I can’t believe I’ve been watching Buffy repeatedly for as long as I have and this little nugget only recently sunk in.
The opening credits changed throughout the years, but they ALWAYS ended on a shot of Buffy herself.
But check out the last two seasons.
Season 6 –
Season 7 –
Neither one is actually Buffy.
(One is the Buffybot, the other is the First.)
Yeah. The last two seasons’ credits both ended on shots of things that looked like Buffy, but weren’t actually Buffy.
That’s kinda interesting on a bunch of different levels. That’s when the show switched networks. Those are the two seasons that took place after Buffy died. Those are the two seasons that a lot of people hate (your truly NOT included) and said it didn’t feel like ‘Buffy’ anymore. Those are the seasons when Whedon started stepping away (and Jane Espenson and Marti Noxon started stepping up more, although Noxon had to leave before the series concluded, IIRC… to work on Still Life starring one Jensen Ackles).
just a reminder not to bring your kinks into public, especially with BDSM. that stuff stays in the bedroom. like queerness, BDSM is nothing to be ashamed of. UNLIKE queerness, BDSM is inherently sexual. please don’t get someone to chain you up to a bike rack or tug you around on a leash near taco bell. sex positivity is good, but make sure you’re still practicing sex safety – and that includes making sure children don’t get exposed to stuff that’s legitimately confusing and hard to understand!
also, for survivors of abuse?? don’t do this because survivors are in public spaces? because you have no way of knowing who has or has not survived an abusive relationship and by exposing them to things that traumatized them you are actively BEING DISRESPECTFUL AND HARMING THEM? because not being “ashamed of your kink” is not an excuse to throw it in people’s faces?
because forcibly involving or exposing unconsenting people to explicitly sexual acts without permission is sexual abuse
bolding for truth
bystanders have not consented. Bystanders have not consented. BYSTANDERS HAVE NOT CONSENTED TO BE PART OF YOUR SEX LIFE, SO YOU DON’T INCLUDE THEM IN IT.
If you want these Tarot Cards, as I can see from people in the reblogs, please follow the instructions the actual Ariel Hart (the artist of these cards) wishes and DO NOT BUY THEM FROM ‘EVA SAWYER’ ON MAKEPLAYINGCARDS! They are profiting off her work, which is expressly against her wishes, especially since she posted the artwork FOR FREE TO PRINT YOURSELF!
Instead, follow the instructions posted by OP and Ariel linked HERE. I’ll even go one better and get you the link to the higher res pictures that you can download and use: HERE.
Doing it the proper way also saves you £$€, especially if you get it printed on 100% plastic.
it cannot be stressed enough that if capital had its way we would all be working all the hours god sends- and for scraps. the dictatorship of capital does not give a single fuck about our wellbeing and would gladly work us to death unless we, collectively, push the fuck back. our present manageable condition is not the result of market forces or the benevolent wishes of bleeding heart capitalists but because previous generations of workers took part in class struggles and won us our rights.
if you want a better life and a better world you need to join a union, organise and fight for it.
gifted student™ brains are about as functional as horses when you get right down to it
which sounds like a shit post but consider: horses? hypothetically MADE for running. look at this magnificent muscle beasts. look at those legs. they must be so good at running, right? wrong. horses are fragile as fuck. horses break their gotdamn legs so so easily, and if they break their legs you just have to fucking shoot them. if they run, the thing they are MADE FOR, too fast their lungs will start bleeding. I just googled horses to see if I was missing anything and apparently if they lie down for a day their organs start collapsing or something so they can’t rest from their One Horse Purpose even when they’re hurt. they’re made to do one thing but they can only do it under Very Specific Conditions and if a single thing changes they just die.
which, you know. gifted students™ get applauded for being naturally smart when we’re five or whatever and then develop a terrible inflated sense of self that makes us highly averse to anything we’re not naturally good at, because it challenges our fragile childbrain egos and if we wait too long we’ll develop mental fences around entire subjects and skillsets (mine are math and studying) because we think we’re Bad at them, when in reality we just need to practice but are frustrated by that because it’s harder than being ~naturally talented~ was. we get applauded for doing One Thing but the second we run into slightly different things that our brains don’t comprehend as readily? it’s a Bad Time. I still have so much anxiety over things I don’t feel Naturally Talented at that I’ve been sitting here writing this post for like 10 minutes rather than read the feedback on my religion paper. I got a 100% on it, but I’m still That Scared of anything other than straight heaps of praise because that’s what my childbrain was acclimated to. just send me to the glue factory already.
Its important to note that a lot of horse problems are because of how they are exploited by people, pushed too hard and made beasts of burden that they were never meant to be. I think this strengthens the analogy
For a moment I thought those were Dean’s exact lines. I’d forgotten about the censor thing. This sounds precisely the way Dean Winchester would actually say things.
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