Happy Buffyday, everyone!
Mar. 11th, 2007 01:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
holliI put Welcome to the Hellmouth on last night in honor of its 10-year anniversary. Apparently the universe has a more perfect sense of timing than I'd ever expected, because just as Xander was returning Buffy's stake, Meg came home with some people, one of whom took one look at the TV and said "Oh my god! Buffy! Yay!"
So I made a new friend, which is always nice. We watched the rest of WttH, The Harvest, and then The Wish, which I haven't seen in ages; I forgot how powerful that last slow-motion scene is.
A lot of people on my flist have been talking about what Buffy meant to them, and I'm joining in because for me the answer is: a lot. I started watching the summer after Season Two, which for me was the summer after seventh grade. I'd finished out that school year miserable and basically friendless, totally socially maladjusted, convinced I was never going to fit in in any meaningful way. And then I turned on my TV, and found a story about a girl with power and a destiny, and her friends who didn't fit in and didn't *care*, because they had found something more important than fitting in.
That fall, I turned on my computer and found a community of people who shared my geeky, obsessive joy over Buffy, who also remembered perfectly well what it was like to be 12 and awkward and alone, and who showed me by example that I didn't have to be any of those things.
It's eight years later, and fandom is a huge and wonderful part of my life. I wouldn't have that, if not for Buffy. Buffy doesn't mean the same things it did to me when I was 12, because it got more complicated and so did I, but I'll never forget the realization that there were otehr people like me out there in the world, and some of them made TV shows.
So I made a new friend, which is always nice. We watched the rest of WttH, The Harvest, and then The Wish, which I haven't seen in ages; I forgot how powerful that last slow-motion scene is.
A lot of people on my flist have been talking about what Buffy meant to them, and I'm joining in because for me the answer is: a lot. I started watching the summer after Season Two, which for me was the summer after seventh grade. I'd finished out that school year miserable and basically friendless, totally socially maladjusted, convinced I was never going to fit in in any meaningful way. And then I turned on my TV, and found a story about a girl with power and a destiny, and her friends who didn't fit in and didn't *care*, because they had found something more important than fitting in.
That fall, I turned on my computer and found a community of people who shared my geeky, obsessive joy over Buffy, who also remembered perfectly well what it was like to be 12 and awkward and alone, and who showed me by example that I didn't have to be any of those things.
It's eight years later, and fandom is a huge and wonderful part of my life. I wouldn't have that, if not for Buffy. Buffy doesn't mean the same things it did to me when I was 12, because it got more complicated and so did I, but I'll never forget the realization that there were otehr people like me out there in the world, and some of them made TV shows.
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Date: 2007-03-12 04:19 am (UTC)