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By all-mer teach your apprentices better

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from twitter user deejaygeejaygee

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I CANNOTT DEAL WITH THIS SITE ANY LONGER

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dawn summers is also a contender for character of all time. she's an eldritch horror stuffed into the body of a teenage girl. she's six months old. she's older than time. she's fourteen. she talks shit to the faces of the forces of darkness. she speaks sumerian. she killed her first kiss with a pencil. her best friend is a punk vampire that simps over her big sister. she writes about the horrors in her diary. she has done necromancy. she's a kleptomaniac. her favorite sandwich is salami with peanut butter. she was willing to sacrifice her life to save the world at fourteen years old. she became her sister's watcher when the original watcher abandoned them. she's extraordinary.

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I feel like we don't talk enough about how Spike didn't kill Cecily. Think about it. She, very harshly, rejected and insulted him. Then he became a vampire. A vampire so vicious that he became famous. And yet his first move wasn't to murder the woman who dismissed him like his existence was meaningless. It was to go turn his sick mother into a vampire so she could live forever with him. He loved his mother so deeply that it lingered even after he lost his human soul. I believe the same can be said of his feelings for Cecily, despite her rejection. I mean, he wrote poetry for her. That requires some pretty intense emotions. He could've gone and gotten revenge with his hot new girlfriend, who I am certain would have relished watching him violently kill the woman who caused the tears he was shedding when she met him. You could argue that it was because he fell in love with Drusilla and no longer cared about Cecily. And, if that's the case, it means that he loved her so powerfully that it completely erased his emotions about Cecily, even the negative ones. But I don't think that's it. I think the love he had for Cecily was so powerful that despite her rejection, and like with his mother, it lingered even when he became a vampire.

This is, I believe, another example of Spike's unique ability to love as a soulless vampire. Angelus murdered his entire family, including his entirely innocent little sister whom he loved, because his father had been a dick to him. Hell, he murdered the entire village. Everyone he'd ever met. Absolutely no part of him had any love remaining.

Whereas Spike was capable of loving so deeply that even after Buffy died, he protected her little sister because he'd promised Buffy he'd protect her "til the end of the world". He thought he would never see Buffy again, so it wasn't like he was trying to get her to fall for him. He did it because he knew she would have wanted it. It didn't matter that he would get exactly nothing out of it. Can you imagine any other vampire in the Buffyverse doing that?

So yeah, Spike didn't kill Cecily and we should talk about that more.

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BTVS + Tumblr text posts

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BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER | 2.15 "Phases"

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Oz is just the best character ever no notes wish he'd got a spin off

Short king, paints his nails, dyed his hair every week, plays guitar in a band called 'dingos ate my baby', werewolf,, speaks almost entirely in irony, rich inner life, unfazed by pretty much everything. christ.

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What's really so magical about Buffy the Vampire Slayer is that it's a world where everyone is bisexual except for Riley (straight) and Tara (lesbian).

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not all ships are For wanting them to be in a happy healthy relationship together. sometimes shipping two characters means you want them to be erotically obsessed with each other and become entwined in a mutually toxic love affair for a few months and then horrifically break each other's hearts and never speak again. sometimes you want them to be codependent best friends with enough repression to explode a submarine who only make out/have sex when they're at their worst. sometimes you want them to pine after each other for years, never say anything, and then die. sometimes you want them to kill each other. this, too, is shipping

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why did you people come up with russian names for what is supposed to be a movie set in italy. what was the thought process here. why does she sound like she walked out of a tolstoy novel

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today I used the phrase "breasting boobily" in casual real life conversation and everyone was shocked asking how I came up with that and I had to explain it. ive been at the devil's sacrament so long that I forgot he wasn't god

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years and years of language and communication just so I can fully comprehend the post someone made saying "goncharov is on poob"

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Standing in a checkout line, when an older man asks me about my Goncharov t-shirt. I say "It's a movie, " when the person behind me chimes in, "Oh, yes, Scorsese."

The original gentleman goes on to tell me about the author Goncharov, his favorite of his novels, and a famous character from one of the novels. The three of us discuss whether the main character in the movie is intentionally named after the author, referencing that character, or whether it just sounded good to the film maker. We discuss how steeped the movie is in symbology.

Two of us are having a very different conversation than the third.

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she’s a poor little meow meow. she was born in a wet cardboard box all alone. she’s suffered more than jesus. she’s misunderstood. she’s a silly guy. she experienced the horrors. she did all those crimes. she has done nothing wrong. she deserves to kill. she’s the most interesting girl in the world. i didn’t say a name, but she popped into your head, didn’t she?

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BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER | 3.17

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