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angelthemanspanker · 2 months

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The way some people characterise Buffy in fics like you described genuinely put me off Buffy fandom for years, it was absolutely everywhere, in Spuffy fics, in faith/buffy fics, it felt like I couldn't read a fic without the obligatory 'Buffy apologises to whoever the fuck for being so mean' and I just stopped, it was so baffling

For real its so weirdly pervasive. It genuinely blows my mind bc I totally get the urge to use your fic to call out a character/plot point you don't like, more power to you. Like I'm constantly imagining rewrites of the scenes where Xander is at his most insufferable but no one in-show is verbalising obvious holes in his bullshit (my big one is that besides a one off line from Buffy that everyone in the show ignores and a DELETED line from Giles is that NO ONE calls him on his absolutely infuriating "I was jealous of Angel being with the girl I like and I'm gonna have the gall to pretend it was bc I saw him turning evil coming" BULLSHIT)

But like. Buffy? You came out of this show and the person you had beef with and want to call out is BUFFY? THE VAMPIRE SLAYER? The protagonist of all time? Bc she's mean sometimes :( people try to apologise for trying to kill her and she's so unsympathetic :( she carries out her responsibility as the Slayer whether she wants to or not even if the person she's targeting is a character I like :( why won't she apologise. why won't she apologise. why does she insist on taking up space. why can't she just be nice all the time. yes my ao3 tag is princessspuffy why do you ask. yeah I know their relationship is abusive but I think Spike would forgive her :)

#NONE OF YOU DESERVE HER. SHE SAVED EXISTENCE AND YOU SAY SHE SHOULD HAVE SMILED MORE KILL KILL KILL #anyway. normal about her.#buffy summers #buffy the vampire slayer #im not a spuffy hater i love their mess but spike is easily the most common Why Wont Buffy Be Nice To Him i see #even though SPIKE loves her bc she DOESN'T let him off easy #'im a monster but you treat me like a man' was about the kiss in intervention #he hit on her and helped her fight and played nice with the scoobs all season #but he was clearly doing it to GET something and buffy is obviously completely unresponsive to that #but he lets himself get tortured almost to death for buffy and dawn and doesn’t seem to plan on telling them about it until buffy tricks him #THAT was real. the first real selfless good thing he did for her. AND SHE KISSED HIM FOR IT.#buffy has IMMENSE capacity to forgive people who she can see are actually trying #she just has zero patience for coddling self pitying murderers bc she learned from her first boyfriend #if you choose to do wrong she'll stop you but if you choose to do right she SEES that and she remembers it #she responds to action not words. you are what you do. and even if you're a monster #if you try to do the right thing she'll treat you like a man

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sysig · 10 months

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Somebody ordered Sushi Beefcake (Patreon)

#My art #Wander Over Yonder #Emperor Awesome #If you remember that caption first of all what are you doing all the way back in the depths of my alt art blog lol #I did forget that I posted one (1) WOY doodle allllll the way back in the day on my alt and it was this fucker <3 I still love him!#I was trying to make him as on-model as I was capable of at the time so he's still hella cute maybe I'll show him off at some point lol #Let's see - that was back in early '16 and I had already confessed to the fanfic-fanon-ification of my love for him so lol #It's been a whiiiiiiile since I first read Roundabout ♥#He is way more fun than he has any right to be to draw lol #His arm bands and tri-colour spikes should be illegal smh <3 #So yeah anyway this was the pose I imagined for the panel where he's finger-gunning away lol #Too big for the comic itself but very happy to have it realized here! :D #Goofy guy #His mouth is Perfect for vectors ahhh <3 <3 Kissing my pressure tool on the cheek #Hhh he's ridiculous I love him

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jennycalendar · 4 months

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@palizinhas oh, this is one of the best takes i have seen in a minute. my god. there is all this discussion about how spike is a much more complex and compelling figure than angel and then the way he is written is mr. misunderstood. mr. prince charming. mr. Everything Evil I Did Was Really Halfhearted And I Secretly Always Wanted To Be Good. and why oh why can’t that awful buffy love me??? have seen takes from people where they’re like “i can’t ship spuffy because spike was so mistreated and buffy didn’t deserve him.” check yourself. consider what you’re saying here

#replies #particularly sensitive to this one bc the same rhetoric is used to talk about jenny and giles #very often people say jenny was a horrible girlfriend #but ARE we talking about how the conflict they have is only solved when giles decides he likes her?#and when he decides he likes her she’s a bitch if she doesn’t want to be with him?#Is Made To Apologize For It?#ALSO: LET SPIKE KILL.

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blog-of-frontiers · 6 months

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I need to bottle whatever the fuck is going on with Spike, Dru, and Angel

#their first group reunion scene hello??? fucking hello??????#'im thinking dinner and a movie. taking it slow #ive been hurt before you know'#'spike. let me have him'#...'youve been a very bad daddy'#making our sloppy while angel is tied up in a corner. that lil smack #going insane kinda #btvs #buffy the vampire slayer

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winepresswrath · 7 months

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i've reached drusilla my perfect baby girl oooh it is so good that a) darla picks her out as a present for angelus b) she's actually kind of disturbed by what angelus did to drusilla. like it was a very explicit student surpasses the master moment in text.

#press says btvs #this is also why i'm a darla/spike truther angelus and drusilla are so much always #meanwhile darla and spike are just like. i'm protestant. i get the vibe let's do some desecration but uh #it's just a kink to me i don't have any actual feelings about the priesthood #also man william the bloody awful poet is just a mama's boy?#like this is what dru likes about him. he's nice and a bad poet #admittedly he's about to do some really not nice things #ok but actually william is so much sweeter as a human than i remember #he's just a guy who loves his mom is perfectly aware his poetry sucks and gets his heart smashed

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ultrawhalnar · 2 months

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Something that is ultimately inconsequential but personally Really Fucking Annoys Me is when people insist that in glass onion the Mona Lisa that gets burned is a fake. It was a funny concept the first time someone mentioned it and now it just drives me completely insane. Like, first of all, their whole reasoning for it is that the real Mona Lisa is painted on wood and the one in the movie is canvas, but when we see it burning it doesn't even fucking look like canvas, it looks like paint flecking off wood.

And second of all, you realize how it being a fake ruins the climax of the movie, right? Miles Bron killed two people, but they lack the solid evidence a court would need to convict him, and the shitheads are still too scared to testify against him. The ONLY WAY a billionaire asshole like Miles Bron is gonna face literally any consequences for his actions is if France and the Louvre come after him like rabid dogs for getting the Mona Fucking Lisa destroyed with his hindenburg house and insurance-defying dumbass button. "Your fuel of the future just barbecued the world's most famous painting" is the moment that the shitheads realize Miles is fucked and the only way to save their own skins is to testify against him. He's the asshole here, because his recklessness destroyed the goddamn Mona Lisa. If the Louvre saw everyone freaking out on Twitter and just came out like "ah no worries guys he just had a copy the real Mona Lisa is fine" then immediately the situation changes from "a priceless piece of art and culture is gone forever because of this man and his experimental fuel" to "haha this idiot burned his own building down. Good thing the Mona Lisa is safe." It'd get memed on for a little while before being promptly forgotten. No more outrage, just relief. And if he hasn't irrevocably vaporized an icon and incurred the wrath of everyone on planet earth then the shitheads suddenly don't have to turn against him anymore, sure this whole thing is embarrassing but it's not life-ruining, let's keep holding onto that golden tit.

Miles Bron murdered two people. Let it ruin his life. Burn the fucking Mona Lisa.

#glass onion #knives out #nobodycareslilly #the Whole Point of the goddamn movie is how rich people can cheat the system #he was gonna get away with murder scot free #the only way to take the fucker down was to get him on the hook for something BIG #the louvre is gonna have miles bron's head on a spike #i understand why the idea of the mona lisa really being destroyed is upsetting and people want to find a way to save it #but the mona lisa isn't worth more than one human life let alone two

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forever-eternal · 6 months

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More Atlas fanart. This time Chapter 50, with our man LH and Vee!

“Where is my family?”

#atlas fanart #tmnt venus de milo #tmnt leatherhead #tmnt fanart #fanfic fanart #atlas by d0minoeffect #Leatherhead looks derpy because I can’t draw animals #perspective is weird because I can’t draw 🙃#one day these will have more than a black background #but that is not today #Vee and her bros are separated and I scream everytime 🙁#but maybe now Slash will let her mother him #Spike was her baby too 😫😫#this one looks weird as hell but it exists now.

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brown-little-robin · 1 year

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Impulse and Mad-Dog (Seven and Nine)

#I had SO much fun with this picrew #this is them BEFORE being rescued #long-haired (scraggly) (Seven doesn't want his hair cut; Nine doesn't have the option) and half-in and half-out of their uniforms—#Seven refuses to do what he's told and his CRAYDL supports him; CRAYDL lets him wear what few civilian clothes they have #(parts of his never-used civilian disguise for if he ever is tamed enough to play the part of Bart Allen)#Nine is half-in and half-out of the Inertia uniform because he's been here for decades and he's tired of wearing the full suit #the only part he's ALWAYS wearing is that spiked collar #because it was given to him by President Thawne and he wears it because it makes him feel special and cared for #nine aesthetic #seven aesthetic #cloneboards #I guess! like a mini-cloneboard #Just For The Trauma Twins 💖

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softquietsteadylove · 10 months

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A very rare Pokémon accidentally (gets spooked) poisons Gil, while he observed it and took some notes. and because this Pokémon is usually not here the berries and medication in the poke Centre are not helping him. Thena sees his notes and tries to find a antidote for him, while Gil’s health gets worse and worse by every hour!

It’s time for some drama and angst 😳

Thena ran her hand over the crescent moon in Teddiursa's fur. He was finally asleep after a harrowing couple of hours. She couldn't blame him for being upset, of course. He had been a mess of tears when Gil came into the medical wing for poisoning.

She had been at the ranger centre already to check in on her little cub, busy on a day of junior ranger duties. They had both been told that Gil was on the way back from the field with an undetermined cause of poisoning.

Dragonite had brought him in, carrying him in its arms and letting out distressed moans like a suffering Wailord. It hadn't seen what poisoned Gil; they didn't know if it was a pokemon, a plant, some kind of spore, a latent effect, an attack etc.

"Chansey," the nurse tending to Gil turned to her. The doctors had done all they could, and the Chansey and Blissey and Audino were administering antidotes and psn cures and pecha berries every half hour. They had even turned to using Heal Bell and Calm Mind on him, but nothing seemed to be working.

If anything, he just kept getting worse.

"Thank you," Thena whispered, nodding to the Chansey on its way to attend to the rest of the patients in the medical wing. Gil was privileged to have a private room, and she was grateful for it.

She stood, leaning over him to look at the continual damage the poison was doing. His lips had a bluish undertone, his skin was pale and sallow despite his high fever. The only reason his face wasn't contorted in pain was because he was sedated so heavily by not only medication but she had even asked Gallade to use Hypnosis on him.

"Oh, Gil," she whispered, tucking her hair behind her ear as she ran her free hand over his cheek, around his oxygen mask. She leaned forward to press a kiss to his cheek.

"Teddi?"

"I'm sorry, Luvdisc," she whispered as Teddiursa turned to look at her, rubbing at its eyes. He was tucked into Gil's side. "I didn't mean to wake you."

"Ted?" he looked up at her with watery eyes.

"No, I'm afraid not," she sighed. Teddi looked at Gil and then up at her, holding out his paws to be picked up. "Oh, come here."

Teddiursa had actually put on a very brave front when Gil had first arrived in his condition. He was a junior ranger, after all, and so followed procedure. He notified the rest of his team, checked in with Dragonite, informed the scouting team of the approximate region where it happened.

Only when Thena had brought him in with her to see Gil had he broken down into tears, wailing into her shoulder.

She had told him he was being a very brave little bear. But every time she thought it, she dreaded to think that she might have to tell him that more and more. She might even be the only one to ever call him that from now on...

"Teddi," he turned his face from her shoulder to look at her, swiping his paw pads - careful of his long claws - against her cheeks. "Ted-Teddi."

Thena sniffled, letting him brush her tears away, "thank you, darling. I'm sorry, I won't cry."

"Teddiursa."

"You're right, he will be," she agreed, no matter how out of reach that optimism truly was for her at the moment. She picked up Gil's notebook again.

They had all scoured it, looking for any clues as to what could have caused this. His condition was worsening because they couldn't narrow down the effectiveness of a cure. They needed more information.

His ranger team couldn't make heads or tails of his notes, turning to canvasing the whole route where he had been and collecting all the samples they could. Dragonite was heading that team, all of them with the case details in their ranger dexes.

Dragonite had left Thena the actual notebook, determined that if anyone had a chance of deciphering them, it was her.

Thena unfolded the little notebook again with a sigh. They had at least narrowed down the particular route within the valley where he was. He had drawn some truly horrendous pine trees, and a few blobs they had determined to be Oddish and Gloom. All of his notes were such a loose stream of consciousness, they weren't very coherent.

wild flowers!--pick some for Thena

Thena sniffled again but blinked her tears away. They weren't helping anyone.

There were a few musical notes drawn in the corner. The rangers had discussed which bird pokemon they could be referencing, but she had said that he would have just drawn the pokemon if that were the case. She was willing to bet that it meant it was windy wherever it was.

Pine trees and a lot of wind - as well as dense enough forest for Oddish and Gloom - indicated the north eastern cliffs, housing a lot of grass and bug pokemon.

someone DROPPED in to see me!

Gil loved silly jokes like that. They were stupid, and dumb, and by all the legends alive did she love them. She hated the idea that she would never get to tell him that.

Was it a Spinarak? Or even bigger--an Ariados? He hadn't been bitten, though. Maybe it was a poison sting, but they couldn't find any actual barbs in his skin when scanning him. Maybe it was toxic, but he wouldn't be incapacitated, he would be shaky and sick to his stomach and flushed with fever.

"Dropped in," she sighed, looking over the last filled out page again, and again and again. She hadn't stopped looking at it, until she was so frustrated that she wanted to start screaming.

There was a little drawing in the corner that looked like...well, it could look like anything. It could be a tomato berry, or a colbur or a babiri berry, for that matter. But they wouldn't be in that location, let alone high enough to fall on him. The little bumpy ball could be a Cascoon/Silcoon, a Ferroseed--even a Koffing or a Whirlipede would make some sense. Honestly, it could be a terribly drawn Quilfish or Goomy, they were desperate enough.

"Dropped in," she repeated again, running her thumb along the drawing he had made on the side of the page in the margins. It just looked like a blob on a stick, really--like a cattail blowing in the wind.

Dropped in; something had fallen down and spooked him, or he had spooked it. He had been able to write that note down, and sketch the thing before it attacked him, or he touched it, or whatever had happened. It wasn't Poison Sting, or Toxic, or even Pin Missile. All of those would have physical evidence on him.

What if it was something that dissolved?

Thena stood and leaned over him again. She tilted her head this way and that, looking for small details--constricted veins, bloodshot eyes, signs she could recognise when her pokemon experienced them. She run her thumb along his bluish lip before pulling his mouth open just a little. "Purplish tongue."

"Teddi?" Teddiursa rose from where he had been leaning against her in her visitors chair.

She opened the book, angling the drawing as right side up as she could guess it was drawn. "What does that look like to you, sweetheart?"

"Ted?"

"Please, honey, just think," she encouraged, ruffling the fur between its ears. "If you saw this pokemon, what would it be?"

Teddiursa made a face. It wasn't like any pokemon it could remember seeing. "Teeeeeeeeeeed..."

Thena stayed crouched down, holding out the picture, "I think it's a bug, or at least a poison type. I don't think it attacked him--I think it was a defense mechanism. Maybe he tried to pick it up and it had effect spore?"

"Ted-Ted," the little bear tilted its head at the funny drawing. He was trying to determine if it was hanging down or standing up. "Teddi?"

"A what?"

Teddiursa jumped down from the chair, mimicking first a little ball, and then splaying out his paws and claws and flailing them. "Teddi!"

"Drops from the trees," Thena narrated as she tried to extrapolate what pokemon Teddiursa was describing purely from young memory. "It's a ball?"

"Ted!" he waved his paws around again.

"But when it drops, it opens up," she guessed, and he pointed a claw at her. "So it's not a Ferroseed, or even connected to a Ferrothorn."

"Teddi!" he continued, now spinning around on his paw.

"Spins," she groaned, searching through every pokemon she could think of in her mind. Kids these days had it so easy with their pokedexes right in their pockets or on their wrists. "A little ball that drops down and spins...spins?--Rapid Spin?"

"Teddi! Teddi...ursa!" her little cub described, miming and Explosion.

It used Explosion and Self-Destruct. They weren't looking for a poison barb, they were looking for a defensive pokemon. One that didn't have much attack power and relied on high trees for its habitat. It dropped down when frightened and could only defend itself in close proximity (no limbs).

Thena reached for Gil's ranger gear, calling Dragonite. "It's a Pineco!"

It asked if she was sure, which she could understand.

"It's a Pineco--it dropped out of a tree when he found it," she continued, looking at the drawing that was now so obvious: it was a bagworm. The little blob was the Pineco itself, but the other drawing was because Pineco wasn't the pine cone pokemon, it was the Bagworm pokemon. "Sometimes they can know Toxic Spikes when they're young. Toxic Spikes are proximity based, and they dissolve into the skin once they've made contact."

Dragonite let out a roar on his end, directing the rangers with it to the area with Pineco in the trees. It let out a softer howl to her before signing off.

Thena dropped her head, letting her tears fall freely. They had an answer--it wasn't a solution yet, but it was a hell of a lot closer. "Thank Arceus, thank Celebi, thank anyone out there."

"Teddi?" her little cub latched onto her ankle as she hunched over Gil's bed.

She sniffled and smiled, picking up her little bear and pressing kisses to his furry cheek. "You deserve the medal of honour, you brilliant bear, you."

"Teddiursa!" the cub laughed as she tickled him. He didn't know what he had done, but he was glad to see her tears fade.

"Audino?" the nurse for the next treatment poked its head in.

"Please," Thena waved in the Hearing Pokemon. "I just called Dragonite's team. I think it was a Pineco with Toxic Spikes that did this."

"Aud!" the nurse gasped, its ears fluttering and snapping its fingers(?) at the realisation.

"It makes sense, right?" Thena sighed, to which the medical assistant agreed. She nodded, "Dragonite will be back with a sample as soon as possible. But if we know it was Toxic Spikes, then-"

"Aud-Audino," the nurse assured her that they could use a more specified - effective - treatment, even before they started synthesizing the antidote. It went to Gil's equipment, making a few adjustments to certain levels of things (whatever they were). "Aud!"

"Thank you," Thena nodded as the pink pokemon left to alert her colleagues to the situation. Thena leaned all the way over the bed, pressing her tears into the shoulder of Gil's shirt. "Thank Eternatus you're okay."

Gil's eyes fluttered.

"Sh, sh," Thena cooed, not wanting to wake him if he was just going to feel awful.

He blinked at her, "hey."

Thena blinked as tears started streaming from her eyes again. "Hey."

Gil moved his eyes around a little (the most movement he could muster at the moment). "Is...am I dying?"

Thena shook her head, kissing his forehead, "not anymore."

#Thenamesh Pokemon AU #poor Gil #we really do put him through it here #but never fear #we're all about happy endings #you know this about me #I was going through all the possibilities of how this might happen #I kind of wanted Pineco to have effect spore #but the only ability any Pineco can have is sturdy so...I guess #but it can know toxic spikes as an egg move #did I look up all that for this? yes #did literally anyone on earth ask? no #does anyone care? absolutely not #but I am not going to be out here misrepresenting pokemon science #Dragonite makes is back and just sits beside Gil's bed and sobs the whole time #because they're both big sensitive boys #Once Dragonite has calmed down at least a little he also falls asleep against Thena for comfort #Teddiursa is just a little bit miffed #this is HIS Mama excuse you dragon #but she lets Dragonite lay his head on her lap while Teddi is cradled in her arms #it works #That's the super cute family pic Gil wakes up to and then snaps #with his tablet #like a dad at graduation #he thinks it's a super cute picture while Thena is like please don't find this incredibly harrowing experience so funny

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thebleedingeffect · 2 months

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#okay I'm talking in the tags of this post cause shit is happening in my life and I gotta talk about it somewhere #one part of it is my step brother crashing and burning before my very eyes and there's nothing I can do to stop his own destructive actions #so it's just me watching this poor kid ruin his relationships and blame everything and everyone around him as he does so #despite the fact that he's undeniably been treated horribly at times- he's just turned that anger back onto others and himself #and I have no idea what to feel as I watch him get arrested. have drug problems. because I'm just waiting for the inevitable spiral #it doesn't help that my mom has been comparing us and saying that I'm the much better child and she wishes he was like me #not understanding that I could’ve been him if I was just more angry at the world at that age instead of being so sad and scared #and that leads me to my fucking mom cause like- I love her. we've been through alot of bad shit with her #I've almost done some really bad shit for her and I know that she loves me more than anything else #but it feels like its been getting more and more suffocating cause I'm not sure she's able to start seeing me as an adult #and start loosening her grip around me and let me breathe. to have my own experiences without her by my side #to be able to go places and imagine a future without her constantly by my side #she talks and it's like she doesn't even think to wonder that perhaps I want to form my own experiences #and experience the world on my own terms because I feel like I've spent my whole life having so little damn control #religious family. shit and neglectful father who turned into the exact opposite and nearly killed me. family who refuses to listen and talk #having to move and run immediately. put survival above all else. go to school. get out. and god I just wanna breathe #she loves me so much and I love her too. but I feel like I'll be sooner crushed if I stick here for long enough #I'm just mad that my life has been nothing but absolutely no love. sudden waves of intense love. absolutely nothing. sudden spike #and I feel like I'm just finally starting to form good. healthy relationships on my own terms and actually make friends #because I had no idea what I was doing when I was a kid cause I was so fucking lonely and hurting #now I just. gotta figure out how to tell my mom that I can't carry this expectation that I'll continue to stay forever by her side #it just feels like I'm her child first and a person second. and it sucks. it really sucks.#ough. spins and spins and spins and spins-

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petpluto · 2 years

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A tv moment that unfortunately lives rent free in my head is Faith’s “What are you gonna do, B? Kill me? You become me.” line in Enemies. Because, no, Buffy won’t.

Shows in general, and BtVS in particular in this arc, do this whole, “the hero can’t kill the villain - that’s just as bad as what the villain is doing!” And it’s just not. I understand Xander’s line episodes later in Graduation Day Pt 1, when he says, “I don’t want to lose you”, because killing someone, even someone who is hell bent on destroying the world and cannot be held by the normal judicial system, would definitively hurt and possibly change Buffy at a core level. Because killing people - hurting people - has been shown time and again to be something Buffy mourns deeply. But killing Faith in Enemies, killing her in Graduation Day, killing her in season 4’s This Year’s Girl, isn’t the same as Faith killing indiscriminately or for the purpose of ending the world. Faith tried to release Angelus. Faith is down with the Mayor’s plans. Faith is pissed off that after those things, Buffy had the *nerve* to fight back. It’s Buffy’s job to protect humanity from the things normal human systems can’t handle, and evil Slayers fall under that purview. The show makes the argument, through Faith and then a bit through Xander, that this is different, because Faith is different. Because killing Faith puts Buffy on a path to, what, killing more people? But that’s just not true. Faith didn’t continue killing because she accidentally killed Allen Finch and got a taste for it. She keeps killing because she - at this point - is a nihilistic character who doesn’t see or understand the good in the world. She has been failed time and time again, by her family, by the system, by The Watcher’s Council - and her rage and fear and self-loathing brings her down this path. But that’s not Buffy’s path. If Buffy kills Faith here, it hurts Buffy. It might even destroy a real and vulnerable part of her. But she won’t become Faith. She’ll still be a hero - just maybe one who won’t like herself as much. And, hey, we got that in season 6, so.

#buffy the vampire slayer #buffy summers #faith lehane #I’m of the opinion that more evil characters should have died #i love spike’s redemption arc - they should have killed him at the end of season 4 #I’m okay with Faith’s turn around #she should have died in season 3 #i understand the point of the show at the end of the day is forgiveness and compassion and redemption #but damn a lot of people died for it #and honestly #there’s something weird about how these characters are prioritized by the show over the innocents Buffy is trying to protect #it makes the characters seem… dumber? more naive? than they’re supposed to be #to just let spike run around #to hope Faith’s gonna turn it around #and it works out because narratively they make it work #but at moments it’s infuriating #i say this as someone who loves spike btw

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