#citrusapples

This question brought an absolute flood of mental images to the surface, I tell you what. Unfortunately most of them were of the outfits I hated, which was most of them, because even when it was airing I did not like Buffy’s outfits much and they have not aged well.

I guess the dress she wore in Restless is good? And I remember liking her red top with the drapey neck in Once More With Feeling.

Aside from its strategic use of leather pants, though, the costuming on Buffy was... kind of frustrating for me, I guess? There were some super iconic villain outfits (Spike’s red shirt/black coat, Drusilla’s white dresses) and outfits intended for specific visual impact (Buffy’s Prophecy Girl dress, Cordelia’s ice blue brocade in The Wish), and as mentioned, I do applaud their strategic use of leather pants as visual shorthand. 

But I don’t think they did a great job of using costume to show character growth, especially for Willow and Buffy. Buffy was always a fashion plate, but her outfits were kind of all over the place in terms of conveying her actual personality. 

And I can kind of see what they were trying to do with Willow, I just don’t agree with it. Willow went from very deliberately plain/dowdy in S1/2, to a mix of aggressively cutesy (Dopplegangland) and baby Wicca looks in S3, to this like. VERY 70s thing in S4 with lots of maxiskirts and corduroy and that big old shearling coat. but past S3 none of it really read to me as things Willow would actually choose for herself to wear, somehow?

Mellona ‘s team for everything is iron bull, Vivienne and blackwall so. It didn’t go great but it could have been worse. She spent most of her time next to bull, keeping herself in his vision as much as possible (I think her and blackwall both do this) to try to keep him as calm as possible.

I also tagged you you binch :Þ

I HOPE ITS OK I ANSWER THIS PUBLICALLY

THANK YOU so much, this ask made me smile when i read it the first time n ive just been like thinking abt it since TTwTT I’m glad someone enjoys my sparkles !

I went through both a ‘YAH SPARKLEDOGS!’ and ‘sparkle dogs r SO unrealistic :/’ phase n I so vividly remember my best friend and i searching up sparklesnark LJ on the regular cuz we enjoyed the poking fun at sparkles when tho... we ? both ? drew sparkle dogs ? ( i was featured on there once or twice )

I always loved sparkles tho even when my teenage angst wouldn't let me fully vocalize my appreciation for em cuz they were Popular. And popular things were for preps.

idk how this derailed into that but what im sayin is THANK U but also to any teens reading this ? listen to that top 100 music u secretly love and draw all the ridiculous characters u got in ur mind, embrace it in the NOW so u can enjoy the memories in the LATER >:0

I’m sorry, socks AND flipflops? how did the flipflops stay on?