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It's funny because Spike is so set on killing her from the start that he examines her on a microscopic level, trying to pull her apart piece by piece to find her weakness until he accidentally falls in love with her.

Somewhere between Buffy being his arch-enemy and his all-consuming adoration Buffy sits in the weird liminal space for Spike; his reluctant blorbo.

you don`t get how "i don`t care how brilliant she is" phrase is so deeply important to me cause spike is practically the only character through out the show who openly establishes and admits, to his own displeasure, that buffy summers is a really smart and bright person, who constantly one ups him and leaves him completely astonished by the schemes she so easily pulls off. willow maybe is another character who gets quite close to praising buffy`s intelligence, but she often sounds almost suprised by it, and we know that she likes being the superior one brains wise anyway. but to spike theres no surprise at all, he studied her closely, he sees her, he knows that a quick mind is needed for fighting unpredictable mosnters and you have to think on the spot, mid blow what your next 3 moves should be to not only gain control over the situation, but to use the space for your own advantage and defeat the opponent - and any other person would simply crumble under such pressure (we see everytime with the scoobies when they try to do buffy`s job).

buffy summers IS smart, she IS brilliant, she is the one who comes up with the most successful plans, she is the one on whom people rely (c`mon, wwbd exists because of that), she is able to simultaneously fight and come up with the wittiest and funniest puns - and you need to be quite clever to be this sharp and quick-witted. i wouldn`t even say that she is not booksmart but a street smart, cause under the right circumstances and with the right professors on her favourite topics she has a potential to be willow`s level book smart: we saw it when she got a pretty big score on her final exam at school, she loves poetry and clearly fascinated with language (william, heeeey~)we saw it in wild at hearts when professor walsh wanted her to lead the discussion, willow and buffy even had a bit of debate. she can be it, she just constantly gets discouraged by people in power around her cause they don`t want to give her the benefit of the doubt, cause they only see her as trouble, cause she gets easily distracted, cause they all are prejudiced as hell and don`t want to be proven wrong.

and i think buffy is quite used to such treatment which truly breaks my heart. so to one person to recognise her brillance despite all those obstacles is so incredibly important and touching because he sees her without that judgement and he doesn`t even know the impact he has with that vision of her. and even though he doesn`t say it directly to her and this scene follows by a funny transition (which i also like!), but it is so significant that somebody finally utters such words towards buffy.

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Look, body language experts on youtube are complete grifters and who take innocuous expressions and gestures and interpret them in the most negative way possible just for engagement. I dislike them intensely and have no respect for their "skills".

However, I think this could be the perfect job for Cassandra Cain

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I wish I was eating Turkish Delight right now

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  Cassie x Cole + Undercover

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OH NO

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I HAVE DECIDED NOT TO INTEREST MYSELF IN HUMAN AFFAIRS ANY FURTHER.

Death in "Mort" (1987), Terry Pratchett

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a lot of stories treat romance like it makes the relationship between two characters self explanatory and to be honest it doesn’t

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How do they have the exact same face?

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I know that the nitpicking over why the Fellowship didn’t just ride the eagles to fly directly to Mordor has been talked to death, there’s more than enough answers. The Doylist answer is that would stop the whole book from existing, or replace it with a wholly different book all about eagles. The Watsonian answer is that a) the eagles are a noble independent people not a taxi service, b) the quest is a stealth mission and huge massive giant eagles are not stealthy, c) Mordor has air supremacy and the eagles could only fly to Mount Doom after Sauron was defeated and the Nazguls all gone.

But just now, option d) occurred to me: do we really trust the eagles to withstand the ring? If it tempts Gandalf and Galadriel, surely it tempts Gwaihir the Windlord. Do we want to create the Dread Lord of the Skies? He would wear the Ring on his lovely sharp claw! He would fly higher and swifter than the winds of the world! He would build a magnificent nest from the broken timbers of Edoras! He would eat so many people! All elves and men would be forced underground!

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Happy Leland Melvin Day

Happy Leland Melvin Day!!!

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It's kinda like how Shirley used to be only a boys name until one of the Bronte's wrote a book about a girl names Shirley and suddenly the name shifted genders completely

I’m watching Splash (1984) which is a romcom about a guy who falls in love with a mermaid, and when she chooses a human name she chooses Madison and guy says “that’s not a real name, but alright” which seems to imply that Madison was not a name until at least the 80’s and all girls named Madison are actually named after the mermaid. thought you should know

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If you are interested, Angela Lansbury plays a single woman forced to take on three children due to the war (think the Pevensies in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe) but she doesn't want to because she has secret plans.

"Which are?" you may ask.

Learning witchcraft in order to defeat the Rhird Reich.

Lots of adventures happen with the kids, but then the Nazi's make secret landfall in England. However, she is able to defeat them by enchanting suits of empty armour to fight the Nazi's and drive them back into the ocean.

It's a fun little film about learning the occult to fight fascists

This is the second Nazi Punch of the Day from the 1971 film Bedknobs and Broomsticks. I've never seen the movie, but they clearly knew what to do with Nazis.

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Judge: You fool! No weapon forged can stop me.

Buffy: That was then. [Pulls out rocket launcher] This is now.

Judge: What's that do? [Gets exploded]

Watching Buffy for the first time and this shit slaps so hard. Bad guy vampires just resurrected a big, ugly blue demon called 'The Judge' who reportedly 'can't be killed by any weapon forged' and stupid me was like "Oh, I bet she'll light him on fire or kill him with her hands or something of that nature." No. Rocket launcher. Launched a rocket at him and he fucking died. Awesome.

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There was a post about how pretty much all plots of Discworld novels are fixed by autistic women with a very relevant special interest, but I'd like to celebrate the variations of this trope across the novels.

Like:

Sybil, Adora Belle, Glenda: CERTAINLY autistic, certainly a special interest, certainly relevant. You're the girls the original post was talking about!

But also:

Tiffany, Susan, Granny Weatherwax: also certainly autistic, but they all don't really have a special interest. Granny's special interest is probably witchcraft, but that's just too wide to be really counted as special. Everything Granny does is witchcraft, somehow. And Tiffany and Susan are pretty much interested in everything as long as it can be rationally understood.

Malicia Grimm: my favourite example because Malicia is an autistic woman with a special interest that doesn't help her. In fact, it's even kinda harmful. Malicia acts as everything worked like it does in a book and this means she often forgets the obvious or just makes everything more complicated than it has to be. And I LOVE THIS. It makes her book so much more fun.

Honorary mention of Nanny Ogg, a neurotypical woman whose special interest is sex.