First Impressions

Been a good week. Dexter season finale (!!!) tonight! Met up with an old friend, recognized some dating potential. I also had a very Cordelia-esque moment last night, as my mother let me try on the knee-high boots she got me for Christmas to check sizes. I pranced around the house, in a t-shirt, my underwear, and the boots for about thirty minutes. Even going "new boots! la-la-la-la...!"

Hope everyone else is having a great holiday as well. BTW, where can I get good Dexter icons? I need at least one! Also, since I've got a little bit of time on my hands... who wants a drabble? Anyone?

My Loving Vigil
Gen, mostly, starring Cordelia and Angel. Mentions multiple pairings.

This was completed in about two days. I wanted to write something involving Christmas, and this is what came out. I just can't seem to give Cordelia and Angel a bona fide happy ending. Posted today to start the holiday season officially. Post-NFA, with mentions of earlier seasons of AtS & BtVS.

It's Christmas, and Angel's after the Senior Partners. Cordelia has other ideas.

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( Who loves the Office? THIS GIRL. )

I love Thursdays. Also, I caught up on Bones, which I have been thoroughly enjoying. The FOX player got caught on a scene where Booth was walking away, and I didn't even mind! I could stare at those shoulders and hips all night.

I won't even try to apologize for my recent disappearance. This has been one of the worst few months ever: was rear-ended in town a few weeks ago, received a speeding ticket on Halloween, had a falling-out with my mother, let myself get drawn back into a destructive relationship, and now am just getting things back on an even keel. Not that it was all bad, but it could've been better.

Plus I have been neglecting all of you wonderful people! I did sign up for the Stranger Things ficathon and managed to come up with something, so with that I'm pleased. But I need to go through my friend's list and catch up.

Is anyone else as insanely pleased with the support of the WGA strike as I am? I hate that I'm going to probably miss out on some great television, but I like that the networks are catching crap and that there is so much support (like David Boreanaz and Steve Carrell and other great actors/directors/producers!)

I can't promise that I will start posting regularly again, but here's to trying!

Had a rough week: busy at work, packing to leave DC, then woke up during the night with food poisoning. I've seemed to recover, though, which is nice. I've been swamped with life, lately, so I haven't been keeping up with my reading list and what-not-- I promise I'll get around to catching up with everyone. BUT I have a request?

I want some recs. What are your top three Angel/Cordelia fics? Top three Angel/Spike? Top three Angel/Wesley? Also, I think I'm going to clean out some of my Office icons (as I don't use them that much) and fill them up with Jossverse. Any communities for good icons? I click around the herald, but that's the only place I know.

If I'm sketchy for the remainder of the week, I'm sorry. I've got a paper due on Friday that I haven't started on, I've got to finish packing, I've got work, then I'm leaving DC to head straight to a family reunion down in NC until Sunday. So I'll probably be scarce for a few more days. Hope everyone's having a good week!

GOD, I just had my foot bitten off by a huge bunny. S3, Wishverse, Cordelia & Angel road-tripping? But not so much about Cordelia and Angel as a couple, but more about Cordelia and Angel in regards to their motivations and ideas of heroism, and how the timeline is affected by Buffy's absence.

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Well, that was fun. I went to see an ABSOLUTELY AWFUL movie with a friend last night-- it had Adam Sandler in it, who I hate now because of his lovey-dovey not Happy Gilmore self-- and paid, like, $9 for tickets. I hate the big city, and also wanted to see John Krasinski's movie instead, but my friend vetoed me. But the movie we did see had a preview for Dane Cook's new movie and WOW, he is smokin' hot. I remember very vividly this scene in the preview where he's macking hard on this chick, swings her around, and slams her against the wall. I'm sure the movie will be a bust, but I'm happy just to watch him sex up chicks and do, well, pretty much anything. I'd bang him in a second, but naturally, I'd make him tell jokes the whole time.

I just finished The Screwtape Letters, and I'm not sure how I feel about it.

( For those who haven't read... )

So, I went to the Natural History Museum here in Washington, and I wish I had gone earlier-- pre-college, preferably. As a Biology major, it spoiled a lot of the exhibits; I've studied evolution and the different phyla and sensory perception, etc. so most of what was there seemed incredibly juvenile to me. Although it makes sense, being a tourist-y attraction. I did like the Mammal Gallery, just because it was cool to see all of the different species. I really like giraffes. Before that, I visited one building of the National Gallery of Art, which I enjoyed more than I expected. In my previous Art History class, I loathed scultpure and preferred paintings. But today I found myself much more interested in scultpure-- the figures are so exaggerated and larger-than-life, which is neat and also necessary due to the limitations of the medium. I really like depictions of angels; they're so different than the commercialized cherubs of Hallmark. I prefer the old myth, where they were terrible but beautiful.

So, does NASCAR make, like, shoes now? Because I was just skimming around Zappos-- I want a pair of ankle stiletto suede tan pointed toe boots, and with all of those adjectives, I can see why I haven't found a pair yet-- and BAM, I click on this boot, and it comes up as NASCAR brand. I mean, I understand that the soles of some shoes resemble tire treads, but-- but?

Bought two books today: The Screwtape Letters (C. S. Lewis) and Sons and Lovers (D. H. Lawrence). The first I'd planned on buying, the second I picked up on a whim. I'm reading Screwtape first.

Hi! It's time for a poll. See, I have all of these ideas in my head and I can't decide which one I want to work on. All of them are longer in length, so it'll be a drawn out process, but I figure the only way I'm going to commit to finishing out one of them is if someone says YOU, write THIS. I lack motivation. I tend to flutter from one idea from the next-- I work on one fastiduously for days, then drop it and move onto the next one-- so basically I sit around with a bunch of unfinished beginnings on my harddrive. Suck. So, the choices are:

1) Post NFA Angel/Cordelia/Spike. This is going to be the most difficult, as I only have the vaguest of ideas of what I want to do. I just know the ending and, well, that's about it. It's mainly a sly way for me to indulge my two favorite pairings and also remedy the sad little screentime Cordelia and Spike ever had together.
2) S2 Vampire Cordelia vs. Angel Investigations (Gen)
3) Post You're Welcome resurrected Cordy (Cordelia/Angel)

And maybe I could convince someone to beta whichever one gets chosen for me? I think if I have a beta read over it chapter-by-chapter it'll run much smoother. I lose a lot of my steam because I think what I'm putting out is so terrible, or I get stuck at a certain point and don't have the skill to talk myself through it. Lame? Yes.

I just finished reading East of Eden, by Steinbeck, and I have to say that it was one of the most moving pieces of literature I've ever read. I never really liked Steinbeck, before; in my high school experience I'd read The Pearl and Of Mice and Men, and although I found the latter to be mildly interesting, I absolutely loathed the former. Enough to make me steer clear of Steinbeck as long as possible. But then a girl at work told me that Steinbeck was her favorite of all time, and that I should at least give it a try now, being older and more understanding of literature. So I read it.

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I would recommend this to anyone. Tomorrow I'll stop by Barnes and Noble on my way home and find something else, although I'm not sure what. I'm thinking The Screwtape Letters, as I heard that was a great read, but I'll probably just wander around the store until I find something I like. Lolita is sitting on my shelf. I started to read it, and at first it was tolerable, but about a third into it Nabokov becomes so explicitly sexual it makes my skin crawl. Funny, that I love reading Connor/Angel but can't stomach Lolita.

AHHH drunk on LJ!!!!!

HAPPY 4th :) :)

On a whim, I've started watching the s1 of the OC. God, I loved this show my senior year of high school, and-- boy, I still love it! Before it went and got all super-angsty. Also, I'm noticing Buffy- and Angel-like moments. Weird. Adam Brody is possibly the cutest thing on television. He's like a better-looking Xander (not that Xander is bad-looking!). I think I must find an OC icon. Benjamin McKenzie (UVA? YES) is a BAD ASS kisser, or so it appears. The hands in the hair? Cupping the back of the girl's head? Hands on the arms? GOOD GOD. He reminds me of DB in the earlier seasons of Buffy. Rein it in, cowboy. Actually, on second thought: please don't!

As I have a lot of time on my hands today and part of the following week, I was going to watch some Angel/Buffy episodes. What do you guys think are the definitive Cordelia episodes? Not necessarily the ones that she was a prime character in, but the one's that say a lot about her character. Same for Angel. Also, what episodes are the best for Angel and Connor interaction? I haven't watched a lot of those episodes since they aired, as the first time around I gnashed my teeth through every Connor scene. But having just read yahtzee63's On the Education of a Young Man, I am feeling so much for Connor and Angel that I must watch some episodes soon.

GIP. I am in a very indulgent mood right now, as Kate Walsh appears to be in this icon.

I promised, and I shall deliver! This is a list of everything I love about Cordelia/Angel, as a couple.

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OTP for life, yo.

You know, I've been sitting here thinking about Cordelia and reading some old meta on her and her characterization over the course of the series (and, of course, the dubious behind-the-scenes issues with CC) and just feeling really disappointed with it, frankly.

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On a completely different note: HAHAHA for my disappointing mood icon. Oh KEVIN.

To Give and To Receive
Angel/Darla, light R
This has been sitting on my hard-drive for months. 100 words.


He had scratches on his back. Darla was a fierce lover: she bit and clawed, wild with it, wild for him. That night, the rain pouring outside his window, Angel lied down with her and tried to recapture what he’d lost. With fingers, cock, mouth; he wanted to take back what she'd taken from him, those nights ago, on his knees in an alley with his hands tangled in her skirts.

Darla had thought she'd given him a new life, back then. He'd tried to give her one, too, this time around.

It hadn't worked. They were both dead now.

I have RETURNED!

Yes, since February, my life has been absolutely insane OMG. Second semester was so jam-packed with stuff I could hardly function, and NOW I'm working full time in Washington, DC. But now my life has pretty much calmed down enough to give me time to do enjoyable things-- you know, read, write, drink, relax a little, etc-- so I sat down and played around with LJ and made this place a little prettier.

And also: I've been writing again! I've had the idea for a long time now, and I finally sat down and wrote out every idea I'd ever had related to it and hashed out a pretty decent plot. The first two parts are finished (it will be longer than that) but I need to fix a bit more on them before posting.

Also: it's gen! No pairing, which is always more fun for me to write than when I have to play match-maker. Oh, yeah, and it's Angel gen.

So no more hiatus for me! I'm back and going to catch up on all of that lovely fic that I missed since I've been gone. If you've got any good recs for me-- leave them, please!

Posted on Valentine's Day at Stranger Things, for Lysa, who wanted: candles, caresses, secrets. I'm really not sure exactly how much I like it; I'm pleased with pieces of the dialogue, but I kind of cringe away at schmoop, which I feel like this is. But I digress. G; post-Waiting in the Wings, no Groo; a power-outage, a forgotten Valentine's Day, and a mistake. Oh, yeah, and baby Connor.

( Cordelia sat behind the desk... )

I've got a new fic that's due for the Vday Exchange at Stranger Things tomorrow. It's not my best work, but I'm pretty satisfied with it, so I'm ready for beta. Any takers? Oh, yeah: it's Cordelia/Angel, of course.

One day I'm going to start branching out. Also, this is a total GIP. GOD I LOVE THIS ICON.

My goal for the next week: finish fic. I'm getting very disgruntled with myself, for:

a) having ideas but not the time to sit down and write them
b) also lacking the time to leave feedback for great authors and their fantastic stuff
c) not having time to do anything, really

I hate college sometimes. Also: yay COLTS, who I don't really care about but I just wanted to antagonize my bears-loving roommate!

I'm back, and this time, hopefully for good. So it turns out after Charleston for New Years I went to Florida, which I didn't get back to until the day before I left for school. Now I'm back at school and all settled in-- but, unfortunately, I haven't had one minute to work on any of my fic ideas. But! A few days ago I was struck by a ravenous bunny, and now it won't leave me alone. It's going to a multi-chapter fic, hopefully long, but right now I've got to get a better handle on the plot. It does, however, have a tentative title: The Sacred and the Profane, based on some religious theory. It's going to be post-NFA. But the best part is...

It's, hopefully, going to be Cordelia/Angel. Actually, it's going to be Cordelia/Angel/Spike. I know. I've got a general outline for it, but now I just have to see if I can put these three crazy kids together and make it work...