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i’ve been slowly watching btvs for the first time with my friends and i have to ask: is the normal emotional response to xander wanting him to die so badly?

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Pic of the Day: "Anthony Stewart Head & James Marsters are giggling like schoolboys on a sugar high" is a *great* opening line for an interview... 👏👏👏 @JamesMarstersOf #JamesMarsters @AnthonySHead

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Spike should have come up with increasingly ridiculous reasons to go to Buffy's house

"Found a pencil in my crypt, figured Dawnie needed it for school" "I thought I saw a kitten stuck in your tree" "I can't open this jar of pickles and you have Slayer strength, so..."

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"Why does everyone think I'm still in love with Spike?" Hey, Buffy, where did that still come from?

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When I think about it, I think my favourite thing about Spike is that he does the work, you know? He's the only significant man in Buffy's life, let alone of her love interests, that actually takes a good, hard look at himself and decides that he needs to be better.

Angel, at least for the duration of his tenure on BtVS, doesn't change. He remains high-handed and paternalistic for the entirety of his relationship with Buffy, unilaterally making decisions 'for her own good' and ignoring what she, herself, wants. He makes the decisions. He doesn't accept when Buffy tries to. Literally. He does not accept her breaking up with him until it's time for him to break up with her.

Riley remains a misogynistic jerk who has an inferiority complex when it comes to his girlfriend. He also abdicates responsibility for his own damn actions when they all culminate in his life exploding in his face, and skips town without ever actually examining how he landed in that position. It's just Buffy's Fault, with no examination of his own culpability or thought processes.

Giles doubles down on his terrible decisions, especially in Season 6 onwards. He makes wrong call after wrong call, and gets offended when Buffy doesn't trust him anymore after he actively betrays her. Instead of doing anything to earn that trust back, he just fully turns on Buffy completely in Empty Places, and the fractures in their relationship are never addressed afterwards.

Less said about Xander, the happier I'll be. He starts the series as an entitled little shit and he ends the series not much better.

Hank abandons her. He just straight up peaces out and is never any help to Buffy, ever.

Spike, on the other hand, reaches his lowest point due to the implosion of his relationship with Buffy. In response, he realises that there's something he lacks, something he could do to be better, and then he does it. Not only does he do it--once it's done, he recognises that his feelings are his own problem and doesn't burden Buffy with them at all. He becomes a steady, nonjudgemental support when she needs it most, and asks nothing of her for it. He expresses his love with no anticipation of reciprocation, just states it as fact and explicitly states that he's not asking for anything in return. He just loves her. For her. He doesn't need her to love him back. Yeah, it would be nice, but that's not the point. He changes for and because of her. Loving her transforms him at a fundamental level, and he is a better person for it. None of that is a burden he places on Buffy.

Accountability is so attractive in a man. So is emotional vulnerability and passion, which is only something she really gets from Spike. The other men in her life are so wrapped up in themselves or their own need to be right/in control, and it actively harms her.

Yeah, Spike is physically very pretty; but it's his invisible qualities that make him as attractive as he is. There's a reason he's so beloved while other characters have a more mixed (or even negative) reception, and it has very little to do with the cheekbones.

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I think it's sooo funny spike realizes he's in love with buffy and starts just outright harassing her worse than ever. like, if he can't hate her, then maybe he can get her to hate him enough for the both of them. course, he gets offended when she actually falls for ragebaiting. and then he kind of wants to be nice to her cause she's so clearly upset. he's such a mess

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The secret sauce that makes Spuffy work so much better than most newer Enemies to Lovers is that that Spike is weird little freak who shows in painstaking detail the embarrassing growing pains of developing as a person. He's not some ~secret good guy~ who's just misunderstood, he was actually an evil little shit with just enough charisma to be too human to stake so the main characters let him stick around. He had to claw his way to humanity and it was that growth, and the slow development of Buffy's affections in response to it, that makes it so compelling.

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agnostic is lowkey the funniest belief system it's just like yeah idk it's none of my business

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Scoobies at the Bronze

(I need to be there, listening to live triphop music in the y2k, beating X*nder at pool, and being led out back by a sexy vamp)

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jokes to make after failure that aren’t self-deprecating:

I’m the best to ever do it

Nobody saw that (best if said loudly)

No one’s ever done it like me

I could be President/they should make me President

Behold, a mere fraction of my power!

The public wants to be me soooooo bad

I’m an expert in (thing you just failed at)

How could this have happened to god’s favorite princess?

Nothing ibuprofen and a glass of water cant fix

I’m being sabotaged

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Spike would have a bts ARMY stan twitter account. he doesn’t even listen to the music, but he cannot resist the drama and doxing people. he keeps doxxing angel. he makes angel a fake account just so he can dox him. bts fans keep on sending like muffins filled with glass to LA

if buffy took place today she would have a ring camera set up to watch the outside of her house, and would use it to yell at Spike for lurking through the speakers

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if buffy took place today she would have a ring camera set up to watch the outside of her house, and would use it to yell at Spike for lurking through the speakers

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The year is 2056. The 30th doctor is David Tennant. He took over from David Tennant. His companion is played by David Tennant. The villain is David Tennant as David Tennant. The showrunner is David Tennant. You hear a knock on the door. It's David Tennant. He gives you a pocket watch. You open it and remember who you are. You were David Tennant all along.

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also I’m 8 episodes into season 7 and it is….. it’s definitely a season. I can tell it’s building up to something but so far the characters feel written weirdly and it doesn’t have the same vibe that it did in the other seasons.

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Absolutely hysterical that they built a whole new Sunnydale High and day one there's a vampire crawling around in the basement talking to rats.