Kliomuse

Cass: Tolkien, Haladriel, WheelofTime, Buffy & Spike, Captain Swan, Jily, Dramione, The Magicians, Outlander, Austen-otherwise major book nerd. Somehow making a living with a history degree since before Tumblr.

[tolkienillustrations]

Maglor and Elrond by Jenny Dolfen

[famouspainterwombat]

[voidfishersong]

#i HAVE to include context as a classical musician who is *almost*in these spaces #this is from the schleswig-holstein music festival #(presumably faculty????) #which is probably The most selective classical music festival in the goddamn world #these people are some of the best you will ever hear on their respective instruments #this was literally posted originally by the goddamn schleswig-holstein music festival #these are their dudes #classical musician me is being shocked by seeing them on tumblr #y’all don’t even know how insane this is #y’all are just enjoying chickens playing saxophone and cornet (via @clockworkouroboros )

[elfinfen]

Maedhros for the fanfiction "The Light of the Damned Stars" ✨

[maurisescapism]

Some thoughts on Spike’s armour.

I’m reading a Spuffy fic where Spike enters Buffy’s house, takes off his duster and hangs it up, and I remembered someone pointing out that it was weird that he took it off in Seeing Red and that it was just so that Xander could find it on the bannister later and jump to conclusions.

It got me thinking how I think we see Spike wearing his coat a lot even when inside in s6? Like in Gone and Older and Far Away for instance. Where in earlier seasons he is mostly without the coat when he is inside someone’s house for a longer stretch of time. But he is inside for something like 24 hours during Buffy’s birthday and never takes it off.

The coat represents so much of Spike’s persona and is the most obvious symbol of the armour he has covered himself with over the years to hide and protect William. This becomes even more obvious in s7.

I might be overanalysing here, but is there something telling about Spike keeping the coat/his whole armour on during Buffy’s party right after what happened in the alley in Dead Things, combined with how he brought Clem along as his emotional support demon?

In Seeing Red he approaches Buffy without the armour. No coat, no jewellery. Something about the long sleeved shirt he’s wearing or perhaps the way it’s filmed even makes him look smaller, thinner. His soft parts exposed. He implodes and leaves without his armour.

I don’t know. Just some random thoughts that popped into my head.

[becauseitswrong]

Juliet Landau & James Marsters in Buffy the Vampire Slayer 5.14 "Crush" (2001)

[maurisescapism]

There are people who claim Spike didn’t actually love Buffy - “he was obsessed with her” “he just wanted to get in her pants” “it was lust” …

And I feel like part of the reason people think that is maybe they don’t actually love Buffy? Like really love her?

I don’t know if I’m explaining this right … Having watched the show from the beginning, grown up and fought and cried and suffered and laughed and loved and lost along with Buffy, seen how beautiful and funny and tough and vulnerable and amazing she is as a warrior and as a person … why wouldn’t Spike fall in love with her? Like, it seems impossible not to love her if you really see her.

He gets it wrong so many times, part of the charm and hilarity and heartbreak of especially s5 is him continuously trying and failing to do human behaviour and courtship after 120+ years of doing it the demon way. And then he learns, little by little, fails again and tries again. He’s slowly unearthing more of William.

But of course Spike falls in love with Buffy. She’s effulgent as fuck.

[frostedmagnolias]

Afternoon Dress

c. 1875

by House of Worth

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

[spvffys]

Genuinely one of my favorite moments of BTVS is during Once More With Feeling when Buffy goes to Spike’s crypt to get info on what’s happening/be alone with him and Spike is trying to politely kick her out because he would LOVE for her to be there and for them to spend time together but he can’t risk breaking out into song in front of her and singing his feelings and losing his recently acquired cool, calm, collected personality he’s finely tuned.

Like seasons 4 and 5 he was mostly a raging, whiney freak who occasionally did creepy, childish, invasive things and eventually he was forced by circumstance to grow up and take control of his soulless existence instead of blaming everything on it and excusing himself from any responsibility for his actions.

He was willing to sacrifice himself to protect Buffy and Dawn, he literally fell off a 100 foot crane putting his body on the line for them, he dedicated his days post-Buffy to keeping an eye on Sunnydale and keeping Dawn safe because besides Willow (who wouldn’t be any good in a physical fight anyways) he was the only one who meaningfully could. He took Joyce’s “I love what you’ve neglected to do with the place” to heart and actually put effort into remodeling his dark, dank pit in the ground into something attractive and comfortable, expecting to have guests over—HUMAN (and demons like Clem I suppose) GUESTS. He spent the nights awake after Buffy’s death sitting with regret for things he could have done differently—could have done better—to save her. He changed so much because loving Buffy was transformative, even when she was dead and gone.

He would love to show her around his place some more, go on a walk, have a drink—he even implies as much when he sadly watches her go and says, “So I take it you’re not staying, then?”

But even more so, Buffy goes to him knowing full well that SHE could sing in front of him. And maybe this could be read as “well she didn’t have any feelings for him so she would have no reason to be nervous or embarrassed” but I take it as she was alone with the only person who would understand whatever song she sung. Hell, she was walking around the graveyard the night before when she was singing by herself (and with random vampires) and she was still a little ashamed about it even without witnesses or singing anything particularly cringe. And my point is only proven correct when, in the end, it is Spike who comes to her rescue in the final act—stopping her from dancing herself to death and telling her exactly what she needs to hear, the very thesis of Season 6, “Life isn’t bliss, life is just this, it’s living. You have to go on living.”

They could have very easily made it a Xander “heart of the group” moment, or a Dawn and Buffy sister moment, or even a fatherly Giles moment—but it was Spike and Buffy because narratively, he was the only one who was actually seeing her and hearing her. It wasn’t a hamfisted attempt to cram Spike into a scene he didn’t belong in like some people imply, it’s actually the only option that makes any sense.

Just such a lovely, layered episode from an incredible season of dark but hopeful television.

[kliomuse]

I love this read. I feel like early season 6 was Spuffy dating without realizing/admitting we are dating. Wish it had lasted longer but they always put that plot turn in around7/8/9 in a 22 eps season.

[arofili]

kings and things to take by storm

Fëanáro and Ñolofinwë, and the secret Oaths they swore. iii. dread nor danger

"it shall purse oathkeeper and oathbreaker to the world’s end”

In which Ñolofinwë arrives in Middle-earth, and attempts to confront his brother...but Fëanáro is not there.

chapter 3 notes:

Rating: M | Creator Chose Not To Warn Relationships: Fëanor/Fingolfin, Fingolfin & Maglor, Maedhros/Fingon Characters: Fingolfin, Maglor, Fingon Word count: 2.3k

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[ladydiamond456]

snowy day at station

jily

[spikedaily]

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER 5.21 “The Weight of the World”

[sanshofox]

Btvs wip sketchpach the fourth. ✨

More facial studies for spike and different eras. And for spuffy I wanted to do smth with an intense stare like in season 4 where she ties him up after he got his chip or in spike‘s dream/love revelation in season 5. And the other spuffy is inspired by the fic the Darkling.

(Have to reblog for more image posting. So this is a 1/2 post. For more look up my reblog.)

[sanshofox]

Part 2 with some close ups.

[sanshofox]

Another one. btvs sketchpack finished ✨

and here the close ups :

[c-sand]

you want to know what i'm scared of, spike? me. right now, glory thinks tara's the key. but, i'm the key, spike. i am. and anything that happens to tara... is 'cause of me. your bruises, your limp -- that's all me, too. i'm like a lightning rod for pain and hurt.

[whatisyourchildhoodtrauma]

ANGEL THE SERIES | 2.17 "Disharmony"

[emmaxrosa]

RHAENYRA TARGARYEN & DAEMON TARGARYEN House of the Dragon: Season 3

[kliomuse]

It’s wonderful to see them together again.

[azaablue]

the best fanfiction you've ever read was written by a woman in her 40s before she made dinner for her kids. it was written by a teenager after school when they should've been studying for a history test. and a barista came up with the idea while they cleaned the espresso machine and busser fact-checked it on their break and the post-doc edited between writing grant proposals and the nurse apologized for typos in the notes after a long shift and behind every drabble and one-shot and multi-chapter fic there is a person with a wonderful and interesting and chaotic life and it is such a privilege that we get to be apart of it because they decided to do this thing we all share, for fun.