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whatisyourchildhoodtrauma · 2 months

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BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER | 5.22 "The Gift"

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littlenastieswewhispered · 1 month

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#btvs #buffy the vampire slayer #spuffy #buffy x spike #spike x buffy #embarrassing freak couple #btvs text post #my text posts #btvs meme #buffy meme #spuffy meme #btvs s5 #btvs s6 #btvs s7 #you’re the one buffy #cringe amount of tags

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charmedslayer · 5 months

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WILLOW ROSENBERG | 5.11 – Triangle

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thepunkmuppet · 7 months

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if you don’t like me at my “quickly, I'm the very spirit of vexation, what’s another word for gleaming?” then you don’t deserve me at my “what can I tell you baby, I’ve always been bad”.

#btvs #buffy the vampire slayer #btvs spike #william the bloody #william pratt #buffyverse #angel the series #ats #spuffy #btvs s5 #fool for love #btvs 5x07 #btvs meme

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kratosfilms · 1 month

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⨯ . ⁺ ✦ ⊹ ꙳ ⁺ ‧ ⨯. ⁺ ✦ ⊹ . * ꙳ ✦ ⊹

buffy summers s5 icons

#buffy summers #buffy summers icons #buffy the vampire slayer #btvs #btvs icons #btvs s5 #icons #twitter icons #icons without psd #girl icons #female icons #random icons #actress icons

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desicat-writer · 26 days

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Buffy: I have decided that I am, in fact, a snack. It's just that no one is hungry.

Spike: I am fucking starving

#incorrect quotes #spuffy #incorrect buffy #buffy the vampire slayer #btvs s5

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becomingbuffypodcast · 7 months

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Who get the biggest passes from Buffyverse fans and can you give examples of the worst things these characters do?

Well this is a juicy question.

Spike, and Cordelia.

Interestingly, at some point, both characters were given the role of calling Buffy out on her "crap." James Marsters even talks about how he was brought in as a replacement for Cordelia in season 4, but then was replaced by Anya when they decided to do something else with him.

With Cordy being the mean girl, and Spike the soulless vampire, the writers had the freedom to use these characters to say and do some incredibly cruel things towards Buffy in the name of "brutal honesty," while also excusing their behavior because they weren't meant to be the hero...at least initially.

This worked a little too well, as Charisma and James were amazing in their roles. Each character is charming, beautiful, multifaceted, and extremely funny.

The problem is, you can't keep your characters stagnate, so the writers were forced to give Cordy and Spike character growth, but also find a way to retain who they are. This is incredibly difficult when your character was literally written to clash with Buffy, and is popular for saying mean, biting things in the name of "tough love."

-Cordelia-

While Queen C is more than the resident mean girl, her cruel words and selfish behavior are praised as "truth" and confidence, with her belittling nearly every member of the Scooby gang. She is constantly pitting herself against Buffy; (Homecoming, Halloween, etc) demeaning and belittling her when Buffy has personally saved her life several times. She begins to show signs of character growth in season 3, but once Xander cheats on her, reverts right back to blaming Buffy for everything. Instead of holding Xander accountable for his actions, she makes a wish that Buffy never came to Sunnydale, and then never sees the consequences for her own actions.

Even after her move to LA, she calls Buffy a cry-Buffy, blames her for turning Angel into Angelus, emasculates Wesley, victim blames and shames a SA survivor (Untouched), and is generally just careless about what she says or does, with no thought about how her words effect others.

Personally, while I do see some growth over her time on Angel, I do not buy her characterization in the later seasons where she is drastically changed to become a Champion, and then shoe-horned into a relationship with Angel. On top of that, she never atones for or even recognizes her need to change for her awful behavior, and that makes it very hard for me to forgive her for her past sins, let alone root for her.

It's possible that with better writing and without Joss being a horrible person, that her transition would have been more organic and believable.

-Spike-

For a show about feminism, the writers really spend a lot of time on this man. He steals Buffy's underwear, stalks her, makes a sex robot that looks just like her, attempts to kill her multiple times, boasts about killing and torturing other slayers, justifies it by saying they wanted it, ties her up, then spends a season belittling her just so that she'll sleep with him. THEN when she refuses sex with him, attempts to force himself on her.

And for those of you who say, "oh he just didn't have a soul yet." Fine.

After he had a soul, he boasts about assaulting her, shames her for using him for sex when he knew she didn't love him, shames her for not loving him, and blames her for the reason he's tortured with having a soul. (Beneath You)

He nearly kills Robin Wood, and then mocks him for not being loved by his mother (which is proven to be false in "Damage"), all while wearing the coat that he stole from Robin's mother after he killed her.

Not once does he apologize to Buffy or attempt to hold himself accountable, even after he has a soul. It is not until "Damage" on Angel that we see any sort of unselfish remorse.

Then to add insult to injury, season 7 has Buffy spending so much time taking care of Spike, rescuing Spike, training with Spike, reassuring Spike that he is a good man...all to the detriment of her other relationships. People like to blame the Potentials for why season 7 is as clunky as it is, but I blame the focus on Spike.

Even worse, the show doesn't seem to want Spike to change, as there's hardly a difference between pre souled and ensouled Spike. And that goes against the show's core tenant of choice and growth.

From the very beginning, vampires represent the opposite of adolescence in that they are stagnate and do not change. "Fool for Love" very clearly establishes that Spike's persona is created to compensate for his lack of an identity. Cecily's rejection of him deeply wounds him and he is shown to create a facade to mask his insecurities. So he takes from powerful women and forms a false identity around them to prove that he is not beneath them. The episode emphasizes this pattern with Cecily, Dru, and the two Slayers, continuing in present day with Buffy.

In order to be consistent with the lore and message of the show, ensouled Spike needed to look a lot different from un-ensouled Spike, but the writers knew he wouldn't be as popular.

And so we're left with a half baked season where we're supposed to believe that Buffy is distant from everyone but Spike, who looks the exact same as he did the season before when he tried to force himself on her.

It's just icky. It's the opposite of empowering. It blurs the lines of the lore. And it sends the wrong message.

We can like these characters and even root for them, but we need to be honest about their flaws, and not justify awful writing and problematic characterization.

#buffy summers #buffy the vampire slayer #buffy btvs #tv: btvs #buffy watching #becomingbuffypodcast #sarah michelle gellar #alyson hannigan #buffy anne summers #btvs s5 #anti spuffy #anti spike #anti cordelia #bangel #buffy and angel #buffythevampireslayer #not really anti #i dont hate them

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tara-fantastico · 1 year

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So, listen, Giles's story is so fucking tragic because his biggest fear, from the very beginning, was always to fail, and no matter how the wheel turns, someone is calling him a failure.

In Nightmares we find out that he was having nightmares about Buffy dying, a girl he had known for a couple of weeks at this point, because HE had failed her. Then in prophecy girl he tries to do what he believes to be right, send Buffy to face the master, knowing that it will be her death. And when he realizes that that is the wrong thing to do, he tries to go instead. At that point however, Buffy has decided to go and knocks him out, he has failed both as a watcher in sending his slayer into battle, and as a parental figure, in keeping her safe. She dies, and he most definitely blames himself for that.

Then in Helpless he is again trying to perform his duties as a watcher, until Buffy shows him that those ways are cruel and heartless. He then tries to break of the trial, only to realize that it's too late because the vampire has taken Joyce, so Buffy has to go trough the house anyways. Meanwhile his trying to break it of means that he gets fired by the council while his having started it in the first place leads to him losing Buffy's trust.

In season five he has pretty much abandoned all loyalty to the council, and is now torn between Buffy and the world as a whole. He has to protect the world, and therefore they might have to sacrifice Dawn, but Buffy is such a big part of the world and sacrificing Dawn would mean breaking Buffy. In the end he is just enough to save the world, but not nearly enough to save Buffy. He blames herself for her death, both her deaths, and can't help but wonder if she would have been better of without him (as is shown in his monologue to the Buffybot). He has failed in all the roles he has ever taken on, watcher, father, librarian (he blew up the library!) friend, partner.

So when Buffy miraclously returns to life he thinks that it's best that he stays away from her, so that he won't fail her again.

I'm not saying that leaving was the right thing to do, but I think people often picture Giles as a more put together person than I've ever seen him, capable of making a rational decision. I believe that it was mostly fear, desperation and selfdoubt that made him leave, and he tries to justify it to himself as it being the best thing for Buffy.

#also Anthony Stewart Head understandebly wanted to spend more time with his family #I hope this makes sense #it's 2 in the morning #tired #btvs #buffy the vampire slayer #buffy summers #rupert giles #btvs s1 #btvs s3 #btvs s5 #btvs s6 #giles #buffy x giles #buffy and giles #anthony stewart head #dawn summers

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alfapratt · 1 year

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BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER

Out of My Mind - S5E04

A House Divided (part 4) - Season 11 #04

gifs: hauntedmushroom

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whatisyourchildhoodtrauma · 7 months

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BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER | 5.16 “The Body”

#btvs #btvsedit #buffy summers #anya jenkins #xander harris #willow rosenberg #anya x buffy #dailybtvs #dailybuffysummers #slayerdaily #buffysource #userellie2 #tuserjana #tvfilmsource #tvedit #mine #btvs s5 #btvs 5x16 #i couldn't color this scene to save my life

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farawayvisions · 1 year

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#btvs #btvsedit #Buffy Summers #buffysummersedit #BTVS S5 #mine

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charmedslayer · 10 months

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So, you spell it A-N-Y-A, yes? Yes. Fine, now we can get to the questions.

#btvsedit #anyajenkinsedit #slayerdaily #buffysource #dailyflicks #dailytvwomen #televisiongifs #zanisummers #usercande #userveronika #userlix #userbbelcher #btvs #anya jenkins #anya #btvs 5x12 #btvs s5 #*mine #1k

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thepunkmuppet · 11 months

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“So they sent The Key to her… in the form of a sister.”

↳ my favourite plot point / storyline in Buffy the Vampire Slayer as requested by @whoophoney

#buffy the vampire slayer #btvs #angel the series #ats #buffyverse #buffy summers #dawn summers #btvs season 5 #btvs s5 #gifset #gif #my gifs #gifs #the colouring is horrifically inconsistent I know just ignore it💀#btvsedit

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xandersrailcrash · 5 months

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i 🩷 dawn summers

she's so real like

#dawn summers #dawn btvs #btvs #btvs s5 #buffy the vampire slayer #buffysource #buffyedit #queue were mythtaken

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mollspeak · 2 years

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i love spike outrageously but every damn day I think about what would have happened if drusilla had become a scooby post-break-up instead of spike. literally nothing else changes: drusilla has an enemies to lovers romance with buffy (we already know she likes blondes aka darla and spike). drusilla babysits dawn. drusilla helps tara when she loses her memories to glory. faith and drusilla! drusilla and giles are odd couple roomates. drusilla and anya hook up in 6x18. so much more room for ats crossovers. have spike come back in crush instead of drusilla. on a serious note, imagine some of the heartwrenching stuff you could do with drusilla's character -- imagine the cross-burning parallel scenes you get with angel and spike, and something similar for dru. especially because i've seen people talk about how drusilla's visions mean she was a potential slayer.

basically. want it. now.

oh also fun bonus: in an interview with buffering the vampire, juliet landau said she reckoned, given the choice of the entire buffyverse, drusilla would pick xander as her best friend.

#drusilla #darla btvs #faith lehane #buffy #btvs s5 #btvs s4 #btvs s6 #dawn summers #rupert giles #spike btvs #tara maclay #willow rosenberg #anya jenkins

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avrelia · 7 months

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Thinking about Roman Empire...

My Roman Empire:

#buffy the vampire slayer #buffy summers #btvs s5 #intervention #buffy x spike #Thinking about Roman Empire

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