You guys! YOU GUYS! Thank you so much for all the congrats over the McNair program! I honestly got a little teary-eyed reading the comments, and I made that face beauty queens make when they're being crowned where they're about to cry but don't want to mess up their mascara, and their waving their hand at their face as if that will make them stop ( Read more... )

Today, I made this post on Tumblr in response to a confession on the Buffy Confessions blog. I often do this to confessions I have feelings about. This one started with the snarky response, "Isn't it nice how people disregard season 7 in order to self-righteously get their Spike/Spuffy hate on?" but I expanded it. That post on Tumblr came from the ( Read more... )

So I'm annoyed at much Buffy scholarship right now. I just read the Buffy chapter in Susan Douglas' "Enlightened Sexism," and all it focused on were the high school years. The barest mention of seasons past 3 is a quip about Buffy "taking up" with "the Billy Idol look-alike vampire Spike," but it's literally a parenthetical aside. I'm completely ( Read more... )

I was reading this excellent article about how something as well-done as Friday Night Lights could be so completely trounced in the ratings by the thematically, if not presentationally, similar Glee. The gist of the author's point is that Glee feeds into our narcissism and need to be the winner, the center of the spotlight, while the more subdued ( Read more... )

How amazing was Community Thursday night? So amazing, I already have over a dozen GIFs downloaded from it. It's the type of episode that makes critics applaud. It was purported to be a sequel to Modern Warfare, but it surpasses that episode with the dedication and seriousness it took in it's parody of the western.

( GIF and spoiler heavy recap OF AWESOME )

I'm working on my 30 Days of Awesome Ladies meme (I'm determined to have it two-thirds done before I begin posting because I am determined not to drop out half way through. If I have it all done before hand, I don't have to stress over it!), and I need a good Buffy quote. What's something Buffy says that gets you in the gut every time you hear it? ( Read more... )

I saw an icon today that was clearly the cover to a paperback romance novel manipped to have it be Buffy and Angel, and it made me think. I had a huge paperback romance phase from about age 16 to age 22 (ironically when I delved into fandom and found romance novels written by fans about my favorite characters to be much more fulfilling), but seeing ( Read more... )

So, here's the first post on my re-watch of The X-Files, with the first two episodes. I really don't have my critical eye fully trained, so this may sound more like rambling. Apparently my rambling amuses people, though, so maybe you'll forgive me?

( They didn't have the theme song in the pilot. I need to hum the theme song! It's a ritual! )

Something has been bothering me for a while.

And it's not about certain fanboys who use twitter as their own direct line to tattle to the comics writers about how awful those evil, maniacal Spuffies are being. It's also not about that certain fanboy's website, where the bloggers there don't realize that their exclusive interviews serve the fandom at ( Read more... )

Every now and again, we hear of a good death.

I don't mean in the sense that it's good someone died, but in the sense that a death brings us to the realization that there is beauty in this life even as we watch someone slip closer and closer to the other side.

This is something I've seen in the recent passing of nikilicious05 .

Fandom always seemed a bit cold ( Read more... )