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ok... I mentioned this once, and someone else on LJ said they wanted to read it.

Title: Strangers Are Less Strange
Author: Sophia Jirafe
Location: http://thedoublehelix.org/sophia/strangers.html

What?: vignette, BtVS / XF crossover

I read this a while ago, and I liked it, in a sad way. It's post-series for The X Files and post-soul for Spike. Just a meeting on a beach, and a conversation. I wish someone who writes like this would write a longer crossover. There's no good epic crossovers after season 3 of Buffy--- and the early ones are all dull B/A crap.

You know, B/A is something I fundamentally don't get. Why write about Angel, when you could write about Spike, who is so much more interesting, it's not even funny?

As you can see, I'm definitely having to wrok not look at spoilers here. Lend me your strength. (what is that quoted from?!)

Good night.

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I've decided I *have* to do a Spike fic titled "The Man Who Sold The World". That's--if you didn't know-- a David Bowie song. I've fallen in mad crazy love with the Nirvana "unpluggged" cover of it. I downloaded the original, and it's no comparison.

I've been thinking about it, and that's a *totally* sick as title for a Spike-fic. I keep thinking that there must be some way to tie it into his getting a soul, but my brain's having trouble with it because, if anything, Spike BOUGHT his world when he go his soul. But there must be some way, and i intend to find it. Maybe it could be the third story in my horror trilogy. I already have the second (first, really, but written 2nd) one mapped out, and its got a lyrics title too-- "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me."

Maybe I'll be able to come up with something good after I see Buffy tonight. Which I am STILL unspoiled for!!! Yay. I am getting excited though... people seem to be so pumped up about it.

Giles that smart sexy bitch

Buffy talk to kill time till 8pm...

((wow, look at all those T's and L's... that must be some form of alliteration...))

I was just thinking: why do I like Giles so much? Why has he always been one of my favorite characters, above Willow or Xander or Angel?

When I first started watching this show I was cool with the general concept (it being explained conveniently in the title), but sketchy on EVERYthing else. I only knew that Giles was supposed to be the " mature, chaperone, adult figure". I didn't expect to like him, really-- I thought it'd be like other shows, where the adult amongst the teens is tolerated or ridiculed (which he was-- but fondly by the characters, not by the writing).

Well, first off I realized that the teens weren't really teens but acually young adults (I was a bit behind), and slowly while watchin the early s-6 eps and through FX reruns, I also realized how cool Giles' character was. And, how necessary.

He had great deal of the best lines, long before Anya and Spike came around. He had a neat backstory of a troubled past, and he was goofy and bookish, but inside he was smart and ruthless and a wonderfully honorable person. I thought to myself, "You know, if I was a vampire, I'd be smart and turn Giles. He'd make a great vampire." And what do you know? A little while later, I find a book mini-series in the library where in an alternate future Giles is the King of Vampires and has taken over Southern California. Scary.

I like Giles' steadiness-- he seems so sane & stable compared to the rest of them. And even when he's having issues, they're so funny. Like the entire 4th season. One of my all-time favorite Buffy scenes is from 'A New Man', when Giles makes Spike pull over for a minute to get out and roar at Professor Walsh. ::cackling:: I was holding my sides and laughing so hard at that.

Alll that aside, Giles is charming too, and can be very sexy-- in that intelligent, musician way. If he was younger or I was older (and he existed), I'd date him. Heck, even the brief Giles/Joyce fling was funny as hell.

And, totally separate from my Giles-lurve, I like the scenes with Spike and Giles together. I love the English-guy aspect that they share, and I wish we'd get to see more of it in quips and small moments.Their interaction is always amusing, and really funny sometimes, in how Spike should be treated like Giles' peer-- like Angel was-- and yet instead he gets treated like a 20-something Scooby. And yet, sometimes, Spike seems to respect Giles more than the others (Spike just mocks him for what he does as a Watcher, not for being stupid like how he mocks the rest of the SG), which is cool too, and makes a twisted sense. I remember reading a magazine article with an interview w/ both JM and ASH. One of them made a comment that has stuck with me since: "Spike is what Giels used to be, and Giles is what Spike almost became." I love the cheesy father/son thing from Restless and Tabula Rasa, and it almost reflects that observation.

I loved Giles' entire dream from Restless-- he even got the best cheese-guy line: "I wear the cheese; it does not wear me."

Anyway, seeing season six... and having Giles come back... and especially his reaction to Buffy's tale of woe (laughing)-- it made me realize how much he was needed in the Sunnydale group. Well, first it made me jump up and 'whoop'.... and then it made me have heavy character analyzational thoughts.

I'm glad Giles was in Sleeper. I hope he doesn't die, or I'm gonna throw a bitch-fit.

And nobody better spoil me before I see NLM, either. I am confident that he'll live (as I have not seen various LJ friends crying and wailing in their entries), but I'm excited to see what happens. Want more Giles!

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My mom hates my guts right now. I knocked into and almost knocked over her mirror thing which she's warned me about before several times (which I've never even bumped before, btw). I'm thinking fo cleaning my room to mollify her. And it needs to be done anyway.

I saw the beginning of Buffy-- up to the credits. Then I had to stop. On the first five minutes: ( Read more... )

And now I just have to wait for everything to settle so I can go watch the OTHER 55 minutes of Buffy.

Did you know that the 'previously on' portion lasted a whole 2 minutes?! I'd rather have a 1-minute 'previously' and the extra minute for Spike time, or Spuffy time, or an Anya joke.

GGRRAAAGGGHKKK!!!! Erkle!

GAH! This is terrible!

I can't read LJ's for fear of being spoiled. And now I can't even visit Crumbling Walls because Isabelle put up screencaps into avatars and I'll get spoiled that way too!

::holds head a bemoans life::

Maybe I should just save up and buy myself a tv and vcr. I could hook it up in my room, and not have to bother with all this stuff. And any time not watching Buffy could be spent watching anime, harassment-free.

weird question

ok... who else on LJ has a stake at home, somewhere?

I was digging around under& behind my desk and I found this stake I have. It's a pice of nice, round, soft wood I'd started whittling for no reason at a camp like 5 or 6 years ago (long before BtVS for me). And I liked it, and I'd brought it to a nice, quite sharp, point-- so I brought it home. And its been floating around my room ever since.

I was just playing with it now, and I could defintely stab someone with this. Provided I had the arm strength and the will to stab anyone in the chest (even a slathering leech-monster like a vamp), it'd be a wicked nice stake. It's about the size of Mr. Pointy, only not as crooked/bent in shape.

Does anyone else have one of these just lying around, either from Buffy-mania, or camping?

one of my favorite meals. I wrote this recipe for a friend, and thought I'd share.

Carol Weir’s
Super Duper
Don’t You Wish You were This Cool
Mustard Pork Chops

Brought to you by Sara Weir (we feed you good!)


Cook on the side:
Standard white rice
Vegetable of choice


You need:

Vegetable oil (approx 1-1½ tablespoon-whatever’s enough to fry/brown meat in)
Boneless pork chops (3-6)
1 can chicken rice soup (we recommend Campbell’s) or chicken broth
flour
mustard (we do NOT recommend Dijon)


Steps:

1.pour small amount vegetable oil into a large pan, leave sitting on the side

2. on a workspace, squirt a fair amount of mustard onto a plate (don’t be stingy, you’ll need more than you think)

3. on a paper towel, dump out a large amount of flour-at least two to three scoops; spread out somewhat, but not much

3b. turn on stove and start heating pan.

4. take a pork chop (with clean hands!) and with fingers smear mustard on both sides, and edges. Get them fingers messy!

5. take pork chop and set it in the flour pile, and scoop the rest of the flour around it, until its floured completely. Flour should stick to the mustard, but some will come off.

6. pick up floured/mustardy pork chop and place it in the frying pan. Repeat process with other chops.

7. brown the pork chops on medium/high on both sides (temp’s so important as the fact that it gets browned); be aware that a lot of the mustard/flour will flake off into the pan. That’s fine, don’t worry about it. Just leave it there and brown the damn meat already.

8. when meat is browned, dump in the can of chicken rice soup, and settles it around the meat. You can add ¼ to ½ cup water as well, if you feel there’s not enough liquid. S’up to you.

9. turn burner to the low side of medium low, and cover. Check periodically, stirring occasionally to see meat doesn’t burn on bottom (it shouldn’t), or to add a little water if necessary.

10. let simmer for at least 45 minutes, at max an hour

11. serve with white rice & a vegetable, making sure to spread gravy/broth over the rice.


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