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[most-fuckable-ff14-lady]

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[sunny-rants]

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[starrieshq]

So you're telling me that 3 twinks and Dru Blackthorn will save the world in The Wicked Powers

What the fuck is Cassandra Clare gatekeeping from us

[raisedbythetv89]

I've been thinking about the invisible string of it all as it relates to spuffy for the last 48 hours and I'm still going INSANE about it 😹😭

So Liam/Angel/Angelus who uses young girls at best or abuses, psychologically torments and kills them at worst does the worst of the worst to Drusilla and once she's completely broken and hopelessly devoted to him and and only him he immediately loses interest which of course leads to the creation of Spike

Spike who is obsessed with slayers because instead of running from what is designed to destroy him he seeks it out and sees it as a fun and exciting challenge he learns from. Spike who killed two slayers, one who lost her weapon and the other who wished for death. Who's deaths are obviously instrumental in what brings about Buffy the Vampire Slayer being called (Spike also later both preventing the fulfillment of Buffy's death wish and helping her secure THE slayer weapon by giving her the strength she needs??? THE POETRY!!!!)

So Buffy is called when she's called because of all the slayer deaths that came before her and Angel's predatory selfishness and obsession with breaking young innocent girls leads to him eventually losing his soul. Which in combination with his need to constantly belittle Spike for genuinely loving for and caring for Dru aka being feminine and sensitive by taking Drusilla from him and constantly rubbing it in his face and making fun of him for being stuck in a wheelchair aka being weak and helpless (which only happened because he was trying to save Dru and heal her! Demonstrating how rooted in misogyny all of angel's behavior is soul or no soul) is what prompts the origins of Spuffy! Misogyny and cruelty at the hands of Angel combined with Spike and Buffy's determination to never give up no matter how hopeless the circumstances and never back down even if that means teaming up with your enemy is the birth of their relationship!!! They both would literally do anything for love!!! Be it an evil vampire saving the world or the Slayer teaming up with the Slayer of Slayers!!!! Which of course the truce is what causes Spike and Dru to break up which leads to Spike confronting Buffy with the reality about her relationship to angel and the true nature of it. Which of course angel is a manipulative monster who doesn't accept her breaking up with him and moving on so he threatens suicide and then they're back together and THEN once she's comfortable and secure around him, supported by joyce who both institutionalized and kicked buffy out for being the slayer - is like oop it's time to GO girl and breaks up with her in the dumbest most traumatic unresolved way possible and is what leads to her giving "normal" aka Riley a chance because Angel calls their relationship a freak-show and that she, the slayer.... should be normal.....

Which then in s4 Riley and the initiative try and tame and control both Spike and Buffy and when they can't they want them destroyed (the chip, the attempt on Buffy's life and her constantly feeling guilty for being stronger than him and being the slayer, Riley fake staking Spike for outing his betrayal to Buffy and literally blowing up their safe haven in s6) again pushing them together onto the same side, united against a common enemy in s4/5 or propelling them into growth in s6 when the goal was just destruction of Spike/Buffy's comfort in his presence and instead it starts the chain of events that leads to him getting his soul which allows Buffy to love him and let him back into her life and this time her own home without guilt or shame!!!

Then in season 7 both the chip (everything Riley represents) angel and even faith (with the most uncomfortable try hard flirting attempt I've ever seen the second hand embarrassment I get watching her try and hit on Spike is SO strong 🤢😭) try to come between them and pull them apart, create doubt or put them at odds, all fail as now they are an unshakable team that cannot be divided

Where before they were forced onto the same sides by outside forces they're now choosing each other again and again even in the face of outward hostility, disapproval and outright sabatoge from everyone in her life.

Spike and Buffy's relationship is the story of a young girl and a sensitive more feminine man turned vampire who were taught to hate their softness, their femininity, their big hearts, their otherness and were literally designed to destroy each other. Who when the universe kept forcing them together instead of destruction they alchemized the misogyny, abuse and homophobia (as the supernatural is used many times as a metaphor for queerness) they endured both individually and together into liberation for young girls (in the show but for the audience it's representative of liberation for all victims of abuse or oppression no matter your gender identity) everywhere while breaking all the ties that sought to control them and it was all started with Angel's destruction and subsequent abandonment of Drusilla! An abusive predatory man's actions unwittingly lead to the empowerment of THOUSANDS of super-powered young girls who are now able to fight back against monsters like him. Showcasing how abusers and tyrants always create their own downfall because of people like Spike and Buffy who in the face of adversity and pain grow better and stronger out of sheer determination.

There is also a fan theory that Dru was a potential who was about to be called and that's why she was plagued with visions so if all of this is like the ULTIMATE slayer's line revenge on both the council and the original cowardly men who used a young girl to fight their battles for them and on men like angel who lost his control over Buffy and had to watch her chose Spike over him both in s7 when she sends him away and in the comics that makes all of this even more iconic like the ultimate long game revenge but even if it's not and Dru wasn't a potential - an abusive monster who loves to target the weak and helpless tormenting and killing a young innocent girl starting the chain reaction of events that leads to the largest liberation of young girls who would have been exploited and controlled by the council and doomed to short lives full of nothing but fighting and isolation is just fucking incredible 😭 and that is what spuffy represents and what that relationship means to me and why no matter what shit joss tried to throw at us through the narrative or what the anti's say to this day - none of it ever sticks because spuffy is literally about dealing with abusive people just like him and overcoming the pain they cause and turning it into personal growth and healing.

[camellcat]

buffy and drusilla should've been allowed to make out. at least once :/

[mycatismyfriend]

AtS | 2x11 "Redefinition"

[faithlesbian]

do you ever wish btvs had pushed the rating higher in exchange for just a little more blood? done in photoshop, blood-free version under the cut

[tweedfrog]

[deeply-unserious-fellow]

So. I have some thoughts. And I could put them into words, but I think it's better if I just...

Also:

Okay those are my thoughts :)

[breezybeej]

Literally every time a toxic couple breaks up on Buffy, it is shown that these two actually really loved each other and it is so funny every single time.

I just watched Spike waltz away from my girl Harmony and when the camera zoomed in on her crying I nearly threw up. Girl what is wrong with you.

[spyder-baby]

Spike from Buffy the Vampire Slayer but it's actually "Raw Power" by Iggy and the Stooges

Search and Destroy

Soul radiation in the dead of night/Love in the middle of a firefight

2. Gimme Danger

Raise my feelings one more time

3. Your Pretty Face Is Going to Hell

If you wanna make a buck, boy, you gotta be a tease, uh huh

4. Penetration

Stick it hard, babe/Stick it hard

5. Raw Power

Look in the eyes of a savage girl/Fall deep in love in the underworld

6. I Need Somebody

I need somebody, baby/I need somebody, too/I need somebody, baby/Just like you

7. Shake Appeal

Gotta bite/Baby I gotta have a bite

8. Death Trip

Said I'm with you, you're with me/Honey, we're going down in history

[smallblueandloud]

SPIKE HAS JUST MADE HIS FIRST APPEARANCE AND READERS: I'M AFRAID I'M CHARMED AS HELL

[crrative]

The Sides as Buffy the Vampire Slayer characters, written for my own satisfaction:

Roman as Buffy. Peppy, headstrong chosen one with a penchant for quips? Absolutely.

Virgil as Angel. Vampire with a soul and, subsequently, depression. Probably burdened with glorious purpose or something.

Logan as Giles, no shit. The actual librarian. The Slayer's mentor and the teacher and the one with the books and all of that shite. We love.

Patton as Willow. The Slayer's best friend, the one with the sweet disposition and the one who snaps and turns a man inside out and then sets him on fire when they kill her girlfriend.

Janus as Spike. Their aesthetics don't match but they're both spiteful little fuckers and Spike and Angel hate one another almost as much as Janus and Virgil do. Shit's funny.

Remus as Drusilla because they're both fuckin batshit I guess lol there is no other similarity between them

[gh-0-stcup]

Some of the ways people talk about Drusilla is a bit odd? Like, how a lot of people insist she cheated on Spike frequently throughout their relationship. When as far as I remember, there isn't actually any evidence to back that up.

There's more to suggest she was faithful from the time the fang gang split up until Angelus' return in the 90s. Spike says to Buffy he wants it to go back to being just him and Dru again. He's shocked and deeply hurt by her messing around post s2, a reaction I don't think would have been so extreme if this was normal behavior for her. Also, both Angelus and Spike are shocked when Darla and Dru sleep with the Immortal, suggesting they were at the very least keeping things inside the group.

A lot of the talk veers hard on the side of slut shaming - Dru's a ho who can't keep her legs closed because she doesn't give two fucks about her vampire husband. Generally ignoring the complexities of the situation like Dru's Stockholmy relationship with Angelus and Spike's increasing attraction to Buffy.

And when certain complexities are acknowledged, it often comes with some fairly ableist rhetoric. Mainly Dru's insane so she can't love anyone. I can understand "she's an evil vampire, so she can't love" (though I disagree). But she plays with dolls and sees things that aren't there, therefore she's incapable of love? Kind of a messed up thing to assert, tbh.

She struggles with psychosis and a bit of age regression due to her severe PTSD, I don't see how those things make a person incapable of loving other people. Dru is arguably right there with Spike as one of the most loving vamps in the series. The focus of her emotional attachment is just more on the family unit (Darla, Angelus, and Spike) than his.

[raisedbythetv89]

joss - vampires should be UGLY and evil - whedon everybody!!

(I didn’t include david partly because he’s average to me but mostly because he wasn’t cast as a vampire originally and jw was forced to make him one where as making harmony one was his choice)

But isn’t it interesting (it’s not it’s misogyny) that Joss would only throw tantrums about women finding Spike attractive and loving him but we never heard a PEEP about anyone who found Darla, Drusilla, or Harmony attractive…… HOW BIZARRE

Truly had NO ONE to blame but himself for these casting choices??? Darla was literally the FIRST VAMPIRE we see and Julie is one of the most stunning creatures on the planet??? DONT BLAME US FOR LOVING THEM JOSS BLAME YOURSELF

[camellcat]

just finished crush on my s5 rewatch and oh my god I NEED to know what the general opinion was when that episode first came out. how did y'all og buffy fans react to that??