn’t look for her after his resurrection. When Detective Dowling tells her “that vampire’s love with you”, the Slayer is surprised and confronts Spike:

Spike tells her he won’t say “what everyone else already worked out”. He goes on saying he wants to be with Buffy, to have normal with her – but she isn’t ready yet. Anyway, she asks him to stay, in her not-so-direct-way to say things, without committing:

but Spike refuses to keep on “lurking around the edge” of her life and leaves.

BtVS Season 10

When Spike, still in love (but ready to move on) comes back to San Francisco and joins the Scoobies for good, he is happy to be friends with Buffy - till she decides that it’s time for them to be together again:

Later admitting, in her not-so-direct-way to say things again, that she is in love with Spike:

And reinforcing she wants to be with him:

Buffy even gives some thought about having a family with Spike:

All those years, Buffy had been lost. She tried a date with Principal Wood; she slept with Slayer Satsu (even not being gay); she hit on Xander (for whom she had never had any romantic feelings and who was dating her sister); she thought of starting a relationship with Detective Robert Dowling; she even tried a speed date to find a suitable partner for her!

But nothing fulfilled her. It has always been Spike for Buffy. Always. Her heart has finally found its way home.

BtVS Season 11

And Buffy’s committed – I commit. I’m committed. I’m a committee!

I LOVE YOU

The moment Buffy finally says the words – when everything is right, the enemy has been defeated, the family is reunited – Spike hears them with loving acceptance; he already knew she loves him: for years, Buffy’s actions have showed nothing but love towards Spike.

BtVS S8: The Long Way Home (Joss Whedon/Georges Jeanty)

BtVS S8: Last Gleaming (Joss Whedon-Scott Allie/Georges Jeanty)

BtVS S9: Magic Mistery Tour (Jeane Espenson/Georges Jeanty)

BtVS S9: Freefall (Joss Whedon-Andrew Chambliss/Georges Jeanty)

BtVS S9: On Your Own (Andrew Chambliss/Georges Jeanty)

BtVS S10: In Pieces on the Ground Part Three (Christos Gage/Megan Levens)

BtVS S10: Love Dares You (Christos Gage/Megan Levens)

BtVS S10: Relationship Status: Complicated (Christos Gage/Rebekah Isaacs)

BtVS S10: Own It: Taking Ownership (Christos Gage/Rebekah Isaacs)

BtVS S11 #7 - Disempowered (Christos Gage/Rebeka Isaacs)

BtVS S11 #12 - One Girl in All the World (Christos Gage/Rebeka Isaacs)

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making that vid reminded me spike tries to kiss buffy in fool for love and buffy is walking around crush acting dumb with that knowledge in her head lol

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—sue zhao

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the thing i just don't get about the whole "buffy should be alone" thing is that her most consistent internal struggle throughout the show is a sense of perpetual loneliness due to her position as the slayer. like, her being 16 and forced into duty that she's not able to step away from. and when the show transitions from being about growing up to living in adulthood, the biggest thing that stays with her is this sense of perpetual loneliness.

and the way that "a woman should not be defined by the men she's involved with" associates to "women aren't deserving of support systems" is so,,, fucked up. that faux-feminist idea that women having independence is more important than women being involved in community (and the way the scoobies, including spike, initially form such a "it takes a village" approach to raising dawn) does such a disservice to what i feel the strengths of the show are.

and come ON! buffy holds her own both narratively and in the story of the show. she's never a character who's traits are changed or defined based on who surrounds her. while i certainly have criticisms of the writing of the show, buffy is such a consistently well-drawn character. but she is affected by the people in her life at any given moment. in the way any good character should be.

anyways let my girl be happy with a man who's able to see her in both her loneliness and her joy.

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Did you bruise the boy?

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SPIKE in “Dirty Girls”