‘Are you flirting with me?’-‘Must be the thought of possible extinction brings out the worst in me.'
Meme!
'The problem with livejournal:
We all think that we are so close, but really, we know nothing about each other.
So I want you to ask me something you think you should know about me.
Something that should be obvious, but you have no idea about.
Ask away. Then post this in your LJ and find out what people don't know about you!'
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Funniest thing I've heard all week. Katherine locates me at my usual spot in the library, on the computer replying to lj comments, she settles down next to me and the first words out of her mouth? Not the customary greeting expected in polite society but:
"Why are you looking at LESBIAN PORN?!"
*everyone in the room stares*
"Um..."
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*gigglesnorts* It makes my brain explode but I am quite fond of this picture now, since it indirectly led to luxuria_oceanus and me becoming friends to overwhelm odakota_rose with our combined crazy. I don't know what that says about us. *facepalm*
ETA: For those of you who don't know- and it just occurred to me that not everyone's life revolves around TLW- these ladies are the lead actresses from The Lost World.
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Speaking of lesbians I have a Xena picspam! It began life as a 'hey, the new McCoy looks naggingly familiar' and, as a true child of the Technology Age, I imdb'd him, which led to:
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Holy crap, Karl Urban is CAESAR from XENA!
This is overwhelmingly crack, okay? Don't hurt me...
AND LO, HE WAS CAESAR. GOD'S GIFT TO WOMANKIND.
BUT THE GABSTER WOULD NOT SUCCUMB TO HIS OVERWHELMING MANLINESS.
[What with his little cheerleader skirt and all]
Caesar: YOU'LL SLEEP WITH ME AND SAY PLEASE BEFORE AND THANK YOU AFTER.
Gabrielle: I don't think so, I mean, Xena would strongly object- oh, crap, Xena doesn't know me! Really! She doesn't care about me AT ALL.
Caesar: XENA! SHE WILL PAY FOR THIS AFFRONT TO MY MANHOOD. NOBODY REJECTS ME AND GETS AWAY WITH IT.
Hell hath no fury like a man rejected. For another woman. *winces*
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Caesar: MY CUNNING PLAN IS CUNNING. WE WILL LURE THE WARRIOR PRINCESS INTO A TRAP. MWAHAHAA.
Underling: I am in awe of your formidable intelligence and plan-making skills, master.
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Caesar: WITNESS MY MIGHT. FEAR MY SPEAR-THROWING SKILLS. HYA!
[sorry about the crappy caps- this is the best I could manage]
Xena is not impressed.
'tis a truth universally acknowledged that the chakram is mightier than the spear.
I didn't cap it [FAIL] but she sliced the spear into bitty bits. See that gigantic smirk on her face? WHO'S YO DADDY NOW?
CAESAR IS PWNED. MAJORLY PWNED.
CAESAR: Is this a splinter which I see before me? The splinter embedded in my hand? Come, let me gaze astoundedly at thee...
Caesar: Art thou but a splinter of the mind, a false creation, proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain? I see thee yet, in form as palpable as this which now I draw.
Caesar: *sniffles* I'm not going to cry...I'm NOT going to cry...mommy?
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Xena: Ahaha! This is the best fun I've had since Gabrielle and I soaped each other's naked bodies. Now, how can I make him feel even worse? *rubs hands with glee* Oh, this is worth all the anger management and anti-harassment seminars I'm gonna have to attend...
Caesar: WHAT BE THIS FUCKERY? THIS NEW, HITHERTOFORE UNANTICIPATED AND THEREFORE EXTREMELY PAINFUL HUMILIATION?
Yeah. That'll learn ya not to celebrate your victories before you've won them.
Xena: Nyah-nana-naaanaaa.
And she rips his flag. *gaspshockhorr*
[Check out her epic 'screw you' face. Heh]
Caesar: NOOO! All those hours of arts-and-crafts! My careful selection and matching of fabrics and colors! GONE TO WASTE!
Xena: YOU GONNA CRY NOW? GO, CRY IN A CORNER, EMO KID.
What a bully, lmao. This is a schoolyard confronation on an epic scale! Wish I'd had Xena in my corner back at school. *sighs*
Caesar: *rips out the splinter* I'll show her. I'll show them all. THIS IS NOT OVER. *seethes*
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Okay, I don't want to offend anyone, my sincere apologies if I inadvertently hurt your feelings but I have to ask...is it really that bad that Merlin depicts Guinevere of the Arthurian legends as a black maidservant?
I know that the problem is that it could be seen as insensitive considering the whole slavery issue and this is the kind of thing causes hurt and anguish and remains in people's memories for a long time but...seriously? We're saying that this wonderful actress, Angel Coulby, should've lost her part to a white woman in the interests of NOT DISCRIMINATING AGAINST BLACKS? Is that how it works? It doesn't make any sense. I'd be pretty pissed if I was told I couldn't get a job because of my skin color; getting rid of her for a white maid serving a white royal woman, just to be politically correct...isn't that also prejudice?
And come on, be real. White people aren't the only ones that take on 'service oriented' jobs. I think the problem is not so much that we have a black woman in a menial position here, but that we don't have enough black women shown in prestigious positions on tv. Apart from, say, Uhura and Martha and...that irritating woman on Life who replaced Reese for a while...yeah, I'm struggling. But the solution isn't to place restrictions on what parts a black woman can play- FFS, Angel's just trying to make a living, she doesn't need people trying to get her fired for her own good [because that's what they're saying, in effect, that she shouldn't be paid to play a maid].
Maybe I'm naive but- ignoring potential racial undertones, which I didn't even think of til reading a few negative articles- I loved the idea of Gwen in this show. Compared to the usual white tramp that toys with the affections of two men [yeah, okay, I'm exaggerating], this Gwen is sweet, lovable and caring, and she isn't treated like a worthless servant. She's Morgana's friend, and all three of the others risk their lives for her. She serves as a moral compass for them, she offers them counsel and guides their actions when they're about to go off the straight and narrow...that's wonderful, goddamnit. Her being black wasn't even a factor when I looked at her character. Isn't that what we're aiming for? A 'color-blind' society?
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Vidspam:
The Roswell opening credits.
To Dido's 'Here With Me'. The credits are so well put together, I love them! 'tis so flail-worthy and I don't even really ship Max and Liz, but they're sooo cuuute!
'The problem with livejournal:
We all think that we are so close, but really, we know nothing about each other.
So I want you to ask me something you think you should know about me.
Something that should be obvious, but you have no idea about.
Ask away. Then post this in your LJ and find out what people don't know about you!'
---
Funniest thing I've heard all week. Katherine locates me at my usual spot in the library, on the computer replying to lj comments, she settles down next to me and the first words out of her mouth? Not the customary greeting expected in polite society but:
"Why are you looking at LESBIAN PORN?!"
*everyone in the room stares*
"Um..."
-
-
*gigglesnorts* It makes my brain explode but I am quite fond of this picture now, since it indirectly led to luxuria_oceanus and me becoming friends to overwhelm odakota_rose with our combined crazy. I don't know what that says about us. *facepalm*
ETA: For those of you who don't know- and it just occurred to me that not everyone's life revolves around TLW- these ladies are the lead actresses from The Lost World.
---
Speaking of lesbians I have a Xena picspam! It began life as a 'hey, the new McCoy looks naggingly familiar' and, as a true child of the Technology Age, I imdb'd him, which led to:
-
Holy crap, Karl Urban is CAESAR from XENA!
This is overwhelmingly crack, okay? Don't hurt me...
AND LO, HE WAS CAESAR. GOD'S GIFT TO WOMANKIND.
BUT THE GABSTER WOULD NOT SUCCUMB TO HIS OVERWHELMING MANLINESS.
[What with his little cheerleader skirt and all]
Caesar: YOU'LL SLEEP WITH ME AND SAY PLEASE BEFORE AND THANK YOU AFTER.
Gabrielle: I don't think so, I mean, Xena would strongly object- oh, crap, Xena doesn't know me! Really! She doesn't care about me AT ALL.
Caesar: XENA! SHE WILL PAY FOR THIS AFFRONT TO MY MANHOOD. NOBODY REJECTS ME AND GETS AWAY WITH IT.
Hell hath no fury like a man rejected. For another woman. *winces*
-
Caesar: MY CUNNING PLAN IS CUNNING. WE WILL LURE THE WARRIOR PRINCESS INTO A TRAP. MWAHAHAA.
Underling: I am in awe of your formidable intelligence and plan-making skills, master.
-
Caesar: WITNESS MY MIGHT. FEAR MY SPEAR-THROWING SKILLS. HYA!
[sorry about the crappy caps- this is the best I could manage]
Xena is not impressed.
'tis a truth universally acknowledged that the chakram is mightier than the spear.
I didn't cap it [FAIL] but she sliced the spear into bitty bits. See that gigantic smirk on her face? WHO'S YO DADDY NOW?
CAESAR IS PWNED. MAJORLY PWNED.
CAESAR: Is this a splinter which I see before me? The splinter embedded in my hand? Come, let me gaze astoundedly at thee...
Caesar: Art thou but a splinter of the mind, a false creation, proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain? I see thee yet, in form as palpable as this which now I draw.
Caesar: *sniffles* I'm not going to cry...I'm NOT going to cry...mommy?
-
Xena: Ahaha! This is the best fun I've had since Gabrielle and I soaped each other's naked bodies. Now, how can I make him feel even worse? *rubs hands with glee* Oh, this is worth all the anger management and anti-harassment seminars I'm gonna have to attend...
Caesar: WHAT BE THIS FUCKERY? THIS NEW, HITHERTOFORE UNANTICIPATED AND THEREFORE EXTREMELY PAINFUL HUMILIATION?
Yeah. That'll learn ya not to celebrate your victories before you've won them.
Xena: Nyah-nana-naaanaaa.
And she rips his flag. *gaspshockhorr*
[Check out her epic 'screw you' face. Heh]
Caesar: NOOO! All those hours of arts-and-crafts! My careful selection and matching of fabrics and colors! GONE TO WASTE!
Xena: YOU GONNA CRY NOW? GO, CRY IN A CORNER, EMO KID.
What a bully, lmao. This is a schoolyard confronation on an epic scale! Wish I'd had Xena in my corner back at school. *sighs*
Caesar: *rips out the splinter* I'll show her. I'll show them all. THIS IS NOT OVER. *seethes*
-
---
Okay, I don't want to offend anyone, my sincere apologies if I inadvertently hurt your feelings but I have to ask...is it really that bad that Merlin depicts Guinevere of the Arthurian legends as a black maidservant?
I know that the problem is that it could be seen as insensitive considering the whole slavery issue and this is the kind of thing causes hurt and anguish and remains in people's memories for a long time but...seriously? We're saying that this wonderful actress, Angel Coulby, should've lost her part to a white woman in the interests of NOT DISCRIMINATING AGAINST BLACKS? Is that how it works? It doesn't make any sense. I'd be pretty pissed if I was told I couldn't get a job because of my skin color; getting rid of her for a white maid serving a white royal woman, just to be politically correct...isn't that also prejudice?
And come on, be real. White people aren't the only ones that take on 'service oriented' jobs. I think the problem is not so much that we have a black woman in a menial position here, but that we don't have enough black women shown in prestigious positions on tv. Apart from, say, Uhura and Martha and...that irritating woman on Life who replaced Reese for a while...yeah, I'm struggling. But the solution isn't to place restrictions on what parts a black woman can play- FFS, Angel's just trying to make a living, she doesn't need people trying to get her fired for her own good [because that's what they're saying, in effect, that she shouldn't be paid to play a maid].
Maybe I'm naive but- ignoring potential racial undertones, which I didn't even think of til reading a few negative articles- I loved the idea of Gwen in this show. Compared to the usual white tramp that toys with the affections of two men [yeah, okay, I'm exaggerating], this Gwen is sweet, lovable and caring, and she isn't treated like a worthless servant. She's Morgana's friend, and all three of the others risk their lives for her. She serves as a moral compass for them, she offers them counsel and guides their actions when they're about to go off the straight and narrow...that's wonderful, goddamnit. Her being black wasn't even a factor when I looked at her character. Isn't that what we're aiming for? A 'color-blind' society?
---
Vidspam:
The Roswell opening credits.
Click to viewTo Dido's 'Here With Me'. The credits are so well put together, I love them! 'tis so flail-worthy and I don't even really ship Max and Liz, but they're sooo cuuute!