#cordy watches ☆

[hedgehog-moss]

Various ways in which I have underestimated my chickens (callout post to myself):

cognitive abilities (memory): I dropped some pasta while making a salad earlier and Louise was nearby so I opened the door and invited her into the kitchen to come clean up. At first she just meandered round the room glaring suspiciously at furniture because she's unfamiliar with the inside of my house, then I helped her locate the pasta and she pounced, but before she could eat all of them Morille came zooming across the room with Pandolf zooming behind her, which freaked out the hen who noisily flew-ran out of the room. She stayed away long enough that when I called her inside again I expected her to have forgotten all about the pasta, and that I would have to show it to her again, but instead she went straight for it, resolutely, having clearly kept this important goal in a corner of her teeny tiny mind this whole time.

hunting abilities: before getting chickens I didn't realise they actually hunted? (sometimes.) I pictured their search for food as quiet foraging, busily scratching the dirt for worms, but a) hens are never quiet they're always chattering to each other so already that part was wrong; b) when they find a worthy prey they hunt it with the fierce determination of a mountain lion. I once saw Dru chasing a grasshopper across half the pasture, running at full chicken speed and sometimes boosting herself with her wings Mario kart-style while the grasshopper desperately hopped for its life, until eventually she pounced with her beak wide open and managed to catch it mid-jump. With an action movie soundtrack this scene would have been every bit as intense and gripping as a cheetah hunting a gazelle in a wildlife documentary.

social abilities (empathy): one time Cordélia had a little bit of grass stuck in her eye and she kept rubbing her head with her claw to try and dislodge it unsuccessfully, and then she seemingly asked Dru for help, placing her face very close to the other hen's face like "see that stupid twig?" and Dru removed it with her beak. Again that's not something I would have expected from a hen... they're very disloyal creatures, so it was fascinating to see. They would stab their grandma for a dusty rigatoni but leaving a friend with something stuck in her eye is apparently a level of antisocial even chickens won't cross.

social abilities pt.2 (romantic sensibility): sometimes when the night sky is clear and you can see the Milky Way, instead of tucking themselves in at sundown like they usually do, they'll fly to the roof of their coop and sit there for a little while to watch the stars together. Okay this one may be a tiny bit less scientific an observation than the others but I don't have an explanation for this behaviour; I've never noticed anything wrong with their coop on these particular nights, the door is open, they can go in—and the girls don't seem stressed at all, if anything they look like they're having a nice peaceful moment and I feel bad for bothering them.

[clarkgriffon]

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER 3x02 | “Dead Man's Party” 

[anyachristinaemmanuellajenkins]

1.11 Out of Mind, Out of Sight // 3.05 Homecoming

"But there are moments, walking, when I catch a glimpse of myself in the window glass" – What the Living Do by Marie Howe

Coffy Appreciation Week 2023 Day 1: Favorite Parallel

[jennycalendar]

i think there’s something to be said about xander’s girlfriends and love interests always being people who are interested in Performing Girlhood but have no concrete idea of how to do it, so default to xander as a romantic option not necessarily because he is a Garden Variety Man but because he too has this myopic obsession with Performing Masculinity. they don’t know what they’re looking for but he fits that rough shape of how it’s Supposed To Feel, warts and all — and he greatly appreciates when a woman takes the initiative because he is convinced that he’s an ugly little bug who no one will ever want. so he is ostensibly much less dangerous than a Garden Variety Man, at least at first glance, except he is so insecure and self destructive that he ends up seriously hurting any serious partner in his attempts to figure out a way to control how they leave him.

[sassycordy]

the sgu science trio aka the best trio in the franchise!

audio credits: reveuraudios

[electrozeistyking]

HEY!

Your artstyle is freaking awesome! It's multifunctional for both pain and fluff! I love it so much I wanna eat it with a big cartoony fork!!

THANK YOU! I love making people feel things and letting folks know what character is feeling at any given time (which tends to happen after the thirtieth time of someone confusing them for being sad when they're not... ugh).

that is, if you really wanna know why i push expressions to the max as well, haha. i like cute, i like pain. it translates into my writing-

[365filmsbyauroranocte]

À nous la liberté (René Clair, 1931)

[vulpinesaint]

oh angel beloved i am always thinking about you… the show. not the character. the only thing i ever think about angel is “they turned that man into a muppet”

[vampirologist]

people joke about saving cordy from angel (the show) because she left buffy for his show plus what happens later on with her but honestly angel gave her so much more depth and the characters on it treat her better. she still has her personality like her bluntness but it’s not necessarily high school mean girl anymore- she grows. like early seasons cordy on angel? so great

[all-seeing-ifer]

did my silly goofy presentation explaining the plot of angel for my friend's powerpoint night tonight and it was both very fun but also a surprisingly healing experience. like if you still hold resentment and hate for season 4 in your heart I'd honestly recommend it bc having to explain what happens in it to a bunch of people with no emotional investment in any of it really forces you to accept how objectively stupid and funny everything in that season is. it's an imperfect solution for sure but I certainly found it cathartic and it's nice that I've at least found a way to get some enjoyment out of it fdjlkdsljflsj

[volfoss]

If I just stay up rly rly rly late like over 24 hours today won't mess my sleep schedule up...

[madebysimblr]

no new posts today b/c the next bit is something i wanna spend extra time on to make it match my ~vision~

if you're new and need something to read, here is my 'starting points' page.

note, this legacy started in 2017 and it was a much different beast then. start from the very beginning if you dare lol.

I would say start with my little side story I did the last couple of years, The Princess & Me which is a loose adaptation of The Prince & Me (2004) starring Julia Stiles. I'm really proud of it. 🥰

[jennycalendar]

i did not notice that giles hands the finger sandwich that he doesn't want to xander and i am having like 70 feelings about that one two-second interaction.

[sassycordy]

“stargate universe isn’t fun-🔫” i made this edit Just to prove how “stargate” this show is lol

[fearsomeandwretched]

It's also weird to me so many ppl like Xander he's straight up a creepy entitled pervert and we know he's the self insert for an incredibly misogynistic and aggressive person like....

[dawnssummers]

ok the thing about buffy with kendra and then faith is that there's only meant to be one and the fact that there are two in both cases makes buffy less alone only like the way she had to die to get that . and for the next few seasons a part of buffy will still see her death as her own failure/lack of readiness because as much as she was prepared to die facing the master she was scared and then he THRALLED her and dumped her in a PUDDLE (as opposed to the gift where she more or less chooses her own death). and then with faith in s3 it's like. she is there all the time and a constant reminder of buffy and then kendra being powerless and dying and buffy couldnt save herself couldnt save kendra and yet here is faith and they are the same and how is that even fair that the universe gave her faith but took away so much to get her and buffy cannot help being drawn to faith it's a lot. gay people u know