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the inherent comedy of btvs starting with a vampire who angsts constantly about being a vampire and turns not being able to be in the sun with Buffy into a whole big mopey thing and then a couple years later having another vampire date Buffy except he doesn't give a fuck at all about those things lmaoooo. The sun? no problem, he just throws a ratty blanket over his head and runs when he's out during the day. Zero angst about this from him, he makes do. The mortal/immortal thing never even crossed his mind as a problem, they'll cross that bridge when they get to it. Can't have kids? Why would he worry about giving something to Buffy that she never showed any interest in?

Spike is so funny, it never even occurred to him to angst about being in a vampire/human relationship, he literally doesn't care at all. I love him.

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People straight up posting Buffy Summers hate in the Buffy tag... why are you even watching the show or talking about it then

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do you guys ever think about that time in season 3 when buffy had to talk to the school counselor and he was played by mr. moseby and at first she was all dismissive of it but then he actually got through to her so she went back to his office and admitted that she was scared and actually asked for help but it turned out that she was talking to mr. moseby's dead body and then for the rest of the show she never asked anybody for help ever again? because I think about it every day

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Watching Spike at Buffy's party in Older and Far Away and thinking about when characters act all nympho because it's easier to act like you just want sex instead of love or attention. Spike's skulking about and pestering her like he's desperate for a quick shag under the stairs and like I'm sure he genuinely is lol and wants a shot of the electric back massager BUT I think bigger picture he'd just looove her to like acknowledge their situation even in the shadowy vicinity of others. Like it'd make it so much more real for him. Sneaking around is hot and all but I feel like he's also playing up sex crazed machismo in this ep because he wants to matter and get attention and properly exist in her life. He does this in general in s6 of course to get intimacy and I think that's also interesting in terms of how things sadly culminate in this season

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rewatching Buffy is funny because in 'School Hard' they're all "William the Bloody" and "railroad spikes" this and "Once he starts something he doesn't stop" that and you can't believe you ever fell for that mysterious villain set up because that's literally mr puppy eyes himself like what do you mean he's worse than anything she's ever faced? This is the man who complains about his nails being wet and gets nervous about being out for a walk, bitch

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spike fell first, denied it, fell again, and then fell harder all while buffy was pining over mr. broody and i think that's beautiful for them

you know the powers were shaking their heads at these idiots

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it's so funny that one of the things that propelled Riley's jerk arc was his friend Graham saying "You used to have a mission, and now you're what? The mission's boyfriend? Mission's true love?"

If someone said that to Spike he'd be like "Well yeah. What better mission is there?"

Also funny that right after that scene we cut to Spike having his first dream about being in love with Buffy

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25 years ago btvs said ‘this is what buffy and spike look like madly in love with each other’ and then expected people to be normal about it

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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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spike and buffy are so funny because they were bespelled to get married like a week into a shaky allyship and BOTH OF THEM decided this means they must be insanely horny and desperately infatuated with each other and spent all day making out and cooing at each other. And then after the spell was over, they mutually and separately decided to Never Ever Acknowledge That It Happened Ever Again. Repression couple goals.

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"For mature audiences" not as in "legally allowed to see a boob" but "can see a fictional character do a bad thing and not immediately go on a crusade against the author"

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of course Buffy thinks this is normal, she's in season 5 like "yeah you're an evil soulless vampire nuisance who almost got my boyfriend killed trying to remove the literal only thing that keeps you from being actually dangerous but i will do nothing in retaliation for this. if i wanted to be dating someone super-powered, i'd be dating you btw. No i WILL not analyze why dating you is a thing i have thought about before, shut up. oh, you're in love with me? Okay, NOW you're banned from my house. All the attempted murder and break-ins were fine, being in love with me is where i draw the line actually."

no wonder they were so unhinged when they started banging officially. Two extremely normal people.

spike thinking buffy should break up with angel in lovers walk is SO funny to me because he didnt even realize he was in love with buffy at the time he was actually just going around like "your boyfriend kind of blows and you could definitely do better. not that i CARE because i dont. in fact, i hope you DIE. in fact, i hope i KILL YOU. in fact, the only thing i want MORE than to kill you is to see you BREAK UP with your loser boyfriend whom i hate and to get back together with my girlfriend who DUMPED ME specifically because i am so entirely OBSESSED with you. this is normal btw"

and buffy thought this was normal, also.

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The best characters are worshipped by half the fandom, with intricate, in character fanons that explore their depth, and countless fics written all about them, while simultaneously being hated by the other half of the fandom like they regularly kick puppies and you are the devil for liking them 💜

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evil chaotic wifeguy was such an inspired archetype combo, thank you mr William Spike Pratt for being such a trailblazer <3