Bufy the Vampire Slayer (originally spelled as Buffy the Vampire Slayer) is an American television drama that aired from 1997 to 2003. Tara was apparently a fan; she approvingly references the second-season premiere episode "When She Was Bad" in Chapter Thirty-One: "I always knew u were on Voldemort’s side, you sun of a bitca (bufy rox!111)."
Although the titular character never appears in the fic itself, she does make a random unexplained appearance in Twila Da Gurl Who Wuz In Luv W/ A Vampir, a My Immortal-styled Twilight fanfic.
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Many names in My Immortal and I'm Not Okay have notable parallels with characters in Buffy or its spinoff series Angel.
- Willow, Raven's self-insert character in My Immortal, shares a name with Willow Rosenberg.
- Raven shares a name with Raven, the main character of an in-universe television show called On Your Own in the seventeenth episode of Buffy spinoff series Angel's first season "Eternity".
- Eternity Demen'tia Johnson, Raven's self-insert in I'm Not Okay, shares a name with the aforementioned Angel episode "Eternity".
- Tara Gilesbie mirrors Tara Maclay and Rupert Giles.