i don't know what i'm doing help

[saltpotion]

angel and spike first meeting is so funny. welcome to being a vampire william would you like to get a little bicurious. i mean share the blood of innocents. with another man

[desicat-writer]

I am into William Pratt being virginal as a writing choice.

Why?

Just because sex, prostitution, erotica are available doesn't mean every single person partakes. The precious few times we see him he is a social outcast. Being virginal isn't about him being a prude (though it can been written that way which is fun); it's about him not engaging in the same activities as his peers.

Also i think it's fucking funny if his first time was after he died, crawling out of grave covered in dirt and finding Drusilla.

[espiethestrawberry]

The problem with trying to recommend the Thief to someone is trying to make it sound interesting without spoiling it. "So like there's this thief and then he goes and he steals something and then he loses it. And there's traveling and...sleeping? I swear it's awesome."

"That doesn't sound fun."

"No, but hear me out. The thief guy complains a lot and is super obnoxious."

"..."

"Just read it."

[desicat-writer]

Spike: All i want is to knit our lives into one beautiful existence

Buffy: Go away

Dawn: help!

Buffy: Spike we need to help Dawn

[boopsterliv]

Buffy: Spike is soulless and evil.

Buffy as soon as Dawn is in danger: Spike, we need to go save our kid!

[desicat-writer]

[espiethestrawberry]

WE NEED TO GO SAVE OUR KID

[kaizsche]

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER (1997-2003) 4.17 — Superstar

[vargamornight]

why does nobody ever talk about angel and spike fighting over the shanshu prophecy?

when spike points out that angel views his soul as a curse, as punishment, as being forced to live with the guilt of everything he's done, whereas spike fought for his soul. nearly died for it. the demon with no soul still wanted to do the right thing, to be a good man, so desperately he would destroy himself for the chance.

and then angel says something VERY interesting to spike. spike says he thinks angel hates him because he's a living reminder of his evil. "cause every time you look at me, you see every dirty little thing i've done. all the lives i've taken. because of you. drusilla sired me, but you made me a monster."

and angel, the man who, without his soul, tortures and kills people sadistically for fun and feasting, the man who insists he is not angelus, says, "i didn’t make you, spike. i just opened up the door and let the real you out."

SUCH an interesting thing to say, angel! let's talk about this. no, please—go on. explain how you are better than spike in any way. i'm fascinated. i'd love to hear how you and angelus are different people but the demon who possessed william the poet is somehow the same as the man.

you can't have it both ways, you horrifically catholic man. you aren't a better person just because you've suffered more.

[the-knights-who-say-book]

Okay I'm biting, I'm chomping down on the hook - could you tell me a little bit about the queen's thief and why I should read it?

hm. ok. so the queen’s thief is about a trickster who wants to go down in history but as soon as it starts happening he’s like NO NOT LIKE THAT. and also about the people he befriends against their will :)

it’s an ancient greece/byzantine era-inspired world that starts off very focused on one person and then as his significance grows it zooms out to show you more and more of what it becomes increasingly clear are history-making events of this land, gradually gaining perspective and quickly gaining layers and layers of political intrigue, all of which is connected on thematic levels to the mythology of this world

...but it all starts with a grimy teenager sitting in prison because he got busted for bragging about how good he is at stealing

you should read it if you love mythology, courtly intrigue, and ruthless politics being no match for the saving power of trusting those you love. if you don’t love slow, classic fantasy quest road trips maybe don’t start with the first book tho

featuring characters such as:

a thief who wants to be famous. what kind of thief wants to be famous for being a thief. gen that’s so dumb

a pure beam of sunshine who will commit acts of international violence

a guard who is having a very bad day

an accountant who is having an even worse day

a queen whom i love and adore with all my heart

a queen who has murdered many people whom i also love and adore with all my heart

many tired old men

and more!

[bisexualdawnsummers]

Buffy the Vampire Slayer ↳ 2.03: "School Hard" | 4.07: "The Initiative "

[evilvampire]

I’m so jealous of the Initiative sometimes. Like wtf I want to study Spike in a lab, too.

[torvagatai]

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

[lierdumoa]

BTVS was soooooo crazy because joss whedon was like "I'm going to write an incel revenge fantasy where I turn the leather wearing bad boy I was jealous of in high school into a loser cuck! I'm going to literally paralyze him from the waist down so his dick doesn't work and then make him watch his girlfriend make out with a guy taller than him and call that guy daddy in front of him! I'm going to write a million scenes of him getting beat up by girls and even show him having to be rescued by a girl in a princess carry and another scene where he gets tortured by a girl and have mad scientists metaphorically castrate him in on a lab table and I'll write a weirdly homoerotic scene in which the boyfriend of the woman he's in love with breaks into his home and shoves him against a wall and impales him with a plastic phallic object" and james marsters was like "sounds hot I can't wait to play this character I'm going to make him look slutty and turned on the entire time" and five million teen girls gays and theys in the viewing audience had the weirdest possible sexual awakening

[espiethestrawberry]

This is what I think is going on in people's brains when they tell me I'm a bad person for liking Spike/Spuffy.

[espiethestrawberry]

[lxvespxffy]

“Well, I saw you sitting here alone. Thought, I don’t know you could maybe do with a bit of uhhh… you know company”

[beaswellgirl]

yep, pretty much

[espiethestrawberry]

[espiethestrawberry]

When reading Conspiracy of Kings by Megan Whalen Turner