Lair of the Muppetfreak

a little late but

🌸Happy Lesbian Visibility Day!🌸

So I'm rereading Jane Eyre for the first time in like 20 years and

There are people who claim Spike didn’t actually love Buffy - “he was obsessed with her” “he just wanted to get in her pants” “it was lust” …

Rewatching Fool For Love and I hadn’t quite acknowledged this the first time around, and maybe it’s more potent with the added perspective on the imagery of the coat in season 7, but there’s something deeply poetic about the way that when Buffy pushes Spike to the ground and tells him that he’s beneath her, echoing the scene with Cecily, his coat slips off his shoulders. In this moment he’s the most emotionally vulnerable and the closest he has been to who he was the day he died that we have yet seen on screen, and when that happens the coat visibly slips out of frame onto the pavement and then remains loose around his arms in the wider shot whilst Buffy walks away. We’ve just seen exactly what the coat represents when we watched him steal it, but Buffy takes it away from him without even knowing that she’s done it and makes him feel like the person he has been pretending he never was for over a century, the person we just spent the entire episode watching him bury, and all of it is captured and distilled in just this tiny moment where the coat slides off his shoulder and he looks suddenly without armour, suddenly vulnerable

Peeta: Shouldn't get stressed out, it's not good for the baby.