What Happens Next: A Gallimaufry

melancholic romantic comic cynic. bi & genderqueer. fantasy writer. sysrae on ao3.

mizufae:

megaparsecs:

My new album, Joss Whedon Kind Of Really Sucks and Even Though I Have and May Continue to Enjoy Some of His Shows or Aspects of His Shows That Doesn’t Mean That I Don’t Need To Recognize How They Have A Lot of Problematic Elements, is coming out next week!

It’ll feature such hits as: 

  • “The Origin Story of the Slayers is What Now?”
  • "There’s A Spirit Journey And The Spirit Guide Is Offensive, This Whole Episode Is Offensive" 
  • "The Black Man Is The Villain Part Eins" 
  • "The Black Man Is The Villain Part Deux: Wait, So The Twist Is The Black Guy Was the Villain All Along?" 
  • "Was That Part With Spike And Buffy At The End Of Season Six Really Necessary. Could Spikes Character Development Not Be Achieved Some Other Way." 
  • "Dude Your Stories Have A Lot of Rape And Sexual Assault In Them." 
  • "I Guess Every Asian Actor In North America Was On Holiday For The Entirety Of The Filming Of Firefly Because There Sure Are A Lot Of Not Chinese People In This Chinese-American Culture." 
  • "Dude Your Stories Have A Lot of Rape And Sexual Assault In Them Reprise: Seriously Even Narratives Where Actual Physical Sexual Assault Is Absent Definitely Have This Sort of Undertone Its Creepy" 
  • "A Lot Of Stories End With Women Getting Punished For Having Sex  Part One: Season Two Of Buffy" 
  • "A Lot Of Stories End With Women Getting Punished For Having Sex Part Two: Faith" 
  • "A Lot Of Stories End With Women Getting Punished For Having Sex Part Three: Of Course The Sex Worker Has A Secret Fatal Illness" 
  • "A Lot Of Stories End With Women Getting Punished For Having Sex Part Four: Penny Hecks A Dude, Penny Bites the Dust" 
  • "A Lot Of Stories End With Women Getting Punished For Having Sex Part Five: Like Going Back To Inara There’s A High Sex Worker Body Count In General" 
  • "A Lot Of Stories End With Women Getting Punished For Having Sex Part Six: I’m Sure There’s Plenty Of This In Dollhouse But I Can’t Even Parse It All Right Now" 
  • "A Lot Of Stories End With Women Getting Punished For Having Sex Part Seven: Lesbian Death In The Bedroom And You" 
  • "Why Does The Black Slayer Have That Accent Also Why Does She Die?" 
  • "The Origin Story Of The Slayers Is What Now? Reprise: Say That Again About Sierra’s Origin Story Cause I Don’t Think I Heard You Quite Right.” 

And of course, the hit classic, 

  • "You Know, When I First Watched This I Found It Empowering, But Looking Back That Was Just Because It Was All I Had: We Have To Go Begging For Scraps and That’s Why He’s Been Able To Seem So Progressive For So Long" 

I don’t talk about my mixed Joss feelings on here because I’m really not about the headlining creators of things since I know how intensely collaborative every creative effort that’s shared with more than 10 people usually is. But. Yeah.

See also:

  • Xander Harris Is An Appalling Human Being Who Tries To Rape Buffy In S1 But We’re Meant To Forget About It And Ignore The Rest Of His Bullshit Because He’s A Nice Guy: Why Humour Does Not Trump Casual Misogyny
  • Anya’s Personality Is Literally Every Negative Stereotype About Women As Greedy, Selfish, Excoriating, Possessive, Controlling, Needy, High-Maintenance, Straw Feminist Golddiggers Ever, But She Gets Some Cool Lines So We’re Meant To Ignore It: The Grossening
  • Angel And Spike Are Centuries Old Men In Love With A Teenage Girl And That’s OK, But Connor Being Attracted To Older Women Is A Character Flaw That Wiping His Memories Was Meant To Fix: Double Standards And You
  • Stereotypical And Frequently Racist Portrayals Of WOC Where Their Accents Are The Punchline: Kendra, Ampata, The First Slayer And Chao Ahn 
  • All Our Women Are Dead And Now The Men Have Angst: Why Angel Reinforces The Exact Same Tropes That Buffy Was Meant To Debunk
  • Dollhouse: What The Actual Fuck, No, Seriously, Every Single Episode Is A Symphony Of Rape
  • Black Men Are A Triumvirate Of Wisecracking Evil, Violence And Moral Ambiguity: Mr Trick, Charles Gunn And Robin Wood

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