What’s Trending’s Shira Lazar hosted a panel with Joss Whedon and Eliza Dushku at a ThriveGulu fundraising event in San Francisco to chat about how they promote change to better humanity and help survivors of Uganda’s civil war: http://ow.ly/cFP5A. Check it out! WT’s main website is here, and you can visit ThriveGulu as well.

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By Samuel Scott

In a prior post, we addressed the issue of whether Aristotle (through his work “Nicomachean Ethics“), would think Buffy is an ethical person and warrior. In this essay, we wanted to examine the same issue — but in the context of the utilitarian philosophy advocated in the nineteenth century by John Stuart Mill and his mentor, Jeremy Bentham.

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Don’t know when you should stake a vampire? Since it’s Friday, we created this fun “Buffy” flowchart and vampire meme to help you out! Use the embed code at the bottom to add this to your website!

If you come across a vampire, we hope this helps you out! Please “like,” share, and forward however you want! But if you copy the image to put on another site, please credit us at “Buffy the Vampire Slayer Online.”

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The big difference between me and Buffy is that I was always a slayer. I wasn’t “called” or “chosen” – I was born into the violence and the suffering. But if I were to pick a moment when I knew I was different, it would be a little under two months before my fourteenth birthday.

My parents were going through their… Continue reading

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By Samuel Scott

In the first episode of Season Four of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” Buffy is dejected and depressed as a result of her lack of success in transitioning into college and losing a battle with the vampire Sunday. The slayer runs into Xander, who had just returned to Sunnydale from an aborted cross-country trip after high school that… Continue reading

Our Buffy Meme

In honor of a meme that has been circulating throughout Facebook and elsewhere, we decided to have a little fun today. We hope you like this! Feel free to like, share, and forward as you wish! Just, please: If you copy the image to put on a website, we ask that you credit us at “Buffy the Vampire Slayer Online.” Thanks!

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By Samuel Scott

In the first part of this two-part series, we examined how Buffy’s experiences early in her sophomore year at Sunnydale High School in the first season resembled those actions and feelings of freshman high-school students as psychologists, educators, and sociologists see them. Although Buffy was a sophomore, her attitudes and behavior in an entirely-new environment made her just like a freshman in all but name. Here… Continue reading

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By Samuel Scott

The transition from junior high-school to high school is difficult for anyone — and it is even harder when the person happens to be a vampire slayer.

In the series premiere of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” entitled “Welcome to the Hellmouth,” Buffy exhibits many of the behaviors and difficulties that come from the adjustments to high school, and it is conceivable that… Continue reading