#gwen thinks

[wlwtillow]

willow, 5 drinks in: you know if you squint spike’s kind of like a beautiful butch

buffy:

xander:

faith: thank god someone said it

[gwen-tolios]

Sometimes when I read a non-fiction book exploring patterns in the world or media, I spitefully want to write the opposite.

Today, my inspiration is the section on amatonormativity in I Am Ace. There's so many romances driven by the desire to not be single by thirty, but what about a world where you're scorned about not having a BFF by thirty? Where you keep jumping from friend group to friend group, but haven't settled in with a core group yet? Where you celebrate 20 years of friendship, and your first playdate? Where your mom pushes and pushes - 'just join a bookclub! After a month of drinking with them you'll be friends! Put yourself out there!'

I would also love a novel that goes through the milestones of a romance -meet, date, meet the parents, love declaration, move in, marriage- but for friends. Not sure what all of them are, but one will a hundred percent be running errands together. And hanging solo outside of the group activity you met during.

[wlwtillow]

once more with feeling is crazyyy because why does buffy essentially admit that spike is the only thing keeping her here and then everyone acts surprised when she wants him around

[wlwtillow]

spike: *slides photo across table* i need you to shoot this guy in the leg

buffy: that’s a picture of you.

spike: willow and dawn want me to try zumba

[wlwtillow]

rosenhane spuffy parallels wouldve been a beautiful addition to the show. willow views her quiet relationship with faith like punishment but also a way to escape the insane reality she’s living much like buffy with spike. as buffy and willow drift apart they end up realizing one thing connects them and it’s this similarity. “why didnt you tell me?” from buffy and “i didn’t know what you guys- especially you- would think” from willow and they both hug as buffy makes some joke about how nobody can be on her case about sleeping with spike.

i can also see faith taking this out on buffy when willow tries to end things and then spike stepping in to defend buffy.

[wlwtillow]

dawn makes spike do tiktok dances

[wlwtillow]

and if i said buffy summers and frodo baggins have the same character arc what then..

[wlwtillow]

i genuinely believe spike was right about willow knowing buffy could come back wrong. she was confident but not stupid.

this is the start of her true addiction- learning she is able to perform such strong and powerful spells. this is also when we see tension between her and tara form.

season six is filled with heavy material but addiction was a focus from the start