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@bisummers

dali | bi latina | 32
multifandom, mostly buffy

Hate diet culture so much bitches will b like “don’t eat processed carbs they’re so bad for you” like and??? So what?? God did not give us grain and stone to grind it with for no reason. Bread is inevitable. Bread is food for the heart and the soul. U think I’m gonna give that up in pursuit of instagram fitness?? U think I’m gonna deny myself the simple pleasure of toast with jam so I can endlessly chase an ever-shifting standard of beauty that ultimately means nothing? In 20 years I will no longer be beautiful and in 60 my body will be vacant food for other, smaller creatures. But the taste of fresh bread? Of homemade donuts and still-warm pie? I will carry the taste on my tongue into whatever follows this life. So like. Stop telling me I should diet lmao. I’m not abt to martyr myself just to get a man to look at me.

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Preliminaries No.6: BTVS Bit-cuhs

I love this show. Genuinely one of my tops. Was pleasantly surprised to see the submissions.

One is moving on, the rest are biting the dust (get it? cuz the vampires turn to dust when--)

Faith: Cool smooth lesbian with a murder streak

Willow: Her boyfriend died and so she tried to destroy the world and melted someone's face

Drusilla: She's a bit off--and who can blame her? Tortured by a psychopath.

Just realized that the reason I love making friends on tumblr is because it’s exactly how you make friends on the playground as a six year old. No, I don’t know their name but they love mermaids too and built this awesome sand castle. No, I don’t know their age but their imaginary cheetah is friends with mine. You like this show? You like this character?? You can sing the theme song really loud??? Here is a flower crown. Here is a juice box. You can share my time and I might never see you again but part of you stays in my soul forever. In my mind we’re still on the swing set and the sky is blue and nothing will ever be wrong again.

I just had this dream that felt too specific to be something i made up, but when i looked it up it doesn’t appear to be a real thing that happened? Can someone let me know if they’ve heard of anything related?

I was watching a drunk history-style video where they reenacted the moment when the famous “Kill the Rat” photograph was taken. The setting was a high school gym in the fifties, and there was an elusive rat or mouse living in the school gym that no one could capture. As a joke, a student made a cardboard cutout of a man holding a rat by the tail and another of a man pointing a gun. The gun had the words “kill the rat” written on it. On the next big basketball game they pulled out the cutouts at halftime and placed them in the middle of the court, i guess to make fun of the fact they still hadn’t caught the rat? Idk.

Anyways, the reason why this moment was so famous was because the fucking rat decides to make an appearance! It ran into the middle of the court, up the leg of the cardboard cutout, and stood on the very tip of the gun asking to kill it. The whole town was at the game and saw it happen, and the irony had everyone in stitches. A court photographer manages to get a great picture of the rat on top of the gun, which lives on till now. The video explains that most people don’t know what happened after. Turns out, the rat scampered to the other cutout, settling on the hand holding the rat, and bit the thin cardboard tail until the rat cutout fell to the floor, no longer captured under threat of death. The crowd half cheers half laughs while the real rat runs out the court through the doors, never to be seen again.

while I'm blabbering on about chosen I'm coming out as a chosen angel cameo apologist actually. firstly and most obviously it leads to the cookie dough speech which is like a brother to me it fought at my side in the war and i jumped on a grenade to save its life <3 but more specifically I think if you're gonna have one of the big emotional beats be buffy letting go of the failures of her past relationships and giving herself absolution for that and accepting that she has time to figure out who she is and what she wants... it makes sense for her to have that moment with the guy who's where that cycle started. thinking about "when I look into the future all I see is you" vs "I'm not thinking that far ahead. that's kind of the point" AUGH THE CATHARSIS OF IT IS QUITE GOOD ACTUALLY

and I've been thinking about this for a while but the thing that sticks out to me most about this particular parallel is the implication of the "all I see is you" line that at least part of it is about buffy's sheer conviction at that point that she is most likely not going to live past high school (like it's played off as a joke in season 3 that she didn't think too much about college bc she wasn't expecting to survive that long but that is also a genuinely horrifying thought). it's a line that sounds melodramatic but also for buffy I think is very literal bc from her perspective there really isn't anything in her future. she latches onto angel bc this might be the last chance at a relationship she ever gets she literally cannot see any other future for herself bc there's no way out of her destiny. and a thing that sticks out about the cookie dough speech is that there's this, however unconscious, inherent assumption there that this isn't the end. when she says she's not done baking and that someday she will be it's with the unspoken premise that there's going to be time for that to happen. there's going to be time for her. she might not be looking that far ahead but the ahead is there. and after everything she's been through, she knows she's gonna make it

people will say "oh well it doesn't make sense with what's happened in angel season 4" and my friends i am sorry to say i simply do not give a shit. i finished season 4 and immediately forcibly removed all memory of it from my brain and overwrote it with the season 4 rewrite that only exists in my mind. if btvs wants to pretend that ats season 4 never happened then i am right there with it cheers i'll drink to that one bro