#btvs 5x15

[whatisyourchildhoodtrauma]

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER | 5.15

BONUS:

[victorfreakenste1n]

Spike’s Slut Face | 3x08 Lovers Walk / 4x18 Where the Wild Things Are / 5x07 Fool for Love / 5x11 Triangle / 5x15 I Was Made to Love You / 6x09 Smashed / 6x21 Two to Go

+ uncropped vers. + a couple other ones

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[femmedefandom]

that ending scene in the park with Buffy and the April!bot talking in “I was made to love you” basically made the whole episode worth it for me. (I just wish I didn’t have to watch the rest of it to get to this point.)

it’s a beautiful moment, two young women drenched in the dying sunlight, discussing the pain of heartbreak in the innocent setting of a children’s playground. showing the dark side of love…it’s deterioration and loss.

Buffy’s empathy really shines through and April’s lines as well as the delivery just shatter my heart. there’s a wonderful examination of the expectation of perfection for a partner, the importance of existing separately from that partner, escape and abandonment, denial and acceptance, questioning your choices after a breakup, as well as the emotional investments and depth of feeling imbalances that can happen in relationships, through the guise of an “ideal robot” girlfriend.

it walks the line of giving nuance to April while unquestionably framing Warren as the villain for bringing her to life, only to throw her away once he got bored of her being exactly what he made her to be: pleasant, subservient, and endlessly devoted.

[raggeddypond]

Spike being jealous of Ben in the distance

5x15 / 5x20

[nicholaes]

the entirety of i was made to love you is basically just hammering on buffys insecurities about relationships like btw buffy you can never have a normal relationship, both your exes left you it's doomed to happen again, and you aren't capable of loving someone

[spadinastation]

When things are sad, you just have to be patient. Because...

[best-buffy-lines]

I Was Made to Love You, 5.15

[afabtwink]

Because Giles putting Spike in his place is my aesthetic, and I couldn't find any gif/photosets of this on the episode tag