#Buffy The Vampire Slayer

[buffysummers]

Buffy the Vampire Slayer | 2.01 - “When She Was Bad”

[sexmcsex]

buffy summers is the best version of came back wrong

I love the "came back wrong" trope but from the opposite side.

Imagine you are dead. And then you are RIPPED from the embrace of decay into the world of the living again. Your memories are hazy and you don't recognize any of these people, but they act like they're close to you? Like they love you? So you try to get your memories back, to act like you belong here, but everybody tries to forget you died. And you can't. It is omnipresent. And just trying to grapple with that fact pushes the people who "love" you away, and they're incapable of understanding, and they're so confused, what's wrong N̶̄̀O̶͛͗T̷̉́ ̷͋͝Y̴̎̌Ȍ̴̈U̸̓R NÄM̴̃͑E̵̾̇? And you just need them to understand, you aren't that person! You aren't! You don't know who that person is! You don't know why any of this is happening, but they're unwilling to bend, they keep insisting you are that person, your memories will come back, everything will be normal again, and you want to scream and cry and claw yourself open to show them you're different. Your existence as a being wholly separate from whoever you "used to be" is a sin unto itself. All you can do is scrabble for life and to them, you're killing whoever they loved to do it.

just. lots of fun in that concept, you know?

[slayerbuffy]

Buffy the Vampire Slayer 5.01 | "Buffy vs. Dracula"

[dailybuffysummers]

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER (1997-2003) “I, Robot… You, Jane”

[literarylesbo]

[do-androids-dream-ao3acc]

Since I'm probably the only straight person on Tumblr, I feel obligated to contribute. Sooooo the very best hetero ships! (Yes, not only MY favorites, these are the best, fight me)

Okay, FUCKERS, it’s time to expose yourselves for the FILTHY SINNERS you are and put your favorite hetero ship in the tags!!

[ruthey97]

[likeafantasy]

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER      (2x10) ᴡʜᴀᴛ'ꜱ ᴍʏ ʟɪɴᴇ? (ᴘᴀʀᴛ 2)

[innit1]

Your honour they’re just my silly little guys neither of them did any murder at all

[keplercryptids]

[GIF description: GIFs from the episode "Family" of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, inside the Magic Box. Buffy says, "You want Tara, Mr. Maclay? You can go ahead and take her." She turns, saying, "You just gotta go through me." Dawn pipes up, "And me!" Mr. Maclay asks, "Is this a joke? I'm not gonna be threatened by two little girls." Giles steps behind Dawn and Buffy, putting on his glasses and saying, "You're not just dealing with two little girls." Xander, standing next to Anya, says, "You're dealing with all of us." Spike interjects, "Except me." Xander says, "Except Spike." Spike says, "I don't care what happens."]

[mj-the-bloody]

“What can I tell you ? I’ve always been bad” and this was him with silly little poems and silly little glasses and a lot of love for his mother 🤏

[howdy-nyalll]

Why does this little cowboy look like Spike from Buffy?

[lesparapluies]

Forgive me, but I HAVE to let it out on here because there's no other place than Tumblr, where anyone would ever understand how my mind and body reacts to this kind of situation (being obsessed with fictional characters and their romantic relationship). I'm letting it all out, because I haven't been this crazy about a fictional character since the death of Sybil Branson in 2012. It's safe to say BtVS is making me INSANE. I still have season 7 to watch and don't worry, I don't care about spoilers usually so I already know how it's going to end. But I also can't watch it yet; I need to take a serious break for the sake of my health... However, I need to write my heart out, like NOW. I don't care if my analysis is not aligned with canon knowledge. These are mere feelings, and I also happily block out every cruelly written stupid scene that isn't in line with this beautiful ship(wreck).

Why can't we just preach it from the rooftops that Buffy is in love with Spike, even and especially in season 6. She doesn't believe he's able to feel true love towards anyone, which is why she would never admit hers, not even to herself. She's also traumatized by her previous romantic endeavour with a vamp, who happened to go completely nuts because of loving her. That fucks a girl up, I tell you. Plus the whole "I tasted sweet death and now I'm full of impenetrable (almost; pun intended) cosmic melancholia" affects her behaviour, obviously. Spike is the only one who understands her Thanatos (psychoanalysis babes back me up). Spike is the only one who she can be brutally wild, carnal and insanely strong with without hurting him or breaking his bones. And he can be like that with her. She can be fully herself with him, all sides, dark and violent included, something she perhaps couldn't safely be with her latest, human boyfriend. It terrifies Buffy to have these feelings of lust and affection towards something soulless, which is why she sees her sexual behaviour as reckless and self destructive. And there is a disruptive aspect to it, sure - him being a bloodthirsty vampire and all - but she continually seeks him out from pure desire. Emphasis on pure, something Buffy thinks a soulless being could never be. Ironically, their dark, feral bond happens to be just that: pure as what it is. A revelation, as Spike said. They have much deeper connection than only a sexual attraction. It's primal yearning. It's love in its deepest, scariest depth. Like death itself, but a little one.

[dutifullynuttywitch]

Rewatching Buffy the Vampire Slayer and this gets me every. time.

I've always felt Spike's redemption arc is one of the more compelling narratives in the series. A ruthless and charismatic villain, he's forced to ally with Buffy to defeat common enemies. Still a selfish, soulless demon, he develops feelings of lust, then comes to genuinely care for her, Joyce and Dawn. Seeing the pain he causes Buffy drives him to seek a soul, believing it's the only way he can become worthy of her. And then full circle as he sacrifices himself to save the world.

Doesn't hurt that James Marsters did such a bang up job portraying Spike!

[laufeysons]

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER REWATCH -> Becoming pt. 2 (2.22)