#btvs 1x01

[buffyangelscreens]

[sunnydaleslayer]

My BTVS ships in every episode

Buffy The Vampire Slayer 1x01

[caricature-of-fic]

mini fic for btvs 1x01 Welcome to the Hellmouth/1x02 The Harvest

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It wasn’t meant to be like this.

She couldn’t afford this kind of thought at the moment, couldn’t afford the distraction, but—it wasn’t meant to be like this.

She was meant to go to school, struggle a bit to catch up with her classes, make friends—or had she made friends already? In which case, make sure they stayed her friends, and wasn’t that a challenge and a half, with how things were going—anyway, make friends and go out and maybe see if she could join the cheerleaders or something soon, once she’d found her footing. Do the normal stuff, live the normal life, live the not-constantly-on-high-alert life. But no, it was her second day of school and already she’d received barely-veiled threats from her new principal, not-at-all-veiled hints about accepting the whole Slayer thing from the new “librarian”, lost one potential new friend, almost lost another, been grounded, consequently sneaked out of the house, gotten two of her maybe-new-friends-but-at-this-point-why-would-they-stick-around people and the librarian into danger with her, and, and… was she forgetting anything?

Oh yeah. Buffy straightened her stance and raised her hands, determined to give her opponent all she got. I’m also already fighting vampires under some dusty mausoleum. Go, me.

At least the Watcher-librarian had only himself to blame if he got himself killed. Why would anyone choose that job?

She just hoped he and the others could get everyone to safety. There were already too many discarded bodies strewn about—people she was meant to save, why had she dawdled so much—and she wasn’t keen on anyone adding to the numbers. Nor on joining them herself.

Squashing down the fear, she met the Vessel’s attack with her own. No way was she going to die before she’d even tried for the cheerleading team.

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It wasn’t meant to be like this.

Willow knew how these things worked, how new girls arrived at Sunnydale High. What happened was, at best, they glanced at her and decided she was no threat nor of any other interest, and proceeded to ignore her. At worst, or maybe just worse because she was currently learning rapidly that her definitions of good, bad, worse, worst may be outdated, they decided she made an easy victim, unless they thought they’d better keep her on the back burner for study help.

She’d sort of expected Buffy to go with that option. Well, at first she’d assumed it would be the worse/worst one. Buffy had that, that look. That look that Willow sometimes yearned for but knew, deep down, would never be able to achieve, nor truly be comfortable with if she miraculously did achieve it. The Popular Girl look of one who knew how to do her hair and clothes to look her best, who would compete for prom queen and have a realistic chance at winning without any Carrie shenanigans happening. That, plus the fact that she’d been hanging out with Cordelia right away, hadn’t boded well in Willow’s mind.

Then Buffy had sought her out, and been nice, and mentioned studying, and Willow had been able to relax, because she didn’t need to be actual friends with the pretty new girl. Just studying and getting half-hearted attempts at pretending friendship would be fine.

Except, now that didn’t seem to be happening either, and Willow had no idea where she stood. Buffy had clearly not stayed in Cordelia’s good graces for long, and had instead decided to hang out with Willow and Xander in the library, and…

And of course also revealed the existence of vampires. And demons. And hell? Was that meant to be capital-H Hell, or just… something hell-ish and so might as well call it hell? Willow was so not willing to start researching Satan or anything like that. Bad enough that crucifixes were suddenly a relevant factor in her life and survival.

Anyway. The pretty, meant-to-be-popular new girl wasn’t meant to be revealing secrets to and hanging out with Willow. Also, those secrets weren’t meant to be things like “vampires exist and I fight them and Jesse has joined their ranks”, but she hadn’t really had time to process all that, and it was easier to just get hung up on the fact that Buffy seemed to be interested in her acquaintance.

Maybe it was just for the studying. Or because she’d had no choice but to involve Willow, and Xander for that matter, because things had just happened that way.

Or maybe it was something she should really think about once this whole situation was over, and she could be sure any of them would even be alive by the end of it.

[whatisyourchildhoodtrauma]

#I love how he’s like ‘what’s wrong with her?’ as if he’s not the freak in this situation 😭 (tags via @minkyumami)

"I know what you're after." buffy rewatch -> welcome to the hellmouth (1.01)

[spuffygifs]

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER S1E1: Welcome to the Hellmouth | S7E12: Potential (requested)

[peeta-mellark]

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER 1x01 "Welcome to the Hellmouth"

[mollymauksworld]

Buffy the Vampire Slayer Welcome to the Hellmouth | 1.01

[clairikine]

I love how the chair leg instantly became a perfectly shaped stake

[thepunkmuppet]

every single cordelia chase look #2

↳ BtVS | 1x01 | Welcome To The Hellmouth

[sunnydaleherald]

The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Friday, August 9th

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Expectations by mmooch (Buffy, Big Bang Theory crossover, T)

Favours and Flowers by Diary (Angel, Fred, Supernatural crossover, G)

Dreamt of Drowning by Anonymous (Spike/Drusilla, T)

Willow tells Xander she's bisexual by Johanna6Cats (Willow/Xander, G)

The Taste Of A Heart Beating by Geliot99 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

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Buffy season 8 " Wicked me", Chapter 8 by FreyStewart (Buffy/Angel, not rated)

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Darkness and Desire - Book - 01 - Hex Born, Chapter 7 by zxandris (Buffy, Willow, Tara, multiple crossovers, E)

Enter Sunnydale, Chapter 3 by Philister (Faith, Transformers crossover, M)

Further From Home, Chapter 2 by zombiesam (Buffy/Giles, E)

Who Are You Now? Chapter 2 by Mirrored_Illusions (Buffy, NCIS crossover, G)

School of Hard Knocks, Chapter 11 (complete!) by Melme1325 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

Rebirth: A Stargate Tale, Chapter 12 by Buffyworldbuilder (Ensemble, Stargate crossover, FR13)

2024 FaD Tribbles, Chapter 2 by mmooch (Oz, Harry Potter crossover, FR13)

What the Drabble? Vol. 2, Chapter 58 by VeroNyxK84 (Buffy/Spike, PG-13)

Tale as Old as Time, Chapter 14 (complete!) by honeygirl51885 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

Task Mistress, Chapters 2-4 by HappyWhenItRains (Buffy/Spike, R)

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Fanvid: Forsaken: Buffy v Lestat ("Official Trailer) by Brendan Ryan

Artwork: My kinda ok #btvs #drawings ❤️ by Wolvyn Woods (Buffy, Faith, Tara, Willow, Spike, worksafe)

Fanvid: Buffy & Angel - I Dont Care (remake) by Angelus_Clips

Fanvid: Buffy + Angel She’s my wind by AshleyBurchettAJLeefanlove23love

Fanvid: Wesley&Lilah | Vampire Smile by 1SnoWhiteQueen1

Music video: Are You Afraid of Buffy's Goosebumps? - CRACK HORROR | Official Video | by Whalley Exchange

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Video: BUFFY the VAMPIRE SLAYER already has me HOOKED by Ashleigh Burton

Video: The Dated Vision of Buffy’s 23rd Century Future by PanelHopper

Video: Analyzing Buffy: Do You Wanna Hear My Philosophy? | 1x01: Welcome to the Hellmouthby The Bronze

Video: Analyzing Buffy by The Bronze

Video: Same Time, Same Place-Slayer Sunday by Jane Talks Buffy

Podcast: Twice More With Irony - A Full MUSICAL Review of 'Once More With Feeling' by Beer with Buffy

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Podcast: Buffy 2.12 Bad Eggs by Once More: A Rewatch Podcast

[Search & Recs]

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[Fandom Discussions]

btvs is just a seven year long competition between buffy and giles to see who can be the most unhinged depressed bisexual by comradesummers

A large portion of the issue with spike’s soul by greensaplinggrace

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buffy you cannot seriously be comparing what willow did to sleeping with spike by justsolas

My dislike for Ensouled Spike with Buffy doesn't come from a place of not liking their relationship or preferring Angel by mortalaf

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Why I was more invested in Spuffy than Bangel by peppermintquartz

Who the fuck curses a vampire with ... by sympathischeufos

Buffy rewatch podcast with Juliet Landau continued by Dogs of Winter

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Which antagonist did the most damage? by jdpm1991

If you guys were a vampire just chillin' in a graveyard late at night by Spyderwarp55

Totally forgot how they gave Faith an accent in the beginning by VisibleCoat995

Buffy's Complex Release: Emotion vs. Desire by Interesting-Tea3907

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A small and fairly insignificant question about the season 5 finale by nickel4asoul

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[buffyangelscreens]

[sunnydaleslayer]

But he hadn’t been prepared for her wit or her beauty. She played with words; she was sarcastic. And yet she grasped both the wonder and the burden of her life as the Slayer.

And, truth be told, he had liked looking into her face when it mirrored her fascination with him. He was used to being admired by women—did the Watcher Diaries not record his full name as “Angelus, the one with the angelic face”? But he was not used to anyone looking past that face into his soul.

The Angel Chronicles Vol 1

[erodingsinner]

I saw people recommend to watch btvs and ats simultaneously ( like 4x01 of Buffy then 1x01 of Angel etc) have people actually done that and would recommend? Or is a different watch order better ?

[veronyxk84]

Buffy Summers Icon Pack #1 | BtVS 1x01 Welcome to the Hellmouth

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[coffygifs]

COFFY + INTRICATE RITUALS

Lesbian Mythology - Christine Downing | btvs 1x05, 2x03, 2x18, 3x05 | Bosom Friends: Lesbian Desire in L.M. Montgomery's Anne Books - Laura Robinson | tumblr user biblicalhorror | "She" - dodie | btvs 2x20, 1x03, 2x05, 3x05, 1x11 | But I'm a Cheerleader (1999) | btvs 1x11, 3x06, 2x18 | Triangular, Homosocial, Lesbian - Ann-Sofie Lönngren | Am I a Lesbian? Masterdoc | btvs 2x16 | "Fragment 112" - Sappho, tr. Anne Carson | btvs 3x05 | "Mastermind" - Taylor Swift | btvs 1x01 | The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue - Mackenzi Lee | btvs 1x01, 2x02, 2x05, 3x02, 3x05

[buffysummers]

Hi! I hope this isn’t a weird question but I thought you would be the best person to come to with it. I recently just finished Buffy for the very first time, and I was wondering: if I wanted to rewatch Buffy at the same time as watch Angel the Series for the first time together in chronological order, is there certain episodes of Buffy I should stop at and watch Angel before continuing onto Buffy, if that makes sense? Because I want to be able to watch it all as it pans out with both shows at once. Either way thank you so much!! ☺️

Hi, it's not a weird question at all!

The only advice I would give is to watch the first three seasons of Buffy first, and then start Angel season one as you watch Buffy season four. So, watch BtVS 4x01, and then Angel 1x01, and so on. The reason for this is because the first three seasons of Buffy happen before Angel starts. If you start both shows at the same time, the timelines won't correlate.

You will catch all the crossovers and references easily if you do it that way! Enjoy the shows! :)

Edit: season 7 of Buffy and season 4 of Angel don’t completely line up. I would finish season 4 of Angel before watching the last 2 episodes of Buffy.