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oveliagirlhaditright · 2 years

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The Buffy book "Here be Monsters" was also really good. I'm not sure if this author did any other Buffy books than this one (I don't think I've read any other books by them yet if they did do more, anyway), but I hope that they did. They seemed to have a knack for it. I like the look into Buffy's psyche that we got here and the payoff from that. It was nicely done. Just an overall nice book, imo.

Then the book "Immortal"... I feel like I should like it more than I did. And I did like it, don't get me wrong. Like, the idea that a certain vampire's essence could go into to others who got turned every time she got staked, and really be immortal that way is definitely an interesting one (this girl made for a formidable villain, that's for sure). But IDK. I just really didn't like said villain. I feel like we almost spent too much time with her and I almost got annoyed with her because of that, but maybe that's just me.

And Joyce having a cancer scare before season five is definitely a great idea. I feel like that works well into canon. Buffy can be strong and everyone's rock in season five, because she's dealt with the idea of this before. (Edit: It also makes it seem like Joyce had cancer before season five and the doctors just didn't catch it back here, and should have, but didn't. Like, maybe they almost did catch it, but didn't. Alas.)

Buffy even resenting Angel for being immortal, and not believing that deaths mean the same thing to him anymore as they do to humans, was a nice bit of angst (and the fact that even though they made amends, they chose to leave the book on a sort of sad and more realistic tone was definitely a brave decision [Angel telling Buffy that if she died, he would die. But her not really believing him and saying that he might grieve and leave flowers at her grave for fifty years, but eventually he'd move on since he's immortal and that's kind of the nature of it: and Angel doesn't contradict her there, either because he knows Buffy won't believe him, or maybe because deep down he knows she's right. or a little of both), but I almost feel like this book was a little too much depression for me.

That, and the fact that this is after Xander's cheated on Cordelia so they're having their issues here, too.

It was almost too much angst with all of that, and the fact that the villains seemed unstoppable for most of the story.

But all that being said, I definitely did enjoy it (and I'm definitely not mentioning all the good things about it here, either) and thought there were some amazing premises here.

And it's definitely not my least favorite of the tie-in books thus far.

Oh, and seeing Angel almost being tempted to turn Buffy so he'd never lose her to death--before realizing that it wouldn't really be Buffy he was keeping, but a demon possessing her body--was also intriguing, because I always wondered if he ever thought about doing that. What he totally didn't think about, though, was that maybe Buffy could be cursed with her soul like he was. But real talk, I'm of course glad he gave up this thought.

#buffy the vampire slayer #i should really say more about here be monsters but i don't want to spoil it. i don't know #i think my least favorite buffy book so far is the second book in the unseen trilogy (the trilogy's plot as a whole sort of bores me)#or bad bargain. bad bargain isn't bad (no pun intended). it just definitely isn't my favorite. it's kind of meh #it would definitely be more of a filler episode if it was one of the tv show episodes #and not even one of the bad ones. but still

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coraniaid · 4 months

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OK, I understand that there is a reading of Buffy's third season in which Buffy Summers is straight and not attracted to Faith, however weird and counter-intuitive that reading seems. I understand that this is, in fact, the version of the show most of the writers and actors involved thought they were making. This isn't an interpretation I necessarily endorse, but I understand that it is, on some level, the default reading of the show.

I understand how, in this reading, most of what Buffy says about Faith in Earshot can be explained away as either Buffy talking about things from Angel's perspective and not her own (such as when she tells Willow that kissing Faith "looked like fun"), or as deliberate attempts on Buffy's part to get a reaction out of Angel so she can read his mind (like when she tells him that Faith wasn't "so bad to be around" or that she'd understand why "some people, protective-type people" might have been drawn to her).

But what I don't quite understand is why, in this reading, after it's established that Buffy can't read Angel's mind at all, and after Angel has told her he "hated" pretending to be with her "more than I could stand", Buffy still makes a point of telling him that "the thing about Faith [is,] I'd understand. You know, she has that whole bad girl thing working for her."

I mean, we are well beyond the point of fishing for a reaction here. Angel has already told Buffy he didn't enjoy kissing Faith and that he doesn't find her attractive. And Buffy's near-immediate response is to look at him like he's an idiot and say "are you sure?".

#btvs #buffy rewatch 2023 #fuffy

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episodeoftv · 6 months

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Quarterfinals: Round 6 of 8

propaganda and summaries are under the cut (May include spoilers)

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: 6.07 Once More, With Feeling

tw for dealing with depression and suicidal thoughts

In this musical extravaganza, Sunnydale residents find themselves bursting into song, and flame, when a demon attempts to make Dawn his bride.

The greatest musical episode of all time! Pretty much all of the songs are unironically bangers, it's better choreographed and shot than frankly a lot of the bad movie musicals that have been inflicted on us in the past few years, and despite the goofy concept it still manages to tell an incredibly affecting story about the protagonist's struggle with depression. Pulls off an absolutely monumental tonal shift from comedic musical theatre homage to devastating emotional gut punch that manages to never feel tonally dissonant / Best musical episode ever (character development, lots of bops, and spontaneous combustion)

It is the best musical episode of any TV series. It is whimsical, but also far from filler and major plot beats happen while the characters sing jaunty little toons about them. Willow and Tara have sex. Spike gets and angsty alt rock song about his unrequited buffy crush. Buffy admits that when her friends resurrected her she was violently ripped out of heaven and doesn't wanna be on earth anymore. Spike and Buffy kiss. Its the best.

Invented musical episodes and is also one of the only good ones ever to have been made. Changed the game. Insane that it’s as good as it is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once_More,_with_Feeling_(Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer)

Revolutionary Girl Utena: 1.39 And Someday, Together, We'll Shine

This whole show is full of TWs here's a link.

Utena's once again betrayed by Anthy. With the prince's sword in hand, Akio attempts to open the doors of revolution while the fallen prince contemplates her and Anthy's fate.

Series finale of Utena. Makes me sob every time. The betrayal, the fact that Utena still is trying to save Anthy, Anthy's coffin, their brief touch of hands before separated, seeing a montage of all the characters, and finally, seeing Anthy leave her abuser to find Utena. It's. Perfection. It's a traditionally happy ending but so hopeful that despite the heartache I'm still happy. That I know it'll be okay.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1401511/

#buffy the vampire slayer #btvs #revolutionary girl utena #rgu #poll #polls #round6

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writingwithcolor · 6 months

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Romani character portrayals in fanfiction

Rroma Dick Grayson, batman fanfiction

endoftheworldhere asked:

I wanted to write a fanfiction about what Dick Grayson’s life would have been like if he wasn’t adopted by Batman. It was going to have him dealing with the bad parts of Gotham City and interacting with various criminals and rouges, But I was worried that could come off as stereotypical or racist since he’s been portrayed as at least part Romani and I wanted to include some connections to his heritage as a way he clings his parents after they died so traumatically. Any advice?

The thing about Dick Greyson is that he was retconned into being part Romani, and the writers did so in a very stereotypical way. A lot of Romani people have talked about this, especially on Tumblr, and opinions do vary about how he should be written. Many think it’s best to ignore his “heritage” and just write him as white, while others disagree and think that his heritage is important representation and should be written, but more respectfully.

I honestly don’t know my personal opinion on this, but I will say that there is a huge stereotype about Romani people being criminals. If you do plan to write him as part Romani, make sure to avoid these tropes. Otherwise, I would just nix his Romani heritage.

-Mod Tess

Romani woman, curses and Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Anonymous asked:

I'm struggling a bit with a piece of fan work right now, and I was hoping you could weigh in. In Buffy season two, there's a character named Jenny, who we first meet as a techno-pagan computer science teacher, who helps Buffy and co deal with fighting demons and stuff. Only the thing is, she's Rromani. She's there to make sure a family curse stays on a vampire who killed someone beloved to them a century ago (mostly to protect people from him if Angel/Angelus gets uncursed), which everyone gets mad at her for not telling them when he loses his soul and goes on rampage. Ordinarily, it's not hard to write her, because until that arc, she's a fun character who happens to be a Rroma woman, and as other characters use magic, that doesn't stand out. But the whole curse thing, and the depiction of her family we're given, (and the way a canon redemption arc for Angelus I can't stand starts with him getting a soul as a punishment for killing a Rroma woman in 1898), and the everyone being mad about deception all just feels like many negative stereotypes. What would be your thoughts on depicting Jenny, and on what to keep in mind trying to rewrite how she was shown in the show. [Ask redacted for length]

Let me just start out by saying that I am not very familiar with Buffy, so thank you for the context. I think your best bet here would be to drop the curse plot line altogether, as that’s a huge stereotype about Romani people. I think it’s ok to have her do magic, as long as other characters also do, and although I do think the vampire stuff is also a stereotype (a lot of vampire lore is supposedly taken from some Romani folklore, and Romani people are often associated with vampires in pop culture), I think it’s fine given the context of the show.

-Mod Tess

#Romani #Romani women #Romani men #fanfiction #Romani stereotypes #Romani tropes #asks

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july-19th-club · 28 days

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another one of the funniest products of the pre-riverdale Insane Television Phenomenon that was true blood is that bill is so dull as vampires go he makes angel from buffy look like a really sexy dude by comparison and he drags the whole show down whenever he's on screen because he is simply so dreary of mood. it's not even bad acting, it's like stephen moyer got the script and said okay so i'm gonna approach this guy like he's never once had a positive emotion and he's making it everybody's problem and then he did that for the entire show BUT anna paquin saw this man and his performance and said i know i'm already fucking that for work but i'd love to do it at home too, and also get groceries and make breakfast and have children together and so they did that and they've been married now for thirteen slutty, slutty, deeply uneventful years

#she said yeah SOOKIE might not keep this thing around . but i will #his grim dedication to making this vampire as miserable as possible compels me #true blood #q #like i think he had a clear vision with that character . and i think that vision was that bill just sucks even when he tries so hard not to

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mcgnagallsarmy · 7 months

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Top 10 Spuffy fics I’ve read (Sept 2023)

A Game of Getting Caught by EllieRose101 [NC-17]

The eternal question: What is the most powerful force in the universe? Buffy's denial, Spike's need to prove her wrong, or Xander's pig-headedness? (Set in a world in which Riley doesn’t visit Sunnydale in Season Six, so the Spuffy sexcapades continue––and so do the close calls of almost getting caught by the Scoobies.)

The Bad Penny by OffYourBird [R]

Six years ago, Buffy made a home in a new dimension with a Spike who defied every rule to be by her side. Now it’s time to put to rest unfinished business in her original dimension. However, a visit there quickly turns apocalyptic, and at the heart of it is the two vampires who set Buffy's original journey in motion, and both of them have a lot of explaining to do.

Best Wishes by bookishy, Dusty, Grief Counseling, ashcrashed, MaggieLaFey, womanaction [R]

Well Hell's Bells! It's a Sunnydale style wedding! You know what that means: things are going to go very very smoothly.

Binding Effects by simmony [R]

What was supposed to be a simple truth spell takes a dark turn when Buffy can suddenly read Spike’s feelings—and he hers.

Future Happiness by EllieRose101 [R]

High School is over and Angel is gone, leaving Buffy worried about what lies ahead. At least until Willow tries to help. (Set in the summer between Seasons Three and Four. Mostly.)

The Future is Ours by DarkEternity96 [NC-17]

What if in mid-Season 4, Spike demands another spell from Willow, in a last-ditch attempt to get Dru back… but rather than having her cast a typical love spell, Spike wants to travel forward in time, to experience the future Drusilla claims she ‘sees’, and prove to her that there is bugger all between him and the Slayer. Cue the spell going awry, and S4 Spike being trapped in the body of his future self, in the very unexpected world of Season 6. And you can only imagine Spike’s utter shock when a lust-fuelled Buffy turns up at his door…

Night Swimming by Geliot99 [R]

An unexpected heatwave in mid-March is reason enough for an impromptu pool party for the Scoobies. But when Richard takes a second stab* at winning Buffy's affections, Spike is all too keen to show her how much fun night swimming with a vampire can really be… *see what I did there? Set between 'Older and Far Away' and 'As You Were'

Right Where You Left Me by acekoomboom [R]

Buffy is a newer ghost, as far as ghosts go, and she can't move on. She sits in the corner she haunts, right where he left her, waiting for him to return. Time moves differently for the dead. Haunted Diner AU.

Taste and Temptation by RavenLove12 [NC-17]

For a sticky sweet, tasty treat: Take one stressed-out Slayer, add one snarky vampire, place in an empty house and mix well. Bake on high and top with whipped cream.

Thing of Doom by Sunalso [Adult Only]

AtS S5. Things go a little off canon in Destiny and Buffy ends up with a whole lot more than she bargained for. Human? Demon? What makes Spike who he is and what’s a girl to do with the love of her life when he’s double the trouble?

#buffy the vampire slayer #btvs #spuffy #ficrec #monthly ficrec #dustyfics #acekoomboom #spnae #sunalsolove

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canonmisogynyvictimstournament · 7 months

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PROPAGANDA

EVE (PARADISE LOST)

1.) I recognise how insane this submission is because this was written in 1667 and so attitudes towards women were obviously very different. But misogyny has always existed, no matter the time period, and so I think it’s fair to pick up on it. Although Milton somewhat avoids painting Eve as the wicked seductress, she is nevertheless presented as inherently inferior to Adam - her ‘virtue’ and 'passion’ are supposed to be an equal counterpart to Adam’s intellect but Milton’s clear resentment of Eve shines through. She is vain from the beginning - enamoured with her own reflection until she meets Adam. She is Adam’s subordinate and readily accepts her place in the hierarchy below him, until she meets Satan. Women seeking power and knowledge is therefore inextricably tied to the fall of mankind. Her attempt for some kind of independence away from Adam (going to tend the garden away from him) is also presented as the primary reason she succumbed to Satan because Adam is needed to protect her. Eve (the mother of all women) therefore creates the assumption that women are weak and easily misled away from men. The description of her eating the apple is very sexual - perhaps reflecting the anxieties of men at the time of being cuckolded and therefore dishonoured by their wives. She is the ultimate disobedient, dangerous wife. Her reason for sharing the forbidden knowledge with Adam, rather than keeping it for herself, is because she is worried she will face the wrath of God and be replaced with another Eve. So it is her jealousy that brings them both down. (It is all a lot more complicated than this so Eng lit people don’t kill me) but yeah poor Eve.

CORDELIA CHASE (BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER/ANGEL THE SERIES) (CW: Pregnancy)

1.) (downs an entire bottle of vodka and slams it back on the table) SO. CORDY. Cordy started off as a supporting character in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. At the start she was your typical high school mean girl character, but as the show went on we got to see more depth to her character: her insecurities, her courage, her capacity for incredible acts of kindness. Then after the third season she moved into the show’s spin off, Angel, where from the beginning she was basically the show’s secondary protagonist. Her and Angel were the two mainstays of the show’s main cast, she gets the most episodes centered on her out of all the characters aside from Angel (and yes, I’ve checked), and we really got to see her grow from a very shallow and self-centered and kind of mean person to a true hero who was prepared to give up any chance at a normal life to fight the good fight while still never losing the basic core of her character. There were some… questionable moments like the episode where she gets mystically pregnant with demon babies and things got a bit iffy like halfway through season 3 where the writers seemed to run out of ideas for what to do with her outside of sticking her in this romance drama/love triangle situation with the main character but overall, pretty good stuff right? THEN SEASON 4 HAPPENED. In season 4 she gets stripped of literally all agency and spends pretty much the entire season possessed by an evil higher power, and while possessed she sleeps with Angel’s teenage son (who BY THE WAY she had helped raise as a baby before he got speed-grown-up into a teenager it was a whole thing don’t worry about it) and gets pregnant with like. the physical manifestation of the higher power that’s possessing her. it’s about as bad and stupid as it sounds and also is like the third time cordy’s got mystically pregnant in this show and like the fourth mystical pregnancy storyline overall (you will be hearing more on that note in other submissions I’m so sorry). after giving birth she goes into a coma, in which she remains for the rest of season 4 and the first half of season 5. SPEAKING OF WHICH DON’T THINK SEASON 5 IS GETTING OFF SCOT FREE HERE. yeah so in season 5 the show just FULLY starts trying to erase cordy’s existence. she gets mentioned ONCE in the first episode and then never again until halfway through the season where she wakes up, helps out Angel for a bit and encourages him in his fight against evil, and then goes quietly into that good night and dies so it can be all sad and tragic. I’d call it the worst fridging of all time but even THAT feels generous because the whole point of fridging is killing off a female character so a man can be sad, and after Cordy dies basically no one’s even sad about it because the show immediately goes back to pretending she never existed. she is not mentioned ONCE in the two episodes after she dies. in the whole stretch of time between her death and the end of the season she gets mentioned exactly four times. again, I counted. anyway the fun twist to all of this is that all of this happened because the actress who played cordy got pregnant before season 4 and joss whedon was so pissed off about this affecting his plans for the show that he decided to completely fuck over her character and then fire her and write her out of the show. so cordy’s a victim of both writing AND real life misogyny!! good times!!

2.) OH SO MANY THINGS they menaced by giving her terrible hair cuts, making her seem like she’d get together with the guy she loves (and who loves her back) but instead she was killed and when she was brought back, she got possessed by an evil entity who used her body to give birth to itself. afterwards she was in a long coma and died. her character was so throughoutly assassinated

3.) She got demonically pregnant TWICE - there was this real sense of a womb/ability to get pregnant as like, a place for evil to get in. She got positioned as femme fatale and evil mother. The actress basically got fired for being pregnant, and when she agreed to come back for a single final episode she specifically said they could do anything but kill off the character. Guess what happened

#polls #round 2 #week 4 #new #cw pregnancy

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ammoniteflesh · 5 months

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My pitch for how to fix btvs season 7 is that the Watcher's Council should've been the big bad.

It is absolutely ludicrous to me that even after s3, even after Helpless, the show cannot fully commit to the Watcher's Council being evil when they SO OBVIOUSLY ARE.

I am personally fully convinced that the Council were going to murder Faith - and I don't know how far that's canon or not but it should have been explicitly the case.

It's infinitely harder to imprison a Slayer indefinitely than to simply kill her and get a brand new impressionable one. And the Council probably wouldn't shed many tears over it - they strike me as the kind to feel very justified in doing so. It's for the good of humanity, after all. And I feel like that interacts so perfectly with Faith's own messed up lives saved vs lives taken arithmetic! It's difficult to justify that line of thinking when it's being applied to you.

It also leads into a better arc for Wesley. Because he's a naive idjit, I can see him calling the Watchers on Faith while fully believing they'll just. Imprison her indefinitely. And then being all 'oh no! D:' when he finds out they're going to kill her. And his stuff with Faith in Angel s1 is way more compelling as a result!

Fast forward to s7. We're deconstructing the Buffy mythos - the perfect way to do that is to have the Watchers Council actively trying to kill Buffy and Faith. Maybe they want to hit the reset button, maybe they've just decided Slayers as a whole are way too much trouble. It just makes so much more sense, thematically.

And you could totally still have the First! Maybe the Watchers Council can be the First's physical hands in the world instead of Caleb (because honestly, what the fuck were they trying to do with Caleb?). Maybe the First is the source of the Slayers' power. I don't know. The possibilities are endless.

#speak faust #btvs #btvs meta #does this count as meta? idk #I just know I have opinions

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faithlesbian · 9 months

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I've said this before. and i don't think it's an original thought its almost definitely plagiarised from someone else's post that I saw once or something. but given that Buffy as a show set out to subvert the idea of the blonde cheerleader who dies first by making her into a super-strong hero, Angel the series shouldve set out to subvert the idea of the brooding macho hero by making him Anything But That.

they were already doing it with him on buffy, he was her damsel in distress, he was a weaker fighter than her and often got injured or kidnapped, even as a villain in s2 he rarely tried to fight buffy directly and preferred to scheme and talk big -- he was never that much of a fighter!! in my opinion his most heroic trait was his ability to help people on an interpersonal level, the way that cordelia and wesley in s1 were both directionless and spiralling until they ran into him, the way that he shows up for buffy post-s3 multiple times to be a shoulder to lean on, the way that (imo) one of the best episodes of the whole show and the most genuinely "heroic" he's ever been was when he pulled faith back from the brink by being kind to her.

but this all went by the wayside as the show went on and they leaned more and more on the idea of Angel being a "champion" and a "warrior", because of course the male lead's main reason to protect people has to be that he likes swords and killing things and showing off to women. they make jokes about things being too "macho" as if they didn't deliberately make them that way against the pre-established canon characterisation of their main guy. it's so frustrating because the groundwork was there for them to do something genuinely subversive with a male lead who wasn't a fighter, wasn't a good leader, who was trying to do good not by beating back hordes of faceless bad guys but by caring for individual people in an overtly emotional way.

#once again I sure we've all been saying this since like 2004 but still #angel

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sunshinejinx · 6 months

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i finished watching buffy for the first time this week and it’s been a wild ride but something i feel genuinely surprised about is this idea that ppl have where spike falls into the dark, brooding, bad guy turned good trope. comparing him to the likes of draco, kylo ren, etc. it makes me rlly???? bc am i delusional? from season 2 onwards, spike always felt very funny to me; silly, goofy, light hearted. i mean he has a whole backstory about being a momma’s boy/terrible poet. effulgent!!! blooming onion lover?? a loser and malewife first for dru and later for buffy. even peak “evil” spike doesn’t want to go along w dru/angelus’ plan bc he likes this world too much!! n that’s long before he even has a soul! has moments where he can barely look buffy in the eye, gets tongue tied, “why haven’t you killed the slayer yet” good question adam!! maybe bc he loves the slayer!! get’s chained to a tub and let’s buffy feed him blood out of a ‘kiss the librarian’ mug. “great pumpkin’s on in 20” & can’t forget about passions!! asking joyce for the lil marshmallows for his hot cocoa while he tells her all about how dru broke his fragile little heart 😭 and and when he gets turned into a vampire so of course immediately his first thought is to travel the world w his lover + can’t forget about his mommy like !!! hello!!! are we watching the same show like he’s just a freaky little loser who luvs a girl bc duh who tf wouldn’t love buffy, she’s literally everything and he knows it too!

#im not trying to baby girl-ify him or w/e #or absolve him of all the bad he’s done #(which i think makes him an intriguing character - how he’s big and bad and dangerous and morally grey!!)#morally grey characters / nuanced characters are everything to me #im just saying he was so funny and a breath of fresh air sometimes #and so unserious #i never felt like he fit into a singular box/trope #btvs #spike #luci.txt

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wasted-women · 4 months

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ROUND 1C, MATCH 3 OUT OF 8!

Causes of Death & Propaganda Under the Cut:

Tara Maclay

Cause of Death: Shot in crossfire

Propaganda:

Ok so idk if she actually counts but I'm submitting her and please throw her out if not. Here's why I think Tara was fridged: the sole purpose of her death was to further the plot and cause pain to other characters. Now, because it's Buffy, these other characters were women. So her death was only to cause pain to her girlfriend (ex-girlfriend? They were broken up but mending) Willow, cause her to relapse into magic, and then make her essentially the big bad of the season. All of this was then to cause Buffy, the protag, to have to fight her best friend and be told she needed to either stop her or kill her. So while Buffy and Willow are both women, Tara's death was solely to cause them pain as significant other and protagonist and to further the plot. (It's also bury your guys and Joss Whedon sooooo). Tara literally was killed sloppily for no other reason than as a plot device in a desperate "well we already killed our protag and brought her back to life, how do we raise the stakes from here" ploy necessitated by crappy writing. If she doesn't count, again please throw her out, but I feel like she counts as fridging esp when looking at how Joss Whedon rights Buffy in this season to essentially bc a self insert of man pain but as a woman.

this is the only lgbt example I can think of but it definitely counts imo. link to death scene here (scene starts a minute into the video, with obvious trigger warnings for death and blood and gunshots): https://youtu.be/01NxsKojYyM?si=dxZvcvOhp3x6S8ha

Stuffing a woman in the fridge is one thing, but stuffing a queer woman who was one half of a beloved same-sex couple on a TV show famous for its strong female characters for the sake of drama while enforcing negative LGBT+ stereotypes in the process is really something else.

Her girlfriend, Willow essentially plays the role of the man in the relationship. Tara dies to facilitate her villain arc. Xander is also sad about her death and he is a man.

Mako Mori

Cause of Death: Exploded in a helicopter

Propaganda:

The Mako Mori test has been proposed as a "better" version of the Bechdel Test (which I'm well aware of the bechdel tests point and common misuse) she has a full, rich arc that is not romance oriented in the first movie. Also she pilots a giant robot. In the second movie she's textbook definition fridged.

Daenerys Targareon

Cause of Death: Stabbed by her lover for becoming a tyrant

Propaganda:

I'm just. I can't believe she hasn't been submitted yet. Classic example of end game fridging, where she *had* to be killed by her male lover to bring him pain and Man Tears TM. Clearly it effects him (sad) more than her (dead). Now obv Dany had a whole plot prior to this, but her death itself is such a classic example of fridging that I have to submit her, it legit only happened for a stupid "plot" to bring Jon ManPain. It was a death so stupid that GOT, what once was a cultural touchstone, isn't talked about except in how bad the end was

#wasted women poll #round 1 #round 1c #tara maclay #buffy the vampire slayer #mako mori #pacific rim #daenerys targaryen #game of thrones #game of thrones tv #poll bracket #poll tournament #character polls #polls

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specialagentlokitty · 4 months

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Giles x teen!reader - you’re safe now

Could you do something where Giles finds out that R is sleeping in school because their father is abusive and he comforts them and kind of adopts them, because he saw some bruises or something like that? Maybe he even confronts R father about the bruises? If you are not comfortable with that that's totally fine! Much love! - Anon💜

TW: mentions of abusive parent

Wondering into the library, you ignored the little meeting that seemed to be going on and jogged up the steps, looking for the right shelf.

You slowly wondered among them and you stopped when you saw the shelf you were looking for and pulled out a text book.

“English…” you mumbled.

You looked at the slip of paper in your hand and you furrowed your brows a little bit and made your way back down the steps to the counter and set the book and paper down.

“Hello (Y/N), how are you?” Giles asked.

“Is this book the same as what on this paper?”

You showed Giles the paper.

“Ah… yes.. yes I would believe so. Is it for your English paper?”

You said nothing and pushed the book towards him, and he sighed slightly.

“If you need anything else you’re more then welcome to stop by.”

Giles watched as you put the book in your bag then without a word he left and went back to what he was doing.

“I don’t know why you try to talk to them, they’re not exactly the most social person out there.” Xander said.

“Well, I.. I believe a good conversation can go a long way.”

“Yeah, if you’re looking to get a snarky remark or ignored. (Y/N) doesn’t play well with people.” Buffy said.

“Well I don’t think they’re that bad, they let me borrow some books not long ago.” Willow smiled.

Giles glanced at the door where you had left and turned back to the group that were currently supposed to be on their way to class.

You spent the whole day in classes only half paying attention before the school day came to a close.

You put your bag in your locker and you left the school, going to find somewhere to pass the time.

A few hours later you returned and went back to your locker, grabbing your bag and the folded blanket at the bottom you made your way to the science labs.

They were the best place to stay since you could use the burners for a fire to warm things up and keep yourself a little warmer.

Sitting on the chair, you took a sip of the water next to you, nibbling on some chips as you read through the text book you got earlier that day.

Tapping your pen against the paper you sighed and stood up, moving so you could start tidying everything away.

Giles was making his way back to the library when he heard the sounds of somebody moving about in the room.

He stopped, furrowing his brows a little and he walked over to the partially cracked open door.

He was a little unsure, but he pushed the door open and looked inside to see you putting the burner away that you were using.

“(Y/N)?”

You jumped, spinning around to face him.

Giles walked in, setting his books on one of the tables and he looked around the room, spotting the corner you had turned into a makeshift bed.

“Wh..what is going on here?” He asked.

You walked over and began grabbing everything.

“I’ll go, just don’t tell Synder…” you grumbled.

“No! No, it’s incredibly dangerous out there with.. with.. thunder and.. and rain and lightening. Come to the library at least.”

You glanced at the man, then to the window where the rain was battering on the glass, threatening to break it.

You sighed, finished grabbing your things and nodded your head.

You didn’t want to go outside in that, and at least you had the ability to ignore him and his questions.

Walking into the library, you sat yourself down at the empty table and set your books on the floor.

“I need you to know that we Uhm.. well.. we’re going to have to talk about this (Y/N).”

You said nothing and he sighed softly.

“I’ll make you some tea, do you want something to eat?”

You gestured to the snacks you set on the table and he nodded, leaving for a moment before coming back.

He poured you a cup of tea and set it in front of you.

You reached out for your cup, and Giles looked at your arm with the deep bruises, both old and relatively new.

He thought for a moment before he spoke.

“Now I.. I know you’re not the biggest fan of the school, I can’t imagine why anybody would want to throw a sleepover in the science lab, did you get caught before the storm?”

You said nothing.

“How long have you been staying here?”

Again, you didn’t reply.

“I can give you parents a call, let them know where you are and that you’re safe.”

You snapped your head towards him.

“No!”

You set the cup down, pulling your blanket around your shoulders.

“If you tell my dad where I am I swear I will run out of those doors and never come back.” You rushed out.

Giles slowly set his own cup down.

“Alright, it’s alright. If you don’t want me to call him I won’t.”

Giles recognised the look on your face and the tone of your voice immediately as fear.

You didn’t want to be found, you didn’t want your dad to know where you were.

“Why don’t you want your father to know where you are (Y/N)?” He asked softly.

“I just don’t…” you mumbled.

You got up and you walked away from him, sitting yourself down on the stairs instead.

Giles got up and followed you, sitting next to you and he clasped his hands together as he looked at you.

“What happened to your arm?”

You pulled your arm tighter towards you.

“It’s nothing…”

Giles shook his head.

“It’s not nothing, (Y/N), if your father is hurting you then tell me, I’ll be able to help you but I can’t if you don’t let me. Please, tell me what happened.”

“Yeah so you can tell the police and they’ll give me back to him…” you mumbled.

“You’ve runaway before?”

You glanced at him before looking away.

“It’s my fault… shouldn’t have made him man…”

Giles turned so he was looking at you.

“Never blame yourself for something like this, this is not your fault (Y/N) you’re the victim here, and you have done no wrong. He is in the wrong for raising his hands to you. If you don’t want to go home that’s okay, I understand, but you can’t keep living the way you are.”

You shrugged.

“What else am I supposed to do?”

“Well.. I.. I can take you in for now, give you a safe space, then we can figure something else out after. Alright? I’ll do my best to make sure you won’t ever be taken back there.”

“Don’t make promises you can’t keep Mr Giles.”

“I can keep it, but I need to know what you want to do, I can’t make you come with me.”

You sighed, running a hand over your hair and you shrugged slightly.

“I.. I don’t know.. I’ll go back eventually… when he’s calmed down again…”

“Absolutely not.” He said sternly.

You looked to the usually calm librarian, and you shuffled away from him slightly.

His face immediately softened.

“I.. I’m sorry… I won’t hurt you I promise, all I want to do is help you, and I refuse to let you go back to a situation like that.”

Giles took his glasses off and pinched the bridge of his nose, running a hand down his face before he took a small breath, putting them back on.

“I assume that he Uhm.. he’s responsible for those bruises on your arm?”

You said nothing and that was all the clarification that he needed.

“I’m not going to let him hurt you again.”

Giles rested his arms on his legs, and he smiled at you.

“I promise nobody will ever hurt you like that again.”

He stood up and made his way to the table and he began to clean up your things, picking them all up.

“Now, we must get going before this storm gets any worse.”

He stopped and looked at you.

“It’s alright.”

You thought for a moment before getting up to follow him.

You decided you would stay with him for a few days to get him off your back, then you would go back to your usual hangouts.

In the car you didn’t say anything, and you followed Giles into his house.

“I’ll get everything sorted for you, if you’re hungry please help yourself to whatever you’d like.”

You nodded and looked around his living room, picking up a few books before putting them back.

Giles came down to find you sitting on the sofa, your blanket still wrapped around you and he walked over.

“Where would you like to sleep?”

You pointed to the couch and he set a pillow there for you, handing you another blanket.

“I’ll just be upstairs, if you need anything at all just shout, alright?”

You nodded again and he left to give you your space.

He could hear the sound of the TV downstairs, and when he went down the following morning you were sleeping in front of it, using your blanket as a pillow.

Chuckling softly, he grabbed the other blanket and walked over, crouching next to you so he could cover you up.

He paused, seeing the bruises on your arm a little better in the daylight.

He could see the bruises, the small slivers of a few scars, and he could see a healing bruise on the side of your head.

He covered you up and walked into the kitchen, covering his eyes with his hand as a shaky breath.

Yes, he had seen what demons could do to humans, but he knew those weren’t caused by a vampire or demon.

And that’s what broke his heart and brought tears to his eyes, they were the results of a monstrous human. A man who was supposed to protect you and instead hurt you.

Taking a deep breath, Giles composed himself and began making breakfast, which is what woke you up.

You stayed sitting on the floor as he brought some cereal out for you and a glass of juice.

You watched as he set it down in front of you before coming back with his own.

“Is something wrong? Do you not like it?” He asked.

You looked at your own food and picked up your bowl.

“I’m not used to someone bringing me food…”

You quickly ate your cereal, you ate it that fast Giles was scared you would choke.

And you did the same with the juice before grabbing your dishes and walking away to the kitchen.

“You don’t have to wash them, I’ll do that.”

You looked at him.

“Don’t I have to earn my keep?”

Giles set his dishes down.

“Of course not, you don’t have to do anything to ear your keep here, all you have to do is go to school and do your best, everything else I can handle.”

You nodded and stepped aside.

You weren’t used to it, and he could see that.

As the days passed you avoided the library when you were at school, but when you were at his that sturdy front you held up was gone.

You were just scared and unsure about everything, if you did something wrong you’d flinch, if you thought he was angry with you then you would avoid him.

But you were getting better.

Giles was working on finding a way for you to permanently stay in his care, so after school while students were getting ready to head home you were waiting for him.

You were walking along one of the walls, hands in your pockets.

“Please do come down, the last thing I want is for you to fall and injure yourself.” Giles said.

He held out his hand and you looked at him.

Chuckling, he raised his hands and backed away, letting out jump down.

Giles smiled, and he held out his keys.

“I’ll be there in a few moments, I’ve left something behind.”

“I’ll wait here.”

Giles nodded and you watched him leave before you went back to looking at people leave.

That’s when you saw a face you didn’t want to see then the crowd heading towards you and you slowly backed away.

“Don’t you dare run again!”

You spun around and ran inside, skidding around corners and pushing past people fully aware of the angry man chasing you.

You ran to the one place you thought off and you burst through the doors, tears in your fearful eyes.

“What’s wrong?” Giles asked.

He set his bag down and you rushed over, hiding yourself behind him, gripping his jacket tightly and the door was thrown open again.

“Cowering behind other people still?” Your dad spat.

“Can I help you?” Giles asked.

“I want my kid, where is the brat?”

Giles reached his hand behind him, placing it on your arm.

“I.. I haven’t seen them, maybe try the front.”

Giles took a step back and you did the same thing, and he tried to back you up into his office but it didn’t work.

“Get here now!”

You tensed, and you let go of Giles, going to walk around him but he took your hand, giving you a warm smile.

“Wait in my office for me.” He whispered.

“He’ll hurt you…”

“Don’t you worry about me I’ll be just fine, you go wait in there, he won’t hurt you.”

You nodded and backed yourself into the office.

“Lock the door, and call the police if you have too.”

You nodded again and locked the door, hiding under his desk, covering your ears with your hands.

Giles turned your your dad.

“Please they’ll just come back eventually.” Your dad scoffed.

“I don’t think they will, no. I sure won’t be letting them return to the likes of you.”

“What the hell does that mean?!”

“It means you have been hurting an innocent child, a child who you are supposed to love and protect and you’ve been hurting them, you’ve made them scared, left bruises and scars that’ll never go.” Giles said.

“Kids gotta learn somehow.”

“No, they don’t. I will only ask you once to leave, never return to this school or for (Y/N), from this point on they will be in my care.”

Your dad scoffed.

“Or what?”

Giles took his glasses off, setting them aside and he walked over to your dad.

“I’m taking the brat home, and they’ll be punished for running away, for being so stupid. I’ll make sure they never step foot near this stupid school again.”

Giles pulled his hand back and swung, punching your dad in the face, then he slammed him against the wall, glaring at him.

“I can make your life ten times as hard as you’ve been making it for (Y/N), I couldn’t really care less about you. I care about that teenager hiding, scared in my office.”

You dad looked up at him, pushing him away.

“Whatever take the damn brat, it’s not worth it.”

With that he left and Giles straighten his jacket before grabbing his glasses and walking over to the door to his office.

He knocked gently.

“(Y/N), it’s just me.”

He heard shuffling and the door opened.

Giles smiled softly and he stepped aside.

“It’s alright now, he’s gone and I’m certain he won’t be bothering you anymore.”

You looked into the library before looking at Giles and you rushed at him, hugging him tightly.

Giles smiled, wrapping his arms around you.

“You’re safe now..” he whispered.

You nodded your head, tears streaming from your eyes as you let go of all the fear and pain you had been bottling up inside of you.

Giles just stood there holding you, letting you cry, because he knew how much you needed to let go, how much you needed someone to hug you and remind you you’re safe

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