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BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER 1.11 “Out of Mind, Out of Sight”

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No one move I’m thinking abt Melissa Hastings again. Imagine writing a character that’s often framed as suspicious but in such a compelling way that you just want to know what. is. going. on. And then 5 seasons in having the reveal actually be coherent and interesting and fully fleshing out the character. AND THEN NEVER DWELLING ON THE IMPLICATIONS. JUST COMPLETELY FORGETTING ABT IT.

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Nothing hits like a throw away line that bores into your brain with the implications.

It's been over a decade and I still think about the one line from an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer where Kennedy says to Willow that she likes how she turns off Moulan Rouge just before the last bit so that it has a happy ending.

A woman who's girlfriend died in her arms turns off the movie where notoriously a woman dies in her lovers arms right before the die in your lovers arms bit. I'm never not thinking about that.

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we’re slayers, girlfriend. the chosen two.

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willow-coded. To me.

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everything in this life is temporary. except that fandom hyperfixation from when you were 14. that thang will be with you forever there's no escaping.

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Thinking about how Buffy’s relationships are muddled with metaphors of abuse. The way season three handles Angels return. Her going to the student counselor, and crying for help because he returned. Like an abusive ex who continues to show up, but still going back to the relationship. How the entirety of her relationship with Spike is based on his constant harassment of her. Until she gives in during the worst time in her life just to feel something. How her depression is exploited both times, once when she was a teenager, and once when she was ripped out of heaven.

Both of these relationships aren’t black and white. The elements of her being more than just a girl can be taken into account, her slayer powers and everything she’s been through with the supernatural, but I think that makes it even more devastating. As a fandom the underlining issue isn’t talked about enough. She was never able to be in a healthy relationship. It was destined. I love Buffy too much to care for either of her relationships. And there’s probably something to say about her relationship with Riley too but idgaf enough about him to write about it.

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Submitted by Anon

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Buffy The Vampire Slayer ↪ Season 6 Episode 7 | "Once More With Feeling"

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Pink goes good with Green, Goes well with Green. (insp) (insp)

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do you guys ever think about that time in season 3 when buffy had to talk to the school counselor and he was played by mr. moseby and at first she was all dismissive of it but then he actually got through to her so she went back to his office and admitted that she was scared and actually asked for help but it turned out that she was talking to mr. moseby's dead body and then for the rest of the show she never asked anybody for help ever again? because I think about it every day

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Forever thinking about that time in 2x06 Halloween Buffy gives Willow that entire speech about how Halloween is "come as you aren't night" and the entire point of Halloween is to dress up as someone that's "not you," encouraging Willow to dress up in a way that's the opposite of who she is and then Buffy proceeds to dress up as A Girl.

Like, okay Buffy, tell me more about how much of a girl you aren't. Tell me more about how you and an 18th century girl have Absolutely Nothing In Common and you're just So Different that dressing up as her = being Not Yourself. Tell me more about how you are basically the polar opposite of an 18th century girl.

(Non-binary Buffy rights!)

This is even better because it comes in the same episode as Xander getting mad at Buffy for stopping Larry from hitting him and Xander has to explain to her why she shouldn't have done that and Buffy says she "violated the guy code." So we get these scenes where it is made very apparent that Buffy is Not A Guy but also Not A Girl. She's neither.

Non-binary Buffy rights!!!!!!!!

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I have so many emotions about Buffy’s fatal flaw being loyalty. It gets her killed twice: she dies in Dawn’s place and she goes to fight the master because her best friend was crying. But it’s also what brings her back from the dead twice: her best friends follow her to places they shouldn’t be able to go (the master’s lair. beyond the grave). She is repeatedly punished for her loyalty by choosing to stand by her less than stellar friends and their often not so great actions. But she is also sustained by that loyalty in such a crucial way that it makes sense why she would choose to stay with the two idiots she trauma bonded with in high school even though they’re all ruining each others lives.

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It is very important to me that Joyce Summers is an avatar of the Dark. She refuses to see the truth when it is front of her. She literally chooses to ignore the monsters even though she knows they’re there!!!

What if I said BTVS/the magnus archives au with Giles as an avatar of the Eye and Buffy as an unwilling avatar of the Hunt??