I originally posted this on twitter exactly 2 years ago.
s1 is just beginning this little death by a thousand cuts of buffy's potential life outside of slayerdom that she fights for the right to the entire way. can't join the cheerleading squad, that one teacher who believes in her is killed, first guy she likes she has to push away for his safety, second guy is a vampire, social life increasingly defined by being the freakishly strong girl who occasionally does weird unexplainable things, all building to her first prophesied death on the night of prom... not to mention the little tidbit she shares that she's terrified of being buried alive....
happy disability pride month from your local chronically ill lesbian!! i wish all disabled and chronically ill folks an awesome month
Spike should have had more lines that casually reference how long he's lived
He tries to give Dawn a nip of brandy because "It's good for her constitution"
Joyce mentions some masterpiece that's been lost for 100 years and Spike says "It's in a cave in Sweden. I knew the guy who knicked it, he got drunk and forgot which one he'd left it in"
"One time Dru and I were running from this angry mob, we think we might be done for, but then we go past an electronics store and everyone stops to watch some bloke walk around on the moon for a bit"
another life
If you don't believe that crystals can keep away negative people in your life you've obviously never thrown one hard enough, my personal favourite that i recommend is called brick
companies stop making me tap the sign
when night comes…
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