My Buffy art sideblog

“Punching Spike is like third base to him” (Buffy continues to punch him after making this observation to her MOTHER and best friend)

“If I wanted someone with superpowers I’d be dating Spike” (Buffy regularly goes to Spike and relies on him for help in supernatural situations due to his supernatural strength & skill)

“Why does everyone think I’m still in love with Spike?” (STILL? STILL?!)

“It’s okay. I can be alone with you here.”

buffy & spike + of human bondage book

what’s so interesting about that is that on the surface, it looks like porn. something that’s just sex. but it’s not even about sex, and to eddie it comforts him by just existing next to his bed, something he reads over and over. this is what spuffy is. buffys trying to ignore past the cover page, she’s trying to claim that their relationship is just what it appears to be. a sexual relationship. but it’s not. it’s her security blanket. it’s spike’s too.

she is a vehicle for his redemption and self-worth. she’s not a partner to him. she’s a tool to be used for his gain.

loving someone means possessing at least some modicum of selflessness, and with buffy he simply does not. if he did he’d be able to stick around and actually help her without having an uncontrollable urge to fuck her.

i’m glad angel decides to leave and to stay a vampire because he’s being honest about what he wants and what his real priorities are, but the way he lies about it (to himself and buffy) is so fucked. he just can’t help but go about things in the way that tortures buffy the most. that violates her the most.

Later in the same season, Buffy reappears with Riley in tow and he acts like the wounded one and gets mad at her for “flaunting” her perfect new life. What is he mad about?? He has now dumped Buffy TWICE OVER!! He said move on, he said find someone human and normal that can make love to her and she did! Riley sucks and that’s a different conversation, but from Angel’s perspective, he is everything he proclaimed to want for Buffy. It completely pulls back the curtain on any of this being altruistic on his part. He plainly doesn’t want Buffy happy!!! He gets mad at her everytime she tries!!!!!!! I’m not even being a hater, it’s literally in the explicit text of the show!!!!!!!!!!

+ bonus

Anti spike/spuffy ppl always try and use that interview to make Spike out to be “just as creepy” as Angel which is always just so embarrassing to me that they don’t grasp the basic difference between one was the most evil and literally is a predator to her prey but buffy is also a predator to spike’s kind so there is even still a balance of power between them even then and he’s literally just explaining how he played the scene to get the attitude and body language right as a predator bc he understands that’s what Spike is to Buffy at that time (literally had zero clue he would ever be a love interest of Buffy’s). And the other who is not supposed to be a predator anymore…. hides his identity as a vampire AND hides the fact that he’s been watching her for over a year is still acting as a predator but instead of stalking an experienced slayer to attempt to fight and kill he is stalking a freshly called still weak and vulnerable slayer who he wants to sleep with aka corrupt.

Angel is supposed to be GOOD yet is still acting like a predator. Spike IS EVIL and so is simply acting as someone who has killed two slayers should 💀💀💀💀 the fact that soulless evil Spike and soulful “good” Angel’s behavior can be compared AT ALL is bad for angel and angel alone bc spike is supposed to be evil and treating buffy as someone he is hunting and as an opponent. Angel is supposed to be HELPING Buffy….

But regardless of all that the argument is James said Sarah is beautiful so of course he played up that angle as well so canonically Spike thinks a 16 year old Buffy is pretty and these people really don’t understand the difference between the two 😭😭

First of all I personally have heard Sarah call herself “not the prettiest” at least 10 times in 10 different interviews - how often do you think the people in her life heard her make jokes or comments about her appearance??? To me that always seemed like James just paying a compliment to his costar who doesn’t understand how literally fucking STUNNING she is by basically being like HAVE YOU SEEN HER OF COURSE MY CHARACTER THINKS SHE’S PRETTY LOOK AT HER!! James literally rizzed his way into a main character and love interest like of course he’s gonna be charming in real life by paying compliments to everyone he can every chance he gets. He had sex appeal and a dream AND IT WORKED 💀 and we also see him have chemistry with practically every person on the show that’s just who he is 😹😹😹

But I also just cannot emphasize how much of a difference there is between finding someone attractive or thinking they’re beautiful vs actually ACTING on it and ESPECIALLY acting on it when you call her friend of the same age “just a kid” and say over and over again how wrong it is and that she’s too young AND THEN DO IT ANYWAY. Like it’s a supernatural show with vampires who are 100 & 200+ years old if angel hadn’t constantly acted like her dad and treated Buffy like a kid and everything is season 3 didn’t happen there could be sooooooo much more leniency with angel and buffy’s age differences and I probably wouldn’t care bc applying irl rules to the supernatural doesn’t make a lot of sense but angel always treats her like a child and says over and over again how wrong it is and THAT is what makes it a problem within this supernatural show bc Spike never treats her like a child or like she isn’t his equal ever no matter what age she is

But unfortunately it makes sense people who like a character whose main personality trait is !catholic guilt! (when he’s got a soul) don’t understand the difference between thoughts and actions and how we should only be defining ourselves and other people by their actions. Because we are not every single thought we’ve ever had both good and bad. If you think to do good things but don’t that does not make you good and if you think to do bad things but don’t that does not make you bad.