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Buffy Summers is Trans

@doggirlbuffysummers

she/her main is @doggirlbuffysummersmain

I think I started having "trans fem buffy summers" as a headcanon while rewatching the high school seasons and realizing something:

The way that the show handles the conflict between Buffy's slayer duties and her desire to have a normal life is frequently portrayed using gendered language. It is not simply that she wants a normal life, it is that she wants to be a normal girl.

I don't have exact quotes and specific examples but Buffy definitely has a habit of being extremely appreciative of fairly basic and mundane parts of performing femininity because...

Her slayer duties frequently lead to authority figures (such as giles) gatekeeping her ability to have the female experience that she wants - the one I always point to here is "Never Kill a Boy on the First Date" in part because of a post by @/herinsectreflection pointing out her line to Owen "I almost feel like a girl" but also because the episode as a whole highlights this part of the buffy-giles dynamic.

Many people have discussed the "vampire Slayer as a queer category" so I will not go into that here, but I think it is crucial to my argument that this queer category, as stated, frequently conflicts with her ability to do gender in the way that she wants.

This morning I did some drafts for things in my askbox. Expect original posts at some point in the foreseeable future.

I hate... fanon archetypes. You know how people sand down their blorbos to fit into the same handful of incorrect quote templates and then they forget their actual canon personalities because they've gone too long without engaging with the source material? I hate it. I hate it. He would not fucking say that. The joke was slightly funny when it was on the office or whatever but we've all heard it over and over with different characters pasted into it how are you still laughing please let me out

The funny character has no other personality traits. Also he's incompetent now. The one who's kind of prickly is just weirdly mean OR sad and did nothing wrong, take your pick. Gotta have the Sunshine Boy. Woman 1 is yass slay badass. Woman 2 is the rest of the cast's Mother. If there's only one woman, she can be both. Do you want to kill yourself yet

I didn't say a fandom but you thought of one, didn't you? That's because they all do this. All of them. You search the main tags for the media of your choice and you will find them there. The same incorrect quotes you've been hearing for years. It's like a time loop. It's my own personal torment nexus

Watching the tail end of buffy season 6 and ats Connor kidnapping arc at the same time is just. No one should do this. Swapping back and forth between shows and muttering I'm going to throw up and fucking die at least once per episode with both