#willara

female awesome meme -> [1/20] dynamics - willow and tara (buffy the vampire slayer)

Then when she encounters Tara again, Tara is warning her but the warnings are cryptic. Something is wrong; she’s right that something is hunting her but she doesn’t know what it is. Willow can’t shake her focus on the play or her anxieties about being seen for who she really is but Tara is there still acting as a protector for her.

Finally, she sees Tara in class. Oz tells Tara he tried to warn her. They’re flirting. Tara is no longer her protector now that the real her is visible. There’s this sense that her failures with Oz have carried over and will cost her Tara as well. Obvs the real Tara would never flirt with Oz let alone leave her for him but this is Tara as she exists in Willow’s mind, subject to Willow’s insecurities. Tara is a protector. She’s perceptive (so she sees the danger) and the space that she controls is safe because it’s hers but willow is still afraid that if she is seen for what she really is—a shy and frumpy teenager is what’s seen onscreen but the tenor of oz’s warning implies this is also about her behavior in relationships (the cheating maybe or the hypocrisy)—she will be abandoned and she’ll lose Tara’s protection.

Aw this is cute thanks for asking 🥰.

Willow has been to the beach a lot, having grown up in Sunnydale, but she's always reminded not to take that for granted too much when she sees Tara's excitement each time they arrive. Tara loves the different colors of the ocean, the feeling of the warm sand on her bare feet, and the smell of the salt water. She grew up near a lake, but it was mostly used for boating and fishing, and it wasn't very good for swimming (although her family swam sometimes anyway).

Their favorite activity to do in the ocean is float (non-magically) and pick each other up. Willow really likes being able to lift Tara so easily when she's partially underwater; she makes up funny scenarios and does a lot of silly voices each time, which makes Tara laugh.

Willow doesn't like getting in the water when it's too cold, but Tara's pretty good at it. Sometimes when it's particularly chilly she (not as subtly as she thinks) grabs her boobs with both hands and wades in, which Willow finds really funny.

One time when they were kids, Xander buried Willow entirely all the way up to her neck. She asks many times, and Tara helps her dig and half-heartedly scoops the sand back over her, but she never commits to burying Willow very deeply.

While they lay out on the sand, they both like to chat or read, and Tara really likes drawing in her sketchbook while Willow looks for crabs.