#except the one credited

[raisedbythetv89]

Spike is the spark that brings Buffy’s fire (her ability to love) back

(stone - a notoriously non flammable material)

Buffy’s love is spoken about in relation to fire but even brighter and more intense

she sings of wanting the fire (her ability to love and feel as deeply as she once did) back - where once was a flame so bright it burned her - now there is nothing but black & cold

spike’s love for Buffy is also equated to fire showing how he matches her intensity with which she loves (love the use of the lighting in this shot he literally looks like he’s sitting back to back with his shadow as he wrestles for a moment of just letting Buffy die before ultimately going to help her) also this line is showing how much loving Buffy has cost him the burdens he’s carried, the pain and sacrifices he’s made and endured - “I have come to redefine the terms pain and suffering since falling in love with you” loving Buffy for Spike is painful AND HE STILL LOVES HER AND KEEPS TRYING TO DO AND BE BETTER FOR HER LITERALLY NO MATTER WHAT 😭🤚🏻

but this line from Giles foreshadows the need for Spike to get his soul (the spark) back in order for Buffy to get her fire back - soulless spike’s love is not enough because of the guilt and shame she feels loving a soulless demon

(thank you @spuffylatino for this spike screen grab)

e voila! Their joint hands burst into flames in the moment Buffy can finally say the words “I love you” which she hasn’t told a romantic partner that since Angel - representing Buffy getting her fire back and that she has found someone who not only won’t pull away from the intensity of her love but can match it

hands ablaze and neither pulls away until forced to by the collapsing hellmouth and Buffy gasps in relief because she did it, she got the fire back and now she can tell him with no fear or shame that she loves him before it’s too late

and after she says it she has sort of this “I know that’s pretty obvious given our joint hands are currently ablaze as our twin flame souls intertwine but you deserve to hear it and I wanted to and now CAN say it” look on her face like she’s really fucking proud of him but also herself that this is how far they’ve come both as individuals and a couple

When I say Spike is the best romantic partner for Buffy it’s not because it’s perfect - it’s because after she dates angel and riley she’s an emotionally devastated, vulnerable, heartbroken, abandoned YET AGAIN mess who can barely hold it together and gets more and more closed off each time. But THIS is the impact Spike has on her. Despite all they go through he is a catalyst for the return of her strength, confidence, healing, and emotional vulnerability. I love the overall impact he has on her as well as her on him!! They change each other for the better!! Through their love!!!! THAT’S AMAZING!!

[tapeworrmart]

Man's best friend (parasites) 🩸🪱

[oliviabear]

Oshamir AUs

aka some prompts I visualised just because

Anidala AU

Popstar x Actor

Rapunzel x Flynn

Violinist x Instructor

Nineties Era

Boarding School

Dracula AU

Spies AU

Celebrity AU

Heiress AU

Bonnie and Clyde AU

James Bond AU

College Vibes / Professors / Co-Workers

Horror AU

Hades x Persephone AU

If anybody writes/has already written any of these, do send me a link!

[lishenkaaa]

i think something we sometimes ignore when we talk about tlt's themes of love is its incredible focus on familial love, like the books' romantic and sexual themes are very clear but also it truly is a series that questions what a family is from the very beginning. gideon's lack of both a biological and chosen family (at least in her eyes) and harrow's almost decade-long attempt at maintaining the illusion of one in gtn. the fifth and the fourth, filling in the missing parts of their own families with each other. coronabeth, ianthe and even naberius' entire deal. the focus within silas and colum's dynamic of their biological compatibility as a necro/cav pair. john's desire for a daughter in harrow and then discovery of one in gideon, as well as pyrrha's desire to find out why her kid had to die only to find out 1) not her kid, 2) didn't die originally, 3) still died in the end. nona and pyrrha and pal and cam, which tazmuir herself has specifically highlighted we should question if it even counts as a family at all, but has also made sure we know they loved each other anyway. kiriona as her mother's daughter and her father's son but ultimately neither and how it kills her even as a corpse. and anastasia, the series' godot who despite making no appearance is felt in its every corner, who pyrrha painted a nursery with and who started the lineage that opened the legendary tomb.

can't wait to see how this is all explored in atn, especially when nona's family is only a "dress rehearsal" for the real horrors of love.

[luuxxart]

royal college trio 🍂🍁

[anna-scribbles]

h-how do you ever finish any of your work? genuine question because you seem to be productive despite your agreste syndrome and I need to learn your ways. but also how do you ever finish any of your work

unclear. last night i stayed up and finished a report worth 25% of my grade at about 5am, arrived on time for my 9am lecture, and spent about half of it zoned out while thinking about seventeen year old emilie agreste. and i was one of the most active participants in the class discussion

[kwyoz]

i did NOT cook with the bottom two drawings, but i like to post drawings even when theyre awful.

[starflungwaddledee]

thought i'd share some photos of this little book i started picking around with for fun in my 'offline' time!

admittedly i'm not very good at this sorta thing, but i'm trying to get back into it (it is impossible not to be inspired by my gf's journalling work, oh my god). i found this unused planner with nice creamy pages, and i thought it might make a nice 'gallery' for starstruck dee giftart!

i'm so touched by all the artwork folks have drawn of her for events or gifts or trades, and i thought this would be a nice way to honour them while also giving me something fun to flick through!! it's also a really soothing way to spend a good chunk of time looking at and thinking about each piece while i design a layout around them! i write the occasional little notes, or i copy in tags or other little relevant bits so that i can remember them for longer than my weak memory would actually allow!

it's roughly chronological (though the 'cover' page is from the hnkss event in december), so here's the first few pages!

🎨 art credits 🎨 cover spread: @chaotixcowboy (santa for the hnkss 2023 event) page 1: @kamalemons (first ever gift art! + tags for context) page 2: @veveisveryuncool & @jojo-schmo (halloween interaction pieces!) pages 3-4: @moon-mage-ex (an entire spread just for you because you've actually done so many!!! wow!)

[timslaughlin]

Tim's room in the boardinghouse in Washington, D.C.

Bonus, his end table:

[nach0]

You are the Realmleaper. You are an anchor without a ship to pull you back up. You are stuck watching retellings of the same play over and over. This time you are...

>The Party's companion >The Rouge's guide >The Kid's protector >The King's informant >The Script's rewriter >The Original's hope >The Researcher's project >The...

Hmm. You don't know yet.

Time to find out!

[daily-hanamura]

[parasolemn]

Just found Empathy Jar in my drafts so I think that means I should get to post 100000 images from the last four months. I also put others on the jar but I only like the Empathy now because I only had 2 hours to paint it and the paint kept coming off broken heart emoji...

i love putting ency and empathy next to eachother. hashtag facts care about my feelings. sorry they literally only have passives adjacent to eachother that aren't even dependent on eachother to show up but I love having people ask me why I draw them like this so I can respond "facts care about my feelings :-)" (Also only real ones know. Does anyone know. Nobody here knows except the real ones (the people who enable me))

FUCKK WAIT THAT REMINDS ME MY

My badass stickers I printed but more importantly the suggestion authority dichotomy(??) I take suuuuper seriously guys. does anyone know if auth and sugg are two sides of the same coin kind of (says this like it's the most profound revelation ever that all mainstream DE fans should be focusing on). also still throwing encyclopedia at other skills mentally. I think if the skills had their own mini sub-skills Ency would have like negative 1274823647234 logic (OK not that bad but it'd be a little bad) (Once again only real ones know btw)

Pinkie promise I make normal DE art soon too btw ok? My volition skilltober image just a hundred billion months away. Nods

[metamelonisle]

i actually know about kirby outside the context of smash bros or memes this makes me better than literally everyone i know irl and i am not joking

[smashwolfen]

Hfodkejrbdjskskkr getting myself hyped to go to my first convention ever tomorrowwwww!!!!

Mind you its small and local but a con is a con and I am both so nervous and excited XD

Not going as a character or anything in particular but I am going to go out all gussied up! Just enough to show the PLA favoritism

Just a lil bit XD (I would have tried to smoosh my Ingo plush in somehow but he kept sliding out of wherever I put him, and Im worried of just letting him dangle by his keychain piece ;w;)

If I remember to ask my buddy I'm going with to take some pics of me decked out, I will maybe share what was up and seen if I even got the nerves for that XD

Wish my introverted butt luck because this is SO NERVE WRACKING AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Sweater was made by @cecilioque btw credit for the amazing sweater goes to them! And the Joltik keychain was made by @imfluentinfangirlandgay a while back!

[butterflieswhisper]

looping echidna beastlife gif from trying to figure out toonboom

[ironunderstands]

About my Dr. Ratio + Aven content…

Steal it, I’m so serious right now steal it. I’ve made several posts people have received really well and I want to post them to other sites really badly but TikTok has made it so difficult for me and I straight up do not have the motivation to try out other sites. So if you have liked what I have written and want to share it elsewhere, do it, honestly you don’t even have to credit me, I think the ideas themselves matter more than my ego. Besides it’s not like I own hsr, other people can easily come to the conclusions I do. So if you have ever been like “hey I wanna share this elsewhere but it’s not mine”, go ahead, if even only one of you exists go ahead, you have my full permission. Ideas are meant to be shared anyways and I don’t want people to think that if they have reached the same conclusions I have on their own they suddenly can’t talk about it either.

Thief, steal and take what’s not yours because it’s yours now and I would be delighted if my sh1t was on other platforms, I’m just gonna have to suppress my brains desire for praise while doing so 😭