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Spike's totally into you... Oh, come on. You didn't notice? Buffy, Spike's completely in love with you.

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BIANCA LAWSON as KENDRA YOUNG Buffy the Vampire Slayer - 2.09 | 2.10 | 2.21

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script to screen: s7e8 | sleeper written by: jane espenson & david fury

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jw really went I’ve got it!! I’ll have the narrative and the other characters call out Spike’s bad behavior and he’ll actually own up so those fuck ups and will therefore need to make it right to be forgiven and that will tell the audience HE’S BAD AND EVIL AND YOU SHOULDN’T LIKE HIM 💀

This is so on brand with every narcissist I’ve ever had the misfortune of interacting with because the lengths they’ll go to avoid taking accountability for harm they cause are truly out of this world. Only a man hellbent on never owning up to or acknowledging the harm he causes would think this would make us like Spike LESS when we’ve been dying for the kind of accountability we get from him from every other character except Buffy (who has been taking accountability for everyone else’s mistakes as well as her own for the entire series) for 4 seasons!!!

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BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER | 5.09

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BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER | 5.09

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VERONICA MARS S01E10 | An Echoll’s Family Christmas

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer 2.17 | “Passion”

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joss's sick obsession with not just causing pain and suffering - but punishment and humiliation to his "pretty popular girl" archetype characters aka Buffy and Cordelia and his favoritism of the most horrible mediocre white men aka riley, xander, and angel is never more apparent than in Into the Woods

The writers opted not for the FANTASTIC call back to season 1 with owen and Never Kill a Boy on the First Date when Buffy says "two days in my world and owen really would get himself killed…. or I'd get him killed… or someone else...."

which set them up perfectly for the road map of Buffy's attempt at a "normal" relationship that angel, her mother, and the scoobies keep trying to push her to have (when she's not normal herself so of course it's gonna be a disaster which is soooooo trying to force a queer person to be straight coded which is why spuffy is inherently queer on top of them both being canonically bisexual because Buffy embracing her love of Spike is embracing her inherent queerness)

But could you IMAGINE how amazing it would have been for season 1 to have foreshadowed riley being turned at the suck house (because literally all that evil in Sunnydale and NO ONE takes the opportunity to turn the slayer's boyfriend into the perfect secret weapon to take her and her whole family out??? PLEASE)

Then vamp riley almost killing Dawn and her mother (because Dawn would be the one tricked into inviting him in as a call back to Dawn accidentally inviting Harmony in and Buffy saying she's gonna get us all killed plus angel tricking his little sister into inviting him in once he was turned)

Buffy is forced to kill him after pleading with him to remember he loves her or any part of who he was (which would further show how exceptional Spike's ability to form a truce with Buffy, keep it, and fall in love with her all without a soul is)

Making riley her second (third if we count ford being left for dead and then having to dust him) turned evil boyfriend she's forced to kill.

Buffy would still be DEVASTATED and it's Buffy so she'd still punish and blame herself even though it'd be all riley's fault (demonstrating how this storyline would still cause immense pain for Buffy and be very high stakes drama for the plot but again joss elected for humiliation having Buffy literally chase after the man who was cheating on her with vampires while she was dealing with a sick mother and a hell god after her sister. Favoring a white man's character over the best plot line)

All while also further setting up her and Spike's relationship because of the "if that's what I wanted I'd be dating Spike" of it all which was her basically saying if I didn't want normal, Spike would be who I'd choose and now she's tried to be normal and he got killed, almost killed her family and then she had to kill him just like season 1 Buffy knew would happen when she broke things off with owen!!

AND the poetic irony of her trying to be “normal” and it ends with the exact same result?? The lesson being that rejecting who you are is not the answer and the only true answer is self acceptance because pain will happen no matter what so might as well love and embrace yourself ???

BUT NOOOOOOO the writers aka joss opted for riley's narrative to be that he's a hero and a good guy always, no matter what because joss has a big fat crush on marc and guys like him, angel and oz all get written off by treating women like shit without being villainized for it at all and then leaving. Getting to go on to live rich and fulfilling lives while Kendra, Tara, Cordy, and Anya are all violently killed off with barely any time spent grieving their deaths by more than one character..... (I haven't ever been able to finish ats so I don't know how much this applies to cordy's but my guess is the pattern didn't change much)

THEY EVEN LOOK THE SAME FOR CHRIST’S SAKE IT WRITES ITSELF

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Checking myself into the mental hospital after this one actually she also ate with her caption:

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SCHITT'S CREEK 6.08, The Presidential Suite

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Two of the worst proposals in the history of modern media followed by the most pathetic cringe fail loser puppy dog eyes when their absolutely abysmal attempts at saying “I love and want only you” fail miserably and unfortunately for me I desire both of them carnally

bonus: they even both hit this pose after being knocked on their ass during said failed proposal attempt

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somehow… they helped save the entire galaxy (insp)

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i've said it once and i'll say it again: SPIKE IN VAMP FACE IS SEXY

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Spike fully expecting and preparing to be blamed for Riley’s fuck ups by Buffy herself just has me like 😢😢😢

He’s so accustomed to being EVERYONE’S punching bag he’s like of course i’ll get blamed! And even though he knows it’s not fair to be blamed for what riley did he still feels so guilty having any part in harming Buffy by being the one to show her and not realizing ahead of time how hurt and embarrassed she would be by it all he, a soulless still pretty evil at this point vampire, is twisted up in KNOTS with guilt. Practicing apologies and getting her a fucking present to say sorry 😭😭😭😭😭

NO ONE BESIDES SPIKE EVER PUTS ANY KIND OF EFFORT LET ALONE THIS MUCH EFFORT INTO APOLOGIZING TO BUFFY AND MAKING IT UP TO HER THEY JUST COUNT ON HER ENDLESS FORGIVENESS AND BIG HEART AND SPIKE IS OUT DOING ALL OF THEM AT HIS MOST MORALLY GREY 😭🤚🏻

Also the fact that Buffy doesn’t blame Spike when she did take out her anger at herself on him when it came to Dawn finding out she was the key and still hasn’t done a disinvite spell for Spike after her came into her bedroom in the middle of the night to find her naked in bed?????????

INSANITY

She’s so into him, they act so much like a couple/dawn parents in season 5 before any feelings are made known it’s insane THEY’RE INSANE AND I AM INSANE ABOUT THEM AND THEIR INSANITY

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their facial expressions are KILLING me oh my god, scully looks like she's about to cry and mulder is questioning all of his life choices

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Drusilla was so hot for pulling spike out of the rubble and carrying him like that