...A little less ritual, and a little more fun...

I hate angel so much I need him to die again

Such a true statement.

The secret sauce that makes Spuffy work so much better than most newer Enemies to Lovers is that that Spike is weird little freak who shows in painstaking detail the embarrassing growing pains of developing as a person. He's not some ~secret good guy~ who's just misunderstood, he was actually an evil little shit with just enough charisma to be too human to stake so the main characters let him stick around. He had to claw his way to humanity and it was that growth, and the slow development of Buffy's affections in response to it, that makes it so compelling.

I need to repost this so I don't forget and I'll be able to find it again.

I think Spike and Buffy works better than Angel Buffy. Buffy and Spike sepnt several season becoming tentative allies, passable allies and friends,toxic lovers, traumatized allies and then warrior-heros. Meanwhile Angel was in LA fighting his own wars, making new friends and having his own relationships. Trying to keep the Angel Buffy "we love each other but can't be together" shtick doesn't work because they just aren't the same people anymore, Buffy especially. And Angel returning to help Buffy at the end doesn't hit like I think they wanted because of this. By this point if you haven't also been watching Angel the series, you could be forgiven for having forgotten all about him

SO REAL.

sometimes i think about how buffy never knew angel without a soul before she fell in love with him. if she had known angel before he got a soul, would she have still fallen in love with him once he got one? but it’s interesting how she DID know spike without a soul, not only knew him but trusted him and fought alongside him, hung out with him, slept with him, and even fell in love with him. and then when he DID get a soul, all that was deepened because she actually allowed herself to love and be loved by him. but even as a soulless demon spike was never as demonic as angelus. even if angelus was chipped, he would never help out heroes or kill demons, he would be actively plotting with any big bad to bring an apocalypse. he would be using psychological warfare at all times. so i just think it’s neat that buffy saw spike’s worst, was her worst with him, still felt love with him, still forgave him, still trusted him. and he sought out his soul, potentially getting killed in the process (since the demon says no one survives these trials), becoming the first soulless vampire in the world to actively SEEK OUT a soul. it’s just so metaphorical and redemptive. like what do you mean our hero buffy, slayer of demons, falls in love with a soulless demon? what do you mean she used him to take out the hatred she felt for herself? and what do you mean she fought for his souls redemption, even after he told her to kill him multiple times? spike means something to her beyond personage. spike is her shadow, and once her shadow finds redemption through acceptance, she cannot and will not let it die. loving spike is a way to loving herself - all of herself, not just the slayer or the girl, but both. only through her relationship with spike has she been able to reach this level of catharsis. and it’s her redeemed shadow who saves the world.

i think we should celebrate buffy's resurrection like easter

october 2nd is now international came back wrong day

THIS PART 2

THIS

ABSOLUTE LEGEND.