I hope you don't mind me asking, but what are your thoughts on angel x buffy? :)

Hii i don't mind, thank you for asking 😊

So, I used to love bangel sooooo much when i first watched the show. I was 100% into it, (with a crush for Boreanaz too) and i cried so much for them in s2 and when Angel left the show in s3. And I truly, sincerely, unironically hated Spike too (I thought he was a great character but i just loved hating him, you know? Lol). When we saw Spike's dream of kissing Buffy I swear i felt nauseous.

... and then they aired Fool for love.

By the end of that episode I was left in utter existential crisis in front of my tv because i felt my whole world shift. There was a part of me that still liked Angel and Buffy, but there was also this new part that wanted her to be with Spike now.

So anyway, that's when i decided to switch teams and i became team spuffy, and for as much as i had been obsessed with bangel before, it was nothing compared to how deep i was caught into the Buffy and Spike relationship. I never looked back. They were just much more complex and real and compelling. And it made me reevaluate Angel and her relationship with him too. Angel never really knew Buffy, always treated her like a child, and let's be honest--and that's something that hit me only years later when I got older--she was a child when they were together. He was spying on her and falling in love with her when she was just fifteen years old and he was a 240-year-old vampire who had been sired at like 26 years old, and they got together when she was 16/17 and he broke up with her when she turned 18... I don't think that's something the writers did intentionally of course, because (as everything else in buffy) it's just meant to be taken as a metaphor for the ideals and struggles and the intensity of drama of a girl's first love, but it still comes off as icky.

And before anyone comes at me, I know spuffy isn't healthy either, but that's kinda the point and the appeal. First of all, it's fiction and a metaphor, and secondly, it's about two broken people that are supposed to be mortal enemies but are actually two sides of the same coin, so different and yet so much the same, who can understand each other as a whole, light and darkness, in a way that no one else ever could, who yes, hurt each other along the way, but whose love saved them from the deepest darkness, ultimately bringing them into the light.

This is what spuffy is to me, and this is why i think it's not only the superior ship, but one of the best ships of all time (thee best, until i saw destiel, now they're sharing the podium).

So anyway, to get back to your question, the moment i became obsessed with Buffy and Spike (and i have been ever since 2005, lmao, they've been my first real obsession, alongside btvs, until spn and destiel) Angel sort of became the enemy 😅. And I hated him so so so so so much when he appeared in 7x21 and kissed Buffy (pure fanservice, but okay) and brought the medallion that ultimately killed Spike. So i spent years very maturely holding my vendetta against Angel (like, rooting for every demon that fought against him when I watched Angel, lmaoo). In most recent years, I've (sort of) made my peace with the character, after rewatching Angel. I mean he's still the enemy (of course, duh!! Who am i if not eternally petty??) but i appreciate him in his own show.

So i don't ship Angel and Buffy anymore, but I can understand why someone would (as i myself used to), and more importantly, i respect other people's right to ship them.

If we're joking, I'm going to insult Angel and keep saying he's the enemy. But on a mature serious note, I think Buffy and Angel were a great first love (for Buffy), but they were supposed to be just that, the impossible teenage girl's dream of a first love, eternal but doomed to end and break your heart.

I think Angel was much more well paired with Cordelia (which is something I'd never think I'd say), and i found myself shipping them so much when I rewatched the show. It felt so much more mature and profound than what we saw with Buffy and Angel (and that's probably due to the fact that we got slow burn for them - as we did for Buffy and Spike- and could actually see the feelings growing, while Buffy crushed on Angel in the pilot and she was madly in love (as teenagers do) in 0.5 seconds for no apparent reason than the fact that he was hot and mysterious.

So when I say the kiss in btvs 7x21 makes zero sense, I'm not just talking about spuffy, but also about cangel. I feel like both characters parted ways and lived on in their own shows to grow and become their own persons, developing other relationships that were more adult and meaningful, and that kiss was just disrespectful for both (but anyways, it doesn't change anything).

I have so many thoughts about all this honestly, and I hope I haven't gone too much off the tangent with my reply, but i couldn't just give you a simple reply because that would've had to be something like "angel is the enemy and i don't like bangel" but as you can see my thoughts are a little more complex than that 😅

ANNIE MURPHY via gitabass on Instagram (June 11, 2023)

so I might or may not be watching the date scene for maybe the third time and the look on Buck's face when Tommy makes the closet space comment:

Priceless.

DRAG HIM TOMMY, DRAG HIM!!!! yeah buck make that face fdsldnfsdlfsjndflkjndfkjndfskjdfs. it was so fucking funny i couldn't stop laughing

Things I have noticed and learnt about buddie in the past 72 hours about Buck x Eddie from tumblr and youtube

these two guys are friends and Bucky hangs out an abnormally lot of time with Eddie (almost like he's got a little crush on him you could say)

Buck (Not Bucky) is a ladies man (or is written as such) and he has a close relationship with Eddie's son Christopher (who has cerebral palsey) - Eddie has willed it that he ever passes Christopher will be under his guardianship.

Up until now half the pairing of buck/eddie was straight and now Buck is bi so there's a bit of a chance that buck/eddie will be canon, but it's going to be a bit of a wait

Buck is kind of Deancoded in some senses (also I really would love now that Jensen Ackles and Oliver Stark are in something together where they play lovers, I feel like this would be good).

Eddie might be deancoded? but he's like Buck except without the repressed feelings???

This is all what I've gathered so far.

lol this was a delight to see in my inbox this morning and it's mostly correct. the big thing is the idea that mr. i-don't-panic-it's-not-repression-just-moving-forward is less repressed than buck

allow me to direct you simply to this gifset by the lovely and talented @eddiediaaz. eddie's working on it but repression and his unpacking it are a huge part of his character and journey. and the show hasn't yet broached how that might be at play with his sexuality or potential feelings for a certain someone but girlie's about to obliviously crash a date his boybestfriend is on with another man so. we'll see how that plays out

on that note it seems based on your third point that you were under the impression that eddie was already canonically queer which. see above. so sadly 100% of buddie was presumed straight until thursday. but it's been explicitly stated at the very least by oliver (and maybe also the showrunner but i'm not sure - other people pay better attention to these things than me) that they saw all the potential seeds of bi buck and all the talk about it online and decided to (and crucially were finally able to at abc) just run with it. and there are PLENTY of queer eddie seeds so. as for canon buddie i'm pretty much completely convinced it's happening at this point. whether it's in conjunction with an eddie sexuality journey or after it is my biggest question right now

and you're definitely not the first person to clock buck as deancoded lol but i'm not sure how i would feel about jensen and oliver playing lovers because i just don't think i could separate them from their dean and buck and the thought of that crossover is breaking my brain aksdjfkdj

anyways one of the most fun things about this development has been the reactions from people outside the fandom so thank you for sending me yours!! 🩷💜💙

doing a rewatch of spn but make it witch themed and now I regret because I’m eating dinner and watching malleus maleficum and forgot how gross witches are early seasons - Dean is so right about witches spewing their bodily fluids everywhere and it’s downright creepy and gross

I know this is not the point of this ask, but when I read the "spewing their bodily fluids everywhere and it’s downright creepy and gross" part, I was laughing because that's basically what I say to people when they ask me why I'm not interested in having sex.

Annie Murphy cute..!

@ me eating a potato like an apple,

it’s what Oliver would do

Yeah, I think he'd approve

such beautiful eyes he has <3

UM GAS"N"SIP in 9-1-1! (Buck Actually)

does this mean 911 and spn exist in the same universe? 👀

Hi, I hope you don't mind me asking, I hear mixed stuff about Ryan Murphy e.g. whilst he's quite progressive in terms of queer media, in some instances not so much? Like he doesn't like bi people ?

He despises bisexual people, unfortunately. That was pretty evident from his writing of bi characters on glee and there’s evidence (in naya riveras book I believe) that when he had issues with people or certain things, he’d add it to the script in some way where a character was mean to another character based on who he was mad at bts, like how he completely wrote Quinn out of the final season bc Diana Agron wouldn’t take his shit anymore when he mistreated her and her character.

The reason why I think he’s biphobic is bc of how he wrote characters to disregard bisexuality as someone who will cheat or having a character straight up dismiss it by saying that person is trying to tiptoe out of the closet instead of just being full on gay.

He had Brittany cheat on her bf with Santana and then when Santana had moved to New York, she was happy to date a lesbian who she “won’t have to worry about straying for penis.” I just know that anything RM writes, that there’s bleed through from his own personal beliefs and I don’t trust him to be good to bi characters.

Hopefully others will take over on writing Buck or Oliver puts his foot down to make sure RM doesn’t mishandle this story.

(Unrelated: I just started rewatching schitts creek today lol)

I made a soldierboy ASMR, but I kind of regret it cause it's like kind of dark but also like the antithesis of a pep talk, anyway what did I expect lol

I assumed an ASMR was a video from the context but i had never heard that term so i looked it up:

source: thinkwithgoogle.com

okay now you've made me curious... I kinda wanna see it 😆

Trixie Mattel, Salma Hayek, Annie Murphy, and Katya Zamolodchikova attending I Like to Watch LIVE (June 13, 2023)

hullo every time I see fire hose somewhere titled I immediately think of Buck 🫡🙄🤣🤣

AS YOU SHOULD! i do too. here's one exhibit from the last time i was in toronto and i went i am a trained person!

didn't have to even look at the URL to know that photoshopping the 118 firefighter hat was your post <3

Instead of working and focusing on that, my dumbass is hiding and doing that instead

It's weird watching 911 and even though seeing eddie x buck as a ship, and people shipping them, I'm currently shipping Buck x Tommy more at the moment and it's only cause it's Buck's recent relationship and also I haven't met Eddie yet, so I'll try and finish s1 and meet Eddie, but yeah that's where I am at, and it's hard cause I want to see more of Buck in a relationship with a man, yet it's only just started (well there's always ao3, but for now I'd mostly be reading Buck x Tommy. Can't wait to meet Eddie and Christopher soonish.

like fair bc we have actual visual canon material of buck x tommy ofc that makes it easy to ship them but bestie i promise once you get the diaz boys in there it's buddie all day babyyyyyy they are a FAMILY

Even though I don't follow Bobert as much anymore, I am here for the Bobaissance (is that what we're calling it?) for all of you :) - also RDJ was so good in Oppenheimer (not surprised though)

yes yes yes we've been calling it the RDJ Renaissance!! after all of these years it's just so nice to finally see him recognized for his work 🥹