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Some Spuffy?

such a fun -yummmy episode

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somewhere out there right now is a kid with curly hair being raised by people who have wavy hair at best and those people are giving them 2-in-1 shampoo and conditioner and telling them to dry brush it. and that kid is gonna spend all of middle school and high school hating their hair and moping over the flat iron. they're being told right now that if they don't dry-brush their curl pattern into oblivion every morning it means they're unkempt and gross even though they naturally have the kind of ringlets that a thousand bridezillas would commit horrible murders for every june. it's happening right now it's an absolute epidemic and a tragedy every time

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i love it when one of buffy's macho guys is threatening spike and he goes sooo slinkety faggoty and they're enraged because suddenly they see what she sees in him

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greta was time's person of the year a few years ago. she was adored by all liberal world leaders and parties. and when she learnt about people's struggle under occupation and colonialism, she stood in solidarity with them . she now stands with palestine and armenia and kashmir and every oppressed person in the world. she could have been rich as fuck by simply remaining as a climate activist. yet she chose to do the right thing. i love her for her integrity.

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Bringing back this, because I'm usually not a fan of the way medias explain what was so appealing about the Buffy/Spike love story, and I think that the way Rainbow Rowell (an author) put it into words in this article back in march 2017 really captured a part of the reason people related to that relationship so much.

Buffy and Spike knew and understood each other on a deep level, and that's what made their love for each other even more real to the audience. It wasn't about being perfect, it was all about seeing beyond appearances (in the good and in the bad) and falling in love nevertheless, while still believing in each other —which is what mature love is all about.

Spike may be a vampire, but Buffy is a Slayer and she needed someone capable of understanding that part of her identity, to fight along with her and support her unconditionally.

That's what I wish for Buffy. For her to be loved and understood the way she deserves, by someone who will always have her back, no matter what.

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did some Deltarune doodling today

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hey here's a website for downloading any video or image from any website.

works w/ youtube, soundcloud, twitch, twitter (gifs and videos), tumblr (video and audio), and most other websites you're probably lookin to download stuff off of.

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why bother caring about the environment when 1. It’s so obviously a lost cause and 2. There’s definitely going to be a nuclear war?

And what are you doing about it Anon? Learn about ecological restoration or get out of my way.

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everyone has thoughts about their sworn enemy's big pouty puppy dog eyes. it's NORMAL. and if Spike is good at anything, it's being normal :)

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rb with whether people assume you’re older or younger than your actual age

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I have some news for members of the united states armed forces who feel like they are pawns in a political game and their assignments being unnecessary.

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As , the United States, potentially heads into another forever war I can only think of this quote.

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Reblog and put in the tags if you can remember where you got the shirt you’re currently wearing.

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Added The Leftovers from Hellmouth con!

Spuffy "chosen "hard enamel Pin

Got chibi buffyverse characters colorful acrylic keychains X2 sided variants.

Linking Scoobies and Angel investigations crew/mix and match

Vampyr Large and small reusable sticker books

And the Scoobies in a Winnebago shaker charm inspired from the episode "spiral " .

Available now on my etsy in the Link Below!

https://www.etsy.com/shop/BlueStarCharmer?ref=dashboard-header

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Part of my problem with Angel is that I feel like they created a very interesting and complex character but both btvs and ats are more interested in presenting him as a hero and are too bogged down in the "soul so good" and "no soul so bad" dichotomy. To me, Angel is the epitome of the problem with the "soulless vampires are unfeeling, inhuman demons" lore that is established early in btvs.

I view Angel and his evil counterpart Angelus as one person, someone who, when he has a soul, is constantly battling his dark urges. Angelus is just as much a part of him as Angel is, but a soul, whatever it is, allows him to be able to fight back against it and makes him feel bad for having sadistic tendencies and an innate bloodlust that has little to do with his vampirism.

Though feeling guilty about Angelus' actions makes sense even if Angel is just a bystander watching his body do these things as someone else pilots it around, his guilt complex is much more interesting if part of the guilt is that even with a conscience, he still desires to kill and torture. His drive for atonement isn't just to tip the scales of his actions from a net negative for the world to a net positive, but to prove to himself that he isn't just his base instincts that that he can overcome them. I think that this interpretation also makes the 100 years between his ensoulment and actually starting his path to redemption more sympathetic. When he is alone, it's all he can do to suppress the evil part of him, but when he has support, whether from Whistler, Buffy and the Scoobies, or from the Angel Investigations crew, he can look outward from himself and help others (at least sometimes).

Unfortunately, this isn't really the angle that either show takes with him. Though both shows mostly operate on the basis that the soulless personalities of vampires are based on their human selves (ex. that line in "Dopplegangland", the way that all vampires (including Angel) are handled in flashback sequences, and, I don't know, the way that every vampire other than Angel is handled, like, all the time), Angel is mostly treated as a person with split personalities. When he has a soul, he's Batman and when he's soulless, he's the antichrist. Season 4 of ats even implies that the two personalities are so separate that they don't even share memories, which doesn't make any sense.

Due to the stark line drawn between Angel and Angelus in the shows, the audience is expected to not hold him accountable for his soulless actions. This makes his guilt complex less engaging for the audience, I think. Ensouled Angel feels guilty for his soulless actions but it's presented as more of a "ugh, no one will ever understand my pain" than something that the audience has any real connection to. He has a vague sense of guilt over "what he's done" to mostly nameless victims that drives him to help people but shows very little guilt for how he treated people that he hurt and actually could make amends with such as Drusilla, Buffy, Giles, and Spike.

His lack of guilt about what he did to Drusilla specifically really bothers me. In my opinion, she is the most tragic figure in the Buffyverse, since she is the one who was so "broken" that I don't think that she could ever be "fixed" (though also I wouldn't want her to change; she's perfect the way she is). Angel, despite his immense guilt complex over "what he's done" is confronted with one of the worst things he's ever done, his "masterpiece", but he never so much as appears conflicted about Drusilla and his role in making her what she is. This is a problem for a character that is primarily motivated by a guilt complex. I also think that guilt over the events of btvs season 2 and specifically his relationship with Buffy could have been a a greater motivator for Angel in ats, but they rarely (if ever) even mention it. B.angel have True Love, and despite everything that Angel did to Buffy and her friends while soulless, he isn't expected to make amends with her or anyone else because he "isn't the same person that did all those things".

With a soul, his darker impulses come out occasionally, but the show almost invariably takes his side over anyone in opposition to him (via the majority of characters agreeing with/supporting him), so it's unclear whether the audience is meant to view Angel attempting to kill Darla, abandoning his friends, attempting to kill Wesley, etc. as morally gray/evil or if we are supposed to agree with him. This is also the case with some of the questionable things that he does in btvs, like dating a sixteen year old (sometimes acknowledged as wrong, sometimes they're treated as the ultimate soulmates) or purposefully withholding information from and lying to Buffy, even when these lies endanger her (Buffy is more often presented as being immature about it than Angel being wrong for lying). Angel is too-frequently presented as the hero, when I think that he should have been more of an antihero.

I feel like they created a character that could have a lot of inner emotional complexity, but they get too bogged down in the soul dichotomy and write themselves into a corner where they force themselves to present him in the least interesting way possible and I think that it makes him a worse character. His guilt complex is sometimes nonsensical, sometimes undermotivated, sometimes misplaced. I can see a universe where I actually really like Angel but the way that he is handled in both shows ended up frustrating me and frequently turning me off of him. He is a character that is defined by the early soul lore, something that I think is one of the worst things that the Buffyverse ever tried to establish, since it locks the world into a strict black-and-white morality, when both shows work best when they are operating in a gray area, in my opinion.