#buffy anne summers LOVES love

[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.

[youhavethesun]

I love buffy summers so so much. She’s so perfect and so incredibly complex and flawed.

She loves her sister more than anything in the world. She makes terrible puns. She wasn’t able to kill her soulless ex-boyfriend when she first had the chance. She blames herself for his murder of her father figure’s girlfriend. She wears bedazzled beanies while hunting demons. She always believes children when they tell her about the monsters under their beds.

She’s patrolled in a halterneck many times. She has a multitude of cross necklaces which she switches out depending on her outfit. Sometimes she fears she’s just a glorified killer. She was murdered when she was sixteen and died to save the world when she was twenty. When her mother died she waited until she was alone to do the dishes and let the running water cover the sound of her cries. She’s terrible at undercover.

She wears hoop earrings while fighting for her life. She was reduced to a catatonic state when she believed that she had failed to protect her sister. She’s isolated herself from anyone she believed cared about her more than once. She’s suffered from severe ptsd and depression. She critiques old kung fu movies from a fight choreography standpoint.

She is an expert in denial and suppression. She came back wrong - or at least she thought she did. She desperately tries to keep to a code of honour even when everything she believes about right and wrong is constantly shifting around her. She bears the weight of the world on her shoulders. She sleeps with a stuffed pig named Mr Gordo. She’s feared that her duty as the slayer would turn her to stone, that above all else she would lose her ability to love.

She loves more fiercely than anyone in the world.

[larsisfrommars]

Angel 🤝 Jareth the Goblin King

Being doomed by the narrative to be walking contradictions, parodies of themselves. All due to being the symbol of the sexual/romantic desires of a teenage girl.

[tsnbrainrot]

if it's my last chance to say it

power politics, margaret atwood | your love finds its way back, sierra demulder | deathbed confession, wikipedia | the papa & mama dance, anne sexton | 7x22: chosen, buffy the vampire slayer | lighthousekeeping, jeanette winterson | 2x13: doomsday, doctor who | bob newhart | 5x13: the diamond of the day part 2, merlin | merlin series 5 commentary, katie mcgrath & julian murphy | 5x13: the diamond of the day part 2, merlin | forever - charli xcx | 15x18: despair, supernatural | call me by your name script, james ivory | 15x18: despair, supernatural | everything grows, aimee herman | 15x18: despair, supernatural | invisible planets, hao jingfang

[diaryofateenageslayer]

Watch "Buffy Gets Therapized | Selfless Love" on YouTube

Love this analysis of Buffy and Spike's relationship from an unbiased therapist's pov 😊❤

[asterrisms]

sorry for blonde woman crimes btw but when i think about buffy summers its literally catastrophic

[thyme-in-a-bubble]

a list of some autumnal movies/series 🍂

i am nothing if not an organised little goblin who can not stop themself from making a good list. this is just in case you want something with that fall vibe but can't think of any. just close your eyes and point somewhere on this little list, or even put the numbers in a generator and go with whatever the result is ♡

winter | spring | summer

🥧 ‧₊˚ ⋅ movies ⋅˚₊‧

nosferatu (1922) 

sabrina (1954)

the creature from the black lagoon (1954)

psycho (1960)

rosemary’s baby (1968)

the rocky horror picture show (1975)

halloween franchise (1978-)

friday the 13th franchise (1980-)

an american werewolf in london (1981)

dark crystal (1982)

a nightmare on elm street (1984)

ghostbusters (1984-)

ronja rövardotter (1984)

clue (1985)

princess bride (1987)

the witches of eastwick (1987)

elvira mistress of the dark (1988)

dead poets society (1989)

when harry met sally (1989)

ghost (1990)

the witches (1990)

death becomes her (1992)

hocus pocus (1993)

addams family values (1993)

interview with a vampie (1994)

the craft (1996)

the first wifes club (1996)

the scream franchise (1996-)

halloweentown (1998)

practical magic (1998)

you’ve got mail (1998)

the blair witch project (1999)

sleepy hollow (1999)

chocolat (2000)

amelie (2001)

the lord of the rings franchise (2001-2003)

scooby doo (2002)

school of rock (2003)

mona lisa smile (2003)

peter pan (2003)

pirates of the caribbean franchise (2003-2017)

north & south (2004)

pride and prejudice (2005)

the descent (2005)

just like heaven (2005)

the devil wears prada (2006)

the lake house (2006)

penelope (2006)

el orfanato (2007)

juno (2007)

ratatouille (2007)

bridge to terabithia (2007)

the edge of love (2008)

twilight (2008)

the curious case of benjamin button (2008)

julie & julia (2009)

jennifer’s body (2009)

dorian gray (2009)

coraline (2009)

true grit (2010)

the cabin in the woods (2011)

jane eyre (2011)

wuthering heights (2011)

perks of being a wallflower (2012)

the odd life of timothy green (2012)

hotel transylvania (2012-)

the conjuring franchise (2013-)

what we do in the shadows (2014)

the riot club (2014)

as above so below (2014)

john wick (2014-)

the age of adaline (2015)

the witch (2015)

far from the madding crowd (2015)

the edge of seventeen (2016)

paterson (2016)

20th century woman (2016)

the love witch (2016)

mary shelly (2017)

murder on the orient express (2017)

get out (2017)

a quiet place (2018 + 2020)

the guernsey literary and potato peel pie society (2018)

on the basis of sex (2018)

knives out (2019)

ready or not (2019)

the lighthouse (2019)

little women (2019)

the gentlemen (2019)

emma (2020)

ammonite (2020)

the dig (2021)

fear street trilogy (2021)

good luck to you, leo grande (2022)

the batman (2022)

fresh (2022)

bodies bodies bodies (2022)

mr malcom's list (2022)

totally killer (2023)

slay (2024)

🧦 ‧₊˚ ⋅ series ⋅˚₊‧

moomin (1990-1992)

twin peaks (1990-1991)

x files (1993-2018)

buffy the vampire slayer (1997-2003)

gilmore girls (2000-2007)

supernatural (2005-2020)

vampire diaries (2009-2017) / the originals (2013-2018) / legacies (2018-2022)

downton abbey (2010-2015)

the walking dead (2010-2022)

once upon a time (2011-2018)

american horror story (2011-)

teen wolf (2011-2017)

peaky blinders (2013-2022)

outlander (2014-)

how to get away with murder (2014-2020)

the magicians (2015-2020)

izombie (2015-2019)

poldark (2015-2019)

critical role (2015-)

stranger things (2016-)

ghost files / buzzfeed unsolved (2016-)

lucifer (2016-2021)

shadowhunters (2016-2019)

anne with an e (2017-2019)

the good fight (2017-2022)

riverdale (2017-2023)

manifest (2018-2023)

killing eve (2018-2022)

succession (2018-2023)

you (2018-)

a discovery of witches (2018-2022)

the chilling adventures of sabrina (2018-2020)

dickinson (2019-2021)

virgin river (2019-)

carnival row (2019-2023)

the witcher (2019-)

the umbrella academy (2019-2024)

sanditon (2019-2023)

good omens (2019-2025)

the haunting of bly manor (2020)

i’ll be gone in the dark (2020)

queens gambit (2020)

the great (2020-2023)

shadow and bone (2021-2023)

the nevers (2021-2023)

wednesday (2022-)

interview with the vampire (2022-)

vikings valhalla (2022-2024)

lessons in chemistry (2023)

my lady jane (2024-)

[insufferableprotagonistpoll]

Please note that a character currently needs at least 3 submissions to make it into the Insufferable Love Interest poll

That said:

Has 3 Submissions or more:

Bella Swan - Twilight

Brambleclaw - Warrior Cats

Catra - She-ra and the Princesses of Power

Christian Grey - Shades of Grey

Claudio - Much Ado About Nothing

Crowfeather - Warrior Cats

Cullen Rutherford - Dragon Age Inquisition

Edward Cullen - Twilight

Ezra Fitz - Pretty Little Liars Show

Four - Divergent

Haida - Aggretsuko

Hinata Hyuga - Naruto

Jace Herondale - Shadowhunters

Jacob Black - Twilight

James Hurley - Twin Peaks

Kylo Ren - Star Wars

Madarame - Slow Damage

Mako - Avatar

Mamoru Chiba - Sailor Moon

Panini - Chowder

Riley Finn - Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Riven - Winx Club

Sasuke - Naruto

Sky of Eraklyon - Winx Club

Solas - Dragon Age

Sumia - Fire Emblem Awakening

Taichi Mashima - Chihayafuru

Ted Mosby - How I Met Your Mother

Tsutomu Yamaguchi - Gokinjo Monogatari

Has 2 Submissions:

Amy Rose - Sonic the Hedgehog

Beck - Victorious

Curtis - Voltron Legendary Defender

Daoming Si - Meteor Garden

Dimitri Alexandre Blaidydd - Fire Emblem Three Houses

Edmund Bertram - Mansfield Park

Jake McKenzie - Choices: Endless Summer

Kyosuke Kamijou - Puella Magi Madoka Magica

Luka Couffaine - Miraculous Tales of Ladybug and Chat Noir

Martin - W.I.T.C.H.

Peter Griffin - Family Guy

Pucca - Pucca

Riri - Romantic Killer

Rise Kujikawa - Persona 4

Sheldon Cooper - Big Bang Theory

Takumi Ichinose - Nana

Has 1 Submission:

Adrien Agreste - Miraculous Ladybug

Ann Shiraishi - Project SEKAI

Arthur Dimmesdale - The Scarlet Letter

Aubrin "Brin" Crownsilver - Brimstone Angels

Augustus Waters - The Fault In Our Stars

Azura - Fire Emblem Fates

Belle French - Once Upon A Time

Blane McDonagh - Pretty in Pink

Cersei Lannister - Game Of Thrones

Claire Dunlap - The Bear

Dahl Peredur - Brimstone Angels

Daisy Buchanan - The Great Gatsby

David - Uglies

Deathbringer - Wings of Fire

Edgar Linton - Wuthering Heights

Felicity Smoak - Arrow

Felix Fathom - Miraculous Ladybug

Finleap - Warrior Cats

Fitz - Keepers of the Lost City

Fiyero - Wicked Musical

Iris West - Flash

Jade - Victorious

Keiji Oda - Oishii Kankei

Kennedy - Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Kirishima Touka - Tokyo Ghoul

Logan Echolls - Veronica Mars

Max Jägerman - Nerdy Prudes Must Die

Meliodas - The Seven Deadly Sins

Mink - Dramatical Murder

Nightheart - Warrior Cats

Ochaco Uraraka - My Hero Academia

Peeta Mellark - The Hunger Games

Raggedstar - Warrior Cats

Raoul de Chaligny - The Phantom of the Opera

Relena Peacecraft - Gundam Wing

Ren Tsuruga - Skip Beat

Robert Chase - House MD

Robin Hood - Once Upon A Time

Romeo Montague - Romeo and Juliet

Shuichi Tsukamoto - Hibike Euphonium

Taeju Yeo - Low Tide in Twilight

Tamlin - A Court of Thorns and Roses

Taylor Kelly - 9-1-1

The Canker Sisters - Ed, Edd, and Eddy

Tom Paris - Star Trek: Voyager

[liam-summers]

One thing about me is that even though I LOVE Bangel, and I LOVE Angel, I would not hesitate to throw his stupid ass under the bus for Miss Buffy Anne Summers.

He would even agree and help me throw him under the bus. Which is why I love him.

Anyway. Buffy Summers 4ever 🩷

[selkiemaidenfae]

(on season 3 fyi)

my hot take is that i actually love the idea of spuffel but i hate interpretations that are like “spike and angel are healthily in love and buffy is just their ex who is allowed to join”

like, let’s discuss.

those vamps are so in love with her it literally changes the fabric of their fates. spike gets a soul for her. they’ve both lived and died for her.

buffy anne summers, slayer, saver of the world (a lot), and most beautiful girl in california, is not the add-on.

not to mention— i think spike and angel could manage healthy relationships on their own, but not with each other on their own. not with their history.

i think if they tried they’d fall back into the drusilla/fanged foursome dynamic where “love” is about punishment and ownership and the blurred line between pain and pleasure.

but to be with buffy, i think she’d lay down the law and let them know pretty bluntly that she’s not going to be drusilla. she’s not going to pit them against each other or sit back as they do it themselves. she’s not going to be babysitting fighting children in her relationship.

she’s their lover, not their referee, and if they’re going to love her the way she deserves, they have to learn to love each other too.

not like vampires do, but like the humans they once were. like men with souls with a light in their life they want to keep.

^^ buffy to spike and angel

in conclusion spike/buffy/angel >>>> spangel/buffy and i’ll stand by this.

[maylilithreign]

𝔅𝔲𝔣𝔣𝔶 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔙𝔞𝔪𝔭𝔦𝔯𝔢 𝔖𝔩𝔞𝔶𝔢𝔯 - 𝔖𝔢𝔞𝔰𝔬𝔫 𝔒𝔫𝔢, 𝔈𝔭𝔦𝔰𝔬𝔡𝔢 𝔒𝔫𝔢: 𝔚𝔢𝔩𝔠𝔬𝔪𝔢 𝔱𝔬 𝔱𝔥𝔢 ℌ𝔢𝔩𝔩𝔪𝔬𝔲𝔱𝔥

Ohhh, Sunnydale High. How I've missed you.

We start our beloved series with a scene that sets us up very well for what's to come: A pretty blonde girl and her date have snuck into the empty Sunnydale High after hours. The girl is afraid. They shouldn't be here at night, and she heard something that could be dangerous. Her male companion tells her not to worry. He'll protect her. 

But he's the one in danger. Because the innocent blonde in a schoolgirl outfit is, in actuality, a vampire. A demon. And she's hungry.

Smash cut to a dream. A nightmare, actually. A premonition about an ancient vampire, and what's in store for our heroine. 

She wakes up, and she's safe in her room.

Buffy Anne Summers: another young, pretty blonde. And it's her first day at a new school. Her mother, Joyce (Writer's note: for a dorky mom, Joyce has big "crystal girl" energy), comes in and tells her to stay positive. Buffy needs to be positive. They had to move here because of her, after all.

So Joyce drops Buffy off at Sunnydale High. The sixteen-year old Buffy is nervous, especially because her first visit will be with Principal Flutie in his office.

Fortunately, the man in question is friendly, and while he's concerned about Buffy's past in Los Angeles, he's hopeful that she'll succeed at his school (Writer's note: we stan Principal Flutie). We learn something: Buffy burned down the gym at her old school in LA. This is a nod to the ending of the movie "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" that came out in 1992 and starred now deranged Trump fan Kristy Swanson. 

Buffy blurts out that it wasn't her fault. She had to burn down the gym! Because of the "vamp-…asbestos." The gym was full of asbestos. Flutie seems to accept this. Later on we will learn that the adults in Sunnydale are often quick to normalize the batshittery that is their town.

With that meeting out of the way, Buffy leaves Flutie's office. She bumps into a boy we will later find out is called Xander Harris (Writer's note: we both love and dislike Xander in this corner). Buffy spills her purse, and Xander helps her pick up her stuff. As she walks away, Buffy unwittingly drops the one thing she shouldn't be dropping—her wooden stake. Xander doesn't know what to make of it either, but he hangs onto it.

The next student Buffy meets is one Cordelia Chase: queen bee of Sunnydale High (Writer's note: this show had Dawson casting. Which is to say that most of the actors playing teenage characters were actually in their twenties. The exception was Sarah Michelle Gellar, who was nineteen and playing a sixteen year old. Next to Charisma Carpenter—who was twenty-seven at the time she began playing Cordelia—Buffy looked even more like a schoolgirl). Cordelia is charming, and very warm in her first encounter with Buffy. She offers to share her history textbook during their lesson, and seems set to befriend Buffy due to the "coolness" of our heroine having moved to Sunnydale from LA.

It's not to be, however. Enter the redheaded Willow Rosenberg. Willow is everything Cordelia is not. Shy, geeky, and unfashionably dressed (Writer's note: wooly tights, though? In southern California??). When Buffy sees how cruelly Cordelia speaks to Willow, we can see a quality that Buffy will often be undervalued for—her capacity to be kind and soft. Buffy doesn't care for the way Cordelia mistreats the nerdy redhead, and it's written all over her face. Cordelia, being self-involved (Writer's note: we come to adore Cordelia), doesn't seem to notice.

Buffy then heads to the library, where she is greeted by the school's librarian—Rupert Giles. He's English, and has a professorial vibe. How did he end up in a high school library in southern California? Well, like everything in Sunnydale, Giles isn't all he seems. Abruptly, he greets Buffy with a large tome bearing the title: VAMPYR. 

This isn't what Buffy wanted. She moved to Sunnydale with her mother for a fresh start. Being the slayer is not something she signed up for. Shaken, she leaves the library and heads outside, catching up with Willow, Xander, and their friend Jesse. Xander gives Buffy her wooden stake back, and she claims it's for basic self-defense.

For a brief moment, let's talk about Jesse. Played by Eric Balfour, Jesse is basically a plot device as we'll learn later. He and Xander are essentially the same (at least initially). Dorky teenage boys who only have girls on the brain. Jesse seems to have an affinity for Cordelia (Writer's Note: Cordelia has a pager attached to her belt! You love to see it). She does not return his ardour. Also, who cares? Cordelia is here to inform Buffy, Willow, and the two boys that there's a dead guy in the locker room! 

Buffy is visibly disturbed, and asks Cordelia a question that would only make sense to the former: "Were there any marks?" After Cordelia calls her morbid for even asking that question, Buffy goes running towards the locker room (Writer's note: in what universe would a) the locker room not be cordoned off as a crime scene and b) the entire student body not be sent home? Of course, this is Sunnydale—the adults in this town are often blasé about such matters). When Buffy takes off, Cordelia scoffs to the others:

"What's her deal?"

Oh, Cordelia. If only you knew.

The boys locker room is locked, however, but Buffy makes short work of it. This is the first time we see her demonstrate her super strength, and at this early point in the series we can also see that she's not finely tuned. Not used to her own strength yet.

Checking the—again, unsupervised—corpse, Buffy sees that there are in fact telltale marks on the boy's neck. The audience will also note that he's the boy from the first scene. He was definitely eaten by a vampire. 

So Buffy returns to the library, as well as Giles, the textbook with arms. Of note to me—since I've watched this series so many times—is how matter of fact and straightforward Giles is with Buffy at first. He doesn't mince words about her calling, nor display a great deal of tact. Buffy is, after all, a frightened sixteen year old girl who is experiencing trauma. She burned down the gym at her old school to kill some vampires, and was expelled. In addition to this, her first watcher Merrick (in the 1992 film played by Donald Sutherland and later portrayed in the series by Richard Riehle), was killed. You would think Giles would display more empathy. We can forgive his carelessness with Buffy's feelings, however, due to of the urgency of the situation in Sunnydale—it's located on top of a hellmouth (Writer's Note: good job, Watcher's Council, for letting Buffy know she was two hours from a hellmouth when she lived in LA). Giles needs Buffy to answer the call, and be the slayer he was sent to watch over.

Buffy still isn't interested, though. She didn't come to Sunnydale to be its rescuer. Rebuffing Giles, Buffy leaves the library once again. Unbeknownst to either of them, Xander overhears. Not a great start to Buffy's identity being kept a secret.

That can be dealt with later though. Right now Buffy is heading home to get ready for her first night out in Sunnydale. At a club Cordelia told her about called "The Bronze."

Buffy is in her room getting ready, in a funny little scene that showcases her sense of humour. She holds up a very prim and proper outfit in front of the mirror, then something that looks like it belongs to a dominatrix. She decides to wear neither (Writer's note: where did Buffy even get that black latex dress?), and has a chat with her mother. Joyce is supportive, believing that Buffy fell in with the wrong crowd in LA. But that's all behind them, now, right? 

Unsure of what else to say, Buffy simply agrees, and gets ready to leave.

As she walks to The Bronze, eerie music plays. Immediately, we're shown that Buffy is being followed. A man stalks behind her, and soon they're in an alleyway. In a very cool move, Buffy swings from a pipe above the man—kicking him in the chest before pinning him into submission. There are those slayer powers!

The man is weird and cryptic. And very handsome. He tells Buffy that a) he thought she'd be taller (Writer's note: a goof. Much later on we find out that Angel has seen Buffy before so he'd know she's short) and b) to be prepared for the mouth of hell to open. For something called "The Harvest." The man gives her a cross necklace and tells Buffy he's a friend. She tells the man she doesn't need more friends before he smirks and reminds her that he didn't say he was her friend.

She's rattled by the encounter, but Buffy proceeds with her evening plans. She goes inside The Bronze, which is a strange sort of place. A nightclub that allows teenagers into it? They don't serve them alcohol, but it seems risky to begin with (Writer's note: the bouncer keeps Buffy's ID, which is likely just an editing goof. And I could see her having a fake ID. But Willow absolutely wouldn't and she's inside The Bronze when Buffy gets there. So why are they checking ID at all?). Willow is sitting at the bar, and Buffy cheerfully greets her. It's odd that Willow would even be out on a school night, given how responsible and bookish she is. We're informed, however, that Xander is coming. And Willow is clearly smitten with him. Buffy asks about their relationship, and Willow tells her that they used to date. But then Xander "stole her Barbie." In fact, Willow hasn't been dating lately (read: at all). She's shy, and geeky (Writer's note: despite being gorgeous). She says she believes "Boys prefer girls who can talk," to which Buffy wittily responds: "You really haven't been dating lately."

Buffy then spots Giles—completely out of his comfort zone in a nightclub and it shows—so she leaves Willow with some advice regarding boys: "Seize the day. 'Cause tomorrow you might be dead." She heads to the loft where Giles is uncomfortably waiting. He doesn't like The Bronze, and thinks it's a breeding ground for vampire activity. Like a buffet.

They discuss what Buffy's mystery man told her, and Giles is concerned. He doesn't know what "The Harvest," means either. He and Buffy look over the crowd, and he laments that the young people dancing don't know how much danger they're always in. 

To which Buffy replies: "Lucky them." (Writer's note: fantastic acting from Gellar. You can see Buffy's burden written all over her face with the delivery of that line.)

Down in the lower part of The Bronze, Jesse has arrived. He flirts with Cordelia again, and once rejected he decides to go looking for another girl to make time with. Giles asks Buffy if she can even spot a vampire in the crowd. She scans, and spots one fairly quickly. Giles wants to know how Buffy can tell, and her fashion-forward self responds that it's because of his dated wardrobe. Unfortunately someone else is looking for a date, and Willow is less discerning. The vampire hits on her, and she leaves The Bronze with him to Buffy's horror.

Jesse leaves too…with the vampire girl from the first scene in the episode. Dun dun dun! She tells him her name is Darla, and that she's visiting family in town. 

Both Jesse and Willow are now in danger, but Buffy is only aware of the latter. So she leaves the nightclub in a hurry. Reacting quickly to movement, Buffy pins Willow's would-be attacker to the wall—to her further horror it's not a vampire at all. Just Cordelia. 

Whipping out her cell phone, Cordelia swears she's going to tell everyone she knows about how weird Buffy is. RIP to Buffy's social life. Meanwhile, we get a scene with Darla's family. It's the very old vampire from Buffy's nightmare, along with a hulking vampire called Luke. Hopefully Buffy can get to both Willow and Jesse in time! These dudes look nasty.

As she's leaving the area to track down Willow, Buffy runs into Xander. He reveals that he knows her identity, but that he doesn't believe it. That he thinks she's delusional. But Buffy is soon able to convince him of the seriousness of the situation, and he goes with her to save his friend. Neither of them are aware that Jesse left with Darla, though. Uh oh.

We come to our final scene. Willow and Jesse's vampire dates have led them to the same place. It's a crypt in the middle of a cemetery. Both of them in peril, they try to fight back. But Jesse's already been bitten a little, which earns Darla a scolding from Willow's date, Thomas. These two victims are supposed to be for The Master, which we learn is the name for the ancient vampire hidden below Sunnydale—in a cave that looks like it's from a heavy metal video in the early nineties. 

Buffy and Xander arrive, and Buffy launches into her snark-laden fighting style. She kills Thomas almost immediately, and we see our first vampire dusting (Writer's note: earlier special effects on BTVS did not show the skeleton of the vampire as they died, but just the effect of them bursting into dust). Darla is frightened and shocked by how strong Buffy is (Writer's note: we don't find out right now, but Darla is very old. She certainly knows what a vampire slayer is, and also should be better at fighting herself. Maybe she's having an off night). Luke arrives, and tells Darla off for being so useless. He tells her to get reinforcements, and begins to fight Buffy while Xander drags Willow and a badly-wounded Jesse to safety (which ends up being Darla with a whole gang of hungry vampire minions).

Luke is huge and strong. Later on in the series, Buffy would handle him no problem. But she's still becoming accustomed to her strength, and so fighting him proves challenging. So challenging, in fact, that he almost beats her. Luke breaks Buffy's stake, and tosses her into an open stone casket. He gives a small speech about how The Master will rise during The Harvest. Buffy's mystery man was right (Writer's note: we get a fun glimpse of one of Giles's cool books on the supernatural. Very fucking dope illustrations). 

After allowing her to think he's left, Luke finally lunges for Buffy. The episode ends with a "to be continued."

So that's how I'll sign off here for my first installment. Libby's Buffy recaps: "to be continued."

Random fun quotes from the episode:

"From the library, where the books live."

- Willow to Xander.

"Nobody cool has Epstein Barr anymore."

- Cordelia talking to her group of friends.

"Live in the now. You look like DeBarge."

- Buffy to the unfashionable vampire Thomas.

[meltedbrains]

How Buffy copes

BtVS throws a lot at its characters: betrayal, heartache, grief, monsters of the week, and whatever the plural of apocalypse is.

Over seven years we watch the characters go through the ups and downs of life, celebrating and commiserating with them, sometimes cheering them on, sometimes begging them to stop.

During the downs (particularly the controversial sixth and seventh seasons) the writers remain remarkably consistent with the coping strategies the core characters use. Or rather, how they react to things that are just too personal.

Xander, Willow and Giles generally provide counsel to Buffy, supporting her emotionally, and sometimes practically, so that she can do the right thing. The things that they are unable, if not unwilling, to do. This does not mean that they always agree though, the gang are frequently at odds with each other. They often demand Buffy to lead them and then accuse her of doing it wrong, of dictating what the right thing is by virtue of being the slayer.

But whether they like it or not, she is the slayer. Saving the the world is her responsibility, and, as I said in a previous post, she has always taken on responsibility even before becoming a slayer. When she meets her baby sister for the first time she promises to look after her. When Joyce thinks she's dying Buffy promises to look after Dawn. This is either learned or inherited from Joyce (to an extent). Joyce attacks Spike with an axe to protect Buffy. Joyce is easily manipulated to protect Sunnydale from the occult. Joyce realises that Dawn is not her child but still believes that she needs to be protected. Dawn protects her friends from the ghosts in the new Sunnydale High basement. Dawn protects Amanda from the vampire and the bringers before encouraging her to fight on her own.

Her friends can't always handle it but Buffy shoulders the responsibility of the world on her shoulders. Not just because she is a slayer but because she is also a Summers.

But back to when things get personal, when the chips are down and you're having a bad day at the end of a bad week in a bad year.

When their loved ones are hurt, or killed, or (sighs) sleep with someone you don't like. Willow, Giles and Xander give in to their rage; they look for revenge and punitive justice. Willow attacks Glory when she steals Tara's mind and flays Warren alive after he kills her. Giles tries to kill Angel as revenge for Jenny Calendar. Xander tries to kill Spike after he and Anya sleep together. Buffy is not immune to this, like all good characters she is inconsistent and has flaws. She has a death match with Faith after she poisons Angel. Later she follows Faith to Angel the Series not as the slayer but as a wronged party seeking revenge and has to be talked down by Angel. However much she tries not to give in to anger she does fail but these failures remind her to keep her anger in check.

The coping mechanism I see Buffy use the most is to shutdown. When the world gets too much she withdraws. After killing Angel at the end of season 2 she runs away and starts a new, fake, life in LA as Anne. And what brings her back? Slaying. In the season 3 opener she introduces herself to the bad guy (with trademark Buffy/SMG wit and charm) as "Buffy, the Vampire Slayer. And you are?".

Anne is not who Buffy is, she is a mask she wore while grieving, while isolated from her friends and family. Buffy is The Slayer, a protector of the innocent, a kicker of ass.

Buffy shuts down a few more times during the show. Notably in 'The Body' she regresses to an almost childlike state, unsure of herself and readily following orders from authority figures, only brought out if it by Tara's kind words and shared experience. The big one, however, being before the S5 finale when all hope (and Dawn) seems lost. Practically catatonic Buffy forces Willow to take charge of the scooby gang and use some magical therapy to get Buffy to "Snap out of it!".

Buffy frequently falls back on being an emotionless slayer when she doesn't want to deal with her emotions ('going through the motions' as it were). She tries her best to not let her personal life and her own feelings get in the way of being a slayer (not always a good thing).

So now we get to season 7, quite a lot of criticism for this one, but I like it. As would be expected of the final season this is Buffy at her most grown, a responsible adult and leader. Gone is the lone slayer from the pilot, in her place is a general, leading her army to war against the biggest bad we've ever faced. Ironically this leadership position has made Buffy more alone than ever before, everyone questions her judgement, everyone has their own ideas, few are willing to actually take the reins.

In S7 Buffy might be at her most functional, while also being the most shutdown. She can't let herself connect with the potential players because she knows that they are counting on her and whatever she tries will lead them to their death.

(As an aside I think her volatile relationship with Faith serves the narrative the best here, allowing Buffy to give in to an anger she rarely lets herself act on or even feel.)

Episode 5 (a quarter of the way through) is titled 'Selfless', a heartbroken Anya has become a vengeance demon again and started killing people, too many for Buffy and the gang to ignore it. Buffy decides to kill her (Anya seems to be attempting suicide by cop, no longer enjoying the vengeance that once fueled her).

Xander is unable to see Buffy's point of view here, he sees Buffy as a blood-thirsty avenger because that's what he has done in the past, as have Willow and Giles. He is unable to see Buffy as a levelheaded Slayer who understands her enemy. Buffy does not want to kill Anya because it's easy but because it's the right thing to do. Anya is tasked with enacting bloody vengeance on 'innocent' people on behalf of injured parties. Buffy is tasked with killing monsters to protect innocent people. The two aren't really compatible.

Unfortunately Buffy is already shutting down emotionally by this point in the season and the thought of killing her friend does not make her open up about her feelings.

Buffy has constantly put the weight and responsibility of the world on her shoulders (both voluntarily and as the calling of a higher power). She cuts herself of from her friends and family that do not and cannot understand her life and while this makes things easier for her it also makes it harder for them to understand her. Buffy is constantly alone, whether on a pedestal or kicked to the kerb.

Sometimes it's easier to push the emotions down than to feel them.

[billboard-hotties-tourney]

Okay, folks, the mini-tourney is inching closer to the finals, so I'm going to give a list of the competitors in the Miss Billboard Tourney in order to give everyone a chance to submit more propaganda. The nominees are:

Lale Andersen

Marian Anderson

Signe Toly Anderson

Julie Andrews

LaVerne Andrews

Maxene Andrews

Patty Andrews

Ann-Margret

Joan Armatrading

Dorothy Ashby

Joan Baez

Pearl Bailey

Belle Baker

Josephine Baker

LaVern Baker

Florence Ballard

Brigitte Bardot

Eileen Barton

Fontella Bass

Shirley Bassey

Maggie Bell

Lola Beltran

Ivy Benson

Gladys Bentley

Jane Birkin

Cilla Black

Ronee Blakley

Teresa Brewer

Anne Briggs

Ruth Brown

Joyce Bryant

Vashti Bunyan

Kate Bush

Montserrat Caballe

Maria Callas

Blanche Calloway

Wendy Carlos

Cathy Carr

Raffaella Carra

Diahann Carroll

Karen Carpenter

June Carter Cash

Charo

Cher

Meg Christian

Gigliola Cinquetti

Petula Clark

Merry Clayton

Patsy Cline

Rosemary Clooney

Natalie Cole

Judy Collins

Alice Coltrane

Betty Comden

Barbara Cook

Rita Coolidge

Gal Costa

Ida Cox

Karen Dalton

Marie-Louise Damien

Betty Davis

Jinx Dawson

Doris Day

Blossom Dearie

Kiki Dee

Lucienne Delyle

Sandy Denny

Jackie DeShannon

Gwen Dickey

Marlene Dietrich

Marie-France Dufour

Julie Driscoll

Yvonne Elliman

Cass Elliot

Maureen Evans

Agnetha Faeltskog

Marianne Faithfull

Mimi Farina

Max Feldman

Gracie Fields

Ella Fitzgerald

Roberta Flack

Lita Ford

Connie Francis

Aretha Franklin

France Gall

Judy Garland

Crystal Gayle

Gloria Gaynor

Bobbie Gentry

Astrud Gilberto

Donna Jean Godchaux

Lesley Gore

Eydie Gorme

Margo Guryan

Sheila Guyse

Nina Hagen

Francoise Hardy

Emmylou Harris

Debbie Harry

Annie Haslam

Billie Holiday

Mary Hopkin

Lena Horne

Helen Humes

Betty Hutton

Janis Ian

Mahalia Jackson

Wanda Jackson

Etta James

Joan Jett

Bessie Jones

Etta Jones

Gloria Jones

Grace Jones

Shirley Jones

Tamiko Jones

Janis Joplin

Barbara Keith

Carole King

Eartha Kitt

Chaka Khan

Hildegard Knef

Gladys Knight

Sonja Kristina

Patti Labelle

Cleo Laine

Nicolette Larson

Daliah Lavi

Vicky Leandros

Peggy Lee

Rita Lee

Alis Lesley

Barbara Lewis

Abbey Lincoln

Melba Liston

Julie London

Darlene Love

Lulu

Anni-Frid Lyngstad

Barbara Lynn

Loretta Lynn

Vera Lynn

Siw Malmkvist

Lata Mangeshkar

Linda McCartney

Kate McGarrigle

Christie McVie

Bette Midler

Jean Millington

June Millington

Liza Minnelli

Carmen Miranda

Joni Mitchell

Liz Mitchell

Marion Montgomery

Lee Morse

Nana Mouskouri

Anne Murray

Wenche Myhre

Holly Near

Olivia Newton-John

Stevie Nicks

Nico

Laura Nyro

Virginia O’Brien

Odetta

Yoko Ono

Shirley Owens

Patti Page

Dolly Parton

Freda Payne

Michelle Phillips

Edith Piaf

Ruth Pointer

Leontyne Price

Suzi Quatro

Gertrude Rainey

Bonnie Raitt

Carline Ray

Helen Reddy

Della Reese

Martha Reeves

June Richmond

Jeannie C. Riley

Minnie Riperton

Jean Ritchie

Chita Rivera

Clara Rockmore

Linda Ronstadt

Marianne Rosenberg

Diana Ross

Anna Russell

Melanie Safka

Buffy Sainte-Marie

Samantha Sang

Pattie Santos

Hazel Scott

Doreen Shaffer

Jackie Shane

Marlena Shaw

Sandie Shaw

Dinah Shore

Judee Sill

Carly Simon

Nina Simone

Nancy Sinatra

Siouxsie Sioux

Grace Slick

Bessie Smith

Mamie Smith

Patti Smith

Ethel Smyth

Mercedes Sosa

Ronnie Spector

Dusty Springfield

Mavis Staples

Candi Staton

Barbra Streisand

Poly Styrene

Maxine Sullivan

Donna Summer

Pat Suzuki

Norma Tanega

Tammi Terrell

Sister Rosetta Tharpe

Big Mama Thornton

Mary Travers

Moe Tucker

Tina Turner

Twiggy

Bonnie Tyler

Sylvia Tyson

Sarah Vaughan

Sylvie Vartan

Mariska Veres

Akiko Wada

Claire Waldoff

Jennifer Warnes

Dee Dee Warwick

Dionne Warwick

Dinah Washington

Ethel Waters

Elisabeth Welch

Kitty Wells

Mary Wells

Juliane Werding

Tina Weymouth

Cris Williamson

Ann Wilson

Mary Wilson

Nancy Wilson

Anna Mae Winburn

Syreeta Wright

Tammy Wynette

Nan Wynn

Those in italics have five or more pieces of usable visual, written, or audio propaganda already. If you have any visuals like photos or videos, or if you have something to say in words, submit it to this blog before round one begins on June 25th!

If you don't see a name you submitted here, it's because most or all of their career was as a child/they were too young for the cutoff, their career was almost entirely after 1979, or music was something they only dabbled in and are hardly known for. There are quite a few ladies on the list whose primary career wasn't "recording artist" or "live musician," but released several albums or were in musical theater, so they've been accepted.

[starchants]

FORTNIGHT

buffy summers x female!reader ; reader grieves buffy.

word count — 664.

themes + warnings ; we’re in for an angsty one tbh! buffy has been officially dead and in heaven for two weeks currently in this fic! mentions of mental health problems, mentions of drinking alcohol to the point of toeing the line between a normal individual and borderline alcoholic, also this is a pre-established relationship!!

author’s note — this fic had originally started my anthology series for the tortured poets department by taylor swift but i had scrapped the idea due to a mental health crash.

support mention ; if you feel like supporting, a nice ‘like’ will suffice on my blog, i know some writers love to ask nicely if you could reblog or comment etc. yet on my blog (no hate towards them as everyone likes appreciation in different ways), but if you’d like to reblog or comment feel free after all this is a safe space for any fan-individual to have fun :’)

masterlist

a fortnight had changed the fate of everything. a simple two weeks had destroyed y/n y/l/n. she was supposed to be dragged away by the police, upon a legal order that her own mother had called in — out of worry for her own daughter, but no one ever cared to even show up to drag her kicking and screaming to the nearby psych ward in the sunnydale hospital.

her mother only noticed how even more quiet her daughter had become and how she became a hollow version of herself but never tended to notice how much alcohol that she was consuming in unhealthy amounts.

in fact nobody had. not even her dear friends or even frenemies had noticed it despite how much time she had spent with them. living more similarly to a phantom then an individual.

everyone simply assumed why y/n had become more quiet than ever was due to her grieving as everyone else happened to be. they didn’t notice that she would wait til she was alone in her family home during the night and scream as loud as she can, slurring her words and nearly tripping over her own feet, as she would go on and on about how the love of her life had performed her own quiet treason. how buffy summers refused to listen to her girlfriend’s own pleas to not sacrifice herself, once again, especially with the knowledge that she would never make it back alive.

buffy went behind her back and she blamed her. but, oh, how she loved her unabashedly and terribly all the same.

it was ruining her life transforming her into a terrible shell of the woman that she used to be. the treason made her damage everything that made her who she was and made her lose herself to the point of her dreams, whenever she would blackout from the alcohol, were filled with all of what she wished to tell buffy anne summers.

“you finally got me to be yours after years of me pining after you! years of you going to other men, having other lovers, while knowing for a fact that i’ve been in love with you since i met you! it only took that damned weekend trip to florida as you didn’t wanna be alone and you kissed me near the mailbox! you looked so damn cute wrapped up in my favorite sweater and yet i only held you and had you as mine for two weeks! two damned weeks buffy! then you go and ruin it all for what?! saving your sister when we could’ve gone down a different path if you just listened to me for once and didn’t go on to sacrifice yourself like you always do for others that don’t even care for you doing this repetitively!”

just another drink. just another sip. just another blackout sleep. that’s all y/n told herself as she stumbled upon the staircase upon her journey to her bedroom. then she’d stop and let buffy go.

she’d stop loving buffy for the first time in years and just let the pretty blonde slayer go with her very last blackout sleep. one more night to see her in her dreams where she could let all her feelings out. just one more step and she’d be in her room. just one more step and she could let go of everything in the comfort of her bedroom. just one more step.

just one more step and her sorrowful heart could stop beating it’s depressing drum. just one more step and the wooden door creaked open to reveal the pretty deceased blonde sitting upon her bed with soaking wet hair from her shower and grave dirt still underneath her fingernails solely dressed in y/n’s favorite sweater.

just one more step and she could feel her heart starting to sway away from it’s depressing drum. just one more step and she could reach out to touch her again.

[mistigrisunshine]

spuffy fic rec

part 1 - part 2 - part 3

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Monky Business by Girlytek [18k]

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In Remission by Quinara [19k]

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Devouring Time by Sigyn [20k]

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There's something about Anne by Frillyria [44k]

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Here's the deal: Buffy's got no idea how to beat Glory, or how they're gonna book it across the country in a moldy RV without anyone killing each other, especially now that someone broke one of the beds—and the thought of going home again kinda makes her wanna cry. The one thing she knows is that Spike would follow her anywhere, even like this.

The Key is Donnie Summers by Girlytek [121k]

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[summers-pratt]

Why are we supposed to be appalled that Spike falls in love with Buffy. Like we all are on board for it bc we're all sickos and I love that for us but like, the intention was for it to be like "Oh gross the soulless evil vampire who wanted to kill her and her friends loves her now eww" But like. Have you SEEN Buffy Anne Summers, played by Sarah Michelle Gellar???? Who wouldn't fall in love with her like OF COURSE Spike falls in love with her!!! Even setting aside every single detail about his character that makes her perfect for him, Buffy as a character is just the most lovable adorable freaky intelligent hilarious stubborn courageous embarrassing gorgeous perfect combination of actual goodness that anyone who doesn't fall in love with her is just lying to themselves. Of COURSE he falls in love with her. It would make less sense if he didn't.