How did you find Willow and Tara?

[Willowsmirk]

Well, let's see.



When BTVS came out I really wasn't too interested in it, because I had seen the movie and just thought it was too cheesy (and Luke Perry just wasn't doing it for me as an actor, but that's another story), so I was skeptical about watching the show. The very first episode I saw was Teacher's Pet. I was really highly amused by Xander's bumblings and comic relief. Still I didn't get hooked until much later on. I stopped watching it.



About a year ago, I was flipping through the channels and came across F/X and BTVS was on. The episode that was on was Hush and I immediately was drawn in. I was in the midst of my own relationship with my then gf and also I could relate to Willow's ramblings about a bunch of wanna blessed be's and it hit me that maybe I should've given this show more of a chance. So after that I watched every day and have since seen every episode. Then the 6th season started on Buffy and I became a hooked and when Tara and Willow started having major problems, I too began to have major problems in my own relationship and unfortunately it ended. When Tara says "This just isn't going to work." I started to cry, on cue like Willow did. Everything hit me like a ton of bricks and no flamey candle was going to bring my gf back.



As I began to get more into the show I saw characteristics in Willow that I could relate to. The fact she wasn't well liked in high school - being a nerd and unsure of herself, was a big factor too. The rambling, babbling that she does, ditto. I had one guy friend back in high school who I really dug, and actually went on a few dates with (among some other bfs before I figured things out) and had the one secure friend who basically I felt could do anything.



I got older and started around 17 to get into witchcraft. I saw myself in Willow trying to defend the craft against the naysayers and all of that. Willow's greatest strengths in intelligence with computers I could relate to as well. Now being 26, I see how Willow is finally "grown up" I suppose and will now have to deal with all the consequences of her actions. That's something I can relate to every day.



Tara's chemistry with Willow brought back so many memories of a lot of different areas in my life, and so I felt I HAD to watch it. I love how Tara brought balance to Willow's life in the midst of chaos.

Edited by: Willowsmirk at: 7/7/02 10:07:55 am

[slayer747]

i'm not really that much of a Buffy fan "fan" the last few seasons, i started watching it from S3, irregularly and kinda drifted off in S4 (i've got to go to college), but then this friend (and s as my uncle) mentioned something about Willow turning out to be gay, and willow being my favorite character...oh well, the next thing i knew, i've been hording the remote control an hour beofre Buffy... just to make sure that i'd be able to watch it.

"Sometimes things happen between people that you don't really expect. And sometimes the things that are important are the ones that seem the weirdest or the most wrong, and those are the ones that change your life." - Jessie "Once and Again"

[vix84]

I was forced to watch Restless by a BtVs-obsessed friend who was trying to convert me. I didn't like the episode very much at the time, but couldn't help drooling over at Will and Tara in the icecream truck...



Then Season Five started in Australia, and I started watching for the hell of it, with no idea of who the characters were. By Family, I was hooked. And then I had the fun task of going back to see those I missed (mmm NMR...Hush...Who Are you...)



Just thought I'd bring this thread back, I like reading how people 'discovered' the girls!

Edited by: vix84 at: 10/28/02 5:43:31 pm

[Spice Faerie]

I was a Buffy fan from the very begining but I faded away from it. It wasn't until my friend told me that Willow had become a lesbian that I was renewed and began watching religioiusly. I can't imagine not watching Buffy or having not known about Willow and Tara. I mean, Tara embodies everything I want in a girlfriend so missing out of their relationship would have totally sucked...



Spice

"No candles? Well, I brought one. It's extra flamey..."

[twink]

i orignally watched the show off and on from the beginning. only when oz and willow started dating did i get roped in. when oz left i was displeased to say the least b/c willow is my favorite character and i couldn't stand watching her go thru that. so i did a bit of boycotting of the show...just caught a few off and on. then i started noticing this tara character that kept showing up....i starting thinking good thoughts again about the show. willow was happy again! now my vcr and i have been getting quite a workout keeping up w/ the past shows that i've missed with tara in them. i'm really waiting for season 3 & 4 to show up on dvd.

"You know what's weird?"--W
"Japanese commercials are weird."--T

[Mrs Vertigo]

Funny thing it is, the way I came across Willow and Tara.



Always liked Willow on early BtVS seasons, but given that I was about 11 at the time it's understandable I hardly gave a flyin' fig about any tv show. Oh, those days of mental health, long gone now…



Then just a couple of months ago I had reached such a level of deficiency in lesbian literature that I consciously decided to get into a fandom, any fandom, and scavenge for the slashfics. I tried XFiles but was bored shitless, tried ER but couldn’t get passed terminology barriers. Finally, I even tried Xena, Warrior Princess, but found the show itself so laughable I couldn’t bring myself to take the fanfic seriously. So I resulted to BtVS fanfic. On account of respect for the show’s cannon I couldn’t bring myself to read the Willow/Buffy stuff. I don’t know why; I really tried but it just seemed so wrong, y’know?



So I read… the Faith/Buffy shippings! Unbe-fucking-lievable how I just glossed over everything that mentioned the name ‘Tara’ out of fear for spoilers…



About the second story I read in this genre was an amazing piece, of the finest authormenship, called The Faith Factor. T’was set, for me at the time, two or three seasons into the future. And there it was. The first hint of Willow/Tara goodness I was ever exposed to. One line of dialogue sticks to my mind still:



Faith (on Tara): “Just remember, Red, if it feels good on you, it probably does on her, too. Now you go, girl, Light her up like a Christmas tree!”



To which, y’know, mine and Willow’s reaction was the same – blushing.



Needless to say that was enough to set me on a research spree, the result of which is me, here, a proud kitten shippin’ blissfully to no appearant end.

On Buffy, Season 7: ”Bored now…”

Edited by: Mrs Vertigo at: 11/4/02 11:43:08 am

[Shadow ALH]

It was about a year ago when I came home from rugby practice to find my gf watching Buffy (OMWF to be exact). I kinda laughed at her at first because neither of us had ever watched the show before. But she got defensive and explained that she was flipping through the channels when she saw this cute girl singing to another girl. I was immediately intrigued. A lesbian couple on tv? Wow. We started watching buffy every week and I became addicted. I was always downloading old episodes, watching reruns, reading spoilers, and trying to find out more about Willow and Tara. They acted just like I would act with my girlfriend and I loved it. It was fantastic. Then I discovered fan fiction. Now my gf laughs at me for the amount of time I spend lurking on this site, but she loves it too.

[LeBuffster]

Like many others I watched the show from the beginning. I loved Willow since...always, really. And to see my favorite character together with the most beautiful, amazing, gorgeous woman I've ever seen in my life...well, I was ecstatic!



Mrs Vertigo, i read "The Faith Factor", too. Great story, that line is priceless



&

Diane

Wanna fly her away where the sun and the rain
come in over my face, wash away all the shame
"All The Things She Said"-Tatu

[Consolata]

I started watching at Bargaining the first epi of Season 6 because of all the hype about bringing Buffy back and the move from the WB to UPN and I was really hooked. I got on the net and read all the epi transcripts over about two weeks and started taping old epi's and just got ridiculous and when Willow did the forget spell on Tara I was really sad/mad 'cause I knew this meant a break up. I was unspoiled so I was really happy when they got back together and shocked at the end when Tara was murdered. My love for the show itself has dwindled but my love for Tara and Willow will al(l)ways be strong.

[themagicpixie]

I used to hate Buffy - it would be on in our college TV room, and would be opposite The Simpsons, and my friends and I would get annoyed we couldn't watch The Simpsons, which was then our favourite show. Anyway, I sat through a couple of episodes of Buffy and found it was quite funny. I then read on an American website that Tara and Willow were rumoured to get together... I think this was before Tara had even appeared on British TV. So I watched Season 4 on Sky when it aired and looked out for the subtext from the beginning... I always thought Tara was cute, none of my friends agreed!

[Repost Moderator]

Originally posted by wannabebad2



I began with the Willow & Tara-y goodness of season four. Somewhere in the middle of season five (cough: FAMILY!) I was hooked. I loved season five and season was fun too. ANd then came season six. W&T kissed in the first episode! And more kisses! And gay love! And break ups? And death?! And I'm not so much anymore.



And I usually don't use so many words to explain a question so simple.............



But anyway, when did everyone else begin?

[Repost Moderator]

Originally posted by Sparky





I started watching it when it first aired with Season One and sorta watched the beginning of Season Two, but then I got lost. Work interfered alot causing me to miss out. I was lost for two more seasons, too. Finally I came back to it. I actually stumbled onto it one night while flipping through the channels of nothing when I saw Willow snuggling a little hug with a cute little blonde.



I was like, helllo!!



Where have I been? After that I was hooked. I got to see Season 4..the good stuff like Hush and after. I remember getting a warm little butterfly feeling when I first saw them hug.



I got my gf hooked, I'd say by Family(though she denied it at first) She used to rag on me all the time, and now...well then, when it was good, she'd watch it almost as religously as I did.

I think she even teared up when she watched The Body with Anya's little speach. *sniff sniff* Willow and Tara were the only real reason to watch Buffy. They're sooo cute together!!!



She's my girl, she's my everything.

[daddykat]

Buffster already said it all as to my feelings.

[Jennifer]

It was The Body for me. I had heard of the show of course, and my friend was a B/A shipper. Anyway, the t.v. guide said "The Scooby Gang mourns the loss of one of their own" or something like that. I was intrigued. I watched and was blown away. I was crying by the time Buffy whispered "Mommy?" And then I saw Willow and Tara. And then I saw the kiss. I was thinking "Holy god! We can do that on television now?" I was hooked, and went about watching all the old eps. (Thank you FX).

"But I don't want to go among mad people," Alice remarked. "Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat: "we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad." "How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice. "You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here." Alice In Wonderland~*~My Journal

[Patches]

Willow and Tara got me hooked.



After Xena ended (sigh) we contemplated getting rid of cable. There was nothing to fill the void. BtVS was my prime 'why television is evil' argument - even though I'd never really watched it .... until a friend told us about Willow being Gay. Ears perked right up and after a few episodes (and *American Pie*) I was sooo hooked. The magic between Willow and Tara was incredible. I could hardly believe that network television would actually have a gay positive story line (ya, should have remained a skeptic).



Problem was, it became confusing watching the old and new episodes at the same time. To catch up on the whole story, my gf and I stopped watching the current episodes and watched re-runs of previous seasons until we were up to date and then in the summer watched the current season re-runs. Somehow, it was less confusing than it sounds now.

[SlayerSydney]

I was aimlessly flipping through channels one night and finally succumbed to watching Buffy for lack of anything better on tv at the time. I had always made fun of people for watching this show because of I thought the movie was horrid.



Anyway, the first episode I caught was "New Moon Rising"...Need I say anymore?

Quote:

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WILLOW: No candles? Well, I brought one. It's extra flamey.

WILLOW: Tara, I have to tell you...

TARA: No, I-I understand. You have to be with the person you l-love.

WILLOW: (smiles) I am.

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"I can try to pretend, I can try to forget. But it's driving me mad, going out of my head."-----Tatu Sums up my feelings on "Seeing Red"

[DRUSILLA LOVER]

first ep. i ever saw was actually family hehe.

[Vampivy]

Same here. “Family” was the episode that caught my eye. I didn’t know it at the time, but I just remember watching Buffy from day one on and off. I remember channel surfing one day and seeing Willow all snuggly in bed with this hottie I know now as Tara, and thinking to myself, hmm…that’s interesting to say the least. And well, the rest is history. Needless to say I’ve been hooked since



Patty

[Monika]

I had heard about BtVS for ages. I knew people that called it their favourite show, but I was never interested in watching a whole ep of this show. Then, a couple of months ago, one of my online buddies started ranting a lot about Alyson Hannigan playing a lesbian character on Buffy and whatnot. TBH, I really didn't pay much attention to her. Few days passed and she showed me some clips of both Willow and Tara, the kiss scene of "Entropy" to be exact. I thought it was kinda cool for the producers/writers/whatever of Buffy to have such open mind about homosexuality. I, then, started getting more into the whole relationship, how it had started and stuff. I'd ask my friend about how they got started, how long they had been together, searching the internet for more info about this relationship. To make my story short, I (too) started downloading eps of Buffy. I just wanted Season 6 eps, because I thought that's where most of the W/T moments took place, but I still didn't have enough info about the relationship and wanted to know more. As soon as I had all of Season 6 I started with Season 5 and then went all the way back to Season 4's "Hush". I'm a really big Buffy fan now, but it was Willow and Tara that got me really hooked to the show. I was really disappointed to find out Tara had been killed though.

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[wannabebad2]

Yeah. That must be horrible to start with such a wonderful kiss followed by hearing that Tara dies.

[Monika]

It was, specially since I got all hooked on to it just days before "Seeing Red" aired!

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[Xanadu21]

The first clip of Buffy I ever saw was the tail end of "Family". My dad had loved Buffy since 4th Season, and I walked into the room when he was watching it. A friend of mine had watched Buffy throughout high school, and was always telling me about it, so my first thought was "Willow's gay? Since when did that happen?" Then I thought her and Tara were soooo adorable when they started dancing, and then I was hooked.

All I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power.

-Ashleigh Brilliant

[DRUSILLA LOVER]

i was unspoiled so i didnt knwo that she was going to be gay. But i loved the interaction of tara/willow from the start.

[the vamp nurd]

S3 - Dopplegangerland... The Wish... My sister was kinda into it but I started to get into it S4, but I'm W/T at heart, although I'm probably the only person who I know that loves Willow's dark sides...: -->

[InsectReflection]

Howdy all!



I'm not only a complete newbie to this board, but a relative newbie to the whole Willow/Tara scene. Be gentle.



The show only came on here recently in Japan; I started watching it around September 2002 ... sad, since back in the "real" world Tara was already gone by then. You all had some 3 seasons to enjoy it, while I watched it bloom and then get snuffed out in the space of a few months.



In those few months, though, it had a profound impact on me. I've never been so moved by a tv couple (or moved at all) since Catherine & Vincent ... and that was a long time ago now. I know this was a big deal in the Gay/Lesbian community, but that actually had little to no impact me - the WARMTH, the reality, of this relationship far transcended any of that. This was Love at its most beautiful.



Remember the first time you saw "Family?" That was only a few weeks ago for me ... That's what finally set me off, got me looking on the Internet for a place where people felt as strongly about this as I did.



I don't know how often people read these newbie threads, but if anyone comes across this ... spare me a hug. It's been 1 year since Tara died, but to me it just happened a few days ago.



And it still stings.

[Amymlc]

I liked the movie when it came out, but then again I was like ten-years-old. I just rewatched the movie a couple of years ago and I totally didn't get it, but maybe it's just little kid humor. I still love the part where the guy who plays peewee Herman, he's some kind of powerful vampire in the movie, but when she stakes him and he is dying, only he's moaning and stuff for like an hour. I thought that was pretty hilarious. I was really excited when I saw that they were creating a TV show a few years later. so I've been watching Buffy since day one. I didn't realized I was bi until way into season Five, so I was a little bit clueless about Willow and Tara until the episode where they floated the rose. It was either than or when Willow came back the next morning with the crystal. I don't know which came first. But after that it was pretty hard not to think of them as a couple.

[urnofosiris]

Quote:

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the WARMTH, the reality, of this relationship far transcended any of that. This was Love at its most beautiful.

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I think that is what has drawn most of us here to them, and here their love will always be at it's most beautiful. I am glad you found this board, I hope you will stick around and that it will help you to still enjoy all the WT goodness that can be found here.



Btw, I too loved Beauty and the Beast, but that is off topic for this forum, but not for the Kitten forum. I feel another thread coming on.

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Coffee, Food, Kisses and Gay Love........Get it while you are hot

Edited by: DrG at: 5/17/03 4:08:08 am

[xita]

*hugs* InsectReflection, I know how you feel. But rest assured here we keep the alive because they are too precious to let go. And you are right, it's about that love they have, fairytale type love? sure. I think so. It's part of the draw, most of us aren't meant to even know something like that, but we all hope we can so we protect them because they were lucky enough.

[The Rose24]

Amymic,



Glad to have you here. I just want to clarify something for you. The floating rose spell is the first spell they do after their meeting in "Hush." The ep where Willow brings the doll's eye crystal back to her room is the next ep. Two of my favorites, btw.

Tara: My heart doesn't stutter.


Tara: Willow, I got so lost.

Willow: I found you. I will always find you.

[LostWithoutTara]

I couldn't agree more. The beautiful love Willow and Tara shared is the most magical, brutally honest and heartwarming depiction of love that I have ever seen, of any sexuality.



I'll forever be grateful to these characters for showing me that love does exist. I would look around and just see the pain and suffering people inflicted on each other under the veil of a relationship. Then I saw W/T and my eyes were opened. I can only hope and pray that I find something as wonderful as that.