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BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER | S4E3: The Harsh Light of Day

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hey don’t cry. every vampire is gay. okay?

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"vampires will never hurt you" what if I want the vampires to hurt me. What if I want the vampires to f

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pretending I don't care about becoming a vampire so that it happens faster

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i said i couldn't stop thinking about it @disco-tea

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on why spike absolutely and truly loved buffy in season five:

people often attempt to point to one concise moment that proves spike did love buffy pre-soul, and a lot are compelling. his commitment to keeping dawn safe after buffy is dead is pretty clear. his willingness to let glory kill him because he couldn’t live seeing buffy in the pain that losing dawn would cause her is too.

“is there something i can do?,” the quiet space he makes for her, “every night i save you,” the way he shows himself only to her, “you glow,” the numerous times he plainly and honestly tells her he loves her… the journey to his soul. all of these do say love. they’re lovely moments.

for me, one thing stands above them all, the moment i can point to and say, definitively, spike is in love with buffy. it isn’t lovely. it’s terrible. it’s heartbreaking. it’s when spike’s heart broke.

the gift 5.22

first of all, this is one of the most perfect marriages of page and performance in the series. the words alone are so evocative, you can feel exactly how he does with just that brief phrase. but we’re blessed with it being a script, so we get to see it acted out, and it’s done perfectly.

spike walks up after the others, he’s been injured a lot over the last few days, including being stabbed and brutally thrown off the tower in the final fight. he’s limping, holding himself, hiding from the sun that’s already risen, but seeing her body knocks him down more than all of that.

collapsing in wretched sobs. there’s no delicacy and no modesty. he doesn’t care if anyone sees it or what they think. only he and buffy’s dead body exist right now anyway. it’s the worst thing he’s ever seen, and he covers his face from it.

collapsing in wretched sobs at his failure. he knew what would happen if he didn’t save dawn, but nothing could prepare him for seeing buffy. he feels personally and entirely responsible.

collapsing in wretched sobs at his failure, at the death of his love. his love. buffy. his love has died.

it’s true that in the past james marsters played spike more sympathetic than he was written. he admits it. he says he always played him like he had a soul. he was always a little more enamored with dru, and a little less annoyed with her. he cheated, because the spike role was temporary and so he didn’t have job security. he wanted spike to be adored by the fans, to be complex and layered, and to stay around.

but that was season two. season five spike is a series regular. his acting has already influenced the writing and direction they’d taken the character in, for two full seasons. he isn’t going anywhere. this isn’t james marsters being sneaky and pretending spike is in love with buffy. this is him playing spike as he’s written, in love.

we previously saw spike sad that drusilla left him. he was drunk, and he was pathetic because he knew nothing outside of her. he cried and he hurled himself back and forth between rage and melancholy. he was desperate to have her back and resigned himself to make that happen. he was miserable, but he didn’t mourn.

but now, because buffy is gone, spike is heartbroken.

there is no intellectually honest way you can read this scene, these facial expressions, these sobs, as someone who only had a sick infatuation and is upset he won’t have a chance at having sex with the girl he’s obsessed with now because she went and died. this is a man feeling very real grief, because his love is dead, and because he failed at preventing it.

the vampire, the soulless monster, the slayer of slayers, is heartbroken.

“it seems to me, that if we love, we grieve. that’s the deal. that’s the pact. grief and love are forever intertwined. grief is the terrible reminder of the depths of our love and, like love, grief is non-negotiable.” - nick cave

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well maybe the power of love would fix things did you guys think of that? if not we could try biting

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BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER (1997 - 2003) ⏤ 7.02, Beneath You

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Anok Yai as BLADE at Heidi Klums 2022 annual Halloween party

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less vampires in media who can just go into the sunlight nbd more vampires who absolutely will perish in the sunlight running around half on fire with a silly little blanket to protect them :)

he was so right for this <3

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more miscellaneous vamp content incoming because im zooted also it ends abruptly cause i am not a writer this was just a thought for a possibly interesting story to accompany the following tiktok filter

my brain decided that the story for this filter with this combo is the baby esme was originally pregnant with as a human is aros and somehow he stole it and hid it away idk how but that meaning he knew what rigatoni was from the beginning but wanted to just hurt the cullens for fun and his desire to add alice, bella, and edward to his collection of powers. but also before the witnessing and whatnot of the later half of breaking dawn, this character is there in twilight book one era just under the noses of the cullens cause like either they’re too oblivious and self absorbed or they just haven’t been able to figure out why that character is different than human but not quite the same as them, and they don’t actually know who this person is or if they would even consider them a problem or a theart as this character (im choosing to believe) is also blending in with humans just trying to find comfort where they can and being forever a 18 y/o or so seeming age high school is an easy place to spend time and maybe they’re in the same group as bellas initial friends (jess, angela,etc) so this would give an opening for them and bella to like low key have a moment before bella really starts to like be friendly at all with edward and then obviously that ends cause soulmates or pure infatuation and then they end up with jacob somehow. maybe after the beach day at la push them and jacob start hanging out and bonding and then bffs doing all the things together but then boom bellas bday happens edward dips and bella clings to jacob after her depression/dissociation eases up after the first couple months and lets her resurface as a human being for a minute making the characters jealous or something cause they still can’t admit to themselves that they like jacob and then victoria comes and messes up his vampire triggered genetics real quick and he avoids both them/bella so maybe the character and bella come together over the loss of contact with their mutal bestie (cause i definitely think they could still be friends since their “relationship” was more of a fling obviously) and then maybe they both drive out to his house that day and confront the pack and either the character would protect the human bella instinctively and potentially expose themself as more than human (maybe the pack and jake just think its insane bravery or great decency) OR they do nothing and pretend to be afraid like bella genuinely is. both out comes end up with jake jumping in to stand in wolf form between bella/character and paul who just shifted (obviously) and thats all i can think of for fuel in this episode of im zooted and feeling imaginative

#someone write it #twilight #jacob black #twilight renaissance #vampire #bella swan #esme cullen #aro volturi #renesmee cullen #new moon #breaking dawn #the volturi #twilight fic

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I’m only on the second book so far in The Vampire Chronicles series (The Vampire Lestat) and i think it is very good but its also kinda hard to skip over a dude letting his mum suck his tongue for blood 😂

#still gonna read it though #the vampire chronicles #the vampire lestat #lestat de lioncourt #gabrielle de lioncourt #vampires #vampire #books #anne rice #tvc lestat #im a liar i only have audiobooks

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Day 30: Bella & Edward’s Happily Ever After

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*this series is based on vibes i get*

Day 29: Renesemee & Jacob

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Day 28: The Final Battle (Movie)

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