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I’m sorry but the way buffy’s all:
UGGGHHHH I sooooooo don’t wanna have to go manhandle the hot vampire for information he’s soooo annoyingggg
Then immediately lets slip she actually does spend time thinking about what he’s up to all day in his crypt and she says she KNOWS it’s something - not creepy, not weird, NASTY 👀👀👀 😜
And then SECONDS after she says that she BARGES IN UNANNOUNCED giving Spike absolutely ZERO time to make himself decent if he was doing something. She literally bounces in and struts up to him in such a way she is getting wind machine level Beyoncé hair. Like GIRL WHAT WERE YOU HOPING TO WALK IN ON barging in without knocking 😹😹😹 which is literally the only way she ever enters his crypt… playing with fire fr
ONLY TO CHOOSE THE WORD PROPOSITION. Not “I need information, I need a favor/help” A PROPOSITION for you. Ya know like “to proposition someone” for sex…
And SPIKE just BOUNDS right up to her in a way that flexes his arm muscles in the process and gets him RIGHT in her face, saying he’s got a proposition for her too…. they did not need to be this close to talk and she doesn’t even back up at all 😹 what she does do is LOOK AWAY when he flexes his arms to propel himself up only to look back at him when he’s standing in front of her 👀 she’s like RILEY focus on RILEY do not get distracted by his arms LOOK AWAY
The SLAP instead of a punch??? He looks SHOCKED that it was a slap instead of a punch when he literally just called her boyfriend an enormous hall monitor and asked tauntingly if he was gonna die and all it elicits is a slap that doesn’t even have full slayer strength behind it 😹😹😹 like this is basically a love tap for them when we see a shove from her send him FLYINGGG across the room when she really means it in “Smashed”
AND THEN SHE’S LIKE “I’D BE DATING SPIKE” as her attempt at reassurance to Riley that super strength isn’t what she cares about BUT IF IT WAS it would in fact be Spike 👀 like she had that alternative READDDDY to go. To me this says she’s thought about what would life be like if she had started dating Spike after “something blue” instead of Riley. Probably since she found out Riley was a demon hunter and no longer the “normal” option between the two which was Riley’s biggest appeal to her as part of her attempt to show she had “normal” taste in men after thoroughly enjoying being all over Spike in “something blue” (as I talked about in a previous post)
Also Spike isn’t the only one showing off his arms!! Buffy has her jacket on to go look for Riley but is just in her white tank and red leather pants to flirt TALK with Spike. Which literally is showing more skin, but ALSO is a physical representation of the relationship she’s always had with spike that revolves around vulnerability and the differences in her behavior between Riley & Spike with how vulnerable she is this season but even as far back as season three when she says she can’t lie to herself OR SPIKE.
AND the fact that Spike is in a different outfit in his dream but Buffy isn’t 👀 he was checking her OUTTT in that outfit and even though he saw her with her jacket on at the hospital he’s dreaming about how she looked when she came looking for him. Also the way she’s just BATHED in light when she first walks in UGH 😻😻😻 looking like a leather clad angel of death sent to destroy the version of spike created by Angel and Drusilla’s abuse bit by bit. I quite literally could not be more obsessed with them
#istg these posts always start relatively short#spuffy#spike btvs#spike and buffy#btvs season 5#out of my mind btvs#5.04 btvs#spuffy deep dive#spuffy meta
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#really is hilarious to me how Spike had a whole phase where he was like like ‘I HOPE YOUR BOYFRIEND DIES’#because I hate you. obviously#what other reason would there be#btvs memes#spuffy#btvs 5.04
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The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Wednesday, August 17
Faith: They're not gonna be brain damaged enough to come back here tonight.
Mayor: Ever had a dog?
Faith: What?
Mayor: I did. Rusty. Irish setter. Swell little pooch. A dog's friendship is stronger than reason, stronger than it's own sense of self-preservation. Buffy's like a dog.
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Honestly Dawn, how many bowls of cereal are you planning on eating?
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Dean Winchester, Character Death, and Frodo’s Return to the Shire
This will be a LOOONG post that has been stuck in my head for a while in bits and pieces - about Dean’s death, what it was and what it wasn’t, and incidentally, the Lord of the Rings has found its way in here too.
It’s pretty clear that Dabb always meant for Dean to die.
And while I strongly disagree with that, on so many levels, I think it might have been more palatable if framed in a different way, and so I’ve been trying to figure out what the ending might have looked like in a world that wasn’t quite as shitty as ours. Still shitty, but marginally less so.
Dean is notoriously bad at letting bad things happen if he can prevent them. I find it difficult to believe that Dean would ever quit hunting entirely, and for as long as he kept hunting, the danger of dying would always be present. It’s not unrealistic at all for him to die on a routine hunt. Life is unpredictable; life as a hunter, even more so. I understand that the writers might want to make that point. And it might have been valid if – and that’s the real problem – Dean’s death hadn’t otherwise been devoid of meaning.
The thing about character death – any sort of character death – is that it needs to have purpose.
And there are different ways that it can have purpose, but it depends on what sort of character we’re talking about.
Minor, often unnamed characters – the redshirts in every narrative – die to illustrate injustice or to highlight evil. Their death is a catalyst or a consequence of the events as they unfold, part of the conflict the heros have to solve. An army led into battle by a tyrant. Refugees in a camp dying of malnutrition. Murder victims of a serial killer. In all these cases, death fuels the plot but has little meaning beyond that.
There are minor characters whose death both fuels the plot and gives the hero a more personal motive to act. Supernatural is full of these. Mary and Jessica burning at the ceiling; Charlie dumped in a bathtub. Minor characters can have their own arcs, but ultimately their deaths are only important for the impact they have on the main characters.
The death of a protagonist is markedly different. Protagonists need to have agency even in death to maintain their status.
Their death has to be the reflection of their character development up to that point but it also has to tell us something about them that we did not already know – show us how they make a final decision or draw a final conclusion that marks the end of an inner conflict – which is what all storytelling is about. Character death has to serve a purpose to have meaning, and for a protagonist, the purpose must be personal.
And If it fails to do that, then that’s either a sign that we’re no longer dealing with a protagonist, or that something weng very, very wrong in the writers’ room. There is no inherent value in tragedy. In storytelling, tragedy is justified when it achieves something, otherwise, it’s just capriciousness.
Buffy’s death at the end of season 5 of BTVS is a classic example for the death of a protagonist. Harry’s decision to go and face Voldemort in the forbidden forest, even though it doesn’t ultimately kill him, is another. When Sam jumps into the abyss in Swan Song, that is his heroic sacrifice, but if he’d permanently died in season 2, that would have been bizarre and nonsensical because it was entirely beyond his control – it did not reflect his decisions, gave him no agency, and reduced him from a protagonist to a side character. In that moment, his death was something that happened to Dean. It worked because his death didn’t stick – he regained his agency after resurrection. But as an ending to his hero’s journey, it would have been singularly unsatisfying.
Dean is our protagonist, and he has been for 15 seasons. What does his death tell us about him that we didn’t know – what decisions did he make, what inner struggle got resolved, what meaning did his death have for him, personally, and then, in extension, for us?
The problem is that the finale, as is so often the case in Supernatural, tells two stories at once.
Whe the episode starts, it appears that Dean moves on with his life just fine, a well-adjusted model citizen. He’s ready to get a job, seems to be moderately happy. He even has dog. The decision to keep hunting is his, and death just accidentally happens, which of course is not unrealistic in his line of work. On the forefront, his death is brought about by the fact that he exercises free will. It tells us that he is a hunter and will always be one, that he keeps protecting people because that’s just who he is.
None of that, however, is new. It is just more of the same. All of Dean’s decisions in the finale tell us nothing about him that we did not already know. He’s trying to move on from the death of the people closest to him, as he’s always done. He chooses the hamster wheel, as he has always done. He follows in his father’s footsteps, as he has always done.
As he gets impaled, he has no choices left to make. There is no agency in his death, no inner struggle. His death furthers neither his character development nor the plot. That Dean simply accepts his death is as unsurprising as the fact that his final moments are spent reassuring Sam and telling him that he has to keep fighting.
The conclusion? Dean ceases to be a protagonist.
He dies not as the hero of his story. His death just happens to him.
After Sam and Dean had presumably freed themselves from the constraints of Chuck’s narrative, the final episode should have emphasized their agency, their freedom of choice, through change. But in the end, it only led them both to making the same choices as always, the unsurprising ones. And even the choices that did indicate a change (like Dean’s job application) were not shown to bear fruits.
What meaning does free will have when it doesn’t change the outcome? All the finale does is tell a bleak story about humanity and how we are incapable of making meaningful, consequential changes in our lives.
It’s almost like Lucifer is talking to us all the way from the Endverse of 5.04: “Whatever you do, you will always end up here. Whatever choices you make, whatever details you alter, we will always end up – here.”
Devastating as that is, there is another interpretation of the finale that is arguably worse, a different reading strongly suggested by both text and subtext.
Dean, as mentioned before, is trying to move on with his life but ultimately fails. The situation is different from the way he behaved when he lost Cas and Mary in season 13 where he was outright suicidal – his desperation is more quiet but also more profound. He seems determined to honor Cas’ and Jack’s sacrifice. But determination is not enough. Dean only goes through the motions, and it shows. He clings to the dog in the morning; the dog sticks to him closely throughout the day as dogs tend to do when they feel that their owner is in distress, almost like a therapy dog. His room looks messy, he makes an attempt to fix it but then abandons it as it requires too muh effort. Ultimately, he can’t be bothered. There are alcohol bottles standing around, a sign that he’s drinking, though not as heavily as in the past. All the while, he sems very laid-back, presumably relaxed and at peace and coping well with the loss but also weirdly detached.
When Sam mentions Cas and Jack at the pie festival, he says, “Yeah, I’m thinking about them too. You know that pain’s not going to go away. Right? But if we don’t keep living, then all that … sacrifice is gonna be for nothing.”
He feels an obligation. And he’s trying. It’s just not working very well.
He barely reacts when Sams pies him in the face.
When impaled on the rebar, Dean actively prevents Sam from calling for help. He tells Sam not to bring him back. And in the end, he asks Sam to tell him it’s okay to go. Which isn’t something he would do if he was simply dying – it strongly indicates that he wants to be allowed to die.
Prompting the conclusion that Dean is giving up on life the first opportunity he gets, not even knowing whether he’ll end up in heaven.
In this reading, Dean does have a little bit of agency. He makes a decision, sort of. His death marks the resolution of an inner struggle: He gives up.
He dies as a protagonist.
In the worst way possible.
In all honesty, I can’t decide which interpretation I hate more.
But what could the writers have done differently, if Dean was meant to die all along?
Back when the SPN finale had freshly aired, I was describing it like this:
Imagine that the One Ring is destroyed. But Merry died in the battle and Pippin went missing and was never found again. Frodo and Sam return to the Shire; Pippin and Merry are mentioned once in passing. Upon their arrival, Frodo is attacked by Wormtongue and slowly bleeds out over the span of thirty pages. Sam marries someone else than Rosie; Rosie is never mentioned again. Somehow, both Frodo and Sam are teleported to Valinor, where we are told that the real fun begins.
At the time, I only used this as an example to illustrate what a mess the finale had been. But in the weeks that have passed since, then, I’ve started thinking about the LOTR comparison some more, and it got me thinking about Dean’s death in a different way.
And it has everything to do with the difference between running from and walking toward.
As mentioned before, it’s not unrealistic that Dean would die on a random hunt. Would the Dean Winchester we know ever stop hunting? Maybe. We might want him to. Then again, would be still be Dean Winchester if he did? We know that Dean can’t help but feel responsible. He is someone who is incapable of staying hands-off.
Dean, as we see him in the finale, is trying to honor Cas’s and Jack’s memory by living, although he’s not very good at it – not outright suicidal but worn-out. Exhausted. And still he makes the decisions to keep hunting because he can do nothing else.
When Frodo and Sam returned to the Shire in LOTR, they had earned their happy ending. But Frodo, who had carried such a heavy burden that he was permanently altered by it, could no longer find happiness in Middleearth, and ultimately decided to depart for Valinor along with Gandalf and Bilbo with the promise of later being reunited with Sam. The journey had changed both of them, but it had changed Frodo to a greater degree, his responsibility had been greater, the weight on his shoulders heavier.
And I started to wonder whether the intention had initially been to show Dean in much the same state – and to frame his death as a decision to move on, the same way that LOTR has Frodo move on to the West.
Imagine the following: Cas is pulled into the Empty. His happiness and love change the Empty; he merges with it or otherwise changes it so that it’s now a more demon-friendly environment. Everyone there is at peace. Cas, in whatever form, moves on to Heaven – or maybe his soul does as it’s now mostly human.
Dean goes on a hunt and dies. Jack, or some other entity, shows up where you would expect the curiously absent reaper in order to give him a choice. Learning that Cas is in Heaven, and knowing that he will never be able to stop hunting if he remains on earth, Dean makes the conscious decision to move on. For the first time, Dean prioritizes his own happiness over his perceived duty. His death is no longer suicide by proxy, and neither is its sole purpose to illustrate the inherent meaningless of free will by turning him into a hamster-by-choice. Instead, it becomes a decision because he’s given back agency. He resolves an inner conflict and there’s even a final bit of character development as he breaks the chain of mutual co-dependency that ties him to Sam and allows himself to be with Cas. He remains a protagonist throughout the end.
And because he acknowledges his love for Cas and decides to be with him, he no longer just runs from, he walks toward.
The parallels to The Lord of the Rings get even more obvious when you take Sam into the equation because much like Samwise, Sam remains on earth in order to have a life that, for him, still holds meaning and the chance of happiness – whereas Dean can no longer be happy on earth as long as Cas isn’t there.
To be completely clear: I’d still think that such an ending would suck because it puts too much emphasis on an afterlife, and it would still send the message that characters like Dean could only find peace in death, and unless some adjustments were made to Sam’s arc as well, the ending would still suck for him.
But seeing as SPN plays in a universe where an afterlife exists, I could probably learn to live with Dean’s death if it had any sort of meaning, for him, besides dying and waiting for Sam to arrive, if it allowed for that final bit of character development. If he got to choose.
While I’ll never be able to see the finale that we actually got as anything but a complete atrocity.
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Was the dream Spike had of him kissing Buffy in 5.04 random to you? To me, their banter up until that wasn’t sexual, it was Buffy hating him but not killing him bc of the chip (I still feel like she would’ve killed him). If he developed an obsession after Faith possessed Buffy & flirting with him, it’d be less random, but he spent 5.04 telling Harmony her existence pissed him off & the next episode he‘s lurking around her house and spike & buffy act like something happened between them? Idk
Okay, so as someone who watched the show live every week, I remember having a feeling from season 4, when Spike gets the gem of Amara and mocks Buffy for her failed relationship with Parker, that something was...wrong. That feeling obviously intensified over the course of the season, so by the time we got to season 5, I was basically like
Rewatching as an adult, I see now that I wasn’t totally off, and there were nuggets of this from even season 2. Especially as James has said in an interview, that he plays Spike as attracted to Buffy, even though he was completely in love with Drusilla.
I think Spike’s continued existence in the BTVS universe (and there’s really no reason he didn’t die in season 2. Buffy actively stops herself from killing him, it doesn’t make sense) would lead to an obsession that, based on who Spike is, would become erotic. He studies her in s2, extensively, and by s4 he’s pretty obsessed, with Dru gone, and Buffy being the reason for that, it makes sense. I don’t have a problem with Spike’s obsession with Buffy developing into some sort of weird erotic hate sexual passion. That’s totally plausible with his trajectory. So when he has that dream, I hate it because I hate Spike and Buffy together, but I acknowledge, narratively, it follows. So, I don’t think it was random per se, I think the subsequent events are what upsets me more.
I HATE, that after Spike makes a fucking Buffybot (ICK) to have sex with when making Harmony roleplay isn’t enough, Buffy PRETENDS TO BE THE BUFFYBOT, and then kisses him. Just because he protected Dawn from Glory. I hate it because, there were other ways to execute Buffy’s disgust, but also her appreciating him not outing them. And tbh her disgust should have far outweighed her appreciation, because that’s disgusting and violating. I hate that in season 7, the show doesn’t allow Buffy the space to distance herself from her assaulter, because, soul or not, Spike is still shitty lol. And honestly, it makes so pathetic and sniveling in season 5, because of that chip, and because it really felt like they had no idea what to do with him AFTER they put the chip in, expect make him obsess and pine after Buffy, which to me just...is so intellectually lazy. So I think for me, that episode with the dream, sort of acts like a marking point on when I start disliking the show choices more than I like it because of the trajectory they take both Buffy and Spike.
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Buffy really said to her boyfriend’s face that there was a circumstance in which she’d date Spike in the same episode Spike had his unhinged soap opera love confession dream. Truly psychotic behavior from both of them. King and Queen of repressed denial. 🤣
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In retrospect this is probably what got Spike staked actually. 🤣
#spell or no she’s completely unhinged about him#buffy the vampire slayer#btvs parallels#btvs 4.09#btvs 5.04#spuffy
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BTVS 5x04 is sooo funny because I fully believe it’s a direct result not only of Spike’s repressed emotions but also the fact he watches too many soap operas. Like you can’t tell me that whole interaction doesn’t read like a soap opera or a telenovela. He’s rotted his brain out with daytime TV. 🤣
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Love the implication that she barges into his home even more than what we actually see
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@i-inviktus
I’m so sorry to yoink out your tags but I just wanna say I totally get it. Watching TV pre-streaming/sans streaming is truly a wild and chaotic landscape where it’s so easy to miss stuff, particularly if they don’t do reruns often. Like the first time I *really* watched btvs was in reruns I think on like…TNT?? Well anyway, I looked away at the wrong moment at the end of 5.04 and only caught a glance of Harmony AND HARMONY LOOKS LIKE BUFFY SO I FREAKING THOUGHT IT WAS. So imagine how confused I was for the next few episodes. It took me a few “previously on”s before I realized. Yeah so anyway for a brief moment in time I lived in a world where 5.04 was real 🤣🤣
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Spike said if there is ONE THING I know about Riley: He Knits
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Spike: You can't see the stars, love. That's the ceiling. Also, it's day.
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Angel Reaction - 1x17 - Eternity by Cult TV Sofa
Buffy 1x10 Nightmares (REACTION!) by Big Time Knights
Slayer Sunday- Killed By Death by Jane Talks Reel
Buffy the vampire slayer: welcome to the Hellmouth | season 1 episode 1 (recap) by Alien Boy
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Tweet Archive by dontkillspike
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If Buffy/Faith were vamps and Darla/Drusilla were the Slayers...? by multiple authors
What is your favorite and least favorite BtVs/AtS episode? (continued) by multiple authors
Scooby Spotlight: Anyanka Bunny Slayer by multiple authors
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BOOM! Angel # 5 of 8 (spoilers) by BAF
Daniel Holtz (from Angel) is my favorite villain in any story by multiple authors
The Very 1st Episode by multiple authors
Poll: When should Buffy have ended? (and discussion) by multiple authors
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Anya deserved better.... *warning; this post contains huge SPOILERS...* by potterhead123456 and multiple authors
Important Willow episodes you need to watch to understand the character of Willow well (a 10 to 15 episodes list, maximum 30) by multiple authors
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Kate Lockley: The character everyone forgets by multiple authors
if you could write the show yourself by multiple authors
Does this line from Waiting in the Wings bug anyone else? by Coy_Diva_Roach and multiple authors
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I just got done watching Season 4 for the first time and… by PotatoPancake420 and multiple authors
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Killed By Death by lottieflimflam and multiple authors
Funny things you didn’t notice the first time? by multiple authors
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The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Thursday, July 19
TARA: Willow's good at all that computer stuff, but me not so much. Do you really understand all that?
ANYA: Oh. Well, at first it was confusing. Just the idea of computers was like, "Whoa, I'm eleven hundred years old. I had trouble adjusting to the idea of Lutherans."
TARA: I go online sometimes, but ... everyone's spelling is really bad, and it's ... depressing.
ANYA: But you have to try online trading, it's great! The secret is avoiding the tech companies everyone was jumping on, and, and going with the smaller firms that supply the basic components.
TARA: Uh-huh.
ANYA: Anyway, I took the money from working for Giles, and I tripled it.
TARA: Tripled? Like, first money, then money money money?
ANYA: Yes. I'm thinking about buying something very expensive. Maybe an antelope.
~~I Was Made to Love You~~
[Drabbles & Short Fiction]
Metamorphosis (Giles, members of the Devon Coven, not rated, gen) by sparrow2000
[Chaptered Fiction]
Another Kind of Sunnydale Chapter 12 (Jenny, Scoobies, Angel/Darla, 18+) by braxen
this cold heart never bleeds Chapter 1 (crossover with Sherlock, Sherlock/John, Drusilla/Spike, E) by Mentalguerilla
Alexia The Vampire Slayer Chapter 137 (Faith, Tara, OC, M) by chadmaako
As You Are Chapter 3 (Spike/Buffy, Spike&Dawn, Riley, not rated) by Serenitey
A chaotic love Chapter 51 (Giles/Ethan, T) by Jaspergirl
Fred and Wesley: In the Good Place Chapter 6 (crossover with The Good Place, Fred/Wesley, T) by Fitzsimmons_Forever
The Others. Chapter 26 (ensemble, T) by steeleye
regarding honor and honesty in the workplace Chapter 22 (Jenny/Giles, Jenny/Lilah, Jenny&Faith, Faith/Tara, Willow/Buffy, T) by The_Eclectic_Bookworm
Save the Last Dance For Me Chapter 57 (Spike/Buffy, E) by Passion4Spike
The Journals of Rupert Giles Vol 2 Chapter 14 (Giles, Scoobies, T) by CPO Backstreet
Hungry Hearts Chapter 4 (Spike/Buffy, R) by Callie8M
[Images, Audio & Video]
Artwork: btvs ladies’ calendar | july (buffy summers) (worksafe) by bisummers
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[Reviews & Recaps]
MTVS Epic Rewatch #204: BTVS 7x18 Dirty Girls by marshmallow-the-vampire-slayer
Buffy rewatch: The Replacement (5.03) by elsalapizza
Buffy rewatch: Out of My Mind (5.04) by elsalapizza
Buffy thoughts- rest of S3 and up to 4x08 by thebigmick284
BtVS 12.02 (*with Spoilers*) by mrsgordo84
Okay, so I got an Anon ask about Buffy Season 12, Issue #2… by lilyginnyblackv2
I’m just exhausted by S12 by sunalsolove and lilyginnyblackv2
Buffy Season 12 #2 Recap & Review by idkmybffjill730
Thread: Buffy S12:The Reckoning # 2 Issue Discussion Thread(Full Spoilers. (cont'd) by Priceless, SpuffyGlitz, and others
Hell's Bells by debbicles
PODCAST: Still Pretty #41. I Robot, You Jane (S1.08) by Lani Diane Rich and Noelle LaCroix
PODCAST: 79 ReVisiting Sunnydale: Buffy vs. Dracula S5 E1
[Recs]
More Links Than A Bag Of Sausages by petzipellepingo
Fic "The Book of William" by Lizerrrbeathan recced by flow
[Community Announcements]
Buffy the Vampire Slayer Discord channel to talk about Buffy, find friends who enjoy Buffy... by wholockiandalek
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[Fandom Discussions]
Buffy and Faith have a very complex and layered relationship by dingoes8myrp
Commentary on fic "And If the Grave Be Now Thy Bed" by rahirah
For DVD commentary: the Spawn fake dating scene in The Road to Byzantium by rahirah
Re: Spill the tea on Fuffy as a romantic ship by we-pay-for-everything
The arguments I’ve seen against writing unsouled Spuffy fan fiction by rahirah with discussion by willowrosenboob and lilyginnyblackv2
Meta on character development by lol-jackles
Tara is a trans lesbian and TERFs aren’t allowed to claim her by otahkoapisiakii
DVD commentary: Tales From a New Body Chapter 5 - The Fundamentals of Oral Communication by iamoffyourbird
Personaly I never saw Xander as a toxic male by MarieVampSlayer
[Missed opportunities to show Xander and Willow mourning Jesse] by DeepBlueJoy and others
Wasted Potential: Greatest Characters Who Didn't Last? hosted by CharlieGunn1
For me, "Hells Bells" (B 6.16) and "Selfless" (B 7.05) both greatly suffer from the primacy of Buffy/Spike and Spike by MikeB
Spuffy fic "Dark Kisses" by Sigyn discussed by multiple participants
Thread: Angel telling Buffy about Connor and Cordy by multiple participants
Misheard lyrics in OMWF. Who else? hosted by Ouchdaddy
Is there a explanation for Christian relics/iconography having negative effects on vamps? hosted by hopesdead
[Articles, Interviews, and Other News]
COMICS: BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER SEASON 12: THE RECKONING #2, Georges Jeanty variant cover, Phil Noto ultra variant cover at darkhorse.com. Publication Date: July 18, 2018.
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PUBLICATION: I love Joss Whedon, and I’m done with Joss Whedon by Mary Elizabeth Williams at salon.com
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The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter - Sunday, September 5
Xander: Oh! I think I pulled a jive muscle last night.
Willow: The Funky Monkey claims another victim.
~~Dead Things~~
[Drabbles & Short Fiction]
don't you hate it (perfect's overrated) (Faith/Buffy, T) by bodytoflame
parenting (Jenny & Spike, G) by The_Eclectic_Bookworm
Eleven Sentence Challenge Ficlets (Spike/Angel, E) by Gabriel_Is_My_Guardian_Angel89
Consequences for a Watcher (Wesley, T) by Aragorn_II_Elessar
Earthquake (Buffy/Giles, E) by SubLevel28
We are together (Tara/Willow, T) by Bl4ckHunter
Dark Allies (True Blood crossover, Angelus, M) by skargasm
The End of the Music (Angel, NR) by Starlight1701a
Heroes, Hexes, and Hijinks (Buffy/Spike, PG13) by JaneRemmington
Pentimento (Buffy/Spike, G) by Amina
Want (Spike/Reader, NR) by deafeningnerdcat
Not-so-secret-rendezvous (Giles/Reader, NR) by prose-for-hire
[Chaptered Fiction]
Beneath the Spider Chapter 7 (MCU crossover, Dawn/Peter Parker, T) by Aragorn_II_Elessar
Die and Live This Way Chapter 4 (Jenny/Giles, M) by Cynder2013
Death Is Buffy's Next Big Adventure Chapter 57 (HP crossover, Buffy/Tom Riddle, T) by Sharie1
Prisoners of Love di Bewildered (traduzione in italiano) Chapter 35 (Italian, Buffy/Spike, E) by DarkGiulia69, kasumi_EFP
Empire of Dirt Chapter 23 (Faith/OMC, E) by punchup
if you're lost, you can look and you will find me (time after time) Chapter 2 (Faith/Buffy, G) by Lesbian_Valkyrie
Athena Luthor Complete (DCU crossover, Buffy/Clark Kent, NR) by Hermione2be
Say Please Complete (Buffy/Spike, E) by butch4butches
A New Big Bad Chapter 4 (Tara/Willow, M) by tinfoil_paint
Thirty-ish Days (and Thirty-ish Years) Chapter 9 (Buffy/Giles, T) by Dynapink
Out of Time: 1942 Chapter 7 (HP crossover, Buffy/Tom Riddle, M) by Aynn_Ward
Hunter No More Chapter 4 (SPN crossover, Angel, Dean Winchester, E) by XxDemiDevilxX
A Power against the Devil Chapter 7 (MCU crossover, Faith/Matt Murdock, T) by Aragorn_II_Elessar
Law of Nature Chapter 4 (Buffy, T) by JayeMaru
Chronicles of Faith the Vampire Slayer Part Three - Sunnydale Chapter 5 (Faith/Buffy, M) by QuillBard
The Gift Chapter 17 (Star Wars crossover, Buffy, T) by Cantanatova
But In Time (You See Things Clear And Stark) Chapter 5 (Faith/Giles, E) by stereokem
Slice Of Life Chapter 3 (Faith/Robin, G) by yvochrali
Buffy and Runaways Chapter 4 (Runaways crossover, Faith/Buffy, NR) by ArtofPadillaAZ
You Can't Fight Fate - But You Can Probably Piss Him Off Chapter 15 (Batman crossover, Faith, NR) by Hermione2be
Inherent Qualities Chapter 4 (Buffy/Spike, NC17) by Doublemeat Palace
Gray Chapter 5 (Buffy/Spike, Adult) by Dusty
The Tiger is Out Chapter 16 (Buffy/Spike, R) by Cosmic Tuesdays
Beautiful Dangerous Chaos #2: Riding the Storm Out Complete (Buffy/Spike, NC17) by Passion4Spike
[Images, Audio & Video]
Artwork: ethan dilf rayne by flummoxedangel
Artwork: faith lehane ily by halfrek
Icons: Bangel Icons by bangelgifs
Buffy | Gone Dailies by Ezriela
Buffy Theory: Do the Turok-Han Make Sense in Season 7? A Paradox in the Buffyverse Explained by Partially Examined Kubrick
Buffy & Spike | Daylight by Nadia Morozova
[Reviews & Recaps]
Discussion of 5.04 "Hell Bound" by Stake fodder
PODCAST: Episode 61: Graduation Day, Part 1 by Myth Taken
Buffy Rewatch S05E03 - The Replacement and S05E04 - Out Of My Mind by girl4music
Analysing Buffy Guide | BTVS S02E16 "Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered" | Find the BuffyRat! by What the Pop
Buffy, Cazavampiros: Los 7 Mejores Capítulos de las 7 Temporadas | Lista by Escalera Offbeat
[Fandom Discussions]
Which Darla appeared to Connor? by Tuxedo_Mark
Anyone else love Willow and Anya’s relationship? by buffster95
What if Buffy and Co. visited Mystic Falls by beeemkcl
Season 1 Buffy vs the Turokhan by Brief-Cryptographer2
The chord progression for buffy and angel's love theme is D E A D... by cookie_owo_
How Strong is Marcus Hamilton compared to Glory? by Brief-Cryptographer2
Imagine If Dark Willow Drained The Beast, Sahjhan and Cyvus Vail Before Draining Giles... by Brief-Cryptographer2
Joss Whedon by speashasha
Where the hell are Willow's parents? by DrPepper450
Ranking The Major Buffy The Vampire Slayer Villains From Worst To Best by Feesh_Dawg
If Dawn was turned by a Vampire… would she stay the same? by Wouser86
Buffy/Spike Sex by humphumpsplooge
Btvs sexuality and empowerment Part I and Part II by dontwarnthetadpoles
Oz isn't shy. He is stoic. by girl4music
Spuffy and catharsis by resignedlybeneaththesky
More S7 ideas... by melonsmessymusings
I wanna talk about Becoming Part 2 and the aftermath by melonsmessymusings
When nostalgia hits and you randomly google Bangel... by giveherawinkforme
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