my grief over dolly and tim curry is absolutely parasocial but you can't understate the impact that both of those people had for queer people, for women, for people who have always had "weird" interests and big personalities, they were icons for anyone strange
Buffy had to kill Angel, the love of her life, to save the world and her friends just expected her to be fine after that? She had every right to leave and THEY WERE ASSHOLES for being so weird to her in season 3 after she came back