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i get that spike/spuffy antis have to hate season seven on principle (and the fact that they act like spike’s arc is entirely frivolous and unimportant is so wildly dismissive of buffy’s i don’t think they actually even like her!), but so many are straight up factually incorrect about what actually happens. i don’t know if it’s a media literacy issue or a choice to be obstinate. probably a mixture. when you want something to be a certain way, misunderstanding something gives you room to declare yourself right.

their main talking point is that ensouled spike forces his presence on buffy. this… just doesn’t happen even once in the season. at all.

spike doesn’t return to sunnydale to see buffy. he goes back to the hellmouth. probably because it’s all he knows, as a demon he considers it home, and not for nothing he’s already being controlled by the first who wants him in place for a specific purpose.

in the first episode, lessons, buffy comes across spike on her own. he’s at some of his most insane for this interaction, and he walks away from her. in the next episode, beneath you, buffy seeks spike out. she goes to the basement and can’t find him. he’s actively hiding from her.

later in the same episode he gets himself cleaned up and goes to her, for the first and only time. he says it’s because something terrible is coming and he wants to offer his help. he tells her if she doesn’t want him around, tell him and he’ll leave and she can revoke his invite (which notably is still active). she doesn’t. she accepts his help.

they talk while looking for the demon and buffy says she can tell something is different about him but she doesn’t know what. spike makes a point to say he isn’t going to tell her what it is. that’s MAJOR. spike does not want buffy to know about his soul. he doesn’t put it on her, and he doesn’t make it her problem. he ends up telling her only after it’s nearly forced out of him and he’s triggered back into insanity after a lucid period. after he reveals his soul, he leaves.

in the next episode, same time same place, buffy seeks spike out. he’s once again hiding in the basement, so she knows where to find him, but he does not go to her. she enlists his help that episode, twice.

the next episode is help. buffy goes to the basement to see spike. she asks if he knows anything about cassie. he later helps buffy save cassie from the boys trying to sacrifice her.

in the next one, selfless, buffy once again goes to spike. it’s a definite a pattern. buffy seeks out spike. it’s actually a lot like much of their relationship in season six, only much more one sided. she tells him to leave the basement because it’s bad for him.

the next episode, him, sees a big shift. it’s still buffy going to spike, but this time she doesn’t just leave him in the basement. she actively chooses to help him out of it, getting xander to let him move into his apartment. there’s a huge and important change in their dynamic now. they are solidly in each other’s lives, and that was and continues to be buffy’s choice.

i won’t do little synopses for each episode from the rest of the season, but from here spike offers to leave at minimum four additional times, half a dozen or more total all season.

he earnestly wants buffy to kill him in sleeper and never leave me, because he’s devastated and terrified that he’s killing. buffy says no, she’s going to help him and she believes in him. she rescues him, because she wants to, and moves him back into her house.

later on spike seems to be gaining back control of his mind, but when the first threatens him he once again says he’s a danger and needs to leave and buffy says no because shes not ready for him not to be here.

buffy wants spike in her life. she makes that fact extremely clear. maybe at first it wasn’t for the healthiest reasons, but a major theme of season seven is spike and buffy healing both as individuals and growing closer together because of it. their relationship empowers and strengthens buffy, and the final episode is called chosen for a reason. this season is about buffy’s agency. that starts when she decides who’s in her life and who isn’t.

there’s never a single moment where spike makes that decision for her. he doesn’t once tell buffy she has to accept him, or that he should have access to her. he doesn’t come around when she says to leave, because she doesn’t say to leave. he stays away from her until she beckons him back. over and over.

spike doesn’t think he deserves anything from buffy. he believes the opposite, even encouraging her to date and hiding his heartache about it. he doesn’t make his insanity and suffering her problem. she volunteers to help him.

i understand having issues with the writing choice of spike back in buffy’s life at all after what happened in season six, but only if you’re engaging with it honestly. you can dislike that buffy makes the choice to have spike around, but it’s obvious when you disregard her agency and pretend he’s the one calling the shots. you hate a story that didn’t happen, and it’s impossible take seriously.

#THIS IS IT #this a thousand times #thank you for putting this into words #spuffy #s7 #meta

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#polls #always so delighted to see my babygirl winning 💕

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#OP always on point #spuffy text post

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#ahh i love this so much #spuffy fanart

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“No two people in this world are the same, Slayer. Reckon you heard that a time or two, so why the bloody hell would the way you feel things be the same? Not like love has a sodding checklist—not like it can be studied. You know it’s love because you know what love feels like for you. You can never know what it feels like for someone you aren’t.” – Drive by @elysianholly

#buffy #spike #btvs #spuffy #spuffyedit #btvs edit #drive #holly #fic rec #spuffy fanfic #spuffy manips #manips #spuffy fanart #*

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*I couldn't find a good promo pic of Stefan to save my life

#polls

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When Twilight came out Dawn would have started glitter bombing Spike so he sparkles

#new headcanon unlocked #txt #spike #dawn #twilight

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Spike is like SHE'S SO POWERFUL WOW 😍 LET THIS WOMAN STEP ON ME 😍 STAKE ME BABY 😍

Riley & Angel are like oh I can't protect her 😔 I'm being so emasculated right now 😔 she doesn't love me 😔 she told me she did but she doesn't 😔 let me become the victim 😔

#accurate #txt #anti riley #anti angel #anti bangel

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BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER | 5.07

#there is no reason to look at him like that btw #i do beat him up a lot. for spike that's like third base. #spike #buffy #s5 #5x07

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Buffy - The Spike argument

So, as per usual, I've gotten into a TV show very much past its sell-by-date and I'd like to just say that.... Buffy literally fucked the soul out of Angel whilst her fucking moved Spike to go get his own back.

There's something profound in there, just thought I'd point out the obvious.

#this never fails to make me weak #spuffy #meta

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Forward to Time Past by unbridled_brunette [NC-17]

The victim of a spell gone awry, Buffy finds herself trapped in Victorian London, where she meets a man that is surprisingly familiar to her.

#this was the first spuffy fic I ever read 😭😭😭😭 #need a re read asap #fic rec

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#polls

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cas & spike being the worlds biggest simps

#my heart #my babies #spuffy x destiel #parallel #btvs #supetnatural

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer 2.21 | “Becoming: part 1”

#spike #angel #drusilla #s2 #2x21

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So yeah, I'm terrified. —You don't have to be. Were you there with me? —I was.

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER S7E20: Touched | S7E21: End of Days

#spuffy #s7 #7x20 #7x21

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“Love isn’t something you find. Love finds you.” Pick Me Up by @dustyfics

#buffy #spike #btvs #spuffy #spuffyedit #btvs edit #pick me up #dusty #fic rec #spuffy fanfic #spuffy manips #manips #*

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Spoilers for Dusk Rising.

#on my knees #spike #spike fan art