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It's Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.

Good news. Dogboy & Justine was one of the top vote-getters in Act Five: One Acts and so will be performed along with the other top plays from Jan 20 - Jan 23 at 8pm (and with an additional 3:30pm show on Jan 23). I get to see it. You can do, by visiting The Queens' Players.

So I'm working on this Jack/Alonso fic and ( Read more... )

I have no idea why I felt the need to put that behind a cut tag, but there you go. I'm having issues. Talk to me.

Torchwood fandom and fandomsecrets actually being awesome for a change. via eumelia.

Merlin 2.09 sucked. First of all, his love for this girl comes out of where? And then she's a cat-bat-weredragon THING? I might have LOVED this if it had been a b-story arc over like four episodes. As it was, I did not care. At all. And it was just further proof to me that about the only thing Merlin has going for it as a show is the chemistry between the actors which often serves to make the scripts make even less sense than they already do.

On the other hand, I enjoyed Merlin 2.10 rather a lot. I felt for Gwen, Arthur was hilarious, Merlin was oddly inscrutable (again with actor chemistry muddying the scripts) and hey it's Georgia Moffett! DESTINY AND CHICKEN.

Then, Patty and I watched the first two episodes of Buffy. I never watched Buffy beyond an odd episode for background noise here or there. I dig it, although I find the high school setting hard to take (I tense up every time Cordelia comes on screen, it's awful) and, as Patty notes "awful '90s fashions." Somehow, I also managed to be all "Giles/Willow 4evah" in like five seconds; this can't end well.

Once we're done with Merlin it's time to finally check out Being Human which I admit is probably all about my "OMG Russell Tovey, please be on TW, S4" thing. Just to circle back to the beginning of this post and all that.

I think I've sort of gotten over this thing about my hair for Gally. My hair is lighter than I think (I just usually put product in it when it's wet to keep it looking darker) especially with how grey I feel it got on the cruise. So yeah. I'll probably manage not to do something terrible to it for LA. You all were incredibly good and funny sports about that poll though.

Last night, Patty and I ordered Chocri.

Tonight we're going to Macy's with the gift card from my bank to get one of those featherbed mattress topper things that are so awesome.

Briefly on the whole women/slash/real gay people/fetishization/etc. thing: I realize that to me the issue isn't about who is writing what how AT ALL. It's about what people think said writing means, and I am someone who thinks writing can be profoundly meaningful. However, being a slasher is not gay activism by default (just like being gay doesn't make you a hero by default -- we've discussed this before, fandom), and if you say that, I will holler. I will similarly holler -- and very, very loudly -- if you think it's appropriate as a non-queer person to "explain" the practical realities of homophobia to a queer person. And that's not about queer cred, that's about common sense. I don't care how well you can imagine my shoes; I'm still the person wearing them.

Wyclef Jean responds to allegations about his charity, Yele.

The Plaza as New York's Gilded Age continues to fade.