#kendra btvs

[whatisyourchildhoodtrauma]

Kendra 'I Have Zero Patience For This Sunnydale Nonsense' Young

[jasmancer]

AU where Three Of Them

[z0mbied0gz]

Buffy summers try not to have homo-erotic tension with every single female friend you make challenge GO

[sunnydalelibrarian]

"And I'm getting fucking tired..."

Buffy Women x Paris Paloma, 'Labour'

[sad-endings-suck]

The real reason Kendra had to die in season 2 isn’t so that bringing in Faith later would make sense lore-wise, but because she simply would not have put up with Angelus’ shit and he would have been killed and stayed that way permanently.

[possession1981-moving]

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER (1997-2003) 2.09 | What's My Line? Part 1

[finalgirl1984]

We talk about Faith “smiles with a knife to her throat “ Lehane. But I think it’s slept on how much of a freak, and i mean that affectionately, Kendra was. She really locked angel up for him to watch the sun slowly rise to kill him. She did not have to do all of that she literally could have just staked him. The little laugh when angel is like “just tell me what you know and nobody gets hurt”. Hiding in the bushes at night to test another slayers, who might i remind you is trained to kill things that jump out in the dark, reflexes. She likes to hit. Girl of all time.

[maybebitterxox]

BTVS as textposts part 7

Part 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10

[hersterical]

Do you guys think Faith ever felt haunted by Kendra? Do you think Buffy not talking about Kendra made Faith feel more or less haunted?

[slayer-pride-parade]

I miss who I used to be, the tomb won’t close, stained glass windows in my mind

[aa-arttss]

Words are from this post

[5bi5]

Kendra with a sword

[raisedbythetv89]

Sometimes I just sit and imagine what btvs could have been like if the women characters and their perspectives were TRULY centered and what all could have been.

How much wasn’t explored

How angel gets his own show but is completely reliant on the presence of Cordelia and the most interesting story lines revolve around her, darla, and drusilla. And how they needed Spike, the most female gaze male character, to even have a 5th season

How Riley gets to live and be a hero with a hot badass wife but Tara, Anya, and Kendra all are dead

How much xander’s abusive, toxic monologues passing judgment on everyone but himself often serve as the “facts or true reality” of the narrative rather than the rantings of a jealous, bitter, repressed, weak and pathetic boy

So much of the show is about a woman but still with men and men’s opinions, needs, desires at the center. We can see jane and a few others efforts to center women’s narratives more especially in season 6 and 7 but much like I mourn what the first 32 years of my life could have been without patriarchy, what could have been for this show with so many incredible women that left so much potential unrealized.

Fan fiction is a reclamation of this lost potential. It’s a powerful and radical thing to do. Correcting the narrative to center who should have been centered all along heals the parts of us society wants us to neglect within ourselves for the sake of men (or straight people or white people or cis people) and their own narratives. It’s a way to decenter men not only in our real life spaces but our fictional ones too

[automatonwithautonomy]

hey remember when kendra was born and bred for a role she didn't inherit. raised to die as a sword and shield, the one, singular thing able to protect the world, only to find she wasn't even that. remember when she was a backup. a replacement. remember when she didn't have a childhood or a family. remember when she fucking died for a story that was not her own and never could be. was never going to be.

[paperpuzzles]

KENDRA DESERVED BETTER!!!

[mizeliza]

so kendra was identified as a potential slayer and given to her watcher at a very young age, and I'm not sure which of the two subsequent options is darker: that there are girls out there who train their whole lives to be called as slayers and never are, or that they are all called because the slayer life expectancy is so low