Riley running from his bad choices to go play hero, then blaming it on Buffy and using it as an ultimatum to punish her for her lack of emotional vulnerability, is just such a wild fucking twist. That's leaving out the gory vamp bordello and the mom cancer details.
And then the narrative is like "they're willing victims. They don't deserve Buffy's help. Buffy the vampire slayer wants to slay those vampires for selfish reasons!"
And then the torturing? With a plastic stake? Bruh
Masterpiece of character assassination. At this point, after so many rewatches, I can only pity Riley for being the narrative's dumb tool.
"Hey I just cheated on you. Decide you still want me or I disappear."
Thinking seriously about the taxonomy of goths
Ironic bc I'm autistic and wondered if Data was in there. I am more world weary than my beloved Data, however.
perhaps some will disagree, but i think the world got worse when we changed the colour of the night
smash hits magazine, december 1984
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Reblog for a bigger sample size please!!
Yes! Jon mentioned survival bias in TMA, because all but a few statements were made by those who survived the Horrors long enough to visit the Institute. But it seems like more of the characters here did not survive.
Thinking about how a lot of theorizing about the Magnus protocols has been considering tma statements as about fear whereas tmagp statements are about desires BUT I’m wondering if this is more about like… selection bias?
Think about it- the Magnus archives collected statements from people who volunteered - people who were frightened and then heard of an archive that collects spooky statements. whereas the OIAR system scours the internet so it’s not biased by who was scared enough to go to the Archives.
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I was running with my arms up a hill in my old neighborhood. I didn’t have legs, or they were small and tucked under, and my face was in my torso. Some guy grabbed me, I shouted “DON’T TOUCH ME,” and ran away on my arms, as per usual.
In my mouth
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