#Spuffy earrings

[thegothicalice]

Comfy cold weather wear 🥀 “Once More With Feeling” earrings painted by me, everything else thrifted.

[thepunkmuppet]

i am once again thinking about a buffy and spike body swap episode.

SOMEONE PLEASE DROP FIC RECS IN THE NOTES HELP A GUY OUT I DON’T READ SMUT BTW I JUST NEED THIS SO BAD

[livinginsunnyhell]

yep!! she did it again in "gone" :)

Lol it took me a moment to realize what you were talking about but I love that you pointed it out! She did do it in “gone!” And I love the call back. I have to do a rewatch.

[marilyn-not-monroe]

Spuffy Realizations: Seasons 2-4

A huge reason that I love Buffy and Spike together so much is that nearly every episode has one or both of them realizing something that draws them closer to having a relationship with each other. I noticed while making this that Spike had the most revelations that he's falling for Buffy in Seasons 2-4, and Buffy starts noticing things in Seasons 5-7.

02/03- Spike realizes that Buffy’s different from any other Slayer.

02/06- Spike realizes that Buffy looks really good as a brunette.

02/07- Buffy realizes that she’ll let Spike eat her betrayer, as a treat.

02/10- Spike realizes that Buffy is the gnat in his ear, the gristle in his teeth, the bloody thorn in his bloody side.

02/11- Spike and Buffy realize they’d rather be fighting each other.

02/14- Spike realizes that the only way to kill Buffy is to love her.

02/17- Spike realizes that going after Buffy’s friends only results in a brassed-off Slayer, not a weakened Slayer.

02/21- Spike realizes he can’t wait to tell his friends (Buffy) that he has a big rock. See this post by @disco-tea

02/22- Spike realizes that he’d like to partner up with Buffy to take down Angel. Buffy realizes that the enemy of her enemy is your friend is all she’s got.

03/08- Buffy and Spike realize they have fun fighting side by side. See this post by @l0veisntbrains

04/03- Spike realizes he’s inexplicably attracted to blondes now.

04/07- Spike realizes that he holds Buffy in extremely high regard.

04/08- Spike realizes that Buffy is a person he can turn to when he’s in need (again).

04/09- Spike realizes that marrying Buffy will make him the happiest man on Earth. Buffy realizes that maybe they fought because they couldn’t admit how they really felt about each other. See this post by @raisedbythetv89

04/10- Buffy realizes it’s nearly impossible to have a loving and honest romantic relationship with a normal guy.

04/11- Buffy realizes she would like a partner who can hold his own in a fight and support her.

04/12- Spike realizes he would have liked a proper sendoff from Buffy.

04/13- Buffy realizes that she really enjoys having sex right after fighting.

04/14- Spike realizes that Buffy has tragic taste in men which definitely doesn’t peak his interest.

04/15- Spike realizes that he has no interest in any Slayer that isn’t Buffy.

04/16- Spike realizes that he really likes Buffy getting in his personal space and describing what she could do to him.

04/17- Spike realizes that he would really like some alone time with Betty to face her one-on-one. Buffy realizes she doesn’t like Spike treating her like she’s not a threat.

04/18- Spike realizes he cares about Buffy’s wellbeing enough that he considers helping to rescue her (for a few seconds).

04/19- Buffy realizes she has a nuanced view of good and evil, and she doesn’t like people who see in black and white.

04/20- Spike realizes he doesn’t have a valid reason anymore for not killing Buffy. See this post.

04/21- Spike realizes he doesn’t want to get staked by Buffy or leave town because he’s in love with her just because, so he better make things right with her in the only way she’ll consider valid: saving her friends.

[kaizsche]

tonight i can write (preview)

note: so... another WIP gets added to the list days after i posted a snippet of mystified ch2... thing was... i was supposed to write that fic but my american lit professor sent a neruda poem we can work on for finals and i just snapped and re-read it again like 4 hours ago and here is the product of my neruda obsession (i'm blaming spike and spuffy authors for this)

inspired by pablo neruda's tonight i can write

He lifted her closer in his embrace and whispered lines of poetry in her ear. The words depicted her fortitude and compassion. His prose sang praises of her victories, big and small.

She loved me, sometimes I loved her too. How could one not have loved her great still eyes.

Until he had gone out of words. Until he felt the last embers of her warmth seep away. Elijah could no longer find the words. He simply held her and instead hummed a lost song to occupy the silence. It was an ancient song to lull the children into sleep. Henrik had requested it of him the night before he was found dead, torn up by wolves. Elijah barely remembered the words now, having not spoken the ancient language in many years. He hoped Henrik would find it in himself to sing it to her.

Tonight I can write the saddest lines. To think that I do not have her. To feel that I have lost her. To hear the immense night, still more immense without her. And the verse falls to the soul like dew to the pasture.

[wanna-get-that-spike]

“I thought you liked nature, dad.” Her hands had finally left the damn pocket as she pushed some hair behind her ear, and she seemed to relax more the further they got into their hike. “You've always brought me outside.” And he really had.

“I love it, because I'm with you guys.” Both Ziva and Tali had always loved the outdoors, so he'd learned to love it with them. And he'd happily take a thousand bug bites if it meant watching his baby make snow angles all day or learn to kayak or jump around in giant piles of fallen leaves.

As if to prove his point, he pulled Tali in for a quick kiss on her cheek as he passed her on the trail.

“It is true. He would not be caught dead out here by himself.” Hell no. His girls was the only thing that could drag him out to places like these. Well, that and a large enough sum of money. And crime scenes.

“Because it's dangerous out here.”

“More dangerous than the city?” Tali actually seemed confused.

“Of course, Motek. We could meet a spider.” He glared at Ziva, but she simply shrugged.

“Or a grizzly bear.” She rolled her eyes, and Tali snickered.

“There are no grizzlies in Virginia, dad. Only black bears.” As if that was any better. He'd heard that they were more likely to attack, anyways.

“And even if there were, they'd have heard your dad coming from miles away and hide.”

“Well that's why I brought you, Ziva. One stare from you and they'd run off in the opposite direction.” That finally made her stop and turn back towards them, but he hadn't expected her smirk.

“Well I am not worried, cause I have this.” She pulled a sharp, shiny knife out of seemingly nowhere and twirled it expertly between her fingers, before giving it a fond look. “As well as the other three, smaller ones, of course.” Why didn't it surprise him that she'd brought four knives with her on a hike?

“Well California might have Buffy the vampire slayer, but D.C. apparently has Ziva the bear-slicer.” She gave him one of those adorably confused looks, as if he had been the one to mess up the English language.

“I do not think I know this Spuffy person, but if she slays things, I'm sure I'd like her.” She turned around with a shrug of her shoulders, still looking slightly perplexed. “And I do not believe I have killed a vampire yet.” Tali chuckled next to him, and Tony could only roll his eyes.

“Crazy ninja chick.” He shook his head as she pocketed the knife, and Tali bumped his shoulder with her own.

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Since Cote and Michael talked about bears (and the fear of meeting them) on today's episode of Off Duty 😂

Read the whole thing on AO3

[dykemarcille]

someone at this con is selling bangel earrings spuffy earrings and willowtara earrings but NO fuffy earrings 😤

smh toxic yuri has no appreciable place in society, does it

[sunnydaleherald]

The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Friday, April 26

WOMAN: (holds out her hands, Buffy hands over the scythe) You pulled it out of the rock. I was one of those who put it in there. BUFFY: What is it? WOMAN: (admires the scythe) A weapon. A scythe. Forged in secrecy for one like you who - I'm sorry. What's your name? BUFFY: Buffy. WOMAN: No, really. (Buffy shrugs in response.)

~~End of Days~~

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[lilacsandorangeblossoms]

Graveyard

Thank you to @silvermars for inspiring this one shot. Her tag on a Halloween spuffy gif is what inspired this: “The way she just pulled to him like in a trance. Even though he’s leaving and they’ve said goodbye she can’t help but turn to him. Follow him. Because she WANTS to be with him. She wants to go WITH HIM.”

Tagging @karinanic

“Good fight.”

Spike nods to Buffy as he leaves her house. She watches him leave and feels her body start to go after him. She would have followed him, her body was following him. She only stopped because Willow spoke from behind her. “So big monster bashing sorry we missed it.”

She couldn’t even bring herself to punish Dawn she had Giles do it. She just couldn’t be near the front door anymore. She knew if she spent anymore time near it she would follow her body and be leaving.

Buffy quickly ran up the stairs trying to escape the thoughts running through her head and the front door.

Later that night Buffy Is trying to fall asleep, but she can’t she is tossing and turning not getting any sleep. Both parts of her the girl and the slayer are fighting each other. After what feels like hours Buffy gets out of bed and slips her jeans and the pink lace Cami she had on earlier maybe if she did a late night sweep it would tire her out. Slaying usually does.

She enters Renfield cemetery and looking for any possible vampire or demon, nothing. Nothing in the last two cemeteries either. She looks up at the sky. “The forces of darkness can’t give me one vampire.” She quietly says as she passes another grave. “That’s all I ask.”

Without even realizing it her feet led her to the all too familiar crypt that she was in earlier tonight; spikes crypt.

Xxx

Spike returning home got himself some blood and decided to go downstairs, he was going to read some poetry maybe write some if he was in the mood.

He’s laying on his bed shirtless in just his jeans when he hears the door above open. He quickly shuts the book and puts it back on his bookcase. He hears footsteps above and can hear a heartbeat. Before he even has time to cross the lower half of his crypt, he sees his late night intruder.

“Buffy? What are you doing here?”

She looks around his bedroom, last time she was here she didn’t have that good of a view she was chained up and he told her he loves her. Since then he got a four poster bed, a bookcase, laid down many Persian rugs so the floor is not the cold ground.

“You’re right it is posh down here.”

He lets out a little smile she remembered a couple weeks ago when he told her that right after she came back and he found her in his crypt just like tonight.

He doesn’t say anything doesn’t want to ruin the moment or bring her back to her senses that she’s in his bedroom. He watches as she takes off her shoes and makes her way to his black satin sheets.

Buffy curls up on his bed she looks so small, after a couple moments looks up at the speechless vampire. Her broken and exhausted eyes look up into his speechless eyes.

“Can you just lay here with me.”

He nods and lays on his side of the bed. They both are facing each other it’s quiet for a couple minutes then she says. “I’m sorry you missed the great pumpkin.”

He chuckles and she lets out a little smile as he reaches out and tucks apiece of hair behind her ear and cups her cheek. “It’s fine luv there’s always next year, maybe you can watch it with me next year.”

She nods as she moves closer to him, her head is snuggled into the crook of his neck and her body is melding into his.

Spike gulps he can not believe his night. He doesn’t understand how his night went from just going to watch the great pumpkin to helping find dawn and kill some vampires to now he is cuddling with the slayer. The women he loves sought him out, and asked him to lay down with her. More shockingly she snuggled into him. Spike would punch himself to make sure he’s not dreaming but if he is he never wants to wake up. He can smell her shampoo commercial hair. This is the best Halloween he has ever had.

Buffy reaches out to his other hand and takes it placing it on her hip so he is holding her as she sleeps. He leans down and kisses the top of her head. She snuggles more into him.

There is no way he is sleeping tonight he is going to cherish this moment forever. Buffy finally falls asleep she feels safe and comfortable. She feels at home in his arms being surrounded by his scent and him.

[tuiyla]

Congrats on finishing season 6! I’d like to ask, what are your thoughts on Spuffy this season? I know Seeing Red can make it difficult, so totally chill if you don’t wanna, but I find their dynamic fascinating and I’d love to hear your thoughts.

I'm actually so sad that I finished season 6 haha but oh well.

The good part of Seeing Red is that it's at the very end and Spuffy's last interaction for the season so I can talk about everything else and then touch on it.

We were off to a good start with episode 3 and Buffy only finding it in herself to confide in Spike. I think it's so layered that she did so, including but not limited to Spike's lyrics in Once More, With Feeling: a whisper in a dead man's ear. In that sense, Buffy starts "using" Spike at the very start. She can't bring herself to confess to her friends but Spike, Spike is... there. And willing to listen and actually understands far more than Buffy thinks others would. (Side note and not a Spuffy one, but damn I thought Buffy and Willow would have more of a confrontation about the whole ripped-from-heaven thing post 6x07. Oh well.) By confiding in Spike, Buffy, perhaps inadvertently, forms a bond with him straight after returning to the land of the living.

I see 6x07 and after that as the next step of this. The songs do a wonderful job of conveying Buffy's depression and her need to just, feel. Doesn't matter what. And it's pretty clear that kissing Spike is more to do with her own feelings of depression than it is with him, at first anyway. Fascinating that Buffy knows, not so deep down, that she's using Spike but him being a special situation of a vampire without a soul she sort of lets herself get away with it. Buffy is usually the person being used, even when it's as innocuous as being everyone's hero. It's still a form of being an instrument to others.

The next stage, one I have the most icky feelings about up until Seeing Red happens is when Spike realizes Buffy "came back wrong". Which she didn't, as Tara reveals to us and Buffy, but Spike delights at the thought. Not only does it make them equal once again in terms of throwing punches but, in his eyes, it brings Buffy down to his level. His insistence that she's some sort of demon now, too, is wrong of course but it also betrays just how desperately Spike wants them to be equals. He resented being called beneath her and now he gets to, in a way, bring Buffy down to his level. Which I find extra insidious when you consider that it wasn't just Buffy trying to alienate Spike by degrading him, it was Spike putting Buffy on a pedestal and blaming her for it. So it's a messy dynamic for sure, but like you said in the notes of that other post it's meant to be. Spuffy is dysfunctional (in season 6), yes, but I appreciate the intentionality behind it. I think it's quite repulsive that Spike is so desperate to make Buffy believe she's lesser than she was and that she needs to come live in the shadows with him, but it makes sense for the character and provides interesting drama for Buffy.

After all these years of UST I figured they would go for it but I was surprised to see just how explicitly sexual season 6 was. Not just through the Spuffy kinky sexcapades, though mostly that, but also with Willow and Tara being allowed much, much more than before. Which was lovely to see and wild to think that this was back in 2001/2002. And with Spuffy, it wasn't just what the camera showed and suggested but the graphic language used. Again, it fits, and if they just danced around the topic it would have made no sense and lessened the impact of the storyline. I suppose it's just strange to compare it to the, no pun intended, innocence of Bangel. Even curse aside, it was such a wildly different dynamic. I bring the sexuality of it all up because, as I mentioned when you asked about 5x07 violence and sex really do have such a thin line between them with Spike. And I do think it got a bit too much during their first sex scene, because there's only so much you can do in conflating the two before it becomes, sigh, hate the word but problematic. I'll circle back to this when I get around to talking about, sigh, Seeing Red.

Anyway, I think that thought process would lead me down quite the side tangent. So what I will say about the on and off sexcapades of Spuffy during midseason is that I've already seen arguments on just how bad it was for Buffy to be using him but to me it just reads as a mutually destructive thing. Yes, Buffy was using Spike despite knowing, if not wanting to believe that he had genuine feelings. Yes, even after she realized she too had feelings she denied and deflected and degraded. But like I say, I don't see that as any worse than Spike whispering in her ear about being demon-like, about being something that can't be around her friends anymore. More than the thin line between sex and violence and the using of each other physically, this is what's truly messed up about them in season 6. Buffy keeps hitting him the heart with all but an actual stake and Spike keeps fuelling her worst fears.

On a storytelling level, I think it's really interesting and overall executed well. I don't think the presentation of the text ever shies away from how messed up it is. The one thing I've seen backlash for in terms of how it was/was not acknowledged in the text is Buffy's invisibility stunt and the whole pinning Spike to a wall and unbuttoning his shirt before he realizes it's her. I don't know if it's even worth discussing, honestly, but I will say that I find one on one comparisons of that scene with Seeing Red to be wholly disingenuous. I do think it was a bit of a double standard portrayal and the rest of the season is quite good at acknowledging Buffy's treatment of Spike as iffy, but this scene isn't nearly the same.

Alright, let me think if there's anything else in the leadup to 6x19. Oh yes, the whole "tell your friends!! fine I'll tell your friends!!!" thing and Spike sleeping with Anya. Eh. Compared to their earlier drama I didn't find this stage nearly as compelling. Spike is pissed and petty. Rip to me I might just be different but I don't find him sleeping with Anya that big an offense. Sure, it was a dick against Buffy but it's not like Buffy's hurt really has a leg to stand on after she's made it clear that she wants them to be over. And Spike didn't do it out of malice, so I don't blame him much for this. As for telling Xander about them and the cat being out of the bag, it was again not something I can really hold against Spike. I'm not saying my conclusion of this portion of their arc is "wow Buffy was a bitch, poor Spike!" but, if not for Seeing Red, I'd think most of Spike's pov is justified. Keeping in mind that him wanting to gaslight Buffy into thinking she was a demon was still appalling.

And then, okay, Seeing Red. I accidentally spoiled this for myself when browsing on TVTropes, or at least a Spuffy assault scene happening and I'm glad I was mentally prepared cause god, that was a lot. I think I'll be able to say more conclusive thoughts once I see season 7 and see how they handle the aftermath. For now, I'll say that I don't think it's impossible for Spike to come back from this but he'll need to work harder than "just" going through the Demon Trials and getting that soul. I like that it broke the pedestal Dawn had him on. In terms of Spuffy, god.

It does make things marginally better that he seemed like he genuinely was just not thinking and got carried away. I already hate anyone who justifies it by saying Buffy had "trained" him not to take no for an answer and to be rough, though. Because assault is assault. And there were other Spuffy sexy times where Buffy did say no and nevertheless, they ended up having sex, and not saying that's not sus. But Buffy screaming and crying and begging is surely different. Damn, SMG acted her heart out with that.

The fact of the matter is, Seeing Red was a natural conclusion to their destructive dynamic this season. I'm not saying it was inevitable and if I'm correct many (including James Marsters?) hate that it happened. But I don't think it was out of character, as such. Really, a lot depends on how it will be handled. Spike now with a soul better feel damn guilty about the thing and I would hope that this makes him reconsider the whole sex+violence=love thing. But I also hope Buffy takes longer than a second to forgive. This was a traumatic experience no matter how we spin it and I want justice for Buffy as a character in that sense. I don't think this marked a point of no return for them at all, but since BtVS hasn't had the greatest track record with sexual violence I think this is their chance to get it right. Ah well, we'll see.

I'm sure their whole season 6 deal and particularly Seeing Red is quite polarizing. I'd actually be super interested if there were discussion threads or old forum posts, whatever, floating around about Seeing Red specifically. Even if they're not spoiler-free in terms of season 7 I'd love to save them and go back when I can.

Alright, I'm not sure I could offer much or anything novel but the bottom line is that yeah, I find them fascinating too. The relationship works very well with the season's themes and characters' arcs and while I can't comfortably say I support what they have this season, it is interesting drama.

[thegothicalice]

Summer fae 💐 Overlay piece by Nuit Clothing Atelier, skirt from a local antique mall, belt from Creations by Magi, shoes are Docs, hair clips and Spike & Buffy earrings by me.

[illek00]

bangel shipper: spike doesn't actually love buffy he's just obsessed with her

me, spuffy ride or die, an intellectual: *leans in close* *whispers in ear*: the two things aren't mutually exclusive

[raisedbythetv89]

This is the MOST narcissistic gaslighty bullshit I have EVER SEEN 😭😭😭😭 omg had the biggest tantrum EVER, punishes, james, punishes spuffy, punishes the audience for loving spike and spuffy and then at the end when it’s the most compelling story, her best relationship, spike is so popular he saves the angel series and gets him another season, and he felt he’d punished everyone enough with him forcing the events of seeing red he’s like *tucks hair behind ear trying to come off as soooooo different and distinguished* being like “yeah I don’t really care if they’re not popular it’s like such a compelling story, practically Shakespearian, I’m just sooooo talented and interesting and just like REALLY care about my art instead of what’s popular.”

BE SO SERIOUS OH MY GODDD he only KEPT Spike because he was popular!!! And he was so furious about it!!!!!! Like truly I cannot tell you how on brand this is for a narcissist that will kick and scream and lash out the whole way yet after the fact will be like yeah I was TOTALLY on board and in the know about how great this was from day one 😌 cuz I’m just so smart and talented and I know everything and I don’t care about anyone else’s opinion.

Like truly just creators of their own false realities in order to uphold their delusions of grandeur.

Also the way he has this COMPLETELY backwards bangel was for him and it aged HORRIBLY because it came from his mind and his mind alone. Spuffy is literally for the ages, it’s the reason for the fandom’s longevity and their relationship holds up so well 25 years later because Jane was the biggest and original spuffy shipper.

“I’m a Buffy/Spike shipper,” says Whedon. “I always felt like he was a more evolved person, but that’s like saying Juliet’s going to be so happy with Benvolio and everyone will love it. Buffy/Angel is for the ages; Buffy/Spike is maybe for me."

Can never decide what's funnier about this quote. Whedon inventing some kind of reality where Spuffy isn't popular in order to justify all the ways he's fucked them over (he did it for the FANS, you guys!), or him using BENVOLIO as his Spike equivalent when Mercutio is RIGHT THERE and clearly such a better fit.

Of course, Mercutio is basically universally acknowledged as the most interesting character in R&J, so one can see why he wouldn't want to invite that comparison.

[takaraphoenix]

The venn diagram of people who for whatever reason think that BTVS should have ended after Season 5 and the people who call S6 and 7 “Spuffy fanfiction” (????) is a circle.

That is about what I'd expect honestly yeah xDDD

And like... look. I get not liking a ship. I get not liking a canon ship. I get not liking a canon endgame ship. But it's still canon.

You are, personally, free to drop out after s5 and pretend that the show ended there. You are, always, free to pretend the ship didn't happen and write fics where it just doesn't exist, but that just... doesn't erase it.

Nothing about Spike's redemption and Spuffy was fanfiction-y. It was a slow-burn build up - and it built up before season 5 too. I mean, I'm sorry, are they forgetting how when all seemed lost and Buffy was ready to give up, she herded her entire family into a van driven by Spike? Not only was Spike included in the people she saved, but he was also the only one in on the plan. The way Buffy trusted Spike with Dawn in season 5 already. And Spike's feelings for her had really been building up since season 4.

Like, neither Spuffy nor Spike's redemption are some strange "gotcha!" that happened out of nowhere? They have been set up, they have both a proper build up. Spike didn't do a 180° from villain into suddenly a good guy, he worked his way there, from tentative and very unwilling helpfulness in season 4, to majorly Buffy motivated helpfulness in season 5.

I can understand not liking a character or a ship, but I absolutely can not understand this selective reading of a canon text, where people really will ignore all evidence, all build up and all growth in regards to characters/ships they dislike, and then yell in the aftermath "this came outta NOWHERE!!!". No, it did not, you have just been sitting there with your eyes closed and your fingers in your ears whenever this character did anything on-screen for the past three years???

[sunnydaleherald]

The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Saturday, August 26th, part one

GILES: Buffy, a word in your ear. Um, if you, uh, think of the store as a, as a library, (cleaning glasses) it'll help you to, to, uh, concentrate on, on ... service rather than selling. BUFFY: Yes. And then I'm going to marry Bob Dole and raise penguins in Guam. GILES: (not listening) Yes, uh, quite, quite, yes.

~~Life Serial~~

[Drabbles & Short Fiction]

Uncanny by Rosemarycat5 (Buffy, Wishverse!Buffy, Giles, G)

Accidental Magic by flipflop_diva (Buffy, Wishverse!Buffy, Willow, G)

It's a Fae-tastic world by Bacner (Xander, Lost Girl crossover, G)

bloody necks and forehead kisses by perexcri (Buffy/Faith, T)

[Chaptered Fiction]

Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Shadowed Suspicion, Chapter 390 by madimpossibledreamer (Xander, Jojo's Bizarre Adventure crossover, T)

Coming Home, Chapters 1-2 by twinkielove6 (Angel & Connor, Buffy & Connor, Buffy/Angel, G)

The destiny of Wiccas, Chapter 1 by Bl4ckHunter (Willow, Charmed crossover, T)

An Immortal, A Vampire, and An Exorcist Walk Into a Bar, Chapter 1 by LinzOd (Spike, Willow, The Sandman crossover, T)

Drive, Chapter 13 by Holly (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

Those 2 again, Chapter 43 by Julikobold (Buffy/Spike, G)

Anything We Want, Part 2, Chapter 12 by scratchmeout (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

Oh The Sights You'll See, Chapter 29 by Melme1325 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

Keepsakes, Chapters 51-52 by violettathepiratequeen (Buffy/Spike, PG-13)

Rules of the Road, Chapter 11 (complete!) by honeygirl51885 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

Binding Effects, Chapter 4 by simmony (Buffy/Spike, R)

Becoming More, Chapter 1 by BewitchedXx (Buffy/Spike, R)

Those 2 again, Chapter 43 by Julikobold (Buffy/Spike, G)

Anything We Want, Part 2, Chapter 12 by scratchmeout (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

Keepsakes, Chapters 51-52 by violettathepiratequeen (Buffy/Spike, PG-13)

Rules of the Road, Chapter 11 (complete!) by honeygirl51885 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

The Alphabet of Spuffy, Chapter 25 by VeroNyxK84 (Buffy/Spike, PG-13)

A Place in the Sun, Chapter 12 by honeygirl51885 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

From Hell with Love, Chapters 15-16 by temporarytitle (Buffy/Spike, R)

where the shadow ends, Chapters 11-12 by disco-tea (Buffy/Spike, R)

A Call from Home, Chapters 7-9 by DeamonQueen (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

Into Darkness, Chapter 1 by Blackmysteria (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

Skipping the Stone, Chapters 8-9 by sandy_s (Buffy/Spike, R)

I Do! Chapter 14 by Dusty (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

Postcards and Snapshots, Chapter 26 by TheSunnySlayer (Buffy/Spike, PG-13)

[Images, Audio & Video]

Artwork: Spike by isevery0nehereverystoned (worksafe)

Artwork: baby scoobies! by lafgl (worksafe)

Artwork: Buffy and Faith dancing by Madeleine Loves Colours (worksafe)

Artwork: Darla and Drusilla with Angel and Spike as cats by Madeleine Loves Colours (worksafe)

Artwork: Spike in Destiny by its-a-livie (worksafe)

Artwork: Tara by pocketsizedann (worksafe)

Artwork: Spike by Save Point Art (worksafe)

Fic and manips: Buffy Riot Grrrl Fic Zine (WIP) by pass-the-dynamite (worksafe)

Artwork process video: Faith the Vampire Slayer Procreate Speedpaint by Only Ruben Draws & Rol (worksafe)

Video: Faith (as Buffy) teases Spike ... in LEGO! by Trevor Carlee (worksafe)

Out for a walk, b**** [] Buffy The Vampire Slayer by Loddiee (animated using Gacha Life)

Vidlet: buffy & angel | love like this by lostlcve

Fanvid: Buffy and Angel~Royalty by BtVsAtSvDdH55

Fanvid: Spike womanizer 4K (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) by Moon Child

Fanvid: Buffy and Dawn - Keep Holding On by juliaroxs241

Fanvid: Buffy and Angel - Beauty and the Beast by juliaroxs241

Fanvid: Buffy Summers - Head Above Water by juliaroxs241

Fanvid: Buffy Summers - Head Above Water by juliaroxs241

Fanvid: Buffy and Angel - Right Back in the Water by juliaroxs241

Fanvid: Buffy and Angel - Tell Me It's Over by juliaroxs241

Fanvid: Buffy Summers - Dumb Blonde by juliaroxs241

Fanvid: Buffy and Angel by juliaroxs241

Music: Combat Song (Buffy Theme remix) by E.L.I. Muzak

[Reviews & Recaps]

btvs s6e7: once more, with feeling by winterlovesong1

The Buffy Re-watch: S2E5 Reptile Boy (part 2) by jvstheworld

The Buffy Re-watch: S2E6, Halloween (part 1) by jvstheworld

The Buffy Re-watch: S2E6, Halloween (part 2) by jvstheworld

I need to talk about The Body by willothewisp252

Video: Ranking Every Season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Let's Play A Game!

Video: Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Season 4 Review by Let's Play A Game

Video: Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Season 5 Review by Let's Play A Game

Video: Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Season 6 Review by Let's Play A Game

Video: Listening to Fear-Slayer Sunday by Jane Talks Buffy

[Recs]

Fic rec: wouldn't it be nice by SummerFrost (Buffy/Spike) recced by faraige

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[greensaplinggrace]

Darklina:

“I know the truth in your heart. The loneliness. The growing knowledge of your own difference.” He leaned in closer. “The ache of it.” 

I tried to hide the shock of recognition that went through me. “I don’t know what you’re talking about,” I said, but the words sounded false to my ears.

--

“I warned you that your otkazat’sya could never understand you, Alina. I told you that he would only come to fear you and resent your power. Tell me I was wrong.” 

“You were wrong.” My voice was steady, but doubt rustled in my heart. 

The Darkling shook his head. “You cannot lie to me. Do you think I could have come to you again and again, if you had been less alone? You called to me, and I answered.”

--

“We are alike,” he said, “as no one else is, as no one else will ever be.”

The truth of it rang through me. Like calls to like.

--

“The people would love you for a time. But what would they think when their good king aged and died, while his witch of a wife remained young? When all those who remember your sacrifices are dust in the ground, how long do you think it will take for their children or their grandchildren to turn on you?”

His words sent a chill through me. I still couldn’t get my head around the idea of the long life that lay ahead of me, that yawning abyss of eternity.

Spuffy:

You never had it so good as me. Never. [Buffy takes this in, shaken. It's true.]

there is absolutely no relationship dynamic quite like one character constantly saying things to the other character that resonate to their core as true, no matter how much their morals or ingrained beliefs are loudly protesting otherwise