#buffy and spike this is for you too

[mollspeak]

shipping two characters you love equally is difficult because on one hand, you want them both to be happy, but on the other, you want one of them to be put in danger and the other one to go absolutely batshitfucking insane to get them back

#for this reason season two of the x files is conflicting because dana has been kidnapped SO MUCH #x files #mulder and scully #buffy and spike this is for you too #and angel too i guess #oh and amy and rory #a good man goes to war #not far into penumbra pod but PLEASE #penumbra podcast #juno and peter #martin blackwood #jonmartin #jonathan sims #the magnus archives #willow and tara #tough love #dark willow

[spiked-mall-goth]

i haven't seen any buffy ones soooooo

#spikes edit #i made like so many of these you dont understand #like at least ten. i was just having too much fun #buffy the vampire slayer #snoopy #snoopy posting lol #snoopy edits

[giftedeath]

surprise is such a good episode for the vampire crowd like it rly takes the season one, half - baked soul lore of ' its a demon and it takes ur body but ur not really the human version of yourself thats dead ' and sort of puts that idea in a box and shakes it up bc the judge's first words to spike and dru are "u two stink of humanity u share AFFECTION 🥺 and jealousy" but then meets angelus and is like oh yeah .. there's not a spec of humanity on this one and to me .. to me ... that's just chefs kiss like what makes them different ? and like its LOVE 🥺

#this does have smthn to do w buffy and that #the vampire she surrounds herself in season 5 is spike who is ruled by this emotion #meanwhile she struggles w this ... feels like she can't feel it anymore #cant say it as easily / is calcifying .. seen too much done too much but hes there like #i literally am in love w u #and hes tried to kill her on multiple occasions but it takes CRUSH and his love confession for her to be like ... yeah uh stay away freak #DEFLECT DENY DEFLECT DENY #AND THEN its just AMPED up in season 6 #season 2 rewatch is rotting my brain in the very best way thank u <3 #why are you full of rage ? / because you are full of grief › meta. #spuffy / #like season 2 is so good but w season 5 + 6 it just makes it BETTER

[faith-lehane-summers]

the descriptions that spike gives faith actually get more insane as they go on when you consider that these all almost certainly come from buffy (or maybe dawn? but considering her attitude towards faith i’d assume she doesn’t want to talk about her much, so i’m going with buffy)

anyways lets review

1. Leather pants

Yeah, fair. She does wear a lot of leather pants. Recognizable trait of hers. Still firmly in the normal category.

2. Nice right hook

Ok, slayer-normal. They did spend a lot of time sparring. Mostly makes sense to know what your previous kind of enemy favors. Telling Spike about it is a /little/ weird, because why would he need to know, but maybe that’s just recognition again.

3. Doe eyes

Veering into weird. Have you spent a lot of time thinking about Faith’s eyes? Why are you telling Spike about them? Doe eyes is also just like. An interesting thing to choose, I think, since they’re commonly associated with vulnerability, etc.

4. Holier-than-thou glower

What Now. This says insane things about what Buffy feels about s7 Faith tbh. Also, once again, incredible important question: why the HELL is she talking to Spike about this? The interpretations…..probably need their own post actually.

anyways, overall, wild. imagine showing up in town bc you thought your ex-but-not-really turned enemy turned vague-ally-that-you’re-still-in-love-with needed you there and you try to rescue her from a vampire (both of y’alls entire thing) and then the vampire knows a really weird sequence of things about you and now suddenly she’s there. and semi-endorsing the vampire punching you.

#they’re FREAKS i tell you #like seriously. need someone to write the buffy and spike scene where she’s just going on abt this. would be so funny #this too is fuffy #faith lehane loml #buffy <333 #BBB

[aquaristintern]

Looking at a lot of Loustat shippers and how they view/talk about Louis, is making me think of the BtVS fandom, the first fandom I joined when I was 16/17.

Anyway, a lot of the Spuffy shippers were out there calling Buffy derogatory names, saying SHE was the actual abusive one in the relationship, writing the most vile essays/fanfiction about her needing to be brought down a peg and admit she was wrong and Spike was right, saying the show was boring without Spike, despite Buffy being the main character, could not talk about Buffy as a character separate from Spike, propping up James's acting skills over Sarah's, made it sound like Spike was a better parent to Dawn than Buffy was (?), saying that the other men she was in romantic relationships with were much more abusive than Spike, excusing Spike for basically all of his actions and woobifying him because of his trauma....

and then you'd have the more critical Spuffy/non-Spuffy shippers (mainly woc) pointing out the blatant misogyny and victim-blaming in this way of thinking, pointing out how Spike represents some of the worst aspects of racism and the patriarchy, both textually and subtextually, even providing scholarly articles and literature to back up their claims, and asking why do you even ship Spuffy if you hate Buffy? Which of course received extreme backlash and harassment from people racing to defend Spike themselves, saying, no of course they didn't hate Buffy, but Spike is more complex than you're making him sound, and no he's not a racist or hates women, he's actually a feminist and a punk/anarchist and doesn't kill based on race, you're just a vile sjw and an anti who loves ruining everyone else's fun.

Anyway. Why do you even ship Loustat if you hate Louis?

#lol they also called spike the woman in the relationship too if i remember correctly #louis receives the same treatment as a woman does...both in fandom and in the show much to think about #the woobification of evil blonde men and the vilification of their women pipeline #with that villification of louis even more amplified because he's now a poc! #buffy summers #louis de pointe du lac #btvs discourse #buffy the vampire slayer #iwtv discourse #interview with the vampire #fandom racism #anti lestat de lioncourt #anti spike #to be safe #and yes...i was a spuffy shipper 😭luckily with some critical thinking skills #but yeah..louis and buffy apparently are boring and bad and are soooo hopeless without their men and you can't talk about them #without bringing up their men up like idk maybe you don't like them as much as you think you do!!!

[aphony-cree]

when Buffy is working at the Doublemeat Palace and mentions Spike her co-workers totally play "Dog or boyfriend" like the b99 crew do when Scully mentions Kelly

#spike #buffy #btvs #she's like #we were going to get chicken wings but he kept chasing stray kittens #and the people at work are like #getting chicken wings is something you do with a boyfriend #but dogs like chicken too #and chasing kittens is something dogs do #but really Spike was chasing kittens because it was poker night and he needed to get in the game

[raven--stag]

Btvs writers really said "who cares about character development when we can just reduce an interesting character with a lot of potential for growth to no soul - bad, has soul - good and reuse-recycle the same trope"

#i hate this show #spike #spike btvs #and don't even get me started on the whole #we hate him so we'll make you hate him too #this is just crazy #btvs #buffy the vampire slayer #watching for the first time

[raisedbythetv89]

Me when the manipulative character manipulates irl viewers into ignoring all the bad and only seeing the good and then treating me like I’m the crazy one because I see through the manipulation and see the characters for who they really are instead of how they want to be perceived

#this was inspired by willow rosenberg and logan huntzberger specifically but there are SO MANY 😭 #xander riley and angel all belong on this list as well #also emily gilmore fuck her fr she’s literally the karen of all karens yet has sooo many stans like hello??? #y’all would believe narcissists and blame their victims if you’re falling for this shit like USE YOUR BRAIN OPEN YOUR EYES #joss whedon is manipulative af which is why so many of his characters are too especially ones he doesn’t hate and want punished #ppl are like how can you hate Willow she’s so sweet! like very obviously that’s an act??? she plays innocent like so many white women do #but then enables or directly causes SO MUCH HARM #anti logan huntzberger #anti willow rosenberg #anti scoobies #anti riley finn #anti angel #anti emily gilmore #anti xander harris #anti bangel #anti biley #anti faith lehane #anti fuffy #spuffy #jess x rory #literati #spike and buffy

[data-is-my-favorite-android]

Convinced they could never let Spike and Faith truly meet until deep in S7 because their chemistry was too good, like off the fuckin charts. our screens would have melted and we would have been reduced to ash and loving every second of it lol

#spike btvs #btvs meta #btvs #think about it #faith is kinda if you mixed buffy and drusilla together #she and spike would have made a WILD power couple #but it'd be anybody's guess whether they made each other better or worse lol #hot damn that woulda been something to see #(OR just imagine: a spike x buffy x faith THRUPLE) #anyway faith being there would have definitely jeopardized the development of a thing for buffy i think #spike woulda been too busy obsessed with this darker funner slayer to wake up and realize how much he admired buffy's goodness

[justafriendofxanders]

rewatching passion and angelus is such a fucked up little man <3 but also he would not know the difference between a computer and a monitor <3

#au where angel destroy's jenny's monitor but not her computer #and the end of s2 doesn't happen because they just get his soul back #also forgot about the genderbending in i only have eyes for you. sick #first time watching: cool episode. 👍 #second time watching: *pepe sylvia voice* hah classic MN episode it's so interesting how vampirism is the catalyst for buffy and angel's #rift but also the thing that allows for union/closure also cool to see the angel/spike/dru dynamic before it was more fully fleshed out #in later episodes not to mention coming around to spangel i think it took me until ats s5 to get into it because they're too young and #beautiful at this point and i need them to be middle aged and oh hey look there's the parking lot they always reuse as a cemetery set #buffyposting

[littlenastieswewhispered]

hey buffy where did that very delicate lace top go

#was it torn off #and left in shreds #in the house you tore down too #never to be seen again #spuffy #buffy x spike #spike x buffy #btvs #btvs smashed #btvs wrecked

[beatriceeverytuesday]

Like my queer Buffyverse fic? Have a queer headcanon you wanna see or see more of? A certain prompt + a certain pairing you wanna read? Or an AU version of a character you'd love to see?

It's your lucky month, then! I'm taking requests for Pride :)

#btvs #buffy the vampire slayer #buffy summers #faith lehane #willow rosenberg #xander harris #rupert giles #anya jenkins #cordelia chase #daniel oz osbourne #jenny calendar #spike btvs #winifred burkle #dawn summers #just drop anything you wanna see into my askbox and ill do my best to make it happen! #anon requests are acceptable too of course! #prompts can be any rating g-e #ill probably write other characters just the ones ive tagged are ones im most comfortable with my ability to write #fanfic tag

[lightthewaybackhome]

I learned today that my extra Mom (MIL), who is 73, is watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer and loving it.

#you are never too old to fall in love with new stories #she makes me happy #she thinks I love Spike because he's the bad guy #she doesn't know I love him because he becomes the good guy #buffy the vampire slayer

[kamwashere]

still thinking about the intervention kiss

#their first proper kiss <33 #it’s such an unhinged ep #but the ending is so sweet #the robot is still fucking weird tho but #it’s so sad too like #imagine wanting someone that much #so you settle for something artificial #anyways i cant get over buffy actually expressing her gratitude #instead of keeping spike at an arm’s length like she usually does #also this demonstrated how WELL spike knew her #like he could tell it was buffy unlike her friends #and he knew the right ‘programming’ so to speak #to make robot buffy… buffy #it’s insane #i need to sit down #spuffy #spike #william pratt #buffy summers #buffy the vampire slayer #btvs #kamwashere

[simmersofia]

Out on the prowl 🧛🏻

#i made young george and vlad and look at these adorable idiots 😭 #i’m too invested send help! #this is the first time vlad laid eyes on george and it was love at first sight 🥹 #oh and vlad’s been watching a lot of buffy the vampire slayer and wanted to be cool like spike #this is in the 90’s btw #george the big animal lover 🥲 #thinking he’s like 22 here #and vlad’s you know two hundred and some change #don’t think about it too much 😂 #globetrotter extras #vladislaus straud #george cahill

[july-19th-club]

the difference between spike and xander is that spike doesnt do half the shitty things he does. the writers make him do them. xander does all his own shitty things

#at first i did have sympathy for xander freaking out at his own wedding and running away because he doesnt want to become his dad #but it took him literally two episodes to call his ex-fiance 'disgusting' for having a single rebound fling with another lonely dumpee #because the other dumpee is inhuman WITHIN EARSHOT OF: said ex-fiance. said dumpee. said dumpee's ex-girlfriend #and gravely insult absolutely everybody present #like nobody felt good abt the rebound not even spike and anya they were just depressed and drunk whatever #but i think that like buffy knew that hey this is what i did ask for him to do is it not? little late to be upset about it now #meanwhile xander is saying all of the following: hey ex-fiance i keep saying i still love! i can't stomach inhumanity yours or anyone else's #hey guy i've known for five years! i don't see you as a person so much as a cartoon devil put on earth to oppose Virtuous Manhood #hey best friend of some time! when i say all of the above know it applies to you too and i think of you as tainted by association #wow what the fuck dude #buffy the vampire slayer