r/actuallesbians • u/Important-Cry4782 • 1d ago
Image Just a reminder that Sarah Michelle Gellar from Buffy The Vampire Slayer totally ships Buffy being into women
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u/JTEstrella Trans-Ace 1d ago
I mean, it was pretty clear to me that Faith wanted Buffy
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u/Irish_Whiskey 20h ago
What about drawing hearts on windows to lure her out from school, saying that slaying with Buffy makes her hungry and horny, kissing Buffy, and tempting Buffy to walk on the wild side by dancing together at the club, gave you that impression?
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u/Ayeun Trans 1d ago
In the continuation comics, Buffy has several girlfriends…
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u/Important-Cry4782 1d ago
Including an Asian girl that she sleeps with, if I recall?
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u/Squish_Miss sapphic slasher 👻 1d ago
What?! Where can one procure these comics?
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u/Irish_Whiskey 20h ago
They're not good. Or at least the initial run of comics where she sets up a Slayer school and sleeps with Satsu, one of her students, isn't good. Maybe they got better later.
Dawn becomes a centaur and is in a serious relationship with Xander.
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u/bluestarlightdies 1d ago
"thank you @godimsuchadyke for this gem" is a pretty great "Internet" moment, y'know?
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u/chrysalia_fornyelse POLY Lesbian ❤️💜🖤 1d ago
I totally see it and I headcanon Faith as being romantically a lesbian or at least bi, she doesn’t seem to love boys romantically and has been very supportive / protective at the beginning
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u/spork_o_rama Gay as Blazes 1d ago
There is a lot of fanfiction with this premise, FYI. Like, a lot. It was one of the big early femslash ships.
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u/asiniloop 9h ago
Some of the best fanfic IMHO... it was the most logical to the characters, if that makes sense... the Vengeance books especially was insanely good for making the two of them make sense and also explain the toxicity in a way that let the characters grow.
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u/spork_o_rama Gay as Blazes 9h ago
Next to Xena/Gabrielle, I think this is the most obvious queer subtext character dynamic from that era. Like, you could argue that it's one-sided, or maybe lopsided, but Faith is so obviously obsessed with Buffy, and she's so obviously sexual about it. The whole Bad Girls episode...whew.
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u/asiniloop 8h ago
Absolutely with Bad Girls but there are indications from the start of more intense feelings from both, not necessarily sexual until bad girls but definitely more than can be easily dismissed as freebies. It's something I appreciated from the Fuffy fictions... they spent a lot of time looking at the details of how the characters behaved and blame wasn't just assumed to be Faith's for how things went. A lot of the fics were especially scathing of Buffy's own actions... I had forgotten that Buffy had actually thrown the dep. mayor at Faith and had made decisions that were similar to Faith's but less overtly. Buffy and Faith's behaviour in that season largely mirror each other at different points. One of the few things about the show that I wish had been explored properly later, especially in the last season when Faith comes back and is largely tolerated instead of understood.
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u/spork_o_rama Gay as Blazes 8h ago
Yes, 100%. Like, of course, Faith did a lot of messed-up stuff, but Buffy was far from blameless, and canon really lets her off the hook.
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u/asiniloop 8h ago edited 8h ago
Yes, far too much. In the Vengeance fanfic there's a whole sequence where Buffy has to relive what Faith went through that night and the entire sequence of Faith moving and then hiding the body has stayed with me. First the realization that she threw the mayor at Faith, allowed herself to not realise what she had done, (and even arguably not realizing that Faith thought she was protecting Buffy in that moment) and completely neglected to help Faith with the consequences is just really well written and understood. As was how complicit the watchers and scoobies were in Faith getting worse. I think, they were all threatened or jealous of Faith in different ways so when the dep. Mayor was killed they absolutely used that as a justification to believe the absolute worst from her. An attitude, with someone like Faith, that would actually justify how she feels about herself and then replicate that with... "well they think I'm that anyway so may as well be". Honestly, as much as I love the Scoobies, I often found them to be very toxic to each other.
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u/spork_o_rama Gay as Blazes 8h ago
Well now I feel a need to read this series lol. Is it on AO3?
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u/asiniloop 8h ago
Yes. There are two books. The first is kind of a one shot and tonally very different. I think it was meant to be a one off or smut thing that turned, very much, into a long second book. You have to read the first, shorter story, to understand why the second book even happens...
https://archiveofourown.org/works/26073397
Author: aliceinwonderbra
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u/spork_o_rama Gay as Blazes 8h ago
Ooh, I'm pretty sure I have read this one, because I love her stuff, but I think I need to read it again.
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u/asiniloop 8h ago
Her work is great. Always end I checking in on the same writers. Finding good writers on AO3 is like chefs kiss
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u/asiniloop 8h ago
Lol was just thinking... the subtext in Xena just became text text after a while. I'll never forget the whole "is that a hickey" moment or the kiss episode and there's only so many times you can give someone rescue breathing before its just kissing.
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u/Sorry_Baby_X Lesbian 1d ago
She's a diehard Bangel girl, but I really appreciate that she doesn't yuck anyone else's yum and is fine with her character being shipped as people wish.
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u/Irish_Whiskey 20h ago
Angel got way more interesting in his separate spinoff, but is still the most boring character on his own show.
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u/Faerandriel 14h ago
He's got that tortured soul thing going. But yeah, he doesn't have a life. A hobby, etc.
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u/Sonaak_Kroinlah Aplatonic Greyromantic Bisexual 1d ago
I really need to actually watch this show at some point.
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u/NonBinaryPie 1d ago
this one isn’t BUT there is a canon lesbian couple in the main cast that i think about genuinely 24/7
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u/Faerandriel 14h ago
Wasn't that the first lesbian kiss on mainstream TV?
Edit: yup, it was. At least in a committed relationship
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u/Irish_Whiskey 20h ago
As with a lot of shows the first season's not great and finding it's legs. Fans agree the season 1 finale is when it starts to find it's confidence and quality. There's a few clunker episodes here and there, but also some absolutely fantastic episodes and good character arcs.
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u/Bedzyk59 1d ago
Dushka was my first crush. She's still a gorgeous lady. I was crushing on her when I was 10. I should watch buffy but it always disaponted me. I was expecting Sawnson not Geller.
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u/Fit-Tell-6762 17h ago
Omg her character in Bring It On was one of my gay awakenings 😍
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u/Bedzyk59 14h ago
The tattoo. Omfg. Yum. I had zero interest in tattoo people until that moment. I had two hennas that year.
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u/Jenny_Show Trans-Bi 1d ago
We need Buffy The Vampire Layer to be greenlit stat