#bangel btvs

[spangelmybeloved]

Can we get a little Spangel-Bangel solidarity? I ask as someone who likes both ships.

[fictiongods]

The problem is Buffy’s taste is absolutely atrocious but she’s right. Like look at this man he’s supposed to be some stealthy vampire guy but he’s tripping when he walks in the door. He can’t fucking stand correctly. He has social anxiety so bad he hates to talk to everybody but his girlfriends. Oh look at this other guy he’s supposed to be evil and monstrous but he’s crying to your mom about his ex and asking for marshmallows in his coco. He has one dream about a girl and that doesn’t make him think he’s just attracted to said girl, he immediately thinks he’s in love and becomes obsessed. He has to dye his hair every so often and he chooses a neon white for some reason. Oh take a look at this girl she’s supposed to be cool girl tough girl who is down and good with everything but she sits alone all the time in one of the worst parts of town. She’ll only ever tell you that she’s five by five and you or anyone else has no idea what that even means. She’ll lie about stuff that didn’t happen to sound cool, all while walking around saying she has no friends. And here’s the kicker - they all mirror each other, have a history of violent murders, look good in leather and somehow all give off pathetic wet rat and babygirl vibes at the exact same time and no one has any idea where the line is. Plus they’re all some kind of gay and in kahoots with each other.

[paperpuzzles]

[lulu-honey]

sometimes the show is not self-aware. it does not understand what it is showing us. how else could you explain the near perfect parallel it gives us regarding angel and spike and their attitude toward buffy and dawn

like buffy asks soulless spike to protect a magically important nearly-fifteen-year-old dawn after she dies and his response is until the end of the world (not even until he dies but possibly longer) and he becomes her babysitter teaches her card games and they paint each other's nail

where as the ptb send word to a fully souled angel that he must protect a magically important freshly sixteen-year-old buffy and his first thought is wow she's clearly part of MY destiny this is a romance thing and it's gonna be so hard NOT TO FUCK HER

[littlenastieswewhispered]

“buffy ended the show single :)” ok but only because her current love interest just DIED!! (he near quite literally died in her arms! in sacrifice for her!) her last words of the entire series were telling him she loves him and then saying his name in admiration. she isn’t single; she’s a widow.

[greensaplinggrace]

god but one of the things that makes spike so much better as a partner for buffy is the fact that he's actually involved in her life. he spends time with her friends separately from her. he enjoys hanging out with her mother in a way that has nothing to do with buffy herself. he spends time with dawn because he likes her and feels protective towards her. and even though he actually does make a promise to buffy in that regard, it's so clear that he just enjoys dawn's company, too. and joyce and dawn especially seem to enjoy his company right back.

i mean half of angel's screentime on this show is just waiting for him to show up. watching him drop cryptic unhelpful one liners while withholding information that could save lives and then leaving before even saying goodbye. he alienates buffy's friends and goes behind her back with them at the same time. he doesn't spend time with her family and clearly isn't liked by joyce. he promises to protect buffy and then promptly bails. he leads buffy on while involving her in an emotional tug of war, and then strings her along long after he's broken things off "for her own good".

he says he needs to be stronger than human to protect buffy, but then he leaves her to her fate. he doesn't seem to care about dawn, he doesn't seem to care about joyce, and he seems to dislike her friends. his presence in her life is anathema and unreliable, and it's not even because he's a vampire, it's because he's trying to cultivate an image to engage buffy that just doesn't fit.

[danystargaryens]

Buffy & Angel ♡ 3.08 Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1997-2003)

[liam-summers]

"Shoulder to shoulder. I'm yours."

[ptieuca]

buffy + wearing her cross necklaces backwards around angel

[justafriendofxanders]

[lowliet]

BUFFY/ANGELUS + "LOVER" 2.14, 2.18, 2.19, 2.21, 2.22

[sinomin]

[clarkgriffon]

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER 2x14 | “Innocence” 

[paperpuzzles]

[peeta-mellark]

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER 3x04 "Beauty and the Beasts"

[greensaplinggrace]

honestly what i find most valuable about buffy's relationship with spike is that there is absolutely nobody else that could have followed her through the melting point restructuring phoenix fire ruination and rebirth of her entire life and come out the stronger for it with a bond forged of unbreakable steel except for him. i cannot imagine either angel or riley even coming close to surviving that process. they'd have burned and melted away completely before they ever reached the quenching.