Buffy Summers is Trans

mid 20s, she/her main is @doggirlbuffysummersmain

[doggirlbuffysummers]

I think I started having "trans fem buffy summers" as a headcanon while rewatching the high school seasons and realizing something:

The way that the show handles the conflict between Buffy's slayer duties and her desire to have a normal life is frequently portrayed using gendered language. It is not simply that she wants a normal life, it is that she wants to be a normal girl.

I don't have exact quotes and specific examples but Buffy definitely has a habit of being extremely appreciative of fairly basic and mundane parts of performing femininity because...

Her slayer duties frequently lead to authority figures (such as giles) gatekeeping her ability to have the female experience that she wants - the one I always point to here is "Never Kill a Boy on the First Date" in part because of a post by @/herinsectreflection pointing out her line to Owen "I almost feel like a girl" but also because the episode as a whole highlights this part of the buffy-giles dynamic.

Many people have discussed the "vampire Slayer as a queer category" so I will not go into that here, but I think it is crucial to my argument that this queer category, as stated, frequently conflicts with her ability to do gender in the way that she wants.

[werewolfclaws]

remember when this platform shipped a personified version of tumblr and 4chan together . i think we deserved to die like the dinosaurs for that one

[daisychase]

ANGEL THE SERIES // 1.20 "War Zone"

[doggydogchamp]

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[vampir4te]

actually im not done buffy is transgender for real. she's a girl, but she's something else too that the other girls at school aren't, and she knows that that identity automatically makes her an outsider from all the other girls at school. she likes who she is, but sometimes watching Cordelia, she can't help but long for the ease of being "normal". her friends love and support her, but they aren't like her, and she knows that means there are some parts of her life that they'll just never understand. she wants to be homecoming queen so badly, if only to prove to herself that she can be this other thing and also a regular high school girl at the same time. how she tries to hide her identity from her mother for as long as she can. how when she finally tells joyce, they get in a huge argument because joyce is so afraid of what this means for buffy's safety that she tries to stop her from being herself. the fact that buffy, arguing with her mother about her own identity, says "You think I chose to be like this? Do you have any idea how lonely it is? How dangerous?" The fact that a stranger tells her "But you're just a girl." and she says "That's what I keep saying."

[fictiongods]

The fact that the Buffy and Faith dreams are so relevant in s3 is the most sickening nauseating act ever. Like because Buffy is a show that is in conversation with itself all the time, the fuffy dreams are like the subtext woven in the show itself then presents to Buffy in her world. Like their sweet and gooey moments are confined to both of their minds, incapable of being allowed in the waking world, just how the subtext is woven into the show but never allowed to be on screen “canonically”. They can’t be real but they can be real there and that’s what’s important. It’s only theirs and theirs alone, and it’s all they’ve got. That is how you make a girl insane you see.

[halondrus]

Draw him alive and well. Ok now draw him playing sudoku

[halondrus]

Now draw him struggling at sudoku in a manner that is no longer endearing and is now embarassing

[writethatdown]

hey if you catch yourself obsessively thinking about someone in a way that is disrupting your peace & natural routine from day to day such as expecting that text back, missing them etc...then it's time to take a moment, deep breaths & converge all that energy into the self. do an activity that takes you out of your mind & into the body and environment around you. do a workout, cook a meal, light a candle & journal, take a shower, take a walk, talk to people, make use of your 5 senses. do anything that reminds you that there is much more to the self & life. remind yourself that you should be central. remind yourself that it doesn't mean the other person is not important if your brain is turning mean. pls choose this over and over again if you are struggling with this kind of anxiety. create a life & be obsessed with it.

[slayerwitchcarpenter]

Lie To Me.

[inadvertently-biblical]

Buffy the Vampire Slayer - 3x13

[vetchtibbles]

despite everything, it’s still you (derogatory)

[buffybookclub]

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[ace-trainer-alice]

A control group is a really cool thing to have but not a very hot thing to be in. And being high is both really cool and really hot. So you'd think that a high control group would be really cool but possibly not very hot, and yet.

[slaymaster-general]

Do we suspect that there may be some kind of connection between Ben and Glory?

You mean Ben's with Glory?

They're working together?

So you're saying... Ben, and Glory ... Have a... connection?

Is everyone here very stoned?

Voting ended onMar 27

[bark-barkley]

sometimes the only explanation for what just happened is sex like it wasnt sex but narratively they just fucked we all saw it

[tlirsgender]

Being critical of your interests is sooooo fun when you have the critic gene & then you sound kind of insane to the average tv watcher when you're like "this is my favorite show, It's Racist" & then you try to clarify what you mean & get that [Speech (legendary) - FAILURE] "the racism is really interesting though"

[tlirsgender]

[Speech (legendary) - SUCCESS] I find the sociopolitical context of pulpy old sci-fi born circa the civil rights movement really fascinating to analyze especially when it was progressive for its time but still reveals the writers' unexamined biases in the subtext

[sqbr]

Them: So you're saying its bad and I shouldn't watch it?

Me: I mean depends on your tolerance for this type of racism, but like I said it's my favourite show, it def has some great parts if you're up for it.

Them: Oh so it's not racist.

Me: It absolutely is.

Them: So you're saying racism is ok??

Me: No.

[mikkeneko]

[lesbvffy]

the btvs fandom's reaction to a male actor recounting his traumatic experience filming a scene where his character attempts rape: oh wow i'm so sorry :( it sucks that actors get treated like that :( it sucks that he was forced to do it :(

the btvs fandom's reaction to the female lead actor known for keeping things to herself saying that she didn't enjoy filming a season where she feels like things happened more for shock value than authenticity, where her character is depressed and, among other things, almost gets raped: oh my fucking god. why are you whining so much. it resonates with a lot of people, stop disregarding it. your takes are awful. shut up, you privileged bitch.

[lesbvffy]

and, ok, on a less serious note (at least tonally): "why does sarah michelle gellar dislike S6?" maybe because she acted in it