“Oh, my sweet brave Buffy. What would I do without you?”
(3x08: Lovers Walk)
(3x06: Band Candy)
(3x18: Earshot)
Anonymous asked: Cecily or Joyce?
Anonymous asked: Tara or Joyce?
“Buffy, look at me. I believe in you. You’re a survivor, you can do this. Buffy, Buffy, fight it. You’re too good to give in. You can beat this thing. Be strong, baby, okay? I know you’re afraid, I know the world feels like a hard place sometimes, but you’ve got people who love you. Your dad and I, we have all the faith in the world in you. We’ll always be with you. You’ve got a world of strength in your heart, I know you do. You just have to find it again. Believe in yourself.”
“You’re a very bad man!”
Favorite Buffy the Vampire Slayer gifs (one per episode) // 4.15 - This Year’s Girl
Another night deprived of slumber,
Hours passing without number,
My eyes trace ‘round the room. I lay
Dripping sweat and now quite certain
That tonight the final curtain
Drops upon my short life’s precious play.
From the darkness, by the closet
Comes a noise, much like a faucet
Makes: a madd’ning drip-drip-dripping sound.
It seems some ill-proportioned beast,
Anticipating me deceased,
Is drooling poison puddles on the ground.
Life’s not a song
Life isn’t bliss
Life is just this
It’s living
You’ll get along
The pain that you feel
You only can heal
By living
“The emotional effect of the diegetic use of “Tales of Great Ulysses” in “Forever” depends on, among other things, its being doubly allusive. When Giles and Joyce listen to the Cream song in “Band Candy,” in which they magically lose their inhibitions and return to an exaggeratedly emotional state, the song served to signify, through its connection to the sixties, Giles’s Ripper attitude. We also see that for this encounter, Joyce is going to be sharing his music and following his attitude, rather than the reverse. Thus the first level of the allusion. In the episode “Forever,” Giles plays the music again after Joyce’s funeral, and it serves as an emotional connection to the past and a reward to faithful viewers, the recognition of the musical reference allowing a consciousness of involvement with the series’ fictional world.”
-Rhonda Wilcox,Why Buffy Matters
