Welcome to the official blog for LGBT media podcast GayV Club, where Australian writers Merryana Salem (aka Merry) and Durr-e-’Adan Haque (aka Deah) discuss LGBT film and television and how we relate to it as gay people of colour.
honestly if your favourite season of buffy is season 6 then you are one of god’s bravest and most resplendent soldiers but season 6 haters are never going to realize that
realising more and more the reason I x out of 99.99% buffy s6 fics after 2 paragraphs is not just because they all wanna retcon seeing red and I simply love their consequential arcs in s7 too much but also lol I don’t think I think buffy is in love with spike during s6 and even if she is that isn’t the point at all my girl was fighting tooth and nail trying to find the will to live in a body she no longer recognised as her own. to ME
why try looking for fanfic at all in that case if I’m so satisfied with the canon plot as is well I like seeing when my girl is given a bit more interiority
there’s this thing joss whedon does when a romance hasn’t been set up well at all where he gets another female character in proximity to loudly voice how obvious and meant to be it is oh don’t you see those sparks and it’s just extra funny that willow serves this purpose in btvs when during literally every other conversation that isn’t about buffy’s love life she is all so awkward uncomfortable and completely oblivious to how boys/relationships work
this is a riley finn hate zone but i Am happy that buffy got to have relatively normal sexual relationship during a formative period in her life after (and one might say in between) being traumatised to feel like her basic desires were going to bring the damn apocalypse
