Where do we go from here?

[once-more-with-tabula-rasa]

Hi! I finally succumbed to the allure of Tumblr and am happily here - but friendless :) A little about me: 30s (don't worry, I'm quite immature for my age), 4w5 enneagram, INFJ, Ravenclaw, huge fan of a soft and mostly canon divergent spuffy, one of the few who's in love with the limitless potential of giles x anya, in awe of Tara Maclay. But we don't have to have any of this in common for me to follow you, so please just like this post if you still occasionally watch or reblog about BtVS!

[memeclassheroes]

[charlesoberonn]

Yes I am, those fuckers were literally bird-brained.

[chippyyyz]

[hueypshootin]

Lol I think about this daily …some shit could hit any second.

[schmaniel]

[oldernfaraway]

[cloudydale]

Tabula Rasa. Tabula Rasa. Tabula Rasa.

[dawniesummers-archive-blog]

Spike + Head Tilts requested by ezriela

[travisfimel]

female awesome meme: [4/5] warrior characters  → Buffy Summers “Strong is fighting! It’s hard, and it’s painful, and it’s every day. It’s what we have to do. And we can do it together. But if you’re too much of a coward for that, then burn. If I can’t convince you that you belong in this world, then I don’t know what can. But do not expect me to watch. ”

[kyrumption]

buffyverse meme // (13/15) characters - rupert giles

[kyrumption]

a few of my favourite things ☆ (2/50) female characters: anya jenkins

for a thousand years i wielded the powers of the wish. i brought ruin to the heads of unfaithful men. i brought forth destruction and chaos for the pleasure of the lower beings. i was feared and worshipped across the mortal globe. and now i’m stuck at sunnydale high. mortal. child. and i’m flunking math.

[once-more-with-tabula-rasa]

Not telling anyone how to consume or perceive media (obviously!), but for me I've found it's so crucial to take the show's tone and genre(s) into account - not to mention the prevailing norms during the era it was written. So like when people excoriate '90s sitcom characters for being (gasp) 'problematic', it's not that those fans are technically WRONG, but they're failing to take into account that sitcom characters' flaws and missteps are deliberately exaggerated for comedic effect and that some of what a majority of fandom now views as intolerable was far more generally accepted a couple of decades ago.

Similarly, I think it's futile to apply contemporary ethics and human rules of decorum to supernatural creatures who have been around for centuries. So as someone who loves a few human/vampire ships and is one of like six living Giles/Anya shippers (don't mock me - I'm fragile!), someone once asked if I'm bothered by the age gap and...no, because Anya is a vengeance demon, and BTVS is a mixture of fantasy and horror and comedy and soapy drama rather than a documentary, so for me 'age gap discourse' just doesn't apply as it would between two real human beings. I also just think sometimes we need to focus more on what evokes emotion and stimulates thought and imagination rather than compiling lists of what technically constitutes as problematic by today's rigid yet constantly shifting standards, but I'll stop here before all six mutuals (I LOVE YOU ALL SO MUCH!) unfollow me :)

[kyrumption]

a few of my favourite things ☆ (24/30) male characters: rupert giles

what am i? i’m an unemployed librarian with a tendency to get knocked on the head.

[lumadreamland]

female awesome meme [1/15] warrior characters: buffy summers (buffy the vampire slayer)

[michonne]

Buffy Meme - (2/4) Relationships → Giles & Anya “If it wasn’t for me, Giles would be a terrified old man staring at a quarterly tax statement and wetting himself.”

[kyrumption]

female awesome meme // (2/10) characters who deserve better - anya jenkins

“what if i’m really nobody?”

[once-more-with-tabula-rasa]

@missielynne

[dushku]

giles removing his glasses (season 3) : requested by anonymous

[denofmalcontent]

You can’t tell me I’m the only one who saw a little spark of something between Anya & Giles. 

[spuffygifs]

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER | S5E22: The Gift

[bufflehanearchive]

tabula rasa + faceless