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Cycling through the same 5 fixations like a roulette wheel | Duck | she/her | I might be a btvs blog now??? The main I never use: @rainytrashsharkcreator

[duckwnoeyes]

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Hello!! This is my sideblog for @rainytrashsharkcreator but I don't actually use my main so I've got pretty much everything going on here.

I talk a lot abt BTVS. I like pretty much every character, at least a little bit, so pls come talk anytime!!

[topsee-turvee]

The Americans + this post

[missjessefantastico]

i think the best way to describe my feelings about xander and willow is that they are soulmates, except not in the "predestined romantic love" way but in the "they used to be the same spec of cosmic dust so if they don't meet and get codependent in every lifetime they are nothing but walking corpses, and if they meet but one of them dies so does the other" way

bonded cats, do not separate

[rebornautumn]

[mistyintherivers]

something something "the average country has 10000 prime ministers per election cycle" is a misconception. united kingdoms georg, which has had 10000 prime ministers since 2019, is an outlier and should have never been counted

[themonstrousother]

Really funny thing to say to the child soldier

[itsalwaysdark]

you have to be careful reading too many things that are good/smart/well-written bc then you encounter something that isnt and you get confused like ? why didnt they just make this good ? were they stupid

[andremichaux]

6.07 // 6.10

The Americans (2013 - 2018)

[duckwnoeyes]

Giles kicking Buffy out the house and just generally being a nuisance in 2003 was actually just the British patriot in him trying to make up for whatever Tony Blair was doing. He wakes up one day and decides to refuse to assist any American, ever.

[moroseghost]

I love that Willow hardly sings in Once More With Feeling. Literally the only line she has is “I think this line is mostly filler”. Because everyone is singing what they’re keeping bottled up, what they feel guilty for, what they’re anxious about. And Willow is so full of hubris she has nothing she needs to get off of her chest. She’s not worried or guilty about anything, she knows she’ll fix any issues that come up. She literally defeated death itself. Buffy acting kind of off, Tara arguing with her, Giles reprimanding her, she doesn’t have to worry about any of that. Cause she can fix it. She can fix everything with magic.

[topsee-turvee]

3.13 || 5.11 || 6.10

Requested by Anonymous

[yarboyandy2]

Mutual Surprise

Sequel to this!

[ranaroy]

them sometimes but still relationship goals❤️

[zukosfate]

Katara and Cookie Aang

[schrijverr]

I'm never going to stop thinking about the season 1 Lian Yu flashbacks Oliver-Odysseus parallels, like I'm so sad they never leaned further into that, especially with how him and Felicity ended. It could have been a modern retelling type thing when you think about it and I am very much thinking about it.

[curlymcclain]

the crazy thing about doctor who is that it really is the best show ever for 30 seconds at a time. you never know when those 30 seconds will be. sometimes they happen multiple times in a single episode and sometimes you wait years and years and years. and the best part is those 30 seconds are surrounded by the worst show ever, which is also doctor who

[girl-of-ink]

Thinking this morning about the cultural legacy of buffyspeak and the whedonism/whedonesque quips as they have come to be culturally dominant in big budget films like marvel (even before whedon himself was actually working on marvel) and I think part of the issue is that so many people (read: men) in Hollywood see the appeal of whedonesque dialogue as ‘smart guy fast quips’ while ignoring the actually interesting and subversive aspect of buffyspeak, which is that it was rooted in a maligned & devalued dialect & subculture associated with vapid and shallow teenage girls. Whedon is absolutely not the first guy to write fast-paced witty dialogue, but he IS revolutionary for merging fast-paced quips with y2k valley girl slang in a way that created such a lively and unique artistic idiolect that really feels like an organically-derived dialect that arises amongst a group of friends. It’s not the pace that made buffyspeak iconic, it’s the vernacular! + the way the vernacular interacted with the pace. So modern whedonesque dialogue falls SO flat and is so boring bc it all uses the same dialect and diction, rather than having a unique dynamic of tension by engaging with/creating its own idiolect. And that’s why it’s buffyspeak not whedonspeak. A single quip can be a whedonism, but just quips alone cannot create the realistic and engaging artistic idiolect of btvs