#william the bloody awful poet

[its-a-livie]

Ok but think of this trio forming a book club

[iamnotathornbird]

aiight so i've been obsessing thinking about fictional character crushes for a minute now, because tbh i don't like this lusty obsessive hyperfixation bc it just gives me this weird desperate sad longing feeling in my gut (i think it's knowing that 1. this crush is not going anywhere, ever, for multiple reasons, and 2. namely the fact that they are not real) that i'd rather not feel.

anyways.

i figured it out what sets it off, and the three big ones (spike, peeta mellark & eddie qavvik) all give their love interests this one look at some point. it's this look that conveys adoration, and love, and not really asking for anything in return (at least not in that moment) and it just gets me like 😳😤🤩😍

[iamnotathornbird]

(pic is from SMG's IG, sarahmgellar)

listen..... i know actors are people, and people age, but there's something i find so upsetting about watching vampire actors aged IRL. like, please stop aging james. you're supposed to look like you're 34 years old in perpetuity and you're supposed to outlive me, by several hundred years, ok? 🥺

[winepresswrath]

i've reached drusilla my perfect baby girl oooh it is so good that a) darla picks her out as a present for angelus b) she's actually kind of disturbed by what angelus did to drusilla. like it was a very explicit student surpasses the master moment in text.

[iamnotathornbird]

[idreamofspring1]

Four Fictional Crushes

thanks @galvanizedfriend for the tag

Keeping this to TV shows

1. William Pratt

William the Bloody Awful Poet

William the Bloody

Spike

You will always have my heart

2. Klaus Mikaelson

He makes me feral. FERAL.

3. Sawyer

I mean, look at him

4. Sauron

So evil and so hot 🔥

No pressure tags to

@iamstartraveller776

@artemisravencourtney

@kcthescreamqueen

@fiddledeedee85

@belleyousra

@finnismyoriginalsin

and anyone else who wants to play

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[blackdogswims]

So apparently the church scene in s7e2 Beneath You was originally been written by Doug Petrie, before it got binned by Joss Whedon who rewrote it the way it ended up in the show. The Petrie version was... not good. I find myself in the awkward place of having to give Joss kudos.

Here's a link to James Marsters discussing the change:

Here's Petrie's version, pulled from the above Reddit post:

A CEMETERY. 

It's dark, long shadows cast from headstones. Buffy comes running into the cemetery, stops.

She looks around, searching.

But the place is empty. Buffy turns to go, then stops. She looks back to the sole source of light casting these long headstone shadows...

Buffy's POV - We see, at the far end of the graveyard, a solitary CHURCH. A single light comes from within.

Buffy stares at it a moment, some kind of peace coming over her. Then she walks toward the church

INT. CHURCH - NIGHT

Twin heavy doors swing slowly open and Buffy enters the church. She hears the sound of sobbing.

She walks in, cautiously, drawing a stake.

Buffy's POV -  We see a figure, its back to us, sitting in one of the pews, rocking gently back and forth.

Buffy approaches. It is Spike, sitting alone, looking as lost and frightened as he can. He speaks softly and sanely.

SPIKE: I figured it out. Took awhile, yeah, but...I think the real problem is...

He looks to Buffy, eyes wide, vulnerable,

SPIKE : I was once this really nice guy.

Buffy remains cautious, keeping her distance.

BUFFY: So that's the problem.

SPIKE: I think.

BUFFY: Got news, Spike. You're not that nice.

Spike laughs, quietly, enjoying the irony of a good joke.

SPIKE: Yeah. I've been...well come on- Let's face it, been a one-man slaughterhouse, last hundred years. Raping. Murdering. And for what? (beat) Kicks.

He stands in the pew, bows his head in reverence.

SPIKE: William the Bloody awful poet, skipping down the lane...good boy, bad boy, all the sodding same. You like it? Wrote that one myself.

He rolls his head around slowly, up to the ceiling, staring.

SPIKE: Is it hot enough in here to burn all your mortal sins away? 

And suddenly, vampire-fast, he stands straight up.

SPIKE: Or am I just crazy? 

He laughs, steps from the pew, into the aisle.

SPIKE: Stuffy. Stuffed. Full, packed, sorry mate, no room, out you go, we're packed to the bloody brim, standing room only and no room for that. We. Are. Full.

Buffy steps back, giving him a wide berth. Spike lurches forward, up the church aisle, zig-zagging left and right, but always moving forward.

SPIKE: Full of sin. Full of guilt. Full of hate and love and loss and feeling. Full of it, quite frankly and it's been so long.(laughs) Since we felt anything here. Rusty switchboard, sparked to life, bound to be more'n a few sharp shocks.

Buffy slowly following behind, never losing grip on that stake, and watching...

SPIKE: Right? RIGHT?!? Shh. Quiet. Church. His house. Place of clasped hands, reverent hymns, and massive raw amounts of BEGGING. On your knees, boy. Beg him. BEG HIM...

And we see where Spike is heading: at the head of the altar, there stands a large, carved-stone CRUCIFIX.

SPIKE:...for forgiveness.

BUFFY: Spike...

SPIKE: Buffy. I can't sleep. Can't think. There's voices and darkness and blindness and pain and help me, I- I...

He keeps walking, slowly, up the aisle. Gets to the altar's steps and keeps going...straight to the cross.

BUFFY: You have a soul.

Spike stops at the cross. Responds without looking back.

SPIKE: I do indeed.

He wearily lets his head rest upon the stone crucifix. And STEAM rises from where his flesh makes contact. He grimaces, but does not scream.

SPIKE: And it's killing me.

He reaches out and HUGS the crucifix with both arms. Steam rises from his palms.

SPIKE: God...

He releases the cross, slowly pulling back and turning to Buffy

SPIKE: God hates me. You hate me. I hate myself more than ever.

Buffy wants to step forward but does not.

BUFFY: But why'd you do it...?

SPIKE: You know why. I got my soul back...

He keeps turning, now facing Buffy, barely able to stand on his feet, wobbling a bit - and holding his arms out wide.

SPIKE:...So I could be the kind of...(laughs)...Person...you could care for, the man you would come to...the man you could love.

Spike GRINS through bloody teeth. The burn marks stand out fresh upon his forehead and palms. He looks like death, and any second he's going to collapse.

And still, it's like something terribly sad is actually, deep down funny - and only he gets the joke.

He walks toward Buffy. Staggering gently. Eyeing the stake she still holds in her hand. He's drawn to it - and to her.

SPIKE: I was the enemy, then I was nothing, and now I'm God's garbage, not even a joke, less than, less than, less than all His creatures combined so tell me, dear Buffy...

Buffy lets him approach, unmoving, but not letting go of that stake, either.

He barely makes it to her - and SLAMS straight down, to his KNEES. And opens his arms wide.

SPIKE: How ya like me now?

Buffy's mind goes a long way trying to come up with the answer, but her mouth cannot speak and we:

BLACK OUT.

END OF SHOW

[iamnotathornbird]

you ever see a ship you love so much and saying "i ship them" isn't enough. like no you don't understand they give me mental illness

[girl4music]

I don’t want to say Cordy makes Angel happy because we all know that’s a no no. He can’t be happy. But he is brighter as a person. Radiant. Dare I even use William the Bloody Awful Poet’s own term? Yeah I think I’m gonna… Around her he is Effulgent.

And it just makes a hell of a difference to him as a person, as a character. Constant broody, moping, miserable, guilt-ridden, self-hating, self-contemptuous, pained Angel is not fun to watch. Sure - his mission is about redemption but take it from another brooding dark stoic character whose mission is also about redemption - Xena was never this depressing of a character throughout the entirety of her show. Why does Angel need to be?

A character that comes into their lives that helps these two tortured, hopeless people find a light in themselves by being their light is the whole point to a redemption arc because you can’t receive a redemption if you can’t allow yourself it. For Xena, that person was Gabrielle. For Angel, that person is Cordy. A vampire burdened with a conscience and were he ever to feel even one ounce of happiness, revert back to the soulless evil monster he once was is not an ideal situation but not everything has to be doom and gloom. And with Cordy around - it won’t be because there is no danger it will tip the scale. She knows she needs to be careful and cautious around him in a way Buffy never truly understood because Buffy is the Slayer. Fighting evil vampires and demons is her unwanted “destiny”, it wasn’t something she “wanted” to do because she “chose” it. Cordelia is different. She’s chosen this life - this path. Even more so now she’s become part-demon. Of course it’s not entirely the same but now she’s his equal partner she can provide for him and be a light in the dark. This matters. This balances the scale. This is the whole point to what she’s there for. She’s there for him.

[folksy]

angel has so much will if I were him and spike was constantly calling me slurs and derogatory terms that basically amount to “effeminate man” or being “overly sentimental” I’d bring up his past as william the bloody awful poet

[iamnotathornbird]

“he’s a murderer” to YOU. well to me too but i forgive him<3

[winepresswrath]

drusilla's canon grandma kink is a thing that can be so charming & unhinged.

[faggotwalkwithme]

THAT'S ALSO SPIKE?!

The name Spike makes sense for Edgelord Prince of Darkness guy in the last gif but THE GUY WHO LOOKS LIKE AN 18TH CENTURY AUTHOR? THE POOREST LITTLE MEOW MEOW??

What is the context for this I have to know now

OKOK LOL SO

spike’s a vampire right so he got his nickname because he used to torture his victims with a railroad spike? but his real name is william so that probably clears it up:) he changed his name so that he sounded cooler and abandoned the nickname he was dubbed by others

something funny though before he got the nickname spike he was known as william the bloody, and this was before he was a vampire it was short for william the bloody awful poet :3

[airheadsbites]

“what can i tell you baby? i’ve always been bad” cut to a pathetic lovesick poet who can’t come up with a word that rhymes with gleaming. he’s called william the bloody because of his bloody awful poetry.