r/buffy

Are there any 40+ age fans here who posted on The Bronze Board, or had a geocities or angelfire account or a Live Journal? Or who went to Writercon 2005, 2006, or 2007? I am multi-character/mutli-ship fan who is in the midst of a Tony-loss angst fueled rewatch, and I would love to reminisce with fen my age.

I love that the Buffyverse still has new fans every day (ZOMG YAY!), but it makes me sad when y’all say that Xander and Angel and Cordelia looked “old” in 1998, call 27 year old Jenny Calendar “middle aged” and tell me that BtVS didn’t understand consent because it was the late 1900s, LOL. (Trust me, you’ll all understand when you check in on the Bridgerton fandom in 2049.)

Anyway — anyone who took a Buffy college course in 2003 or saw the “Once More With Feeling” interactive movie tour in 2006 wanna chat?

People often see Willow in Triangle as a bully. She's certainly in a particularily mischievous mood.

But I want to table the turns a bit.

I am not going to talk a lot about Anya. I just want to say that when people talk about Willow's treatmen to of Anya, they forget that there is a reason Willow doesn't like her for most of the show. The first time they meet, Willow agrees to do a spell with her, but the spell shows her a version of Sunnydale where everyone she knows and loves dies. Then when she refuses to try the spell again, Anya insults her and later Anya teams up with a group of vampires that are holding the Bronze hostage and almost gets Willow killed.

But let's talk about Giles.

Willow has two spells she wants to do. She wants to make a artifical sunlight to help Buffy fight vampires and she is still working on making Amy human. To do this, she wants to steal supplies now that Giles is away.

What does this tell us? It tells us that Giles, who has just invested in this new and highly profitable buniess is not only having Willow work for free, he is also making her pay for supplies for Scooby work and for helping a young woman who turned herself into a rat.

It's often pointed out that Giles doesn't pay Buffy, but Willow and Xander also put in a lot of hours of Scooby work and they volunteer at his highly profitable shop. Can Giles really not provide Willow with the supplies she needs free of charge? How about a discount?

If I was Willow, I'd still, too. I'd still from that old miser Giles and I steal from Anya, who call me an "idiot child" after I borrowed her my chicken feet free of charge.

Does anybody remember The Succubus Club online radio show? Predates podcasts (at least the term), and was hosted by friends and fans Kitty and Candy, who eventually scored many of the writers as guests. It was charming and enthusiastic and informative, and also super poignant as we got to know the hosts as individuals and experience seismic life events with them over the course of the series. I caught up with it later (I didn’t start watching the series until the first four seasons were out on DVD) but still think of it occasionally, and fondly.

Quick search yields results on Internet Archive and YouTube. Not sure if all the episodes are available. I wonder if either of them lurk here. Really special show.

This is my first time watching the entirety of Season 2. Last night, I finished "Innocence". I didn't expect this to happen, but I started crying when Buffy had expectations of Giles being upset with her because of Angel, but instead he's empathetic.

Buffy: You must be so disappointed in me.

Giles: No. No. No, I'm not.

Buffy: This is all my fault.

Giles: ...if it's guilt you're looking for, Buffy, I'm-I'm not your man. All you will get from me is, is my support... and my respect.

That’s the whole post. I think the Duffer brothers would make the most amazing reboot. It would be the right mix of nostalgia and campiness. It would be perfect

It's been long enough since Buffy aired that entire social media platforms have come and gone (either literally or in popularity), so the answer would likely depend on what website/apps were popular during a given time.

For me, here is what comes to mind when I think of various character's social media vibe. Feel free to object or add your own:

Buffy - Facebook

• Activity: One of those people who never posts but occasionally will unexpectedly like someone's picture or status. Will occasionally click "attending" on school events she plans on attending. She only ever posted during her Homecoming Campaign, posting her poster and making statuses asking people to vote for her. These posts are immediately scrubbed from the internet upon her losing. Also is known to occasionally deactivate her account for varying spans of time.
• Profile Pic: Does not have a profile picture (it's just the default gray figure), but if you click on her albums, her previous profile pictures are all from her time at Hemery High (cheerleading pictures, May queen pictures, etc.) At one point she *MAYBE* puts the classic picture of her, Willow, and Xander laughing on the grass, but ultimately reverts back to gray figure. Realistically she will at some point have a picture of her with Riley as her profile picture.
• Friends: she is friends with basically every single Hemery High student in her grade + all the popular ones from other grades. She has never sent out a single friend request since leaving Hemery, but she instantly accepts friend requests from Sunndydale, resulting in an incoherent lineup of random facebook friends.

Xander - Twitter

• Posts random thoughts
• Posts every joke that he feels the Scoobies don't laugh at enough
• Posts every joke that the Scoobies do laugh at sufficiently
• Posts random phrases of wisdom
• Posts pics of his meals
• Very extreme range in the quality of his tweets.
• Obscurely gets a lot of followers but makes the decision to just pretend like it isn't happening.
• Screenshots of his tweets occasionally gets screenshotted and circulated as a meme on other websites.

Willow - 2010-2014 Tumblr and any era of Reddit

• Tumblr for seeking out witchy communities, and expressing herself via Tumblr blog aesthetic, love poems, Dougie Houser Fan Fiction, etc.
• Reddit for asking advice on both tech issues and spell issues.

Tara - Snapchat

• Primarily sends goofy little snaps to Willow, and occasionally Anya or Dawn
• Snaps things she finds aesthetically pleasing that she wants to share. Her goofy snaps are usually pictures of things that she sees during her day that are absurd, and she usually pairs it with a subtly witty caption.
• Understated and cryptic snapchat stories. Sometimes deleted before the 24 hour window ends.

Cordelia - Instagram

• Very curated to portray herself as lively and interesting but not messy or overly-online.
• Typical pictures include but are not limited to: cheerleading photos (both candids during a routine and team photos), family vacation photos, photos from school dances, and photos from that day at the wharf with Xander.
• MAYBE a mirror selfie with friends but only if her outfit is designer and stunning and the picture itself has very high aesthetic merit.
• In her very early days of Instagram use, would post pictures from the Bronze with those classic instagram filters, but would not be caught dead doing so after freshman year. She never deletes her old pics though because she's not ashamed of doing something that was innovative and trend-setting at the time.
• Does not view anyone's instagram stories except for guys she's dating. Never posts instagram stories unless it's for a prom/homecoming/May queen campaign.
• She only likes pictures based on merit, not friendship.

Dawn - MySpace and TikTok

• MySpace would have been a great place for Dawn to express herself and establish a sense of identity. She would love choosing songs for her page, etc.
• She has definitely made silly TikTok videos with friends at school.

Anya - LinkedIn and Facebook marketplace (and probably Zillow)

• You either see the vision or you don't.

Giles - YouTube

• Watches academic lectures and occasionally comments on them.
• Posted two acoustic guitar singing videos, but has probably since unlisted/privated them.

Riley - Pinterest

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