#ruffy

[mokneydloaf]

[evvyyypeters-fics]

Something I just realized after watching some of Angel s1 is that Angel and Riley are kind of similar. I don't know if it was on purpose or not, but they seem kind of like mirrors of each other in a way, or they have similar ideas of what it means to be dating Buffy. Riley, as we know, struggled a lot with the fact that he's a human and Buffy isn't. At first, they work together to defeat monsters and he believes that she's just a strong girl. When he learns that she's supernaturally inclined to be stronger, he seems ok with it at first, a little surprised because he didn't originally believe in the Slayer. But over time he comes to this realization that Buffy doesn't need him to help her. She can handle herself, and if anything, he needs her to save him because she's the Slayer. She's the only one who can literally save the world because that's her job. All he's left with is being Buffy's boyfriend and not her protector, which as a male who grew up in the south and works for the military obviously damages his ego a little bit and messes up with his views on relationships. So when Buffy starts to distance herself from him when things get tough, he feels as if not only is he not needed to protect her, but he's not needed to just be her boyfriend. He has no real importance in her life, she has everything her own and he has no other way to impress her. So he seeks validation outside of their relationship with the vampire prostitution. He wants to be needed and relied on. He wants to be a tough man who has to save his woman, not the other way around. And if he can't do that let alone just be in Buffy's life, he leaves entirely. Which I think is fair, because obviously they have different needs and it was never going to work out for them. Now we get to Angel. In the first cameo episode we see of Buffy in Angel the show, Angel turns into a human for a while from demon blood and that's the whole plot of the episode. And we see that Angel goes through essentially the same thing. He realizes that he is not good to Buffy if he isn't as strong or stronger than her, that she doesn't need him if he can't protect her. Buffy doesn't care that Angel can't fight alongside her anymore, she's ecstatic that he's human and they can finally be together and she's willing to give up everything for them to live a normal life as humans together. But Angel's ego just can't handle that he wouldn't be able to save Buffy when he thinks she needs him to. Even though, usually when Angel does show up, she never needs his help regardless and it only causes her more pain. The whole reason she shows up in the episode, to begin with, is because Angel watches her from the sidelines because he believes he needs to protect and watch over her. Not only does he not really help, but he never talks to her at all before he leaves. And when Buffy finds out, she's hurt and upset because she feels betrayed that he feels he can just waltz into the shadows of her life and leave without saying anything to her. I think Angel just as a boyfriend isn't that great, and I think he knows this too, which is why he gives up his humanity the one thing Buffy wanted so that (in his mind) she could need him outside of just being someone for her to love. That he could be useful for something other than just being emotional support. Angel has never really helped Buffy in any of her physical fights, so the fact that he gives up his humanity just so he can have super strength again is ridiculous to me. It shows that he doesn't care about loving Buffy, he would ruin her happiness for his own ego. Neither Angel or Riley want to Buffy's, they want her to be theirs. They want her to be reliant on them because in some way it allows them to hold control and power over her because they can't handle that she has more power over them as a woman.

Now....here's where my Spuffy bias comes into play.

Spike knows that he is weaker than Buffy. And he's ok with that. if anything, that's what he loves about her. I mean, he actually tries to help Buffy in physical fights multiple times and usually, he just gets in the way and fails. (Which is more than Angel does IMO.) The difference is that Spike doesn't try and make himself stronger than he already is, he jumps in when he feels he can help and when Buffy tells him she doesn't need his help, sure he gets a little upset and embarrassed, but he steps out of the way. I've also noticed that usually when he jumps in, he sees that Buffy is struggling. At least in his own eyes. In a lot of those cases, she is struggling a little and Spike makes a distraction or knocks the attacker out of the way and Buffy just gets annoyed that he's there.

But that's not just it. Spike likes that Buffy overpowers him. He enjoys fighting with her. That's how he flirts, that's how they flirt. Buffy beats Spike to a pulp and he's honestly content. Even when she's so angry she beats his face bloody, he isn't sad or angry with her, he just says "you always hurt the ones you love the most" and is basically smiling. And the kicker here is that he doesn't even fight back. He rarely fights back. The only times he does fight back, they end up having sex. He doesn't need to overpower her or seem stronger than her. If anything, he's bluffing. Even souled Spike doesn't want to be stronger than Buffy or care about matching her level of power. The whole speech Spike gives her near the end of season seven proves that. He literally tells her that he doesn't love her because of how she looks beside him, or in his image. He doesn't love her in the way you'd love an object or ideal. He loves her for who she is and because she's a strong, independent woman who doesn't need him. He couldn't care if he was useful to her or not, sure he'd like to be--he tries to be as helpful as he knows he can be, but if she saved the world without his help he'd be happy to do so. The number of times where Spike helps Buffy the most by just letting her do the fighting while taking care of everything else behind the scenes for her shows how much better of a partner he is for Buffy. Spike is capable of helping Buffy physically, but he's best suited to helping the people she loves and emotionally. He's her punching bag and her shield in a way. Angel and Riley want to be the knight that protects Buffy because they want her to be a meek little girl who relies on them, but she is the one who is the sword.

They pair so well because they are essentially each other's yin and yang. Buffy is the sword, she is the knight charging forward on her own, and Spike is her shield. He holds the fort and is only useful when she needs him to be instead of needing to be useful.

I really hope this made sense. I literally cannot get their dynamic out of my head. I needed to rant about this so bad because the more I think about Spuffy the more I love it. Also, I know someone is going to read this and be like "well what about the bathroom scene in Seeing Red". We don't say that name in this household.

But let me entertain that for a second and push past all the implications of Seeing Red just as an episode that exists.

I don't belive that the scene in Seeing Red is about Spike wanting to control or have power over Buffy. If anything, the fact that he did have power over her in that scene, even for a moment, is what terrified him. It was the fact that he realized in that moment that he was still a monster. A man and a monster. That he had gotten to a weakness that allowed him to take power over her. And it disgusted him. He was disgusted and terrified of himself and that moment so much that he ran away to get his soul so he could repent. Him being in a church and burning himself on the giant cross when he tells Buffy he got his soul for her is wrapped in so much symbolism. He's literally repenting for his sins and crimes. Not just against Buffy either. But his control over her in that moment, his ability to genuinely hurt her, broke him so bad that he basically went off to either kill himself in the trials or torture himself with a soul. So that he could feel the pain of everything he had done so that he could feel guilty and essentially punish himself, as well as make himself safer around Buffy. He knew that if he could feel empathy and he could feel guilt, he wouldn't dare to hurt Buffy like that again.

[formemolga]

Super short animation of Luffy and Zoro, ma boiisss

[inkprovised]

We reached Episode 1000 🤯

We are watching since September '23 lol! This was screaming for something... no idea if I'll finish this 😅

1015 is the aswesomest shit I have ever seen...

[thepunkmuppet]

watching this years girl and who are you (faith’s eps in season 4) and oh my god faith and forrest are the same. ik no one ever talks about forrest because he’s annoying and cringe and who cares, but also if you actually pay attention he is so gay for riley it’s unreal. so having, in the same episode, faith being weirdly mad about buffy dating riley and forrest being weirdly mad about riley dating buffy is just really funny to me lol

[theeejay]

Monkey D. Luffy's Gear 5 form - One Piece Episode 1071

[deerangle3]

I thought this would be funny!!! even if it's maybe a bit ooc

[monkeydluffy19920]

“Die Zeit läuft uns davon, Was getan ist ist getan, Und was jetzt ist wird nie mehr so geschehen"

(Wolfsheim - Kein Zurück)

Going Merry Holidays 2024 (day 15): Kein Zurück - Luffy vs Sanji

One of the most current projects and the melancholy in this song inspired me to do a Luffy vs Sanji video. Just couldn't stop thinking of Sanji after returning to this song after years and I tried to focus especially on Sanji’s mindset when he was dragged to this wedding mess. 

I’ve written a lot of ponders about Sanji’s character in general and maybe the Reasons to love Mugiwaras - Sanji-post handles it the most. Shortly said, Zou and Whole Cake Island arcs opened more reasons what things have affected on Sanji's personality throughout the years and now his sacrificial tendencies make even more sense.

I also included Luffy to this amv especially to the part where it’s sung: “Du willst noch leben, irgendwann, Doch wenn nicht heute, wann denn dann?” (Following translation in english: "You want to live, someday. But if not today, when then?") which heavily reminded me of the chapter where Luffy punches Sanji and “forces” him to tell his true feelings (not the “Germa Prince” stuff he tries to put to the very end because now he is ashamed of meet his captain after all he did to him but all Luffy cares about what Sanji really wants) and this was the turning point for Sanji for sure because his captain knows him better than he thought. 

The quick english translation for the quoted lyrics: "The time runs way from us, What is is done, it's done, And what now exist, will never happen the same way again"

So, another theme in this project was time because the lyrics are basically about the time moving forward and one should not get stuck to the past (although for some people would prefer it) and in the Whole Cake Island arc, the time was also a crucial part of the story and they were seen very often (I never paid attention but has there been actual manual clocks in the arcs before this arc?).

Anyway, clocks are often used as symbols of time and mortality and it was pretty good the summary of Sanji trying to make up with a plan where everyone would win and then at the same time the retrieval team of the Straw Hats basically were battling against a ticking clock when they tried to prevent the tea ceremony.

Oh by the way, since its sung in german language, there are subtitles to follow the lyrics :)   

(original post here)

[jyushikoo]

Sneak peek

[norahtheweirdo]

I’m making a playlist where my friends can contribute all of their favorite songs that I must listen to and it’s already 26 hours long after just 2 people so any song recs while we are here

[mokneydloaf]

Just Loaf being Loaf *laughs*

[nearrshore]

[itizjulz]

Really like how he turned out ❤️

[penanila]

Bei dem Wetter kann Katze nur entspannen

[jade-kaiba]

[loveforbellisperennis]

Why he so beautiful while suffering? Me not understand! 😭