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Food yesterday: 1 cherry bakewell tart without the maraschino cherry (which I gave to Patty because I think they are gross), 1 vitamin water (defense flavor), 1 fruit roll-up, 9 mini chicken tacos with salsa, 1 strawberry frozen yogurt with chocolate sprinkles and coconut, a handful of chocolate covered pomegranate jelly candies, 1 slice of swiss cheese, 1 slide of cheddar cheese, 2.5 bratwursts with mustard (no bun), spinach cooked with garlic, shallots and sweet peppers, 1 glass of apple raspberry juice, more of the pomegranate candies.

Poor Patty has jury duty today.

If you want an abortion in Okalahoma, even if you've been raped, you will now need to watch an ultrasound of your pregnancy and basically be told how cute your baby is. Not cool.

Lovely article from a straight, cis-woman engaged to a transman that gets to so many things about gender and love and expectations and everything else. via usullusa.

Mississippi high school pretends that lesbian who wore a tux in her senior photo never existed. The school claims there is legal precedent to support its decision.

Haiti, now that we've started to forget.

New York City as a lab for nearly-lost languages.

I'm messing around with ad.ly in Twitter. We'll see if it's good/evil/weird/useful. I do like that I can approve or deny each individual advertiser, versus just the category battles I have with Adsense.

Last night it was back to Angel Yet again, the guy who plays Wesley is such a good actor. I feel like he got cast in Buffy because he was funny and looked just right for the part and then they discovered he was AMAZING and he sort of became the go to guy when the whole thing with Glenn Quinn went down. Because SO AWESOME. He can turn on a fucking dime.

Meanwhile, the problem with the Darla plotline is that I don't actually care about her, nor do I care about Angel's obsession with her. I do care about Wes and Cordelia having to put up with Angel's obsession with her, however.

I thought "The Trial" was extremely well done, but in the last test thought it got kind of obvious. Of course it was about accepting death to win life. Whether that was the right call (eventhough it worked) for Angel to make though is highly debatable. The tester wasn't wrong that Angel probably has a greater contribution to make and while a man can't decide who's life is more valuable, someone who is Leading a Team Against Evil -- well that's his fucking job, you know? But that all worked out.

EXCEPT IT DIDN'T! Holy crap, I thought Darla accepting the symmetry of her life and death was so lovely and then fucking Dru shows up! Holy crap.

Also: I hate Cordy's new haircut, but the Wolfram & Hart slimeball's new haircut is awesome sauce.

Finally: Why is David Boreanaz a better actor when he's playing Angel acting, than when he's just playing Angel?

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David Boreanez is a better actor when he's doing anything with Angel outside of being Angel, imho.

Meanwhile, the problem with the Darla plotline is that I don't actually care about her, nor do I care about Angel's obsession with her. I do care about Wes and Cordelia having to put up with Angel's obsession with her, however.

Absolutely. This is sadly around the time that the OT3 dynamic began to seriously lose its appeal to me, but I want to read Cordy/Wes/Angel fic set at the end of S1 forever and ever.

Alexis Denisof (the guy who played Wesley, now married to the kickass lady who played Willow) is an amazing actor; he filmed the first long-shot scene in the first episode of S5 not long after recovering from a stroke, and his ability to angle himself properly and act amazingly means you don't even notice he barely has the use of the entire left side of his face. Tragically I have seen him in some other things and while he's good in Dollhouse (and keeps his American accent - like with James Masters, that still wigs me) he's not so good in various b-grade movies he's been in.

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The OT3 is still there for me right now, largely because it sort of reads as if Cordy and Wes are just like "shit?!? what do we do about this Darla mess?" and it's sort of cute and sad.

Also, recs for OT3 stuff for them. I can't find ANY!

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I've seriously got next to nothing, actually. Fandom loves Angel/Wes but it's not so huge on throwing in Cordelia. Not to mention most of my fandom reading was sporadic, years ago, and mostly centered around Buffy pairings (I had a complete Giles/Oz fixation.)

Here's what searching turned up, but I'll keep looking because I rewatched S1 only a week ago and I'd really like to read something long and clever.

New Day by Wesley'sGirl (NC-17, S1)
Shanshu Summer by wisdomeagle (PG, S1)
Table for Two by enigmaticblue (PG, early S2)
Five Times Angel Took Care of Wesley During Angel Investigations' First Year (As Told By Cordelia) by Kivrin (PG, S1)

Tragically most of Buffy/A:tS fandom (at least, pairings that aren't rabidly popular) happened such a while ago that a lot of fic isn't really collected or archived anywhere and rec list links are expired.

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Thanks! I've had that problem in looking for things and finding lots of expired links too.

I may write something for this OT3 once I'm done watching and I have the Bristol paper and the Buffy essay off my plate (i.e., late summer).

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Angel (the character) doesn't exactly have a wide emotional range for Boreanez to play with. I wonder if he got excited when a script actually called for something more than brooding, like playing Angelus, or... oh, wait, damn it, spoilers. Must ... resist .... spoilage...