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all the rights that come with marriage you should be able to have without marriage btw. you should be able to designate a person who can visit you in the hospital regardless of your relationship to that person.

Thinking this morning about the cultural legacy of buffyspeak and the whedonism/whedonesque quips as they have come to be culturally dominant in big budget films like marvel (even before whedon himself was actually working on marvel) and I think part of the issue is that so many people (read: men) in Hollywood see the appeal of whedonesque dialogue as ‘smart guy fast quips’ while ignoring the actually interesting and subversive aspect of buffyspeak, which is that it was rooted in a maligned & devalued dialect & subculture associated with vapid and shallow teenage girls. Whedon is absolutely not the first guy to write fast-paced witty dialogue, but he IS revolutionary for merging fast-paced quips with y2k valley girl slang in a way that created such a lively and unique artistic idiolect that really feels like an organically-derived dialect that arises amongst a group of friends. It’s not the pace that made buffyspeak iconic, it’s the vernacular! + the way the vernacular interacted with the pace. So modern whedonesque dialogue falls SO flat and is so boring bc it all uses the same dialect and diction, rather than having a unique dynamic of tension by engaging with/creating its own idiolect. And that’s why it’s buffyspeak not whedonspeak. A single quip can be a whedonism, but just quips alone cannot create the realistic and engaging artistic idiolect of btvs

Genuinely, thank you so much for this.

It's fascinating to look at myself objectively in the middle of a freakout and know how irrational it is to be freaking out. A corner of my mind is just sitting there going 'wow. Really?'. Unfortunately the rest of me is completely losing it and knowing that doesn't actually change anything. Having the ability to spectate my breakdown just feels weird on top of everything else.

this is a renaissance painting

I can't fuck with people who are fundamentally uncurious.

I also can't fuck with people who are fundamentally unkind.