#agere professor x

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Aah hi hi I just saw you are also a big xmen fan that makes me soo happy that you like doctor who AND xmen cause those are my two favourite things and it’s hard to find agere stuff for them but your account is so amazing!!!!! Ty for all your posts :) if you want to could you please make a moodboard for cg charles with a theme of being cozy at the academy? :D and then also if you want to one for cg logan with outdoorsy theme would be cute aswell!! They would both be so good carers <3 i love all the xmen so much!!!!!! I also imagine that Rogue would be a regressor and we could have playdates!!! Anyway I hope you have a good day thank you for all your posts!!

AAaaaaa this is so sweet thank you! 🥺💞 I'm slooowly getting through all the X-Men movies, I think the next on my list is Logan, but I've been avoiding it cuz I know what happens.. 😅 Then gonna watch the cartoons after. I love them all so much too, they're such good, interesting characters! I feel you about there not being much content for either of them. And honestly, I was a little surprised (and saddened) to find less agere X-Men stuff than Doctor Who!

Thank you sm for giving me something to do during a 5 hour car ride! Had a lot of fun with these. 🥰 I hope you like them, and have a great day/night! /gen

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[Agere]

So, you know that part in X2 (if I remember correctly) where Charles tells Logan that he could keep him under the impression that he was a six year old girl?

What if Logan already regressed, a mix of PTSD symptoms and fear taking over him while he was alone?

What if he goes to Charles because he needs to regress, but can't? He lets Charles worm his way into his mind, pick and choose the things that would help. And he gets to sleep safely in the professors bed while he was read to.

Charles, although he may not fully understand, he keeps the link open. Keeping Logan small, warding off nightmares while Logan rested his head in his lap. Others may worry about the two of them disappearing, but right now, Charles is putting his heart and soul into making everything okay for Logan, this time.

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Watching a lot of X-Men Evolution and I'm obsessed with them

All the kiddos regressing together and helping each other if someone regresses at school or on a mission

Jean and Scott being big sibs, and trying to be big sibs when they're feeling little, and having everyone assure them that they can be the little siblings

Wolverine regressing and the younger team members being big siblings, cause baby Wolvie is everything to me

Charles, Hank and Ororo essentially running the most chaotic daycare of baby mutants after a hard mission, sometimes Wolverine won't be regressed and he can help, but usually he's regressed too

The Brotherhood being invited over for play dates (bc they are also just kids and I want them to be friends with the x-men)

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i just know erik and charles would be the best cgs ever. like i had an epiphany just now and omg. can’t think of any detailed hcs rn (u are more than welcome to contribute…actually PLS share hcs if u have any) but I Just Know in a psychic telepath kinda way

i should make a cg!cherik themed edit… there is a serious dearth of agere edits in general, even in big fandoms 😔

- YJ

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— ♡ yes’s include afab!reader, gn!reader, fem!reader, masc!reader (not male), dom!abby, sub!abby, dom!ellie, sub!ellie, dom!tess & dom!maria, some aus (professor, boxer, ceo, & more), slapping, choking, high or tipsy sex, mommy kink, daddy kink, bondage, hand and arm kinks (duh), cunnilingus, fingering, praise, degrading, pregnancy, perversion (moderate), breeding kink, manhandling, sensory overloads, period sex, blowjobs, pain (moderate), dacryphilia, cockwarming, nipple play, face sitting or riding, innocence (not too much now!), jealousy, possessiveness, dub con (moderate), blah, blah, blah

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X-Men 7 (Sept 1964)

Stan Lee/Jack Kirby.

HELL YEAH

"The most unusual teen-agers of all time" didn't really hold up as a tagline, but anyway. We're in issue 7 and the X-Men have, canonically, I think, seven villains - Magneto, the four members of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants who work for him, the Blob and the Vanisher. Six of them are coming back for this issue and they're being celebrated like we haven't seen them in years. This is funny but it's especially funny how much of a dunk on the Vanisher this is.

Anyway, the X-Men "graduate" in this issue, which doesn't involve them leaving school, nor does it involve the Professor stopping constantly testing them or anything, but Professor X leaves for a while and Cyclops officially becomes team leader and gets introduced to Cerebro, which looks amazing.

The Vanisher isn't even on Cerebro's list of KNOWN HOSTILE MUTANTS! Owned!

The gang goes to Greenwich Village for some downtime and we get Stan Lee's spoof version of beatniks. This is 1964 so this stuff is already kind of out of date (this is very much a bunch of late 50s gags) but I can't tell if that was part of the joke, or whether Stan Lee just didn't keep up with this stuff, or whether he assumed his imagined audience wouldn't be keeping up with this stuff. Or whether he just liked laughing at beatniks. Anyway, I dig it.

It gets weirder. I haven't even really talked about the stuff with Beast's giant feet but...there's a lot of foot stuff in these comics.

Oh right, the plot. Magneto tries to recruit the Blob, which almost works, until the X-Men show up to interrupt him at a missile base (as usual). The Blob inadvertently shields the X-Men from the blast of a missile, then concludes that he hates both sides and goes home, with a bit of humanisation. We stan the Blob. The end.

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Stimboards pt. 4

agere natsuki stimboard

agere steve harrington stim

3rd game springtrap stimboard

CG! harvey stardew valley stimboard

sam from stardew valley stimboard

caribou stimboard

CG! Hobie brown stimboard

CG! Falin Touden stimboard

agere mutsumi wakaba stimboard

diane nguyen stimboard

roger and max from max and ruby stimboard

agere mable pines stimboard

puppy regression stimboard

CG! cronus stimboard

anarchist theory stimboard

newfoundland puppy stimboard

woody woodpecker stimboard

wolf petre stimboard

agere pangolin stimboard

Laios from Dungeon Meshi stimboard

agere knuckles stimboard

CG! matt murdock stimboard

agere mera salamin stimboard

petre titanboa stimboard

China from Hetalia stimboard

agere 2D gorillaz stimboard

Vanellope von schweetz stimboard

CGs! leela and fry stimboard

petre german shepard stimboard

agere micheal afton stimboard

CG! preed from Titan A. E stimboard

ramshackle stimboard

agere roxy and june play date stimboard

CG! sniper TF2 stimboard

agere vox stimboard

chica from sprout stimboard

agere dismas stimboard with lizzard’s

CG! test tube and little cheesy stimboard

babyre jinx stimboard

how to train your dragon stimboard

agere Umi from port by the sea stimboard

fursuit paw stimboard

CG! marvus stimboard

dragonkin plush stimboard

seven red suns stimboard

agere luke nightingale stimboard

agere rin shirayuki stimboard

dave x john stimboard

farm kiddo stimboard

scratch and molly stimboard

helmsmen homestuck stimboard

disciple homestuck stimboard

signless homestuck stimboard

Dolorosa stimboard

shark pup stimboard

thalia grace stimboard

diona stimboard

CG! gallagher stimboard

camila noceda stimboard

scp-999 stimboard

gus from sweet tooth stimboard

petre spring fox stimboard

agere colt from brawl stars stimboard

90s carpet and squiglz stimboard

grubber stimboard

tamagotchi + pixel stimboard

snoopy stimboard

CG! professor venomous stimboard

batman stimboard

CG! astarion stimboard

stimboard with gears, toys, and coloring

cottonee stimboard

CG! karlach stimboard

agere toy bonnie with red stimboard

magnetic by ILLIT stimboard

anya from spy x family stimboard

dream agere room stimboard

agere Misumi uika stimboard

paci gifs pt. 9

pen and woody regression playdate stimboard

kankri x cronus stimboard

dolorosa x psiioniic stimboard

agere toy bonnie stimboard

reptile regressor caliborn stimboard

paci gif pt. 8

transfem eridan stimboard

agere karako pierot stimboard

worms reloaded stimboard

agere abigail hobbs stimboard

CG! doc scratch stimboard

fiver 2018 stimboard

trollsona stimboard

firepaw stimboard

agere john egbert stimboard

1x1x1x1 super paper stimboard

verfection and voixer stimboard

agere dave strider stimboard

agere purple bunny stimboard

silly dog fella OC stimboard

agere tavros stimboard

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PINNED POST

alright i think i should make a pinned post or something

uhh so

hi!

my name is lada and im an artist! kinda

ill leave my tags under the post

TRIVIA

- they/he

- im a minor AND aroace (PLEASE don't be weird about me or my non-suggestuve art)

- adhd

- i need tone tags

- agere

- half-russian n half-ukrainian (i don't support the russian government obvi)

- trixic aroace agender

MY FANDOMS AT THE MOMENT

- 13 cards/13 карт

- unikitty (i may rarely post about it but it's one of my favorite medias ever)

- object shows

MY SHIPS

UNIKITTY

frock - master frown x brock - they genuinely helped me get through a burnout and get out of a huge depressive episode, they mean a lot to me

foxchardile - dr fox x richard x hawkodile

feebom - feebee x bimbom

OBJECT SHOWS

fubble - fanny x bubble - a huge comfort of mine

snowcoinut - snowball x coijy x donut

snowtenfries - snowball x tennis ball x fries

leafpin

leafpop - leafy x lollipop - fun fact: it's actually my first bfb ship ever

bottlefan/glasswind - bottle x fanny

pillowfan/featherwind - pillow x fanny

coinpin - they're so yuri to me you can't imagine

15x - im their inventor and ceo

87 - mainly as exes

24 - guilty pleasure

2x

24x

nickloon - nickel x balloon

bickloon - baseball x nickel x balloon

lightmic/micbulb - lightbulb x microphone - oh they're so dear to me

tacomic

tacomicbulb

lightbrush

fanbrush

silverbrush

testbrush

testbulb

knifan

trofan

tropheesy/comedygold

trife

gooberry

sodapack

sodascentpack

broomalky/broomchalk/chalker - broomer x chalky

shear/pelly/pearshell - pear x shelly

chook/rives/butler² - rook x chives

blockyang - blocky x ying-yang

THE AMAZING WORLD OF GUMBALL

pengumrobdog - it's canon idc what anyone says

carwin - ofc

leslanmen - leslie x alan x carmen

idahochobias

nichard/ricole/whatever their ship name is

(one-sided) darchel - (one-sided) darwin x rachel

clachel - clare x rachel

tinbert - it has a special place in my heart

bobocho/ochobert

lesbias (that's a crazy ass ship name lmao) - leslie x tobias

smallarry

SPOOKY MONTH

polyhatz - great. wonderful. amazing.

teddybear/roybert - you know how hardcore of a fan i am of them? i was the one who came up with the ship name for them that the fandom now uses

rossroy

cleancoin/patmen - they definitely dated in highschool idc what anyone says

richbitch/carchard - i love them a lot

whatever the ship name for pump's dad x richard is

heateddebate/firetown/evernacio

candybats or, as i like to call them, bloodsugar.... but i guess someone already claimed that name for some other ship after me ughhh... i also like the name sweettooth/sweetfang

goldenflower/jaumen - they're salty exes and nobody can tell me otherwise

no idea if they have a ship name but i fucking love lila x jaune x aaron (ross' dad)

SOUTH PARK

bunny/kenjorine - butters/marjorine x kenny

mystechaos - mysterion x professor chaos

bratters/bradjorine - bradley (from cartman sucks) x butters/marjorine

brunny/brenters/brenjorine - bradley x butters x kenny

creek - craig x tweek

tyde - tolkien x clyde

stendyle - stan x wendy x kyle

stolkiendyle - stan x tolkien x weldy x kyle

stolkien - stan x tolkien

dip - damien x pip

bip - butters x pip

DNI LIST

- basic dni criteria (queerphobes, ableists, racists, sexists, pedophiles, zoo, incest, rapists etc)

- pro russian and/or israeli government/zionists

- pro/com/darkshippers (please go away)

- pro-lifers

- fatphobes

- victim-blamers

- transcum/transmed

- terfs (get out. now.)

- anti-objectum

- i don't even fucking care about queer discourse anymore, just PLEASE don't involve me in it

- ageplay blogs (it makes me really uncomfortable AND im a sfw age regressor, please don't interact)

- rapist excusers, doesn't matter if the rapist is fictional or not

- unifrown, gumwin, charlastor and valangel shippers pleeeease go away, staticmoth shippers are on thin ice

- if you erase canon/heavily implied representation

- if you mock/make fun of people for using tone tags

- vivienne medrano supporters (hazbin/helluva fans/casual viewers are fine)

SOME OF MY ART

some of these are pretty old but whatever

okay that's about it i think..... give me a follow if you wanna?

byeee!

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1978/05/09/the-father-of-kwanzaa/ec0fe360-c895-47d3-a5b6-0a1a09a471b1/

The Father of Kwanzaa

By Hollie I. WestMay 9, 1978

"I created Kwanzaa," laughed M. Ron Karenga like a teen-ager who's just divulged a deeply held, precisions secret.

"People think it's African. But it's not. I wanted to give black people a holiday of their own. So I came up with Kwanzaa. I said it was African because you know black people in this country wouldn't celebrate it if they knew it was American. Also, I put it around Christmas because I knew that's when a lot of bloods (blacks) would be partying!"

The overwhelmingly black audience at Howard University's recent National Conference of Afro-American writers broke into laughter. The joke was on them - and millions of other black Americans who taught Kwanzaa, the seven-day festival of harvest, was African.

Since he created the holiday in 1966, numerous Afro-Americans have come to celebrate the occasion between Dec. 22 and Jan. 1 as an alternative to Christmas.

Nevertheless, the ploy was not malicious. Karenga, political activist in the late '60s, currently a college professor and frequent lecturer asked: "Can you imagine 30 to 40 million people not having one national, non-heroic holiday? We couldn't wait around for someone to do this for us."

In the late '60s and early '70s, he had a profound effect on the thinking of Amiri Baraka (formerly LeRoi Jones) and other Afro-american cultural figures who spread his philosophy.

From his base in Los Angeles, Karenga came to national prominence following the Watts civil disturbance. He was seen frequently on television and made numerous speeches. A civil rights observer called him "one of the leading theoreticians in the national black power movement."

His role was described as a study in contrasts. He urged militant self-defense by blacks, but he also conferred with white politicians on civil rights issues. His bald head and Genghis Khan-styled beard and moustache gave him a fearsome look, but in face-to-face meetings he was calm and soft-spoken.

Using the tough rhetorical style of the '60s, he wrote in "The Quotable Karenga," a thin handbook given to his followers: "When it's burn, let's see how much you burn. When it's kill,' let's see how much you kill. When it's blow up," let's see how much you blow up."

But times have changed. Between 1971 and 1975 he dropped out of sight while serving a prison term for ordering the beating of a woman. He is appealing. Now he was resurfaced and said he is rebuilding his movement.

Although the popularity of Kwanzaa mushroomed dramatically, Karenga also established Kuzaliwa, a tribute honoring Malcolm X's birthday on May 19, and Uhuru Day, a commemoration on Aug. 11 of the 1965 Watts civil disturbance.

The 1960s were a time of fervent cultural activity among blacks. Theater groups and writers workshops sprang up in most large cities. And Karenga took advantage of this.

He spoke to large and small, middle-class and working-class black organizations from CORE to Baptist church groups, carrying the message of Kwanzaa. At the same time, Baraka spoke for the Karenga philosophy to thousands of people at Congress of African Peoples meetings. He also wrote tracts that were published by black publishing houses.

The Kwanzaa idea began to pop up in black mass publications such as Ebony and Jet. From there it was picked up by white publications - daily newspapers and magazines - and radio and television.

Who is this short, squat man with the high-pitched voice and the flery rhetoric, and what is the current measure of his influence?

A. B. Spellman, writer and National Endowment for the Arts official, said: "There was no theory of nationalism in the '60s. What Karenga did was to rationalize the nationalist impulse and try to codify it."

Larry Neal, writer and executive director of the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities, said: "Vocabulary and Kwanzaa are the major influences he's had. People started studying Swahili. Kwanzaa was like Topsy. It just grew.

"People wanted form, structure. He spoke to a need."

But Baraka, a former black nationalist who's become a Marxist, is not so charitable in his current assessment of the man whose ideas he once proselytized.

Said Baraka: "There was a vacuum created after Malcolm X died . . . Karenga was very well organized. He moved into the vacuum.

"He did a positive thing as far as Kwanzaa was concerned. But in a way it was another form of bourgeois nationalism. And he taught male chauvinsim."

"People have slandered me," complained Karenga. "I's slow building an organization in this atmosphere. There's a lull in the (black liberation) movement and I've got to dismantlef the bogus image that has gone up around me."

In his rapid-fire black preacher's oratory style, marked by staccato rhythms and syncopated long and short phrases, Karenga said, "What I said in the '60s I stand by. I'm still black. I still put black first. I'm still for the cultural revolution. Until somebody develops an alternative, more comprehensive view of reality, I've got to ride with mine."

Karenga was not always so outspokenly black. In the early '60s, he was Ronald Everett, the 14th child in the family of a farmer and part-time Baptist minister in Parsonburg, Md., on the Eastern Shore.

After receiving his master's degree in political science, he dropped his "slave name" and took on Karenga. In 1965 he organized US (as opposed to "them"), and gave himself the title Maulana (Master teacher). In 1976, he received a doctorate in urban development.

He would not say how large his following was before his 1971 imprisonment or how many followers he has currently.

"Our movement has been discredited," he said, "and I'm trying to rebuild it. The day I got out of captivity I went to a meeting."

His goal is to construct a national cultural network among Afro-Americans.

"We don't have a national culture," he explained. "We have a popular culture. We confuse influence with power. Influence is the ability to effect. Power is the ability to change."

© 1996-2023 The Washington Post

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fics.

and you know, and so do i | a | professor!andy barber x student!reader | andy calls you in for office hours, just as he’s done almost every week of the semester. you both know your grade in his class is the least of the worries that he hopes to address.

a real man | s, ddlg, n | dark!andy barber x jacob’s girlfriend!reader | andy shows you the kind of pleasure jacob will never be able to give you.

as far as she'll go | s, ddlg, n | daddy!andy barber x little!reader | andy has a new way of testing your limits and seeing just how far you’re able to stretch.

bratty little baby | s, ddlg, n | mean!daddy!andy barber x bratty!little!reader | after you decide to be a brat and challenge andy on completing your homework, the dominant man decides he’s had enough of your attitude and that a bit of brutal punishment has been earned.

every inch of you | h/c | boyfriend!andy barber x reader | andy tells you everything he loves about your body when you're having a hard time being kind to it.

filled with regret | s, ddlg, n | mean!daddy!andy barber x bratty!little!reader | andy doesn’t tolerate backtalk. when you call him a name in an argument, he decides he has no choice but to fill you with regret. literally.

make it a promise | f | boyfriend!andy barber x reader | to celebrate your graduation from therapy, andy gets you the gift of a long-lost friend you thought you’d never see again, along with a life-long promise of continuing to restore all the things that were taken from you.

when you can't care for yourself | h/c | boyfriend!andy barber x college student!reader | when andy notices you’re working yourself too hard, he decides you’re done for the night, giving you a nice meal before cuddling you to sleep on the couch.

blurbs.

a mess like that | s | boyfriend!andy barber x reader | andy likes fucking you senseless just as much with only his fingers.

craving comfort | agere, h/c | feb '23 blurb night | daddy!andy barber x little!reader | andy's so proud of you when you finally seek him out for comfort.

give him what's his | s, n | dark!boss!andy barber x assistant!reader | andy takes advantage of you when you agree to come over and help him sort through some paperwork.

keep the lotion on hand | f | boyfriend!andy barber x reader | andy helps take care of your dry hands.

once the tummy ache's gone | h/c | boyfriend!andy barber x reader | andy helps you when you’re feeling ill.

on the boss's break | s | andy barber x assistant!reader | andy spends his break taking care of you in his office.

refrigerator rules | h/c, agere | daddy!andy barber x little!reader | when you’re scared of him hurting you during a punishment, andy’s quick to remind you of the safe rules posted in the kitchen (and cuddle away your tears.)

shy meeting | f, h/c | whumptember 2022 | friend's dad!andy barber x high school student!reader

snuggle bug | f | boyfriend!andy barber x reader | andy gives you early morning snuggles.

so clean, so proud | f, ddlg | daddy!andy barber x little!reader | when andy asks you to clean your room before he gets home from work, you decide to obey, knowing better than to incite punishment.

teddy bear bandaids | h/c, agere | daddy!andy barber x little!reader | after getting cut up from helping andy with his office work, your daddy helps make the owwies all better.

therapist | n, s | puffy clit club | soft!dark!therapist!andy barber x reader | your therapist has sick methods to help you relax.

treated like one | s, ddlg | daddy!andy barber x little!reader | andy reminds you what happens when you act like a slut.

weaponized incompetence | mf, s | jan '23 blurb night | doctor!andy barber x reader | when faced with orgasm troubles, who could be better to trust than an expert in the field? surely he has nothing but sound intentions…

headcanons.

whumptember 2022 | tummy ache | hospital

kinktober 2022 | professor | face fucking | mob boss

5k headcanon party | anxious snuggles | first nightmare | somno

puffy clit club | puff puff lover daddy

kinkmas 2023 | massage | sex shop | exhibitionism + piercing

other | picu nurse

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The Rise & Fall of Joss Whedon; the Myth of the Hollywood Feminist Hero

By Kelly Faircloth

“I hate ‘feminist.’ Is this a good time to bring that up?” Joss Whedon asked. He paused knowingly, waiting for the laughs he knew would come at the creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer making such a statement.

It was 2013, and Whedon was onstage at a fundraiser for Equality Now, a human rights organization dedicated to legal equality for women. Though Buffy had been off the air for more than a decade, its legacy still loomed large; Whedon was widely respected as a man with a predilection for making science fiction with strong women for protagonists. Whedon went on to outline why, precisely, he hated the term: “You can’t be born an ‘ist,’” he argued, therefore, “‘feminist’ includes the idea that believing men and women to be equal, believing all people to be people, is not a natural state, that we don’t emerge assuming that everybody in the human race is a human, that the idea of equality is just an idea that’s imposed on us.”

The speech was widely praised and helped cement his pop-cultural reputation as a feminist, in an era that was very keen on celebrity feminists. But it was also, in retrospect, perhaps the high water mark for Whedon’s ability to claim the title, and now, almost a decade later, that reputation is finally in tatters, prompting a reevaluation of not just Whedon’s work, but the narrative he sold about himself. 

In July 2020, actor Ray Fisher accused Whedon of being “gross, abusive, unprofessional, and completely unacceptable” on the Justice League set when Whedon took over for Zach Synder as director to finish the project. Charisma Carpenter then described her own experiences with Whedon in a long post to Twitter, hashtagged #IStandWithRayFisher.

On Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel, Carpenter played Cordelia, a popular character who morphed from snob to hero—one of those strong female characters that made Whedon’s feminist reputation—before being unceremoniously written off the show in a plot that saw her thrust into a coma after getting pregnant with a demon. For years, fans have suspected that her disappearance was related to her real-life pregnancy. In her statement, Carpenter appeared to confirm the rumors. “Joss Whedon abused his power on numerous occasions while working on the sets of ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ and ‘Angel,’” she wrote, describing Fisher’s firing as the last straw that inspired her to go public.

Buffy was a landmark of late 1990s popular culture, beloved by many a burgeoning feminist, grad student, gender studies professor, and television critic for the heroine at the heart of the show, the beautiful blonde girl who balanced monster-killing with high school homework alongside ancillary characters like the shy, geeky Willow. Buffy was very nearly one of a kind, an icon of her era who spawned a generation of leather-pants-wearing urban fantasy badasses and women action heroes.

Buffy was so beloved, in fact, that she earned Whedon a similarly privileged place in fans’ hearts and a broader reputation as a man who championed empowered women characters. In the desert of late ’90s and early 2000s popular culture, Whedon was heralded as that rarest of birds—the feminist Hollywood man. For many, he was an example of what more equitable storytelling might look like, a model for how to create compelling women protagonists who were also very, very fun to watch. But Carpenter’s accusations appear to have finally imploded that particular bit of branding, revealing a different reality behind the scenes and prompting a reevaluation of the entire arc of Whedon’s career: who he was and what he was selling all along.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer premiered March 1997, midseason, on The WB, a two-year-old network targeting teens with shows like 7th Heaven. Its beginnings were not necessarily auspicious; it was a reboot of a not-particularly-blockbuster 1992 movie written by third-generation screenwriter Joss Whedon. (His grandfather wrote for The Donna Reed Show; his father wrote for Golden Girls.) The show followed the trials of a stereotypical teenage California girl who moved to a new town and a new school after her parents’ divorce—only, in a deliberate inversion of horror tropes, the entire town sat on top of the entrance to Hell and hence was overrun with demons. Buffy was a slayer, a young woman with the power and immense responsibility to fight them. After the movie turned out very differently than Whedon had originally envisioned, the show was a chance for a do-over, more of a Valley girl comedy than serious horror.

It was layered, it was campy, it was ironic and self-aware. It looked like it belonged on the WB rather than one of the bigger broadcast networks, unlike the slickly produced prestige TV that would follow a few years later. Buffy didn’t fixate on the gory glory of killing vampires—really, the monsters were metaphors for the entire experience of adolescence, in all its complicated misery. Almost immediately, a broad cross-section of viewers responded enthusiastically. Critics loved it, and it would be hugely influential on Whedon’s colleagues in television; many argue that it broke ground in terms of what you could do with a television show in terms of serialized storytelling, setting the stage for the modern TV era. Academics took it up, with the show attracting a tremendous amount of attention and discussion.

In 2002, the New York Times covered the first academic conference dedicated to the show. The organizer called Buffy “a tremendously rich text,” hence the flood of papers with titles like “Pain as Bright as Steel: The Monomyth and Light in ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer,’” which only gathered speed as the years passed. And while it was never the highest-rated show on television, it attracted an ardent core of fans.

But what stood out the most was the show’s protagonist: a young woman who stereotypically would have been a monster movie victim, with the script flipped: instead of screaming and swooning, she staked the vampires. This was deliberate, the core conceit of the concept, as Whedon said in many, many interviews. The helpless horror movie girl killed in the dark alley instead walks out victorious. He told Time in 1997 that the concept was born from the thought, “I would love to see a movie in which a blond wanders into a dark alley, takes care of herself and deploys her powers.” In Whedon’s framing, it was particularly important that it was a woman who walked out of that alley. He told another publication in 2002 that “the very first mission statement of the show” was “the joy of female power: having it, using it, sharing it.”

In 2021, when seemingly every new streaming property with a woman as its central character makes some half-baked claim to feminism, it’s easy to forget just how much Buffy stood out among its against its contemporaries. Action movies—with exceptions like Alien’s Ripley and Terminator 2's Sarah Conner—were ruled by hulking tough guys with macho swagger. When women appeared on screen opposite vampires, their primary job was to expose long, lovely, vulnerable necks. Stories and characters that bucked these larger currents inspired intense devotion, from Angela Chase of My So-Called Life to Dana Scully of The X-Files.

The broader landscape, too, was dismal. It was the conflicted era of girl power, a concept that sprang up in the wake of the successes of the second-wave feminist movement and the backlash that followed. Young women were constantly exposed to you-can-do-it messaging that juxtaposed uneasily with the reality of the world around them. This was the era of shitty, sexist jokes about every woman who came into Bill Clinton’s orbit and the leering response to the arrival of Britney Spears; Rush Limbaugh was a fairly mainstream figure.

At one point, Buffy competed against Ally McBeal, a show that dedicated an entire episode to a dancing computer-generated baby following around its lawyer main character, her biological clock made zanily literal. Consider this line from a New York Times review of the Buffy’s 1997 premiere: “Given to hot pants and boots that should guarantee the close attention of Humbert Humberts all over America, Buffy is just your average teen-ager, poutily obsessed with clothes and boys.”

Against that background, Buffy was a landmark. Besides the simple fact of its woman protagonist, there were unique plots, like the coming-out story for her friend Willow. An ambivalent 1999 piece in Bitch magazine, even as it explored the show’s tank-top heavy marketing, ultimately concluded, “In the end, it’s precisely this contextual conflict that sets Buffy apart from the rest and makes her an appealing icon. Frustrating as her contradictions may be, annoying as her babe quotient may be, Buffy still offers up a prime-time heroine like no other.”

A 2016 Atlantic piece, adapted from a book excerpt, makes the case that Buffy is perhaps best understood as an icon of third-wave feminism: “In its examination of individual and collective empowerment, its ambiguous politics of racial representation and its willing embrace of contradiction, Buffy is a quintessentially third-wave cultural production.” The show was vested with all the era’s longing for something better than what was available, something different, a champion for a conflicted “post-feminist” era—even if she was an imperfect or somewhat incongruous vessel. It wasn’t just Sunnydale that needed a chosen Slayer, it was an entire generation of women. That fact became intricately intertwined with Whedon himself.

Seemingly every interview involved a discussion of his fondness for stories about strong women. “I’ve always found strong women interesting, because they are not overly represented in the cinema,” he told New York for a 1997 piece that notes he studied both film and “gender and feminist issues�� at Wesleyan; “I seem to be the guy for strong action women,’’ he told the New York Times in 1997 with an aw-shucks sort of shrug. ‘’A lot of writers are just terrible when it comes to writing female characters. They forget that they are people.’’ He often cited the influence of his strong, “hardcore feminist” mother, and even suggested that his protagonists served feminist ends in and of themselves: “If I can make teenage boys comfortable with a girl who takes charge of a situation without their knowing that’s what’s happening, it’s better than sitting down and selling them on feminism,” he told Time in 1997.

When he was honored by the organization Equality Now in 2006 for his “outstanding contribution to equality in film and television,” Whedon made his speech an extended riff on the fact that people just kept asking him about it, concluding with the ultimate answer: “Because you’re still asking me that question.” He presented strong women as a simple no-brainer, and he was seemingly always happy to say so, at a time when the entertainment business still seemed ruled by unapologetic misogynists. The internet of the mid-2010s only intensified Whedon’s anointment as a prototypical Hollywood ally, with reporters asking him things like how men could best support the feminist movement. 

Whedon’s response: “A guy who goes around saying ‘I’m a feminist’ usually has an agenda that is not feminist. A guy who behaves like one, who actually becomes involved in the movement, generally speaking, you can trust that. And it doesn’t just apply to the action that is activist. It applies to the way they treat the women they work with and they live with and they see on the street.” This remark takes on a great deal of irony in light of Carpenter’s statement.

In recent years, Whedon’s reputation as an ally began to wane. Partly, it was because of the work itself, which revealed more and more cracks as Buffy receded in the rearview mirror. Maybe it all started to sour with Dollhouse, a TV show that imagined Eliza Dushku as a young woman rented out to the rich and powerful, her mind wiped after every assignment, a concept that sat poorly with fans. (Though Whedon, while he was publicly unhappy with how the show had turned out after much push-and-pull with the corporate bosses at Fox, still argued the conceit was “the most pure feminist and empowering statement I’d ever made—somebody building themselves from nothing,” in a 2012 interview with Wired.)

After years of loud disappointment with the TV bosses at Fox on Firefly and Dollhouse, Whedon moved into big-budget Hollywood blockbusters. He helped birth the Marvel-dominated era of movies with his work as director of The Avengers. But his second Avengers movie, Age of Ultron, was heavily criticized for a moment in which Black Widow laid out her personal reproductive history for the Hulk, suggesting her sterilization somehow made her a “monster.” In June 2017, his un-filmed script for a Wonder Woman adaptation leaked, to widespread mockery. The script’s introduction of Diana was almost leering: “To say she is beautiful is almost to miss the point. She is elemental, as natural and wild as the luminous flora surrounding. Her dark hair waterfalls to her shoulders in soft arcs and curls. Her body is curvaceous, but taut as a drawn bow.”

But Whedon’s real fall from grace began in 2017, right before MeToo spurred a cultural reckoning. His ex-wife, Kai Cole, published a piece in The Wrap accusing him of cheating off and on throughout their relationship and calling him a hypocrite:

“Despite understanding, on some level, that what he was doing was wrong, he never conceded the hypocrisy of being out in the world preaching feminist ideals, while at the same time, taking away my right to make choices for my life and my body based on the truth. He deceived me for 15 years, so he could have everything he wanted. I believed, everyone believed, that he was one of the good guys, committed to fighting for women’s rights, committed to our marriage, and to the women he worked with. But I now see how he used his relationship with me as a shield, both during and after our marriage, so no one would question his relationships with other women or scrutinize his writing as anything other than feminist.”

But his reputation was just too strong; the accusation that he didn’t practice what he preached didn’t quite stick. A spokesperson for Whedon told the Wrap: “While this account includes inaccuracies and misrepresentations which can be harmful to their family, Joss is not commenting, out of concern for his children and out of respect for his ex-wife. Many minimized the essay on the basis that adultery doesn’t necessarily make you a bad feminist or erase a legacy. Whedon similarly seemed to shrug off Ray Fisher’s accusations of creating a toxic workplace; instead, Warner Media fired Fisher.

But Carpenter’s statement—which struck right at the heart of his Buffy-based legacy for progressivism—may finally change things. Even at the time, the plotline in which Charisma Carpenter was written off Angel—carrying a demon child that turned her into “Evil Cordelia,” ending the season in a coma, and quite simply never reappearing—was unpopular. Asked about what had happened in a 2009 panel at DragonCon, she said that “my relationship with Joss became strained,” continuing: “We all go through our stuff in general [behind the scenes], and I was going through my stuff, and then I became pregnant. And I guess in his mind, he had a different way of seeing the season go… in the fourth season.”

“I think Joss was, honestly, mad. I think he was mad at me and I say that in a loving way, which is—it’s a very complicated dynamic working for somebody for so many years, and expectations, and also being on a show for eight years, you gotta live your life. And sometimes living your life gets in the way of maybe the creator’s vision for the future. And that becomes conflict, and that was my experience.”

In her statement on Twitter, Carpenter alleged that after Whedon was informed of her pregnancy, he called her into a closed-door meeting and “asked me if I was ‘going to keep it,’ and manipulatively weaponized my womanhood and faith against me.” She added that “he proceeded to attack my character, mock my religious beliefs, accuse me of sabotaging the show, and then unceremoniously fired me following the season once I gave birth.” Carpenter said that he called her fat while she was four months pregnant and scheduled her to work at 1 a.m. while six months pregnant after her doctor had recommended shortening her hours, a move she describes as retaliatory. What Carpenter describes, in other words, is an absolutely textbook case of pregnancy discrimination in the workplace, the type of bullshit the feminist movement exists to fight—at the hands of the man who was for years lauded as a Hollywood feminist for his work on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel.

Many of Carpenter’s colleagues from Buffy and Angel spoke out in support, including Buffy herself, Sarah Michelle Gellar. “While I am proud to have my name associated with Buffy Summers, I don’t want to be forever associated with the name Joss Whedon,” she said in a statement. Just shy of a decade after that 2013 speech, many of the cast members on the show that put him on that stage are cutting ties.

Whedon garnered a reputation as pop culture’s ultimate feminist man because Buffy did stand out so much, an oasis in a wasteland. But in 2021, the idea of a lone man being responsible for creating women’s stories—one who told the New York Times, “I seem to be the guy for strong action women”—seems like a relic. It’s depressing to consider how many years Hollywood’s first instinct for “strong action women” wasn’t a woman, and to think about what other people could have done with those resources. When Wonder Woman finally reached the screen, to great acclaim, it was with a woman as director.

Besides, Whedon didn’t make Buffy all by himself—many, many women contributed, from the actresses to the writers to the stunt workers, and his reputation grew so large it eclipsed their part in the show’s creation. Even as he preached feminism, Whedon benefitted from one of the oldest, most sexist stereotypes: the man who’s a benevolent, creative genius. And Buffy, too, overshadowed all the other contributors who redefined who could be a hero on television and in speculative fiction, from individual actors like Gillian Anderson to the determined, creative women who wrote science fiction and fantasy over the last several decades to—perhaps most of all—the fans who craved different, better stories. Buffy helped change what you could put on TV, but it didn’t create the desire to see a character like her. It was that desire, as much as Whedon himself, that gave Buffy the Vampire Slayer her power.

[enderlyghost]

rules and additionals

what all i do

i make headcanons, drabbles, and oneshots of agere/petre related content!! i only write for the fandoms listed further down ^_^.

what i will not write

ddlg

minor x adult (in the sense of adding shipping into the story)

any shipping of two ppl who have stated they are uncomfy with it or do not like it

self harm or eating disorders

please specify

if you want the request to be written about their characters (if they’re in a rp smp) or their irl personas

if you want headcanons, a drabble, or oneshot !!

if you want it to be x reader (always platonic) or character and character

who i write for

mcyt

c! or cc!tommy

c! or cc!ranboo

c! or cc!wilbur

c! or cc!tubbo

c! or cc!technoblade

c! or cc!philza (and kristin)

c! or cc!karl

c! or cc!sapnap

c! or cc!dream

c! or cc!slimecicle

c! or cc!purpled

c! or cc!quackity

c! or cc!fundy

c! or cc!nihachu

c! or cc!hannah

c! or cc!antfrost

c! or cc!badboyhalo

c! or cc!skeppy

c!ghostbur

cc!aimsey

cc!billzo

dantdm

security breach

glamrock freddy

glamrock chica

roxanne wolf

monty

sundrop

moondrop

gregory

encanto

mirabel

camilo

dolores

isabela

luisa

pepa

bruno

julieta

OK K.O

professor venomous

lord boxman

fink

darrel (regressor/playmate only)

shannon

K.O (regressor/playmate only)

rad

enid

carol (caregiver only)

note

i can deny any request i am uncomfortable with writing or any request i cannot bring myself to do

[lilnoobie]

know about me!

im vv anxious

self conscious and insecure

i have panic/anxiety attacks

im introverted and i cant handle too much stimulation

i may be too verbal or not verbal at all, it fluctuates

i need straightforward communication, i need honesty, if youre not clear i may get confused

miscommunication might be common as i dont always know how to say what i mean clearly

really bad rejection sensitivity disorder

im considered hyper empathetic and very sensitive to others around me if my empathy isnt drained (which it normally is)

you dont have to treat me like fine china but honesty and kindess is rlly all id want in a convo/rp

i tend to believe ive done smthn wrong or seem off or annoy others, so if i get annoying or anything, please tell me, id rather have an honest response than a wellmeaning lie, as lying will hurt me more tbh

i have adhd (and possibly autism too, unsure)

i hyperfixate on tons of different things! i really like sonic the hedgehog, the lion king, nbc hannibal, and other medias! i also really like animals of all kinds but i mostly prefer cats.

bad things for me

being too social (or around too many people)

bright lights

loud sounds

being ignored

rudeness or creepiness

being vulnerable

about me!

im open for roleplay but im anxious and shy, so please be nice and understanding

i like a lot of baby stuff (im scared to admit, idk it feels weird) like diapers and pacis and bottles etc.

i draw a lot and color too! i might draw or color smthn for you if we interact! i do this to show that i care about you/think about you!

i love plushies and stuffies! ive got a little collection irl! i also rlly like action figures!!

i like to read comics (that are easy to read, too much detail is not my thing)!

i also like specific cartoons (tom and jerry, sonic boom, sonic x, pokemon, alvin and the chipmunks (80s), etc)! i dont like steven universe, the owl house, she ra, etc. those shows annoy me for some reason.

media i enjoy specifically for agere !

(plus the characters i prefer as caretakers in fanfic!)

doctor who (tenth doctor, donna noble, twelfth doctor, clara oswald, thirteenth doctor, yaz khan, graham o'brien, dan lewis)

sonic the hedgehog (doctor eggman, shadow the hedgehog, rouge the bat, amy rose)

five nights at freddys security breach (sun/moon/daycare attendant/etc)

poppy playtime (huggy wuggy, kissy missy)

death stranding (cliff unger)

hannibal nbc (hannibal lecter, will graham)

twilight (carlisle cullen)

camp camp (david, gwen)

good omens (aziraphale, crowley)

mao mao (mao mao, badgerclops)

ok ko lets be heroes (professor venomous ((NO BOXMAN I DONT LIKE BOXMAN))

twin peaks (dale cooper)

rick and morty (rick sanchez ((specifically from season 4))

sanctuary (helen magnus, will zimmerman, john druitt, nikola tesla, james watson)

solar opposites (korvo, terry)

scrubs (perry cox, john dorian, christopher turk, carla espinosa, jordan sullivan)

stan against evil (stan miller, evie barret)

gravity falls (stan pines, ford pines)

robots (2005) (rodney copperbottom)

harry potter (severus snape)

constantly updating this btw so changes will occur