#tara buffy

[aoife22]

I am currently watching btvs and i genuinely can’t get over :

1. The fact the Buffy’s supposed best friends thought she would be in hell, then when they resurrected her didn’t consider to dig her up. When she managed to DIG her way out of her own grave after being ripped from heaven they couldn’t even tell her apart from a LITERAL SEX ROBOT but when Spike sees her he immediately knows not just that she’s had to dig her way out of her grave but also knows it’s her and not the robot by simply LOOKING AT HER not a single word he just knew. That man loved her more than anything. So much so he knew the exact amount of days she was gone.

2. LESBIAN WITCHES PEOPLE I REPEAT LESBIAN WITCHES

[macaronirats]

the thing about tara's death in buffy is i understand why her death happened and i don't hate it just because i liked her and wanted her to live. jenny calendar's death sucked too but that's one of the greatest buffy attributes- bad things happen and are never resolved, bad things happen for no reason, bad things happen and characters don't recover from them. i DO, however, think that tara's death was done tastelessly. the first thing that i thought of when i saw her death was how differently joyce's death was handled just a season before. joyce died from a brain tumor, and her actual death happened in a split second. but the collective processing of her death was one of the most impactful moments in the series and arguably in television ever. even though joyce wasn't always a likable character, her death was given a weight that felt real and important. in contrast, tara was given none of that. her death felt abrupt, but the processing of the event was just as quick as the actual moment. i'm not saying that her death should have been dealt with in the exact same way as joyce's, but i feel that the show had the ability to give her loss a weight that it ended up not having. i also understand that they had to move along the sequence of events to build up to the season climax, but they didn't even need a whole episode to just add some extra acknowledgement and emotion around her death. i feel like in a lot of ways, tara was ornamental to willow's character, and this could have been an opportunity to flesh out her impact on the other characters and the general atmosphere of the show. instead, it cemented her ornamentality and made it about willow and the main scoobies. to clarify, i LOVE willow and tara's relationship, and i thought she was a great character with some really cool moments. i just wish the show paid more attention to her death instead of using it as a quick catalyst for willow's villain arc. i also think that the show could have avoided falling into "bury your gays" and instead moved towards a meaningful, tragic moment between two queer characters, if they had just handled tara's death in a more thoughtful way. jsut some thoughts!!

[pmlrosenberg]

tara maclay protector for life

[joe-spookyy]

nothing makes me more evil than seeing someone misinterpret daniel “oz” osbourne of buffy the vampire slayer fame. this is deeply unfortunate because it seems to be all everyone knows how to do. the amount of people i’ve seen dogging on him for things he did not even have control over is crazy. if you have issues with him read on. he’s the best character and i will die on that hill, so fight me on this one. i dare you. season 4 spoilers under the cut sorry to my friends. also him and tara could have been best friends but this isn’t really about her. just had to say it.

FIRST of all. he did not cheat on willow. veruca took advantage of him. i don’t even get how there’s grey area there - it’s clear that in both situations the wolf has control over oz, but not over veruca. so not only was HE not choosing to have sex with her or even aware that he was doing it, but SHE was aware and was taking advantage of him. this is not in ANY way his fault??? now yeah. he coulda been a little more defensive about himself when he was talking to willow and buffy but it’s oz. he’s already worried about hurting people when he’s a werewolf. if everyone’s telling him he’s bad and wrong for this he’s gonna believe it even if it isn’t true. and he didn’t have to scram and go full no contact after that. but again. he was SCARED! he didn’t wanna hurt willow any more than he already had. he made a snap decision based on what he felt he HAD to do. and if you’re one of the people who says just because he brought veruca into the cage that means he Wanted her to do that to him. i am going to get you. that’s victim blaming. he just wanted to make sure she didn’t KILL anyone. it makes sense that he would pick risking her taking advantage of him again over letting people die. did he handle it perfectly? no. that does not mean he wanted her to do all that. he loves willow and says that so many times explicitly. literally left to make sure he was good enough for her. he did not want veruca. jesus.

and SECOND. even worse is the people who are saying he comes across as homophobic for having a negative reaction to finding out about willow and tara. like. hello. did we watch the same scene. not once does he say anything negative about the fact that they’re both girls. he’s clearly just upset that willow didn’t tell him she was involved with anyone else, and with his whole new controlling the wolf thing, there’s gonna be a lot of pent up emotion and probably anger. so when he got extra upset when tara wouldn’t tell him anything more and eventually ended up wolfing out, it’s clear that it’s because he’s upset that he trusted willow but she didn’t give him all the information about where she was at and whether or not he had a chance with her again. which makes sense from her perspective of course, and tara’s reaction was valid too, but we can’t act like he suddenly hates gay people just cause he got mad that someone he cares about wasn’t totally honest with him. and he warns tara so he doesn’t end up hurting her by accident. and at the end of the episode all he wants to know is whether willow is happy. and she is. and so he’s happy for her and accepts it. i don’t even know how people are getting any other perception of the situation. god. sorry.

big idea is if you think oz is in the wrong for either of these i am going to hunt you down and beat you up evil style and maybe sit you down and have a talk about media literacy.

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[justangrymacaroni]

rating bury your gays

here’s my lil list of some of my “fav” bury your gays moments in popular media. the scoring reasoning depends on what i find particularly homophobic/what i find particularly hilarious. (these are my thots, my opinions, feel free to add ur own)

Lexa from The 100

aaaaaand we’re off to a terrible start! supposedly died because the actress had to leave the show. writers thought the Best way to handle this was to have her 

1. reconcile with gf 

2. have passionate, loving sex with gf 

3. then get shot #gayrights :)

they get a .5 cuz apparently they eventually bowed to fan criticism and had her come back as an AI or something idk i don’t watch this stupid show it looks like it smells bad 

Score: 3.5/10

Tara from Buffy the Vampire Slayer

commits the unforgivable lesbian crime of dating one of the main cast, appearing on the show for two seasons, and admitting she loves her girlfriend. too bad so sad u get shot!

Score: 2 sweaty joss whedon hands out of 15 sweaty nerdy male writer hands, mostly cuz i can’t. really tell these two actresses apart. and then one of them went on to do a show where neil patrick harris aggressively reaffirms that straight ppl find him hilarious.

Angel from Rent

sure sure sure the musical about shitty ppl in new york in the sort-of-80′s has to have aids, and it’s popular with suburban milquetoast theatre kids from arizona so it can’t POSSIBLY be bad, right?

anyways a straight girl and the gayest character in the show both get aids, but the straight girl lives because her rat-looking bf plays her a shitty song, and so she can tell the cast that angel wanted her to come back.

Score: that one girl from every college musical audition who unironically wears a beret

Sara from Arrow

ok this one is actually amazing cuz they did the whole bury your gays thing with a canon bi character, and then received a ton of criticism for it, decided to Bring Her Back, and then put her in a spin-off show as part of the main cast and fan-favorite where she *checks notes* gets in a relationships with another blonde lady who looks a lot like her, but anyone who knows white wlw irl shouldn’t be surprised.

Score: 20 mean gay baristas

Dorian Gray from Portrait of Dorian Gray

this lil guy is here cuz he’s a slut.

anyways oscar wilde wasn’t capable of writing anything other than gay metaphors, so homophobia is actually cool when gay ppl write about it. and this guy has rights because he fucks, and kills other gay ppl, which is like. not good? but my gay twink friends tell me this is just like grindr so what do i know.

Score: all the shitty jello shots given to me by shirtless gay men at my local gay bar

and last but certainly not least:

Castiel from Supernatural

show goes on for 15 years, gay baits its viewers for most of them, and then immediately kills the guy after he confesses his love to a man that looks like he hasn’t washed his ass in ten years. bonus points for both actors being their own special brand of trash.

managed to upstage the most historic presidential election to date, rumors of a russian dictator getting sick and stepping down, and just because his leaky walmart ass was so special, got to go to Super Mega Hell instead of regular ol’ hell like the rest of us El Gee Bee Tees. Love Wins!

Score: putin resigned!

[herequeerandcantdrinkbeer]

Noo!

I’m literally sobbing!

Oz and Tara!

That was so sad

Man I love them both. They’re both so perfect for willow.

Also, my suspicions were confirmed. Willow is gay...

[pmlrosenberg]

posting this here too bc twitter sucksssssss. anyway, here’s my best girl ever!