MODERNDAYCAIT

it’s never that easy though is it?

[queenofnots]

I obviously stan Sarah Michelle Gellar but I can't condone her buffy takes. She loves Angel. She wanted Buffy and Xander to end up together. She hated Spuffy. Like sorry queen but these are Bad and Wrong Opinions. love you though.

[kenz-eaye]

I’m gonna be a dick here and step out of bounds a little maybe, but this isn’t a terrible surprise when you consider she had a messed up relationship with her dad and obviously so did Whedon. Angel and Xander are both Whedon shadow avatars. They represent the parts of his psyche that are most selfish and a dark and misogynistic.

Spike represents liberation and meeting the shadow and imperfection and rejection of misogynistic purity. Daddy issues really enforce the internal need to be a “good girl.” I know from experience.

Her disowning Whedon was not just about his behavior. He was a father figure of sorts. He had power over her.

Marti Noxon helped Buffy become an actual woman. Complicated. Mean. Selfish. Buffy broke bad in season six. She broke away from the male gaze of purity with the help of her girlfriend, Spike.

If SMG hasn’t met her own shadow then it’s not surprising she still has these feelings about the character. But tbh, I feel like anyone who is a Bangel doesn’t actually like Buffy the person. They just like what Buffy represents. Just like Angel. Just like early Xander.

This is my crackhead theory anyway.

[femmedefandom]

one of the funnier bits of Spike practicing his speech to Buffy in front of a blonde wig wearing mannequin, getting into a fictional argument with it, losing the fictional argument, and then throwing a tantrum, is the fact that he then calms himself, resets, and starts again. the viewer has no idea how many times this has happened.

[redstonedust]

ideal living situation is what i call the 'sitcom special' : having all your closest friends live in the same apartment building or neighborhood where you each have your own space but can wander in and out of eachothers homes at will, seemingly always welcome and never at bad times. and also all of you only have jobs when its important to the plot.

[bornonthesavage]

Watching the Stranger Things season 5 trailer really slapped me in the face with the reminder that the Stranger Things that I’ve been living in for the past 3 years doesn’t exist. Like it looks amazing, but what do you mean Steve didn’t carry Eddie out of the Upside Down and get him to a hospital in time to save him? What do you mean Steve didn’t spend months helping Wayne to nurse Eddie back to health? What do you mean they didn’t fall in love? Like obviously I knew it, but it’s been so long that the fanfic verse is now the The Official storyline to me, and the show is just a sad AU of if Eddie had died. Like Eddie is such a bright, full of life character that him being dead doesn’t compute to me.

[demadogs]

when you try to bring up stranger things to someone and theyre like “wow its been so long i dont remember anything” like damn whats it like being normal

[sexcromancy]

it must be so hard for buffy to watch spikes reform grow from his love for her (however obsessive and strange it is) when that is exactly what she could not do for angel. she tried, hard, but there was no amount she could love unsouled angel that would turn him back, and no amount she could love souled angel that would make him stay. I think this is what reveals something underneath the "soul" concept in btvs - it's actually about what remains of the underlying humanity, and excavating that from the layers of vampirism. angel was a cruel, womanizing drunk. spike was a hopeless obsessive romantic who liked pain. vampirism is just a guise, an opportunity to lean into the worst manifestations of those impulses.

[h--hannah--h]

yall, why are you mad that a show about first responders killed a character off? it’s weird that it hasn’t already happened tbh

[legoghost]

being devastated by a characters death while also maintaining enough logic and sense to know that it could have some interesting (and obviously tragic) repercussions, anything is possible when you Stop and Think

[thosesillylittlegayghosts]

On a less serious note, Ravi constantly checking the temperature then making bad jokes when it’s not the right one and then checking his phone before having a conversation with a friend is so my in chemistry practicals coded

[poughkeepsiesjr]

how it feels being the only one who enjoyed the episode and thought this is actually a very fitting death if it's permanent

[h2ojustaddmako]

THIS is the life I was promised as a kid, not this garbage capitalism bullshit

[duckwnoeyes]

Willow Rosenberg is the type of girl to mock Orpheus for turning around. Bc how hard is it to walk straight and not look behind you? If Willow was Orpheus, she’d easily march out of the underworld w Eurydice, bc she is better than the myths. She’d never even entertain the idea of doing something silly, like looking behind her, not even to check if Eurydice wants to come back. Because Willow is better, and stronger, and she’ll drag her best friend back to life without so much as a backward glance, without digging up her body. Because Willow doesn’t understand what it means to love someone enough to turn around. To turn and face them is weakness, and she cannot be loved while she is weak.

[youhavethesun]

buffy text posts pt. 2! these are so fun to make :))

(pt. 1)

[pizzazz-party]

i love working to the sound of someone else losing their marbles. this is my favorite genre of youtube video

[pizzazz-party]

oh, he’s lost it, lost it.

[pizzazz-party]

[mortem0]

my love language is a violent immortal with no soul falling so in love with me that he completely changes himself for the better and worships the ground i walk on

[underyoursnow]

i love dru and spike’s introduction. they show up, serve the most uncanny cunt fuelled with sexual tension, get their spike’s ass handed to them, and kill a child. the best villains of the show no doubt

[relaxnotshaveeyebrows]

emily axford crying in relief because she thought her fictional mom had died before she and brennan reconciled the fictional years of turmoil between them because of her fictional affair is something that can be so personal actually