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Kat, she/her Buffy, She-Ra, and assorted nonsense

[wiki-pettan-con]

they gotta invent shoplifting for online shopping

[meltedredweasels]

Buffy AU that I will never write

Canon divergence in 6x18 where Tara walks in on Spike and Anya drinking in the Magic Box and either

They get an apartment together

Or they take a trip to get Spike’s soul

Either way they become their own friend group separate from the rest of the scoobies

[pixxeidust]

women's beauty standards:

- hourglass body shape

- tiny waist

- long legs

- large eyes

- no body hair

conclusion:

conventionally attractive woman

[maefaeve]

SPoP Pixie Hollow AU!!!

(comms info)

[aromanticduck]

Free service with ads: Well, if I'm not paying for it they have to foot the bill somehow.

Paid service with no ads: Well, if they're not funding it with ad revenue, they need to charge us something.

Paid service with ads: Well that's bullshit.

"We used to be a paid service without ads, but now we're putting ads in it! If you want the ad-free version you have to pay more for preeeeemium": Fuck you fuck you fuck you

[deathdefyinggarlic]

the kittens thing in buffy remains the funniest thing ever. like they never explain it, it’s just like “yeah you owe me 40 siamese” and we’re all like yeah sure whatever

[lake-erie]

this year’s prom theme is… *opens envelope* Great Lakes Invasive Species And What Boaters Can Do To Stop Them

[football-in-tuxedos]

And the subject of tonight’s ecology panel is *turns on powerpoint* Enchantment Under the Sea

[spikedru]

sire

[secretmellowart]

[see below the cut for the binary code, if you'd like to translate it!] I love the bit in the end of Ep 9 where Zooble fixes Caine a drink and he acts surprised/touched that they're offering it to him, so I drew: this comic of extended bar adventures. I’m riffing off the headcanon that Caine would get back to being a little more Goofy/insecure when he's no longer in full apologetic mode. I like the episode 9 moment a lot because it feels like a cute ending coda for both of their character arcs: Zooble learning to be at peace with their body, and also to embrace the idea that they can find meaning through building community for a few people who need it even if they can't change the world; Caine learning to sincerely care about the humans and their ideas, even as he's still early on the path to internalizing that he is also a person. The ep 9 moment is also a cute ending to the running Thing throughout the show where Caine's been desperate to be accepted by the humans, and his belief that Zooble in particular resists him for not being "mature" enough. I Just Think Their Friendship is Cute. {Check below the cut for the binary code + some extended thoughts.]

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For some other bonus extended thoughts: I think Caine had two main things he needed to learn. The first was "you need to make an effort to understand/care about other people," and the second was "you are also a person, who exists outside of your programming and function." I think Ep 9 Caine has figured out how to empathize with others, but is still early on the path to recognizing his own personhood and his own capacity to love/be loved [see his scene with the moon, and her advice that "all good things take time."] He's still treating himself as a tool for the humans to use-- but will slowly learn to see himself as a person as he spends more time genuinely befriending kind & empathetic people. I like that Ep 9 Zooble is both more at peace playing with their digital body,  and also at peace with the idea that their life can be meaningful through the impact they have on a few lost & lonely people [even if they can never do anything that "changes the entire world."] Their IRL counterpart running an alternative clearly queer bar feels like a piece they were missing; they're someone who may not be changing the entire world, but is changing the world for the people who get to find the community they build. I also have a lot of thoughts on Caine & Zooble's dynamic throughout the show: Mainly that the circus has trapped Caine in a state of forced eternal infantilization, and he's resented Zooble because they've made him confront his own immaturity. I think that Zooble's bar in the real world really highlights how Zooble manages to do what Caine wishes he could--  build a place that people want to be a part of, serve people in a way that actually makes them happy, and become a sort of "pillar" in a community.

[corpseprize]

the reality of being a writer

[ohwaitimthewriter]

Especially the last one!

[secretmellowart]

The Amazing Transgenderism Circus [featuring Jaxxine's internalized transphobia & cringe-phobia.] A post-episode 8 "Caine gets a redemption arc & joins the humans as Just One of the Guys" AU that I'm sharing before episode 9 drops.

This comic is here to be Goofy, but I do think Caine's whole deal is meant to tie into the series' overarching trans themes [even if he's not canonically trans.] I think the show's trans themes are broader than a few characters; it's a show about people who are forcibly assigned bodies & names they don't want, forcibly assigned "archetypes" & roles that don't reflect their real selves, and struggle to express their despair around this because their bodies & roles are so ridiculous that their despair is easy to mock. It's safer to play along with your role, when exploring the alternatives can easily make you an object of ridicule. Caine fails to understand Zooble in episode 3 because he is constantly performing the role he was assigned at his creation, and doesn't allow himself to acknowledge his deep insecurity with it-- so he's confused that Zooble can't simply accept the thing they've been assigned. After all, he's accepted what he's been assigned. He refuses to recognize that Zooble is dissatisfied in a way no "adventure" can fix, because that would mean acknowledging the possibility that he could be dissatisfied in a way that no "adventure" can fix. So instead he throws himself into performing an inauthentic caricature of the role he believes is "all he exists" for & is not allowed to ever exist outside of, even as that performance just leaves him feeling "used" "broken" "defective" and overall extremely unhappy. The parallel to the series' Gender themes feels very clear to me. But anyway, I believe all these little guys can figure themselves out eventually.

[secretmellowart]

@castielrisingabove replied to the original post with an attack helicopter reference that sounded like it could be Jax dialogue, so I continued the story. The comic dialogue is basically a reverse of the episode 3 therapy session: also featuring Zooble's later character development and redeemed Caine being slightly better at listening to people. Anyway: silliness.

[ndotmov]

Catra redraw from 2023

[aphony-cree]

what if Giles gave in to his birthright and became a Watcher but didn't drop his Ripper attitude. He rolls into Sunnydale on a motorcycle. Kids go to the school library and find him smoking with his feet propped up on the help desk. Buffy keeps having to bail him out of jail for getting into fights with cops

[greatwyrmgold]

A lot of monster hunters think antique tools are better, and 99% of the time they're just trying to sell you their old junk. It doesn't actually matter. But sometimes, old things really are better.

The Cold War saw loads of nuclear tests that threw tons of cobalt-60 and the like into the air, which got into metalworking projects. That kind of test was banned in 1963, but the junk took decades to decay, so pretty much anything forged between the 50's and the 2010's or so is very slightly radioactive. There's still cobalt-60 in the air, but way less of it, so there's less background radiation these days. But that causes its own problems.

See, some kinds of ghosts love radiation for some reason, and nowadays Cold-War-era metal stands out like a radioactive thumb. Reworking it doesn't help, unless you completely melt it down in an industrial forge or something; the metal's tainted. And most smiths don't bother with that, because for most purposes, it doesn't matter.

But I've seen too many vampire hunters decked out with silver ornaments get trailed by ghosts, which either alert the vampires to their presence or just haunt the hunters themselves. And vampire hunters do not know how to deal with ghosts.

So if you want to stake a vampire, for whatever reason, you're usually safer wearing pre-WW2 silver jewelry than anything made in the last seventy-odd years. But silver buttons from 1939 are as good as a genuine Śātavāhana amulet.

[knightwithahundredkings]

Went to an Oedipus Rex adaption today and my friends were debating whether the Oedipus/Jocasta age gap was problematic. Like guys…I think their relationship has bigger issues

[homeiswhere-thephobicis]

[curiouslymyown]

Does anyone else remember how much Dawn adored Willow & Tara, both individually and as a couple, and when they broke up how hard it was on her and how Tara still made the effort to spend one-on-one time with Dawn, reminding her that the break-up had nothing to do with her and that no matter what Tara would still be there for her, esentially taking on the role of a recently divorced parent and those two having a scene that frames that dynamic specifically? Because I do and I think about it a lot

[secretmellowart]

A rough post-finale Pomni and Caine comic.

When you’re an urban explorer making videos of abandoned buildings that you expect no one will watch— but then it turns out one of the buildings is inhabited by the Creature and that building has actually been his desperate lifetime hyperfixation & acted as his stand-in for the Entire World. Also: the weird dynamic you have with the freak who liked your 3am flop post.

I started writing this comic before episode 9, with the premise that Pomni might start reaching out to Caine for similar reasons she’d post videos she believes nobody will watch: not because you think anyone will listen, but because someone might. [and then revised it all after episode 9 came out and delved more into these ideas than I was expecting!]