#not that watching buffy is a problem
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Need a new TV show to watch before I just start rewatching buffy AGAIN
#not that watching buffy is a problem#its the opposite of a problem#but i need more sapphic media#and it doesnt even need to be the focus give give me some fun queer stuff#buffy would be a queer show even without the lesbians#but thank god it has them and rip#(and yes im currently binging tv to distract from all my responsibilities also because its all my lil brain can focus on rn)
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Y’know what bothers me the most about Charmed? Specifically in S8, The Charmed Ones are supposed to be the most powerful witches in existence, yet Billie comes in and can just do multiple powers without potions and verbal commands, like… so who’s the most powerful here??
Like the series was fine at the start and then it just got so… blah. Like I know I watched this series all the way through once but I did NOT recall like half of S7 and any of S8 in my current rewatch.
#like am i crazy?????#is it bc i didn’t watch Charmed as it came out organically???#like i only just watched it for the first time a few years ago and watching it again now#but this show was such a let down 😭#i remember watching Buffy after Charmed the first time and thinking that was exactly what i expected out of Charmed#Charmed spoilers#idk maybe i’m the problem#either way i’m a disappointed witch
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I get what Thomas Aquinas meant by the right course of action being proportionate now
#acting or reacting out of proportion or ways that don’t fit the proportions of the thing that happened (whether less or more)#🤝 Buffy’s mom yelling at her daughter in front of everyone in school that already thinks she evil because she’s sad Buffy took her seriously#when she yelled at her to never come back#or her friends being mad her problems cost them some too#the only valid one is Willow they were getting somewhere#and even then only semi#magpie watches btvs
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I really get so emotional every time Cordelia treats Wesley with an once of kindness or speaks up for him.
#started properly watching Buffy and now here I am#Cordelia was the only one who really treated Wesley like a person instead of a problem#buffy the vampire slayer#btvs#cordelia chase#wesley wyndam pryce
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ok this is not exactly a rant but i've been thinking, as someone who writes, about the way that we female authors present our female characters because in the vast majority of the books I've read, they are mostly the means to an end and the end is a man.
like literally so many female characters have their own growth thrown to the wind and for what? to put a ring on it?
maybe is just not appealing to me as a reader but why can't growth and love coexist? why can't a power angry woman be loved when men are idolized through every shitty and downright abusive and toxic behavior known on god's green earth?
i want my cruel and vindictive and unhinged women to be loved like they hang the moon in the sky for the vile and cruel creatures that they are why do women need to be bite sized or worst need to be punished even if their cruelty is basically a survival instinct while the man can be everything they want regardless of why and how the math isn't mathing
#look this makes me angry#women in literature#we aren't talking the gone girl kinda evil we are talking of women's nature outside of mens shitty behaviors#books#jude duarte#yes it's kinda about her my baby could have been the most powerful being ever but nope look that part doesn't make an ounce of sense#nyx triskelion#cruel babe who doesn't have 1 problem in being cruel#torture him babe who cares#the cruel prince#cruel beauty#fantasy books#Katherine pierce#i will never watch tvd in its entirety bc of reasons but she is my babe#buffy summers#especially in the last that bunch of ungrateful fucks#look i want to talk about books bc words literally saved my ass since the down of day but i also want to be real about it
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how beautiful is it that from episode one, buffy expresses disdain for being The Chosen One, and by the end of the series, she has not only rid herself of those trappings, but she (and her friends, together) made it so that no one else ever has to carry that weight alone
#btvs#watching the pilot and having emojis#say what you will about joss whedon. i won't deny this series has many many problems#but it does also press pretty much all of my buttons#formative media for me. if i love tropes it's because i love buffy
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ugh i hate episodes where buffy has a bad feeling about someone and everyone gaslights her about it and she turns out to be right
#idr if she's ever wrong but i'd probably hate those episodes too#i'm Only watching ted because i don't wanna miss out on cordy and woz#also any episode where everyone's like omG can you beLIeVE how unREASOnaBLE buffy is being?? 😮💨😮💨😮💨#when she is having a perfectly normal response to what is going on lol#like i do get annoyed/have my problems with buffy sometimes but jeeeeeez#(lowkey i really didn't like buffy when i was a kid - partly bc i didn't like bangel and partly bc we're really alike sjfjfkks)#(once i was like “oh. most of the things i don't like about her are things i don't like about myself” i got over it)#(as an aside loving a character who you see your negative traits in is a good roundabout way of self-love and -forgiveness)#anyway#buffyverse liveblog
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I started watching TW season one again (the only one I actually watched so far 😂) and once again I'm just amused by the plotholes and discrepancies and things they show or say once and never refer to or use again, as well as the technical side of camera shots and cgi - and I'm only in episode 5 so that's a record if you ask me. (Nevermind that me picking at threads already started with eposiode 1 😂)
Disclaimer: As I said I've never watched that much of the actual series even if I steal the characters to write! Also I'm definitely biased due to the fandom, wiki entries I read and so on. So take all this with a grain of salt! It's mostly stuff I was amused by so if I have it wrong - well. I have it wrong, I guess.
Anyway. On to my observations: (this got long, so I hid them under the readmore)
Sorry to all the people who like scott, but... he's so boring <.< WHY is that guy the main character? EVERYONE else would be more interesting just from a storytelling point of view! Give me Finnstock, Danny, the Sherrif, or any of the other main cast and just get rid of Scott as main POV <.< please.
It's so funny that they tried to make it some kind of horror tv show. I actually recognize classical horror movie scenes, camera shots that should invoke a certain fear or surprise but they somehow manage to put it in such a context that I laugh because I recognize what they want to do and it just doesn't work. Might be a me-problem because I like watching horror films, but... it's still very sad.
Stiles says he once had a boa. I asked the internet and it told me boas in zoos can get about 28 years old... Stiles is 16. Stiles... Stiles, what did you do with your boa?... STILES....
The scene where Stiles and Scott talk through video chat (and is that AOL? Those were AOL-icons... was AOL still alive in 2011? <.<) and Derek stands behind Scott... it's just... why did Scott stare at the screen instead of turning around? Nevermind that he read what Stiles was writing out loud and that Stiles's message was written in such large letters that probably anybody standing 5 miles away could have read it - nevermind the guy Stiles thought was standing behind Scott. Also: why did Derek just... stand there. Especially once he was sure he'd been seen...? I know that's also one of the Horror-esque scenes I mentioned but the timing of it all was so bad! (also also: Scott is just stupid <.<)
They use this weird alternative 'sight' for werewolves in the beginning (the scenes colored in red) and it feels like they use that in the first few episodes and never again after that <.<
Another weird scene: The game where Scott wolfs out and Jackson stays back and finds Scott's glove with holes where Scotts claws came out. I just... have so many questions... 1) Why did Jackson stay back after not only his own WINNING team but also the audience, the enemy team, coach finnstock and ANYONE ELSE who was probably assigned to clean up the field? He even was still in his own lacrosse gear so he stood back to take up a glove a person who'd cleaned up the field should have taken with them?... 2) Why the fuck was Derek staring at him? <.<... or rather, why was he staring at him for so long so Jackson even looked at him? Did Derek even see the whole game? Why did he let Jackson see him? It's not like he tried to scare him into staying silent, for that his staring wasn't nearly scary enough <.<... it's just... another weird composition. Especially since Jackson and Derek have nothing to do with each other <.<...
Scotts dream where he killed Allison in the bus that mimicked how Peter/the Alpha killed the bus driver. Even though later it comes out that he was there and tried to keep the Alpha from killing the guy, this dream is just one instance where they try to 'show' Scott's 'connection' with the Alpha. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the connection he has with Peter is the one and only time we see such a connection between an Alpha and a Beta, I think. I mean the whole "I dream of things the Alpha did" and the whole not remembering/blacking out due to instincts and Alpha?
Also, Scott was apparently was hurt/slashed by the Alpha's claws. How come that wound was healed the next morning? I thought wounds caused by an Alpha heal slower? <.< or is that a fandom thing? <.<
I want to hug Derek. Hard. Poor boy drives to a town he got traumatized in to help his sister/Alpha where she ALSO gets killed and all those stupid teenies do is blame him for her death, for their problems and for anything else the new Alpha did - especially the other killings - so he gets locked up by the Sherrif and when he gets out that stupid pup has the gall to search him out just to - again - blame him for all of his problems and even for the death of his sister and the bus driver <.<...
On that note: I think Derek said he came to find his sister/meet his sister. To me it sounded in that moment as if he hadn't known she was dead when he arrived and that confuses me...
Also: shouldn't he also have a connection/pack bond with the Alpha if he wants to or not? Or does a pack just fall apart when the old Alpha dies until they've submitted to the new one? <.< And doesn't that mean that Derek's currently a packless Omega? <.<...
Aaand there's another horror film track shot classic that sends the camera from Derek and Scott to the outside of the Hale house where the Alpha is waiting/his eyes are glowing in the dark. ... So why didn't the Alpha go to them? Or did he just... sit there and stare at the house until Scott leaves? If the Alpha runs on instinct why didn't he try to get to Scott or Derek - especially after Scott left - when he is trying to get Scott and Derek to accept being part of his pack? <.<...
Kate drives into town without stopping and the Alpha attacks here somewhere in town. Close enough to Scotts home that he sees her shortly after she shoots her shotgun twice when the shots were what woke him up. 1) did the Alpha smell her through her car and the fumes? <.< 2) did he just stumble over her car while running through the town?? <.<... 3) if not, did he follow her from the outside into town? why didn't he attack her there instead of somewhere quieter? <.<...
I'm still confused by the whole Derek clawed Jackson in the neck and it did something to Jackson-stuff. Especially because Derek's not an Alpha yet <.<...
And finally just a quote from Derek that amused me for potential fanfic reasons when Scott asks why Derek can't just track the Alpha as a human: "Beause his human scent could be entirely different" <.<
#teen wolf#sei's brain bubbles#just me watching TW and blubbering about it#I still can only watch these episodes in increments#and I'm mostly skipping through the Scott/Allison-stuff#because they're getting on my nerves so much#especially Scott is just so stupid...#and I know - 'Teenager' - but I can still watch Buffy without any problems#and the main characters there are also mostly teenagers in the beginning!
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i love how every time i see the antigone poll on my dash antigone is steadily getting more and more votes/percentage youre doing good work here
no the most gratifying moment of my entire life was checking the post every few minutes and seeing the number tick up i won't lie... and like i literally am so tired of tumblr brackets and i don't think they matter and i think they say way more about which subsets of people 1. are active on tumblr and 2. are following the specific bracket blog but also like... i literally cannot watch my βλωρβη (greek woman blorbo) lose a most tragic poll to a character who's not even dead.*
*captain jack is exempt from the "must be dead" clause because being alive forever is also tragic because it's all about how your time isn't working right/doesn't sync up with other people's <- thing i just made up but i stand by it <- also thing i can try and elaborate on later when the next door neighbors aren't vibrating my skull into oblivion with their sound system
#mod felix#i mean in general i don't think a tragic character has to be dead i think it's about the cycles but you know#antigone is more tragic than captain jack though. although they both have the problem of watching 90% of their loved ones die#i also don't want to be like. stuck-up about what counts as 'tragedy' or a 'tragic character' but it is like.#well antigone is pretty much the blueprint. there are characters she could lose to and i wouldn't be too mad but like.#it honestly doesn't get much more tragic than her.#i mean i think anyone who's the last one standing in a tragic line is like. a good candidate for this poll#in ancient or modern-day literature#also they should put doctor who (the character) on the most tragic character poll <3#they should put rose tyler on the most tragic character poll. okay i'm done#WAIT NO I'M NOT. THEY SHOULD PUT BUFFY ON THE MOST TRAGIC CHARACTER POLL.#i don't know if buffy is that tragic but like. there's something there about the cycles.#faith btvs would also be a good candidate although i think her arc is also something a little different#i stand by rose though. s2 of new who is a tragedy To Me#they should also put clara oswald on the most tragic character poll.#i would say i'll run my own poll but actually running a bracket was so hard i never want to do that again#okay NOW i'm done
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james and elizabeth are so funny. at the time i resented them for not being spike and dru, but i do really enjoy that angel and darla keep on having the same problems with the people they make being wildly obsessive in love and/or murder. it's you! it's how you make them.
#i'm trying to remember what was going on with lawrence on the nazi ship but iirc spike was also there so i'm pretty sure it was a spike#reference#penn was definitely not spike as his problem is not being enough fun but i still think they started out wanted to write angel#killing spike but couldn't because spike was busy being on buffy#press says btvs#actually i think i'm watching angel right now#technically#me as a kid watching buddy: can this flashback be about spike and drusilla#me as an adult watching buffy: every flashback actually is about spike and drusilla bcs everything is about them#they are inescapable
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Xander is Joss’s insert or mouthpiece - 'If I have to look at Xander for one more minute I will explode. Yes I know he’s a main character. Yes I know that he’s probably in every episode of every season. I am in Hell.'
#WHYYYYY DOES HE GET SO MUCH SCREENTIME???#if there is one thing I'd bet my life on it's that xander is a self-insert for the person who made this show. idk who that was but I can -#tell they're infusing themselves in the narrative through him#anyways he's definitely a self-insert and also I just don't like him so whenever he's on screen I'm painfully aware of it
These are the same feelings I have about Danny Partridge - his character is the main focus of the show, basically a self-insert of the creator. i'm only halfway through season 1 and every episode is about DANNY, with the exception of one or two episodes. it's so obvious that it is painful (he does have some good moments but still !! so overwhelming) and when the storyline is about another character, suddenly danny becomes the centre of the episode.
"But oddly enough, everybody on that show was oddly enough connected to my family. My daughter's name is Laurie, her boyfriend was Keith. Our dog was called Simon, but they got a female dog so her name was Simone." - Bernard Slade, creator and writer.
#currently watching the partridge family#it's another buffy situation#this ep starts off with keith having problems about songwriting and eventually he writes a new song only for danny to claim it as his own#and suddenly its all about him#laurie (susan dey's character) gets no storyline at all except for being known as political
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Lol i have a lil drabble finished and ready to be published with Endeavor, but people is sooo angry with him rn that im kinda scared to publish this 🤣🤣🤣 i guess ill wait a bit 🙈
#yes#i like endeavor#in my imagination and how i have redrawn him lol#i truly dont justify ANY of his actions#but i believe in redemption and forgiveness so...#ill like him FORVER#CUZ I HAVE A THING FOR BUFFY GUYS WITH ANGRY PROBLEMS OKAY?#JUST WATCH MY OBSESSION WITH BAKUGOU AND LEVI ACKERMAN#okay levi is not buffy#BUT IN MY IMAGINATION HE IS#bye🙃
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Then you add Wheatabix, like Spike did.
#vampires#vampire#team spike#wheatabix#this problem has already been solved#go watch Buffy#buffypedia#buffythevampireslayer#btvs#spike btvs#spike
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watching angel stalk buffy in s1 is so funny bc by the end of ats he's Still doing it, he's just paying professionals to track her for him instead and like... Dude.
#danni watches buffy#points for the 'people with squished roaches on their shoes get a free drink' mini plot#of this episode it's iconic#way to hire teenagers to deal with your infestation problem
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I could really go without this whole Xander and willow thing happening
#its a me problem i hate the frienship drama plots#these episodes are fun but every time there a ✨moment✨ between them its a huge vibe killer for me#meg watches buffy
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thing is. like. i’ve consumed a lot of media and a lot of it has been very fundamental to me. but btvs is like… my show. idk. i watched it at the end of my last breakup and it just like implanted in my core. whenever i watch it it works into my head and i can’t sleep cause i just think about it. my mom associates me with btvs so strongly that she thought i’d been watching it for years and years and years like since i was a little kid. chances are if you’re close to me, you’ve watched at least one episode, because i just tend to put it on. it’s a mess and it’s the best show i’ve ever watched. i criticise ninety percent of its plotlines & its perfect (well). i don’t even talk about it very much i just rotate the people and the show and the themes inside my head. it’s just. man
#i need to think of a better way to word things than ‘consuming media’. i hate it it’s so clinical!!#consumed a lot of art is better but i still don’t like consumed#anyway this is a product of that post which is like. if you had to make all your followers watch one thing… or whatever#Idk. btvs has its problems i am sometimes made acutely aware of when watching. (words of someone who’s just watched xander give a stupid ass#speech on why buffy needs to appreciate her emotionally coercive boyfriend more). but. augh#btvs#oliver talks
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