Oh, Tara:My last award for Slayerstillness of 2015

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And for my very last fandom award and icon challenge of 2015 it's only fitting that the marvelous tempertemper made the banner:

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My original intent was to only use caps amoung the examples Starry provided; it didn't quite end up that way. Nor did I recall planning on making them so consistent color-wise.  I did want to use unsual or rarely used caps as much as possible and I think I succeeded, especially with the two images from Where the Wild Things Are. The girlish pigtails bely the fact that she is someone who possesses a great deal of power and knowledge passed on by her mother and the women of her family. Tara's own power and knowledge are terribly underplayed after S4 and this is something I will never be happy about. Because it ends up being a double-whammy of the show's "issues with powerful women".

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If I could resubmit these, I'd switch out #6 for #5; the rest I'm satisfied with.

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I got an extra shovel if you want it?

Thank you for the compliments sweetie!

And yeah, it's a subject I don't see commented on but it was weird for me as a newer fan to see Tara initiate Willow into "deeper magicks" throughout season 4 right from Hush, perform a spell with Willow and Giles in WTWTA, be the only person who knows Faith isn't Buffy in WAY (however wonky that is), and be portrayed as someone with genuine knowledge and power that she is just beginning to claim herself in S4, and then in S5 she's downgraded to junior partner in terms of the magics. I get where they were going - they wanted to show Willow surpassing her, but I don't think it was necessary to downgrade Tara in order to achieve that.