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was thinking about btvs 5x10 and how puzzling it is to me that buffy runs after riley to try to catch him before he leaves and how strange it is that she chooses to do that right after xander has finished telling her how not in love with riley she is. and then i was like oh right, this is a marti noxon episode. which means it's all about buffy sensing there's something monstrous and wrong in her and fleeing from it with everything she's got.

consider if you will: buffy's rising sense of panic as xander explains how riley is a dream boyfriend and how if she really loves him, she ought to be much more appreciative of him than she is. she's shaken because she knows xander is right. she knows that she should love riley and she knows that she doesn't. and that scares her. it means there's something wrong with her, something broken in her, and she can't face that. so she runs. it may look like she's running to riley, but that's just a cover. she's running away from whatever's inside her that makes her not want the thing that's normal and nice and good. she's desperate to cover it up, to force herself to want what's right and normal. it's not really about riley at all.

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer

2.18 “Killed by Death”

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer was famously pitched as a subversion of the horror cliche of a young woman walking into an alleyway only to be killed by a monster. What if, the show asked, the young woman turned around and killed the monster? What if she was the thing that monsters have nightmares about?

For the spin-off series Angel -- a "darker" and "more complex" show, as its creators love to describe it -- the writers decided to further subvert the premise. What if, they asked this time, a young woman walked into an alleyway, only to be saved from a monster by a handsome, brooding man? What if the young woman was pregnant? What if the handsome man didn't actually save her, but he felt really bad about her death and brooded extra hard about it for the rest of the episode? (Maybe the monster had lawyers -- everyone hates defense lawyers, right? -- and maybe he could threaten to kill them!) What if the young woman was pregnant? Or what if she was the monster, and so he had to kill her and then feel really bad about it? And what if she was pregnant? Wouldn't that be terrifying? What if there was a young woman and she got pregnant and became monstrous and died, and a stoic brooding man who didn't like to talk about his feelings sat in his office and felt sad about it?

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ANGEL THE SERIES | 1.19 "Sanctuary" └ requested by @juanabaloo

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer – 4.01: The Freshman

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I wish people realized what a waste it is that they're not putting butches in their things. So often I see a male character and think if he was a butch woman he'd be the best female character of all time

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buffy summers is sooooo that kieron gillen quote about how when you're bisexual, it's easy to convince yourself you're straight - you just ignore everything that isn't. high school buffy especially. she's like oh sure faith makes me feel things i've never felt before and sure i was staring at willow's cleavage when she wore the vampire corset disguise buuuuut i'm in love with angel! so obviously none of that means anything :-) lalala

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it's been years since i saw it in full but i'm thinking about the last season of buffy again. crazy how the "back to the beginning" motif manifests as the new high school starting as a huge deal - dawn is a student there, the hellmouth is underneath it, spike's crazy in the basement, the new principal is the son of a slayer. buffy even gets a job as a guidance councilor for troubled students, arguably the best episodes in the season are all about it. and then in the second half they bring in the potentials, a massive group of troubled teenagers who need guidance- a class, one might say- and they just. live at her house. train in her backyard. perhaps there was a second, more thematically significant place for high schoolers to go to learn. oh well.

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just got called the Xander of the groupchat lads

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👆 truest shit anyones ever said

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BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER | 5.12 | 5.15 | 7.06

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what you need to understand about faith lehane is that her constant flirting with and sexual behavior toward men aren’t because the writers think she’s heterosexual and are trying to make her heterosexual. she does this because she’s a lesbian who hates herself and because she’s desperate for a sense of power and control over her life

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So there's the idea of "kitchen table poly," AKA "everyone in the polycule needs to be able to sit at a kitchen table together and get along like friends."

One of my roommates just came up with a counter idea, which is "poker table poly." Everyone in the polycule must be enemies. No one is allowed to get too chummy or they're kicked out. They all also likely owe eachother money.

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chastity for a vampire

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#spike all your friends are already looking at the rock