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the urge to leave a comment on that tiktok like “if you profit off of fandom then you don’t get to shit on the fanfiction and ideas of others that you literally use to make that profit,” but instead i hit the block button bc i am liberal about protecting my peace these days 🧘

and i know the comment will just get deleted anyway

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save me butch lesbian spike save me

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i like how many queer allegories there are in buffy. for example monster hunting is like being gay, doing magic is like being gay and *checks notes* dating spike is like being gay.

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the buffyspikedru post canon throuple that exists to me......

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if u think fanfiction is devoid of value as a literary genre, than i think it should be illegal for you to make content from it actually. if you think only classical literature is capable of adding to your view of the world than I think u should cosplay as Adam Beede actually. Or Lemuel Gulliver. Or Mr. John Jarndyce. if u see this content as beneath you intellectually, if you cannot understand the ways that classical European literature is incredibly limited both in the topics it covers and what it is doing with its prose and structure (i am not suggesting it is valueless i am suggesting it is limited as everything is and that it does not encompass the be all and end all of how and what stories can be told) and the ways in which fanfiction is often uniquely expanding and evolving both those things because this space is not subject to the censorship and economic motives of industry, because this space opens up the opportunity to create to people who do not have that opportunity elsewhere, than i think you, oh great enlightened one, have failed to grasp the complexities of both genres.

like listen, on the real, u dont have to read fanfiction and u don’t have to like fanfiction, but just say that. just say it instead of hiding behind your pseudo-intellectual-holier-than-thou-I only read the classics bullshit

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The way most of Glory's brain-sucked victims seemed disturbed by Dawn's presence but Tara's reaction to noticing her true form was just to say how beautiful it was

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I love all of my children equally. Buffy, Willow, Tara, Cordelia, Spike, Angel, Dawn and... *checks smudged writing on hand* Xanax.

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Yeah that episode kinda rocked the whole foundation of the show like an earthquake ngl.

Because Buffy’s been killing all these fledgling vampires indiscriminately for so long.

It would just be too painful for her to stop and examine what exactly it would mean, if she had been wrong about the whole ‘soulless vampire = evil killer’ thing all along.

Perhaps that’s why she tries so hard to deny Spike’s moral greyness and (at times) his goodness even without a soul. And why she hates herself so much for being with him.

Because if she were to accept that soulless vampires weren’t evil and violent by nature, then what has she been doing all this time?

Maybe that’s why it was easier and simpler for her to admit her love for Spike once he had a soul.

Because then she wouldn’t have to recognise that maybe… just maybe, the council hadn’t been entirely truthful with her all those years ago…

Buffy's whole thing is that it's okay to kill vampires as they're crawling out of their graves, before they've even expressed an interest in doing anything bad, because a soulless vampire will instinctively try to kill people

But in Tabula Rasa they never found out that Randy had a chip in his head because amnesia!Spike didn't try to kill any of the humans

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“we need more evil female characters” you guys cant even handle a traumatized teenage girl making a mistake

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if you like a piece of media that is good eventually youll more or less run out of things to say about how good it is but if you like a piece of media that is objectively pretty mediocre but also somehow deeply compelling thats how the demons get you

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If something has you unhinged and creative hold on to it

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me if you even care

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Seeing Buffy getting the class protector award at Prom is healing something in me 😭

Something something finding out just how appreciated you were the whole time.

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Tbh the problem with ship wars is that everyone tries to find a moral high ground to prove their ship is superior when actually shipping should be about making two characters kiss like a kid playing with barbie dolls

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“Think of it like… the world doesn’t like you getting something for free, and we asked for this huge gift…”

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My favourite Englishmen. Any scene with the both of them is gold

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Dare I say the shared trauma of clawing one’s way out of a coffin between Buffy and Spike?…

SPIKE: Her hands.

Buffy lowers her hands, puts them behind her back, looks uncomfortable.

DAWN: Um, I was gonna fix 'em. I don't know how they got like that.

SPIKE: I do. Clawed her way out of a coffin, that's how. (to Buffy) Isn't that right?

BUFFY: (quietly) Yeah. That's ... what I had to do.

SPIKE: Done it myself.

Throughout this, Spike continues staring at her as if he thinks he's dreaming. Now he snaps out of it.

SPIKE: Um ... We'll take care of you. Come here.

He puts out his arm and guides Buffy into the living room.

SPIKE: (to Dawn) Get some stuff, uh, mercurochrome, bandages.

DAWN: Okay.

Dawn goes off. Spike follows Buffy into the living room. She sits on the sofa and he sits on the coffee-table facing her. He takes her hands in his and looks at them. Then he looks up at her face and their eyes meet.

oh my favorite trope? two people who go through something so unique and agonizing and entirely beyond words that they have no choice but to create a bond that transcends all other types of love, thus acting as the sole point of understanding for the other person in a world that cannot fathom what they’ve been through