Tvarchive’s Tv Appreciation Week 2024 Day Three: Favorite Couple/dynamic

society if supernatural was about kevin, claire, and jack (full 1 / 2 / 3) [ID in next reblog]

I’ve barely been drawing anything that isn’t for work in recent months but I still have nothing but Spike/Buffy brain so here’s some no-reference and no-erase quick sketches loosely based on early S6 🪦🫀

runs in the family

x girls night out x

Thinking about this River Song quote: “You don’t expect a sunset to admire you back.“ And how I can so very easily apply it to Destiel and it works both ways. 

For Cas: Dean is the sun. He is the reason the world spins and there is warmth in the galaxy. He is pure and bright. He is who Cas fights for and who he will always protect because without him there is no reason to live. And Cas thinks a man like Dean would not spare him the time because he is too busy keeping the world alive.  

For Dean: Cas is something untouchable. Something he can’t begin to comprehend or understand. He is an angel of the fucking lord. And how can something so beautiful and transcendent, something so far away that it seems impossible that it could exist, look at one human on the planet that an angel lights up. 

And how wrong they were to think the other was out of reach.

HARLEY QUINN (2014—2016) #2 + INJUSTICE 2 (2017)

The whole idea of “if you love something, set it free” as shown in Buffy is troubling to me. Buffy doesn’t want Angel to leave. She even doesn’t want Riley to leave for some inexplicable reason. She doesn’t want Spike to leave. (Or Giles. Or her mom.)

And yet the show keeps isolating her, the people she loves keep leaving her. And they say it’s for her own good (ie they are letting her free before they love her) but what they are really doing is abandoning her. They aren’t selflessly improving her life, they are causing her pain. Joyce and to a lesser extent Spike obviously did not willingly abandon Buffy, but the effect on her is the same. And while Spike’s sacrifice does free her of the shackles of the Hellmouth, you can’t convince me she wouldn’t rather be holding a blanket over his head on that bus rather than staring at the crater that becomes his tomb.

It is not better or more worthy or make Buffy stronger to be left alone. She is strong in spite of her suffering; not because of it. And I just can’t see any of this as good. Angel and Giles self-congratulate themselves as they walk away leaving her bleeding on the floor behind them.

I was inspired by some mood boards on Pinterest featuring abandoned places which made me imagine Dean and Castiel spending the night in a derelict house💙💚🌱🌿

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