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coatkneedee needs about $200 to prevent legal action from being taken against her for an old tuition bill. $$, advice for dealing with collections agencies, job leads in the region, etc. all of potential use. (Go, Team Internet! the immediate part of the $$ crisis is solved).

The Yes Men are responsible for hoax about proposed (fake) bill requiring gay Utah citizens to accept "treatment" or leave the state. Who's more pissed now? Gay folks or Utah? via ravenskye8.

On the on sex and the off-label use of our bodies. via _fx. Note: this post is on the Blowfish blog. There's no NSFW images on the page, but it is part of the Blowfish sex-toy shop website.

Same-sex marriages start in DC today.

sparkindarkness has a roundup of anti-LGBTQ evil.

The more literate a country is, the more likely it is for its citizens to prefer boy babies over girls. via reannon.

Frozen Dead Guy Days 2010.

Okay, I've been a little grumpy about this Tron remake thing. I mean, I _love_ Tron, but it also seemed to be the movie on the TV every single time I wound up in the ER in college (from my own medical mishaps to friends getting gay bashed). But then popfiend linked to the trailer for the new thingy. Um, yeah, I'm on board. Also can I just pause to say that there were some things about the '80s that were fucking great? I loved how much time we spent obsessing on how sexy the future was going to be solely because we really fucking hated Reagan and hey, let's play Space Invaders.

Last night we finished season 3 or Buffy, and started season 4.

I really don't know why the Buffy/Angel plotline annoys me SO MUCH. It's well done. It hits all the right notes. It's the kind of emotional suffering I tend to care about. But somehow I don't get why either of them like each other. And I feel like a hypocrite about that considering I'm all over the Jack/Ianto relationship which has a lot of the same problems (they get together WHY? the age difference is WHAT?). Maybe it's just that David Boreanaz's acting is nothing to write home about. Don't know.

LOVED the moment when all the kids stand up to fight. That's some fantastic shit. Was, believe it or not, sort of sad to see the principal get eaten. Don't love the psychic coma Buffy/Faith crap (yes, I'm complaining about a lack of realism in a show with demon ascensions, shut up).

What the hell was that whole Wesley/Cordelia thing? Like, worst kiss ever because they apparently have negative chemistry in actual practice or because Wesley has no experience at all or what? Sadly, I still sort of like them together in a where's the Cordelia/Wesley pegging fic, thanks way.

And Giles! He gets around, now doesn't he?

Also, Sunnydale U. is so conspicuously the high school set redressed it's hilarious. (Except apparently I'm wrong and just think everything in California looks alike).

Comments

[rm.livejournal.com]

We've been given a list of the "right" order much like the list I always give people for Doctor Who and Torchwood and will be following that.

[jbsegal.livejournal.com]

Can you post a pointer to this list?

[rm.livejournal.com]

The Buffy list or my Whoniverse list?

[jbsegal.livejournal.com]

Come to think of it, both. :)
(I'd been thinking of the Buffyverse one, but a ordering for the new Whoniverse would be interesting, too. Are The Sarah Jane Adventures in there, too?)

In books, I'm very much in the 'order of composition above all else' camp (The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe will always be book 1...) but I'm more flexible when it comes to TV.

[laughingirl.livejournal.com]

Ooh.. do you have a link for your DW/TW list? I recently added them both to my Netflix queue but am a little confused as to 'how' to watch them. Thanks!!

[laughingirl.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much!

[moljn.livejournal.com]

?

TW S1 comes after DW S2, not before, both in-universe and by airdates.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Oh, ugh, you're right, I spaced that. I've got to just make a macro for this so I don't do dumb shit when I'm tired.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Someone caught my epic blunder. Ignore previous and follow below:

DW, Series 1, 2 (make sure you catch the Christmas specials as they aren't always packaged with the series)
Torchwood Series 1
DW, Series 3
Torchwood Series 2
DW, Series 4 + specials through Planet of the Dead
Torchwood, Children of Earth
DW, Waters of Mars
DW, End of Time pt.s 1 & 2

is the linear/thematic timeline.

HOWEVER, there is a reveal that comes at the end of DW, Series 3 that creates a different timelime if you want to watch Jack's story in chronological order, which involves going back into series 1, 2 and 3 and watching certain episodes AFTER DW, EoT.

[laughingirl.livejournal.com]

Cool.. thanks!!

[soundingsea.livejournal.com]

K, the list I dug up before was only for Buffy 4/Angel 1. This one looks solid (and unspoilery) for the rest of the series...

http://buffyfest.blogspot.com/2009/04/buffyangel-episode-watching-guide.html