The Earth Her Body - Fic by La Noyee, (and random thoughts about the women of the 'verse) (1/?)

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ETA: Additional screencaps added below cut - which has also been added. (Post in haste, repent at leisure.)

Take a Moment: by   lanoyee. Gen, Buffy, Tara, Dawn. A "deleted scene" , post-"Grave"; Buffy bids a friend good-bye. Spare, elegant and melancholy, it's a scene I wish had been in the show.  One of the things I love best about BtVS is how

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Thank you for sharing these thoughts, sweetie.

I'm fond of the Buffy/Tara friendship too and I wished there had been more of a tribute to Tara when she died.

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That's pretty much what inspired 's fic (rec'd above) - we were talking about that very point and then she just came out with that, as if it were nothing. I really admire that; and I'm always happy for more!

Yes, it really felt like there needed to be more. Even in Villians/TTG(?) I kept waiting in that car ride for Buffy to ask Willow "Where's Tara? Is she ok?" It emphasized just how much of a plot device Tara had been after all to M.E. *grumble*

The scene where Buffy & Xander find Dawn in the bedroom with Tara's corpse? It echoes Buffy finding Joyce in the body but at least we see Joyce's face. JESUS was that scene cold. Poor Dawn.

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And as much as I would have liked to have seen Tara again, I am kinda glad that Amber Benson nixed Joss' plans to bring her back in S7 because that would have just made her even into more of a plotdevice, killed and brought back again on the whims of other characters' arcs.Her decision only increased my respect for her, because she knew it would upset the fans who were already extremely traumatized (I saw the show last year finally, knew Tara would die and it still hurt like hell.) And also angry at Joss's "my pain is worse than your's how dare you be offended and question my wisdom?" bs. Which is another rant altogether. (I'm speaking of CWDP of course

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When he's good, he's great, but when he fails, he fails spectacularly, and I really dislike how his feminism is often used as a teflon armour that makes him impervious to criticism.PREACH