#angel ats

[liam-summers]

Angel + Smiling around Buffy 🥹

[cangelgifs]

ANGEL THE SERIES (1.06) & (4.04)

[whatisyourchildhoodtrauma]

ANGEL THE SERIES | 5.14 “Smile Time”

[kingoftheu]

Angel is a Whedon Show, and brings with it that baggage. But given the sheer amount of discourse that has emerged from redemption arcs, I think it is interesting because its an entire show based around the concept of redemption. The work that goes in, the reversals and advances. Is there a point where you are crowned "redeemed" or is that an illusion on the horizon? Is forgiveness ever owed? At what point does failing to recognize someone has changed cross a line? Lots of interesting stuff to explore.

And not just from the main character.

(Also that finale)

[hersterical]

At this point Angel and Angelus are almost more the same person to me than btvs Angel and ats Angel

[cupoteahatter]

Literally Anyone: *Hurts, threatens or puts Cordelia in the slightest bit of danger*

Angel: So. You have chosen Death.

[fictiongods]

I don’t think you guys are ready for how much Faith IS Angel. Like down to their types in women, Faith is Angel and wanted to be treated as such (especially by Buffy)

[angel-thoughts-dump]

times they call/insinuate angel is gay/“too feminine for a man”/is attractive to men, in ats - Season 1

ep 1 A manager says to Angel he is a very beautiful man, and he wants to represent him. "Call me, this isn't a come-on"

ep 2 In the club, Angel has to "search for someone that's in trouble" and everyone thinks he is just flirting, including a man, Angel tells him "seriously I wasn't hitting on you"

ep 3 Spike, while watching him from afar, makes a LONG hilarious joke about him being gay, and caring too much about his hair and using “nancy boy hair gel”.

Later while fighting, Spike says to Angel "What’s next ? Vampire cowboy ? Vampire fireman ? Oh, vampire ballerina?" to which Angel responds "I do like to work with my legs" and kicks him

ep 4 Doyle legit admits he is attracted to him

ep 5 Cordy: "do you have (hair)mousse?...       of course you do"

ep 6 Mafia boss calls him “nancy boy”. Angel hits him with a chair.

Also, there's a joke where Cordy nags Angel for not noticing her new shoes, Angel is about to say that "men don't notice that staff" when Doyle enters and says to her "Nice shoes!". This is a 'Doyle =gay' joke but it also shows Angel has funny ideas of what makes you a man, and it's funny that the entire plot of the ep is about repressing emotions, and unwinding when you touch a magic stick.

ep 7 Angel and Doyle going to fight a vamp nest is paralleled with Cordy going on a romantic date. Doyle: “everyone has dinner plans”.

The first thing the new husband of Doyle’s ex does when he comes in, is insist on how handsome Angel is. (Doyle’s ex had also just met him, didn’t say a thing, neither did other women this ep)

ep 8, 9, 10 and 11 I didn’t catch any

ep 12 friends of Cordelia meet Wesley and Angel for the first time, the way they act and respond to their flirting and invitations to a party makes them think they are gay “the good ones are always gay” one says. Angel is not bothered about it, Wesley a little. Later they have this conversation in which Angel seems to have noticed that insecurity, and he says to Wesley that the girls liked him, that his clumsiness was charming, and that the fact they think they are gay adds mystery

(also why does angel quickly bit his lip, looks him up and down, and smiles to him like that??? asdfasdfasd)

ep 13 (refer to this post bc it needs context) in short yeah a guy is definitely attracted to him

ep 14 nothing again I guess

ep15 Kate’s dad asks her if Angel is gay, she laughs and says "no, he is just not my type, or I'm not his type".

Also, it felt like the dialogs were specially 'supernatural=queer' this episode, and he WAS getting homophobia by Kate lmao

"you don't get to kill a demon in front of me and then act like we are going to have a cappuccino together" "No offense, I know you are probably a decent guy for, you know, what you are..." "If you insist on talking about this, can you pls not call it that? It makes me uncomfortable.(don't say demon) say evil thing" "What? they are evil things that are not evil? - well yeah(me) - OH right, sorry" Then the scenes of his father calling him a disappointment make it even more uuughhh, and then he says "It was a son I wished for, a man! Instead, god gave me you".

All scenes from his past as human point to him being a fuck boy, meaning that, even if not queer, in a way, he also didn't follow the conventional norms of romance or sexuality. But it's also funny to point out the first thing he does as a vampire is feed from a man, to which Darla says "now you can have anyone you want"

ep 16 Cordelia ends up saying “if anyone is wearing a push-up bra here its-- Angel!” when Angel surprises her entering the room, (Also, Wesley describes a type of demon that howls when they are preparing to fight or mate, next scene angel is fighting them while they howl(they appear male), I know this one is a reach, but I’m putting it here bc it made me laugh).

ep 17 so he reads girl-celebs magazines and remembers this rumor about an actor? sure

also this ep Cordy(known fashion lover) compliment's Angelus fashion sense "Angelus would never wear those pants".

In the buffyverse they say everything is the same without the soul except there's no guilt, meaning no repression about what he would like to wear. So if it hadn't been obvious from before, Angel is also a fashion lover, except repressed about it.

ep 18 there was nothing much here except if you count that Darla asks him "have you met someone else?" no gender-specific.

And/or this interaction with Linsdey cuz come on the tension, the banter, the 'was it necessary getting this close?'

ep 19 Again nothing textual unless you count that Wesley risks his life and goes against the Watchers council for him, even if it means helping someone he hates(Faith), and his loyalty to Angel is called a perversion(also how does angel look so small here??asdfsas)

ep 20 two little things, first, does this joke "you show me yours, I'll show you mine" Angel says to intimidate a guy count? lol

Second, in this ep they get paid to search for blackmail pictures of a guy who went to a demon script club, after Angel takes them back Wesley looks at them, and he seems weirded out. Angel is besides him and only with a quick look he is able to tell the pictures are upside down, Wesley turns them and looks at them again, he says "oh, I can't imagine it was pleasant" to which angel makes this face like uhm???

In any case I put it here cuz even if its not an "angel=gay" moment it certainly shows he has experience with Unconventional sex staff

eps 21 and 22 I didn't catch anything, but in the last ep the "supernatural= other(queer/disabled/etc)" thing is easier to see. Because there's Kate again with the irrational hate like "I'll rid the city of your kind" etc just after Angel saves someone.

And the last scene shows the way your friends don't mind the "weird" parts of you even if you or most people do

a super endearing moment that happens just before the show promises Angel that he will "as a reward" be normal eventually, which weird, cuz then, Is the message of the story that you can find peace by finding a mission and loved ones who accept you as you are? or is it you can find peace only as long as you are useful to the normal 'innocent' people around you, and you work toward being normal? idk

[balthazarslostlibrary]

there's a pegging joke here surely

[liam-summers]

Angel + Being Buffy’s Biggest Fan™

(Part 2)

[cangelgifs]

Angel + his infamous hairdo

BONUS:

[keanherself]

Snooped Magazine

You might remember Angel having a stint on the gossip magazines when he was protecting Rebecca Lowell. I wrote a fic, Being Known, that included it for @iwillrememberyoumarathon and thought I'd share it here too.

Summary of Being Known: Buffy sees Angel on the cover of Snooped and a late night phonecall ensues. Set during the summer between S4 & S5 of Buffy and S1 & S2 of Angel.

The light-hearted banter slipped away, replaced by a charged sense of anticipation. There was a line, an intimacy, they were quickly approaching that they both knew led to danger. They had rules for these conversations, understood but never spoken, and he had just broken one - never reference the past.

Link

And look, I got a cool toy surprises!

[davidboreanaz]

right so i’m 15k words into a bangel x fbi fic and idk if I should post it when it’s complete as a huge one shot or to chapter it. what do people prefer to read? chapters or all at once?

let me know bangel lovers

[starspangeledwanker]

Oh I'm always accepting spangel prompts fyi

[hersterical]

At this point I’ve decided that losing/gaining a soul affects each vampire differently in unpredictable ways. Practically no one in universe has noticed this and so no one has tried to figure out why.

Some things that I personally feel like can be applied to all vampires, though to different degrees of intensity and which manifests themselves in different ways are: lowered inhibitions and sense of right and wrong, increased animal instincts, and the psychological effects of no longer being even the same species as a human

I would have been able to have done further research on the matter if SOMEBODY (I’m not going to be naming names but it rhymes with ‘Wofessor Palsh’) hadn’t decided to Frankenstein herself up a son and effectively shut the whole program down

[convolv0]

What they say: im fine

What they mean: i want another season of the Buffyverse in which the characters get to do silly stuff, like a cooking competition for one episode, and go to therapy and no one is tortured just for the sake of it. And Joss Wheon is kept in a cage on the side of the screen.

Also there should be an episode where my most precious simply get turned into children and the group has to parent them for like a week. Like I need to see little Wesley being fed candy while Giles and Angel plan the kidnapping (and torture) of Roger Wyndam Pryce.