i am mentally divergent

Title TGIS (Thank God It's Sunday)
Author xlivvielockex
Rating PG-13
Word Count 565
Characters/Pairing (if any) Buffy/Cordy
WARNING: AU
A/N: Buffy and Cordy are soccer moms by day, contract killers by night. Not beta'ed. There is also a large fanart that accompanies this so please click for larger.

“You’ve got carpool on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday this week.”

Buffy pushed the cold scrambled eggs around her plate. Sunday mornings were quickly becoming routine and tedious. Is this what all those jokes about marriage and lesbian bed death mean? She was already bored of Cordy’s rather unique calendar system for their lives and they were only up to E. Cordy had explained a million times that carpool duties went under E because they used the Escalade for carpool days but Buffy was more interested at the end of the alphabet. When they finally got to Z that is when it got interesting.

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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.

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 )

175 Holiday "Smut" Icons:
Bones: 6
Glee: 6
Gossip Girl: 8
Greek: 3
Harry Potter: 3
House: 3
Legend of the Seeker: 18
Other fandoms: 27
Other: 6
Smallville: 6
Supernatural: 4
True Blood: 10
Veronica Mars: 7
Whedonverse: 62
Whoverse: 7

PLEASE CREDIT. PLEASE DO NOT HOTLINK. PLEASE DO NOT REPOST/DISTRIBUTE WITHOUT PERMISSION. THAT MEANS YOU, FANPOP/TUMBLR USERS!!

(  All I want for the holidays is... )

Is there a pairing you want I don't have listed? PLEASE REQUEST IT HERE ON MY REQUEST POST! Requests open until Dec. 5th.

Charisma had her own Q&A panel at the Wizard World New England Comic Con. She answered a lot of questions about her time on Buffy and Angel. I don't have a transcript yet but I will try to do it this weekend and add it the post.

( Video in five parts )

Click through for picspam and fic recs.

And whilst I am on recs:

A peek into the mind of Cordelia Chase fanart by angryscientist

Doorbell Distress by eilowyn (Spike, Cordy, and a surprise guest)

Angelus picspam, C/A picspam, C/A and Spuffy picspams, 2 C/A Picspams made by nikkiwawa79

30 Days of Angel entries

eleusis_walks
samsom
anythingbutgrey
chorelle
bja727

(Is there anyone else doing it that I left off?)

I know I was going to pimp someone/something else but I totally forgot now. :( I'm still so tired from my weekend and the comment!fail that happened while I was working (some of you know what I'm talking about). If you don't want people to comment with opposing viewpoints, then f-lock it or ask fandom newsletters not to link to it you know?

So you might remember this past weekend I contacted stop_plagiarism about some fics that seemed oddly familiar. (Original post here).

Well, after doing some digging, stop_plagiarism has determined that orbofthesulah is a plagiarist. Now, some of you are new but in the past, I was plagiarized (I mean, I have a tag for it!). It's not fun and it's something I can't stand. That is why I do firmly believe in public shaming these people. Sometimes, it helps, they stop their stealing ways, delete their LJs, etc. Sometimes it doesn't. But to me, it's something important to note.

Here is the report on stop_plagiarism. I find her responses very telling. She clearly doesn't think that stealing is wrong (And one look at her Tumblr, that much is clear. A ton of fics posted without ANY credit or link backs)

So yes, orbofthesulah aka thegirlinquestion on Tumblr is a plagiarist. And honestly, I never would have found out if she didn't post part of a plagiarised fic on Tumblr and someone reblogged it.

If she is on your LJ or Tumblr, I would suggest deleting her right away as she stole videos and graphics as well. (Stop Plagiarism doesn't cover those, sadly). She doesn't look like she is above from stealing from everyplace she can. I've still got some other people helping me, as it seems most of her fics are stolen from other places. I'm hoping we can fatten up the case.