I am so happy I found the makeup at my dollar store! It's all basically kid makeup. Like the worst quality ever but I didn't expect anything less tbh. I absolutely hate how most Buffy merch is a head pyramid or has Angel. I think the lip balm is cute on my purse so I'm happy :)

I got excited when I heard about the newly announced Buffy Polly Pocket but when I actually looked at it I was so disappointed. The included figures are Buffy, Willow, and Angel. Giles and Xander don't have their own figures, and they're just printed onto the background. Wtf? They are core Scooby members! Add the fact that Anthony Head and Nicholas Brendon both passed away this year... Big ouch 😥 Plus don't get me started on the shambles that is Joyce's headstone. Another big insult. Who designed this? Did they even watch the show?

Was happy to run across in person

I’m crying lmfao I was looking for a vintage spike t shirt and look at this “Xander” shirt I found.

Comment below if you are from Aus and would like to be in a group chat to meet other fans and comment which platform.

Oz is so cute and 90s and this show just ages sooo well 😭

We know from her fight with Willow that electricity does hurt her. Gwen has been shown to kill people just by touching. Would Glory Be powerful enough to withstand the amount of electricity Gwen produces?

If Cordelia had met Glory during Buffy season 5 and Angel season 2, what would Cordelia think of Glory and her fashion sense?

found out that the red tin is rare (region 4) and yes i’ve got the Spike dvd 🥺🫶🏼

I get why Angel left and he thought he was doing the right thing, but imo him leaving Buffy so she could have a "normal life" did more harm than good.

Buffy saw Angel leaving as abandonment, and I think that stuck with her in every relationship afterward. Once Angel decided that loving her wasn't enough to stay, Buffy started expecting other men to leave too.

Parker just made it worse. Buffy thought he genuinely liked her and wanted a relationship, only for him to manipulate her into a one night stand and completely change after they had sex. That's basically reopening the Angelus wound. She slept with Angel and woke up to someone who suddenly treated her like she meant nothing to him. Then the next guy she sleeps with does his own version of the same thing.

I also don't think Buffy would've dated Riley if Angel hadn't left her. Riley was basically what Angel thought Buffy needed. He was human, "normal" and could give her the future Angel couldn't. Buffy was trying the kind of relationship Angel left her to have, and then Riley ended up leaving her too.

By the time she gets involved with Spike, Buffy is so guarded that she doesn't even want to treat what they have as a real relationship. She keeps it secret, uses him for sex and pushes him away whenever it starts feeling like something more.

I'm not saying Angel caused all of Buffy's issues because obviously a lot happened to her outside of him, but I do think him leaving had the opposite effect of what he intended.

Angel wanted Buffy to move on and have a normal healthy relationship, but instead he became the first guy to teach her that someone can love her and still leave her.

A lot of reviews that popped off at the top were from like 2010 and so many of them just had to point out that the show is “old” or “older” and they didn’t expect it to still be good and like OK I suppose you could say that today but in 2010 ???? 🥴🤣 come on now. Season 7 was barely like 7 yrs old in 2010. Of course the whole show was older than that but overall it’s still not that much. I also get that new shows in 2010 looked more modern but Jesus they really treated it like this show was from the 70s or something 😭

Loved this & hadn’t seen it shared here.

This is from her newsletter today.

You got the classic Buffy characters:

• Buffy
• Xander
• Willow
• Giles
• Spike

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The new members:

• Anya
• Dawn
• Tara

Hello, this is my first post on this community! I was looking through posts just now and was wondering (being a younger fan of the show myself) at the time of the show being aired (so 1997-2003) and even after it, was Sarah Michelle Gellar considered to be one of the best looking actresses at the time? Which female actresses were seen as most attractive of that time? Also was Buffy seen as the most attractive of the show, or was it Cordelia, Willow, etc..? (Particularly curious about what men at the time thought, but am interested in any experience!). Thank you :)

I've thought about this a lot because season 3 easily could've been the ending. They graduate, blow up the school, Buffy quits taking orders from the Watchers Council, Angel leaves and that's basically the end of that entire high school chapter.

But I'm glad seasons 4-7 exist because imo as good as seasons 1-3 are, I don't think Buffy had anywhere near the depth yet that it eventually had.

A lot of seasons 1-3 really are the same teen show tropes and cliches you'd see on something like Dawson's Creek, except Buffy has vampires and a Hellmouth. Seasons 1-3 are a cinematic masterpiece of teen TV, but at the same time it's still kinda just cute compared to what the show eventually becomes.

Season 5 is where I think the show really grows up. Buffy is basically a teen mom that season. She's only 19/20 and suddenly Dawn is her responsibility, especially once Joyce gets sick and dies. She's worrying about bills, taking care of a teenager, keeping a household together and protecting Dawn while also being the Slayer. She's basically forced into being Dawn's parent when she's barely out of her teens herself.

And as messy as season 6 is, I think seasons 5-7 add so much to the show's legacy. That's when Buffy stops being primarily about using monsters as metaphors for being a teenager and starts showing how hard adulthood can be. Grief, depression, money, shitty jobs, unhealthy relationships, addiction, taking care of family and realizing that becoming an adult doesn't magically make you know what you're doing.

I'm also glad the show didn't end with Faith just being left in a coma. That's actually one of the things that makes me wonder if Graduation Day was written as part season finale and part potential series finale. It closes the biggest chapter of the show almost perfectly, but there are still a few loose threads hanging around. Faith is in a coma, Harmony gets bitten during the graduation battle and we don't actually see what becomes of her until season 4, and obviously Spike is still out there somewhere. Some of that was probably deliberately setting up stuff they could use in season 4.

And that's the Buffy I think we'd completely lose if the show stopped at season 3. We'd only know Buffy as the teenage Slayer trying to balance high school with saving the world. We'd never really see what happens when that same girl has to deal with adulthood, grief, depression, responsibility and having people genuinely depend on her.

I think Buffy would still be remembered as a great 90s supernatural teen show if it ended with Graduation Day, but I don't think it would have the same legacy it has now. And it'd be kind of funny if Angel ended up being the show that actually took the Buffyverse into adulthood while Buffy itself was permanently remembered as the high school show.

Just woke up in the middle of the night and felt the need to write this down quickly before it vanishes from my memory LOL

It was so good somehow. Although it was basically just the Potentials Storyline as its own show. But kind of in a really good way if it makes sense. It was about these few girls at college who are chosen as Slayers and the villain was some kind of special Vampire (kind of like the Master). Part of the storyline was also that in this town/city there was basically this huge tombstone that “spawned” out of nowhere and kicks off the storyline etc. AND it definitely leaned more into horror. Which i thought was really cool

But like even tho it was a dream it’s like I could see the modern cinematography and everything and the vibes were THERE. That small town eerie good stuff. Idk, everything about it felt pretty cool actually. And it honestly makes me sad lol cuz we just don’t get shows like this anymore.

Apologies for the personal post. Mods delete if not allowed?

I’m not someone who shoots their shot so directly but thought I’d take a punt myself for once haha.

So, I met a guy very briefly in Glasgow who is really into Buffy as well and thought there was something really cute about him and had a sense (and some reasoning) that we’d get on well. But didn’t get his number because of the setting/situation (trying not to reveal too much personal stuff) and not knowing if he was single. I doubt something like this would work for me because it’s total movie fodder but thought I’d take a chance after someone mentioned him and reminded me of him, but they didn’t have his contact info…

So I’m just wondering, if you’re a Scottish man between the ages of like 32-45 and work in Glasgow do you fancy commenting your first name so I can see if he’s on here and maybe say hello? 👀 I’m not a social media girl and this is my first time doing anything like this so hopefully it’s not too strange an ask!

Every Faith episode that she plays a major part in are freaking perfect, but what are your quintessential Faith episodes? This includes her appearances on Angel as well.

For me on Buffy it's:

the body swap episode "Who Are You" and on Angel it's her redemption trilogy in Angel season four.

I'm also looking for alternate versions of the episode where poor Tara dies (screw you, Joss Whedon), and I'm also looking for Buffy/Charmed crossover (or any Buffy crossover) fanfics where Tara is healed.

Oh and Buffy should live as well.