I may be dead, but I'm still pretty.

[imabloodsuckingfiend]

I was scrolling through prime and I’ve literally NEVER seen this Buffy logo before ???

Why does it look like a 2010’s exorcism horror movie poster

[aphony-cree]

Buffy wanting some time alone then telling Spike "That's okay. I can be alone with you here" is one of the most romantic lines ever, but then they followed it up with Spike telling her "Buffy, if you're in … if you're in pain … or if you need anything… or if I can do anything for you.." and they really expected us to think they were bad together and shouldn't be a couple

[unseentravler]

This is his whole character

[fandomhype]

[charmedslayer]

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER (1997-2003) “Pangs”

[lesbianmarrow]

sorry sorry sorry but spike's behavior in season 5 so far is sooooo funny. falls in love with his mortal enemy. makes her buy him chicken wings. sneaks into her bedroom to sniff her sweater and steal her underwear. gets caught by her boyfriend and displays zero sense of shame, instead taunting him by saying he won't keep her affections for long. steals a mannequin with a blonde wig to practice talking to her but gets so agitated during the one-sided conversation that he beats up the mannequin. breaks into the magic shop with her kid sister. i'm endlessly entertained i can't wait to see what kind of loser shenanigans he gets up to next.

[reid-sam]

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER (1997-2003)

3.16 - Doppelgangland

[youhavethesun]

‘Til the end of the world — even if that happens to be tonight.’

Buffy and Spike knight au because I just really wanted to draw them in armour <3 I’m a bit nervous because it’s my first time posting my art on here but I’m trying to bite the bullet :) - (and post more of it in the future as well!)

(click on the image for higher res)

edit: thank you so so much for all the lovely comments and encouragement omg this is crazy <33

[imabloodsuckingfiend]

Now I need to see Spike in some Paladin Oathbreaker armor

[clarkgriffon]

BUFFY SUMMERS & DAWN SUMMERS ➤ Outfit Parallels

[tobiasinthehawk]

I know someone’s probably said this before but spike is the most character ever like

he’s platinum blond. he’s mousy brunet. he’s a 70s punk. he’s a victorian poet. he’s a violent killer. he’s a mama’s boy. he likes crazy murderous women. he uses cutesy pet names for them. he lives in a crypt. he watches soap operas. he’s william the bloody. he’s love’s bitch. he’s catty. he is co-parenting a teenager. he’s a lab rat for a government organization. he and his gf fucked a house down one time. he’s a vampire. he crumbles wheatabix into cups of blood for texture. he’s the slayer of slayers. he’s babygirl. he hates the english. he IS english. he has an eyebrow scar. he’s bisexual.

[foggy2109-deactivated20241119]

there is just something special about season six of buffy. something about buffy literally being ripped away from heaven, the only true peace she has felt since becoming the slayer, defying the narrative of the show itself to live once more.

and now the world doesn’t feel right anymore; it’s bleak and every moment is heavy. and she can’t understand why. she was given a second chance to live when her mum (and tara) and so many others weren’t. she owes it to them to be happy, but she just can’t.

so she wonders if something went wrong with her resurrection, if she came out “wrong,” but she didn’t. she’s just depressed, and in some way that’s worse.

she tries and struggles to connect with her friends, with her sister, but it feels strained. she knows they want to help, but she also knows they can’t. no one can. no one will ever truly know the depth of her pain, of being ripped away from literal paradise.

buffy falls further into this deep depression full of numbness and self-hatred. she enters a relationship with a vampire, the one thing she was sworn to hate, and it makes her despise herself even more.

she cries and pleads to tara after confessing that she’s sleeping with this vampire, begging her to judge her, to not forgive her. she is desperate for someone to validate her self-loathing, to prove her right, that her actions make her a bad person. but she refuses; tara refuses to judge her, and buffy can’t even begin to understand why.

this season’s “big bad” is not a dangerous and brutal villain; it’s not a vampire or a demon. it’s three insecure, misogynistic men. they have no superpowers, no dangerous abilities. the magic has been stripped away.

and still, despite everything, buffy does want to live. by the end of the season, the world is almost destroyed, and when it’s not, she cries out of happiness. it wasn’t until that moment she realised how much she truly wanted to live, and not just for herself, but for everyone she loves. she wants to “show the world” to her sister and experience it with her friends. she wants to live.

[comradesummers]

xander having an obsessive crush on buffy and being constantly judgy and weird about her all the time is such a shame because the few times they let them be normal friends their dynamic was top tier. like in episodes where just the two of them have to work together to figure something out and they actively make each other stupider. it's delightful.

[comradesummers]

buffy summers has made many mistakes and is very flawed but also she's never done anything wrong in her life. both of these things are true. to me.

[artsekey]

When was the first time you experienced an earnest depiction of LGBTQ+ characters in audio/visual media?

Homestuck

Welcome to Night Vale

Sailor Moon

Steven Universe

The Owl House

The Legend of Korra

She-Ra

Visual Novel (Name the VN in the Tags!)

Modern Family

Orange is the New Black

Other/Nuanced/Put it in the Tags/ OP I CAN'T BELEIVE YOU FORGOT--

Voting ended onJul 20, 2024

[strinak]

hello fellow cryptcreepers, I guess??? addendum poll for people who remember the year 2000

First earnest* LGBTQ+ depiction in audio/visual media:

Melrose Place (1992-1999)

Philadelphia (1994)

To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar (1996)

Ellen (1994-1998)

The Birdcage (1997)

Will & Grace (1998-2006)

Dawson's Creek (1998-2003)

Queer As Folk (2000-2005)

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003)

Daytime soap opera (inclusive)

Very Special Episode or Sweeps Week Arc

You still didn't go back far enough/I'm bald/Nuance in the tags

Voting ended onJul 27, 2024

*Poll choices pulled from GLAAD award winners as a good-faith bid toward OP's "earnest" qualifier. Thank you, Wikipedia editors, but also bad job, Wikipedia editors, for not having anything on GLAAD's now-defunct daytime soap category. Why did One Life to Live win the drama category in the early 90s?? Was that...Robin and Stone??? I have research to do now!

[imabloodsuckingfiend]

Buffy stay winning

[bisexualdawnsummers]

You must be so disappointed in me. No, no, I'm not.

[faith-thee-slayer]

her friends used up her money while she was dead

they brought her back to life (traumatizing) and had her be the one to get a job

she’s miserable working at some shitty fast food place

insecure ex she hasn’t seen in over a year (which last time she saw him was right after she received a pep talk from their resident "nice guy" and believed it was her fault he was leaving via ultimatum to go do imperialism so she hauled absolute ass to try and catch him but barely missed his helicopter) shows up to surprise her at her shitty fast food job

said ex has edgy scar from doing said imperialism

two seconds pass before she fawns over said ex’s new “rugged” look as if she hasn’t been getting her back blown out for days now

...and then there’s the rest of the episode

[imabloodsuckingfiend]

I don’t remember when its revealed but said ex is also married

Like he got over her so quick. So much for being all “I love her more than she loves me wah”

[clarkgriffon]

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER 5x16 | “The Body”