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For such a small town, Sunnydale has always had too many cemeteries.

This is actually one of the nicer ones. It doesn't house any ancient tombs dating back to before the town was founded. It doesn't have any secret tunnels underground, linking the crypts to musty passageways that lead down to subterranean vampire lairs. It just has graves. Just dead bodies, lying silently under the earth.

She came here alone, almost like it wasn't something she'd been dreading. Just casually walked here from her house, strolling along the familiar suburban streets as if she made this trip every day. As if this didn't mark the end of something. As if she wasn't afraid of saying goodbye.

It should be raining, she thinks. The sky should be full of clouds.

But it's not. The sun is shining, the sky is clear and blue and she can hear birds singing quietly in the trees behind her. Sometimes the weather really has no sense of occasion.

"Hey, Giles," she says awkwardly. "It's been a while."

Giles doesn't say anything in reply, of course. He doesn't raise an eyebrow while he waits for her to finish, the way he normally would have done. Doesn't mutter something old-fashioned and British under his breath while he pretends to clean his glasses. Doesn't make that strange clucking sound with his tongue that he always did when he angry or upset.

He's never going to do any of that stuff again. Because of her.

"I wanted to say that I'm sorry," she manages, voice trembling just a little. "I let you down. I let everyone down."

"I was distracted," she says, trying to think of how he'd have put it. "I was irresponsible." I was in love, she thinks, and is surprised by how little it hurts.

She takes a breath to steady herself.

"It won't happen again," she promises.

Season 3 AU.

When Angel lost his soul, people Buffy cared about died. People like Kendra, the only other person in the world who understood what it meant to be a vampre slayer. People like her Watcher, Rupert Giles.

Now they're gone, just like Angel is gone, and none of them are coming back.

But whether Buffy wants it or not, she's still a Slayer, and there's still work to do. The Watcher's Council have assigned her a new Watcher, Professor Diana Dormer. And her new Watcher has brought a Slayer of her own with her to Sunnydale. But are Buffy and Faith ready for what this year has in store for them?

Buffy Summers/Faith Lehane Warnings: Major Character Death Status: Complete Chapters: 27/27 Word count: 277,084

#btvs #buffy the vampire slayer #fanfiction #fuffy #buffy x faith #my writing #still can't quite believe I actually finished this #pinning this version for comepleteness sake

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juanabaloo

wozardofiz

Faith Lehane

Buffy the Vampire Slayer 3.13 “The Zeppo”

#btvs #faith lehane

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txttletale

Anonymous asked:

Tumblr fandoms make fun of you if you like male characters or don't think every female character is a lesbian

txttletale answered:

anon is posting from a beautiful utopia

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shittinggold

despairportal

I suspect I’ll be leaving shortly. Don’t despair, some other poor bastard will take my place soon enough. I wish I could assure you that he will be as generous as I with his scraps. Either way, you mustn’t settle for whatever refuse finds its way into this cell. There’s a whole world out there that every so often rewards ambition. Mark my words. Today the crumbs, tomorrow the loaf. Perhaps some day the whole damn boulangerie. You’re welcome.

#black sails

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annevbonny

arcanegifs

"The topsiders offered me everything. Independence, a seat at the table. All in return for you. They can all burn. Everyone betrays us, Jinx. Vander. Her. They will never understand. It's only us. You're my daughter. I'll never forsake you."

#arcane

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faustandfurious

amoralmorel

>looking for a new House

>ask the narrator if their House is creepy or wet

>they don’t understand |pull out diagram explaining what is creepy and what is wet

>they laugh and say “The Beauty of the House is immeasurable; its Kindness infinite”

>move in

>its wet

#piranesi

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thechosenthree

theonlyadawong

"he's like a woman to me!!!" not true because if he was a woman to you you wouldn't give a fuck about him

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annevbonny

kragehund-est

not my toddler gaslighting me by insisting she can make her own lunch, and then using weaponized incompetence + white woman tears to manipulate me into doing everything for her when she "changed her mind". i work full time as a SAHP and can NOT handle this mental workload, we as a society need to have an open and honest discussion about lunch's role in the fathers' mental health crisis.

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Ask game for people who like to ramble about their obsessions. So.

SEND ME A FANDOM (+ number) AND I WILL TELL YOU...

...the moment in the story that I started shipping my OTP from this world.
...my three favorite characters and why I love them so much.
...which scene I would like to erase from the universe and why.
...why you should choose to check out the world of this story and choose three gifs that should underline my point.
...the scene from it that lives in my head rent free.
...which is my favorite platonic or familial relationship in this world.
...how likely I am to follow the writers and directors from this project to their other ones and why.
...a quote from it that means a lot to me.
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...which character I would choose for the chopping block if I knew the writers wanted to kill someone.
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...the perfect number of books/seasons/movies needed to tell this story properly.
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SEND ME A SHIP (+ number) AND I WILL TELL YOU...

...about my absolute favorite of their scenes and why I love it so much.
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...three of my fic recs for this ship. And (in the event that I've written something for them) one of my fics involving them that I'm most proud of.
...three of my favorite fanvids for this ship. And (in the event that I've created something for them) one of my videos involving them that I'm most proud of.
...three of my favorite fanart or edits for this ship. And (in the event that I've created something for them) one of my art or edits involving them that I'm most proud of.
...if this is a ship that's likely to take up room in my heart for years and decades to come or if they're the summer romance that will probably fade into the past with a fond memory.
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...why I love them, like them or hate them.
...how I would have chosen to change their story from canon.
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...if I have NOTP for them.
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charmedbuffy

extremely funny how buffy not telling riley about angel is basically played in the same vein as her not telling him about faith. like duh she doesn’t want to tell riley about the person she had an intense overtly sexual relationship with who tried to kill her but buffy wasn’t able to let them die and now they’re gone but she knows she still has strong feelings for them. or her ex-boyfriend.

#btvs

coraniaid

Anyway, here are seven episodes of Buffy which I'd have given Amy Madison a cameo in.

The goal isn't to change the plot of any of these episodes substantially or to change Amy's overall arc (such as it is). Rather the idea is to do just enough work to make Amy feel like a recurring character with the weight of, say, pre-S6 Jonathan Levinson or pre-AtS Harmony Kendall. Somebody who is stil clearly a minor character, but who feels a lot more thought out than Amy herself often does.

I think you can do that with just a few strategically chosen cameos. Here are my picks:

1) S1E12 Prophecy Girl

Prophecy Girl brings back Jenny Calendar (previously only seen in I Robot, You Jane) and the previous week Out of Sight, Out of Mind had brought back Harmony (previously only seen in The Harvest). Both Harmony and Jenny would go on to be popular recurring characters, and I think making a second appearance in the first season would do wonders for Amy as well.

While I'm at it, I'd slightly rework Cordelia's story this episode -- cutting out her doomed boyfriend Kevin, who replaces Out of Sight, Out of Mind's Mitch without explanation and will never be mentioned again; and the slightly uncharacteristic friendly way in which Willow and Cordelia treat each other this episode. In my version of the episode, it would be Amy who roped Willow in to help set up the sound system at the Bronze for the Spring Fling, and it would be some of Amy's friends that they found murdered by vampires in the Audio-Visual Club.

(I wouldn't rob Cordelia of any of her other scenes, of course: she'd still get to drive her car through the school halls and bite a vampire.)

I think adding Amy like this would serve to remind the viewer that (i) Amy exists; (ii) Amy and Willow are friends; (iii) even with her mother gone, horrible things keep happening to Amy Madison.

2) S2E01 When She Was Bad

Nothing fancy here; just a quick establishing scene at some point to remind us Amy still exists (in the same way Larry makes a cameo at the beginning of Season 3). Have her show up at the library and ask if any of the gang have seen Jenny Calendar, because she's meant to be teaching a class but nobody's seen her all day, maybe? Rather than the approach that canon takes, where nobody seems to realize Jenny has been kidnapped at all, even though we know she was captured at least a day before Buffy goes to rescue Cordelia (and the gang spend all of that day at school, where Jenny Calendar should be working...).

Again, the point of this addition is to mainly remind the audience that Amy exists, but we're also setting up the idea that Amy might eventually look to learn more than computer science from Ms. Calendar.

3) S2E06 Halloween

Just one scene here as well: Amy commiserating with Buffy and the others, and admitting that Snyder "volunteered" her to go out accompanying kids that evening as well. The point being that we see that Amy has dressed up as a witch for Halloween...

(We wouldn't see Amy again all episode, and we wouldn't know whether she got her costume from Ethan's, but down the line the idea that Amy might have gotten a bit of a head start as a witch from her experiences this episode -- in the same way Xander remembered some of his military knowledge -- could definitely be a fun fan theory.)

If anybody asks Amy if she's comfortable dressing up as a witch after what her mother did, maybe she can reference back to the attack on the AV club or Ms. Calendar being kidnapped and suggest that she knows now that there are worse things in the world than witches...

4) S3E02 Dead Man's Party

OK, if I were rewriting this episode I'd find it hard not to make bigger changes. At the very least, I'd want to have a few more scenes from the POV of characters other than Buffy (so that there's less of a sense of Buffy's friends all treating her horribly for no reason). And who better for Willow to be pouring her frustrations out to than her fellow fledgling witch Amy?

Give Amy a line about "missing Ms. Calendar too" as well, and Willow's final speech to Buffy about spending the summer "trying to communicate with the spirit world" take on an interesting subtext.

5) S3E09 The Wish

This is an interesting one because I'm half-convinced Amy was meant to be in this epsiode anyway. It's the only episode before Amy gets ratted in which she's mentioned on screen (Willow tells us that she's heard some gossip about Cordelia from Amy, which is -- in canon, anyway -- the first indication we get in the whole show that Amy and Willow have started hanging out).

I wouldn't be at all surprised if Nancy's role this episode (in the alternate Wish dimension) wasn't originally meant to go to Amy. That's how I'd play it, anyway. (Of course, if Buffy didn't come to Sunnydale she wouldn't have been around to save Amy from her mom. But I think that's easy enough to fix: just throw in a line about Amy being grateful to Giles and the other Whte Hats for "saving her" from some unspecific fate, and make sure to establish that this version of Amy can't do magic.)

Of course, this Amy would have the same fate as Nancy -- fittingly, killed by Willow -- but I don't think we'd need to have that happen off-screen the way it does in the actual episode.

6) S5E22 Grave

I really don't think Amy's abrupt descent into magical drug addict works ... well, at all. So I'd like to see a much bigger change to her arc after being de-ratted (something like @idle-flower suggests here, for example). I just don't think her villain arc this season makes any sense (and I know it robs Willow of a lot of the moral agency she should have at this point).

Failing that sort of change, though, I'd at least like Amy's mini-arc this season to .. resolve? She gets the door slammed on her face by Willow all the way back in Doublemeat Palace and then we never see her again. We don't even know if she's staying with her dad, or if her dad left town, or what. How is she surviving at all? At least throw in a scene of Amy discovering whatever's left of Rack and looking angry and vengeful about it, surely? Remind us she exists, and that things aren't going great for her.

7) S7E12 The Killer In Me

You might object to this one on the grounds that Amy is already in this episode.

The thing is though, I'm not sure that episode's writers remember that she is? Amy is outed as being responsible for Willow's predicament, Kennedy promises to stop her, Amy snaps her fingers -- teleporting Kennedy away -- and ... that's it. That's the last we hear from, or about, Amy Madison. Not just in the episode, but in the whole show. She doesn't suffer any consequences, she never gets a face to face confrontation with Willow, there's no obvious reason why she wouldn't be free to try again and again. Surely we can do better than that?

At least give us a scene of Amy fleeing Sunnydale ahead of the First's wave of destruction, or reacting to Willow getting her own body back. Something that we can pretend amounts to closure for a character who has, after all, been a part of the show since the third ever episode. Even if her continued appearance on the show, season after season, wasn't ever something the writers conciously planned.

#btvs #amy madison

coraniaid

Here is a list of every Buffy character who appears in, or is mentioned by name in, at least one episode of every season.

These are the characters that, you might assume, are the most important over the course of the whole show. The ones that the writers cared about most and refused to stop caring about. The ones that did the most to shape who Buffy Anne Summers herself would become as a person. Put simply: the main characters of the show.

Each of them appears in the first season and also appears (in one case, as a post-death vision) in the last.

Just for fun I've added (in parenthesis) the number of episodes each of them actually appears in. Can you spot the odd one out?

Buffy Summers (144) Willow Rosenberg (144) Xander Harris (143) Rupert Giles (126) Joyce Summers (58) Angel (58) Amy Madison (8)

#btvs #amy madison