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Queer Subtext in Buffy’s “Hush”

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I was a huge fan of Buffy.

In 1997, when the show had it’s first run, I remember spending an entire week anxiously awaiting the pilot episode after seeing an extended promotional spot for it. Within the first ten minutes of episode one, I was hooked, but…

Carver’s not Whedon in more ways than that and I suspect that’ll play in favor of all fans who want to see Dean and Cas’ endgame realized of being both alive and together/not getting stuck forever on two different planes of existence in the series finale, perhaps right after confessing their feelings.

(Note that /even Joss/ couldn’t kill his darkhorse character in the end, but he sure hit fans hard because in my experience he can be a bit sadistic sometimes just for the effect per se, without it being a /strict/ means to another end. I might end up being wrong of course, but not everyone’s like that).

MAN. If I hadn’t already known Marsters would be back the next season in Angel, the Buffy series finale would have broken me, maybe worse than [REDACTED]. And that is by God SAYING SOMETHING.

Queer Subtext in Buffy’s “Hush”

You may just simply—because of things you’ve already established in your story or where you see the story going—may not want to explicitly make a character gay, but you may feel that subtext is appropriate for your story.

So for example, in Buffy the Vampire Slayer the scene where her mother is saying, ‘Have you ever tried not slaying?’ Was that queerbaiting?

“We were using a gay metaphor, we were using a metaphor equating slaying to being gay that I thought was very powerful,” Espenson said.

“If you say any time that something is not canon that it’s just metaphorical, it’s queerbaiting, then you lose that opportunity. Then I think it also scares creators away from taking their first tentative step into using a gay character. If they start with some subtext and are rebuffed they’re never going to go near it. So I think let’s have better assumptions about people’s intent.

We interviewed Jane Espenson about writing, queerbaiting, and the impact of her characters.  (via dailydot)

I feel like Buffy Summers and Dean Winchester would be best friends.

Dean: So you’re Chosen too, huh?
Buffy: Yep. A bunch of old men played God a zillion years ago, and here I am.
Dean: I know that feel.
Buffy: Oh well. It could be worse. I kind of enjoy killing things.
Dean: It’s really good stress relief. If only we could just stick with killing monsters, right?
Buffy: I know. One day it’s “kill vampires”, the next you’re sacrificing yourself for your younger sibling.
Dean: And then they bring you back from the dead!
Buffy: You too, huh?
Dean: Crawled my way out of a grave.
Buffy: Sucks, doesn’t it?
Dean: And then I got back to find out that the person closest to me was doing sketchy, addicting things to become more powerful, all in the name of the greater good.
Buffy: Let me guess, he tried to start an apocalypse?
Dean: Not TRIED to start so much as– wait, how’d you know?
Buffy: Been there, done that. Man, next thing you’ll tell me someone close to you lost their soul and tried to kill people you loved.
Dean: Dude. This is eerie. Next thing you’ll be telling me you have a red-headed computer-hacking lesbian unofficial sister.
Buffy: …um….
Dean: …..Are you my alternate universe parallel?
Buffy: No, the only alternate universe I’ve been in, they told me my life was all fiction. And not even good fiction.
Dean: …We should hang out.
Buffy: Definitely.
Dean: Decapitate some vampires.
Buffy: Sounds good.
Dean: Are you seeing anyone?
Buffy: No, but I’m not over this guy in a big coat who I hated for a while and was an enemy but then came over to our side because he fell in love with me, and then later he betrayed me and it was awful, but then he really did feel bad about it and tried and make up for it and he died saving the world but then came back only he never calls me.
Dean: …..
Buffy: …..

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Favourite BTVS Speeches:
↳ Rupert Giles, Innocence.

#remember that time a teen girl had sex on a show and it crashed and burned but her father figure was like ‘i think you made a good call’#like legitimately ‘based on the evidence- hitting that was 100% understandable and i support you’#oh – oh you were expecting an ‘i told you so’ or some kind of slut-shaming#LET ME INTRODUCE YOU TO RUPERT F*CKING GILES

RUPERT FUCKING GILES PEOPLE

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dannywelbeck:

Favourite BTVS Speeches:
↳ Rupert Giles, Innocence.

#remember that time a teen girl had sex on a show and it crashed and burned but her father figure was like ‘i think you made a good call’#like legitimately ‘based on the evidence- hitting that was 100% understandable and i support you’#oh – oh you were expecting an ‘i told you so’ or some kind of slut-shaming#LET ME INTRODUCE YOU TO RUPERT F*CKING GILES