Buffy the Vampire Slayer 5.22 | "The Gift"

#he doesn’t need a soul because he is filled with love like a build a bear (via @talesfromthecrypts)

"What a wicked game you play, to make me feel this way

What a wicked thing to do, to let me dream of you

What a wicked thing to say, you never felt this way

What a wicked thing to do, to make me dream of you

And I don't wanna fall in love

No, I don't wanna fall in love

With you..." ❤️‍🔥

Wicked Game - Chris Isaak (Lusaint version)

Btvs - 6x10 "Wrecked"

Rendered my lineart of Buffy’s MaleWife Spike

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER 6.05 | “Life Serial”

Buffy The Vampire Slayer ↪ Season 1 Episode 12 | "Prophecy Girl" // Season 7 Episode 10 | "Bring on the Night"

one of the many insane things about fool for love is that they were like “how do we work a Spike Backstory episode into the main narrative” and what they came up with is “buffy needs to know more about her own history and identity and the only way for her to know more about herself is for him to tell her” like hmmmmmm HMMMMMMMMMMMM

when I tell you know one gets me like the spuffys of tumblr get me because spike HAS TO exist exactly as he is in order for Buffy herself to exist as the slayer we know her as like she and spike have been tied to each other from the moment he was turned by drusilla who was buffy 1.0 for angelus and the way NONE of this was planned in the beginning yet when you have the whole story completed looking back it all seems so intentional there was simply no other way for it to go fated doesn’t even cover it.

She has to go to spike to learn about herself because he is her and she is him!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He is all the darkness she has been protected from and hides from!!!!!!! She is all the light and love he had to hide away!!!!!!!!!!!

Every time I re-watch Buffy and they're describing Spike as this big bad before Buffy faces him for the first time and then he shows up and he's just Spike it's so funny knowing the context of his character. No Giles, that's not a scary monster that's Mr. Boyfriend.

do you think Spike ever wrote a poem lamenting that he was born too late to fuck Lord Byron?

"a vague disclaimer is nobody's friend"

Y'all this is a piece of history right here. Every single time you see a reference to a "shovel talk" in fic, defined here as "someone threatening harm to a potential romantic partner of a friend/loved one," it's referencing this scene. This scene specifically. Everywhere else that is not fannish internet, that interaction is referred to a "shotgun talk," referencing the father threatening a daughter's boyfriend with a shotgun. This scene gave a lot of people a chance to reframe that interaction in terms of a protective friend rather than a possessive father, which for a lot of obvious reasons resonated with people a whole fucking lot, and it immediately spread like wildfire into fannish and then general internet lexicon. I've seen people try and backronym it into an extension of the shotgun talk, as in, "I've got a shotgun and a shovel to bury you with," but I've asked a lot of rednecks from a lot of different necks of the woods and no one has ever encountered that variant in brickspace life. It's all Buffy, babey. This shit is linguistic history in the making.

It also makes Willow seem insanely frightening before you even need to know that information about her.

True fans can hear this phrase. And name the episode.

spike thinking buffy should break up with angel in lovers walk is SO funny to me because he didnt even realize he was in love with buffy at the time he was actually just going around like "your boyfriend kind of blows and you could definitely do better. not that i CARE because i dont. in fact, i hope you DIE. in fact, i hope i KILL YOU. in fact, the only thing i want MORE than to kill you is to see you BREAK UP with your loser boyfriend whom i hate and to get back together with my girlfriend who DUMPED ME specifically because i am so entirely OBSESSED with you. this is normal btw"

and buffy thought this was normal, also.