Thoughts on Angel.

So, yes, I'm twelve years late commenting on this.

I started watching Angel several years ago when I had a Lovefilm subscription. I'm now subscribing to them again, and have discovered that the show's on Lovefilm Instant, which means they are available for streaming online. I'm still on my first run through the show and have just watched 3x02.

It's an interesting show, but I'm getting less and less comfortable with it. Particularly with the show's treatment of Cordelia. In Buffy, she was a Queen Bitch who slowly developed a heart of, if not gold, then at least something that wasn't ice. Even while I didn't like her much as a character, she was a tough and believable one, and though she was often in peril in high school, I don't remember her being denied agency too much. She was always up for picking up a weapon and fighting, for stating her opinion, for being involved and standing up for herself.

As Angel goes on, she seems to be turning more and more into a professional victim, and I do not like it.

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New icons!

With thanks to casett, ebsolutely and cinammonrolls, who between them provided me with awesome Fringe, Iron Man and Once Upon A Time icons.

...I now have 92 icons and I wonder sometimes that they are not diverse enough. I'm not sure, for example, if I have a good "angry" icon, and I definitely don't have decent icons for knitting, programming, and writing.

This should be fixed! Anyone got recs for good icon comms? (Stock-image icon comms would probably be useful for the topical icons.)

Also. I should, uh, decide what the hell this journal is for.