FRIENDING POLICY

All my fanfiction, graphics, icons, fanmixes, etc posts are unlocked and available to all for snagging, reposting, reccing. Just make sure to credit. If you do want to friend me, my friending policy is as follows: If you friend me, I check your journal to make sure you aren't a bot (or a nutter or a stalker). If we have even a little in common, I will friend you back. If I forgot to friend you back, just let me know by replying to this post. I miss people sometimes, sorry!

I ship Cordelia/Angel from Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Angel The Series like it was my job. I ship it like FedEx. If you HATE C/A, I would suggest not friending me. I talk about C/A and my love of C/A a great deal. I haz a C/A(us) rec list that is 60+ stories that took me a week to compile as well as a quote list Yes, love C/A. Now that is out of the way.

( List of fandoms, ships, shows watched, etc )


My twitter is xlivvielockex. I only add people who don't post like 100+ entries a day.
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My Stranger Things username is Livvie
My AIM is xLivvieLocke.
My YIM is jjsoapchat @ yahoo . com. (no spaces)
My LJ ID is xlivvielockex @ livejournal . com (no spaces)
My email is jjsoapchat @ yahoo . com. (no spaces)

While I have been reading LJ, I haven't been participating much in terms of commenting because of graduate school slash real life. But it seems to me, in my very narrow flist reading, that there has been some debate the past few weeks over Spuffy.

As in do people who ship Spuffy side with Spike more or Buffy more? Do they hate Buffy? Do they hate Spike? Do they woobify Spike too much? I could go on and on. I love seeing these kind of debates, that we are still talking in this fandom about these things.

It really got me to thinking about Spuffy lately as I drive the 90 minutes to and 90 minutes back from campus. This is the poll I came up with, the one that I think really needs to be asked of the Spuffy fandom (and of those who think about Spuffy as a ship, positive or negative)

( Please answer honestly )

Feel free to expand on your answers in comments.

I was going to wait until I got home to post this (for those who don't know, I am at the Western Social Sciences Association conference in Houston right now) but I am worried if I don't post it now and get all my thoughts out, that I won't be able to sleep. (Seeing as I was up at 5am after only sleeping a few hours and it is now past 11, I need sleep)

While I haven't been on LJ much because of work and school, some of you may know that I strong-armed eilowyn into presenting her paper on feminism in the Whedon fandom both as a panel paper here and to enter it in the paper competition. I really didn't give her much of a choice in the matter because as you who know me know quiet well, I am very persuasive. :)

( This gets long and navel gazing and really unlike me but... )

I should say that for any of you out there who are undergraduates (or even graduate students) in the social sciences, if you are interested in presenting academic research at conference, please contact me. I hope that this post won't deter you from it because aside from this year, I think conferences are an amazing opportunity for not only networking but personal growth. I always learn so much when I attend and in fields I normally would not engage in. My goal is not to search as someone focused on research but to rather be like the professors who changed my life, who mentored me, and to bring undergraduates into these events to keep them going. I think it is incredibly important to provide opportunities for undergraduates to attend events that are vetted, that are subject to peer review and structure, to give them not only experience but a good item for their resumes and CVs.

I saw shegiles’ amazing Fuffy movie poster and it inspired me. (Theirs is much better than mine but that layout/coloring is fantastic!)

( Cordelia/Angel Movie Poster Fanart )

( Spuffy Movie Poster Fanart )

In setting up a new relationship and ending an old one, where is the line between realization and ship/char bashing?

What I mean is let’s say I’m writing a fic where C2 and C3 get together but it is set in a season where C1 and C2 are together. If C2 realizes the relationship is not working out, is trying to justify the breakup to themselves, where is the line where it is serving the story vs. bashing? Is there a line? (And feel free to link this so I get a variety of replies, not just from friends, though you all are A-MAH-ZING)

Also, anyone have some time to beta one maybe two 5 things fics for me this weekend, preferably someone who has a good Spike voice cause my Spike voice is lousy?

Yeah, I succumb to the peer pressure.

My thread at the Holiday Love Meme

So this is an amnesty post.

I know that I haven't been around, haven't been commenting as much. This semester has been really rough for me and next semester will be thesis time so I will be around even less. What little time I do have has been spent on Tumblr because it's faster.

If you want to unfriend me, this is an amnesty post. No hard feelings, no drama, nothing. You unfriend me, I unfriend you, and we still stay friends. Like I'm serious here.

After my thesis, I will probably be back on a full time basis. Or at least I hope. I miss fandom, miss making graphics. It was very calming and I am going to do my holiday icons over Thanksgiving break, IDGAF.

Love you all and miss you a ton.

Title Love is Blind
Author xlivvielockex
Rating PG-13
Word Count 100
Characters/Pairing (if any) Peter Vincent/Ginger
WARNING: SPOILERS
A/N: I came out of Fright Night (2011) shipping the hell out of these two. Not beta'ed.

( It is also stupid )

Before I begin my review, there are a few things I need to get off my chest. First off, I LIKE the idea of remakes. (Notice IDEA). They offer additional source material to draw from for fannish activities, they bring new people to fandom, and they rekindle interest in the older source material. Sometimes they are horrible (Starsky and Hutch), sometimes they are decent (Charlie's Angels), sometimes they are awesome (Star Trek. The whole AU idea is genius). So when it comes to remakes, I am not one of these people who screams NO! (Like with the possible Buffy remake). As a HUGE fan of the original Fright Night, I know a few other fans were not happy with the remake or even the suggestion of one.

Second, the elephant in the room. Marti Noxon wrote the screenplay. And while she gets blamed for the attempted rape in Seeing Red, at the end of the day, Joss had to approve that storyline. I'm not absolving blame from Noxon in the slightest but I think several reviews I have read are trying to use their dislike of Noxon from BTVS to color their review of Fright Night. I'm not.

( For those who want to remain spoiler free I will just say this GO SEE THIS MOVIE )

For those not on Tumblr or Twitter, I am alive. I did survive my surgery.

Now I have four long weeks of recovery and four new big ass scars to show for it. I'm feeling better already, already seeing the positive outcomes from the surgery after just one week. Those first few days though, I cried a lot and screamed "never again".

I'm bored as hell though. I can watch tv, knit, listen to music, read, get on the computer, and play video games. That is about it. It's amazing how much you miss bending over when you are barred from doing it. Being on the computer for long periods of time is hard for me sadly so it's mostly been tv watching and listening to audiobooks. I can only use my laptop because of the position I have to stay in and it doesn't have photoshop or my SIMS on it. :(

The pain is manageable and not as intense as my first surgery. They discovered a lot of damage from the first botched procedure so I'm supposed to meet with a malpractice attorney as soon as I am cleared to drive. (That will be in about another week to 10 days they said)

I know I missed a lot of flisting stuff so please link me. I went back about 600 entries before I couldn't do it anymore. Thanks for all the well wishes too. I know the positive vibes really helped me through it. I could feel it. No lie.

Tumblr peeps, sorry if you are seeing this twice.

( Personal post is personal )

EXCLUSIVE: Charisma Carpenter: "You Need To Get It Out That I'm A Proud Latina!"

By Lee Hernandez | 07/20/2011 - 20:10

Her name is Charisma Carpenter and she’s best known for playing all-American cheerleader Cordelia Chase on the hit TV show, Buffy the Vampire Slayer. But there’s something many people don’t know about Charisma—she’s Latina! “I think it’s the best kept secret ever,” said the sweet actress, whose grandfather was born in Spain. “You need to get it out that I’m a proud Latina!”

Charisma says she’s been trying to tell people she’s Latina for years—but they don’t believe her. “They’re not buying it,” she says. “I feel a little rejected by the Latina community. I say that in jest—I don’t sincerely mean it. But I mean…a little bit.”

The talented actress, who has a huge fan base for her work on Buffy and its spinoff, Angel, thinks she knows why people don’t believe she’s Latina. ”I guess I’m too white, too pale,” she says. “I guess they’ve never seen me tan…I don’t know.”

The 40-year-old actress says she wasn’t raised speaking Spanish—but there’s a reason for that. “My grandfather had a pretty terrible experience being in America and being from Spain,” she says sounding a bit more serious. “He came to this country as an immigrant with his family. He was a crop picker: strawberries, cotton, all that kind of stuff. And what would happen back in those days is that parents would go away and send their small children to a boarding house or an orphanage.”

Charisma says it must have been a crooked operation because her abuelo was smuggled out of the orphanage in the middle of the night, with his aunt, and adopted out to an American family who mistreated, mocked, and humiliated them. “{They} thought it was so precious and adorable that they spoke Spanish. They would make them sing in Spanish in front of their friends. Their friends would come over and they were the entertainment, so to speak,” she says.

Charisma says the ordeal was very painful for her grandfather. “He was embarrassed by it, so he chose to forget the {Spanish} language,” she says. “He refused to speak it. So my parents weren’t raised speaking Spanish.”

Still, Charisma says she managed to learn Spanish on her own. “I took Spanish since I was in the sixth grade and I lived in Mexico for a couple of years {her dad relocated there for work} when I was in high school,” she says. “I went to a school that had a strong Latino environment in Southern San Diego—about six miles from the border, so I {grew up} in the culture.”

This weekend, Charisma says she’s attending a Latino film festival in support of the new film, Without Men, which stars Latinas Eva Longoria, Judy Reyes, and Kate Del Castillo. “I’m going to support Eva!” she says enthusiastically.

Title: You're Welcome Fanart
Author: xlivvielockex
Rating: PG
Characters/Pairing (if any): Cordelia/Angel
A/N: Layout inspired by this X-Men First Class fanart made by CarlosJavier-Xhombre on Tumblr.

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( I'm not crying, it's raining on my face )

BTVS [51]
Breakdown: Willow/Tara, Spike/Buffy, Cordelia/Angel, Amy, Jenny, Angel, Cordelia, Giles, Willow, Buffy, Spike
ATS [33]
Breakdown: Cordelia, Wes, Kate, Angel, Doyle, Cordelia/Angel, Cordelia/Doyle, Lindsey, Gunn, Fang Gang
OTHER [5]
Breakdown: Firefly, Dollhouse

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( 89 Icons from 2010 )

I wrote these in 2010 and just now getting around to posting them on my own LJ for record keeping purposes.

Through the Looking Glass - Drusilla, Cordelia (PG)
xlivvielockex
2010-09-14 11:32 pm
Link to story at Eleusis-Walk's ATS Prompt-A-Thon

( Through the Looking Glass )

Engulf - Angelus/Drusilla (R) WARNING: RAPE
xlivvielockex
2010-09-14 10:57 pm
Link to story at Anythingbutgrey's Doomed Ships Comment-A-Thon

( Engulf )

Untitled - Ben/Glory, R
xlivvielockex
2010-12-22 01:37 pm
Link to story at Eleusis-Walk's Non-Canon Ships Comment-a-Thon

( Untitled )

Title Let's just forget about the future and get on with the past
Author xlivvielockex
Rating PG
Word Count 246
Characters/Pairing (if any) Charisma Carpenter/David Boreanaz
WARNING: RPF. This is a work of fiction, thought up by my strange imagination. Situations are not real and if you aren't a fan of RPF, then please just stroll on by. Thank you!
A/N: Futurefic piece that is weird and came to me out of nowhere. Not beta'ed. Title inspired by Sting's Forget About The Future

( I know we got some history )