#goodbye lullaby gifset

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☆ everybody hurts - avril lavigne ☆

[sunnydaleherald]

The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Friday, January 12

(Giles gets up and walks towards her.) GILES: Um, Buffy, all of this is rather dependent on you're being able to control the Mayor. BUFFY: Faith told me to play on his human weakness. WILLOW: Faith told you? Was that before or after you put her into a coma? BUFFY: After. WILLOW:Oh.

~~Graduation Day Part 2~~

[Drabbles & Short Fiction]

Weekly Drabbles #68 — Wasteland by veronyxk84 (Buffy/Spike, PG-13)

Daily Drabble #8: Broken Mirror (Harmony/Anya) by MadeInGold (Harmony/Anya, G)

Resurgence by CoffeeHunt (Giles/Spike, E)

Prowling the PleasureScapes by teddyscott (Oz/Spike, M)

The female of the species by FPBarbieri (Sineya, T)

Daily Drabble #7: A Song of Sorrow (Spike/Xander) by MadeInGold (Xander/Spike, T)

Self-Care by Maxineeden (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

[Chaptered Fiction]

Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Shadowed Suspicion - Ch. 408 by madimpossibledreamer (Jojo's Bizarre Adventure xover, T)

How I Met your Father - Ch.10 by Nyleve_Hacy_Careese_Helliam_03 (Angel/Cordelia, other pairings, Not Rated) COMPLETE!

Back undead and little again - Ch. 1 by AnkiKind (Angel, Spike, Fred, M)

If I Died In Your Arms (Third Chances) - Ch. 1 by The_Red_Rabbit (Angel/Darla, Not Rated)

Slaying the Slayer - Ch. 3/? by WillowBee326 (Buffy/Faith, E)

For The Dark - Ch. 3/7 by CharcoalTeeth (Buffy/Faith, E)

[French language] Les deux Phénix - Ch. 6/? by FridayQueen (Buffy/Faith, M)

Halloween Horrors - Ch. 9 by AJ Fields (myfanfiction) (Xander/Anya, Tara/Willow, T)

Breaking Broken Hearts - Ch. 12/? by Jess_Ann_Perreault (Jenny/OFC, Giles/Jenny, T)

Do We Serve Water In This Bar? - Ch. 5/? by Alwaysandforevermylove (Buffy/Faith, E)

Omission - Ch. 9/? by toutes_les_routes (Spike/Riley, Buffy/Riley, E)

New Beginnings - Ch. 1 by slinky (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

Afterburn - Ch. 3 by Melme1325 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

What If Love Was Enough? - Ch. 10 by Spikelover4ever (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

A Waxy Gent Chuckled Over My Fab Jazzy Quips - Ch. 12 by violettathepiratequeen (Buffy/Spike, PG-13)

Pack My Box with Five Dozen Liquor Jugs - Ch. 12 by honeygirl51885 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

Love Ridden - Ch. 5 by scratchmeout (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

Goodbye to Everything That I Knew - Ch. 16 by fortes775 (Buffy/Spike, R)

The Neighbor's Point of View - Ch. 76 by the_big_bad (Buffy/Spike, PG)

Buffy the Tenno - Ch. 35 by DarkPhoenixLady (Buffy, Warframe universe xover, FR15)

A Darkened Night of the Soul - Ch. 1-24 by In Mortal (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

A Waxy Gent Chuckled Over My Fab Jazzy Quips - Ch. 12 by violettathepiratequeen (Buffy/Spike, PG-13)

Pack My Box with Five Dozen Liquor Jugs - Ch. 12 by honeygirl51885 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

Love Ridden - Ch. 5 by scratchmeout (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

Out For A Walk... Bitch - Ch. 6-7 by MaggieLaFey (Buffy/Spike, Adult Only)

What the Drabble? - Ch. 68 by VeroNyxK84 (Buffy/Spike, R)

[Images, Audio & Video]

Artwork: The Watcher by SortDeep5635 (Giles, worksafe)

Artwork: Commission for @greensword101 based on their angel au... by artsying-ifer (Connor, worksafe)

Gifset: Faith told me to play on his human weakness... by fuffygifs [by charmedslayer] (Buffy, Faith, worksafe)

Gifset: It must be exhausting always rooting for the anti-hero... by andremichaux (Buffy/Spike, worksafe)

Gifset: I can't explain what it is that I feel right now... by andremichaux (ensemble, worksafe)

Manip: SuSuSunnydale, here's to the fools who love by loveisntbrains (Buffy/Spike, worksafe)

[Reviews & Recaps]

... I've just finished Lullaby (Angel 3x08) and a couple of things... by keanherself

Day: 10 Favorite Season 3 Episode [Bad Girls, The Prom] by k0nstantly-tragic

Day: 11 Favorite Season 4 Episode [Hush, This Year's Girl, Who Are You?] by k0nstantly-tragic

Recently watched the episode of Buffy where Jonathan... by hieronymus-botch

[Recs & In Search Of]

ISO: aeongsoul seeks Buffy/Faith fic recs [responses in the notes]

In_Imbolic by duh_i_write rec'd by February Fangest [Throwback Thursdays - Spike/Drusilla]

[Fandom Discussions]

Angel and the Claddagh Ring by abreathofsnowandashes

[Kendra Young commentary in the tags] Season 2 Inkworks 1999 Trading Card by spikedru

Just wanted to say I have a crush on you... [Buffy x Faith text messages] by captain-peroxid3

Why is Spike so polarizing? updated by garfan

Would Buffy and Faith Stay In The Police Force? [post S12 in the comics] by Priceless and Stoney

Times where a character dropping the F bomb would have been appropriate? by jdpm1991

What's with the double standards with how Buffy and Willow are treated? by Rainbow_dreaming

I’m on my first watch through and up to season 6 and these are my thoughts... [Spuffy question] by constantsurvivor

Xander’s speech to buffy in S5E10 was not for her at all [anti Riley] by Stranger_2000

That time Anya read Xander to filth..... (spoiler in second image) by alrtight

Giles playing dress up with Spike when he was living with him by alrtight

What is the worst thing this character has ever done? [Giles] by Buffster13

I’m currently watching Angel (mid season 1) and Cordelia changed so much since Buffy. I’m loving her! by kindaweird0

What do you think of “Are You Now or Have You Ever Been”? by JellyfishDry9464

What was evil Cordelia’s original plan before the rewrite? by grkpektis

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[piracytheorist]

Top 5 Colin moments!

5. Just today I was thinking about the goodbye scene in OUAT 5x20 "Firebird".

God, we absolutely did not deserve Colin here (neither did the script but that's besides the point). The way you see that Hook's heart is shattering right in front of us yet he then tries to put on a smile so that Emma doesn't lose it too... It’s because of how real it feels. How sad and pained his smile later looks - while he’s still crying - that it feels so fucking raw and real. And so, despite the oppositions I have to this scene in regards to narration (like, why have such an emotional goodbye when everyone fucking knows y’all aren’t gonna keep them apart) it’s still an amazingly acted scene that Colin deserves awards for.

4. Any, and I mean any, moment of him + music is an instant fave for me. Considering his guitar and singing skills it’s an outright crime that outside the OUAT musical, the only time he’s showed those on screen was for The Dust Storm (Douxie technically doesn’t count because a) he doesn’t sing (as well as Colin does at least) and b) he’s animated, we don’t see Colin’s talent come to life), so Brennan it is.

Like, sometimes people confuse “music” with “performance”. It’s one thing to be able to pick up an instrument and play something. But to be able to perform in front of an audience? I am a musician myself, but I am not a soloist performer. I mean, I could technically do it, but I’d get too stressed and nervous and in general it’s not my forte - nor my preference. Other things regarding music are that, and with my experience I have a much deeper respect for musicians who are good performers. And Colin is exactly that. He’s shy and reserved but once he picks up a guitar he turns into a wholly different human, and I love that.

3. I wouldn’t be me if I didn’t choose a whumpy scene, and I think the one most showing of Colin’s talent is the one in 5x14, where he rejects Hades’ deal.

It’s... wow. With a shit-ton of makeup on him, one of his eyes covered with that fake skin thing, and he still nails the portrayal of Hook’s emotions - his anger at Hades, his defiance, his pain, and most of all, his fear. Like, when he closes his eyes and winces, because he knows that with Hades getting angry, more pain is coming... god im safsfddgstersfgdfhg

2. The ending of What StiΙl Remains.

Again, Peter is fully a problematic fave, I'd never condone or excuse anything he does in the film; but you very damn well understand why he turned that way. And in the end, he's just broken and lost and is just absolutely desperate to find something to give his life meaning. And Colin slays in this moment. How he portrays that feeling of emptiness and, at the same time, despair to find a footing. And even though you can’t help but hate him by the end, you also feel a bit (or a lot!) sorry about how his life and his circumstances have turned him into that kind of monster.

1. I think I’ll forever and always lose my fucking mind with the scene where Hook sings his mother’s lullaby to baby Alice.

One of the gifsets I reblogged from that very moment, just a little while after I was done watching the episode, I had tagged as this:

and I still kinda miss having a gif of it as my header. But seriously, especially considering that Colin has talked about how he loves this scene, because he was having fresh emotions from his own daughter’s birth as he was holding that baby, and you can just see how that bleeds into his acting of Hook as a father who’s immediately adoring his newborn daughter... I think it will legitimately stay with me forever.

Ask me my Top 5/Top 10 anything!