Dear friends ( Read more... )

Oh, hey. I have an LJ. Maybe I should post to it sometimes ( Read more... )

Like a head of cabbage that has been left out on the kitchen counter for a few hours too long, I am wilted and slightly smelly from the heat. Blah, New York summer weather. Blah, lack of aircon in the flat ( Read more... )

Yesterday I moved into a new flat. Well, technically, I suppose that it's a house. But it's a very small house. Houselet? I don't know. It's wee. I'm still giddy with fatigue from all of the moving in (and also the heat). At any rate, this is where I'll be living through next May. And after that--well. Hullo (again), world ( Read more... )

Significantly less upbeat than 'Temperance' or 'Spine', but no less amazing:

( Trigger warning: discussion of rape. )

I just found out about Marty McConnell about half an hour ago, and I think that I'm already a little bit in love.

( Cut for Youtube embeds (language not work-safe). )

So I've been really busy and stressed out this summer, and I'm going to continue to be busy and stressed-out for a good long while. I've been lurking and reading (and commenting) every so often, but I've generally kept radio silence for time's sake. But I'm popping back up for a hot minute, because I found this a few days ago and I feel that it ( Read more... )

Okay. Okay, okay, okay. Even if you've never seen Fastlane*, which lasted for only one series in the early 2000s, if you have any affection at all for Tiffani Thiessen (or even if you don't know who she is, but you like gorgeous women), YOU MUST WATCH THIS.

'3', Fastlane (Billie/Deaq/Van), by talitha78.

Because OH MY GOD TIFFANI THIESSEN. My god. How so ( Read more... )

So one of my favourite elements of White Collar--and also one of the elements that make it meaningful to me--is its implicit championing of knowledge of art and art history (as well as history-history and literature). I intend to write about that further and at length. Now, though, I would just like to note this ( Read more... )

TV advert to tackle rape 'myths' (BBC Scotland).

( Trigger warning for discussion of rape and rape statistics in news clip and article. )