#BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER

[spikedaily]

You might have let me in on your plan while he throttled me.

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER

6.01 | Bargaining: Part 1

#* #by phyna #s6 #6.01 #buffy the vampire slayer #btvsedit #spike #buffyverse #slayerdaily #sunnydalescoobies #tvedit #chewieblog #usertelevision #dailyflicks #cinematv #cinemapix #userbbelcher #userstream #useroptional #televisiongifs #tvfilmsource #tvfilmgifs #tvandfilm #filmtvdaily #tvcentric #tvarchive #spuffygifs

[buffysource]

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER

5.06 | Family

#buffy the vampire slayer #btvsedit #glory #slayerdaily #sunnydalescoobies #tvedit #chewieblog #usertelevision #dailyflicks #cinematv #cinemapix #userbbelcher #userstream #useroptional #televisiongifs #tvfilmsource #tvfilmgifs #tvandfilm #filmtvdaily #tvcentric #tvarchive #spuffyedit #ladiesblr #dailywomen #buffyverse #s5 #5x06 #ours

[clarkgriffon]

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER 4x11 | “Doomed” 

#btvs #btvsedit #buffythevampireslayeredit #buffy the vampire slayer #creations #buffyseries #xander harris #spike #willow rosenberg #buffysource #dailybtvs #spikedaily #look the amount of spike gifsets is going to increase because i love him and im sorry i cannot help it that he has the best lines and scene

[littlenastieswewhispered]

i get that spike/spuffy antis have to hate season seven on principle (and the fact that they act like spike’s arc is entirely frivolous and unimportant is so wildly dismissive of buffy’s i don’t think they actually even like her!), but so many are straight up factually incorrect about what actually happens. i don’t know if it’s a media literacy issue or a choice to be obstinate. probably a mixture. when you want something to be a certain way, misunderstanding something gives you room to declare yourself right.

their main talking point is that ensouled spike forces his presence on buffy. this… just doesn’t happen even once in the season. at all.

spike doesn’t return to sunnydale to see buffy. he goes back to the hellmouth. probably because it’s all he knows, as a demon he considers it home, and not for nothing he’s already being controlled by the first who wants him in place for a specific purpose.

in the first episode, lessons, buffy comes across spike on her own. he’s at some of his most insane for this interaction, and he walks away from her. in the next episode, beneath you, buffy seeks spike out. she goes to the basement and can’t find him. he’s actively hiding from her.

later in the same episode he gets himself cleaned up and goes to her, for the first and only time. he says it’s because something terrible is coming and he wants to offer his help. he tells her if she doesn’t want him around, tell him and he’ll leave and she can revoke his invite (which notably is still active). she doesn’t. she accepts his help.

they talk while looking for the demon and buffy says she can tell something is different about him but she doesn’t know what. spike makes a point to say he isn’t going to tell her what it is. that’s MAJOR. spike does not want buffy to know about his soul. he doesn’t put it on her, and he doesn’t make it her problem. he ends up telling her only after it’s nearly forced out of him and he’s triggered back into insanity after a lucid period. after he reveals his soul, he leaves.

in the next episode, same time same place, buffy seeks spike out. he’s once again hiding in the basement, so she knows where to find him, but he does not go to her. she enlists his help that episode, twice.

the next episode is help. buffy goes to the basement to see spike. she asks if he knows anything about cassie. he later helps buffy save cassie from the boys trying to sacrifice her.

in the next one, selfless, buffy once again goes to spike. it’s a definite a pattern. buffy seeks out spike. it’s actually a lot like much of their relationship in season six, only much more one sided. she tells him to leave the basement because it’s bad for him.

the next episode, him, sees a big shift. it’s still buffy going to spike, but this time she doesn’t just leave him in the basement. she actively chooses to help him out of it, getting xander to let him move into his apartment. there’s a huge and important change in their dynamic now. they are solidly in each other’s lives, and that was and continues to be buffy’s choice.

i won’t do little synopses for each episode from the rest of the season, but from here spike offers to leave at minimum four additional times, half a dozen or more total all season.

he earnestly wants buffy to kill him in sleeper and never leave me, because he’s devastated and terrified that he’s killing. buffy says no, she’s going to help him and she believes in him. she rescues him, because she wants to, and moves him back into her house.

later on spike seems to be gaining back control of his mind, but when the first threatens him he once again says he’s a danger and needs to leave and buffy says no because shes not ready for him not to be here.

buffy wants spike in her life. she makes that fact extremely clear. maybe at first it wasn’t for the healthiest reasons, but a major theme of season seven is spike and buffy healing both as individuals and growing closer together because of it. their relationship empowers and strengthens buffy, and the final episode is called chosen for a reason. this season is about buffy’s agency. that starts when she decides who’s in her life and who isn’t.

there’s never a single moment where spike makes that decision for her. he doesn’t once tell buffy she has to accept him, or that he should have access to her. he doesn’t come around when she says to leave, because she doesn’t say to leave. he stays away from her until she beckons him back. over and over.

spike doesn’t think he deserves anything from buffy. he believes the opposite, even encouraging her to date and hiding his heartache about it. he doesn’t make his insanity and suffering her problem. she volunteers to help him.

i understand having issues with the writing choice of spike back in buffy’s life at all after what happened in season six, but only if you’re engaging with it honestly. you can dislike that buffy makes the choice to have spike around, but it’s obvious when you disregard her agency and pretend he’s the one calling the shots. you hate a story that didn’t happen, and it’s impossible take seriously.

#spuffy #btvs #buffy the vampire slayer #you’re the one buffy #i believe in you spike #btvs meta #rant full steam ahead #basically a subtweet to a particularly pathetic anti on insta #spuffy is endgame #buffy loves spike #and spuffies stay winning

[dailybtvs]

Buffy the Vampire Slayer | 4.07 — "The Initiative "

#btvsedit #buffysource #btvs #tvedit #userbbelcher #chewieblog #buffy summers #buffy the vampire slayer #s04x07 #season 4 #*gif #by lauren #buffy

[novivi]

'Cause like, you love havin' the power

You think I'm such a flower

My petals are poison that you smoke on 'em and

Fuck that, let you choke on 'em

Make you learn from it

I hope you grow from this

#spuffy #buffy summers #spike btvs #buffy the vampire slayer #btvs #spike #Spotify

[teatimewithgiles]

btvs + tumblr text posts

#hey look a post i made on... 9th December #hah #i will use it today then #jenny calendar #rupert giles #btvs #buffy #buffy the vampire slayer #ttwgtextposts #ttwgop #jenny calendar day #calendiles

[5bi5]

I love it so much when we see Buffy standing up for random other students in the school... like yeah sacred duty forced on her yada yada but she just is a hero she cannot bear to see others hurt when she can do something to stop it and I don't think that's just from being the slayer

#btvs #buffy #buffy summers #buffy the vampire slayer

[likeafantasy]

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER      (1x01) ᴡᴇʟᴄᴏᴍᴇ ᴛᴏ ᴛʜᴇ ʜᴇʟʟᴍᴏᴜᴛʜ

#buffy the vampire slayer #btvs #btvsedit #buffy summers #cordelia chase #xander harris #darla #sarah michelle gellar #charisma carpenter #nicholas brendon #julie benz #tvgifs #y'aaaaaaall #i forgot how much i liked this show #till i started rewatching it with my mom #found some decent quality links #let's go!

[layer-of-slayers]

natalie wee, ‘least of all’, our bodies & other fine machines // helen oyeyemi, from 'white is for witching' // reyna n.a. ghosts // lividity, salem s. // michael cunningham, the hours // werewolves & anorexia - part II, salem s. // fight for me by aliceband // dirty valentine by richard silken // the dismemberment song by blue kid // wanted woman/ac dc by larkin poe // the guest by anna akhmatova // belovéd by yves olade // trista mateer

#Buffy the Vampire Slayer #BtVS #my edits #edits #web weaving #op #Faith #Faith Lehane #Faith/Buffy #Buffy #Buffy Summers #Faith web weaving series #it's normal about Faith hours again! guys! come be normal about Faith with me! :)

[hellasaddbuthellaaradd]

Are you frl ?

Ig: samthugh_

#tattoos #girls with tattoos #me #california #buffy the vampire slayer #latina #viralpost #skims #skin #heart #pretty #brunette #alt girl #alternative #aestehtic #vintage #tote #manifesting

[vampswritings]

jenny calendar + text posts & tweets

for @jennycalendar's Jenny Calendar Day!

#HAPPY JENNY DAY!!!! #jenny calendar #btvs #buffy the vampire slayer #text post meme #my things #jenny calendar day

[buffyverse-divorce-tournament]

Most Divorced Buffy Couple Tournament

#rupert giles #ethan rayne #gethan #giles x ethan #darla ats #angel btvs #dangel #darla x angel #buffy the vampire slayer #btvs #angel the series #ats #btvs divorce tournament

[clumsycapitolunicorn]

"I didn't know I was gonna fall in love with you." - Jenny Calendar (Passion 2x17)

#JENNYS VERSION #bit more creativity in this one #i want to do the blending thing better #don't ask how long i spent doing these two gifs #buffy the vampire slayer #btvsedit #rupert giles #jenny calendar #giles x jenny #calendiles #tw flashing gif #dailytvfilmgifs #cinematv #userstream #otpsource

[all-or-nothing-baby]

let's pour one out for the fallen blorbos.

those blorbos you still think of often, who can still make you smile fondly, but have taken a background position in your fandom life; those blorbos you might have dusty ol'sideblogs for that you keep even tho you may never ever post there again; those blorbos who have broken both legs and fallen tragically into near-obscurity in the hole in your brain where temporary hyperfixation goes to die; those blorbos you onced loved and will always love, just in a gentler, softer kind of way...

this one's for you, old friend.

#gone but never forgotten #feeling some kind of way today #nostalgia #mayhaps #i miss you guys #old friends #blorbos #mine are: #the beatles #(first obsession!) #fox mulder #dana scully #the x files #spike btvs #buffy the vampire slayer #walter bishop #fringe #spock #star trek #frank castle #the punisher #billy hargrove #stranger things #sherlock #john watson #bbc sherlock #and more i can't currently think of right now #i love you all #gone but not forgotten #😭😭😭

[mycatismyfriend]

Buffy the Vampire Slayer | 3x18 "Earshot"

#can I make this a submission to the most divorced couple tournament please #btvs #buffy #buffy the vampire slayer #wesley wyndam pryce #wesley wyndam-pryce #rupert giles #btvs 3x18 #btvsedit #buffysource #slayerdaily #tvedit #mine #my gifs