she moves through moonbeams slowly

media enjoyer

[sanshofox]

Btvs galore ✨

(so relieved that after two years of no art I am able to still draw, thanks to my muses I had the right motivation to try (started a btvs rewatch and it just got to me). Like imagine my anxiety when I sat in front of my pc and tablet after so long)

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[automatonwithautonomy]

the thing is. a lot of the people in buffy's life love all-consumingly. willow, angel, spike, faith - they fall hard. but buffy, despite the fact she's perhaps naturally inclined that way, can't. she cannot let herself because she's the slayer. she has to save the world, kill the beast, win the day. she doesn't have the option to selfishly obssesively love someone. she stabs angel and stabs faith and lets spike burn. in the end the only person buffy ever unreservedly and utterly loves is dawn. she dies for it. and then? willow brings her back. for love of buffy.

[duckwnoeyes]

Will actually never stop thinking about Jenny Calendar being the last person 16 year old Buffy spoke to before she went to die at the hands of the Master. Jenny Calendar, ily, and there has been endless conversations about Jenny embodying the ideals opposing the council: that Buffy is a child and should be allowed to be a child. (Give us the cut scene in s2 of Jenny telling Giles to give Buffy a break I beg). But in prophecy girl, when faced with destiny, she couldn't even attempt to do anything, and ultimately she is the one that has to watch Buffy leave to face her death.

And it's just so arhgghh because in prophecy girl Jenny herself has an unwanted destiny that she wants to escape, and yet, she is still the adult that has to send off the sacrificial lamb. And it jsut adds to her attitude towards buffy in s2, that she's just constantly working for Buffy's forgiveness, that she lets Buffy take out her grief on her. She watched buffy go off to die to save their lives!!! And she couldn't do anything then!!! But maybe she can get angel's soul back!! like it's all so oughhh

Jenny ultimately couldn't escape her destiny. But she watched Buffy somehow defy hers, and maybe it gave Jenny hope that she could change her own fate. And then she can't. But the restoration spell (and it's effect on willow rosenberg) did, in the end, start the butterfly effect that would eventually end the slayer line altogether. and i think she might have enjoyed that at least.

[coraniaid]

... the new Buffy spin-off is going to be really, really bad, isn't it?

[coraniaid]

I mean, when the idea was first floated however many months ago, I thought it was probably going to be bad. But I felt it had the potential to be good, or at least worthwhile as an artistic exercise, if they brought in a group of talented writers who understood what was good and what was bad about the original show and avoided a few obvious missteps. And the three most obvious potential missteps I had in mind were:

Casting yet another white girl to be the primary Slayer the new show was about, as if the original show hadn't shown enough contempt for Kendra and Sineya and Nikki Wood and the murdered Slayer from Fool For Love played by Ming Qui (who never even got a canonical name and was only ever credited as 'Chinese Slayer'). [It's going to be set twenty-five years after the original show! It would have been so easy to just make the protagonist Nikki's granddaughter! Even the first generation of Star Trek spin-offs realized it would be a bad look to keep casting a white character to play the lead, and they managed to figure that out in 1993.]

Pandering to nostalgia by shoehorning in cameo after cameo from characters from the original show at the expense of any new characters or setting or storylines. [Honestly, even too much focus on Buffy herself would have been grating. We definitely don't need to know how Xander and Willow and Giles spent the 2010s, or construct ridiculous excuses to resurrect Tara or Anya or Cordelia. Their stories are over: maybe they didn't all end in the best or kindest way, but they're done. Let those characters rest!]

Undoing the final big spell from Chosen which meant that "from now on, every girl in the world who might be a Slayer will be a Slayer" in order to go back to the familiar status quo of the original show with a solitary 'Chosen One'. [The ending of Chosen is so, so good! It's the saving grace of the whole of Season 7! Why try to ruin it? And there are so many possible new stories to explore in this radically different setting that couldn't have been told before and are infinitely more interesting than 'what if we did I Robot ... You Jane again, but now with an awkward moral about The Dangers Of Social Media?'.]

Of those three potential stumbling blocks, what's happened so far?

Well, we've definitely failed the first one (something that even the otherwise pretty feeble Slayers audio drama managed to get right! and, again, something that Star Trek: Deep Space 9 managed to get right four years before Buffy made it to the small screen!).

Now SMG is giving interviews where she says things like "my dream is to bring back everyone who died" [everyone?? even Jesse??] which ... okay, it could be a polite deflection to avoid offending any of the old cast who might want to come back by pretending to think about it. Sure. I really hope it is. But it certainly appears that we're going to fail at the second hurdle too.

And frankly given all the marketing talking about the new protagonist as "the" Chosen One, as if she isn't going to be just one super-powered girl of many, as well as SMG's known antipathy for the later seasons of the show, I really have no confidence at all that we're not going to fail at the third hurdle as well. Is anybody, at this stage, really confident that we're not? Would you put money on it?

And, again, the above list wasn't meant to be a hopelessly optimistic "well, if the show does all this I'll love it forever without question" type wish list. I'm not asking for canon Fuffy or the return of Amy Madison or for the new writers to somehow make vampire soul lore make sense. These were literally minimal expectations if the show was going to be anything more than a cynical nostalgia bait cash-in steered by people who fundamentally didn't understand the lasting appeal of the original show on anything but the most superficial level.

And yet, well. Here we are.

[spikedru]

i still think it would be fun to do scooby dnd party. buffy paladin, willow wild magic sorcerer, giles wizard, xander bard, spike barbarian, tara druid, anya warlock

[girlrustcohle]

fuuuuck i just realized that the future idealized version of myself cant exist without current me being the catalyst for change and doing hard things. has anybody heard about this

[letmebegaytodd]

tragedy enjoyers when even good intentions lead to ruin

[comradesummers]

the reason buffy summers is a much better protagonist than a lot of the main characters in other teen supernatural shows is that those characters tend to be good people in a passive, boring way. they're generally nice and care about doing good, but they're rarely placed in situations where they have to make difficult decisions with no good outcomes, or pushed to extremes that force them to contend with the ugliest parts of themselves. btvs meanwhile is absolutely obsessed with the idea that passivity is inherently unethical. as such, in order for buffy to be a good person, she constantly has to make active choices. she never gets to be indecisive in the face of a moral dilemma. she always has to choose, to make tough calls, and that makes her genuine heroism and goodness far more compelling than a character who's just kind of passively nice.

[frenchublog]

[birdmans]

props from succession (2018–2023)

[thatonewiththemessycurls]

watching Buffy the vampire slayer is a pipeline to looking to buy a leather jacket

[imissthembutitwasntadisaster]

opposite of a parasocial relationship (I would Rather Die than be perceived by an entertainer I liked)

[frannyglasses]

new ask polly changing my life per usual

[brucespringsteencomments]

[spikedaily]

Buffy the Vampire Slayer season 5 | season 10

[pinesorneedles]

buffy is literally the show ever it has schlocky horror and funny looking puppets and the main character is failing out of school and the use of metaphor is so strong in a way that's genuinely nuanced and complex and you can think about different elements of major story points or individual episodes and pick them apart forever and our main girl fucks a house down and there's also an episode where beer turns people into cavemen

[ozcarr]

Every time I remember this specific box set design exists I laugh so hard I cry