#do we not all WANT the horrible fics that highlight buffy’s naivety and angel seeing her as a symbol instead of a person????? | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

theajaheira · 1 year

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i feel like at some point i have to write my latest bangel plot bunny just to counterbalance all the violent hatred of them??? like they’re FASCINATING. y’all just think the show doesn’t know that this is a deeply fucked up relationship, which is sorta fair bc the show can’t decide + wants to have its cake and eat it too (buffy and angel are somehow simultaneously Teenage True Love and Genuinely Fucked Up Power Dynamic) BUT “the show can’t decide” is so hugely different from “the show doesn’t know it’s fucked up and thinks it isn’t” and so sometimes i will see bangel hater takes and they will actually hurt my soul

#musings #do we not all WANT the horrible fics that highlight buffy’s naivety and angel seeing her as a symbol instead of a person?????#like the insane amazing character exploration this allows?#the fact that buffy latches onto angel bc she wants protection & very consistently dates older guys #bc her trauma separates her from guys her age #but then that this creates a New Host Of Problems that she wasn’t anticipating???#but ALSO there is INDISPUTABLE love there it is just FUCKED UP #there is SO MUCH THERE and to just go ‘’bangel sucks’’ is so BORING like DIVE INTO IT #yes i talk about how insufferable i find them all the time yes i think they are incredible. this is why i live in fandom switzerland

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