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Buffy

All the apocalypses, all the subtext. Essays on the show that taught a generation to survive by being chosen, weird, and a little bit dangerous.


Books Like Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Books Like Buffy the Vampire Slayer

For readers who already know that power isn't the same as safety

Apr 4, 2026

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3 min read

In Honour of a Complicated Character

In Honour of a Complicated Character

Xander Harris, the yellow crayon, and what we do with love that doesn't simplify.

Mar 31, 2026

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4 min read

Unhinged TV Family Trees: We Wouldn’t Have Glee Without Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Unhinged TV Family Trees: We Wouldn’t Have Glee Without Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Both are monster-of-the-week shows: Buffy slayed demons, Glee slayed Journey ballads. Camp lineage is real.

Mar 29, 2026

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5 min read

Buffy Summers Invented Emotional Labour

Buffy Summers Invented Emotional Labour

I think I learned how to overfunction from Buffy the Vampire Slayer (and my mum)

Dec 7, 2025

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5 min read

She Saved the World (Again), and All We Got Was This Broody Vampire

She Saved the World (Again), and All We Got Was This Broody Vampire

A Love Letter to the Women of Angel Who Bled for Someone Else’s Redemption Arc

Jun 18, 2025

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4 min read

Silence, Stakes, and Stillness: Why The Body Remains One of TV's Most Devastating Hours

Silence, Stakes, and Stillness: Why The Body Remains One of TV's Most Devastating Hours

Or how Buffy the Vampire Slayer broke the rules of genre and grief in one brutal episode

Jun 1, 2025

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3 min read

How I Finally Forgave (and Fell in Love with) Buffy Season 4

How I Finally Forgave (and Fell in Love with) Buffy Season 4

Or It’s Not a Flop Era — It’s a Transformation Arc

May 3, 2025

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3 min read

I'm Still Furious About the Character Assassination of Cordelia Chase

I'm Still Furious About the Character Assassination of Cordelia Chase

Or why Cordy and Angel Were Endgame, You Cowards

Apr 30, 2025

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3 min read

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ABOUT THIS SPACE

Where queer millennial nostalgia settles in. Part diary, part TV debrief, part late night spiral about the scenes that shaped us. A place for the characters we held close, the crushes we could not shake, and the moments that linger long after the credits fade, usually turning up again when we least expect it.

ABOUT THE WRITER

Nathan writes about TV as memory, queer adolescence as folklore, and the tiny moments that shaped who we became. He lives in Naarm with his cat, Captain.

FOR THE RECORD

Always in support of queer rights, trans lives, and a free Palestine.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF COUNTRY

I acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the lands and waters across Australia and pay my respects to First Nations peoples, past and present. Their stories, knowledge and care for Country continue to shape this place, and I’m grateful to be writing on lands where storytelling has always mattered.

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