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Eliza Dushku’s physical acting as Faith is so good. She’s always moving, a little out of control in her body, a little too much emotion for her to contain in stillness. It’s a contrast to Buffy, who goes from “normal girl” to “Slayer” mode in an instant, whose physical presence is minimal until she needs it not to be. Faith’s physical presence is something that you’re always aware of.

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girls i promise you, if I could draw I'd be making tillow fanart for daysss. like, don't get me wrong, I love love LOVE all the beautiful spuffy fanart I see on my feed, and I appreciate every single spuffy fanartist out there, (y'all are doing god's work <3)... but it's got me wondering where's the rep for our GIRLS?

like... they're THE. iconic. lesbian. witches!!!

fr if someone else doesn't pick up the gauntlet, I'mma have to start learning to draw just to give f/f fanart the rep it deserves in this fandom. and TRUST ME nobody wants that lol. I cannot draw for toffee.

but ... at the end of the day, those girls were my queer awakening. and they deserve all the love in the world.

(p.s disregard this if I'm just clueless and not seeing it on my feed in which case PLEASE drop some tillow fan artists down below and I'll reblog their work like CRAZYYY)

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You’re My Always

Happy Valentines Day! I drew Willow and Tara from Buffy The Vampire Slayer to celebrate.

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girls i promise you, if I could draw I'd be making tillow fanart for daysss. like, don't get me wrong, I love love LOVE all the beautiful spuffy fanart I see on my feed, and I appreciate every single spuffy fanartist out there, (y'all are doing god's work <3)... but it's got me wondering where's the rep for our GIRLS?

like... they're THE. iconic. lesbian. witches!!!

fr if someone else doesn't pick up the gauntlet, I'mma have to start learning to draw just to give f/f fanart the rep it deserves in this fandom. and TRUST ME nobody wants that lol. I cannot draw for toffee.

but ... at the end of the day, those girls were my queer awakening. and they deserve all the love in the world.

(p.s disregard this if I'm just clueless and not seeing it on my feed in which case PLEASE drop some tillow fan artists down below and I'll reblog their work like CRAZYYY)

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I friggin love this episode to death, def one of my favs. I’ve debated making this sweater (I crochet and knit) but I just am not sure how to would do the add ons and the flowers. Either way, love the outfit and this episode. For sure want to draw vampire Willow too, sometime soon.

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the kiss

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girls i promise you, if I could draw I'd be making tillow fanart for daysss. like, don't get me wrong, I love love LOVE all the beautiful spuffy fanart I see on my feed, and I appreciate every single spuffy fanartist out there, (y'all are doing god's work <3)... but it's got me wondering where's the rep for our GIRLS?

like... they're THE. iconic. lesbian. witches!!!

fr if someone else doesn't pick up the gauntlet, I'mma have to start learning to draw just to give f/f fanart the rep it deserves in this fandom. and TRUST ME nobody wants that lol. I cannot draw for toffee.

but ... at the end of the day, those girls were my queer awakening. and they deserve all the love in the world.

(p.s disregard this if I'm just clueless and not seeing it on my feed in which case PLEASE drop some tillow fan artists down below and I'll reblog their work like CRAZYYY)

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buffy summers was such an intense case of an only child with eldest daughter syndrome, she manifested herself a little sis out of thin air

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I feel like I should have something intelligent to say about the linguistic similarity between these scenes and what that implies, but either way I think the parallel is pretty interesting…

Perhaps it says something about how, in the btvs universe, love for someone, whether conscious (as in Tara’s case) or unconscious (as in Spike’s), leaves a sort of aura, imperceptible except by supernatural means (e.g Oz’s superhuman sense of smell or Drusilla’s prophetic powers).

Or I dunno, 🤷‍♀️ perhaps it’s just a neat metaphor the writers liked to reuse, but either way, I enjoy the idea that love can be so strong and so clear that it’s literally perceptible to those around you, no matter how hard you try to hide or deny it… even to yourself.

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"Welcomes her home with a readied bubble bath, her favourite scented candles lit and all her shows taped (cuz it’s still the 00s in this fantasy)" <-OP's comment.

A big part of the reason of why I believe Spike is a good partner for Buffy is because of how I saw him behave with Drusilla when she was sick. Like yeah he is a hot and edgy vampire , but he would also nag Buffy about not drinking enough water.

That woman is the most exhausted and wound up creature in that series and she deserves someone that would fuss over her

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I feel like I should have something intelligent to say about the linguistic similarity between these scenes and what that implies, but either way I think the parallel is pretty interesting…

Perhaps it says something about how, in the btvs universe, love for someone, whether conscious (as in Tara’s case) or unconscious (as in Spike’s), leaves a sort of aura, imperceptible except by supernatural means (e.g Oz’s superhuman sense of smell or Drusilla’s prophetic powers).

Or I dunno, 🤷‍♀️ perhaps it’s just a neat metaphor the writers liked to reuse, but either way, I enjoy the idea that love can be so strong and so clear that it’s literally perceptible to those around you, no matter how hard you try to hide or deny it… even to yourself.

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the best thing about spuffy i think is that they have that golden retriever/black cat energy going on but they’re always trading off and it’s never who you think it will be

and they’re both bisexual also so you know there is also that

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i think the existence of james marster’s performance as Spike on BTVS is all the evidence you need that casting relatively unknown theatre actors in film and TV can be an amazing idea actually…

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sapphic pop girlies, anyone else feeling the need for a sapphic girl group?

please pop goddesses, bless us with a girl group who are for the girls 🙏

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statistically insane how many parallels and connections and foreshadowing moments there were for Spuffy right from the start considering that was never even on the writers’ radar until years later.

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Guys, queers. Specifically my fellow queers.

I work at a library. We do this thing where, every so often, we weed the collection. It hurts to see books go, but it's necessary to make sure there's room in the library for new materials.

I have seen so much support for the library in text, and I've seen folks pass around those beautiful "queer your library" flyers. Keep doing that. That's great. Nothing wrong with that. But you HAVE to turn your words into action. We MUST remember to actually go to our local organizations and libraries and actually, with our own fucking hands, interact with these materials we want to see more of.

My branch is medium-sized for a library, maybe a little small. We don't have as many materials as I'd like, but we have fundamentals. Tell me why, even with all the verbal support I've gotten from my local community for the library as a resource for our LGBT+ community, every single trans biography and a good chunk of our vaguely queer theory books were on the list. This isn't a scheme to take the books off the shelves, it isn't another bigoted American governmental push. The only thing we look at when we weed is how long it's been since the last time the item was checked out.

Three years.

No one in my community interacted in any meaningful way with the few books on trans life and history we physically had on the shelves for three fucking years.

I promise you the materials you want and need are there, but this isn't a horde. This isn't a static safety net. You have to use them. You MUST use them or, in the future, maybe in three years, they *won't* be there anymore.

This isn't a vague post, there's no one person I'm hinting at or calling out. I'm not even talking directly to anyone who's directly in my line of sight. I just want everyone to hear this. Big library, small library, whatever. Doesn't matter. Please, we cannot be losing our shelf visibility like this.

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One issue I do have with the “Season five was actually the ending of the show and should’ve been,” take (besides the fact that it’s just not true) is that it’s just… not a good ending for Buffy to me. The notion that it’s a satisfying ending because Buffy gets to rest and is finally free of being the slayer (while I guess is technically understandable) is just not really accurate is it? She didn’t get out of being the slayer, she did exactly what every other slayer had done. She died. Like every last slayer before her, she died saving the world from some terrible hellish monsteristic thing, and on a show that was so upfront about Buffy being a more modernized slayer (see: her having friends, being in school, trying to date, balancing both girl and slayer, or just simply Buffy using a rocket launcher (modernized tech) to defeat the Judge who Can’t be Killed By Any Weapon Forged) it doesn’t really make sense that she’d have the ending of literally every slayer before her, does it? It wasn’t a rest she got, it was literally just the fate of the chosen one again. And I think that’s why I do like the season seven finale so much, it actually accomplishes these things: Buffy lives, she is not the One And Only, is not a Chosen One but a Chosen Many. It turns something that was written in stone for thousands of years into something modern, something better, and something Buffy can actually get out from under.