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Birthdays and Angel love.
It's the birthday of two lovely LJ ladies today: ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mrs_underhill, who always has wonderful meta-insights, and girlpire who writes like an angel! (Seriously, if there's anyone out there who hasn't read Friday yet, then run, don't walk. Unless you're allergic to Spangel of course.)
Hope you both have a *fabulous* day and get spoiled rotten. I'd totally have baked you a cake, except I think it'd probably not have survived the journey...
Otherwise I think I might have mentioned that Darcy and I are (slowly) doing an ATS re-watch? Last night we watched 'War Zone' and then this afternoon sat down to 'Blind Date' and 'To shanshu in LA'. *deeeeeeep sigh* I love season 1 of Angel totally and utterly, even the episodes that are less than stellar. And all the early stuff is so wonderful - Cordy and Wesley and Lilah and Lindsey... *hugs show* Also it's made me want to write like you wouldn't believe. Not this week, what with it being half term (s-i-l took the kids today, hence the daytime TV watching), but who knows, maybe this fic of mine will actually be finished sooner rather than later. (Word count so far: 43,000 words. And I'm maybe 1/3 through. But my muse has returned, yay!)
I'm trying - and struggling - to think of anything else to write. Sorry to be so absent, but life is just rushing past me and I feel like I'm always catching up, so I'm afraid LJ is suffering. Oh and did I mention the icon?ruuger made it for me, and it is just perfect! *admires it some more* Icons are also good for helping kickstart the muse! :)
ETA: Happy Valentine's everyone! We're not doing anything special (Darcy won't let florists and card shops tell him when to spoil me - and seriously, he's excellent at spoiling me), but we did go out for a lovely meal last night with all our little girls. Family life is wonderful!
mrs_underhill, who always has wonderful meta-insights, and girlpire who writes like an angel! (Seriously, if there's anyone out there who hasn't read Friday yet, then run, don't walk. Unless you're allergic to Spangel of course.)Hope you both have a *fabulous* day and get spoiled rotten. I'd totally have baked you a cake, except I think it'd probably not have survived the journey...
Otherwise I think I might have mentioned that Darcy and I are (slowly) doing an ATS re-watch? Last night we watched 'War Zone' and then this afternoon sat down to 'Blind Date' and 'To shanshu in LA'. *deeeeeeep sigh* I love season 1 of Angel totally and utterly, even the episodes that are less than stellar. And all the early stuff is so wonderful - Cordy and Wesley and Lilah and Lindsey... *hugs show* Also it's made me want to write like you wouldn't believe. Not this week, what with it being half term (s-i-l took the kids today, hence the daytime TV watching), but who knows, maybe this fic of mine will actually be finished sooner rather than later. (Word count so far: 43,000 words. And I'm maybe 1/3 through. But my muse has returned, yay!)
I'm trying - and struggling - to think of anything else to write. Sorry to be so absent, but life is just rushing past me and I feel like I'm always catching up, so I'm afraid LJ is suffering. Oh and did I mention the icon?
ruuger made it for me, and it is just perfect! *admires it some more* Icons are also good for helping kickstart the muse! :)ETA: Happy Valentine's everyone! We're not doing anything special (Darcy won't let florists and card shops tell him when to spoil me - and seriously, he's excellent at spoiling me), but we did go out for a lovely meal last night with all our little girls. Family life is wonderful!
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I see your point re. Lindsey, definitely. And yes, Angel isn't exactly at his most encouraging in 'Blind Date' - and yet, I'm not sure he's wrong. What Lindsey wants, is power. And in a very tangible way, W&H have most of the power. Holland Manners plays him *beautifully*, because what they do is corrupt people - and the more potential for good, the more potential for evil.
It all comes down to what Lindsey says in 'Dead End': 'Make them play your game'. That's why he turns them down - because that puts him in the position of power (they want him, but he won't give them what they want). But he comes back, wanting more power - playing Angel, Spike *and* W&H. And all of Angel's efforts were pretty useless, as he himself notices:
Angel: You haven't heard a word I've said. For, like, years back.
Lindsey never 'gets' it. Never understands what motivates Angel. Could he ever learn to? Who knows - but it is not an outcome that Angel thinks likely.