geliot99

[geliot99]

oh goddam I need a minute

I absolutely adore how much the Buffybot loves Buffy. She thinks that Buffy is so pretty and smart and talented and a great leader….and she was programmed to think that! Spike wanted a Buffy who loved herself.

[geliot99]

Hi Sorry where's the link for this fanfic please? I need it for a friend.

I actually think we should put Jeremy in a playboy bunny costume and make him shake his tail and let Jean eat him whole

[geliot99]

This absolutely happens no one can tell me it doesn’t, in fact I saw it with my own eyes

Imagining in the future when Kevin is on a pro team (with a bunch of players who obviously aren’t up to his standards, because who is) and he is absolutely laying into them all the time and is always bringing up

“Neil Josten would come to the court every single night and practice these drills and you can’t even do them for fifteen minutes”

“Neil Josten once fired shots with Andrew Minyard in goal for a whole night and blew out his arms just because he was stubborn and you can’t even handle shooting on (insert goalie’s name)?”

“Neil Josten played better than you while he was actively running from the Mafia. You think you have other things on your mind?”

Bonus if after a year or two of dealing with this Kevin’s team finally meets Neil at an exy banquet and tattle on him. And Neil is just “??? You literally texted me two weeks ago just to tell me my passes are dogshit? My team hadn’t even played a game or anything, you had just remembered and felt like bringing it up?”

[geliot99]

Holy shit I think I just astral planed off that connection connecting in my head

it’s easy to forget as a viewer who sees all the scenes, but Buffy was sure as hell flying by the seat of her pants in a Hail Mary idea based off of very limited information and her keen intuition. when she threatens Drusilla’s life to get Spike to stop in “Lie to Me”. all she knows about their relationship then is that they are “sometimes paramours” - she has no idea that Drusilla is his sire and that he’s been devoted to her for over a century. and yet that tiny tidbit is enough for her to recognize that their connection means something to Spike, and means enough that he’ll back off. whether she could admit it or not, there was a part of her that had to believe that vampires could feel affection or protective, because otherwise this never would’ve worked.

[geliot99]

Oh help

Yes it does, Buffy

🌝

[geliot99]

I personally really liked the bit where the helicopter caught on a telephone wire and exploded #totallyrealmoment #notdelusional

i'm sure i'm not the first person to take issue with this (checks notes) 25-year-old episode but WOW do i hate riley and how they wrote him off in 5x10.

from the beginning he's a character out of place in buffy. he's condescending at best, chauvanistic at worst, all while the narrative insists he's Really A Good Guy! he's Really Secretly Good and he just Didn't Know that demons had feelings! the initiative plot drags s4 down and every scene he's in makes the show feel like molasses. he's not funny, he's not cool, he's not complex or layered either. btvs is generally pretty good at adding new characters to the scooby gang and making it feel natural - oz, anya, tara, spike to a degree, even dawn - but riley is a drag through and through, a character from another show.

and there is the potential for something interesting there! dropping an all-american macho military man into the very woman-centric world of buffy, seeing how he fares. a fitting (if trite) plot for riley would have been he's initially protective of buffy, then realizes she's stronger than him and that makes him feel emasculated bc he has like a decade of military programming to overcome and then he overcomes it and accepts that buffy is canonically one of the most powerful people in the world.

and instead we just. don't get that? he never learns and, worse, the episode frames him as being in the right. he's not the one punished for his reckless and actively dangerous behavior (i'm not even going to go into the implications of the vampire brothel thing given that 1) i do not expect a 1990s monster of the week show to be tasteful or nuanced about sex work 2) sarah michelle gellar's delivery of "tell me about your WHORES" was the best part of the episode) bc he goes off and lives his demon-killing dream while buffy's left handling all of this, punished for not forgiving him within like an hour of confronting him.

and buffy herself is a flawed person! she's vindictive and impulsive and materialistic, she holds others to a strict moral code she herself doesn't always uphold, she runs hot and pushes her friends away because she thinks she can carry the world on her shoulders. these are all things that make her interesting and give her foils, and that COULD have made for some really interesting tension with duty-bound riley, but instead we get exhausting "you won't let me take care of you :(( i feel bad because you're stronger than me :(((" when he's not actually offered to do much of anything.

5x10 comes so close to genuinely condemning him and addressing the ugliness and misogyny that's been at the root of their relationship from the beginning - buffy calls him out for issuing an ultimatum! - but then xander's brought in to deliver the "message" and buffy has to humiliate herself running after that helicopter.

when spike says that buffy "needs a little monster in her man" he's obviously projecting and talking about himself (and angel) but, at its most generous, what he's saying is exactly right. because buffy has that darkness in her - faith sees it, spike sees it, giles sees it even if he refuses to admit it - and she needs someone to acknowledge it and not try to make her lesser. she needs a sparring partner. riley tries to goad her into hitting him and she refuses because she knows she'll hurt him. he forces her to hold back. and it's horrible that whedon and co try to convince us in this, riley's goodbye episode, that that's something worth chasing a helicopter for.

[geliot99]

No sorry hold the fuck on that’s exactly what they’d look like, this is the only acceptable opinion

An OC daughter of Buffy and Spike. Her name is Lily, she's a soothsayer and a gemini

[geliot99]

All out of wheetabix, making do.

I legitimately re-made a Tumblr account because I saw this and needed @geliot99 to see this meme. (Hello there!)

[geliot99]

Helpppp

What do you mean the iconic witch hat was born from Glinda's spite and cruelty but became a symbol of her willingness to stand by Elphaba even if it ostracized her from her friends and peers? What do you mean the witch's broom is an item enchanted in a moment of panic and innovation as Elphaba refuses to be cowed and grounded? WHAT DO YOU MEAN the spooky black cloak is a representation of Glinda's selflessness as she wraps it lovingly around Elphaba's shoulders, a threadbare cloak that will maybe, hopefully, keep her best friend (lover) warm? WHAT DO YOU MEAN all these symbols of evil actually represent a deep bond of friendship and love? What do you mean????

[geliot99]

Ahhhhhh moi??? giddy-blushing-crying xxxx

Lets start the year with Money shot by Geliot99

It's a Andreil Rewrite oneshot of the scene were Andrew finds Neil binder and money stash, and GUYSSSS ITS PERFECT

The author wrote perfectly how crazy, possessive, and jelous the two of them can be

[geliot99]

arrghhh the expressionssssss

[geliot99]

Heck yes

When caption met art. *chef's kiss*

Artwork by the incomparable @isevery0nehereverystoned, modified/shared with permission.

[geliot99]

When Twilight came out Dawn would have started glitter bombing Spike so he sparkles

[geliot99]

"My Love is like to ice, and I to fire…"

A secret admirer leaves five poems to aid in Buffy's catch-up poetry assignment, clearly intending to win her heart. And yet when the truth is revealed, it's the last person she would have expected.

[geliot99]

#boys4nowsinginginteresting #sointeresting

why does nobody ever talk about angel and spike fighting over the shanshu prophecy?

when spike points out that angel views his soul as a curse, as punishment, as being forced to live with the guilt of everything he's done, whereas spike fought for his soul. nearly died for it. the demon with no soul still wanted to do the right thing, to be a good man, so desperately he would destroy himself for the chance.

and then angel says something VERY interesting to spike. spike says he thinks angel hates him because he's a living reminder of his evil. "cause every time you look at me, you see every dirty little thing i've done. all the lives i've taken. because of you. drusilla sired me, but you made me a monster."

and angel, the man who, without his soul, tortures and kills people sadistically for fun and feasting, the man who insists he is not angelus, says, "i didn’t make you, spike. i just opened up the door and let the real you out."

SUCH an interesting thing to say, angel! let's talk about this. no, please—go on. explain how you are better than spike in any way. i'm fascinated. i'd love to hear how you and angelus are different people but the demon who possessed william the poet is somehow the same as the man.

you can't have it both ways, you horrifically catholic man. you aren't a better person just because you've suffered more.

[geliot99]

Not me immediately searching Spuffy on ao3 with a praise kink tag… not doing that…

spike receiving praise

[geliot99]

The most Spike-coded thing about me is that I think Buffy Summers is allowed to do whatever she wants because she's the only person ever and we all should be grateful to even be beaten up by her