gnatpack | while we're at it

In line with my last post, I should probably make a blanket statement that in the long run a.... not small portion of my posts will probably be about Buffy the Vampire Slayer. There's a sort of existential dilemma happening about whether or not I'm a fan, but I'm definitely enthusiastic about the show. Sometimes my enthusiasm is just enthusiastically not liking decisions made in it.

Whatever I am, I wound up making a dreamwidth account instead of a neocities blog because I realized I'd probably have more BuffyBlogging posts than real things about myself. And making one neocities site about the show is already enough. So here are some quick facts about my relationship with the show, presented in whatever order I think them:

Every time I watch the show I stop before Tara dies and know the rest from reading spoilers
Giles/Angel makes so much sense and would have hurt so much better
That's the only time Angel is allowed to exist. Dead to me. Stay away from her. It's on sight
Spike/Buffy doesn't have to be endgame but it would have been a cool dynamic to genuinely explore (two people in love with the only person capable of killing them is romantic idc)
In general I just think Spike is deeply romantic in a fucked up kind of way that I'm really normal about
(that was a lie, no I'm not)
Why wasn't Anya/Willow a thing like that makes so much more sense than "I hate men but love Xander"
Once More With Feeling was actually what got me into the show because I saw the individual songs on YouTube in the Olden Days
Discounting Spike, who I like for less than noble reasons, Giles is probably my favorite because he's very polite but also straight up kills people when Buffy is too nice to do it herself
Joyce's death makes me sob. Hard.
Glory is my favorite villain but damn do I feel like all of her scenes are dripping with misogyny
Faith and Cordelia both deserved so much better than the writing they got

Seeing as I am sort of the lone Buffy watcher in my life, if you read this and it seems like we're on the same wavelength don't be afraid to say hi!