potentially tangential

ramblings related to my silly little obsessions♡ 📺📖🌈

[wheresurboytonighthelookslikeenj]

first half of count the rice is funny because everyone’s threatening violence to sam or living their best lives in losers island while ify and catherine look like this

[hellomybuffy]

im not a superbig fan of the big season bad guys just being three nerdy men. feels kinda uncreative and non-threatening (yes they’re smart and all that but they quote star wars all the time and kick zero ass) especially considering s5 having this big dawn glory/ben plotline

imo major downgrade from the rest of the shows bad guys, but it seems like they’re focusing on a lot more than just defeating a big evil this season so i can get behind it.

not saying i dislike this season as a whole btw, just kinda bummed the villains aren’t as interesting as they’ve been before

[hellomybuffy]

nevermind me actually

willow was quite threatening

[skullpter]

The other layer here is also that the trio are a metaphor for misogyny.

overtly violent misogyny, and the misogyny of silence in the service of fitting in. Even clumsy and ridiculous misogyny still causes harm to women.

Theres a lot of gaslighting related stories in this season with the trio, as well as trying to have power and control over women. They suck cause theyre meant to. But i agree that they can feel like a lame season villain in terms of "monsters". Theyre also probably the truest to life evil that women have to deal with in the real world.

[prophecygirly]

“you think we’re dancing?“

“that‘s all we‘ve ever done“

they were absolutely crazy for that!! driving me insane

[skullpter]

Made even better by the fact that the first time he saw Buffy she was dancing at the bronze.

[the-random-factor]

I can't prove it but someone taught murph about aura farming

[sugaldean]

"someone"

[dimension20memes]

She is everything to me.

Textpost credit @northcountrymaid

[from-and-for-nerds]

The fig/ylfa/bat child arc of having to come to terms with the fact that you are not who you used to be hurts me in ways i cant describe

[skullpter]

Emily's devotion to character is a gift to this world.

Often a sword right to my heart. But a gift nonetheless.

[not-a-smartass-just-a-nerd]

"'just' a young woman with dreams of sharing her love for animals with the world is not 'just' anything...nobody just disappears"

- Nancy Danderhoof

[mina-soup]

honestly, rewatching s3, this was a really controversial choice from the costuming team and i don't really feel like it's Buffy's style at all? but i guess it makes sense for the character

[not-a-smartass-just-a-nerd]

don't mind me, just thinking about how Nancy Danderhoof must have felt the first time she saw Bat Child's face and saw not a Nosferatu vampire but a ghost, the ghost of a girl she mourned, the ghost of a girl whose death she honored in the one way she knew how to, by writing, by digging, by never giving up on finding the truth because "nobody just disappears-"

[paper-wounds]

[not-a-smartass-just-a-nerd]

I wonder if all the "dead poets society" "sad poetry" ppl reblogging this know it's from a d20 campaign.

do they know about ylfa? do they know what she became? do they know that the wolf did not eat her, but that she ate the wolf? do they know that she walked her grandmother's past to a wooden door? do they know she gave up her name so that people might someday be able to write their own stories?

[prophecygirly]

xander: “they assigned you to law enforcement.“

buffy: “as in police?“

xander: “as in donuts, polyester and brutality.“

i‘m very anti-xander but he is hilarious sometimes unfortunately

[supernaturallybitchyandbadass]

One thing I love about spuffy is spikes ability to be able to be the dark thing in her life when she needed it like looking back at the show I never really thought about it how the relationship was quote unquote dark or how buffy was in a dark place but it seems to me it's like what she needed and Spike was the only person who was willing to give her what she actually needed or what she wanted because Buffy's friends canon ignored her trauma and season 6 and her being brought back from the dead and stuff, what really showed me this is season 6 episode 13 dead things he gave her what she needed at the time is was way to vent out her frustration and her anger in a way that wasn't harming herself

I personally feel like Spike and Buffy's relationship could have been more sweet and domestic and ignore the hardest parts of both of there life's but the beautiful thing about spuffy is that it was everything there relationship wasn't just like a picture perfect relationship with wrong ideas like all her previous ones

[skullpter]

Im a real dream nerd and i adore the symbolism you could read into Smashed.

When Buffy and Spike are fighting and break into that house. In dreams the house often represents the self.

Is the house run down? Oh yeah.

Is the house empty, on the verge of collapse? Yep.

Buffy is the same. She's come back from the dead and feels like a shell of a her former self. She's one push away from collapse.

This intimate exchange with Spike literally demolishing the house really is a wonderful metaphor for tearing down the identity of her past.

"Buffy the Vampire Slayer" wouldn't do this. But Buffy Summers might. For the rest of the series we see her rebuilding her identity, her place within community, her incorporating the darkness into her life without it consuming her and no longer needing to be the only strong one.

Spike as a catalyst is an incredible character.

[the-parasaurolophus]

im glad the team that does the subtitles are having a good time

[thee-rat-king]

If your vampire show doesn’t have,

Black capitalists,

French sluts,

The worlds best investigative reporter,

and “Perverts” who are never beating the allegations,

Why would I watch it?

[spinchingout]

i suppose a 7ft tall nosferatu slowly dragging a fully erect gumberoo by it’s neck down the street to a dispensary COULD be like something out of the great gatsby. If u squint

[okmurph]

HOT

[july-19th-club]

rewatching buffy & enjoying the fact that the first guy buffy dates in the show is in fact not angel but owen, and especially enjoying how owen is the 90s version of the guy spike was when he was william. poetry obsessed loner with a bit of a daredevil morbid streak and a huge dumb heart . and buffy said yes please :) and then just go right ahead and fill 'er up again bartender