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mm. really chill and normal thinking about what being a normal student must be like in sunnydale. something is wrong with your school, your town. too many kids go missing, buried in one of the too many graveyards, and then their bodies are gone too. left as a name in the pages of obituaries. no one talks about it. the principal covers it up, or the mayor does, or the us government. and we all know. we're all too scared to say anything. if we pretend it doesn't exist it won't get us. you say to your parents, casual, over dinner, hey, what if we moved? they look at you, you realise with dawning horror, in genuine confusion. now why would we ever want to do that? sunnydale's such a nice little town. you want to scream; I'M GOING TO DIE HERE. it dies in your throat. you swallow it down with your food.

inadvertently-biblical

RUPERT GILES & BUFFY SUMMERS

Buffy the Vampire Slayer - 5x05

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer 2.07 — "Lie to Me"

hersterical

Do you ever have a perfectly normal day when suddenly all you can think about is Buffy Summers in a room with everyone she loves most in the world begging them to give her a reason to live but none of them can until Spike, the only other person in the room who knows what it’s like to not be alive, tells her that sometimes you just have to keep living simply for the sake of staying alive?

Do you guys ever think about Buffy Ann Summers at the end of season 1 saying she doesn’t want to die and the end of season 6 realizing she wants to live?

You guys ever think about “the hardest thing in this world is living in it” and ‘if you stay alive long enough then a reason to live will come even if you don’t have one right now’? About how sometimes you just have to keep living because you have to and if you keep doing that for long enough then one day you’ll want to keep living? You ever think about how the most important thing in this world is to live in it?

fictiongods

Willow Rosenberg is one of those characters that sneak up on you like oughhhdhrh I thought about her ONE time and suddenly I’ve been deep diving her and Buffy’s relationship as a reference to Isis and Osiris. Suddenly I’ve been pondering the implications of her abuse in power and how she went from this meek nerd to being THE most powerful woman in the whole world. I’m remembering that she cried once when she broke a yellow crayon. She’s literally just the teachers pet and she just flayed a man alive.

mskittyfantasticox

i enjoy angel the series probably more than the next person but my biggest critique of it is the sheer amount of pregnancy storylines. iirc btvs had a grand total of zero pregnancy storylines hell pregnancy was barely even mentioned and then on angel cordelia gets demonically impregnated not once not twice but THREE TIMES over the course of the show. And then her s4 plotline is basically copy pasted to fred in s5 like oh no im housing this evil woman in my body whos possessing me and by extension killing me literally WORD FOR WORD!! and then of course the whole pregnant darla arc which was already strange but then also resorted in connor who i have nothing nice to say about. like was there a reason for this?? 😭😭

morganaspendragonss

will you guys cancel me if i say that queer tragedy has a place in the creative arts and shouldn’t immediately be dismissed as bury your gays

rubynye

adding @glorious-spoon 's astute tags:

#bury your gays and women in refrigerators and the black guy dies first are all about treating marginalized people like props#to further the story of the (white straight male) protagonist#that's not the same thing as a tragedy! some stories are tragedies! whose story has weight and meaning - that's the question

ivanaskye

if buffy was written by the poi writers jesse would have haunted the fuck out of that narrative. there wouldn't even need to be flashbacks with him (requiring actor availability). you just would have been reminded basically every single second that willow and xander used to have a third friend, who wasn't buffy.

which ofc would have added to buffy's push and pull of friendship/alienation. she doesn't really belong. she's just slipping into the role of a ghost.

there's so much messed up about how xander is portrayed and how he warps the narrative (you could write entire books on this) but just leaning into BECAUSE JESSE would have fixed so much of this. why is he so completely obsessed with the idea that vampires, all vampires, regardless of soul status must ontologically die? because it means jesse was already dead when he accidentally killed him. (remember that, he literally accidentally killed him. ofc you don't remember that bc the show never reminds you because it completely forgets about jesse.) it wasn't his fault. it wasn't his fault. every single thing about the way he approaches the world has to warp around making sure that single moment wasn't his fault.

meanwhile willow responds the opposite way with trying to seek extra agency, hyper-agency even.

hell. these opposite reactions from willow and xander could even lead to a sense that they're drifting away from each other, which could even explain the stupid s3 suddenly they're kissing each other plot !! 'oh no we're drifting away and you're the only thing left of my old life and i have to keep you. kiss you? wait no. wait yes? wait fuck? im so confused.' not the weirdest thing that's ever happened to a 17 year old.

and then ofc the series could just pick up more and more hauntings from there. jenny callendar. kendra. god, even professor walsh barely even haunted the narrative after being killed. what were they even doing. you'd think a show about killing the undead might, perhaps, benefit, from some thematic use of guys haunting the narrative. but no. canonically basically only tara gets to. come on. come with me to this world where i could fix buffy.

femmedefandom

it’s legitimately distressing to think how many times Buffy has her bodily autonomy violated over the course of the show through magical means. with strangers and enemies it’s not pleasant: amy’s mother with that personality swap, that little boy in nightmares, the master's thrall, ethan and the halloween costumes, her soul-stealing roommate, the tainted beer, johnathan with his superstar spell, the lusty ghosts in the frathouse, faith stealing her body, the monks creating dawn, the three dickheads, the letterman jacket of lust etc. but what’s worse is just how frequently it’s coming from her friends and loved ones.

basically every single person important to Buffy’s inner circle has been responsible for screwing around with her free will, body, and mind at least once. Xander with the bewitching spell and singing demon summoning, Giles with the cruciamentum preparation, Willow with the will be done and tabula rasa, Dawn through her vengeance demon wish, Angel through his memory adjustment of their human day, even Tara and Anya were involved in the resurrection spell! no wonder Buffy feels ill at ease in her own body, which houses a power and a calling she did not choose and is constantly being used for everyone else's desires.

asneakyfox

if hiphop weren't real its existence would sound like an exceptionally heavy-handed metaphor about racism from a really cringe didactic fantasy novel. yeah the racialized underclass in this society, the one that's constantly derided by the ethnic majority as stupid and anti-intellectual, they have a complex artistic tradition based around improvisational poetry which is sometimes enacted on a competitive basis for dispute resolution. you get judged based on the subtlety of your wordplay and the complexity of your internal rhyme schemes. the dominant group periodically gets mad about how this doesn't count as real art like their own objectively more simplistic music and poetry because sometimes it has swears in it

1617

[texts back three years later] haha not much what about you

mskittyfantasticox

telling someone your favourite show is buffy the vampire slayer and theyre like cool whats that about. youre not gonna believe this.

agentblizz

the reasons people provide for being anti-willow or anti-xander or any other member of the scoobies are usually completely valid character flaws but i feel like a lot of people forget that these character's arcs started when they were gigatraumatized 16 year olds dealing with supernatural horrors beyond comprehension and the violent gruesome deaths of friends and acquaintances on a weekly basis at least and i think that's deserving of some leeway

themoonofblueside

you watch s2 of buffy and start crying about how much of a father giles is to buffy. what do you mean "if you're looking for guilt, don't look at me. all you'll have from me is support and pride." what do you mean "lie to me." what do you mean "i need you to be giles". what do you mean no matter what happens the only time giles rejects jenny is when jenny betrays buffy. what do you mean they both regularly check up on each other. what do you mean giles says "you rest, i'll patrol." and buffy accepts it. father figure of all time

voidcenturyscholar-deactivated2

Post canon Toph who doesn’t want to go back to her shitty parents so she just decides to stay in the Fire Nation and bum off Zuko’s hospitality.

Zuko’s like no, yeah, I totally get it, and just makes her one of his advisors. At first it’s just so she has a good excuse to stay but after the first meeting Toph storms out shouting about how EVERYONE was lying why would you even need to lie about what kind of tea you want??

Zuko: I mean they’re politicians…..but also who, and when, and in what way

They make a subtle Morse code system so Toph can warn him when someone is lying to him without tipping anyone off that she can sense lies.

Zuko gets a reputation for somehow being both extremely socially inept and yet somehow disgustingly perceptive?? You can’t get ANYTHING by him???

romancedawning-deactivated20210

#my lord what EXACTLY is ms Beifongs role in these meetings #a nervous nobleman asks after the third time she interrupts them with stupid commentary #zuko with perfect deadpan: she’s my scribe

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