#bvts

[ginawankenobi]

The new show featuring the Terf property is not worth your time, nor does the creator of it deserve a single cent more. Might I recommend (literally anything else, but the following in particular):

Critical Role - campaign 2 is great, I started with that and it works and there are HUNDREDS of hours of media to consume if you’re ravenous. There are also plenty of shorter series and one shots and other content apart from the main campaigns.

The Legend of Vox Machina and The Mighty Nein animated series! It’s Critical Role campaigns 1 & 2 but animated and way shorter!

Dimension 20 - many shorter series if you don’t want to invest quite as much time but still want to have a good amount of content to sink your teeth into. They even have a series that’s basically the Terf property but NOT awful and terfy (Misfits & Magic)! And Escape from the Bloodkeep is one of the best things ever.

Watch Lord of the Rings if you haven’t (extended editions only, let’s be so real), or rewatch them if you have.

The Chronicles of Narnia movies, especially The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.

Season 1 (& maybe season 2) of The Witcher.

Avatar: the Last Airbender, obviously.

Adventure Time! Animation ain’t just for kids, folks.

The 10th Kingdom - it has everything: camp, romance, adventure, fairy tales…what more could you want?

Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel. Again, obviously.

Galavant! It’s actually criminal that this series was canceled waaay too soon.

Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance (and the 1982 film also, of course), another one canceled WAY too soon.

I would recommend the Willow series, if Disney+ hadn’t REMOVED IT 😑 but watch the 1988 film.

[socratesgirl]

my favourite part of season 4 was that before spike moved into his crypt everyone let him stay at their house. iconic they had so many important things to do and they let him just hang

[yarboyandy2]

Ivalu and Her Watcher! Llaya was a linguistics specialist for the council, knowing a diverse range of languages. She is paired with Ivalu because of her knowledge of Inuktitut. They live in the arctic circle for 2 and a half years during the time Ivalu is the slayer before her death in 1913.

[acorpsecalledcorva]

The endlessly funny thing about the Slayer as Queerness metaphor is that Buffy's experimentation in college becomes being the annoyingly flamboyant faggot in the aggressively masc gay mens club

[spoikey]

*in drusilla's accent*: spoike

[nunyabznsbabes]

I'm sure people have said this about twelve quintillion times before but the thing about Buffy and Faith's relationship that just KILLS me is how Faith sees Buffy. Like. I'm watching Season 3 right now and it's just so...

Okay, we as an audience know that Buffy is imperfect. She's brave and compassionate and selfless, yes, she's a deeply good person, but she's also a person! She's seventeen, and she's scared all the time, and she can be self-centered and cutting and messy. She just spent a summer taking care of herself, all alone in a dingy little apartment in a lonely, dirty city. We know this!! Buffy knows this about herself!! She fails and falls sometimes, and it's genuinely difficult for her to get up again. She's flawed. She makes mistakes.

But Faith. Faith comes to town running from the monsters that killed her Watcher, the monsters that Buffy is brave enough to face. Buffy understands Faith's paralysis - she's run from things, too! She's frozen up before, too! But all Faith can see is this hero, the original slayer, who has more experience and more courage. Buffy has friends and family, and Faith doesn't really know what she looks like alone - hardly even knows that she's been alone. Buffy is responsible and reliable, and Faith doesn't know that she really isn't, for a Slayer. Buffy is the good one, and Faith is the bad one, and that's all that Faith can see.

It just. It kills me every time. Because Buffy understands Faith! She reaches out to her and has hope for her and tries to help her, as much as she can at seventeen years old and faced with her shadow self. She worries about Faith because she's been Faith, or at least been on the brink of being Faith. "Slaying's a rough gig," and "Stuff gets pent up," and she GETS that.

But Faith just doesn't know that they're sharing the same struggles. To her, Buffy is this good golden girl, who has people that love her and always does the right thing and doesn't know what it's like to feel lonely or terrified or twisted. So she's so wrapped up in her own self-loathing and insecurity that she can't accept the extended hand, and she distances them more and more. ARGH. Anyway.

[cluelessrebel1988]

RIP Anthony Stewart Head

[thelightfluxtastic]

My partner and I are watching Buffy (he's seen it before, I have picked up bits by pop culture osmosis but it's my first proper viewing). I look forward to eventually having complex analysis thoughts and spewing out essays but right now I'm just rotating "Giles is hot" on loop.