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This is one of my favourite moments in the series. 🤣😭 It really shows that Willow is also not quite right and that they're both rather emotionally insecure.

One of the greatest pieces of musical television ever created.

I used to have two of these songs on my iPod.

Yes, I'm old. I watched the show as it aired. 🧓

Life's a show and we all play our parts...

@PSCENTRAL​ EVENT 19: MUSIC Once More, with Feeling – Aired 6 November 2001 Main Cast Songs

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Why are these so accurate? 🤣🤣

I'm crying. Please! 🤣😭🤣

Discord shenanigans resulted in this

This, but also, he didn't try to "rape" her. He thought (because she'd been doing so the entire fucking time), that she was playing hard to get. When he finally understands that she's really serious and means it, he stops and feels like shit. This is the problem with relationships based in dubcon and hot/cold dynamics. The line isn't very clear for either party, until it is, usually only after it's been crossed. If Spike were actually trying to rape her he wouldn't have stopped. Rapists don't just "come to their senses" when they see how scared the victim is. They, in fact, get off on that because it's about the control and power and not sexual or physical pleasure. It always annoys me when people say he tried to rape her because he didn't immediately take no for an answer. Did he sexually assault her? Yes. Was that entirely his fault? It's a gray area in this scenario because their sex often occurred during attempts to murder one another. Resisting her attraction to him (psychologically and physically, via assaulting him), then immediately kissing him, or opening his belt, etc, had been a fundamental part of their relationship since it began.

Conditioning someone to understand that you don't really mean "No," then getting upset when you actually do, and they ignore you, is obviously going to confuse them. This is also why Buffy isn't actually upset with Spike. She's upset with herself for the reckless and contradictory way she's been behaving towards him. She knows that she fucked with his head and she feels guilty about it even though she tries to convince herself he's a monster and that that's the reason he didn't understand he was crossing a line. Truth is, she knows she's just as much to blame, if not more, because she couldn't just be honest about wanting him and turned it into a convoluted and unnecessarily complicated thing. Spike would have tried to woo her and do everything the romantic route if he thought she'd allow it. Look at how he treated Dru and that was without a soul. If he thought Buffy would let him openly and honestly love her he would have been acting very differently. He was trying to play things by her rules, but she kept changing them without being clear what they were.

I'm not one to victim blame, but in this particular scenario they are both victims because she was abusing him physically and emotionally, and using him while knowing that he was in love with her. She even tries to invalidate his feelings because she doesn't want to accept them as they would (and later do), make her feel like she's being a selfish asshole towards him. Spike knows he deserves better, but he also feels like he doesn't after all the fucked up shit he's done for the greater part of a century. He's settling for what he can get because to him it's better than having nothing and he knows she'll never love him. That's why when he survives and is revived he doesn't go and find her the way he searched the ends of the Earth for Dru every time she left him. He decides it's best if she thinks he died a hero. It's a much cleaner, nobler, and romantic ending than an eventually messy break up, and the poet would absolutely choose that route.

In summary, Spike didn't try to rape Buffy. She blurred the consent lines from day one and the second he realized she was serious and it wasn't an act he backed off and apologized. The only reason she reacted that way is because she'd been wanting an excuse to justify mistreating him to absolve her guilt and jumped on the first one, which unfortunately for him happened to be a damn good one. Buffy isn't the type to have told someone that tried to rape her that she loved them. If she actually believed that was what happened, and that he had sincerely attempted to force her, she would have staked his ass no questions and gone back to business as usual.

Everyone was reaching so hard to hate on Spike in season 7 that it spins back around and makes them look like they have no real moral compass

Xander's all "I don't care if he has a soul now, he'll always be an evil thing because he tried to rape Buffy." So did you hyena boy but everyone forgave that as soon as you became your old self again

And Giles' acting like Spike needs a chip just in case he goes evil at some point. Anyone can go evil, there were 7 seasons of nice people going evil and Giles wasn't advocating that the whole world get chipped

The things Vamp Willow did to me as a teen... Willow in general but... Especially any evil version of her. I don't know why that last gif is like 2 hours long for some reason, but I'm not complaining. >.>

Vampire Willow in Dopplegangland

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Buftea - I'm not done Baking

A destined blend of oriental spice, masala chai, and forest berries; with an accent of chocolate chip.

Buftea - I will be of Service

A mix of honeybush mango, pina colada, and white peony; with an accent of mango and pineapple.

Buftea - Give it a little Texture

A mix of pu erh chorange, cherry green, and gunpowder; with an accent of hibiscus.

Alright I've got Buffy on the brain in the year of 2024 so imagine this

Au: everybody lives nobody dies (though some, like Jenny, are seriously injured) and the scoobies and co. are all sitting around in a dining room post season 7. Tara goes to watch TV with dawn and Giles insists on getting snacks. Xander pulls out a pouch with a goofy grin on his face as he sets it on the table. Out of nowhere, he announces that everyone at the table will be playing either smash or pass, or smash marry kill.

Chaos ensues.

That’s my type of woman.

I loved the Xander-Cordelia romance and the way it ended tarnished the whole show for me, although I did keep watching.

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May I direct your attention to Oz, from Buffy the Vampire Slayer?

You know, when I see fictional characters who repress all their emotions, they're usually aloof and very blunt about keeping people at a distance, sometimes to an edgy degree—but what I don't see nearly enough are the emotionally repressed characters who are just…mellow.

Think about it. In real life, the person that's bottling up all their emotions is not the one that's brooding in the corner and snaps at you for trying to befriend them. More often than not, it's that friendly person in your circle who makes easy conversation with you, laughs with you, and listens and gives advice whenever you're upset. But you never see them upset, in fact they seem to have endless patience for you and everything around them—and so you call them their friend, you trust them. And only after months of telling them all your secrets do you realize…

…they've never actually told you anything about themselves.