Tsunami of Polls: We moved back into the restored apartment....

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......and my first "official" act in fandom was to:

[Poll #1965322][Poll #1965322]

And the correct answer is....


#5! Yup, a massive, massive fail on my part.  Actually, all of the choices represent a massive fail on my part, except for the last choice for which I DO NOT APOLOGIZE.
(She was mentioning how a character in her new novel has an opportunity to mindwipe the memories of another and doesn't because he respects her too much and it's not what she would want. Also, she just began watching btvs S1 at my urging and is NOT impressed with Angel or Xander. At all.) I actually spent hours making icons for slayerstillness challenge #22 "A Room Full of Emptiness" (Negative Space)" ("Ooh, I can do this one!"); hours dithering over which to chose before deciding to actually ask my beta wickedbish for help; and then failed to send him the link to the Photobucket folder so he could actually see the icons. By the time I figured out my mistake, it was too late to enter the challenge. (And I'm a little pissed at myself, because I think I made some good icons and really enjoyed getting back into the creative flow for the first time in weeks.)

But at least I manage to vote as the deadline isn't until tomorrow (midnight your time) hence still time to vote and pimp it - so there's a penance, at least.

And entries are being accepted for the latest challenge #23 (deadline Friday) so there's lots o' time left to enter. Yup, lots o' time....

The only fail more massive is #4 - I have NOT gotten around to congratulating all the winners of the Willowy Goodness Awards, including velvetwhip, snogged, foxstarreh, clockwork_hart1, tiny_white_hats, and snowpuppies amoung others. Congratulations to all the winners (by which I include "Runners Up" aka the silver and bronze medalists). I actually did vote in that one too and cheese on a cracker did you folks make it painfully hard to choose!

ETA:  ALL credit to the amazing eilowyn for urging me to watch Orphan Black, which I'd never heard of until she mentioned it.

Comments

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Tatiana's accent isn't great (at first I thought she was trying to do a New Zealand one - it wasn't until she was calling Fe her brother I realised she was supposed to be English). But Felix? I swear to God his accent is flawless - it's how I speak, it's not Cockney or overtly "posh", it's a regular London accent. I had to IMDB him after the first ep because I was like "how do I not know this young English actor... He's CANADIAN?? WHAT???" so that's that. (btw what indie film?)

Also Cosima !! I adore her. I'm not sure if the genre thing stands as strongly as before, and lots of people I'd never have expected have seen and loved the show. Plus cult stuff like comic book films are taking over the mainstream, but in critical circles I think there's a lot of snobbery (and snubbery, obviously). The same stands with animation, which can be utterly beautiful and affecting and is most certainly not just "kids stuff".

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And thanks for saying I'm distinctive with colour (I assume you mean dark and grungy stuff? I like it to look a little weathered and frayed). But the effects I use really aren't that hard - if they were there's no way I could be playing with 'em.

BTW Mary is from Sherlock (and only s3), and I don't think you'd want to get involved in that mess of a show. The storytelling is great but the female characters are belittled a LOT (and I love them, I do - my favourite is currently a tough and sarcastic police sergeant called Sally who takes none of Sherlock's shit but is closely followed by a sweet, cat loving pathologist. I kinda maybe ship them a little) and it has so much queerbating with the male relationships it borders on disgusting - mostly because the head writer insists that they "aren't each other's type", and making a lesbian identifying woman become enamoured with Sherlock... It's a mess. I'm too far gone, I'm hooked, and entrenched in their relationships.

But Luther? Luther is an entirely different beast. Alice is the main antagonist but also the main love interest (and it is DELICIOUS), it's a very dark show centred on morality and personal demons as much as criminals and offers no easy solutions. There's an awesome (and later tragic) Father/Son dynamic with DI Luther and his younger friend and partner Justin Ripley - and later a very weird Father/Father/Daughter relationship with an old love rival and a teenage girl who has fallen into the sex industry. There's a lot that's questionable, and it even makes you question yourself as you watch because you can never tell if you're rooting for the angel or the devil. It is one of my favourite shows of all time (and only 3 series - they might be making a feature film as well, now that the show has been officially "closed"). I would recommend it, but it's very dark and often gory so if that doesn't float your boat. (there's also an unfortunate incident with a very cool female character in s1 *no spoilers, I'm trying hard okay* that does look like fridging (though her death makes sense in the storyline so it's not just shock value), but in later series it happens to a much larger and MALE character, so it's not as bad as it seems.)

Hell, I think it's a good show.

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I'm making a point not to listen to vids of the actor who plays Felix speak for the time being. Let me have the illusion for a little while!

And I admit I was really confused in the pilot as to where it was supposed to be taking place - I heard "train to New York City" but didn't realize it was supposed to be Canada until the end of the ep and the BBC credits. Is it supposed to be toronto? Back in the 1980's, Toronto was a "stand in" for stuff meant to be set in NYC. (Now NYC has more of a film/tv industry again of it's own. Besides. now that I've been to NYC, there's no way to confuse it with anyplace else.)

And the movie I was referring to was "Stud Life" http://www.studlifethemovie.com
The protagonist is a black butch lesbian photographer and her best friend is a gay man; they almost have a "bromance": "Mates before muffs". Of course, a little thing called love gets in the way...

T'nia Miller is ridiculously sexy as the butch protagonist....IMHO. *ahem*

And more about Cosima - I was snooping around the BBC site and found out she's a lesbian and my heart EXPLODED WITH JOY. My new favorite series with my newest favorite character and she's gay? (ok, it exploded yesterday thanks to Vastra and Jenny, so I had to pick up the pieces and glue it back together - and then it exploded again. Also, Tatiana talking about how they try to avoid making Cosima and Felix represent "the entire queer community" and just be regular people filled my heart with joy and the day is COMING very very soon when that won't even need to be said at all).

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Yes it is! I've already stalked your user pics page - tis one of my newest hobbies. And by use of color I definitely meant your style is very much yours as distinct from kwritten's; and I love both "signatures". Given that I love antiques "worn and frayed" is something I appreciate.

Mary is from Sherlock (and only s3), and I don't think you'd want to get involved in that mess of a show.

My sweetie watched a couple of eps - I tried one and barely made it through. A WORLD of no.

making a lesbian identifying woman become enamoured with Sherlock.

THIS IS GROSS.

Hell, I think it's a good show.

That's available on Netflix and I've toyed with the idea of watching it several times but didn't know if it was good or not *Hastily adds it to must-watch list* the gory part does put me off a little so I'll have to see how it goes, but your rec helps!