No Living History tonight...tired....

[liz_marcs]

Spent hours on the phone with BFF trying to convince her to not put herself in debt over her head to find a Boston-area apartment close to her soon-to-be ex-husband because she doesn't want to deprive her 3-year-old of her father. Go move in with the sister in Central Mass...go half on the rent in a cheaper part of the state...make the fuckhead come to her if he wants to see his daughter.

I won, sort of. She's going at least follow my advice...in November (*bangs head against wall*)

Really, I just want to scream: GO TO LEGAL AID! PLEEEEEZ! FOR YOUR OWN GOOD!

In the meantime, he's trying to guilt her about her plan to apply for food stamps and going on welfare so she can finish college and get a decent-paying teaching job. In the meantime, he's opened up a separate account and isn't tossing any money in their joint account. She found out by accident that this happened, by the way.

Right now, she's worried about buying groceries. (He's at least still covering her rent.)  Asshole.

On happier notes:

First up, just saw Clinton on The Daily Show. Dude is still the Bigg Dawg. He didn't thrill me as president, but right now he looks so...shiny! In retrospect, he wasn't so bad. Clinton, baby! Come back! I'll take White Water over what we got now. Hell, I'll take Watergate over what we got now.

Also, a new installment of Heroes is up. YAYNESS! I so very much adore the Illyria-Xander (nonshippy!) dynamic, as well as the protective vibe Spike has for Illyria and then the strange balance between Spike-Illyria-Xander. Fanon Illyria may be one of my favorites, but it takes outstanding writers to get her just right. This series has a very talented group behind it.

Actually, Heroes is an ensemble piece involving all the BtVS and AtS characters. I really need to go back to the beginning and read them all. Right now I'm jumping around between stories like a kid in a candy store.

Oh, and congrats to one of the authors, veggiebelle, for landing her first professional writing gig. Actually, she landed it before, but now she's got a check to prove it. She'll be one of the essayists in the upcoming Angel book taking a look at that show's five season.

(Aside to veggiebelle : Isn't getting paid for stuff you'd do for free a hella lot of fun? It's like highway robbery in way...)

Also, I just got sucked into hjcallipygian's  Of Those Chosen: The Twins. I'd seen it on my FList, but hadn't really had time to read it, but I gave the latest installment a look. Yet another enemble piece (I sense a theme!). Interesting that I'm not the only one guessing that there might be fractures in any new Council Giles might try to build. He approaches it from a completely different angle than I do (it starts with the Slayers, as opposed to the Watchers) and it certainly works as presented here. The author is taking a temporary hiatus, so I at least have time to catch up before he posts again. *grins*

Ummm, I promise more Living History tomorrow. As you can see, RL just sucked me in tonight...

Comments

Heroes

[midnightsjane.livejournal.com]

Oh, I found Heroes a few weeks ago; don't know how, I think I was just surfing around. I like it a lot; nice approach to season 6. I don't find it quite so angsty as some post season 5/7 fic, which is fine by me. The writing is good, and I really like the Spike/Illyria/Xander interaction. Congrats to veggiebelle on her professional writing gig!
Thanks for the link to hjcallipygian and the Twins fic. Just read the first part, friended him so I can follow it from now on. I find it very interesting that there are so many ensemble writing efforts around the end of Angel and Buffy. Everyone has their own ideas about what happened after.. The good folks over on the ATPO board are getting ready to launch a virtual Season 6 of Angel, and I think it will be really fantastic. (I have some inside info on it.)
Waiting eagerly for the next installment of Living History.

Re: Heroes

[veggiebelle.livejournal.com]

Thank you! And we're so glad that you're enjoying Heroes!

[bigsciencybrain.livejournal.com]

I hated, hated, hated when the ex did the money run around with me. He felt "entitled" to take what he wanted. I was more pissed off that he was trying to be subtle about it, perhaps assuming I wouldn't notice. That was beyond insulting. And I agree with you, make him come to his daughter. This is his decision and he needs to face the consequences. *deep breath*

[iyalode.livejournal.com]

Just spent the last hour or so reading Heroes. Thanks for the rec, ensembles aren't all that common these days and this is a good one.

[hjcallipygian.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much for the pimpage! You rock. I won't actually be taking a hiatus, though -- I think I'd go insane if I stopped writing. I'm just going to have a bit less free time in the next few weeks, kind of like you did for a while there. That damn "life" thing getting in the way of monitoring our pretend friends' lives.

[veggiebelle.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for recommending Heroes! This means a ton to us. I'm thrilled that you're enjoying it!

Getting money for my Wesley essay does seem somehow sneaky and underhanded. But I'll take it. I'm far more happy about being in the book than getting money for it, truth be told.

I stayed up to watch Clinton on The Daily Show as well. Can we have him back now? Please? And words can not express how much I love that show.

[jetpack-monkey.livejournal.com]

Thank you muchly for the Heroes pimpage. It's way exciting to see people so enthused about our work!

- Dylan Adams