Much Buffy

also crazy that the bangel v spuffy wedding/marriage stuff is one time buffy had a dream fantasy of marrying angel and the other is buffy planned a whole curse wedding with spike and i lowkey prefer the latter because the beauty of the fake spuffy wedding is it's so equal it's so both of them outside of the curse while the bangel fantasy wedding is very classical, very tv/movie but ultimately it only reflects their desires to live normal lives while spike and buffy's hypothetical wedding includes adjustments for spike as a vampire, discussions of spike's human name vs nickname on invitations, potentially a song buffy actually loves, buffy's getting to put stuff she wants in the wedding, offering to put red paint on the fucking cake topper??? that's kinda beautiful lol

one of the funnier bits of Spike practicing his speech to Buffy in front of a blonde wig wearing mannequin, getting into a fictional argument with it, losing the fictional argument, and then throwing a tantrum, is the fact that he then calms himself, resets, and starts again. the viewer has no idea how many times this has happened.

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.

Riley coming back with a scar in season 6 will never not be funny to me. It's like all the guys in the writer's room were going "Why do fans like Spike more than Riley? Is it the scar? We'll give Riley and scar and then they'll finally realize he's the perfect boyfriend!"

Well fuck a house down, if it ain't my favourite ship