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“Beneath You” is technically a Spike centric episode, with him paralleling Willow in her feelings of shame, and contrasting Anya in gaining his soul. The title refers to the coming apocalypse, Ronnie being turned into a worm, and echoes Buffy’s words to Spike in “Fool for Love” that he’s beneath her.

The episode tackles Spike's past assault on Buffy, conveying to both her and the audience that his newfound soul now torments him due to his past sins. Yet, in their eagerness to separate the old Spike from the new, the show focuses primarily on the attempted rapist’s thoughts and feelings, and barely on the emotions of the person that was almost raped.

Additionally, the show portrays Spike’s mental instability, the pain of his soul, and his torment by the Big Bad to reframe him and make his redemption more palatable for the viewer. They use this to sympathetically depict him as a helpless victim who selflessly sought a soul for the woman he loved. This not only contradicts the message at the end of Season 6, but also shows that even with a soul, Spike remains driven by a woman—just like he was before.

Spike’s claim that he got a soul for Buffy, despite her never asking him to, implies she’s partly to blame for his pain and prevents her from expressing her own feelings, as she now feels guilty and responsible. In emphasizing Spike and his soul over Buffy’s thoughts and emotions, the show tells us that her (the victim) feelings don’t matter because he’s (the abuser) changed.

And all this does is affirm that the entire point of “Seeing Red” was to further Spike’s storyline off of Buffy’s trauma—thereby reducing her to a plot device on her own show.

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Smitten Kitten Ian Gallagher - Beggining of the decade // End of the decade

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✦ Favorite Outfits Meme ✦

Rochelle Zimmerman (The Craft)

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shameless is a comedy 🥰

i haven’t been posting my edits on here anymore bc i did end up making a tiktok so this is my post to tell you to follow me on tiktok or twt if you want to see these! @hatcherry_ on both :3

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mickeybob milkovichpants

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Mickey Milkovich - A Summary, pt 3 (pt 1, pt 2)

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Not to me.

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Ian & Mickey | from A to Z (insp)

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2.11 → 11.09

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mickey milkovich / better than me 🥰

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a series of very random gifs i made for my love @cuntymickeys 🤍

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2.11 | 6.03

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[Mickey] Still think we need gay friends? 

[Ian] Need? No. I mean I’m not opposed to it.  We just… we want friends we have things in common with.

husbands and best friends - s11ep07

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IAN GALLAGHER + his journey with bipolar disorder

╰┈➤ “At times, being bipolar can be an all-consuming challenge, requiring a lot of stamina and even more courage, so if you’re living with this illness and functioning at all, it’s something to be proud of, not ashamed of." - Carrie Fisher

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mickey milkovich saying “fuck off!”

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there is something so “eve tasting the forbidden fruit” about spike getting his soul back. he had a sort of innocence in his soullessness, but that’s gone now. he knows what sin is, and he’s ashamed, because all he’s ever done is sin. he tries to hide his shame by clothing himself but he can’t hide it. he can’t escape it. he embraces the cross but it rejects him. he rebelled against the natural order of things and now he’s being punished for it. maybe he’s adam rather than eve, because he reclaims his soul for the same reason that adam tastes the fruit after eve. “why does a man do what he mustn’t? for her. to be hers.”