#Darla BtVS

[spikespeaches]

2 tickets to barbie please

2 tickets to oppenheimer please

[sunbelieved]

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darla/drusilla + pink&blue, for a dreamwidth event

Me and my girl aren’t just the new thing in town…we’re the only thing in town.

[joodeegemstone]

i am such a horrible little apologist for every buffyverse woman. they could drink my blood or sacrifice me to a demon or just fucking beat me up and i'd probably be into it

[spangelmybeloved]

I love how pretty much every interaction between any of the Fanged Four that isn't in a flash back is just the btvs/ats writers trying to answer the question "how does polyamorous divorce work?". I love this.

[madeleinelovescolours]

Because the Whirlwind’s dynamic is really just “this gorgeous lady vampire and the stupid cat she pulled out of the trash

[raisedbythetv89]

Sometimes I just sit and imagine what btvs could have been like if the women characters and their perspectives were TRULY centered and what all could have been.

How much wasn’t explored

How angel gets his own show but is completely reliant on the presence of Cordelia and the most interesting story lines revolve around her, darla, and drusilla. And how they needed Spike, the most female gaze male character, to even have a 5th season

How Riley gets to live and be a hero with a hot badass wife but Tara, Anya, and Kendra all are dead

How much xander’s abusive, toxic monologues passing judgment on everyone but himself often serve as the “facts or true reality” of the narrative rather than the rantings of a jealous, bitter, repressed, weak and pathetic boy

So much of the show is about a woman but still with men and men’s opinions, needs, desires at the center. We can see jane and marti’s efforts to center women’s narratives more especially in season 6 and 7 but much like I mourn what the first 32 years of my life could have been without patriarchy, what could have been for this show with so many incredible women that left so much potential unrealized.

Fan fiction is a reclamation of this lost potential. It’s a powerful and radical thing to do. Correcting the narrative to center who should have been centered all along heals the parts of us society wants us to neglect within ourselves for the sake of men (or straight people or white people or cis people) and their own narratives. It’s a way to decenter men not only in our real life spaces but our fictional ones too

[artsying-ifer]

setting myself a fun challenge called obserMAYtion where i only do observational art for the entirety of may everyone please cheer and clap for meeee

anyway part of the reason i decided to do this (other than desperately needing to get back on that observational drawing grindset in general 💪💪💪) is that I've been very not happy lately with how I draw the buffyverse guys and wanna do more sketches to try n get more of a handle on the likenesses so. here's how it's going so far. i like some of em, i don't like others, i will not be elaborating on which is which. will be updating you all with my progress as the month goes on

also ftr commissions are still open this month they are the one exception I am making for myself from this challenge aside from zine bash if I also end up doing that lol. info is in my pinned post as usual

[junotter]

"How'd you know I was queer" uh I mean whenever we talk about buffy you just wanna talk about the fanged four...

[kattahj]

Thinking (prompted by a Facebook post) about how many characters in the Buffyverse properly blossomed on Angel, and that people who just watch BTVS only get half of their arc, if even that.

Not just the way they took their originally quite dull protagonist (sorry, Bangel fans!) and went, well, what this guy needs is to be roasted mercilessly. But the growth of everyone else around him!

Wesley, an actor's dream of a journey! Cordelia (for the first three seasons, anyway). Jesus, Faith, a character who hardly lacked powerful scenes in the mother show, got her best ones on Angel! Darla and the whole vamp family. Harmony! And oh, Anne... I know she was only in five episodes over both shows, but what she ended up being considering where she started out is just... *chef's kiss*

There may be more I don't even remember. Angel is where Buffy characters go to grow. And the fact that there are people who go, "well, I'm not into that Angel guy" and thus miss out on all of that (not to mention all the new characters) makes me sad.

[btvsdemonssmashorpasstournament]

BTVS Smash or Pass Tournament Round 1 (Season 1)

[spikespeaches]

bicons

[buffyverse-divorce-tournament]

Most Divorced Buffy Couple Tournament

[patwrites]

Society if Julie Benz was a regular in Angel Season 2:

[lizzie-queenofmeigas]

How does no one talk about Buffy being a rebound girl for Angel. She is a human Darla. a human, innocent Darla. Yes, Angel loved her, but that doesn't make her any less of a rebound.

[madeleinelovescolours]

This is Darla and the stray she found on the side of the road

[faith-thee-slayer]