The definitive Spuffy fanwork archive since 2006.
While this account is shared among Mods, it is mostly run by Holly. Personal fandom opinions may vary.
Hi, Spuffy fans and friends!
While we are maintaining our Twitter presence for now, we're very likely to start shifting to other platforms toward the beginning of the year.
We met her as a child soldier. We watched her fight and struggle and love and lose and suffer and hurt and recover and forgive and thrive, all while saving the world a lot. And at the end, we saw her finally get to choose where she would go next.
Happy 27 years of Buffy.
Season 6 is so unfairly maligned. Not as much as it was in the early days of fandom, but too many people still do not understand how powerful it is to watch someone as good and amazing as Buffy experience what she experiences and ultimately rescue herself. She’s an inspiration.
Season 6 of Buffy is a masterclass in exploring depression and grief. What we see is difficult and messy, incredibly painful at times, but ultimately remarkably uplifting. It's so powerful to watch someone as good as Buffy experience her worst only to emerge her best.
Twenty years ago today, Buffy realized that her love has the power to turn people into Champions. And she said the words that she'd been demonstrating all season long to the man with whom she chose to spend what she'd thought were her last nights on earth.
He was supposed to be killed off after 5 episodes and ended up being indispensable to the show overall, all based on JM's performance in those first crucial episodes and the fans' response. Another actor could never.
Buffy starts the series traumatized, and it just compounds, but nothing hits harder than Buffy believing she has to protect the feelings of the people who hurt her.