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[kpchrs]

[kpchrs]

I didn't know I got peer reviewed so I'll reblog the tags, because yeah.

But I understand OP btw! There was a time when I got offended when people call her insane or when people kill her off even with (in hindsight) much respect and purpose LOL 😂

the amount of spuffy fics i’ve read where Drusilla gets called a whore or is slandered for literally no reason </3 free my girl she did nothing wrong !! y’all just hate to see a bad bitch get her whimsy on

[still-nix-d-goffic]

Losing this thought as I type it but like, Spike is a fixer-upper in the "this old house" kind of way rather than a plastic surgery "fixing God's mistakes" kind of way. (?)

Like he wasn't all wrong from the start but boy was he made to feel that way. So he let himself be renovated. By Dru, by Angel, by the society he escaped from. All that paint over his woodwork.

And I don't think Buffy ment to do a restoration of Spike. I think it was more she saw a corner of the ugly paint job peeling and just couldn't resist picking at it like a scab. And before you know it we have a "honey? Did you know there's wood floor under all this?"

[theloopus]

let’s talk about willow and faith hating each other and both having a crush on buffy. let’s talk about it

stop i was literally thinking about this so much last night. tv's messiest toxic lesbo love triangle TO ME. both willow and faith orbiting around buffy and basing so much of their identities around buffy but in completely opposite ways and resenting each other for being for buffy what they themselves can't be—the comfort of familiarity vs the thrill of danger, two opposite manifestations of intimacy; safety vs seduction, light vs dark, love vs love; one girl who feels like she's taken for granted and the other who feels like she'll never be chosen long-term... buffy who loves them both but neither of them can fill the role the other fills for buffy so they both feel rejected and jealous of the other because they both want buffy whole for themselves. and the kicker is that they both are vaguely aware of why they dislike each other but neither realizes the true root of the issue because they're both REPRESSED!!! not that knowing they're both lesbians would've helped with any of this but at least they'd be like, aware of Why they feel so strongly about it.

and obviously it goes beyond buffy too though she is always the crux because they wouldn't even be thinking so much about each other otherwise but like. both envying the other for being what they can't be in general. faith resenting willow for being loyal and innocent (which she secretly craves to be but is too traumatized to let herself be) and willow resenting faith for being rebellious and not conforming (which she secretly craves to be but is too afraid to let herself be). two mirrors one on each side of buffy.

anyway a polycule would not have fixed them but i still think they should've given it a try

[love-songs-for-emma]

spike is soooo embarrassing

[watchergiles]

in 5x01 buffy said "i'm not transfer-y" but of course it was filtered through my more recently installed, inbuilt terminally online translator and made me hear "trans furry" and my heart broke for y'all. buffy isn't trans furry. she said so herself. Fs in the chat boys

[mirkwoodest]

1999 Tara was the realest bitch in btvs. Experimental hair, too-long sleeves, no self esteem, magic powers. She was even a lesbian.

[cadaverre]

me when someone’s tone changes

[bipadme]

i’m rewatching buffy the vampire slayer again, and i am begging some fans to weigh in on this.

does anyone else feel that buffy gets unfairly ganged up against by her friends fairly often? especially xander tbh lmaooooo why does everyone act like she’s some sort of imbecile incapable of making decisions herself?? and then give little grace when she fucks up?

[kpchrs]

[femcelpagliacci]

only while watching buffy

[still-nix-d-goffic]

I made this comment in relation to a thread about Bangel on Reddit but I like it and want to share it here to.

"This is kind of spreading into my philosophy on first loves a bit. It's always the most intense as people are figuring out a new aspect of themselves and unfortunately both parties end up causing a lot of damage to each other (not always but most first loves don't work out.) but then people idealize that intensity, sometimes call those people the ones that got away, etc etc. But people change and usually over a short period of time. The person you loved as your first love has gone through some much evolution they're probably a whole different person. A stranger. Just as much as you probably are to them. And if you were young at the time you might think back and realize you don't really know or remember much about those people outside of their involvement with you and vise versa. How much did you really share with your first love? It might feel like everything but if you were young especially really think back... Did you even have the vocabulary to express EVERYTHING. Did they experience enough to understand EVERYTHING... Not usually. And that's okay.

Buffy's time with Angel is kind of a perfect encapsulation of this. She knows he reads, he knows she likes ice skating. Does she know which book he's read the most? Does he know which move took her the longest to master?

Even so, she learned the ups the downs, the pain of what love can be and most importantly- that it's survivable when it ends. I think that's the point of their story, not so much that they're soul mates or anything."

I think Bangel is just such an excellent example of what people go through in a first love situation. Like all things Buffy, the extremes are EXTREME and a lot of the times made literal. (We had sex and then he changed!) Anyways, BtvS, to me, is the ultimate coming of age story.

[theloopus]

faith will literally try to stop the world just to stop the feeling. like that's basically her season 3 arc

IT LITERALLY IS HER SEASON 3 ARC. she heard "you'd have to stop the world just to stop the feeling!" and went "bet."

between good luck babe and super graphic ultra modern girl (a song that buffy desperately needs to listen to and i mean LISTEN to) i think chappell roan could've saved these girls if they'd had access to her music and wisdom back then. or at least like, make them ponder some things a little. (probably other songs as well? we need to figure out how every song in the rise and fall of a midwest princess fits within the buffy the vampire slayer femslash net)

[love-songs-for-emma]

liveblogging the end of s3 of buffy while ill. i'm on the third to last ep, "the prom," and joyce coming to angel to have The Talk about him needing to break things off with buffy for buffy's sake has me SO emotional rn :anguish:

[watchergiles]

my partner and i were watching an ep of buffy (where the wild things are, to be exact) and there's a scene where a college girl starts hacking off her hair while crying and saying "i'm bad, i'm bad". and i – always so witty – was like "soon you'll have to add an 'L' to that adjective", which my partner responded to by looking at me and saying "blad" like it was nothing. like it was a word that made total sense. which is perfect, because it landed just like a joke from the show

[mirkwoodest]

Spike and Drusilla are a lesbian couple. To ME.