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On my road to discovering myself, while this couple doesn’t quite rank, but it does.

Since 2016, I’ve learned a lot about the LGBTQ community and my place within it. I’ve also watched plenty of couples on screen, but this couple predates my realizations.

For me, I watch Buffy for the first time, in high school. When Willow and Tara became a couple, I was basically like – cool, sounds good, I’m with you.

I don’t think it clicked anything into place for me, but I did have an understanding that these couples existed, and seeing them on screen was no different than seeing Buffy with Angel or Spike.

No, wait. It was better.

I loved Willow and Tara together and I’m still bitter as hell that she was killed so senselessly.

Ugh.

But I’m not here to talk about that.

I want to talk about how cute I thought they were, when I first watched it. And what it meant for audiences everywhere.

Willow and Tara were ridiculously cute together.

When Oz returned at the end of season four, I kept hoping, and hoping she would pick Tara. Though, I admit, I loved Oz. I think Willow outgrew him.

Part of her will always love him, because he’s her first love, and that happens. But Tara – I believe – was the love of her life.

Tara is the person she would have done anything for. Would go to the ends of the Earth for.

And I’m a sucker for that.

Everything about their relationship was just so sweet and soft. Something I loved about their portrayal. I know it was part restrictions, but I think it worked so well.

Buffy and her relationships were intense and high passion and danger.

It was nice to have a juxtaposition of being calmer.

No less passion. But something solid, stable, and comfortable. They were the calm in the storm by their end and it was one of the reasons I hated losing Tara so much. The show lost it’s center and ability to maintain any normal.

Willow and Tara were running the household and taking care of Dawn and even Buffy at times during season six, filling the void left by the mother, and later when Buffy died. Season seven felt like chaos without her.

As for what it meant for TV, well, where would we be without someone breaking barriers?

Buffy pushed the limits.

They put two women together. They had the first love scene. They had the first on-screen kiss. (A real one.) They portrayed a loving female couple. One where she chooses the woman over a man.

It broke barriers.

Someone had to do it, and Buffy dared to.

Even with Tara’s untimely demise – where would we be? Who would have stepped up if not this popular series?

Would we haves Valu? Marina? Wayhaught? Tarlos?

Every time, I think we still have a long way to go, I think back and remember we have come far. We need to keep moving forward too, but I thank those who came before us, and helped bring us a voice.

So thank you, Willow and Tara. You two were the start of something truly beautiful.

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