#joyce summers

[miss-kitty-fantastico]

And succeeded!!!

Joyce Summers is so teenage girl cuz girl got turned into a teen for a day and immediately tried to fuck Giles

[sparklyfaerie]

Watching 2x11 right now and I know Joyce is under some kind of mind control or drugged or whatever, but it made my blood boil when Buffy told her that Ted had threatened her and she just dismissed her. Like that shit happened to me when I was a kid. (My stepfather hit me. My mother didn't believe me. It only happened once but I still remember it crystal clear like 25+ years later.) I don't care if Buffy is the slayer, that shit is traumatising.

This is the kind of thing that makes parents feel unsafe for their kids to go to when they're hurt or in trouble. Combined with the psych ward stay, it's no fucking wonder Buffy doesn't trust her mother with the knowledge that she's the slayer until she absolutely has to.

[whatisyourchildhoodtrauma]

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER | 3.10 "Amends"

[nocontextbtvs]

[laufeysons]

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER REWATCH -> Bad Eggs (2.12)

[flarky]

Buffy The Vampire Slayer ↪ Season 3 Episode 18 | "Earshot"

[buffysource]

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER

4.15 | This Year's Girl

[abadbadbrujah]

I was reminded of Spike and Joyce's friendship. We all know why Spike loves hanging around Joyce but then the question popped into my head of "why does Joyce like Spike" we know it's frequent enough to "always had a nice cuppa for me" but Joyce never says why when she knows he's a Vampire that tried to kill Buffy in the past.

THEN I remember that Joyce works at a gallery for antiques, and was seemingly drawn to a really fucking creepy one enough to put it in her house. And it hits me, Spike is a creepy antique that Joyce can interact with. One that she can gain first hand knowledge of the past, or extract wisdom from even if it's only about a Passions storyline.

[automatonwithautonomy]

the moment where spike brings joyce flowers fucks me up so much. because. he liked her. she treated him like a person. something maybe no one else had ever done for - decades. longer. he had a bad break-up and she gave him cocoa. made awkward small talk. she didnt act like he was a freak. so he went to her grave. helped her grieving child try to resurrect her. he looked after her daughters. he didn't like seeing summers women take it so hard on the chin. he just - he liked joyce.

[autumnknight]

"I love what you neglected to do with the place"

Joyce is so funny. I love that her and Spike get along and that Buffy trusts Spike to keep Dawn and Joyce safe.

[clarkgriffon]

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER 3x08 | “Lovers Walk” 

[acorpsecalledcorva]

Can't stop thinking about how in Helpless Buffy having been let down by her father is absolutely desperate to feel like a child, to feel like she's actually being looked after and cared for and is practically begging Giles as her de facto father figure to step in and take her to the ice show, to stop treating her as the slayer for one night, only for him to immediately betray her. Not only that but he does so by giving her exactly what she wants and makes her an ordinary girl only for it to not matter because EVEN THEN there's no escape from murder and mayhem and saving her own mother because no one will ever save HER.

I can't believe she even has an inner child in The Weight of the World, that little pigtailed girl must have been buried so so so deep after that night.

[whatisyourchildhoodtrauma]

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER | 3.08 “Lovers Walk”

[canciqer]

[thequeenofsastiel]

I love that in 2x22, after Buffy and Spike killed that vampire in front of Joyce, and Joyce asked what was going on, Buffy looked at Spike. The way we look at people when we don't know what to do, and want their silent thoughts, or to seek strength. Buffy had literally just formed an uneasy alliance with Spike less than an hour before, and yet when it came to whether or not to reveal her true self to her mother, to possibly change their entire relationship, Buffy still looked to Spike for advice or strength. It was like from the very get-go, she trusted him. She might not have consciously realized it, but she did.

[theveryunlikelywonderland]

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