#IT'S COFFY MONTH COFFY YEAR COFFY SEASON!!

[sunnydaleherald]

The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Tuesday, January 10

Xander: Red alert! Where's Buffy? Giles: Uh, she, she just stepped out. Her, her father came by early. He, he needed to talk to her. W... where are your other clothes?

Xander: Oh, don't I wish I had the answer to *that* question. Willow: Xander kinda found himself in front of our class not wearing much of anything. Xander: Except my underwear. Willow: (laughs) Yeah! It was really... (looks at Xander) ...bad. It was a bad thing. Xander: 'Bad thing'? I was naked. 'Bad thing' doesn't cover it. Willow: Everyone staring? I would hate to have everyone paying attention to me like that. Xander: With nudity! It's a total nightmare. Willow: (realizes) Well, yeah Xander! I-it's your nightmare!

~~Buffy Episode #10: "Nightmares" ~~

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[Drabbles & Short Fiction]

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Shadow Over Hellmouth CH. 50 (Ensemble, M) by Tuxedo Mark

The Sun Ch. 24 (Willow, T) by heckate

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Bound, Chapter 37 (Buffy/Spike, E) by RavenLove12

The Odd Couple, Chapter 10 (Buffy/Spike, E) by honeygirl51885

Break Even, Chapter 10 (Buffy/Spike, E) by violettathepiratequeen

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[Fandom Discussions]

now i know joss is wack, but by badrecognition

is that the necklace she received from Angel, that Buffy’s looking at in the fourth panel? by oveliagirlhaditright

The fact that Bangel have had, like, a million different incarnations, though, and have loved each other in each one. by oveliagirlhaditright

i don’t think faith lehane is actually originally from boston by breha

I’ve been seeing a lot of IWRY discussion lately by someonefantastic

charles gunn’s character arc by womanaction

Sometimes it’s mad to me that Prophecy Girl is in Season 1 because most of Season 1 sucks ass. by girl4music

Since it’s Coffy week by oveliagirlhaditright

Just watched someone react to Hush by weirdo-and-proud

the out of my mind final scene by mollyspeak

Buffy - Better or Luckier? by Multiple Authors

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What are your thoughts on this convo? by Opening_Knowledge868

Which other Whedon series could possibly share the same universe with Buffy & Angel? by Seer77887

My god Something Blue is just a masterpiece isn't it? by Critical-Tank

Was Angelus Not Capable Of Defeating Buffy? by fuurn90

Could Buffy Kill Anya? by fuurn90

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Cordy and Wes on Ats by Lobothehobosexual

Buffyverse Music Database by Captainoats88

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GIles and Spike's opinions on the royal family by Longjumping_Hat_2672

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Who preceded Buffy? by Vonda705

Did Dawn know the secret already or was she made aware when Joyce found out by RaspberryBri

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PUBLICATION: Every Buffy the Vampire Slayer Episode, Ranked (Part One) by AidanWhatman

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[chasingfictions]

buffy and cordy are literally never not saving each other like the cycle is going on and on forever, in the first episode buffy attacks cordy thinking she's a monster, something she has to save others from. but no, it's just cordelia. cordelia a person and cordelia a shadow self to buffy, the person she was before who she wants to pretend she doesnt have a link to anymore, but she does. cordy asking "what is your childhood trauma" underscores this, bc like, cordy, you are. the person you are, the person buffy didn't get to be because at 15 she was plucked out of that life and into something else she didn't choose. you're buffy's childhood trauma, and she almost just stabbed you through the heart because she was so unaware of her environs.

and after that buffy is constantly saving cordelia. she saves cordy in the harvest, she saves cordy in witch, saves cordy in out of mind out of sight, saves cordy in when she was bad, saves cordy in some assembly required, saves cordy in reptile boy. not including all the times she saves cordy by proxy by virtue of saving all the scoobies / the town / the world.

which is to say!!!! that buffy feels she has irrevocably lost this part of herself!!! and her response is to keep on saving it!!! buffy saves her lost, repressed self as often as she can!!!!!

but then we hit halloween!!! buffy at the peak so far of her childhood slayer trauma (i mean that's the thing is buffy is still in her childhood here. the trauma she is currently accruing is part of her childhood trauma). and halloween is so deeply about the specific cordelia of it all. she picks the pink, feminine dress because it's what she thinks angel will like. and angel has been part of her triangulated desire with cordelia from the beginning, the two of them vying over him in part because of their sublimated desire for each other that needs a straight outlet. but also something angel says in this episode ("i hated the girls back then. simpering morons, the lot of them") calls back to coffy's other most prominent triangulated desire man, owen, of never kill a boy on the first date fame ("i just find most girls pretty frivolous. i mean, there's a lot more important things in life than dating, y'know?"). and that through-line alone is so coffy. like, in never kill a boy on the first date, the first priority for buffy and cordy both is dating. it's part of buffy's perceived humanity that she can't allow herself to fully think about. like, looking at this line in halloween, before their conversation is literally intercepted by cordelia:

"But who am I kidding? Dates are things normal girls have. Girls who have time to think about nail polish and facials. You know what I think about? Ambush tactics. Beheading. Not exactly the stuff dreams are made of."

or this line in becoming, another episode rife with buffy's-lost-life vibes, from the 1996 flashback to the literal coming out scene this line is a part of:

"It doesn't stop! Do you think I chose to be like this? Do you know how lonely it is? How dangerous? I would love to be upstairs watching TV or gossiping about boys or God, even studying. But I have to save the world. Again."

and that loops back again to the halloween costume! buffy's noblewoman's whole job is literally just to date!! ("I was brought up as a proper lady. I'm not meant to understand things. I'm just meant to look pretty and then someone nice will marry me. Possibly a baron.") and she does all of this while literally. Literally. wearing cordelia's hairstyle. the curly iteration of which we've most notably seen at this point in literally the other episode about buffy having lost her pre-slayer humanity and femininity ("What kind of moron would be May Queen anyway?" // "I was."):

but this all loops around back to coffy saving each other!!! namely that this is the first (but not the last) episode where cordelia saves buffy instead!! or is at least in the saving role in their relationship. buffy clings to cordelia fucking constantly in this episode, hides behind her, goes to her for comfort and safety, exhibits so much trust in her. and cordelia in turn checks on buffy, makes sure she's okay:

which is to say!!!! that buffy-as-cordelia, buffy-as-the-self-that-was-lost, buffy-as-an-exaggerated-version-of-that-self, finds safety and solace in the actual embodiment of that self!!! when buffy has regressed to who she imagines herself to be before, cordelia is still the person she wants to save her!!!!! which is all the more telling when we consider that xander says at the end of the episode that they were conscious in their costume selves the whole time. unable to influence their actions, as far as they were aware, but still that implies some degree of their selfhoods being involved. a return to instinct, if on a more sublimated level than in an episode like tabula rasa.

and this is even crazier btw!!!! when you realize that not only is buffy dressed as cordelia, but cordelia is dressed as buffy!!!!!!!!!. I'm not gonna go into a whole thing about why cats are slayercoded but just. look at those images and then read @knightofcup 's post about it

which means!!!! not only is 18thCentury!buffy clinging to cordelia because in fact she feels safe with the piece of herself she has derided and repressed and longed for, but also that that self has inherent slayerness in it!!! that cordelia, and by extension buffy as she was before, was always different, was always part of this. we learn in season 7 that potential slayers aren't just random people suddenly imbued with slayerness. but that they always have some of that mystical power running through them:

"You don't have slayer strength. But that doesn't mean that you're not strong. You have inherent abilities that others do not have" // "Not like you do." // "No, not yet, but it's there. You have the potential. You have strength, speed, instinct. You just have to learn to trust yourself."

we can see this in how buffy pre-slayage and cordelia in season one parallel each other. compare buffy on the steps of hemery high, almost desperately imploring her friends to: "call me, call me, call me!" as they walk away from her. to cordelia in 1x11: "i can be surrounded by people and feel completely alone. it's not like any of them really know me." it's about the isolation it's about the ache to be surrounded by people but none of them fill the void inside you!! because you're different! there is something different about you that neither them nor you can see!!!

so, the part of herself that cordelia represents, that buffy simultaneously repressed and aches for, distrusts and cherishes, idealizes and derides, rejects and protects, in part because she can never get it back, and in part because it was frivolous compared to what she is now. is in fact revealed to be neither of those things!! (while still, on some level, being both of those things). not lost irrevocably: because there was always the slayer in her, even then. not frivolous either: there is a depth to cordelia in season one, and so by extension there is a depth to buffy even before she becomes the person we meet in welcome to the hellmouth. and even then!!! even if all buffy or cordelia cared about was dating or facials, things both of them still deeply care about!!!! there is something about the narrative continually occasioning buffy's rescue of cordelia that brings a fondness to that as well. cordelia represents the humanity and youth of buffy's shadow. and inherent in that humanity and youth is caring about the body, about comfort, about status, about beauty, about romance!!!!

the cool thing about halloween here is it really does mark a turning point in how buffy and cordelia interact in terms of saving each other. because the next time we get an occasion for it, in gingerbread, we find cordelia attempting to return to the same paradigm as before, where buffy saves her ("I came over here to tell Buffy to stop this craziness") but buffy is incapacitated!! and it's cordelia who ends up saving her instead!! putting out the fire with the fire extinguisher and allowing buffy to defeat the monster and save everybody else!!

this in an episode that again codes both buffy and cordelia as ~different~. in that they are both mostly immune from the hive mind witch hunt effect of the hansel and gretel demon. rather both of them are victims of it, as othered parties!! buffy most directly, being literally tied to the stake to be burned to death by her mother, but cordelia is also a suspect of otherness ("and then my mom confiscates all my black clothes and scented candles!"). the cordelia we met in season one, we would likely assume would be on the torch-holding side of the equation.

but no, she has in fact been an Other from day one. the emblem of childhood trauma from day one. the place to hide from and safe, deride and yearn for!! endlessly alone, because so is buffy, before it all. and maybe that's the real reason for the tension with cordelia, when you get down to it. not that buffy was so free and perfect and ~normal~ and connected to the world before she was a slayer, and it was all taken away from her. but that even without that, she always would have had this. this thing that makes her different. that even if she had not had this kind of difference, this kind of childhood trauma, she still would have been an other. the cordelia tension is about the fact there was never any saving buffy from herself. but there is buffy reaffirming that her self is worth saving. not from difference -- association with buffy only makes cordelia more different, as gingerbread attests ("If you're going to hang with [the witches], expect badness, 'cause that's what you get for hanging with freaks and losers. Believe me, I know. That was a pointed comment about me hanging with you guys."). but from destruction, from death. that's always what buffy is saving cordelia from: from being hit by a truck, from being bled out, from being eaten by vampires from being killed and dismembered and sewn back together, from being sacrificed to a giant snake.

buffy keeps saving cordelia, and keeps affirming that this otherness in her, this fundamental place that will always feel like something lost, is in fact always deserving of more life . (this is about queerness btw just to say it out loud, both buffy and cordelia are queer).

this is especially true when we think about the instance we see where buffy doesn't. save cordelia. in the world where buffy doesn't come to sunnydale, where she doesnt encounter this shadow of herself, buffy and cordelia both die at the hands of vampires, no one there to save either one of them:

this in an episode that is again explicitly linking cordelia's otherness to her affinity for buffy -- that cordelia is a pariah because she dated xander, and she "never would have looked twice at xander if buffy hadn't made him marginally cooler by hanging with him" (cough cough gay cough). and an episode that is again about cordelia and buffy trying to save each other. buffy rushes out of the bronze to save cordelia emotionally (as cordelia tried to do to buffy a season prior, in the same alley. and fails for the same reason, that neither is ready in that moment for the emotional vulernability to let this shadow part of them in). cordelia tries to get buffy to sunnydale: (Whatever. Just - listen to me. We have to find Buffy. She'll figure out a way to save us. She was supposed to be here and - as much as it kills to say it - things were better when she was around."). But fails. Buffy gets there too late to save Cordelia, and by coming to town at that behest ends up meeting her own doom.

but then it all comes beautifully full circle in the last episode where they have the occasion to save each other. in helpless!!! the next episode to seriously deal with buffy's anxiety about who she was pre-slayerhood, as she is forcibly reverted to that state!!!:

"Before I was the Slayer, I was… Well, I don't wanna say shallow, but… Let's say a certain person, who will remain nameless, we'll just call her Spordelia, looked like a classical philosopher next to me. Angel, if I'm not the Slayer, what do I do? What do I have to offer?"

and then in this episode, we have another reversal akin to halloween!!!!

where buffy goes to save cordelia, the supposedly helpless (hehe) pre-slayer shadow self, the same self buffy derides verbally in this episode but still in her actions protects!!! but she can't!! and then her shadow self saves her instead!!!!!!!! and then!!!! saves her again!!! before the end of the episode!!!!!

which means!!!!!! that the last instance of either of them saving each other is buffy asking cordelia to save her!! to help her!!!!! that we start out from a place of buffy almost killing her shadow in an alley, to buffy compulsively saving that shadow again and again despite and because she resents, detests, longs for it, to both her and that shadow circling around each other, expecting buffy to be the one who does the saving, but increasingly it is the other way around, to buffy respecting and trusting that shadow enough to request her help and rely on her!!!!!! to ask to be saved by her!!!!!!!!!! ngghgngngghggnn!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[timeless-hollywood-classics]

Pamela Suzette Grier (born May 26, 1949) is an American actress. She achieved fame for her starring roles in a string of 1970s action and blaxploitation films for American International Pictures and New World Pictures, most notably Coffy (1973) and Foxy Brown (1974). Her other major films during this period included The Big Doll House (1971), Women in Cages (1971), The Big Bird Cage (1972), Black Mama, White Mama (1973), Scream Blacula Scream (1973), The Arena (1974), Sheba, Baby (1975), Bucktown (1975), and Friday Foster (1975).

Described by Quentin Tarantino as cinema's first female action star, she starred as the titular character in Tarantino's crime film Jackie Brown (1997), for which she received Golden Globe Award, Screen Actors Guild Award, Satellite Award, and Saturn Award nominations for Best Actress. Grier's subsequent films included Jawbreaker (1999), Bones (2001), Just Wright (2010), Larry Crowne (2011), and Poms (2019).

On television, Grier portrayed Eleanor Winthrop in the Showtime comedy-drama series Linc's (1998–2000), Kate "Kit" Porter on the Showtime drama series The L Word (2004–2009), and Constance Terry in the ABC sitcom Bless This Mess (2019–2020). She also received a Daytime Emmy Award nomination for her work in the animated series Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child (1999).

Grier was born on May 26, 1949, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, the daughter of Gwendolyn Sylvia (née Samuels), a homemaker and nurse, and Clarence Ransom Grier, Jr., who worked as a mechanic and technical sergeant in the United States Air Force. She has one sister and one brother. Grier has stated that she is of mixed ancestry, namely of African-American, Hispanic, Chinese, Filipino, and Cheyenne heritage.

At age 6, Grier was raped by two boys when she was left unattended at her aunt's house. "It took so long to deal with the pain of that," she says, "You try to deal with it, but you never really get over it," she adds. "And not just me; my family endured so much guilt and anger that something like that happened to me." Because of her father's military career, the family moved frequently during her childhood to various places such as England before eventually settling in Denver, Colorado, where she attended East High School. While in Denver, she appeared in a number of stage productions, and participated in beauty contests to raise money for college tuition at Metropolitan State College. While in college, she was date raped.

Grier moved to Los Angeles, California, in 1967, where she was initially hired to work the switchboard at American International Pictures (AIP). She is believed to have been discovered by director Jack Hill, who cast her in his women-in-prison films The Big Doll House (1971) and The Big Bird Cage (1972). While under contract at AIP, she became a staple of early 1970s blaxploitation movies, playing big, bold, assertive women, beginning with Jack Hill's Coffy (1973), in which she plays a nurse who seeks revenge on drug dealers. Her character was advertised in the trailer as the "baddest one-chick hit-squad that ever hit town!" The film, which was filled with sexual and violent elements typical of the genre, was a box-office hit. Grier is considered to be the first African-American female to headline an action film, as protagonists of previous blaxploitation films were males. In his review of Coffy, critic Roger Ebert praised the film for its believable female lead. He noted that Grier was an actress of "beautiful face and astonishing form" and that she possessed a kind of "physical life" missing from many other attractive actresses.

Grier subsequently played similar characters in the AIP films Foxy Brown (1974), Sheba, Baby, and Friday Foster (both 1975). With the demise of blaxploitation later in the 1970s, Grier appeared in smaller roles for many years. She acquired progressively larger character roles in the 1980s, including a druggie prostitute in Fort Apache, The Bronx (1981), a witch in Something Wicked this Way Comes (1983).

In 1985, Grier made her theater debut in Sam Sheppard's Fool for Love at the Los Angeles Theatre Center.

Grier returned to film as Steven Seagal's detective partner in Above the Law (1988). She had a recurring role on Miami Vice from 1985 to 1989 and made guest appearances on Martin, Night Court, and The Fresh Prince of Bel Air. She had a recurring role in the TV series Crime Story between 1986 and 1988. Her role in Rocket Gibraltar (1988) was cut due to fears by the film's director, Daniel Petrie, of "repercussions from interracial love scenes." She appeared on Sinbad, Preston Chronicles, The Cosby Show, The Wayans Brothers Show, and Mad TV. In 1994, Grier appeared in Snoop Dogg's video for "Doggy Dogg World".

In the late 1990s Grier was a cast member of the Showtime series Linc's. She appeared in 1996 in John Carpenter's Escape from L.A. and 1997 with the title role in Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown, films that partly paid homage to her 1970s blaxploitation movies. She was nominated for numerous awards for her work in the Tarantino film. Grier appeared on Showtime's The L Word, in which she played Kit Porter. The series ran for six seasons and ended in March 2009. Grier occasionally guest-stars in such television series as Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (where she is a recurring character).

In 2010 Grier began appearing in a recurring role on the hit science-fiction series Smallville as the villain Amanda Waller, also known as White Queen, head agent of Checkmate, a covert operations agency. She appeared as a friend and colleague to Julia Roberts' college professor in 2011's Larry Crowne.

In 2010, Grier wrote her memoir, Foxy: My Life in Three Acts, with Andrea Cagan.

Grier received an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from the University of Maryland Eastern Shore in 2011. That same year, she received an honorary Doctorate of Science from Langston University.

She founded the Pam Grier Community Garden and Education Center with the National Multicultural Western Heritage Museum. The purpose is to teach people about organic gardening, health and nutrition among other things. The museum named its first garden in honor of Grier in 2011.

In January 2018, Grier revealed a biopic based on her memoir is in the works, entitled Pam.

Grier lives on a ranch in Colorado.

Grier has never married but has had several high-profile relationships.

She met basketball player Lew Alcindor before he became a Muslim. Soon after they began dating, he converted to Islam and changed his name to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Abdul-Jabbar proposed to Grier, but gave her an ultimatum to convert to Islam. He said, "If you don't commit to me today, I'm getting married at 2 this afternoon. She's a converted Muslim, and she's been prepared for me," adding, "once you become Muslim, you might appreciate another wife." Grier declined, so he got married that day.

Grier met comedian Freddie Prinze while promoting her film Coffy in 1973. They began a relationship and considered marriage. Prinze wanted her to have his baby, but she was reluctant due to his history of depression and drug addiction. They remained in touch after she left him. She was one of the last people Prinze spoke to before he fatally shot himself in 1977.

Grier met comedian Richard Pryor through her relationship with Prinze, but they did not begin dating until they were both cast in Greased Lightning. She helped Pryor learn to read and tried to help him with his drug addiction. After six months of sobriety, he relapsed. In her memoir, Grier described how her sexual relationship with Pryor caused cocaine to enter her system. During an appointment, she was informed that she had a "buildup of cocaine residue" around her cervix and vagina that her doctor called an "epidemic" in Beverly Hills. He asked her if Pryor might have put cocaine on his penis to sustain his erection; she was unsure. He then asked if her mouth went numb while performing oral sex on Pryor, and she said it did. The doctor linked it to the Novocaine-like effects of cocaine. Grier confronted Pryor about protecting her health, but he refused to use a condom. Pryor married another woman while dating Grier in 1977.

Grier was formerly romantically linked to Soul Train host Don Cornelius and basketball player Wilt Chamberlain.

In 1998, Grier was engaged to RCA Records executive Kevin Evans, but the engagement ended in 1999.

Grier was diagnosed with stage-four cervical cancer in 1988, and was told she had 18 months to live. Through vigorous treatment she made a recovery and has been in remission.

[willowrosenboob]

Little late, but what are your three favourite and three least favourite episodes of Season 1, and five favourite and five least favourite episodes of each of the seasons 2-7? Bonus points if you explain why! :)

(sorry for taking so long to answer this)

oh boy, I’ve been preparing for this ask for years! (well okay, months)

(and I’m only gonna explain a few of them)

favourites

season 1

prophecy girl - it’s a very formative episodes for buffy and one of my favourite episodes for her character. her first death impacted her throughout the course of the next season and she was never really the same again. it’s also heartbreaking to see her react to the news that she’s going to die. it really shows that her humanity is what defines buffy as a character, but it doesn’t stop her from kicking ass at the end.

i robot…you jane - I feel like I have to justify this one. yeah it’s dumb and cheesy and has fucking terrible music and an outdated plotline but no episode has made me laugh the way this one does. it’s one of those so bad it’s good episodes

the pack - I guess this one is kinda squicky but it was quite brave of the show to go so dark in the first season and I really like that.

season 2

becoming part 2 - who doesn’t love this episode? (no seriously I’ve never heard anybody dislike this episode) this episode has a ton of growth for buffy. she finally musters the courage to kill angel

innocence

i only have eyes for you - this episode had my jaw dropping the entire way through. I’m not too fond of bangel but this was one of the few episodes where I was convinced that their relationship was as intense and compelling as the show made it out to be. also the show never really covered ghosts, so it was nice to see them appear in an episode.

when she was bad

lie to me

season 3

doppelgangland - VAMPIRE. FUCKING. WILLOW.

the wish

homecoming - the best coffy episode tbh

earshot

lovers walk

season 4

restless - i love the foreshadowing used in this episode, and how it actually felt like a dream instead of most dream recreations you see in media.

this year’s girl/who are you? - i’m kinda cheating since that’s a two-parter (btw I prefer this year’s girl) but these two episodes were a turning point for faith’s character and brought so much depth to her struggle with her dark side. sarah michelle gellar and eliza dushku also played their characters amazingly.

fear itself

something blue

the freshman

season 5

the gift

fool for love

family

the body

intervention

(rip I don’t have any explanations for these since they’re all pretty self explanatory)

season 6

once more with feeling

dead things - controversial opinion but I think this is one of the most interesting episodes in the show. I definitely don’t like everything about it (i dislike 2/3 of the sex scenes in this ep tbh) but I think it covers buffy’s depression in a compelling and interesting way, and I tend to like dark and sad stuff.

tabula rasa

after life

grave

season 7

chosen - I think chosen wrapped up the series perfectly. buffy finally isn’t the one and only slayer, and the new slayers won’t feel the same burden buffy did because they can now rely on each other to deal with slaying. the last scene of this episode is absolutely perfect. buffy hadn’t smiled to genuinely like that in a long time.

selfless

storyteller

him - this episode is so dumb tbh but I love every second of it.

conversations with dead people

least favourite (1 being the worst)

season 1

teacher’s pet

never kill a boy on the first date

the puppet show

season 2

go fish

killed by death

phases

inca mummy girl

some assembly required

season 3

dead man’s party - ugh this episode pisses me off so much. everybody is so unsympathetic to buffy and we’re expected to be okay with it by the end? plus they never actually resolve any of their issues and they’re never properly dealt with. I one of the biggest failings of season 3 is how they never committed to repairing a relationship (like with the xander/willow affair or giles in helpless).

beauty and the beasts

choices - no particular reason, I just find this one kinda dull.

revelations

anne

season 4

where the wild things are

goodbye iowa

the i in team

living conditions

wild at heart - I feel like I need an excuse for putting this one here. I don’t dislike it but season 4 it just filled with so many other amazing episodes that this one is just kinda meh in comparison.

season 5

into the woods

shadow

crush

listening to fear

checkpoint - like with wild at heart this one isn’t bad, it just isn’t the best of the season.

season 6

seeing red

gone

wrecked

as you were

older and far away

season 7

get it done

beneath you

showtime

bring on the night

empty places. the only reason this episode isn’t the worst is because I love the final arc of season 7 and since empty places is a part of it I don’t hate it as much (though that last scene pisses me off so much)

[alexthegamingboy]

Toonami Weekly Recap 1/27/2018

Black Clover EP#07 - The Other New Recruit: As a new member of the Black Bulls, Asta is thrilled to receive his very first private room, even though it's tiny. Everything Asta sees as Magna shows him around the squad's base is new and exciting to him.

Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron Blooded Orphans Season 2 EP#13 (38) - Hunter of Angels: In a grueling showdown, Mikazuki fights and slays the Hashmal, despite the Gundam Barbatos Lupus sustaining heavy damage - and consequently, his entire right side becoming paralyzed from the strain of the battle. One month later, Orga reports to McMurdo about the incident and Gjallarhorn's searching for other Calamity War remnants on Mars. As a show of trust, Orga gives McMurdo his sakazuki cup to break, should Tekkadan be considered a hindrance to Teiwaz. While McMurdo declines to break the cup due to his investments on Mars, he warns Orga that any betrayal of Teiwaz would lead to severe consequences for Tekkadan. Meanwhile, McGillis explains his side of the incident to the Seven Stars council, placing the blame on Iok. Rustal refuses to agree with Iok due to a lack of evidence to support his argument, allowing McGillis to claim credit for slaying the Hashmal. Later, Rustal grants Julieta her request to become the test pilot for Gjallarhorn's new machine, which is powerful but unstable. Fearing that Mikazuki may not come back from the next battle, Atra begs Kudelia to bear his children. Humiliated by McGillis, feeling betrayed by Rustal's refusal to defend him and obsessed with his honor and his men's sacrifice, Iok orders his servants to contact Jasley.

JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders EP#22 - Judgement, Part 2: Corresponding with Polnareff's third wish, Cameo makes a clay doll of Avdol, who joins the Cherie doll in attacking Polnareff, biting off his flesh. Before the dolls can kill off Polnareff, he is suddenly saved by the real Avdol, who had actually survived his encounter with Hol Horse as the seemingly fatal bullet had only grazed him. With the two managing to overcome the dolls, Avdol brings out the full strength of Magician's Red against Cameo's Judgement, effectively disippating it. After the fight, Polnareff and Avdol find a piece of bamboo sticking out from the ground, surmising that the real Cameo is hidden below. The pair drop spiders and mud down to block his breathing, and they finishing by urinating into the bamboo, which forces him to the surface, where Avdol properly deals with him. After reuniting with the group, Polnareff is shocked to find that the others knew Avdol was alive the entire time, keeping it a secret from him to prevent the enemy from finding out. Avdol further reveals he had disguised himself as his father in order to purchase a submarine for the group.

Hunter x Hunter: The Chimera Ant Arc EP#81 - The × Fight × Begins: Confirming his suspicions, Kite finds clues about the dark side of the NGL and meet Rammot, one of the Chimera Ants. Knowing that much stronger foes await them ahead, Kite declares that Gon and Killua must defeat the enemy by themselves, or they will not be allowed to proceed further with him. Meanwhile, the Chimera Ant commanders take heed of Nen-enhanced humans and make plans to capture them in order to attend the Queen's increasing demands for nutrition.

Space Dandy EP#01 - Live with the Flow, Baby: Alien hunter Dandy and his robot companion QT search the galaxies for rare alien species while aboard their spaceship, the Aloha Oe. They travel to a local breastaurant named BooBies, where they eventually find a Betelgeusean, later recognized as Meow. However, Dandy mistakes Meow for a new species after tussling with him. Meow boards the Aloha Oe and tells Dandy and QT about a planet inhabited with rare alien species. The crew of the Aloha Oe ventures into an unknown dimension when Meow foolishly engages their broken warp drive, in which Dandy then pulls on a wayward cosmic string and brings them to the planet by coincidence. Dandy and Meow set foot on this planet, only to be chased by giant creatures. When Dandy and Meow are unable to return to the spaceship, Dandy accidentally orders QT to activate a "secret weapon" that obliterates the entire planet and everything on it, including the crew of the Aloha Oe.

Outlaw Star EP#19 - Law and Lawlessness: The Outlaw Star and its crew is captured by private security forces and Gene confronts their leader, a Saurian named Dooes, accompanied by his colleague, Valeria. The security forces attempt to help an injured civilian ship, but it turns out to be a Trojan horse. The Outlaw Star and its crew save the security forces and are rewarded with dragonite.

Cowboy Bebop EP#17 - Mushroom Samba: The Bebop, out of food and fuel, is sideswiped in a hit-and-run off of Europa and crash-lands on Io. Ed, with Ein by her side, is sent out to procure food, and ends up running across Domino Walker, a bounty-head who is smuggling hallucinogenic mushrooms.

This episode pays homage to 1970s "blaxploitation" films such as Coffy and Shaft. Shaft's dragging a coffin behind him wherever he goes is a reference to the 1966 Spaghetti Western Django.

This episode is also a TV Trope namer. source: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MushroomSamba

Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 2nd Gig EP#11 (37) - IN: Grass Labyrinth – AFFECTION: Batou and Togusa test eight potential new recruits for Section 9. The men are placed in pairs to create four different teams, each tasked with tracking Major Kusanagi. However, Kusanagi proves to be a difficult target to track, and eventually she loses all four teams. Shortly after shaking off the last team, Kusanagi unexpectedly loses all communication and finds herself lost in a seemingly empty part of the city. While trying to locate her team, she happens across a shop that stores people's external memories, and hears the story of two child prosthetic bodies carefully preserved in the shop. The bodies once belong to a boy and a girl who were involved in a terrible plane crash, leaving the two children the only survivors of the wreck after the other mortally wounded passengers die. While the boy was in the hospital he learned that he had been paralyzed except for his left hand, which he used to make origami cranes non-stop for the girl. One day, the girl, who had been in a coma since arriving in the hospital, unexpectedly went downhill fast, and was moved to the OR. The boy believed that she had died, but two years later a girl his age was brought to the hospital in an effort to convince the boy to switch to a full-cyborg prosthetic body, after previous attempts by a relative and doctors to convince him had failed. The boy was reluctant to do so at first because the girl had difficulty with the fine motor skills of her own new body, but he eventually relented and accepted the prosthetic body, after realizing the girl visiting him was the very same one from the crash who he believed had died. Years later the boy, who had been searching for the girl since he left the hospital, happened across her childhood prosthetic in a lab and took it upon himself to preserve it. When Kusanagi inquires as to the current whereabouts of the boy, she learns that he was shipped out in the last days of the war, and has not been heard from since. Before Kusanagi leaves, she carefully folds a sugar cube wrapper into an origami crane and places it in the car beside the body of the boy, saying "I'll bet that even now... that girl is still searching for the first boy she ever loved."

[nandrewrambles]

tagged by @women-books-coffie

1. Name: Adrianna

2. Nickname: Nandrew

3. Zodiac Sign: Taurus

4. Height: 163 cm which is like 5 feet 4

5. Ethnicity: I’m Polish

6. Favorite fruit: Pineapples.

7. Favorite season: late spring

8. Favorite Book: rn it’s “Szczury Wrocławia”

9. Favorite flowers: I love all flowers, how could I choose? daisies are nice I guess

10. Favorite Color: does rainbow count?

11. Favorite animal: kitty cats, owls and pidgeons

12. Coffee, tea, or hot chocolate: tea

13. Average hours of sleep: 8-10

14. Cat or dog: Cat

15. Favorite Fictional Character: Chihiro Fujisaki

16. Number of blankets: I have 2 on my bed and one or two in my my wardrobe

17. Ideal Trip:Take me to a nice, warm place, that’s pretty much all I ask for

18. Blog created: my art blog was created in 2013, then there’s my personal blog, made just few months after and my dr nextgen blog was made this year

19. Number of followers: art blog:1435, personal blog:140, dr nextgen:23

I tag @kaylabow, @burgerdoll and @sadborg! you don’t have to do it if you don’t wanna :)

[tyleroakley-obsessed]

Happy Friday, Memphis! Hope you had a great Valentine’s/Singles Awareness/Bitterly Apathetic Day yesterday! Here are the five things you won’t want to miss in Memphis this weekend, plus a few extras. Murals on Dr. M.L. King Jr. Avenue near Southwest Tennessee Community College. L to R: @bethwarmath, @zulupainter1. But first, don’t miss the goodies from the blog this week: the 2019 Beale Street Music Fest lineup, updates to the Huge List of Events And Festivals, the 2019 Time Warp Drive In movies schedule, and two awesome Memphians you should get to know, vintage fashionista and entrepreneur Amy Dobbins and muralist Frances Berry. The Memphis St. Patrick’s Day Guide is live, too. Here’s your weekend guide: 1. Memphis 901FC v. Christian Brothers, CBU’s Signaigo Field, Saturday, noon, $5, all ages/kid-friendly Memphis 901FC is our city’s new professional soccer team. As they warm up for their first season (starts March 9) they’ll take on CBU’s men’s team in an exhibition game – and it’s all for a good cause. Half of the proceeds go to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. 2. Memphis Majic Screening, National Civil Rights Museum, Saturday, 6 p.m. – 8 p.m., free, all ages/kid-friendly From Memphis Majic creators: “Memphis Majic is a riveting in-depth look at the city of Memphis through the lens of a 30 year old Memphis-born street dance called “Jookin’.”  The February 16 museum screening before the film’s national debut, and gets to the heart of the city’s rich culture, history, race relations and socioeconomic barriers.” It’s free, but be sure to register to save your spot. 3. Memphis Express v. Arizona Hotshots, Liberty Bowl, Saturday, 7 p.m., $20 and up, all ages/kid-friendly Our new Alliance of American Football team plays their first home game this Saturday night at the Liberty Bowl. Get out there and support these professional players and enjoy plenty of in-game entertainment (including a silent disco), concessions, and great seat options (starting at $20). 4. Time Warp Drive-In, Malco Summer Drive-In, Saturday, 7 p.m. – ’til, $10 per person, all ages allowed (parental discretion advised) This month, the Time Warp Drive In honors African American actress Pam Grier with two films in an evening they’re calling NOBODY MESSES WITH PAM GRIER: A TRIBUTE TO AN ICON. First up is Tarantino’s Jackie Brown, a blaxploitation homage, followed by Grier’s “brilliant revenge flick” from 1973, Coffy. See the full Time Warp schedule for 2019 here.  5. Soup Sunday, FedExForum, Sunday, 11 a.m. – 2 p.m., $20 adults/$10 kids, all ages/kid-friendly Soup Sunday celebrates 30 years of filling Memphis bowls this weekend. Enjoy all-you-can-eat samples of soup, appetizers, salads, breads, and desserts from about 50 local restaurants and caterers. Soup Sunday benefits Youth Villages’ efforts to support young people and families in crisis. Plus a few other ideas… On Your Feet! The Musical, Orpheum Theatre, Friday – Sunday, multiple shows, $25 – $125, ages 5 and up The Gloria and Emilio Estefan Broadway musical is at the Orpheum all weekend; the show includes all the hits. Friday night, the Orpheum is doing a Student/Teacher/Hero ticket Rush for discounted tickets and a Kids’ Night On Broadway night. Read all those details here. Hot Wheels Monster Trucks Live, FedExForum, Saturday, 1:30 p.m. and 7 p.m., $20 adults/$5 kids, all ages/kid-friendly Live monster trucks! They come every year to FedExForum around V-Day, they’re loud, they’re crazy, they smash stuff! Kids love them, grown-ups with earplugs love them. I’m especially excited about the Megasaurus, a “massive, car-eating, fire-breathing prehistoric robot”. Crosstown Brewing 1st Birthday, Crosstown Brewing, Saturday, noon – 10 p.m., free to enter, all ages/kid-friendly Crosstown is putting three new beers on tap, hosting live music, and the New Wing Order food truck, plus new merch all day. Come help this local brewery celebrate one year of drinking great beer in their taproom. Africa In April Original Art Collection, Orange Mound Gallery, Friday, 5 p.m. – 7:30 p.m., free, all ages Celebrate the 33rd anniversary of the Africa In April festival with this showcase of local artists at Orange Mound Gallery. (Then save the date for Africa In April, April 17-21 at Robert Church Park.) Ballet Memphis’ Spring Mix, Ballet Memphis Overton Square, Friday – Sunday, times vary, $25, all ages allowed Ballet Memphis’ annual spring concert offers three pieces: “Steven McMahon’s birdlike fun of the Mississippi Flyway with three-dimensional sets from acclaimed visual artist Erin Harmon. Julia Adam’s water-themed Dew Point, with its playful props and soundtrack featuring Louis Armstrong to Jeff Buckley, and a “fiery” new work from Rafael Ferreras completes the bill.” There are performances next weekend as well. There’s plenty more on the blog’s calendar. Have a great weekend, Memphis! Come back here and tell me all about it. Are you a home owner in Memphis, with a broken garage door? Call ASAP garage door today at 901-461-0385 or checkout http://bit.ly/1B5z3Pc

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