#sp*ffy and b*ngel both BAD

[richardgrimes]

an opinion i've come to once i got older: angel and buffy were gross he was old as hell even in human years

[housewarningparty]

3 & 25 for btvs for the ask game :3

3. screenshot or description of the worst take you’ve seen on tumblr

idk my dash is so well curated and i'm not in maintags very often so i feel like i'm pretty well insulated from bad takes. however, the worst ones i see usually seem to crop up in a ship war context which is SO tired in 2023 for a show that's like literally 25 years old lmao. anyway, hardcore sp*ffy-vs-b*ngel girlies u need to chill, you both had plenty to eat. me and the real faith-heads i'm friends with have been surviving on crumbs for decades. check your privilege. all of buffy's love interests variously suck and are guilty of unforgivable trespasses. lets get you some fruit, bitch.

although okay there WAS some discourse i saw get ugly a while back about like. spike and gender stereotyping. spike is like a woman for painting his nails and liking poetry and soap operas and when there was the slightest pushback on that for being kind of a yikes thing to be saying with your whole chest it DID quickly deteriorate into mean back biting so that fuckin sucked. that feels worst-take worthy

25. common fandom complaint that you’re sick of hearing

everyone shut up about kennedy. i knooooow the writers made her kind of annoying. but she's my best friend she was played by a queer mexican actress she had a TONGUE RING she literally changed my world, i related to kennedy in a way that i couldn't connect to willow and tara. leave her alone!!!

choose violence ask game

[zutaralesbian]

black sails and btvs for the ask meme!

Black Sails:

OTPs: Max/Anne, Max/Eleanor, Flint/Thomas

lowkey otps: Max/Idelle, Eleanor/Mrs Hudson, Silver/Muldoon

ships you wish more people shipped: I think almost everyone in the fandom ships Max/Anne but they don't get a ton of attention compared to the m/m ships. Same with Max/Eleanor, though I do actually wish more people shipped them.

ships you think are cute: Idelle/Featherstone

ships you see the appeal of but don’t ship: Silver/Madi. They have amazing chemistry and started off really cute. But the more I think about it, the more I don't think it would be in character for her to forgive him for what he did in the finale :( I also understand why people like Silver/Flint but it just isn't my cup of tea. Despite their lack of screentime Flint's arc was just so heavily tied to Thomas that I couldn't really imagine shipping him with someone else. Especially since I went in knowing Thomas was alive when I started watching.

ships that are usually brotp but can be otp: Max/Idelle

ships you don’t care about: Silver/Flint also falls into this category

ships you dislike:

ships you hate: Eleanor/Woodes and Eleanor/Vane. Trash.

crack ships: Eleanor/Miranda

ot3s: Anne/Max/Eleanor would have been my dream romantic endgame. I'll forever mourn the fact that we didn't get more Eleanor/Anne scenes. Also when it comes to trios I love both Max/Anne/Jack and Flint/Thomas/Miranda.

BTVS:

OTPs: Faith/Buffy. Could have been my dream enemies-to-friends-to-lovers f/f OTP :( And they would have fucked at least once if Faith was a man lbr

lowkey otps: Buffy/Tara, Buffy/Cordelia, Buffy/Anya, Buffy/Kendra. Buffy was a character that was just made for f/f ships. It's such a shame she never had a canon f/f romance on the show. Spike/Angel. Willow/Tara...is complicated for me. They gave me feels once in a while but I absolutely hated the way Willow treated Tara towards the end. Tara Maclay deserved so much better in general.

ships you wish more people shipped: I think Buffy/Faith has a decent following but not nearly as big as Sp*ffy or B*ngel. Also just femslash in general.

ships you think are cute: Willow/Tara had their cute moments before it started getting bad.

ships you see the appeal of but don’t ship:

ships that are usually brotp but can be otp: I think Willow and Xander both tended to be bad friends to Buffy a lot of the time. But once in a while I'll see a cute Buffy/Willow scene and get shippy feels.

ships you don’t care about: Buffy/Angel. They had their moments but I overall didn't find them very compelling. I think when I one day watch ATS I'll prefer Angel/Cordelia. Based on what I've seen of them they look more fun.

ships you dislike: Xander/Anya. They really expected me to believe that misandrist icon Anya Jenkins would fall in love with Nice Guy Xander?

ships you hate: Spike/Buffy. I almost put them in the 'ships I see the appeal of but don't ship' category but nah. They gross me out too much for that. He tried to rape her. Idc if he was having a humanity crisis that alone is a dead stop deal breaker for me. And their relationship was just really toxic in general. Also Willow/Oz. Willow is a lesbian.

crack ships:

ot3s: Buffy/Faith/Kendra

Thanks! :)