counterpunches:#i love that watching buffy deal with the loss of her powers earlier in the year prob
counterpunches:#i love that watching buffy deal with the loss of her powers earlier in the year probably influenced this conclusion for willow#that buffy doesn’t fight just because she has to #she knows what’s out there#and her strong sense of protectiveness keeps her committed to the safety of others#but not to make this post about buffy#because it is an INCREDIBLY POWERFUL willow moment #what a good @counterpunchesI love that Willow would be fighting the good fight even if Buffy weren’t around. But I also love that Willow has to meet Buffy for her to realize and decide that fighting the good fight is what she really wants and who and what she truly is. It just shows that it requires us meeting a reflection of ourselves for us to see ourselves for who and what we truly are. How else can we see it otherwise?They don’t make this ‘identity’ and ‘human being’ shit obvious after all. Our conscious experience is designed the way it is for a reason. Recognizing it as a mirror isn’t necessary. But understanding that it isn’t just an experience is. Because if you don’t understand it - you miss out a lot of important information.Most importantly you miss out that identity isn’t really a “thing” at all. It ultimately doesn’t exist. But that doesn’t stop one from choosing to identify with their being human rather than their entire conscious experience of human being. Including that of which doesn’t seem like it belongs to them because it appears separate or external from and to them. Thus, we don’t think about how we are reflecting on others and how they are reflecting on us. Collectively, we don’t think of the world as a mirror - but experience will show us that it very much is. And we can come to realizations and decisions much like Willow here when we understand the parts of ourselves that reside in other conscious human beings.And of course, we first need to meet them to begin with to be able to do that.And I love the dynamic between Buffy and Willow for that reason. They are extreme influences on each other in the way where they bring out what each other really wants and who and what they truly are. They are mirrored. Reflecting parts of themselves back at each other with every emotionally intimate interaction. So, yeah, I suppose I can see how some would interpret that as romantic. What’s not romantic about being able to be authentically ourselves in the presence of another? Or to express that we are who we are unashamedly in front of another? That is indeed romantic because it is intimate. But it can also be completely platonic too. Because emotional intimacy doesn’t have to have romantic connotations. I think we generally just view them as such because it’s not common practice to be this emotionally intimate with another person that’s not our significant other or someone we have romantic/sexual attraction to. Which is sad - because there’s nothing wrong with that and it certainly would help humanity evolve more. Be more peaceful with and respectful of each other.Buffy and Willow just have a very deep emotionally intimate friendship and you can see when it breaks down how off the wagon both of them go in their lives without the world falling apart. But at the same time - when it is at it’s strongest - you can also see how well attuned to their conscious experience they are even when their life is not so harmonious. Because that’s the thing - We make life what it is even when it cracks. And friends are usually what holds us steady when the world crumbles. And I would say this a very frequent occurrence in this show… wouldn’t you? Considering we don’t live on a Hellmouth… this is probably why we never really have many platonic emotionally intimate interactions. Hence why we see it as romantic when characters on a TV show that live on a Hellmouth do. Just some perspective whether you asked for it or not :) -- source link
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