#and buffy's like ugh can't stand her

[izzyspussy]

people who see someone frantically shoving food into their mouth and think they're rude or gluttonous or whatever are... well "unspeakably naive" is the nicest possible way to phrase it.

[gaming-thoughts-by-an-idiot]

Fable 3, fuck Logan, lil bitch

Game: do u want to be Prince or Princess?

Me: I'd like to be the third secret sex

Game: what?

Me: THE MAIN CHARACTER

Game: y-yes that's-

Me: WHO GONNA SAVE THE WORLD

Game: that's what the sex-

Me: gotta go girl, boys are so obvious, he's gonna be all proper

Game: have u ever met a man...?

Me: girls are so badass, just look at Buffy

Game:...

Me:...

"Ready to see my man... the bastard Reaver"

"Damn, the city sure got bigger in like 20? Years"

"The hen tried to fly but couldn't but they can actually fly so we were all lied to"

"Damn, children working..."

"I cant remember this part of my castle"

"Holy shit it's fucking huge omg"

"Hehe that's what she said"

"That feather had plans"

"Ew look at that hat"

"Damn my dog could've been prettier"

"Pff, do u wanna look princess-y or cool"

"Obviously I'm picking the short and movable one"

"I fucking LOVE Jasper"

"I'm standing still, I wanna hear his comments to it"

"What happens if I try to leave in my pjs"

"He just went 'are u sure?' "

"Damn, he just threw a word at me that idk what means, but I think its like 'silly' "

"I look so pretty- wtf is that hair?"

"Jasper said avoid my brother, but what kind of sister would I be if I did?"

"I'm glad the princess can talk"

"Lmao I just had like the most gangsta handshake with a guard love it"

"I'm so happy I get to pet my dog, not a fan of how she sounds tho"

"Oh wait, I think maybe since I'm playing 3rd on xbox one, but did the 2nd on 360, maybe I won't have the queen but default king..."

"I'm just walking around shaking people's hands"

"Elliot is such a.... name, and- wait... who's gonna be the girl if I'm playing as him???"

"Next time..."

"I will be EVIL and idk why that's a guy"

"Hohoho I kissed the man"

"The city doesn't look like my city :( or... are we not in bowerstone, was that the name? Jesus, I've played the 2nd game for so long and I've forgotten"

"I love we're holding hands"

"I love Walter"

"Oh no my Prince, he ran away"

Walter: I want u to fight me, like your life dependent on it

Me: wow, that doesn't sound like a tutorial at all

"I'm gonna fuck up the buttons"

"Hell ye I did not"

"Damn, thought I should end the game here so I could sleep, but apparently you can't until a spesific place in the game... oh nooo, I have to do my fave hobby? Terrible:)"

"Running with my bois<3"

"There were NOT this many doors in my castle"

"The default is king :/"

"Imo king is so vanilla, like you don't give the same respect as a queen"

"All my hard work of being a queen just gone"

"Basically next time I'm doing it all on xbox one"

"Right, war room"

"Listening in"

"Damn, I'd be upset too if I was Logan, if I had that haircut"

"Oh, same throne at least"

"Ah... here comes the choice"

"Well, as the queen... I'm a good person... until I charge rent ofc haha"

"Bye baby :("

"He loves me😭"

"My MOTHER'S daughter, thank u very much"

Game: the hero was your dad

Me: what was that?

Game: I said the her-

Me: sounded like the wind

Game: tHE HE-

Me: whatever it was, it was saying bs... I miss my queen

Game: u know what? Fuck it.

"Run run run- Where's my dog btw?"

"Oh nevermind"

"Ugh, we're gonna look at the imposter, the king"

"I mean technically, Reaver IS a hero, he's just a bad one"

"Did Logan also go through the whole grab seal, end up in front of Theresa?"

"The seer of the SPIRE???"

"The queen would've fucking whipped Logan's ass if she knew"

"I'm sensing the fanfic energy... not from that Logan thing but for Reaver"

"I'm such a simp"

"For these terrible men...

"And my queen"

"You guided my MOTHER"

"What does Theresa even do in her spare time? I bet she crochets"

"I got a glove that let's me use magic... can anyone say Link? Cuz im getting Link vibes"

"OH FOR FUCKS SAKE, STOP RUNNING IN MY WAY, YA BASTARD DOG"

"Do I get to name my hero? Or am I cursed to see 'hero' every time she speaks?"

"Do I get to name my dog?"

"Isn't the dog supposed bark when there's treasure close by? Cuz I only found that key cuz of my own memory"

"Jasper is scared of bats, he'd make a terrible batman"

Walter: did u see that Jasper???

Jasper: indeed your MOTHER would've been very proud

"Why can't I run"

"Did the queen make these tunnels?"

"What happens if I don't buy the castle in the second game?"

"Can I slut around in this game too?"

"Like mother like daughter, or is it like daughter like mother? I honestly don't know"

"What's with the gift in the symbol in the corner?"

"Thought all the transportation gates were all gone, I'm pretty sure I'm on one"

"Oh wow, look at all that winter. Just like norway"

"I can make friends by shaking hands"

"I'm gonna make everyone love me with how great I am with my hands"

"For handshakes, I meant handshakes"

"I forgot I had to go back to sanctuary to change, which is much better than just changing out into the open imo"

"Oh hell yea! Look at all those gifts!"

"Bleh the outfit is... yeah"

"Dog potion? For what?

"Pink poodle"

"Doberman"

"White poodle... who wants a poodle?"

"Clockwork dog potion??? What does that even mean???"

"Setter dog potion??? What"

"Five star dog potion...?"

"That's all the gifts, i wanted a gift for myself"

"AWW I GOING WITH ALSATIAN DOG, LOOKS LIKE A GERMAN SHEPHERD OMG"

"I CAN NAME THE DOG"

"should be something fun-.... hehe"

"Betcha u can guess"

"I'm giving 10 coins to everyone, I have 129 left"

"Damn, 20coins left"

"Gotta talk to the man with the small fish name"

"What are those jester shoes"

"My mom, the queen, was busy for like 20 or something years..."

"Oh! I'm getting more gifts!"

"They better be for me istg"

"I went into a sink hole water thing and found a wedding ring"

"I think a fish is proposing to me"

"Ooo, dye"

"Are all my packages dye?"

"Tattoo set, nothing says rebel as much as this, I just got out of the castle"

"Bushy hairstyle"

"Bowerstone soldier uniform...???"

"Yule costume lmao"

"Silly outfits, dye and hair types, oh and that tattoo set"

"Out to explore more!"

[cortexifansquint]

buffyverse?

my favorite female character: Buffy is obvious, so closely followed tie between Willow and Dawn. For ATS Cordelia, Darla, Lilah.

my favorite male character: Spike. Giles (S1-5)

my favorite book/season/etc: Constant rotation of S2, 3 & 5.

my favorite episode (if its a tv show):

BTVS: Prophecy Girl, Innocence, Passion, Becoming ll, Helpless, Dopplegangland, Bad Girls, Graduation Day ll, Something Blue, Hush, A New Man, This Year's Girl, Family, Fool for Love, Checkpoint, The Gift, Life Serial, Once More with Feeling, Normal Again, Grave, Potential, Selfless, Conversations with Dead People, Chosen

ATS: Rm W/A Vu, Five by Five, The Ring, Birthday, Darla, That Vision Thing, Lullaby, Sleep Tight, The Price, Orpheus, Damaged, Smile Time, Harm's Way, A Whole in the World, You're Welcome, Time Bomb, Not Fade Away

my favorite cast member: SMG acting wise. James Marsters (goes out of his way fan wise with cons and live signings etc) Eliza Dushku (a dope human in general). Always really enjoy con panels with them. Honorable mentions: Amber Benson (so funny and sweet) & Julie Benz (like her IG dog posts also she complimented my hair at a photo op lol).

my favorite ship: Spike/Buffy. Angel/Cordelia. Wesley/Lilah.

a character I’d die defending: Dawn. Like, I can't even objectively understand the hate for such a great character, especially it being she's 'whiny'.

a character I just can’t sympathize with: well Warren is a no brainer. Can't stand Connor, I mean I get his trauma and all that but he just..ugh.

a character I grew to love: Wesley. Andrew (I found him kinda funny in S6 but loved that dork during S7). Kennedy (took a rewatch but I actually like her)

my anti otp: hmm, got ships I don't care for but as far as anti....eh.

[yellowocaballero]

⭐️ ⭐️⭐️ (one for each fic you’re proud of?)

Oh! >:O Which of my fics am I proud of...I like many, am not proud of much. Oh, right.

Could they be filled? Or was all he doing digging new holes?

He didn’t know. Nobody had said that this would be so terrifying. Was it a thrill, like jumping off a diving board into a placid pool underneath? Or was it just trepidation, gripping the arm of your chair in the scary movie as you waited for the jump scare?

It was so much easier to have nothing at all. There were no gaps; no absences or fears. No trepidation and no jump scare. No abandonment. Nothing to lose. Free.

Was it worth the one hundred hurts, just for the one bandage?

I'm never going to write something as funny as Fahrenheit 101 again and this keeps me up at night. I peaked there. You have no idea how this feels. It hurts, physically. I can't recreate this. I literally wrote this fic and then went 'yeah, this is it', and then stopped writing TMA.

As much as I like comedy, I don't really think something should be just comedy - otherwise it's just a crack fic (and I got funny crack fics, but those are on tumblr, not ao3). Despite the stupidity, F101 hits on something that I hit on a lot - that loving people hurts, especially when you always expect them to leave. Every relationship will always result in hurt feelings and sometimes be more trouble than it's worth, and every relationship opens yourself up to an awful risk. It's just that the reward is usually worth the risk. I imagine to someone who's a comedic little Victorian Orphan, who's experienced the worst case scenario, then he wouldn't find the risk worth it.

I'm somebody who needs other people, and I resent it...I always find myself wishing that I could do it alone. But who does, right?

I'll do one other, for something I'm proud of.

“Aw, Cordy, lay off,” the nerd in the Hawaiian shirt said, pushing through the crowd and cheerfully ignoring the looks of mild disdain everybody was bestowing upon him. “You call this a Welcome Wagon? Wait ‘til first period to scare her pants off.” The nerd smiled brightly at her, in a way that he probably thought was winning but was painfully teenage boy awkward. He held out his hand. Buffy eyed it warily. “Xander Harris, Mr. Welcome Wagon, can I show you around? Get you a drink? It’ll be from the vending machine, so ten percent chance you’ll get Cherry Coke, but guaranteed it’ll be cold!”

“Ugh, Xander, don’t threaten a girl with Cherry Coke.”

“How can I threaten her when you’re standing right next to me, Cordelia!”

A short, painfully adorable red headed girl in a fuzzy sweater tugged at Xander’s garish sleeve, expression softly folded in gentle recrimination. “Xander! Be nice.” She smiled sweetly at Buffy, assailing her eyes with a bright pink butterfly hair clip. “I’m Willow Rosenberg. Uh, I like your hair. And your shoes. And your makeup is nice.”

This is from the hideously obscure and weird Buffy fic I wrote a bit ago - the quote is almost random. I don't know why it was written. Just my demons. But it was actually an insanely hard flex of my dialogue skills.

1. BTVS characters have an extremely distinctive way of speaking. Almost unmatched. It's in the vocabulary, the sentence structure, the banter, and the extreme wit. If I don't match those extremely distinctive speech patterns, it's not Buffy.

2. BTVS Whedon is an extremely hard act to follow. But I also didn't want to write the dialogue exactly like he did. Whedon's BTVS dialogue is great, but it's very blanket and one size fits all quips (This was fine in Buffy, it got GRATING in his MCU stuff). I wanted to keep the parts from 1), but I wanted it to fit the characters and be very hyper-tailored to each character. So Xander's jokes become mean, Willow becomes peppy but subtly sarcastic, Buffy is...Buffy's the same, and Cordy's wit is dry and acerbic. Even weirder, Angel needed to be from Angel Season 1, not Buffy Season 1. Which clashed with everybody else. So I needed to smooth that over.

3. So you have all of that. And you NEED to be able to hear the actors in your head, and the actors do so much heavy lifting in Buffy. I gratuitously overused italics in all of their dialogue because the delivery is so distinctive. And you need to do other stuff, like show that Willow & Xander have been friends since diapers, that Angel is hideously shy in front of people but very loquacious alone, etc. And the dialogue also still needs to be extremely tight and push forward plot & characterization every second, because the story's very fast paced.

The story is stupid but Buffy is the dialogue, and I couldn't slack. Buffy is serious fucking business. Obviously. Thanks for the q!

[willowrosenboob]

Spuffy anon, I feel you so much on that. I can't exactly say that their season 6 journey had to transpire like /that/ overall and I will never think that certain scenes should've ever happened out of necessity (even with the "excuse" that the show is dark, idk I just hated the whole execution of it, I believe you know what I'm referring to), but anyway yes while I guess that "Once More With Feeling"'s last moment had to happen sometime between them as well as the aftermath of Spike questioning Buffy's feelings, pre-Smash spuffy never not gets me because there's a certain sort of disarm and tenderness between them. I really loved the ongoing theme that Buffy hangs out with Spike because she doesn't have to pretend to be ok and perfectly fine with him, and pre-Smash it wasn't framed as this "unspeakable" thing that was obviously bad for her, it was her just enjoying his company and likewise for him. Also as you mentioned, the melancholy, the yearning, all of it just made it feel so strangely honest between them? They've known each other for who they were and are supposed to be for a longer time now so you could say that even before Smash, they both knew 'the best and worst' of each other. I don't know what your opinion on season 7 Spuffy is, I can completely understand it if you're not into it after the season 6 events, but some scenes throughout that season stand out a lot for me for the similar reasons why pre-Smash spuffy is so significant to me.

ugh, so true. it’s just so fascinating that they were able to be so open with each other despite still being mortal enemies, because the roots of both of their suffering is so similar (both having been dead at one point, alienated from people who they used to connect with, both feel like they’re not what they should be). all their scenes convey SO MUCH, from tender uninhibited sadness, to all consuming grief, to awkward connection, to genuine laughter and smiles that they’re both not used to. also SMG and JM are such amazing actors, and their facial expressions and line deliveries are so perfect. obviously it doesn’t last, but it’s just so beautiful that even for a few episodes they had this unlikely connection that was so unlike their relationships with anyone else, and that functioned as one of the few bright spots in a really depressing season. they truly understand each other in a way that no one else does.

i think you’d be surprised to know that overall s6 spuffy is my favourite season for them in the entire show. i’ve always viewed the thesis of their s6 relationship as being that relationships built on misery aren’t meant to last. them falling into toxicity made a lot of sense sense for their characters to me (and thematically too), even if a lot of what went down between them, mainly seeing red, wasn’t handled as carefully as i would’ve hoped. and I always felt like spike played a really interesting role in exploring buffy’s psyche. I think in the second half of the season spike represents the dark unrestrained half of buffy that’s telling her to abandon the values she holds, because sometimes it’s easier to embrace suffering. i love their break up scene because we see buffy finally understanding how their relationship is hurting both of them. it’s remarkable character development.

(sidenote, but i loathe whenever someone has a galaxy brain take that s6 spuffy’s arc was entirely about spike. like did you not see the best depression arc in the history of tv take place???? like yeah sr was mainly about spike, but did you not notice how there were barely any spike centric scenes during their actual relationship??? how buffy projected her feelings about herself onto spike, and we got to see her dealing with her emotions way more than spike did???????? just because character development isn’t linearly positive, it doesn’t mean that it isn’t there, and that it isn’t super fucking good)

i’ve said in the past that season 7 is my least favourite season for them, and while that still kinda holds up (mainly cause i think it’s not written particularly well, and the events of sr are brushed off way too easily), s7 actually hit different for me on my last rewatch. after s6 it’s so nice to see them lifting each other up instead of bringing each other down. we get to see them come to understand why their relationship ended so badly in s6. they come to peace with who they are, and they come out stronger because of it. also, i feel like while spike does understand buffy’s mental state extremely well in early s6, the whole lack of soul thing keeps him from seeing her as she sees herself. he’s finally able to appreciate her as a hero in s7 (compare how he consoles buffy in touched with how he tries to console her in dead things). morality is a big part of buffy’s character, and even if i don’t always like it, i think spike getting a soul was 100% necessary to getting them together.

so yeah, early s6 spuffy is absolutely god tier. no one does yearning like they do.

[alirhi]

reposting from an ooooold fb post

this just popped up in my memories on facebook from 5 years ago, and I still stand by every point I made here, so fuck it. I'm reposting it here:

While I really do love Joss Whedon's work, I'm not surprised in the least that his attempt at writing a Wonder Woman movie is being ripped apart for being sexist. Has anyone ever actually WATCHED Buffy the Vampire Slayer? I mean, really? It's a great show if you don't think too deeply on it, but... Every single female who shows the slightest bit of strength and independence is immediately ridiculed and slut-shamed, including the goddamn title character! Here's just the examples I can think of off the top of my head:

1) Buffy's entire. Fucking. Arc. She can't have a functional relationship because in Whedon's mind that's aaaaaalllllllll about sex, and there is an ENDLESS trope of "girl who enjoys sex must be punished!" Angel turns evil, Parker's a douche, she and Riley (UGH, Riley! *barf*) trigger a massive haunting that nearly kills all their friends, Spike is UTTERLY DESTROYED as a character on EVERY level, and everyone shrugs off his attempt to RAPE HER as just "eh, whatever. he went crazy that one time, but it's all better now." Oh, and she can't date a normal human boy because - god forbid - his fragile wittle ego might get all bruised!

2) Faith. omfg Faith. What he did to her should be a CRIME. Here is a girl who is comfortable with her sexuality and LOVES what she does. She's powerful, beautiful, and she knows it. In Whedon's mind? CLEARLY INSANE. TURN HER EVIL IMMEDIATELY. But not really evil, no. A truly evil woman is just too interesting. No, make her crazy, and then make her flop like a fish out of water back and forth over that good/evil line, just dipping her toe in on either side enough to make her feel like utter shit at all times.

3) Kendra is smart and has been properly trained. Can't have that! She's a stuttering robot and dies the DUMBEST WHEDONVERSE DEATH EVER. (well... maybe second-dumbest *side-eyes Wash in Serenity*)

4) Drusilla is actually interesting and nuanced and kind of a badass? Eh...quietly remove her and make her boyfriend whine about her for all eternity. No one will notice. (I noticed, Joss. I noticed and was NOT PLEASED.)

5) Willow, immediately upon discovering that she has a natural affinity for magic, is punished at every turn for pursuing that. Giles talks down to her and tries to hide things from her without even explaining why he thinks they're so dangerous for her, if she doesn't get something perfect on the first try, every goddamn character around her except Tara (who is the ONLY ONE with a leg to stand on, here, as the only other witch in the series - not counting Amy the rat) ridicules her for it, and when she finally gets a good solid handle on her abilities? BOOM. "Addiction" (thus proving Whedon has NO FUCKING IDEA what magic really is, what it does, or how it works), hurt Dawn, lose Tara (😭 MY HEART), and then make her "evil", and the only way she can be back with the good guys is if she's TERRIFIED of her power and lives in eternal shame of it, because I swear to god, WHEDON IS AFRAID OF WOMEN.

I was going to say something about Cordelia, but that's a whole rant on its own, because she was AMAZING on Angel before Joss ruined everything AGAIN... and I'm trying not to delve into Angel right now. I'm too tired for that shit lol. And Anya...eh. Everything about her and her relationship with Xander is pretty much just one big sexist trope. Also too tired to get into that.