Thoughts and meta on the greatest vampire-themed horror/comedy/absurdist essay/teen drama of the late 1990s. Formerly buffy-thoughts. Currently writing The Insect Reflection - a series of essays covering every episode of Buffy.
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i think being manacled with my arms above my head would be sooo comfortable
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the problem with watching buffy the vampire slayer for the first time when you're 13 is that it will fundamentally reshape your brain chemistry to the point where literally all fiction becomes buffy the vampire slayer in different fonts. "watch another show!" you might say, and believe me i have! i promise i've watched many other shows since i was 13. but the problem is that all those other shows as well as films, books, podcasts etc. are simply deviations of buffy the vampire slayer to me. it's the holy text, the primary source. everything else is just commentary.
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the reason buffy summers is a much better protagonist than a lot of the main characters in other teen supernatural shows is that those characters tend to be good people in a passive, boring way. they're generally nice and care about doing good, but they're rarely placed in situations where they have to make difficult decisions with no good outcomes, or pushed to extremes that force them to contend with the ugliest parts of themselves. btvs meanwhile is absolutely obsessed with the idea that passivity is inherently unethical. as such, in order for buffy to be a good person, she constantly has to make active choices. she never gets to be indecisive in the face of a moral dilemma. she always has to choose, to make tough calls, and that makes her genuine heroism and goodness far more compelling than a character who's just kind of passively nice.
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hi! I love your analysis and I’ve read all of them while working in the Office this winter (i am watching Buffy for the first time, start last year and slowly finishing Buffy and Angel).
There are many thing I agree on your analysis and others things I didn’t think about but are brilliant.
if it doesn’t bother you to say it, which is your ao3? I’d like to read your fic too! I’m dying for a good Buffy/Faith fic, but there are many of them and I’d like to start with an author whose interpretation of the show I know I trust and find so fascinating 😂 (because I’ve read your essays.)
https://archiveofourown.org/users/IvorySteel92
And thank you 😊
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the way buffy the vampire slayer talks about sex is really fucked up. sometimes in a textually and thematically fascinating way. and sometimes just in a misogyny way.
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i like to think that after primeval but before restless xander decided he had to do something to show willow he was chill with her sexuality, so he just stood next to her, offered her water, and went "boobs amiright?" willow went through an entire face journey because, on one hand, that's the weirdest way and time to show support given everything around them at the moment, but on the other... well... boobs indeed
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For the record:
S5
S2
S3
S6
S4
S1
S7
Thank you.
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“I really did live and breathe Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I cared about Buffy more than I cared about my real life. And just having that consistency — when I was, like, 10, I watched the first season of that show while it aired, and was with it for seven years. And it was such a tool of dissociation for me. It was, in hindsight, I think, very much a coping mechanism for not being able to form the kinds of deep romantic relationships that other people can form when they’re an adolescent in the right body. I wasn’t in a place where I could open myself up to people, but here was this show that was so emotional, that I could have this relationship with.” -Jane Schoenbrun
I Saw the TV Glow // Buffy the Vampire Slayer
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Bored Now (Doppelgangland)

Doppelgangland is a very good episode.
There’s a version of this essay that is nothing but that sentence over and over again, phrased in different ways. It’s a nearly self-evident truth – this episode is uncontroversially and near-universally beloved. IMDB’s ranking has it as the best episode of Season Three, and 8th overall. It’s regularly mentioned as a season highlight by dedicated and casual fans alike. Vampire Willow is one of the show’s most memorable villains, and she only gets this episode to shine at all, after being criminally underused in The Wish. Even Joss Whedon ranks it among his own top 10. Fan ratings aren’t everything – the fact that Restless comes in at #33 is a clear indicator of the voters’ collective lack of taste – but when a fandom so clearly agrees on something, I think it’s worth asking why.
In one way, that question has a very easy answer: this episode is very fun to watch. Alyson Hannigan dazzles as the quietly charismatic Vampire Willow, dominating the screen with a very specific almost-awkward swagger. She then channels her inner Tatiana Maslany and delivers sparkling turns, first as Willow-playing-Vampire-Willow and then as Vampire-Willow-playing-Willow. She gets such joy from playing up the differences and similarities between both characters – perhaps my favourite bit coming in her demonstration of how terrible both Willows are at improvisation acting. Hannigan has been quietly improving as an actor since Welcome to the Hellmouth, and now shows herself to sit comfortably beside Gellar and Head as one of the strongest members of the cast.
And it’s more than just Vampire Willow – the whole show is singing. The humour is bright and zippy. Every character, now settled in the roles they’ll fill for the rest of the season, gets moments to shine. Anya is starting to emerge as a character who is recognisably Anya. The climactic fight in the Bronze is probably the best group action scene so far, and might have a shout to be the show’s best ever. Even the tertiary characters are in form: Devon’s insistence that only “fruity jazz bands” know more than three chords is quietly one of the funniest moments of the episode. This is an episode that starts being fun early on, and never stops.
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BTVS + Onion Headlines : Part (5/?)
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you ever think about how toasters love bread but hate toast
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Ha. Ha. Hahahahahahahaha.
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“There’s a great deal of myth about Dracula. I imagine the trick to defeating him lies in separating the fact from the fiction.” -Giles, 5.01 Buffy vs Dracula
“A quest? Like finding a grail or something?” -Buffy, 5.18 Intervention
“I’m the Slayer. The chosen one. All mythic and defender-y. Evil nasties are supposed to flee from me. Not the other way around.” -5.20 Spiral
“She’s a hero, you see.” -Giles, 5.22 The Gift
buffy season five imagery: myth
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Buffyverse AU where Angelus kills Buffy and turns her into a vampire. The Scoobies find a way to kill Angelus, but just can’t bring themselves to kill Buffy; until the new slayer, Faith, shows up. Her and Buffy develop a rivalry that quickly becomes obsessive… and then something more.
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BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER 5.18 | “Intervention” 6.11 | “Gone”
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Rest in peace Michelle ❤️
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anyways was thinking of this post from @disco-tea and thought it was cute
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