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[shadowkat]

Feeling lonely, friendless and bummed out today, so if anyone has any spare cyber hugs? I could really use them. [The risk of asking for hugs...is what if you don't get them? Then you feel even lonilier than when you asked.]

Made the mistake of giving into a craving for reeses peanut butter cups - which really did not agree with me. Not sure why. They aren't supposed to have gluten in them. Could also be the weather that's affecting me. We had a brutal storm last night and today, the clouds are hanging heaving, like dead weights in the air, wanting to pop open and playing havoc with my head (dull throb behind the right temple. Does however make for a decent sunset.

Read the Angel comic last night - issue 37 or 38, plotted by Bill Willingham, but written by Mariah Huegher and David something or other. It wasn't bad, but I couldn't help but laugh at the cheesy plot. The Angel comics make the Buffy ones look like they were written and plotted by Shakespeare in comparison (okay Shakespeare by way of Samuel Beckett, but whatever). Although, at least Angel is more or less as I remember him and not a lobotomized douchebag, Spike however...is a bit too, I'm not sure what the word is? Whiny? Snark granted is hard to do well, but it's not that hard.

Here's the plot, as far as I can figure: Spike still has his soul, but a parasite that attaches itself to souls attached itself to Spike's when he came back from being a ghost. It got activated after Spike was in hell - something about being in hell activated the parasite - which affected his moral judgment and is the reason he's been acting out of character. It's easy enough to fix. Now how's that for an imaginative explanation for out of character behavior? Also does have a nifty bit of dialogue, where Spike tells a judgmental Angel - that he hasn't exactly done anything horribly evil - like kill someone's girlfriend or stalk little blond girls. LOL! The art is sort of cartoonish (reminds me of a Saturday morning cartoon at any rate), and they have these thought boxes that get confusing, because it's not clear except through context which character is talking. (ie. there's no visual clues, just textual ones.) Other than that? I was entertained. Found it hilarious in places. Also quite campy and ludicrious. Shame it's not better - because it reminded me of how much I missed the Spike/Angel relationship - which remains amongst my favorite bro-romances of all time. (Although shouldn't be too critical - I have a feeling I'd feel the same way about the X-men comics sitting in my bedroom should I ever choose to re-read them.)

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Re: BIG {{hugs}}

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

Yeah, well...they are all just incredibly far away. Momster did tell me a story over the phone last night about her sister/my aunt (who died back in 2000 or thereabouts) - and how after she died, Momster and Granny had received numerous letters from around the country. They'd gone through her address book and sent notices - as one does. And in return got all the letters from people, with cards, saying how much they missed and loved my aunt. My aunt was a letter writer, she rarely saw these friends, mostly just corresponded with them...and was often quite lonely, I suspect. But they were still there. I guess that's not all that different than online correspondence?
Except - we get responses back almost instantaneously. Within minutes, sometimes hours. So in some respects it is far more gratifying than letters - at least in that respect.

Re: BIG {{hugs}}

[embers-log.livejournal.com]

I used to correspond (in the 1960-1990's) with a lot of people, but it didn't really make me feel close to any of them because I would always wait weeks (frequently months) before hearing back from them. With email (or here at lj) you may wait a few days, but occasionally you get a response back almost immediately, which is both disconcerting AND makes you feel close!). Writing those letter was even more isolating and diary like than posting online, for me anyway.

The closest I ever felt online was when my cousin was giving birth down in Texas and I was getting up to the minute emails with photos of the baby and everyone who was at the Hospital. I actually felt like I was there! It was pretty awesome.

I stopped reading the Angel comics over a year ago, so it would be a huge task to catch up now (and I'm convinced it wouldn't be worth the effort). But the new Brian Lynch SPIKE! comic came out today and I loved the humor and the artwork and the hints of things to come.

Re: BIG {{hugs}}

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

It was odd last night - after I posted, I edited, and then noticed - wait - there's a comment already? I didn't really expect any replies. I don't know why...I think there's always this odd fear when I post that no one's listening or out there? Insane I know, but there all the same.

I've always written letters or corresponded with people. I prefer it to phone calls actually. No interruptions and you can re-read, so less chances of misinterpretation. Before the net, I wrote long ten to fifteen page letters to people who lived far away. And they'd occassionally, not always, write back. I wrote more than they did - which was disconcerting.

In some respects I prefer the internet correspondence - it's quicker and people do always write back in some form, or someone does. In some respects it's less lonely than the letters were and the connection feels firmer. Even though I use a pseudonyme, I do write about myself...and fairly openly, as do most people, in a way more openly than they do on Facebook where their real name and image is attached. So oddly we know each other better, even if we don't see each other's faces or real names. And a good percentage of the folks on my mutual flist know my real name and have met me in person and I've met them.

Relationships are weirdly transistory and never stagnant. They change constantly. I'm debating right now - friending this old acquaintance from high school on my Facebook - who has sent me a message begging me to friend her. (It would be a bit like...Willow friending Cordelia...or maybe Harmony, to give you an idea of the weirdness factor.)

On the Angel comics? I haven't been following them either. I bought this one on a whim - because it looked interesting. It's not hard to follow - figured out what was happening off the bat.
But I've also read a few in the store and recaps by folks online, but nothing serious. I only own one of them, the one I bought.
I'm not taking any of the comics that seriously at the moment, I'm enjoying them sort of in the same way I enjoy bubblegum. Chewy. But once it loses it's flavor - out of the mouth and out of mind.;-)