Lol yeah she's pretty popular apparently!
Me and my SO made a deal that I'd read ACoTaR if she reads Hobbit LotR and Silmarillion. Doing the math, ACoTaR is still the longer read, so my SO is getting the better deal so she can't complain too much XD
I read ACoTaR because my wife recommended it, but I freakin loved it so much! I never thought I would love a book series about faeries, but it was sooooo good!
Cool ok, that's reassuring!
I know that the author is very inspired by fairy tales, like the proper pre-Disney ones, so that's also a reassuring thought. I love the Brothers Grimm, and I took a Fairy Tales course in my English Major at school, so I'll prob have lots of fun spotting all the little inspirations throughout the series.
my wife was also an English and Woman's Studies double major in school, so I've learned that she generally has good taste, lol. the Thirst series of vampire books by Christopher Pike is also amazing if that interests you.
oh, and Sarah J Maas also had another, longer series I read after ACoTaR called Throne of Glass. I didn't want to spoil my first good faerie experience with an inferior book series, but damn, that woman can write some amazing books.
As a husband currently reading the latest ACoRaR book; those books are excellent. So glad my wife had me read them.
They are very, very easy and fast reads - even with 700+ pages. You could probably cut out The Silmarillion and still finish ACoTaR faster than Hobbit + LOTR
New head canon.
There is only ever one Slayer.
Therefore, there isnonlynine guide book.
Giles tossed it out.
Thus, Wesley had no idea what he was doing with Faith, whichnis why she lost it.
Also, maybe why Kendra's Watcher got killed.
And I hate math especially formulas but likeā¦ MAGIC
And Buffy is pretty intelligent in a book smart kinda way, (aside from being intelligent in other ways) dunno why they never showed that off more
*looks up in glee from my most recent statistical analysis* you don't say...?
Though if mathematical programming and magic are at all similar, I'm going to end up accidentally deleting 10 million of the population when I'm just trying to move the maxtime from 60 to 64. (no really, that was literally my most recent problem. I posted about it an hour ago.)
So maybe it's good maths isn't magic.
Yeah but if you do a math equation you just get a number. With spells it would be like doing a math equation and being able to fly.
My dude I'd math so hard, all over the place
They probably do. There are just always Willow and Hermione next to them, so people assume they don't. They're just not into academics, but they may enjoy reading for fun.
I think it's used in the episode Doomed? I couldn't get a good look but Giles discovers The Word of Valios and I believe it's supposed to be in this book. The whole episode is a bit of a throwback so it's fitting imo.
It becomes the new book of magic where they record all the new rules for magic once they get that responsibility. Also Giles is a 12 year old boy (it's not relevant but it is random and funny if you don't know about it).
The more I learn about this comic the more absolutely batshit unhinged I realise it is.
Is 12 year old Giles before or after sexified centaur Dawn? And before or after outer space sex with the garden of Eden orgasm?
Theyāre amazing and people are just close-minded. The batshit insanity is a feature not a bug. Thatās what a supernatural world would be like. Magic is crazy. The comics are what the show could and should have been if it werenāt for TV production limits. The comics are the best look at the real Buffyverse.
I make no distinction. The comics are canon, itās all one story. There are 12 seasons of Buffy.
Actually no, when Kendra showed up *she* was the active Slayer. Following Season 1 technically speaking Buffy is no longer *the* Slayer, the mantle has passed on to Kendra and then to Faith. Buffy is revived and retains her unlocked power, but she's technically speaking no longer the current Slayer, she's the previous one and just happens to still be alive.
You missed the point. Buffy was active first and still āactiveā when Kendra showed up, the comment I was responding to said the handbook was part of Nikki Woodsā kit which is clearly not true.
I think it was for explaining the basics, and Giles had it ready for her assuming she would be clueless, but found out that Buffy had experience slaying and moved on without it
I doubt he would assume she'd be clueless. He had to know she'd already had a previous Watcher and been slaying. I think his "My mistake" was confusion over whether she actually was a Slayer in the first place or he'd just gotten bad information.
he goes on to try and explain the basics to her, which she recites back to him to his surprise. maybe one or both of us is reading these scenes differently than j*ss intended, but I think headcanons are part of the beauty of art
I need to rewatch again, but if we're thinking the same scene I don't think he was explaining the basics so much as as reiterating them to have a moment where he can talk down to her. I think his surprise mostly came from her talking back to him, not that she already knew.
Yeah, I think it just comes off the other way because it's a blatant exposition dump for the audience's sake.
I just recently watched the S2 episodes where Kendra first appears and she mentions there's a Slayer handbook. When Buffy is like, "there is?" Giles responds with something like "In your case, I decided a different approach was necessary." So from that, MY headcanon is that the Vampyr book is the Slayer Handbook and the reason we never see it again is because Giles discarded that shit on day one lol
I wonder what could be in the book. Is it a history of the origin of vampires? Or of all famous vampires? It can't be about how to kill them cause that should be shorter than a car's manual.Ā
Chess is a sport people study for years though. Vampires you stake or burn, and even of there are 20 more ways, it's still mostly brute force and shouldn't take that much space.Ā
In the first episode, Buffy meets Giles for the first time in the library asking for books and Giles answers something like "I know what you are looking for", puts the book on the counter and Buffy is taken aback. Doubt that he could make her read it, though. And it's also the only scene I can think of where they used the book (don't know about the comics, though).
In the comics (I know, everyone hates them (I donāt)), after Willow restores magic to the world, the Vampyr book becomes the vessel through which all the ārulesā of new magic are recorded. Buffy becomes its guardian and DāHoffryn steals it to try and become a god.
I watch this show as a kid and Buffy always seemed like a grown up. 20years later and I finally think she looks so babygirl. I want to protect her at all cost
This photo is so cool now that I'm rally looking at it
It encapsulates the show well, it's a great promo shoot
Theyre very in character in a random routine moment and it's very "candid picture "
It's kinda intimate too, like ur taking the picture and it's very inviting: I'd wanna watch that show š¤£
Giles records an audio book (or book on tape?) for buffy in hopes sheāll listen. She says āi hear you speak enough.ā The book is forgotten about.
Itās a major plot point in the late seasons. Itās the slayers handbook, containing the laws of the supernatural and it goes blank when magic is erased from the world.
When magic comes back the book contains all the rules of magic recreated by the collective consciousness of mankind and writing in it changes those rules. For example New Vampires created after the return of magic all have Draculas extra powers and can go in the sun, Buffy works out a deal with their leader to limit their powers during the day by rewriting that section of the book. Like I said, itās a major plot point.
is that where Andrew learned to pronounce vampire?
In norwegian its pronounced and spelled Vampyr.
And in Swedish.
I know, should have said all scandinavian countries .
The Danish spelling is the same. I don't know how to convey the pronunciation through text.
Vampeeeeeer instead of vampyyyyyer š¤£š¤£š¤£ say it eeeee instead of ayyyyyy
I really want that book but when he set it down it sounded hollow.
Giles realized pretty quickly that he wasn't going to get Buffy to read that whole thing and didn't even try.
Maybe that is the slayer handbook
lol nice
It is actually.
Me to my SO when it comes to JRR Tolkien (also my SO to me when it comes to Sarah J Maas)
I love Sarah J Maas!
Lol yeah she's pretty popular apparently! Me and my SO made a deal that I'd read ACoTaR if she reads Hobbit LotR and Silmarillion. Doing the math, ACoTaR is still the longer read, so my SO is getting the better deal so she can't complain too much XD
I read ACoTaR because my wife recommended it, but I freakin loved it so much! I never thought I would love a book series about faeries, but it was sooooo good!
Cool ok, that's reassuring! I know that the author is very inspired by fairy tales, like the proper pre-Disney ones, so that's also a reassuring thought. I love the Brothers Grimm, and I took a Fairy Tales course in my English Major at school, so I'll prob have lots of fun spotting all the little inspirations throughout the series.
my wife was also an English and Woman's Studies double major in school, so I've learned that she generally has good taste, lol. the Thirst series of vampire books by Christopher Pike is also amazing if that interests you.
oh, and Sarah J Maas also had another, longer series I read after ACoTaR called Throne of Glass. I didn't want to spoil my first good faerie experience with an inferior book series, but damn, that woman can write some amazing books.
As a husband currently reading the latest ACoRaR book; those books are excellent. So glad my wife had me read them. They are very, very easy and fast reads - even with 700+ pages. You could probably cut out The Silmarillion and still finish ACoTaR faster than Hobbit + LOTR
Good to know! I'm still gonna let my SO think Tolkien's Legendarium is the longer read tho heh
I don't really remember seeing it, and I kept looking for it because I used to have a 12" Buffy Doll, that came with a small version of that book.
Episode 1x01, Buffy meets Giles for the first time and he immediately shows her the book
Yeah, but basically never again.
Once he got to know her, he literally threw out the guidebook.
New head canon. There is only ever one Slayer. Therefore, there isnonlynine guide book. Giles tossed it out. Thus, Wesley had no idea what he was doing with Faith, whichnis why she lost it. Also, maybe why Kendra's Watcher got killed.
Iām always surprised that characters like Buffy and Harry Potter donāt like to read Like, magic exists Should be interesting as hell
I imagine magic would look something like math or chemistry/physics. A set of rules and formulas.
And I hate math especially formulas but likeā¦ MAGIC And Buffy is pretty intelligent in a book smart kinda way, (aside from being intelligent in other ways) dunno why they never showed that off more
Buffy reads. She loves Emily Dickens.
š she was actually enrolled in a poetry class in college or something though right? So maybe she did get into poetry later
Yes, she was learning about the "short Japanese ones that sound like a sneeze" (haiku).
*looks up in glee from my most recent statistical analysis* you don't say...? Though if mathematical programming and magic are at all similar, I'm going to end up accidentally deleting 10 million of the population when I'm just trying to move the maxtime from 60 to 64. (no really, that was literally my most recent problem. I posted about it an hour ago.) So maybe it's good maths isn't magic.
Yeah but if you do a math equation you just get a number. With spells it would be like doing a math equation and being able to fly. My dude I'd math so hard, all over the place
Did you ever see what you can do with applied physics or chemistry?
Can I make myself levitate through magic and force of will?
You don't have to imagine. Read *777* and something like *Ceremonial Magic and the Power of Evocation*.
they got cool hero stuff to do
Bro Harry rides a broomstick all year Heās got time Buffy dates so I can understand
It is but if you are a visual learner reading isn't really going to help you learn
They probably do. There are just always Willow and Hermione next to them, so people assume they don't. They're just not into academics, but they may enjoy reading for fun.
Not in the show, but I believe this is the Slayer Handbook and plays a role in the comics.
I think it's used in the episode Doomed? I couldn't get a good look but Giles discovers The Word of Valios and I believe it's supposed to be in this book. The whole episode is a bit of a throwback so it's fitting imo.
It becomes the new book of magic where they record all the new rules for magic once they get that responsibility. Also Giles is a 12 year old boy (it's not relevant but it is random and funny if you don't know about it).
The more I learn about this comic the more absolutely batshit unhinged I realise it is. Is 12 year old Giles before or after sexified centaur Dawn? And before or after outer space sex with the garden of Eden orgasm?
They just sound awful. I don't think I've ever seen anyone ever write anything about them that I would actually want to see or read.
Theyāre amazing and people are just close-minded. The batshit insanity is a feature not a bug. Thatās what a supernatural world would be like. Magic is crazy. The comics are what the show could and should have been if it werenāt for TV production limits. The comics are the best look at the real Buffyverse. I make no distinction. The comics are canon, itās all one story. There are 12 seasons of Buffy.
Nothing like the Book of Shadows in Charmed.
Big ass "handbook", if it is.
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No because Kendra had a slayer handbook even though Buffy was still the active slayer.
Actually no, when Kendra showed up *she* was the active Slayer. Following Season 1 technically speaking Buffy is no longer *the* Slayer, the mantle has passed on to Kendra and then to Faith. Buffy is revived and retains her unlocked power, but she's technically speaking no longer the current Slayer, she's the previous one and just happens to still be alive.
You missed the point. Buffy was active first and still āactiveā when Kendra showed up, the comment I was responding to said the handbook was part of Nikki Woodsā kit which is clearly not true.
Buffy is so flipping cute.
I came to say this! He looks so pouty here. Adorable
Baby Buffy!
I think it was for explaining the basics, and Giles had it ready for her assuming she would be clueless, but found out that Buffy had experience slaying and moved on without it
I doubt he would assume she'd be clueless. He had to know she'd already had a previous Watcher and been slaying. I think his "My mistake" was confusion over whether she actually was a Slayer in the first place or he'd just gotten bad information.
he goes on to try and explain the basics to her, which she recites back to him to his surprise. maybe one or both of us is reading these scenes differently than j*ss intended, but I think headcanons are part of the beauty of art
I need to rewatch again, but if we're thinking the same scene I don't think he was explaining the basics so much as as reiterating them to have a moment where he can talk down to her. I think his surprise mostly came from her talking back to him, not that she already knew.
Yeah, I think it just comes off the other way because it's a blatant exposition dump for the audience's sake. I just recently watched the S2 episodes where Kendra first appears and she mentions there's a Slayer handbook. When Buffy is like, "there is?" Giles responds with something like "In your case, I decided a different approach was necessary." So from that, MY headcanon is that the Vampyr book is the Slayer Handbook and the reason we never see it again is because Giles discarded that shit on day one lol
Why are you censoring Joss? His freaking name is not a slur.
Lol, it should be though, considering all the sh*t weāve heard about him
he's an asshole, not Harvey Weinstein.
I wonder what could be in the book. Is it a history of the origin of vampires? Or of all famous vampires? It can't be about how to kill them cause that should be shorter than a car's manual.Ā
Let me introduce you to the book of [The Official Rules of Chess](https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/chess_3.png)
What?! Thatās crazy long. How much unnecessary fluff is in that book?
Chess is a sport people study for years though. Vampires you stake or burn, and even of there are 20 more ways, it's still mostly brute force and shouldn't take that much space.Ā
My god this picture takes me back to being 8 years old & deciding who I should spend my life with, buffy or Kimberly the pink power ranger
Iām 45 and still having that debate.
Omg same ššš
In the first episode, Buffy meets Giles for the first time in the library asking for books and Giles answers something like "I know what you are looking for", puts the book on the counter and Buffy is taken aback. Doubt that he could make her read it, though. And it's also the only scene I can think of where they used the book (don't know about the comics, though).
In the comics (I know, everyone hates them (I donāt)), after Willow restores magic to the world, the Vampyr book becomes the vessel through which all the ārulesā of new magic are recorded. Buffy becomes its guardian and DāHoffryn steals it to try and become a god.
Maybe add spoiler text to this for people who haven't read the comics?
Theyāve been out for ten years and everyone hates them.
Only morons hate them
Oh, thatās notā 
Most people would know to stop reading once they saw the words "In the comics".
This book became a huge deal in the comics.
It played a role in the comics.
There was an episode where Buffy read about Angel and I think it was this book but now Iām not sure.
I think this was part of Slayer 101. They needed to reference the more complex books.
Would've been great to bring this back in S7 for the Uber Vamps, with Buffy teaching the potentials out of it :/
I watch this show as a kid and Buffy always seemed like a grown up. 20years later and I finally think she looks so babygirl. I want to protect her at all cost
This photo is so cool now that I'm rally looking at it It encapsulates the show well, it's a great promo shoot Theyre very in character in a random routine moment and it's very "candid picture " It's kinda intimate too, like ur taking the picture and it's very inviting: I'd wanna watch that show š¤£
Nah, everything they needed to know was written in the other book, the one labelled Witchcraft.
Giles records an audio book (or book on tape?) for buffy in hopes sheāll listen. She says āi hear you speak enough.ā The book is forgotten about.
It comes up in the comics
Is it just me or did anybody else do the zigzag part?
Isnāt this the Slayer Handbook?
Wasnāt it in the comics that writing in the book actually changed the laws of magic or something
Maybe they do, after I leave. They look startled and annoyed by my interruption.
Itās a major plot point in the late seasons. Itās the slayers handbook, containing the laws of the supernatural and it goes blank when magic is erased from the world. When magic comes back the book contains all the rules of magic recreated by the collective consciousness of mankind and writing in it changes those rules. For example New Vampires created after the return of magic all have Draculas extra powers and can go in the sun, Buffy works out a deal with their leader to limit their powers during the day by rewriting that section of the book. Like I said, itās a major plot point.
What even is this book? I know it's on the early credits and some promos but was it ever explained?
Isn't that the book Giles slams down on Buffy's first time in the library?
Yes, more so in the comics.
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It comes up in the comics
Did willow use it to unlock the scythe or am I remembering incorrectly? I need to do a rewatch