Strangeness and Charm

Sorry, this completely slipped my mind. I'll do today's and yesterday's entry in the next post. Was going to do 2 days in THIS one but it got a bit long.

Day Five: Favorite female character on a male-driven show

Cordelia Chase

I talked about Cordelia a lot in another entry a few months ago, and instead of basically saying the same thing, I'm going to just say the same thing.

Cordelia might actually be my favorite character in general. I love her SO MUCH, in all the different changes of character. We start out in Buffy has Cordelia being this rich, popular girl. As her license plate reads, she is Queen C, and she's also known as being bitchy. She has her gang of girls called the Cordettes. Queen C has some GREAT one liners (I must admit that when I'm watching TV and someone good looking comes on the screen, I say "Hello salty goodness"), and while she IS a bitch, she also has a nice side, too. She crashes her car into the school to save the Scoobies, and starts going out with Xander, eventually staying with him (after attempting to break up with him) despite the fact that she's told that if she wants to stay popular, she has to break up with him. Unfortunately he starts cheating on her with Willow, and she gets impaled after finding out, and we find out that on top of all that, she has also lost all her money and is working really hard just to get a dress from prom. Despite all that, and the fact that the Scoobies are mean to her after she breaks up with Xander, she still helps them fight vampires.


Now we get to my favorite part: Angel. She is still, essentially, the same girl she was on Buffy, but a bit harder. She still has great one liners ("You don't know who he is, do you? Oh boy, you're about to get your ass kicked!" "I think it, I say it. It's my way" "Tact is just not saying true stuff. I'll pass.") and while she teams up with Angel and Doyle (and later Wes) to help fight the good fight, she says she's only doing it until her eventual stardom kicks in. This all changes when Doyle dies and gives her his visions, something that she, at first, tries to pass off to someone else. She hates visions because they hurt like hell and she sees and feels things she doesn't really want to see or feel.


But she accepts these visions eventually, because she feels like it's her part of helping them. In fact, she hides the fact that they're killing her because she doesn't want to feel useless anymore. The visions (along with Connor being born and falling in love with Angel) really change Cordy, and she becomes a warm and caring person. She gets called Saint Cordelia a lot in the fandom, but I don't mind the changes because I think that they were because of her visions (and, well, just growing up), and I can understand that. Cordelia was truly the heart and soul of the show, and after she leaves, everyone's character falls apart a bit and embraces the darker sides of themselves. They go to Wolfram and Hart intending to change the company from the inside, but it's really the other way around, with Wolfram and Hart changing THEM. She uses her last chance to come back to get her man (and through him, everyone else) back on track.
( rest of the days )

borg_princess  asked about my favorite ships and why I love them.

( Under the cut )

Remember this? I was so good about it the first few days and then I got really bad! So, here we go.

Day Eight: Favorite female character in a comedy show
I actually don't watch too many comedy shows, and the few I do watch, I usually love the male characters (I know! So rare, Usually I'm ALL about the ladies. But Doctor Cox, for instance, always makes me laugh). So this one made me struggle for a bit. Then I thought of one! She's so funny and weird and wacky and always makes me laugh. In fact, I usually think of her as a grown up version of Luna Lovegood.
Phoebe Buffay




Day Nine: Favorite female character in a drama show
This one was so easy. CORDELIA FUCKING CHASE Y'ALL!

I. LOVE. HER. From her days of reigning Sunnydale High as Queen C to her trying to become a famous actress to becoming the heart of the show, a woman who gave up her life for the greater good. I know some people don't like Cordelia after that, but once she got her visions, well, I think seeing what she saw on a regular basis would change anyone.

( rest of the days )

I love many different ships, but there is one ship that is my favorite and always WILL be my favorite. I never stop loving it, and even though I move on to different fandoms, I always come back to this ship. I started shipping them when I was 11.I'm so grateful I do, too, because there are so many amazing writers and vid makers and artists and just people in this group. So thank you, guys. Here are some videos I've seen before, but xlivvielockex  reminded me of :)




I declare this to be a Cordy/Angel love post. Post gifs, ficlets, recs, vids, whatever you want!

His accent and flashback hair and pornstache are fail and just make it better. But he's so evil and fun and amazing. DB must have had fun playing him!

Title: Trick or Treat
Fandom: Angel
Pairing: Angel/Cordelia
Rating: T
Word Count: 956
Summary: Written for the Halloween ficathon at stranger-things.net! In response to Luckylyn's prompt: Kisses, trick or treating, guy in cheerleader costume. Thanks to nikkiwawa79 for the ficpic!
Spoilers: seasons 1-3. Takes place sometime in season 3.


Trick or Treat

So I just wrote my first Angel drabble. It didn't quite turn out how I wanted and I'm not sure how I feel about it, but I'd love feedback. For some odd reason, as much as I love this fandom, I was never able to write about it before.

Title: Forgotten Fairytale
Fandom: Angel
Pairing: Vague Angel/Cordelia
Rating: T
Word Count: 326
Summary: An added moment to season 4's Sacrifice
Spoilers: seasons 1-4

here at my fic journal

What happened to goteamfiction.com? It had some nice Cordy/Angel stories...

First off, HAPPY VALENTINES DAY EVERYONE! I love you all, lots! *sends hugs and chocolates out to everyone*

Today was great. I found a gift certificate for this music store near our house from 2 Hanukkahs ago, and I went today with my mom. I was planning to buy season 8 of Friends since they have this nice used DVDs and movies section, but unfortunately they didn't have it. I sort of looked around trying to see if I could find anything good, and I was thinking, "Hmmm, they probably don't have Angel" . Of course, it was right then when I found two seasons of it! I picked it up and went to my mom and babbled nonsense for a few minutes until she got annoyed, and then I asked her if, even though I only have enough money for one, I could buy both. She sighed and said, "I guess so" and then we went to the cash register. She started asking me questions, and by then I feel like I'm going to burst and I'm finding it hard not to just start jumping up and down. Mom doesn't really buy me TV show DVDs because she's convinced that I'm going to lose interest in everything, just like I did with Harry Potter. Our conversation went something like this:

"So, does he turn into a vampire?"

"He already is a vampire"

"He's cute!"

"Yeah, he is"

"Is she a vampire too?" (pointing to Cordy)

"No"

"Does he want to bite her?"

"Yes, but he doesn't because he has a soul. Well, sometimes he loses it, but mostly he has one. This show was done by Joss Whedon, the guy who did Firefly."

"Oh, I like that show!"

Now I don't have to deal with crappy online episodes with Chinese subtitles!

*is happy*

ETA: My mom's boyfriend came over just now, and he loves Firefly (has it on DVD) and is now watching Dr. Horrible, so then we started talking about it. It was pretty awesome.