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BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER

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I am wondering how many of you who responded that they can ride a horse have actually ridden a horse. Or if it’s like an “all men think they can land a plane” kind of thing.

Posts that would be found on the Sunnydale High meme account, in roughly chronological order:

she took my empire of dirt in the divorce

I don't think I believe that people in Sunnydale High School think of the Scooby Gang as "Buffy Summers and her weird friends".

I mean, yes, they know Buffy is (more than) a bit weird and has a history of violence, and they know that she's often at the center of lots of strange things that happen in the school. But if you forget what you know about vampires and the Slayer and look at the dynamics and personal histories of that group from the outside, there's exactly one person who connects them all together. And it's not the (ex?) arsonist and (ex?) gang member who recently transferred to Sunnydale from LA.

To the outside eye, the Scooby Gang are Willow Rosenberg and her weird friends.

(A lot of kids swear that one time they saw her hold the whole Bronze hostage and rip a girl's throat out with her teeth, but of course Principal Snyder hushed it all up and she was back at school the next day. He really doesn't want to have to hire a new computer science teacher this year.)

I want owned physical media back, but I'm not sad to see DVDs go – optical media was always a transitional technology, and suffers from a number of intractable drawbacks. I want them to start selling movies on indestructible solid-state cartridges the size of a quarter, so I can keep my entire media collection in an unsorted pile in a random cabinet drawer and have to go rummaging through it like an amateur chef trying to find the lemon zester every single time I want to watch something. Do you understand? I want to lose the entire Star Wars trilogy between my couch cushions.

why is the metal community so pressed abt this it’s literally hilarious. 10/10. love it. i want it.

Metal elitists probably are, the rest of us think this is funny as hell. Also fuck yeah to making corpse paint easier to get and for relatively cheap

I’m a cis man sure but i also wanna opt out of the gender binary. None of that shit is my fault or my responsibility and i don’t want any part of it

Believing the gender binary is stupid horseshit doesn’t require me to change my gender actually

Yeaheyah you get it. Not trans but i believe in their beliefs. Sometimes i remember people form gender complexes around what alcoholic beverages or colors they like and i just wonder how they’re not fucking exhausted from keeping up this stupid fucking horseshit. Just do whatever you want forever

@nimagine i know u reblogged this from me but ur so correct 🙏 get peer reviewed

And out came the tiger....

Always a reblog…..

Wow!🥰

I just wanted to remind my fellow Sherlockians here about this Kickstarter, as it's only a shade more than half funded, and time's running out.

Disclosure: I'm a stretch goal on this! And i really want it to happen, because it's going to be so much fun.

As a previous recipient of the IAMTW's "Faust" Grandmaster Award, it's absolutely a pleasure and an honor to have an opportunity to contribute to this anthology... especially about a character I love so much. If the stretch goal is hit, this will be my first outing as a professionally-published Sherlock Holmes author. And I can't wait!

So if this project interests you, please consider becoming a part of it and helping get it funded!

Meanwhile... I'm off to start plotting. :)

Bumping this! They've only got a week to go. If you're interested, please join up and help them make it over the funding line! (And if you feel inclined, please reblog so others can see this! Thanks.)

#criminal to not put firefly here

It’s there under “Other Space Show.” Along with BSG and such classics as Lexx, Lost in Space, Red Dwarf, and Dans une Galaxie Pres de Chez Nous

I hope whoever added that note gets the chance to see this, but: Some years after Serenity came out and did not provoke TV execs to renew Firefly, at which point all fans of the show, myself included, had to accept that all we got was a movie, half a season, and two editions of a pretty-good RPG, I remember reading an interview.

My memory says it may have been Tim Minear giving the interview but I can’t swear to it. In any event, the guy told a story about how Firefly so nearly didn’t get commissioned, and in the meeting that made or broke it, Whedon told them a plan for about season 3 or so, an episode pitch that he’d wanted to sit on and keep secret, as a last desperate play for a green light.

In that episode, Inara would be away from the Serenity, and Mal would learn she had fallen into the hands of people who wanted her dead. He would spend the entire episode racing to get there in time.

In the meantime, Inara would poison herself with something that would kill her slowly but would also kill anyone who had sex with her. Mal would eventually show up to the tragedy of a sea of dead bodies; Inara and the people who gang-raped her to death.

I’ve never been able to smile at memories of Firefly since. Not even Shepherd Book’s view of God’s view on kneecaps really overcomes the fact that the show got greenlit so we could one day film the results of Morena Baccarin getting fucked to death by rapists who then died with her, all so Nathan Fillion could kneel by her body and look tragic.

And for years, I thought that this memory was why, even as someone who’d owned the show on DVD, who’d enjoyed it, who’d gone to see Serenity opening night, I didn’t understand the people who love the show.

I eventually worked out that this isn’t where my lack of understanding comes from, but that my bewilderment at people who look at Firefly as some perfect show comes from the same reason I was so vulnerable to a description of an episode that may have been intended but never got to be canon.

And that reason is this:

I like the show that we got. Half a season, a mid-season replacement that never got renewed. But there’s some great episodes in there, some strong but not great episodes, there’s a sense of character. And there’s clearly a lot of worldbuilding that we mostly don’t see.

I remember people debating for years what Reavers would turn out to be. People? Aliens, somehow? Genetically engineered warrior race, given the show had already lifted so many ensemble elements from Gene Roddenberry’s Andromeda?

What was the deal with the blue-hand guys? We knew there was one, but what? River’s experimental history was clearly going somewhere - where? Would we ever delve into Book’s history? What was going on with the Operative? How did this setting get this way?

I think a lot of the people who fell in love with the show actually fell in love with where they thought those questions were going. With its potential. If it had delivered on all those reveals, it would be one of the greats. And we all thought it had the chance to.

Of course, I could have written the above paragraph about Lost. You guys remember Lost? Remember how carefully they appeared to be laying hints for reveals?

Remember how sour a taste it left when it turned out they’d never been ready to reveal, so the whole thing collapsed worse than a flan in a cupboard?

Firefly got thirteen episodes, one movie, and a world of potential. It was good (though apparently heading for some rough TV). It was not wonderful. But the Firefly we have in our heads, like the version of Gene Roddenberry’s Andromeda (callback to earlier in this post) that Robert Hewitt Wolfe and others were sculpting before Sorbo decided to play politics, may be wonderful but never got finished.

Our dream versions are great. What Whedon actually delivered was just… good. And only half a season of that.

I guess now I’m grateful that firefly got canceled…yikes

Well, that’s a gorram disappointing answer to the question of “what the hell was in that syringe Inara went for when they were worried about being boarded by Reavers?” And sadly, entirely in character for Joss Whedon, both the misogyny and his addiction to brutally murdering characters.

I genuinely think the best possible outcome for bringing Firefly back would be an anthology series in the setting, with minimal direct connection to Serenity or its crew. Call it “Tales from the ‘Verse” or something.

Because it would give people who aren’t Joss Whedon a chance to do fun things with the worldbuilding, and wouldn’t have nearly as much risk of the show completely collapsing due to “Lost-ing” the answers to the show’s core questions.

youre telling me a ham fisted this metaphor??

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I love how the tornado doesn't look malicious. She's just dancing along, doing her thing, and it's a pity you're so very ant-sized below.

tumblr will turn anything into a girl

of course, this is the turning into a girl website

I do believe the girl is turning already