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Buffyshellmouthcollections on Instagram ❤️
Amazing videos !
Spike's facial expressions are just beautiful.
James Marsters is a fantastic actor .
Double Meat Palace.
I was at an amazing Buffy con not too long ago, and at a panel James Marsters started talking about how he always wanted Spike to fall in love with Buffy (since after trying to kill them and failing so many times it would get pathetic). So he's behind the scenes working on the DMP episode, and he was still trying to figure out *why* Spike was in love with Buffy. And he did. Seeing Sarah as Buffy slinging burgers just to take care of her family, while also saving the world is what did it. And apparently, Sarah had been getting made fun of all day for the hat she wears. You know...the amazing cow hat. Well, James went up to her to say "Hey, I know why Spike is in love with you" but before he could say anything she cut him off saying, "What? Is it the hat? C'mon, not you too!" and stormed off. Just thought that would be a first good post.
✨ The Process ✨
Happy Halloween this freak married couple
Just give The Slayer and her trophy husband a day off to play their crazy games u know
what if…
what if Spike had never tried to sell those demon eggs to get money for Buffy? what if instead he and Buffy both ended up flipping burgers at the Doublemeat Palace, two exhausted night creatures pretending to be normal?
Spike + clenching his jaw. (insp)
spike has killed two slayers with his bare hands before but whenever he's trying to kill buffy it's distant. the order or taraka, hired assassins to do it out of his sight. the judge, revived for the purpose of instigating armageddon and killing buffy in the process. then he runs to her for an alliance. and then for protection when he's chipped. the next time he is fully determined to kill her is the end of fool for love, where he comes equipped with a shotgun. a weapon that he can use from a distance. he can never really do it. he's held dying slayers in his grasp and never treats killing buffy with the same personal connection, because he cannot kill buffy.
When I was young, Spuffy got under my skin because it showed that someone who was objectively a Bad Person, unfit for good company, could be redeemed, could be worthy, could be loved.
Now, 20 years later, Spuffy cracks me open because it shows that a person can carry the weight of the world and still be cared for and seen and valued for something besides being the bearer of that burden, even if she can never put it down.
This is beautiful.
Spuffy has been my OTP and the closest thing I have to religion for 23 years. My love for it has deepened and matured, but never dimmed. It's so deliciously complex, there's always something new to discover, or something I am desperate to experience all over again.
check out the embarrassing freak couple!!
Dude, but like… Angel telling Buffy he fell in love with her when she had just turned 15? I mean, hello? Is this supposed to be romantic instead of, I don’t know… CREEP AS HELL?
the information I have amassed over the years of why bangel is the way it is is because first xander was going to be the love interest (ew) and angel was ambiguous but maybe going to be an actual angel but the network forced joss to make angel a vampire because they knew vampire romance would be very successful - joss being a narcissist exists in black and white - good people are good no matter their actions and bad people are bad no matter their actions so being forced to make angel a vampire when he was supposed to be a good guy made him big mad (he’s been quoted many times that he wanted demons and vampires to just be evil and ugly aka not desirable at all) but he’s like ugh fine whatever and thus the episode Angel is born and the whole “vampire with a soul” shit happens but it appears to be a one and done thing we’re into each other but this is a horrible idea so I’m going to stay away from you now.
End of season 1 setting up xander as the love interest with his threatening angel into helping him save buffy and the whole “I can’t do it I have no breath” which is so inaccurate I can’t even but basically like angel being a vampire can’t be what buffy needs, xander is who she needs to which the network was like ABSOLUTELY NOT this fucking obnoxious loser cannot be the love interest for buffy which is beyond hysterical that joss created buffy just to be able to force the popular girl to be with his self insert character and even in a universe he created he was still denied so now even more big mad because they’re pushing for angel to be the main love interest which is why there is such a stark tone shift between angel himself and bangel between seasons 1 & 2.
So bangel 2.0 he’s like FINE I will give you your vampire romance but it is going to be CREEPY AS HELL and I’m going to create the perfect metaphor for what it’s like to be a victim of an older man who manipulates you into giving him what he wants and then completely discarding you. Suddenly angel shows up in her room and follows her even more and is like “what are we, I miss you” when they both agreed they shouldn’t date yet now suddenly that is gone with zero discussion. The creepy age gap is brought up constantly - when angel is jealous of xander but dismisses buffy saying that by saying “xander is just a kid” and Buffy is literally like wait does that mean IM just a kid??? AND ANGEL LITERALLY RUNS AWAY INSTEAD OF ANSWERING and buffy herself says angel treats her like a child and then we see the HORROR SHOW flashbacks of angel seeing 15 year old sucking on a lollipop Buffy and crying in her bathroom and he’s all dirty and disgusting in the bushes like:
bangel was supposed to end with buffy getting to kill her abuser and send him to hell UNTIL I only have eyes for you and apparently david acting like a woman has joss being like “GET THIS MAN HIS OWN SHOW!!!!!!” so instead of angel staying dead/in hell where he belonged he had to be brought back and now we have bangel 3.0 for season 3
Suddenly they are tragic doomed soulmates??????????? Because now Angel can’t be Buffy’s creepy manipulative predatory abusive older boyfriend because now he’s a hero who is going to have his own show! So now bangel is all about abstinence and resisting temptation/everything that faith is that buffy lowkey was to a much lesser extent for the last two seasons and angel being this killing machine who is such an artist with how he tortures people and this awful beast who reallllyyyy wants buffy and wants to hurt people but he’s being soooooooo strong and resisting and isn’t he so amazing and strong for leaving buffy “for her own good” and let’s ignore it’s happening right as she’s turned 18 and about to graduate from high school and it happens IN A SEWER - and now we have the added lore drop in s3 that he fell in love with her at first sight at FIFTEEN
Joss was most involved in btvs writing during seasons 1-3 his focus was split after that but his writing has the worst “telling instead of showing” of the whole show and bangel is one of the worst instances of that so much of their relationship is rushed and completely unearned that anyone who isn’t a 13 year old with a massive crush on david and likely daddy issues watching it has the same response op has which is “is this supposed to be romantic???? THESE are soulmates????” He told the audience what was happening even if it went completely against what seasons of behavior established and there are many such instances.
He did a similar 180 with spuffy he hated spike hated spuffy so season 5 spike is suddenly way creepier than we have ever seen him be with the “buffy” mannequin, the shrine, the bot, all of crush etc because again he’s giving the network and audience what they want - vampire romance - but he’s trying to make it creepy and unenjoyable (he thought making spike a sad pathetic lover boy poet would make us like him less 💀 showing how much he DOES NOT understand the female gaze) but he didn’t understand what all of spike’s BEHAVIOR was telling us and didn’t understand we had no problem with the idea of our heroine with a soulless anti hero/morally grey vampire who is completely obsessed with her and so pathetically in love with her because spike has NEVER treated her like a child, has always respected her intelligence and skill and seen her as a worthy adversary who should be feared, their chemistry is insane and sarah and james are two of the best actors on the show and them together is MAGIC
Of course his cause wasn’t helped when they accelerated his redemption because of the “is btvs gonna end with season 5 and buffy dead” fake out he wanted to do because he’s always going to choose the most dramatic option vs the characters being grounded and authentic. But so we get season 6 and we’re supposed to be like oh this is soooo bad buffy is having soooo much crazy sex and neglecting dawn and her friends bad buffy! But instead we’re like omg poor buffy is in so much pain and spike is the only one who can help her and she hates herself for it ugh I wish she could just love him openly and get what she needs from him without shame or needing to hide it which is what leads to the ultimate retaliation aka seeing red because joss wanted spike to get a soul because joss accepted all the way back in season 2 that spike was too popular to be killed off and spuffy is INCREDIBLY popular so just like profiting off of david and abandoning his previous stance he does the same with spuffy - spike has a soul now so it’s ok! And suddenly joss is being quoted as “loving spuffy even if that’s not popular it can be just for him” pretending like it was all his idea and no one else saw the brilliance that is spuffy except him and we’re back to abstinence and spike having these uncontrollable killing sprees that only buffy can be trusted to put a stop to but thankfully even though joss reheated his bangel nachos for season 7 spuffy all the other FAR more talented writers had been COOKING in the kitchen for years so everything lands better because it’s all actually fucking EARNED and buffy taking care of spike isn’t the same as her taking care of angel because angel never stopped being her grooming, abuser, stalker but spike was always her shadow and a representation of her “otherness” so loving and caring for him showed how much she had learned to love and care for herself unapologetically even if everyone else went against her.
So VERY long story short bangel was never meant to be romantic it was firstly never meant to be and then it was supposed to be a creepy anti fairy tale “I kiss you you don’t wake up - when you kiss me I want to die” cautionary tale until season 3 when they started gaslighting the shit out of all of us and unfortunately the season 3 narrative is the one that was upheld about buffy and angel for the entire rest of the series and beyond and many fans still buy it to this day and get really really mad and defensive when you point out that it is NOTHING like what they think it is 💀😭
— I love you.
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer 6.05 | "Life Serial"
"They were alike in that; together, in their way, in their aloneness even from their own kind. There had never been a slayer like Buffy. There had never been a vampire like Spike." (Nancy Holder, Heat)
nancy casually writing the hardest spuffy line of all time in some random crossover novel tie in from 2003 PLUS the emily dickenson poem? what
I’m just saying that if I were watching the BTVS season two finale live, and Buffy had just fallen for Angel’s trap which led to her losing Kendra, Willow in the hospital, Cordelia and Xander traumatized, Giles kidnapped, and the Sunnydale police after her….coupled with Whistler being all “powers that be” and blaming her for making Angel evil and pushing him to cause the apocalypse instead of stopping it like they thought….and then about to be arrested when the guy she thought she killed by church organ a dozen episodes ago pops up, knocks out the cop, and grins at her saying “hello, cutie” before an immediate cut to commercial? I would’ve lost my mind.
“I hate you.”
“And I’m all you’ve got.”
Pre-Truce and Buffy keeps sneaking not so subtle looks at Spike. Spike being surprised that the Slayer’s mother doesn’t know. The hilarious “I’m in a rock band” excuse and him just rolling with it. The flawless battle partnership in taking down a surprise vamp. Buffy inviting him in and leaving Spike ALONE with her mother. Oh, we’re cooking now!
Spike and Joyce sitting in the living room, making it very clear that they share exactly ONE friend in common and she’s not here. Very intentional lack of eye contact, painful silence. Joyce desperately grasping at polite conversational straws and Spike, once again, completely rolling with it.
Buffy and Spike being all serious business negotiating lives and Angel’s takedown with Joyce in the background like 63 steps behind, and probably losing all sense of sanity trying to keep up. (Who is this Spike guy? Who is Dru? Why are they killing Angel? Isn’t Angel her asshole boyfriend? Dru killed Kendra? Wait, who’s Kendra? She’s a Slayer? Like Buffy. Wait, what exactly is a Slayer? Why is he happy about that? Wait, so Buffy didn’t kill the girl! But why are the cops after her then? Did she explode like that guy? The guy who was a vampire and bad? But not like the bad vampire Spike who got invited in? Because invitations are needed to come in? But is she sure she’s a vampire slayer? Is that some new fad? Why is Buffy sending this man away to a mansion to look after Giles? What happened to Mr. Giles? Is Mr. Giles going to die? Did I do something to make her a Slayer? Was it the divorce? Hank wasn’t the best but he was a father figure that’s been removed from her life, the parenting books did try to warn me…)
upon my rewatch of season 6 of BTVS I gotta be real here. say what you will abt Mayor Wilkins but he would NEVER have left his murder daughter to struggle alone with debts and a sister. he’d be like “sweetie you own real estate that people live in, why are you working a minimum wage job?.. come now I am going to teach you the most useful evil skill you’ll ever learn, it’s called Being a Landlord” and then pay all her bills and make her drink her milk bc calcium is important
#it would be So funny but also Buffy deserves to have HELP yknow #mayor Wilkins would probably try to set her up with spike also #spike is a simp from 1854 the mayor would be like ah yes finally a proper gentleman. have her home by 11 she has work in the morning #furthermore: ‘Dawn honey we can’t have you skipping school. education is an investment in your future #however if you do want to learn how to steal properly why don’t I take you to work with me today. we will be doing Fraud’ (tags by op)