#Buffyposting

[housedyke]

The thing about Buffy is that it's been thoroughly established that she doesn't do casual sex. She rejects guys in high school who move too fast too soon, is devastated when she find out there isn't anything emotional between her and Parker, and makes no non-magical attempt to sleep with people she isn't in a relationship with

So option 1 is that she's decided Spike, of all people, will be the first time she has casual, no-feelings sex. Or, option 2, she knows they have some weird fucked up relationship but doesn't want to say it out loud

[justafriendofxanders]

[clandestinewhore]

[th3finalboy]

last night, i had the privilege of attending the screening / q&a of dinner in america with my boyfriend and @jamesheathridge !! i got to meet and talk to kyle gallner and emily skeggs !! and i got my art signed by them and was able to give some prints to kyle!! super crazy night , i am so thankful and so honored 🖤🖤

[fallingtowers]

btvs season 1 episode 10 "nightmares" is a story about abuse, and more specifically about a young boy who has been abused by an authority figure. in a very real sense, the titular nightmares stem from this act of abuse—they're of course doing some metaphorical work on the level of individual character (e.g. willow's opera dream represents her fear of being scrutinized and "found out"), but as they all come from billy, we can also understand them as a metaphor for the kind of unreasoning fear an abusive authority figure might inspire in a child under their care.

see buffy's behavior, for example. this episode identifies buffy with billy—she serves as a kind of proxy for him, running from the monster with him and ultimately helping him defeat it. it's the running that's interesting here. buffy describes the ugly man as "too strong" for her to fight, something we only rarely see her do, and usually in reference to enemies of a far greater caliber than this kind of villain‐of-the-week. in fact, buffy spends a big chunk of this episode in abject fear!

in the end, of course, she faces down the ugly man and saves the day. it takes her a good while, though, and by that time someone else has beaten her to the punch (🤡) and already faced his fears.

despite his connection with buffy in this episode, the fact that billy is a young boy who has been physically abused by someone who was supposed to look after him positions him as a much more direct parallel to xander, who at various points in the show is heavily implied to have been (and at this point in time presumably still is) a victim of abuse at his parents' hand. interesting, then, that it's specifically xander who turns around and decks his nightmare in the face!

it's played as a comedic beat, and there's not much in the way of on-screen justification for xander's sudden burst of courage, but given the context of the episode it feels significant that it's him. in fact, if the ugly man represents billy's baseball coach, then there's no reason why we can't understand the clown (textually an adult who terrorized xander when he was a child) as a stand-in for xander's parents.

what's more, towards the end of the episode, when billy is "unmasking" the ugly man, willow expresses confusion—but xander says, "i get it." out of all of them, he's the one who understands exactly what billy is going through. this similarity between them is further underscored by xander's line in the final scene, when buffy expresses disbelief at the coach's actions: "you obviously haven't played kiddy league. i'm surprised it wasn't one of the parents."

"i get it." and of course he would. he's been there himself.

[phantom-of-the-laboratory]

Bringing this back for pride month

[simplermess]

My two favourite vamps, Spike and Astarion!!

They deserve all the love, and i like to think they‘d chill together.. both brooding, both smoking, both somehow making an existential angst look like a casual hangout!!

[taylorsversion22]

This is my Roman Empire! They are my Roman Empire ❤️😭

[frndly-nbh-enbee]

so i’m probably late to the party because the movie was just released here, but i really loved “i saw the tv glow” and thought it would be fun to write down some of the buffy coded stuff in it. so there’s the obvious “female lead supernatural teen drama with a monster of the week format that deals with adolescence and destiny etc etc etc” stuff but here’s a list of some of the other similarities/references i spotted:

List of Buffy References/Similarities I Found in “I Saw the TV Glow”

♡the opening credits of “the pink opaque” uses the same font as buffy

♡doublelunch = a reference to “doublemeat palace”

♡amber benson cameo (duh!)

♡a character named “tara” (bonus points because maddie/tara is a lesbian)

♡”the pink opaque” is cancelled at season 5 and buffy was meant to end at the 5th season

♡buffy season 6 starts with buffy having to claw herself out of her own grave after being brought back from the afterlife and (presumably) season 6 of “the pink opaque” would begin with isabel & tara also doing the same - we know maddie/tara does this obviously, but it’s left ambitious whether owen/isabel will but it’s implied that season 6 can’t properly start til owen/isabel does…

♡having actual irl musicians perform at a club just reminded me of when irl bands performed at “the bronze” (and also like in “p3” in “charmed” and other shows of that era) …not so much a reference but i thought that was neat

♡so “snail mail” did a cover of “tonight, tonight” for the film and on the cover of the single she’s holding a buffy style scythe

♡the plot kinda reminded me of “normal again” where due to demonic stuff buffy starts to believe her sunnydale life was just fantasy/delusion and that she’s just a regular girl in a mental institution in la

[vorpalfae]

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

[thusfar-artt]

I'm glad I'm watching Buffy as an adult because I am unreasonably attracted to Giles

Beautiful man 😍😍😍

[housedyke]

If there's one thing Spike's gonna do, it's tilt his head to the side like a dog while he listens to Buffy talk

[justafriendofxanders]

the problem with any buffy reboot casting is that spike could truly only have been played by a baby-faced man in his 40s, and angel by an abercrombie model who then rapidly underwent a second puberty after the first season

[probablymoons]

[th3finalboy]

love this comment on an old kyle gallner video

[fallingtowers]

hey check this out *thinks about buffy the vampire slayer every day for the rest of my life*