Niki, I’m going to communicate with you on tumblr. I can’t describe how much I love this drawing, and how great it was to see when I came into work today!
I guess you’ve never seen a photo of my boyfriend huh? There he is in the second picture. No longer mysterious! He doesn’t own a sweater-vest, but he’s working on changing that.
I think I will have to try to draw you next…try being the key word there.
DRINK! Not like that, little dove! Drink like you’re gonna get raped!
Yup, she’s a great mentor..
(Source: shadowcats, via besharams)
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maidofmatter:lemuffinmistress:shitsherlockfanssay:
I’d just like to point out that for all the whining Sherlock fans do because Elementary is “degaying” Sherlock they sure didn’t seem to give a shit when Irene Adler, a lesbian character, was made to fall in love with Sherlock. It’s not like shit like that is 90% of representation lesbians get in shows/movies/books, right?
This is one of the things that bothered me about Irene Adler. It’s not even like she was lesbian, but upon getting to know Sherlock realized that she had feelings for him and expanded her concept of her own sexual orientation accordingly.
No, she literally came out as lesbian, then in the very same episode had her feelings for Sherlock revealed, AND NO ONE EVER MENTIONED HER BEING LESBIAN EVER AGAIN.
Lending credence to the idea that lesbians are just straight women who haven’t met the guy who can “turn them straight” yet.
Yup. This bothered me. And I am also bothered by the idea of Elementary gaining “edgy” status for female casting if it was mainly done to remove homoerotic elements. Just because a lot of stuff about Sherlock fucking sucked doesn’t mean Elementary is going to be the best thing ever.
it doesn’t, it’s just that sherlock fans seem to see elementary in opposition to sherlock.
and, at least in the case of the bbc show, moffat seems pretty adamantly against the idea of classifying sherlock and john’s relationship as sexual in any way, shape, or form - which, combined with the egregious disservice done to irene adler’s sexuality - seems to divorce, at least, the bbc series from any of the homoeroticism that might have been in the original series.
also, homoerotic tension/bromancey tension, imo, seems laced with some degree of homophobia. like - oh yeah, we’ll be close, as close as two people can be, but god forbid the two men actually fuck. (not to mention that homoerotic tension is mostly only embraced by fandom when it’s two bland-to-somewhat attractive white guys.)
Yeah, I guess if Sherlock fans are claiming anything Elementary does is wrong on the premise that Sherlock is a perfect televisual gift from God they do deserve to be taken down a notch, because, please. I do also hope people don’t buy into the “Elementary is the opposite of Sherlock” premise going the other way, and be disappointed if it’s also problematic, or just not very good.
I don’t know if it’s really possible to “de-gayify” Sherlock anyway, since it seems pretty obvious that Sherlock in Sherlock is supposed to be “married to his work” or whatever. Until the Irene Adler episode turned all the smart people into horny dumbasses for no apparent reason. But I *do* have a feeling that Elementary will try to steer even further of the homosexual issue, and may even go in a heter-romance direction. If they don’t I will have to give the show props just for that, because it may be the first on-screen platonic male-female friendship in history. I may just be a very cynical person.
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I Heard Someone Crying - The Secret Garden OCT.
How Could I Ever Know from The Secret Garden musical, one of the best musicals of all time. The ghost of Lily (Rebecca Luker) sings to Archibald (Mandy Patinkin).
I would love to see a performance of this caliber live…
I’d just like to point out that for all the whining Sherlock fans do because Elementary is “degaying” Sherlock they sure didn’t seem to give a shit when Irene Adler, a lesbian character, was made to fall in love with Sherlock. It’s not like shit like that is 90% of representation lesbians get in shows/movies/books, right?
This is one of the things that bothered me about Irene Adler. It’s not even like she was lesbian, but upon getting to know Sherlock realized that she had feelings for him and expanded her concept of her own sexual orientation accordingly.
No, she literally came out as lesbian, then in the very same episode had her feelings for Sherlock revealed, AND NO ONE EVER MENTIONED HER BEING LESBIAN EVER AGAIN.
Lending credence to the idea that lesbians are just straight women who haven’t met the guy who can “turn them straight” yet.
Yup. This bothered me. And I am also bothered by the idea of Elementary gaining “edgy” status for female casting if it was mainly done to remove homoerotic elements. Just because a lot of stuff about Sherlock fucking sucked doesn’t mean Elementary is going to be the best thing ever.
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Discovernator fact of the day — Game of Thrones has nothing on Peter the Great.
Enjoy the bundle of crazy, amazing facts, here, people.
Use them on your friends at the cookout this weekend.
More facts here
I think George R. R. could probably rise to this challenge.
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Ooh I hadn’t heard this Jezabels song before. They are so good all the time. This one is called The Man is Dead from She’s So Hard.
An article on cinema’s most infamous Manic Pixie Dream Girl:
Nathan Rabin coined the phrase “Manic Pixie Dream Girl” to describe that bubbly, shallow cinematic creature that “exists solely in the fevered imaginations of sensitive writer-directors to teach broodingly soulful young men to embrace life and its infinite mysteries and adventures.”
http://www.avclub.com/articles/wild-things-16-films-featuring-manic-pixie-dream-g,2407/
Something to avoid, or simply keep in check?
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Thanks for the submission! I feel like this could warrant a really interesting discussion.
What are your thoughts on this, followers?
- Pen
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