A tribute to that girl who saved the world
librarianjessie already wrote about this. But hey, it changed me too. Ten years ago, a cultish campy film made its comeback as a TV show. Buffy the Vampire Slayer may have ended in 2001 (or was it 2002? The years are crushing together now...) but it still continues to be a big thing for me.
There's a contest in Dark Horse right now asking How has Buffy changed your life? This is what I wrote (but I didn't send it in, too shy hehehe):
It was just one of those moments where you just know, hey my life’s gonna change. That was what happened when I first saw the pilot episode of Buffy “Welcome to the Hellmouth”. It was my freshman year in high school and like most of my friends, I was going through some weird teenagey thing. I was depressed, angry and irritable. But most of all it was like I didn’t care about anything. I could’ve channeled all those feelings into something creative and I could have since at the time I was training in ballet company, but even that seemed so pointless for me. Being me I did not want to cry or to show anyone how I was feeling. Everything was bottled inside. I did not want to believe there was a problem with me.
Until the day I saw Buffy. I was hooked from day 1. Seeing and following the lives of Buffy, Willow, Xander and Angel gave me venue to vent my feelings. Angel and Buffy made me cry. Willow and Oz made me feel cuddly. Xander made me laugh. The Master made me hate. It was these characters and their stories that made me acknowledge my problems and bring them out. I watched Buffy for all its 7 years and Angel for 5. And every time I turned on my TV and saw them I felt I was greeting my old friends. Because that’s what friends do, help you out.
Yep BtVS changed my life. It made me go and seek out other people with the same love of the show (oh yeah pinoyslayer) and in fact, it's a safe bet that it's the first ever fandom that really hooked me.
And for those seven years that it was with us, thanks. I may have been just a spoony 11 year old when it first premiered, but now at 21 I'm glad it existed.
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And now I have to get back to work. Freaky acads stuff, when will it end?
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And now I'm panicking like hell.
The dad was supposed to transfer the pics from our cam to his USB before he left for Bangkok with the mom. So why am I going around the house wailing "Shit, what am I gonna doooo!"? Weeell, the pictures are not there! The LF group pics, the pics of baby Enrico that I took for my cousin, my avatar pic and a bunch of other important pictures are now in danger of being gone forever.
Here's hoping they haven't deleted the pics yet and that they get the 30 messages I sent them in both SMS and email telling them to not touch the delete button.
Oh fuck, what am I gonna doooo?!?!?!?!
There's a contest in Dark Horse right now asking How has Buffy changed your life? This is what I wrote (but I didn't send it in, too shy hehehe):
It was just one of those moments where you just know, hey my life’s gonna change. That was what happened when I first saw the pilot episode of Buffy “Welcome to the Hellmouth”. It was my freshman year in high school and like most of my friends, I was going through some weird teenagey thing. I was depressed, angry and irritable. But most of all it was like I didn’t care about anything. I could’ve channeled all those feelings into something creative and I could have since at the time I was training in ballet company, but even that seemed so pointless for me. Being me I did not want to cry or to show anyone how I was feeling. Everything was bottled inside. I did not want to believe there was a problem with me.
Until the day I saw Buffy. I was hooked from day 1. Seeing and following the lives of Buffy, Willow, Xander and Angel gave me venue to vent my feelings. Angel and Buffy made me cry. Willow and Oz made me feel cuddly. Xander made me laugh. The Master made me hate. It was these characters and their stories that made me acknowledge my problems and bring them out. I watched Buffy for all its 7 years and Angel for 5. And every time I turned on my TV and saw them I felt I was greeting my old friends. Because that’s what friends do, help you out.
Yep BtVS changed my life. It made me go and seek out other people with the same love of the show (oh yeah pinoyslayer) and in fact, it's a safe bet that it's the first ever fandom that really hooked me.
And for those seven years that it was with us, thanks. I may have been just a spoony 11 year old when it first premiered, but now at 21 I'm glad it existed.
****
And now I have to get back to work. Freaky acads stuff, when will it end?
****
And now I'm panicking like hell.
The dad was supposed to transfer the pics from our cam to his USB before he left for Bangkok with the mom. So why am I going around the house wailing "Shit, what am I gonna doooo!"? Weeell, the pictures are not there! The LF group pics, the pics of baby Enrico that I took for my cousin, my avatar pic and a bunch of other important pictures are now in danger of being gone forever.
Here's hoping they haven't deleted the pics yet and that they get the 30 messages I sent them in both SMS and email telling them to not touch the delete button.
Oh fuck, what am I gonna doooo?!?!?!?!