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once again thinking about the drama and hilarity of giles and spike's petty rivalry/general dislike of one another

giles meets spike and just sees ripper. spike meets giles and just sees william. they're both ashamed of who they used to be and immediately project that shame onto each other. but like they have a mutual favorite woman (buffy) so they get forced into proximity frequently and deal with it by being bitchy about the whole thing despite having to keep things (relatively) civil for her sake. but like. how would YOU feel if your despised past self walked through the door and felt an equal amount of disdain for you too. dude. that would suck monumentally. the best part is they don't care enough to realize their first impressions were wrong so they're just kinda stuck like this

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A good rule of thumb for AI is "would you trust a trained pigeon to do this?"

"We trained a pigeon to recognise cancerous cell clusters and somehow they're really good at it" okay great, that's something that could plausibly be a thing.

"We trained a pigeon to recognise good CV:s and left it in charge of sorting through all our job applications" uh perhaps consider not doing that.

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Dear people living on your own for the first time:

Here’s some advice I wasn’t told from the myriad of posts before that I wish I’d been given before

Wash the OUTSIDE of your pots and pans as well as the cooking surface. I’ve had a few roommates now who have only cleaned the inside and I’ve had to replace a $150 set of cookware twice.

“its only one time, how bad could using metal on nonstick cookware really be?” very bad. don’t do this.

Buy a rice cooker. Buy the middle tier rice cooker. Cheap ones will burn your rice, high tier ones are too expensive. Rice is good and cheap and, really, you don’t actually have to wash it if you don’t care about making gourmet food.

Buy band-aids. You don’t think you need band-ads until you need a band-aid, and by then it’s too late. (if you don’t follow this advice, a paper towel and some tape is an acceptable solution while you go get real bandages and neosporin)

You are on tumblr, which means you probably spend most of your time in one spot on a computer or phone. if this spot doesn’t have a trash can in arm’s reach, put one there.

 I spent 4 years piling trash on my desk in increasingly precarious ways until I had a designated area to put it. Trash cans can and should go anywhere there is a frequent generation of trash, typical locations be damned.

If you live with one or two roommates, discuss placing empty boxes in the back of your fridge and freezer. You probably don’t need all the space that the standard 5-person-family fridge provides, and tupperware will be shoved back there and left to stink up the entire appliance.

Get a wall calendar, put it somewhere communal, and have everyone put their household-relevant schedules on it. Communication is by far the weakest link with roommates (even good ones!) and having something to reference for appointments is always good

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I feel fandom would get along a lot better if there was mutual understanding that liking a character, agreeing with a character, and thinking the character is well constructed/executed are all separate (if often overlapping) positions, each with their separate tastes and subjectivities. Also: character portrayals are intended to make the audience feel things; this is separate from (if often overlapping with) analyzing/appreciating their actions and role in the story.

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Oh love, you have no idea how utterly shattered you're about to get

Watching Angel and I'm getting to know Wesley Wyndam Price and my god I am so in love with him.. Like really.. He is nerdy, comical, soft, he's English with blue eyes and dark hair and by god do I have a type but .. Yeah... Don't answer this.. But he's going to absolutely shatter me isn't he?

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Spike saying "I happen to speak Fyarl" as though it's something he casually acquired but then he later says "funny hearing a Fyarl demon say serviceable... They're more like 'like to crush, crush now'"

Bro is FLUENT in Fyarl.

Bro STUDIED Fyarl.

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All covered in blood, i look dynamite. I know this because Tyler knows this.

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I haven't seen much of Spike, I'm early in the second season, but it's very funny that they established that vampires without souls are irremediable demon and then went "This is Spike. He's killed two Slayers. He's The Worst. He kills everyone without discrimination. His two main character trait are being a little (evil) goofy and being utterly devoted to his girlfriend."

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idk who needs to hear this but if you have been putting something off bc it doesn't need to be done until the end of the month. we are almost done with the teens we are approaching the big numbers (the twenties). that date shall dawn upon you swiftly and without mercy before you know it. psa for everyone except me i got plany off time

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very fond of the sassy bitterness between giles and spike due to the fact that they are literally exactly who each other used to be. like. you meet a guy who acts identical to the man you're trying to distance yourself from being, like, as much as possible, and hes feeling the exact same things. the DRAMA of it all. no wonder they hated each other

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Why are you using chatgpt to get through college. Why are you spending so much time and money on something just to be functionally illiterate and have zero new skills at the end of it all. Literally shooting yourself in the foot. If you want to waste thirty grand you can always just buy a sportscar.

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Sounds like The Initiative

captured vampires get their fangs sanded down and are often kept as pets or sent as easy cannon fodder for the military's use

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one thing about Spike is he'll wear a slutty necklace

he seems to be the only vampire who understands the allure of a well adorned neck

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Curt wild would have a tramp stamp, change my mind

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So tempted to do a Dracula Daily for Spike & Dru: Pretty Maids All In A Row

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It's very interesting to me that they seemingly purposefully juxtapose Spike with other vampires several times in season 2 in ways that not only make him more human but also less evil. I don't just mean the Judge saying that he has humanity or his team-up with Buffy in "Becoming" (though those also contribute). He came to the hellmouth to help nurse his sick partner back to health. He allows several potential victims to be freed in order to save Drusilla from Buffy in "Lie to Me". He actively discourages it when Dru wants to torture one of their minions in "Surprise". He gifts Dru a necklace in "Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered", juxtaposed to Angel's gift of a human heart. He pets the dog that Dru gives him as a snack instead of eating it in "Passion". He repeatedly tells Angel to stop toying with Buffy and seemingly thinks that psychologically torturing someone (rather than fighting them outright) is lame.

Some of this is obviously to show just how unbelievably evil soulless Angel is, but it also implicitly tells the audience that Spike is capable of acting selflessly for the people he cares about (Dru), he doesn't care much for torture, and can even do something that is ostensibly good (helping save the world) if he is given a reason to, which directly contradicts what we are told vampires are capable of. It fits very well with where they take him in future seasons but it is kind of crazy that they were doing this with a character that was initially only meant to appear in 5 episodes.