#buffy s8

I'm really sorry

i've read this season before a few times so i mostly already know what's going to happen. just finished the japan volume and i really do love the comics but the vibe that there's nothing between gay or straight always bugs me. why can't buffy be bi? i can understand sending satsu away because they can't be together, but i'm pretty sure the canon considers her straight even after the thing with satsu and that's what bugs me. like, obviously she's into it, she did it twice. it would make more sense that she just didn't want to use satsu since she has a history of using people who love her (*cough* spike *cough*). although, it's very possible that she is straight, and just into satsu in the moment and knows she can't continue with it in the future because she mostly likes men. i'm like that. but it still feels like bisexuality as an option just isn't acknowledged. i love the writers and so many things, but that has never been one of them. however, the vitriol sent in the "fan" mail after buffy's time with satsu may have influenced that decision. like it's out of character?? really?? after her "slow year" and her history of using people who love her? i??? sounds like yall just a bit homophobic, it's like you don't even remember faith. girl's around no one but chicks for a year and repeatedly makes crushy comments to satsu before the kiss thing. sorry, i digress. those "fan" mails really irritated me. anyway, i also have a crush on satsu lol. she does have "[her] best hair ever" mecha dawn is really silly but reminiscent of buffybot so i can't hate it that much. buffy is a comedy too. who cares. dracula and xander's friendship is super cute and i live for it. my fiance pretty much clocked renee's death the moment it seemed like they were going to get together. oh! and twilight and Buffy finally meet face to face. let me fucking tell you, i remember who twlight is, and when i get to that part of the season, i will absolutely complain. i think most of the bombastic nature of the comics is endearing, but twilight? nooooo I have opinions.

Buffy has a tendency to uh, kinda use people who care about her when she needs to feel something. The only uncomfotableness she ever showed at womanly gay love is when she first found out Willow was bi. In the moment, it was a shock to her and she panicked. There were a couple others, but they were quick comments that seemed like jokes. Flash forward to her literally living with like 500 women. She’s straight. After she sleeps with Satsu, she’s still straight, which she does try to explain afterward, and Kennedy gives the hard truth about it. As a straight woman myself who has slept with women a couple times, I at least get the being straight and experimenting before you know for sure if you’re bi or straight. But like, this is entirely in character for Buffy. Satsu gave her a kiss of true love. Who else loved her (kinda, not really but eventually) and she used physically and experimented with (rough sex)? It definitely tracks. Pair that with the “slow year” she mentioned and the few flirty comments sprinkled in towards Satsu as early as issue 1? All tracks fine. Season 8 takes place a full year or so after the events of season 7. They don’t have the censorship of network (you remember how Joss literally fought with the network for Willow and Tara to kiss in The Body?). There’s plenty of silly stuff in the comics that I don’t like (Warren makes no sense, but Joss did say he literally forgot the details of his supposed death and tried to come up with a viable explanation to make the retcon make more sense… I still don’t like it but I digress) but the absolute rage I saw in the letters in the back of future issues about this thing like really threw me? I was ecstatic Buffy was experimenting, the subtext between her and Faith was very on the nose in the show, the seeds were there (though one sided, mostly). I’m ranting but idk, there’s plenty of things I understand complaining about, but that’s not one of them.