Rec bitch # who knows how many

Bored?

Want something to read?

Something that's long, intoxicating, dramatic, full of sweeping angst, bitter action, and and romance that hurts?

Want some Spuffy that seems to have gone unfairly unnoticed when it should be enjoyed?

Try one of my favorite fics ever: COUNTESS by Scribe

I keep recommending this to people, because everyone who's into B/S will adore this fic. And possibly cry. And even if you hate B/S, read it anyway for the villain. She's an absolutely kick-ass original character, something few and far between in Buffyfic.

various thingies

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My Goth name is either Pixie Corpse or Liquid Vamp. Depends on where I place my middle name.
((thanks hils for the link))

2.
I just listened to my radio sation play Johnny Cash doing an acoustic cover of the Nine Inch Nails song Hurt.

And it did hurt. Sometimes, guy, you just get a little too old to be singing. You're there now. So please stop singing a song that I love and making sound like...that.

3.
On the new LJ posting limits. I don't oppose the idea of limits. If the limits had been instated when I joined, it wouldn't have kept me from joining. But I do think 3 posts a day for the free users is too few. Since I average 4 posts a day, it's not enough. 6 or 7 would be a more reasonable number. I don't think hardly anyone ever posts more than 10 in one day... 6 updates every 24 hours is a decent, sensible limit.

4.
I'm going to bake cookies this afternoon and mail them out to my brother on his ship. I know that sounds like a such a cliche 'feminine' thing to do-- but he really *does* appreciate getting them. Apparently the food provided by the U. S. Naval Forces is less than "yummy." And he did say that I didn't need to make them, he'd love just store-bought kind too. But I like making sweet stuff, and I know mine are better than Chips A'Hoy. Not into overall cooking so much as... dessert baking. Probably becaase I like desserts.

He also would like me to loan him book[s] too. He wants to read more "famous literature stuff," so I'm to send him my copy of Les Miserables (which is a pretty good book), and anything else I want. As he says--this is the time that I can get him to actually read the stuff I'm always telling him about (usually various fantasy books). Because on a ship he has no escape and few alternatives. He's probably read more famous lit than I have; when it's not part of school, I prefer fantasy novels.

5.
Did you know that nicotine actually improves memory / mental retention? Releases more neurotransmitters across the synaptic gap between nuerons in your brain. Huh. Too bad it totally sets you up to be deader than dead addict monkeys at the same time. Psych class is interesting.

6.

How evil are you?

all around fun.

I didn't cheat on this quiz. If I had, I'd have gotten Orlando Bloom. But Collin Farrell's a sexy bitch, so I don't mind so much. ;)


Colin Farrell


Which Male Are You Destined To End Up With?
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Read some absolutely splendid things in friends LJs today.

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From chase820:
–I think Connor was right in his insights about Angel/Angelus. Discussed this with Mustang Sally last week, and we concluded that Angel is just a part the souled Angelus plays, a psychological construction he created so he could distance himself from the horrible things he'd done. Souled Spike never tries to make this argument, and really, the Jekyll/Hyde thing makes no sense, anyway. A soul gives you free will, remorse, yadda yadda yadda. It doesn't make you someone else. The fact that souled Spike is willing to face up to this, and Angel never has, makes me believe that for all his silliness this season, Spike is the psychologically stronger of the two.

So nicely put and well-spoken. I wonder if the difference in how Angel and Spike have handled their self-image after soul has anything to do with how they reacted to the FE's influence?

When it went after Angel, he gave in, and was saved by Buffy and miracle snow. So, the FE won. When it went after Spike, he killed people. So it won with him too. But it had to work on Spike for weeks in the basement-- and it got him when the hard part of insanity was mostly done; Spike had already been well-worked over by Buffy herself and the pain of his soul. Does this speak better of Spike than Angel? Does it make a difference that he was under direct mind control via the song, whereas Angel was just very depressed and upset by visions?

But even if it took longer for Spike-- does it matter if in the end Spike did what it wanted too? In the end Spike was able to resist the evil's influence; would Angel have been able to do the same if his own torture had been prolonged? Or was Spike's only prolonged because he resisted longer, and Angel wanted to walk into the sun after just one episode? Spike's main mental tool of resistance was the knowledge that Buffy had faith in him, but Angel has always had her faith, love, and forgiveness. Is the difference between Spike and Angel that Angel doesn't associate his self worth by the people who love him and whom he loves, the way Spike does?

Is Spike's willingness to reconcile the demon and the soul in him as being the same person with different motivations give him some strength to resist the FE that Angel didn't have? Sort of a "there's nothing you can remind me of that I don't already know" thing?

And since you brought it up:

Angelus, take me, you mysterious black-clad hunk of a night thing.

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From shrift's LJ entry:

My imaginary flip-fan now has a bored 'I'm a man-hating femi-nazi' scrawled across it in blood.

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From valereix's journal:

When I was younger, I thought gun control was completely unnecessary. Gun control advocates would cite all these examples of children shooting themselves while playing with their parents' guns. I would think, "If you do something like that, it's not about gun control; you're just stupid." Then one day I accidentally maced myself. I've been a liberal ever since.

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From anniesj's 'Soulless' comments:

(Angelus on American Idol)

SIMON: That was ghastly. Utterly ghastly. And that suit is horrible. Angelus?
ANGELUS: I'm going to eviscerate you with a spork. Because hey. Sporks are fun.
SIMON: Marry me, Angelus.

::mad giggling:: God I still think that's so funny.

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From lordshiva:

If Angel/Angelus are modeled after Jeckyl and Hyde, what is the character of Spike modeled after? His evil/good demarcation is not as pronounced from what we've seen. Angelus and Angel by their own admission never loved. Spike on the other hand was quite swept away by love human or not, chipped or not, evil or not.

Damn good question. I can't help but think we're supposed to get something out of the fact that Spike doesn't have the double-personality thing post-soul that Angel does, but I don't know what that message is yet. But I think I talked about this earlier in this post, didn't I?

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From estepheia:

( f***ing funny George W. political joke. Because we need more of them. )

random meme created by moi

Alcohol I enjoy:

white wines
apricot brandy (killer hot when paired with pepperjack cheese)
tequila shots
margaritas
wine coolers


Alcohol I despise:

beer.
beer.
red wine.
beer.


And, er, yes. I am underage. And something in me (my tastebuds) tells me that I won't like beer even when I *am* of legal age. The same way that I get older and older, yet still keep failing to see the appeal of coffee. Cause dude-- ick.


Soda I enjoy:

Diet Coke
Root Beer
Hanson's: Kiwi/Strawberry
Ginger Ale
Orange Slice


Soda I despise:

Mr. Pibb
Slice
Pepsi cola
diet Pepsi cola
any caffeine-free soda
Dr. Pepper

I up-chucked once after drinking Mr. Pibb. Left me with a bad impression. Haven't tasted it since-- which would be about 8 years, give or take.