Buffy and Spike Season Eight custom figures! 

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“You’re weird. I live on a dirigible run by insects and you’re still particularly weird.”

(Season Eight #7)

uppitylittlehomo asked: Skinless!Warren or Furry-shirtless!Warren?

Fray Or BTVS S8?

[spoilers below]

“If I remember correctly, the editors and Joss wanted all the characters on the book because the Jo Chen cover was just to have Buffy. As I do, I’ll come up with several designs for the covers and this was one of the designs that they settled on. I thought to put everyone in black because I was kind of sad that this was the last issue, and the fact that Buffy had traveled back to Sunnydale made it obvious to put some sort of marker that they were back home, hence the road sign. I was unaware at the time of Giles’ fate, and the elimination/reappearance of Dawn was more of a publicity stunt. There was talk that Dawn was going to be the one to die, and advance viewings of the issue 40 cover wanted to hint at that. Ironically, I was unaware of the stunt or of Giles’ fate when I did the cover. I find it eerily fitting that he stands in the back from everyone, almost displaced. That was not intentional.”

(This is no longer a spoiler-warned zone, since it’s officially tomorrow in my time zone and the download link has been long up.)

So there’s this. Simple exchange, kind of snarky, but it makes me ridiculously happy. Mostly because:

“Are you parked on the roof again?”

“I’ve begged you not to call me that.”

In this future, while Buffy waits tables and copes with the weight of the world, Spike’s there- Spike’s often there, and moments like this often happen. I don’t need domestic Spuffy. I’d like some romance, but the feelings here are overt enough to satisfy me. What I want is this: a Spike who comes by all the time, with whom Buffy has long conversations on the windowsill and they bicker and tease and remain familiar with each other. I want the S7 emotions with the Intervention-through-OMWF relationship.

And the comics seem to indicate that that’s happened, and for that, I’m inordinately squeeful. :)

This one’s the last panel in S8, so if you consider that spoilery (it isn’t to plot or anything), don’t enlarge.

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And this one made me kind of teary eyed…thank you.

Season Eight ends today! We’ve laughed, we’ve cried; we’ve exulted, we’ve lambasted; we’ve sworn ‘em off and read them again the next month anyway…

And most importantly, I think, we’ve talked, and it’s all worth it for that, right?

I’m off to the NYC party now, where I will lurk (and possibly join, if I don’t feel too silly about it). Cookies to anybody who finds me! :D

“You know, I didn’t hear any real objection to that. But I don’t go trolling on websites for people that don’t like me. I’m very fragile, like an egg.”

Scroll through for a synopsis.

Nope, I’m still not back. But OMG realization! What’s the one position that isn’t matched in the second image?