Early season adorableness FTW.
I can’t stop staring at her hair in the first gif. It’s MESMERIZING.
I love it whenever they make fun of Angel. Cordeeeeelia.
one final thing of cordelia being flawless
this is an extremely accurate impression of angel okay.
(Source: mindycollette)
A few gifs per episode | Angel - 1x05 - “Room with a View”
Cordy: I’m not a sniveling whiny little Cry-Buffy. I’m the nastiest girl in Sunnydale history. I take crap from no one.
Maude: You are going to make yourself a noose and put it around…
Cordy: Back off, Polygrip! You think you’re bad? Being all mean and haunty? Picking on poor pathetic Cordy? Well, get ready to haul your wrinkly translucent ass out of this place, because lady, the bitch is back.hi cordy hi.
look at her face, Charisma is soooo good at sassy.
Cordelia: Why is it always virgin women who have to do the sacrificing?
Wesley: For purity, I suppose.
Cordelia: This has nothing to do with purity. This is all about dominance, buddy. You can bet if someone ordered a male body part for religious sacrifice the world would be atheist — like that.ILU Cordelia.
ugggggh it just reminded me how great she is and then…I really hate that bit about Joss Whedon.
to dull some of the pain, here’s Cordy being flawless
note that Angel was a really good show BEFORE Joss got more directly involved. Only the first three seasons are stuff you can watch without dying of rage from how the women and PoC are treated.
(Source: mindycollette)
The more I think about it the more I realize that there is only one thing I want from my fiction and one thing I am hardly ever given.
I just want my ladies to have agency and be able to control/decide their own destinies to the extent the dudes do.
And this goes for PoC and LGBTQ characters too…
I really liked a lot of the points that you made here about Whedon’s work.
I would like to point out though that Charisma has said over and over that she did NOT want to leave Angel and that she was fired. She has never said exactly why she was fired but the fan consensus is that she was fired because she got pregnant. Some of the things that Whedon and his writers have said about her and her pregnancy lend some credibility to this idea. So when you take that into account, robbing Cordelia of her agency almost serves as a punishment to Charisma for daring to get pregnant!
Are you fucking kidding me with this
are you
I can’t
I’m not sure I want to finish the show now even if I did buy it
seriously? When real women are directly affected by the sexism that is
that is not good at all
I wish I had known this
I wish I was kidding. I’m a huge Charisma fan and I hate that she had to go through that. Here are some links.
2010 GoreZone Magazine excerpt
There is also a Con panel with her and Julie Benz (I can’t remember the Con or year off the top of my head) where she talks about it. She’s been very open in the press about her mistreatment.
It’s been years and I’m still livid about it. I probably always will be.
God, thank you so much for telling me. I like Charisma a lot too. All the actors on Buffy and Angel are pretty quality and she seems like such a nice person.
here’s the links I got back then
I’m glad Cordelia brings up the fact that she keeps getting in situations where she’s impregnated against her will. Could this be the last time this happens, please?
Oh Mark.
How much I fucking wish. :(
Early season adorableness FTW.
I can’t stop staring at her hair in the first gif. It’s MESMERIZING.
I love it whenever they make fun of Angel. Cordeeeeelia.
(Source: mindycollette)
The more I think about it the more I realize that there is only one thing I want from my fiction and one thing I am hardly ever given.
I just want my ladies to have agency and be able to control/decide their own destinies to the extent the dudes do.
And this goes for PoC and LGBTQ characters too…
I really liked a lot of the points that you made here about Whedon’s work.
I would like to point out though that Charisma has said over and over that she did NOT want to leave Angel and that she was fired. She has never said exactly why she was fired but the fan consensus is that she was fired because she got pregnant. Some of the things that Whedon and his writers have said about her and her pregnancy lend some credibility to this idea. So when you take that into account, robbing Cordelia of her agency almost serves as a punishment to Charisma for daring to get pregnant!
Are you fucking kidding me with this
are you
I can’t
I’m not sure I want to finish the show now even if I did buy it
seriously? When real women are directly affected by the sexism that is
that is not good at all
I wish I had known this
I wish I was kidding. I’m a huge Charisma fan and I hate that she had to go through that. Here are some links.
2010 GoreZone Magazine excerpt
There is also a Con panel with her and Julie Benz (I can’t remember the Con or year off the top of my head) where she talks about it. She’s been very open in the press about her mistreatment.
It’s been years and I’m still livid about it. I probably always will be.
God, thank you so much for telling me. I like Charisma a lot too. All the actors on Buffy and Angel are pretty quality and she seems like such a nice person.
No worries. You seem very intelligent from your post and I figured you would want to be informed. I did very much enjoy your post and I feel the same way.
I have found that Charisma is one of the most liked people in Hollywood. She does a ton of charity work, always smiling and friendly. There a lot of really great comments out there from people who have worked with her, other actors and crew alike. And when the crew likes someone, that speaks volumes about them.
She seems really great. I want to do more research into her and some of the other actors because they are really quality, like I said. Once again, thanks a lot.
Ugh I was so naive.
The more I think about it the more I realize that there is only one thing I want from my fiction and one thing I am hardly ever given.
I just want my ladies to have agency and be able to control/decide their own destinies to the extent the dudes do.
And this goes for PoC and LGBTQ characters too…
I really liked a lot of the points that you made here about Whedon’s work.
I would like to point out though that Charisma has said over and over that she did NOT want to leave Angel and that she was fired. She has never said exactly why she was fired but the fan consensus is that she was fired because she got pregnant. Some of the things that Whedon and his writers have said about her and her pregnancy lend some credibility to this idea. So when you take that into account, robbing Cordelia of her agency almost serves as a punishment to Charisma for daring to get pregnant!
Are you fucking kidding me with this
are you
I can’t
I’m not sure I want to finish the show now even if I did buy it
seriously? When real women are directly affected by the sexism that is
that is not good at all
I wish I had known this
I wish I was kidding. I’m a huge Charisma fan and I hate that she had to go through that. Here are some links.
2010 GoreZone Magazine excerpt
There is also a Con panel with her and Julie Benz (I can’t remember the Con or year off the top of my head) where she talks about it. She’s been very open in the press about her mistreatment.
It’s been years and I’m still livid about it. I probably always will be.
God, thank you so much for telling me. I like Charisma a lot too. All the actors on Buffy and Angel are pretty quality and she seems like such a nice person.
I am not
I never even liked Fred that much so it’s weird this would be the thing that made me snap
but what happened to her is so endlessly horrible
she had no agency at all
not only does she die but her soul was destroyed are you fucking kidding me she doesn’t even get an afterlife tho buffyuniverse has an afterlife
and I could care less about everyone’s manpain over it
and how Gunn was involved was so stereotypical in so many ways
I am just over this needless angst
but I am watching till the end of this season because I bought it so might as well and my parents still really like the show
but I can’t even think of it now without getting mad
which is weird because I was just sort of neutral on all of the other fuckery I didn’t really mind it because I liked the show so much even if that makes me bad
but this is just the straw that broke the camel’s back what
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