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[10 May 2012|10:07am] |
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OBAMA SUPPORTS SAME-SEX MARRIAGE!!!!!!!!! 
WE NEED A GIF PARTY! ALL MY GIFS ARE INAPPROPRIATE FOR THIS MOMENT. WHO HAS THE GIFS?
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[08 May 2012|07:36pm] |
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I feel like gathering you all around and shouting, Jenna Maroney-style, ACTOR EMERGENCY!
Except swap "actor" for "fangirl" and you get the picture. I need help, you guysss. The only two shows I watch with my girlfriend, Castle & Glee, are reaching their season finales. We need something to fill the hole in our hearts where they reside. The only other show we watch together is NZ's "The Zoo", which is less a TV show and more twenty minutes of having cute animals thrown at your face.
So I'm here to take your recommendations. But there are a couple of requirements. Firstly, I already watch the usual suspects (Community, 30 Rock, Game of Thrones, Fringe etc), but my Lady has no interest in them. Secondly, nothing depressing, this needs to be our escape-from-reality lulzy forty minutes of pure joy and cheeseballs. All genres welcome.
So, hit me with your best suggestions. Please and thank you.
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| Is this thing on? |
[07 Mar 2012|12:39pm] |
Show of hands. Who's still out there, reading/writing/using LJ?
I've been itching to start writing again (or, I guess, blogging) but was sort of leaning away from LJ for a while. My journal is nearly 8 years old, and to be honest often just feels like a big, cumbersome dinosaur. I've been tempted to start a shiny new wordpress blog for my pop cultural ramblings, but every time I open the damn thing, I just can't seem to put words to keyboard. A new blog, with no followers and no niche within fandom, just feels too impersonal. Thus, this indecision (coupled with a distraction of the lady variety), brought my blogging to a complete stop. Not a post in over a year. I've been promising myself I'd get at least one thing up on wordpress, but I just can't seem to break that virginal barrier. But I've had an epiphany of sorts.
It's actually thanks to ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=91.7) violettavalery (Hi Alice!). On Twitter the other day, she commented that LJ remains the only place she can really be herself. And it hit me. That's so damn true. I don't even *think* when I'm writing here, the words just flow out of my hands. I'm not stressing about who might be reading it, or whether I'm making a good impression. I'm simply writing things that I'd like to write. I've also got people on here that share such common interests, why would I abandon that? I know there's only a few of us left, but two people (who are already familiar with my ramblings) reading this journal are better than the zero I'd have on wordpress.
Thus, Imma have another run at it. I miss capslocking about Kalinda, or Stana Katic's hair. I want back in.
So, I ask again. Who's still around? Put your paws up, as Mama Monster would say.
Jessie.
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| Lost Girl |
[22 Sep 2010|12:01am] |
Hey ladiesss, there's a new femslash couple in town and nobody told us! How come it seems all the sweeps week fauxmosexual storylines get trumpeted in the headlines, but then when something real and sustained comes along, it gets no coverage! It's like how we only knew something was up with Kalinda because she tripped our collective gaydars.
Bo (a succubus, feeds off people's seksual energy) and Lauren (human lady doctor, brimming with seksual energy), the gals in question, are one side of a love triangle featured in ShowCase Canada's new fantasy series, Lost Girl. Two episodes have aired so far, and I haven't had time to watch 'em properly, but did I skip through to the femslashy parts? You bet I did. Picspammed for your discerning tastes, under the cut. Just don't expect me to know what in the hell is going on ;)
( And the best part? It's all canon, baby! )
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| The Good Wife 1x17 |
[07 Sep 2010|06:43pm] |
Hai guys, hai! It's been a while. You might remember me from such recaps as these.
Well, I'm still slowly getting through them. I don't want to skip any episodes, because then we'd miss so many delicious moments of boots and ass-kickery.
Before reading, let's recap the, erm, recaps:
1. I watched for Alicia, but stayed for Kalinda.
2. I don't ship Alicia/Peter or Alicia/Will. I wish the show would give her more options.
3. I do believe that Kalinda has a massive crush on Alicia
4. I don't believe that the show will have Alicia and Kalinda skipping off into the sunset together, but:
5. I do believe that Kalinda's weakness for Alicia is, and will become even more so, an important plot point.
( ONWARD! )
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| Rizzoli & Isles |
[04 Aug 2010|01:41pm] |
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Rizzoli & Isles is turning out to be the gayest straight show we've seen in years. Both lysachan and jetgirl78 have provided excellent picspam proof of this, and there is much ongoing discussion as to what makes it So Very Gay.
The consensus seems to be these two simple reasons:
1. Angie Harmon/the powers that be are playing Rizzoli like she is a “skinny greaseball dyke detective”. She’s so gay it hurts. Softball, field hockey, not needing a man in her life, belt buckle, gay lean, dyketastic outfits and THAT VOICE... The list goes on and on.
2. Despite no outwardly cliche gay tendencies, Sasha Alexander is bringing the gay in her own special way. Her Maura Isles is a scientific genius, but socially awkward and obviously sees Rizzoli as someone with genuine people-skills. She aspires to this; looking up to her friend. Hilariously, on screen, this fascination with Rizzoli plays out like infatuation, all longing looks and secret smiles. In short, ho to the yay.
Or as jetgirl78 aptly put it, it’s gay no matter how you slice that gay cake.
Let’s just hope TPTB never realise the femslash behemoth they have created.
*rainbows*
This show is also deeply responsible for my (and every other red-blooded lady lover, I’m sure) rekindled ob-sesh-yone with Angie Harmon, and one Sasha Alexander. It took me so long to get over Sasha after Kate Todd’s death in NCIS. But it’s weird; she’s so very not "Kate" here. I had no idea she had this cute quirkiness in her!
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| Stand and Deliver |
[31 Jul 2010|11:37pm] |
So, my ambition to get episode 1x17 of The Good Wife recapped by the end of last week was totally derailed by my falling back in love with Ashes to Ashes. I finished the series this morning, and now have a lot of feelings. Spoilers, obvsly.
( I'm happy, hope you're happy too... )
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| Maddow |
[07 Jul 2010|03:52pm] |
Go check out Rachel Maddow's Afghanistan trip photos! Maddow in combat gear. Do you need another reason?
Maddow's Flickr
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| Distraction |
[14 May 2010|10:58am] |
Only The Good Wife could have an episode where Kalinda macks on a man and yet comes across as even MOAR gay.
I'm knee-deep in assignment hell right now, so I've only flicked through the ep to Kalinda's scenes. Can't wait to watch the whole thing!
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| Poster child |
[08 May 2010|01:05am] |
I've been sitting here for about an hour trying to type a post that could even BEGIN to do Chely Wright and her amazing Coming Out process justice. But I just can't articulate how compelling it is to see this well-spoken, intelligent, completely charming star give these raw accounts of her struggle with sexuality. Not to do other "outings" a disservice, but Chely isn't a flamingly obvious or butchy mcfabulous gay. There will be no eye-rolling "Well duh!" from across America. Aside from the belt buckle + tank top combos (which let's face it, are only ever going to ping for us gay girls anyway), Chely does not fit the world's view of Lesbian. Which is awesome in so many ways. Add to this the fact that she knew she was gay before she hit puberty, and it's a pretty powerful message reaching into the homes of millions who probably have no concept of what it means to be gay. She's also impossible to dismiss, because she's such a rational, articulate woman who absolutely looks, walks and talks like the polite southern belle she is. She's also being incredibly clear and strong on the fact she is very much a lesbian. This is no popstar kissing girls moment. I am so completely spellbound by her story; from her contemplation of suicide to her incredibly candid admission that she's been on both sides of the homophobic fence. Then there's the heartbreaking truth that she lost her only love so that she could keep her career, only to realise her mistake(Dear Lord someone please find this ex-girlfriend and REUNITE THEM ASAP. My heart can't take it).
I really agree with Heather Hogan over at AE in her assessment of the importance of Chely's coming out compared with other coming outs, in that so often recently outed celebs completely shut down and almost refuse to discuss being gay. Chely is being so open and in such a liberated, unthreatening manner that I think her message will reach a lot further than most. Hard to believe we were disappointed to discover she was the celeb coming out on May 5th, eh?
If you read one interview with Chely Wright, make it this one over at The Huffington Post. You'd have to be a pretty hard bastard to read that and not be moved. Have you ever wanted to hug someone so badly in all of your life??
Chely Wright, I am SO glad to have you in the family ♥
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| Let's talk about The Good Wife |
[06 May 2010|12:33am] |
I’ve been holding off making this post, because I didn’t want to admit it out loud, but I've been slowly falling out of love with this show. My recaps were originally written out of an excitement for something we don’t often get on television (namely, an all-female crime-fighting duo), but that’s starting to fade and it’s killing my inspiration. What this show was originally about has quietly shifted over the past season, and I am far less enthusiastic about this new direction. Which is really saying something, when you’ve got Kalinda being this gay:
( This is not the end of my recaps, just a much-needed rant... )
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| This unrequited thing |
[15 Apr 2010|03:01pm] |
In the middle of watching 1x18, just had to pause and share this with you:
O hai thar, ladies. Nice personal space you're not respecting. I'm sure co-workers look at each other like that all the time...
Also, if y'all haven't joined darsfebruary's Kalinda community, ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif?v=91.7) theinhouse, you really must. Kalinda's boots command you.
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| Fuck Yeah, Ellie Linton! |
[13 Apr 2010|12:12am] |
OMGGG You guys the trailer for Tomorrow, When the War Began is online!!! Apparently it's showing in front of Date Night in Australia. Like I needed another reason to see that film.
I'm having trouble embedding, but you can watch it here.
It looks so awesome, I'll even forgive the fact that half the cast are Neighbours/Home & Away alum.
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| It's Joanie! |
[12 Apr 2010|01:16pm] |
Have just been informed via thrace_'s twitter that Kim Dickens is in a new show called Treme. A little googling later, stumbled upon this and pretty much forgot what else I was doing
O HAI THAR
Between this and Caprica, I'm slowly getting my Deadwood ladies back on TV, yay!
Also Anna Torv and Mark Valley have apparently split up, and I don't know how to feel about it. Except, y'know, poor single Anna.
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| Bones 5x16 |
[09 Apr 2010|07:10pm] |
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Oh my gods, I haven't watched Bones in years, but then the internet kind of exploded in the wake of the latest episode, so I watched it and NOW I HAVE MANY FEELINGS.
( The Parts in the Sum of the Whole )
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| The Good Wife 1x16 |
[08 Apr 2010|05:04pm] |
This is the first recap I'm writing from my new apartment, and my housemate's cat won't leave me alone. Writing, drinking tea, and being covered in cat. My inevitable future as a crazy old cat lady is flashing before my eyes.
( You're not gonna reach my telephone... )
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| The Broad Way |
[25 Mar 2010|07:15pm] |
Ain't she something? ♥
I feel like I haven't posted about Little Wow in ages. She's got a musical opening this week! You lucky biatches in New York can see Kristin and Sean Hayes at the Broadway Theatre in Promises, Promises. If I could stow-away on some flight across the Pacific, I'd be there. Although if Lost has taught me anything, it's that a plane travelling from Australia to America that crashes on a remote island will result in only one Australian survivor. And I don't like those odds.
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| Gay Panic |
[13 Mar 2010|12:12pm] |
You don't know how much I love this graphic. Every single time, it makes me lol. Genius.
Have you all heard about the Mississippi High School that cancelled their prom rather than let a student bring her girlfriend? Well, in response, Autostraddle has set up a gallery of girls-who-took-girls-to-prom, and invites all submissions. GO LOOK AT IT. Forget lolcats, this is my new happy place.
I loved Roger Ebert's response to the whole prom drama:
He links to the facebook site set up by ACLU, if you want to show your support!
Also, to all the lovely Good Wife fans out there, I am indeed a week behind on recaps. Last week's recap is now up though, so come and discuss! I'm sure we all have a lot of feelings ;)
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