one of the reasons i have more patience & affection for spuffy than for other m/f enemies-to-lovers ships in a similar mold is that buffy is under no illusion that she can fix that man. in fact she believes he is ontologically incapable of being fixed. he’ll be like Buffy i can change and she’ll be like You are literally not capable of doing that. then he actually does change and she’s like. Wait you can do that??? Not sure how i feel about that to be honest
promoting isabilightwood’s tags: #btvs#it’s the enemies to reluctant allies to frenemies to lovers to friends to lovers#(to friends to lovers to friends to implied lovers if you count the comics)#for me#spike: i can change for you#buffy: don’t#spike: well I’m going to anyway 😤#and he’s so bad at it for years but then manages anyway
thinking about the difference between melodramatic, moody angel telling buffy he wishes he could see her in direct sunlight vs. spike just straight up scurrying around Sunnydale with a blanket over his head whenever he gets bored and wants to see buffy during the day
buffy the vampire slayer is so funny because theoretically yes, she would come off as a bit werid to the people who don’t know she fucking hunts vampires. fortunately for us, the writers chose to express this by making every character act like she’s insane for asking totally normal questions
popular girl: omg this is great school is cancelled!! we can go home because some guy found the decaying corpse of one of our classmates stuffed in a gym locker <33333
buffy: oh shit what. how did he die?
popular girl: eww who cares? morbid much, why would you even ask that LOL! this is why you have no friends
sometimes i see the “btvs should have ended after s5″ discourse and i just… thank GAWD every day that it didn’t. how how HOW could the end of buffy’s young life have been the end of that show? just twenty short trips around the sun. how could buffy have ever been a mere five years of giles’ life? i know people think s6 and 7 are subpar and everyone’s entitled to their (wrong) opinions, and those seasons are not without their major faults but i just cannot overstate how important it was for me that buffy subverted that final narrative, the Foundational “She Alone” Lie that the shadowmen and the council told for thousands of years, throwing little girls onto the universe’s sacrificial altar. i could not have handled that acceptance. buffy summers is not a comet, she’s a solar system’s central star, she’s a sun
hope it’s clear to everyone when i say that buffy has more chemistry with her female foils then she ever had with an actual boyfriend that spike doesn’t count. he was buffy’s girlfriend
Demons after money. What ever happened to the still-beating heart of a virgin? No one has any standards anymore. RupertGilesinBuffytheVampireSlayer(1997-2003)
i can’t believe I had to read this sentence in a buzzfeed thing about BtVS with my own goddamn eyes how is it possible this has slipped from the mind of the collective conscious, people died in this conflict, know your fandom history jeeze
It’s the way of all wars. When peace comes at last, children play on the old battlefields and don’t think of what came before them.
