women of buffy

I decided to start off my series of Buffy related posts with a little who's who for the women of the show. Just another reason to post some pictures of pretty ladies.

This is Buffy. She is a kick ass vampire slayer. She died twice. Did I mention she kicks ass? Cause she does.

This is Willow. She's Buffy's book smart best friend. She's also a witch. And a lesbian, which is only one of the many many reasons why I love her so.

This is Tara. Like Willow, a lesbian witch and Willow's girlfriend starting in season 4. She's very shy her first season but definitely comes into her own. After Willow, I thinj she had the best character development. Also, my girlfriend is in love with her. For serious.

This is Anya. Ex-Demon who's powers were took from her after messing up a vengeance spell. So she gets stuck stuck in this world as a mortal. Her confusion on any recent reference and the inability to understand sarcasm brings on many laughs.

This is Faith. She is a bad-ass slayer gone very bad and then good again. I love her. The end.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

I was a huge Buffy the Vampire Slayer fan when the series originally ran. I loved this show so much that I used to tape it on VHS and re-watch them with my friends. I probably still have said tapes at my parents house...

The show ended 7 years ago and somehow I never saw all the episodes of the final season. The final season aired during my first year of college and quickly got bumped down on the list of priorities in life. Funny how things like that happen.

Well, a few weeks ago it got bumped up to a main priority for me. GF never watched (!) except for random episodes her younger sisters watched, but I'm under the impression they watched for Angel, therefore GF wasn't too interested, hehe. Anyway, GF and I decided to watch from the beginning. It was a rough few weeks and I was (jokingly) yelled at several times for not warning (spoiling) things to GF that she felt like she needed warnings for.

Expect a string of Buffy posts, which will most likely contain spoilers. But if you haven't seen it yet, then I'm guessing you probably won't, but really... you should.

pride

The month of June is the offical month of Pride. I was interested in attending Pride events in 3 seperate cities: Cleveland, New York City, and Knoxville, TN.

Cleveland because that's my hometown and was the very first Pride I ever attended, at age 19 and all by myself. I was scared out of my mind and only stayed long enough to walk around the festival once. I was only out to my closest of friends at that time. I wanted to go back and experience it again

NYC, because well, it's New York fucking City, and I wanna be at the gay mecca when Pridefest rolls in. It doesn't hurt that one of my bestest friends lives in the city. She in fact ran in this year's (and last year's) annual Pride Run. In all the times I've visited NYC somehow it's never been on Pride weekend. This needs to change.

I currently reside in K-ville, so that was a no brainer to attend. I went last year and well... it definitely left something to be desired. In hindsight I should have stuck around for the drag show performance, cause the performers from our local club is amazing. Shout out to Club XYZ! Best female impersonators I've ever seen!

It ended up that all 3 Pride's were on the same weekend. Well, I can't be in 3 places at once and also with little money, the first 2 were out of the question.

When Pride day came along I was all set to go. I really was, but then a few teammates on my softball team asked if I wanted to head out to a bar that afternoon to watch the US World Cup game. I thought, well that's pretty gay, so I can celebrate that way and head over to the festival afterwards. I'm sure you can see where this is going. I did not stop by due to my short lived depression from the US loss.

That evening was the softball team cookout and end of season celebration. So instead of hitting up bars which were packed due to everyone going out that night, I spent my evening (and into late night) cooking out with my team, playing beer pong, and having a gay ole time. I don't think that's too shabby a way to celebrate Pride.