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#willow: 'i made you a magic spell aka next season's metaphor for lesbian sex'#buffy: 'sorry i have to go with faith to do slaying aka this season's metaphor for lesbian sex'#btvs (via @shittinggold​)

#one thing about btvs is that it always has metaphors for lesbian sex #and sometimes lesbian sex is the metaphor for lesbian sex (@comradesummers)

btvs "tabula rasa" was so crazy bc when i see the episode title "tabula rasa" i'm like ok, everyone's gonna forget their memories and revert to their deep down fundamental selves, i've seen star trek, i know how this works. so i assume that spike will revert back into an evil vampire who wants to kill and eat everybody and then when he gets his memories back he feels so awful and guilty about how deep down he is still a monster. but then i watch the episode and he DOESN'T revert back to a bloodthirsty monster???? he's just like a self-conscious bumbling hapless fool who's a little bit cowardly but still wants to help so he can prove himself????? when he vamps out he doesn't realize he's a monster at first and instead thinks he has superpowers like buffy?????? he's WILLIAM?????????????????

#it’s literally all i see in this moment and i know it wasn’t intended#but two fists are the size of an adult heart and the flames of#a sacred heart#and what they represent and who buffy is and who spike becomes…#yeah it’s what i see and it makes this moment all the more transcendent and interwoven into the storyline that began when he got his soul#and literally draped himself over a cross#and then took buffy’s place and sacrificed himself out of love and saved the world#and was later resurrected just as she was…#spike is transformed by love over and over again but it’s specifically his love for buffy and hers for him that gets him *here*#and in this moment he is no longer a dark reflection#a shadow self#bathed in the light of the sun from above and his soul within they’re a mirror of each other and that mirror#reveals their truest selves their best selves to each other#file this moment under:#(sublime#consummate)#self recognition through the other (@disaster-vamp)

#I mean cusps arent real but shes buffy so its fine  (via @fucknoorhelm)

#whenever i watch this scene i get really confused as to why spike thought the triangle was a respectable instrument  #that her parents would be happy to know she plays  #one of the many mysteries of the buffyverse  (via willowrosenboob)

Angel is so fucking extra oh my god the dude Chose to go by freaking Angel. Like, somewhere during his 100 years of self loathing he was like i can’t be angelus anymore he caused too much pain and I’m not him and he could just go back to Liam or pick a regular name like John or whatever but nO he was like “Angel is fine, I hate myself and I eat street rats to survive and I want people to call me Angel” and I fucking love him

#OK but I have a lot of feelings about this#because even as early as s1; when Giles was still at Peak Stuffy Brit™#his greatest fear was Buffy’s death#he considered it his DUTY to protect her#that’s his MO whenever she’s in trouble#not train her; not prepare her (and I mean yes he does consider it his job to do this obvs but the first thing out of his mouth is always)#PROTECT HER#and it’s not until Helpless that we learn that this is not the norm for Watchers#in fact#according to Travers; this is a detriment#a flaw#the Slayers aren’t children#they’re tools#they’re not meant to be protected#they’re meant to be used up and discarded; one after the other#and maybe it’s different for Watchers who actually have a Slayer (if Giles’ words about the Watchers’ diaries in s5 are correct)#but maybe it’s not#basically  what I’m getting at is#Giles was always different#he tried to walk the walk back in s1#but he has a rebellious heart#and so when the Watcher’s Council assigned him a Slayer to train (to use up and discard like all the others that had come before her)#with the implicit understanding that he would not get attached let alone develop a love for her#Giles took one look at this tiny blonde moppet#who had already Seen Too Much#and went: THIS IS MY NEW DAUGHTER AND IF ANYTHING HAPPENS TO HER I’LL KILL EVERYONE IN THIS TOWN AND THEN MYSELF#because#as i’ve been saying:#giles is buffy’s dad#btvs (@flaminganakin)

#congrats spike you played yourself  (via kaylaloveed)