canarynoir

[canarynoir]

I would also argue there’s no recasting Sarah. It’s just such an interesting balance of vibes that she brings to the role that I just don’t know if anyone else could reproduce and without that, they’re not Buffy.

the problem with any buffy reboot casting is that spike could truly only have been played by a baby-faced man in his 40s, and angel by an abercrombie model who then rapidly underwent a second puberty after the first season

#buffy the vampire slayer #buffy

[canarynoir]

She was perfection. She deserved the Oscar. 

Emerald Haywood Appreciation (Nope, 2022)

Oh and I’m Emerald Haywood! I also act, write, direct, internet, fashion, VFX, motorcycles, baby... And I make a mean grilled cheese if you’re looking for Crafty! I’ll be over there...

#nope #jordan peele #keke palmer

[canarynoir]

(via the Monty Python fan group over on Facebook)

[canarynoir]

[canarynoir]

I'm just going to leave this here, because this woman said what I've been trying to articulate for ages much more effectively and succinctly than I've been able to

[canarynoir]

The thing where House saving Padme from dying stupidly is the first thing I’ve ever read that made me want to watch House… 

A strange alien doctor stands near the unconscious body of Padme Amidala. “It appears she has lost the will to live.” A older man with a limp hobbles closer with the aid of a cane. “That’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard,” says Dr. Gregory House.

[canarynoir]

Today in niche genres of joke that I can never get enough of and will probably still be secretly thinking about four years later

#crying laughing

[canarynoir]

Someone asked me why Buffy is my favorite show and I had to stop myself from writing more than this but this is what I said…

1. Despite its complicated history (the creator turned out to be an abusive asshole) it’s one of the first mainstream successful examples of smart feminist genre tv and it laid the groundwork for everything that has happened since.

2. The show is brilliantly written and uses metaphor so successfully they teach college classes on it. Every episode / monster / dilemma Buffy and her friends face are a parallel for the real life struggles of teenagers.

3. Sarah Michelle Gellars performance across the 7 seasons of the show is a masterclass in acting.

4. It featured one of the first truly fleshed out lesbian relationships on network tv in the US and THE first wlw kiss between committed partners on prime time network TV. I remember the news covering it right after it aired.

5. Season 6 is to date the best depiction of depression I’ve ever seen in any media ever. It’s unflinching, raw, uncomfortable and hard to watch. And having that to watch when I was 13 was really crucial.

6. The way the show built pop culture references into its DNA had such a cultural impact that it’s responsible for turning “google” into a verb.

7. The makeup, fashion, and hair was simultaneously trend setting and a deliberate part of the story telling. You know what’s happening with certain characters based on the colors they are wearing for example.

8. The musical episode was one of the most successful musical episodes of a tv show at the time and it started a trend that tv shows still follow today.

#buffy the vampire slayer #buffy

[canarynoir]

THIS. IS ENGLAND!

Ok

[canarynoir]

The classic double standard.

[canarynoir]

This always bothered me, and it made no sense, which led me to conclude that this was simply done so that they could continually have Buffy in extremely difficult situations.

It made no internal sense to the story that this is how things worked: that Buffy didn’t get any money, even though they were paying Giles, that they would allow their ONLY Slayer who needed to focus on her calling to need to have to support herself - it makes no sense at all.

It makes a *little bit* of sense in the misogyny of it all, but having financial control over the Slayer as a form of control makes way more sense so…

The ONLY reason this was done within the world of Buffy is because the writers wanted her to go through these difficulties from a story perspective - her world would not have worked that way from an actual, this-makes-sense-within-this-universe way. 

still blows my mind that everyone buffy loved and cared for saw her struggling to keep custody of dawn, keep her house, keep her sanity, and, ya kno, try and overcome her crippling depression and never once thought maybe they should help her out financially??? sure giles gave her a check once but thats gonna run out fast with all her bills?? willow lives in her house and never thought to pay rent? they let all those bills go by when she was dead?? realistically buffy cannot work, slay, and be a mother all at the same time. the least everyone could do would be to buy her fucking groceries. i kno giles has gotta be loaded ok give ur daughter some of that income that u get by being in charge of her. and dont get me started on the council not paying her

#buffy #buffy the vampire slayer #financial abuse

[canarynoir]

new states just dropped and white supremacist sharks live there

[canarynoir]

America is best understood as a Ponzi or Pyramid scheme. Pretty much always has been and it’s one of the reasons why we are so vulnerable to them and to cults as a society!

Which is a long way to say no they are not able to see past their quarterly profits.

#capitalism #multi level marketing #ponzi scheme

[canarynoir]

[canarynoir]

Roses are red, that much is true, but violets are purple, not fucking blue.

[canarynoir]

Nope + seeing/being seen

#nope

[canarynoir]

Dots connected.