BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER | 7.18

BtVS 3.12 ⟺ AtS 5.20

⤷ Requested by @oveliagirlhaditright

There are other people in the room? Don’t know them. - Buffy & Angel 

Our next fic for IWRY 2023 is by thenewbuzwuzz

Foreign Festivities

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Today, the moment in Dracula Daily everyone's been waiting for:

Me, when all you asked was what time it was, for the fifth time that day: no you don’t get it— they’re the chosen two. But the universe hates them and tries to pull them apart, but they kept falling back into each other. They hate each other so much they can’t breathe. They can’t stop thinking about each other. They have dreams in which they feel so close they don’t know whose mind is who. They just fade into each other cause they have no idea where the line is. They’re so soft and are so desperate for the other one to get them but they can never truly connect cause the narrative won’t let them speak to each other. They are so tragic and sad and sometimes disturbing. They are basically soulmates if you read it that way and they are THE tragic love story just like one of them was always trying to do—”

you showed me colors you know I can't see with anyone else

Cordelia gettin' real

from the dailies for smashed

that’s a practical growl. not done in post. not a stock noise. it’s a live growl, on set, from his human mouth. this is the take used. they drop out the sound and the music gets really beautiful with the spuffy love theme but still. we were robbed of the growl.

"Giles I'm sixteen years old I don't want to die"

This was only in the first season how many times will they break my poor girl? She's so YOUNG with such a heavy burden and she's all on her own

Spike is co president and co founder of the Xander is a Wanker club.

Sarah Michelle Gellar in the dailies of Dead Things

"Whether it is the old lady's fear, or the many ghostly traditions of this place, or the crucifix itself, I do not know, but I am not feeling nearly as easy in my mind as usual."

Circumstances are beginning to, as another vampire-adjacent icon would say, give Jonathan the wiggins.

Our next fic for IWRY 2023 is by angelus2hot

I may never get to Heaven (but I once came mighty close)

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“Smashed” dailies 3

Have the simultaneous Dracula Daily and BTVS brainrot so basically, I think it’s very interesting how Angel/Angelus is very much a classical “Dracula” sort of character. He’s dark, he’s mysterious. He lives in a castle/mansion. Angelus treats his victims SO MUCH like Dracula. He’s manipulative. He thrives on the pain of others. The way Dracula kills and turns Lucy is so incredibly similar to how Angelus kills and turns Drusilla. They both stalk and hunt them for months. Terrorize them. Make them question reality. Slowly make them sicker and sicker and are ultimately responsible for them witnessing their family die in front of them. And then they turn them. There’s also the way that Angelus keeps Darla and Dru in his orbit, much the way that Dracula seems to keep the brides. Angel is also often depicted as stuck in the past like Dracula is hinted to be, having difficulty conforming to modern ways of doing things.

And looking at this archetype, it’s interesting how in many ways, Spike is often the inversion of this. He’s not mysterious. He’s too bad of a liar to be a good manipulator. He doesn’t hunt his victims the way Angelus does and it’s a point of disagreement with them. If he’s going to kill just for the sake of the kill, he wants it to be a fight. He’s loud, he’s straightforward, he will walk up to people and announce his intentions. He uses computers. He likes TV. And I think in so many ways, that’s the point of Spike. He is the rebel. He rebels against the narrative and mythology of the show constantly. He rebels against his very nature as a vampire by going out during the day and becoming entangled with Slayers and going out on Halloween and killing the Anointed One and doing all these things vampires aren’t supposed to do. And he also rebels against the archetype of the ‘classic’ vampire or “Dracula” simply by being the opposite of it. He canonically hates Dracula himself.

And I guess that was the point all along because by killing the Anointed One he effectively killed what was left of the old narratives and archetypes.

“From now on we’re going to have a little less ritual and a little more fun.”