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her last word on her own show being "spike" is enough to drive a person insane

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Follow to see the same photo of Skyward Sword Link every day.

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sometimes self-care is consuming a piece of media for the 174th time

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I will hold you here forever, if I can

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???

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BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER // 4.08 & 7.17

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reblog if you're corny and insufferable

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actually re: spike buffy dead things handcuffs "do you trust me", obviously we're meant to read it as spike asking "do you trust me to have sex with you responsibly while you're in handcuffs" but even if we read it as him asking "do you trust me to have sex with you responsibly while I'M in handcuffs".........the answer should still be no, right. bc spike is not going to speak up if buffy knowingly or unknowingly crosses limits during kinky sex. he is not going to be the responsible sub who says red light and asserts boundaries. by this point, spike has created a role for himself in buffy's life where he offers his body to her for her consumption, and then he grows bitter and resentful that that's all she wants from him, but he chooses to remain in this role anyway. he is going to do whatever allows him to be close to her, no matter how much it hurts or debases him. this is NOT a safe person for her to be having kinky sex with. or any kind of sex, honestly. but season six is not exactly the season of healthy relationships, is it

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we need a lying on the ground dead emoji now more than ever

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from the dailies for smashed

that’s a practical growl. not done in post. not a stock noise. it’s a live growl, on set, from his human mouth. this is the take used. they drop out the sound and the music gets really beautiful with the spuffy love theme but still. we were robbed of the growl.

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Tara Maclay + text posts

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Fanworks vs. Published Works

Okay, so, I was on Reddit and there was this discourse of fanfic v. published work, and how the lines are beginning to blur more and more, particularly among readers, and how dangerous this is for fandom spaces because fanfic is not designed for the same sort of engagement one has with a published work. They look similar and feel similar, but equating them can be devastating for fanfic writers, particularly if people start reviewing and critiquing fanworks the same way they do published works.

The comparison on that subreddit—which I had never encountered but might well have been around forever and new to no one but me because sometimes I do live in a cave—was that fanfic is like a potluck. And I love that because it's 100% accurate.

At a potluck, you make something for people to enjoy out of love. It’s really shitty to go to a potluck, then walk up to someone who made what you believe is a subpar casserole and start in like you’re a food critic. You’re missing the point of the potluck. And you’re kind of a dick.

In a restaurant, the rules are different, just like in the publishing industry. You select a restaurant, you pay for a meal, and if the meal isn’t to your liking, you can leave the restaurant a review on Google or Yelp or the platform of your choice (assuming you didn’t just throw a tantrum in the restaurant itself, but that’s another discussion). And sure, YMMV from other diners’ experiences, but even if everyone loves this restaurant and you don’t, it’s perfectly acceptable to leave a subpar review listing the reasons why it didn’t meet your standards. It’s fodder for future diners to consider at this point, less for the restaurant itself. The way book reviews are meant to be for readers, not the author. The author will see it, they might get annoyed, but unless they want their career to go up in smoke, they won’t respond. Just like restaurant owners who go nuclear on bad reviews, word spreads when someone can’t take criticism.

And no, it’s still not cool to critique someone’s potluck dish even if that person is a professional chef. They still elected to invest their time, talent, and creativity to bring that dish to the potluck and are getting nothing out of it but the satisfaction of their dish being enjoyed. The potluck should be a safe space for everyone—the chef knows to expect unsatisfied customers at work; when they’re at play, when they’re relaxed and enjoying something with a chosen community, it’s really shitty to start acting like a customer in the restaurant. You don’t have to love what they brought but keep it to yourself and go try something else.

As a published author, it bothers me a lot more when people invade my fanfic space to be critical than it does any of the 20+ works I have for sale on Amazon and other vendors, and this is why. Fanfic is more personal because it’s unpaid labor created out of love and a desire for community. It’s not a commodity, and treating it like that is how you murder joy and, for some creators, sometimes the drive to ever create again.

So don’t be a dick at the potluck, okay?

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Did Giles watch Passions with Spike before or after they stopped tying him up? Were the two of them sitting on the couch eating tea sandwiches, or was Giles sitting on the side of the tub holding the blood mug for bound Spike to sip on and got so interested in the show that he sat there for an hour? Was it just once or did they make it a regular thing? There are so many burning questions that the show fails to answer

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quickly everybody make fun of the old british man