my take on angel gender is that he doesn't necessarily enjoy masculinity but i do think he needs it precisely because he doesn't. like he needs to access it and its expectations in order to perform the masculine protector role because that's all part of his penance. yknow. and i don't mean he's experiencing dysphoria as self-flagellation but rather that his gender is just jesus (gn), and to NOT suffer would actually be what causes him dysphoria
there’s something so romantic about two loser vampires with souls angrily rekindling their relationship over in a bar brawl set to “take me in your arms” by dean martin, punching each other in the face while the lyrics ‘without you there’s no tomorrow // why should true love have to part’ plays, and riding off into the theoretical sunrise on a vespa chasing after a demon
you just know robin wood is never talking to any of the scooby people again after sunnydale lmao. well it's been real. thanks for availing of my mom's stuff while spitting on her memory. bye 👋
say what u will about angel but the writers were SO funny for deciding to make the main character a socially anxious & awkward vampire with a soul who lives in sunny ass los angeles and drives a convertible. he spends his eternal life fighting crime and sitting in the dark brooding. he tries to be cool n suave but the second anyone goes off script he starts stuttering. he’s human for (1) day and his first thought is to eat everything in the fridge — a mix of chocolate pop tarts yogurt coffee — after which he got a very bad tummy ache (his first one in 300 years) but he was very strong about it. all together a very relatable guy
as an angel enjoyer- i do think there is something a little bit uniquely fucked up about him that angelus just brings to the surface. but i also don't think it's THAT fucked up. i think he's just an art student that's extremely kinky and extremely fascinated by other people's suffering. like for all the funny jokes about his brooding, i don't think angel's that invested in his OWN feelings; i think what angel and angelus have in common is this investment in how OTHER people feel, whether it's too cause them pain or alleviate it.
on the other hand i think spike has always been, like, a poet and not a portrait artist. he's more interested in expressing his own feelings rather than capturing someone else's. hence the spike/angel dialogue on ats about how spike was just looking for fun versus angel actively looking to torture people.
idk if any of this makes sense. i'm trying to say that i think the best qualities of angel come from a similar place as the worst of angelus.
please stop giving the child raised as a brainwashed killing machine authentic Youth traits. i can't take this.
please. that's my son. that's my feral son splitting his lunchables oreo in half and eating the cream part first. after he finishes his caprisun he's going to fill it back up with air and then step on it. that's my son please you can't do this to me
i'm gonna be so real here i can't come up with a snappy caption for these images i just wanted them next to each other. the dark age as an episode is such a win for bisexuality. we get the two great loves of giles's life in one episode and they never once interact but they both share this moment of existing on the outskirts of an intimacy they don't/can't/will never understand. yet at the same time absolutely they get it because both jenny and ethan are irrevocably changed by giles and their mutual desire to Get Him Back is what eventually destroys them both in one way or another.
and GOD the difference in the way giles grips ethan's hair vs. cups jenny's face!!!! does that not say it all??? jenny as quietly unnerved by a violence she has never experienced vs. ethan as quietly resentful about an unguarded intimacy he has never experienced. jenny knows he's never gonna touch her like that & ethan knows he's never gonna touch him like that. very different contexts.