well behaved women

I visited the Wing Luke Asian Museum today, and went on a guided tour of the restored and preserved sections--everything from goods in the import shop to beds in the apartments saved. It was incredible.



**sigh** I love Eva Green. She is, hands-down, my favorite actress.

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Anna Popplewell: how is one woman allowed to be so beautiful?

She's even gorgeous when running!

It's positively criminal! Especially since she has such a lovely personality and is a great actress to boot. **shakes head** As much as I wish her luck with college and her other life plans, I wish she was in more movies, because she was my first and remains my only real celebrity crush. Or is that creepy? Am I being creepy? I can never tell.

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Subject: Olivia Dunham, FBI.

I've never done a picspam before, so this challenge was easy, and for it I picked my favorite character, Olivia Dunham from the TV show Fringe.

I started watching it recently on the weight of several recommendations, finally putting it on our netflix list when we had nothing else to watch, as an afterthought. And within one episode, I was in love. It's a little gruesome for me--I'm fine with gore and forensics and horror on its own, but I hate watching it happen to the people--but I love pretty much all of the characters, and I desperately adore the female lead and fiercely enjoy each episode's mystery and its always satisfying conclusion even inside the greater story arc.

So I give you my favorite thing about this show:



( There are a lot of reasons I love her... )

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How much did I love Bound?

A WHOLE GODDAMN LOT.

I always knew Olivia was a solid stone-cold badass, but I love seeing her in action. It makes me happy in a way it may not make entirely healthy-minded people happy, I dunno. She's so strong, and vulnerable, and fierce and intelligent and real--flawed and unpredictable and oh my god how gorgeous is Anna Torv? Really fucking gorgeous. She has the most beautiful smile I've ever seen, and I wish Olivia had reason to smile more often, I really do. I want to punch John Scott again and again, lying bastard.

After hating Loeb for episode after episode, I actually felt almost sorry for him at the end of Bound. I am an indecisive sucker.

And that's why I love Peter and Olivia. Because he's always going to have her back, and she's going to have his, and they kick ass together, and she relaxes enough to give him--repeatedly--that gorgeous, delighted, thousand-watt smile while showing him card tricks over off duty drinks. Because he teases her and catches her and trades favours with intimidating Chess Mistresses for her, and she smirks at him and knows he's there when she needs him and guns down the people that hurt him.

And because they're so fucking pretty together!

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Not only do I have to deal with the show itself shunting Sookie to the background, I have to deal with the fandom. Making constant snide remarks--constant snide icons, constant snide videos, constant snide everything--and when they do say they like her inevitably they follow it up with criticism that amounts to 'I only like her because she's my self-insertion method. Why isn't she fucking this guy? Why isn't she fucking that guy? I want him, and I'm safely in the real world, so why isn't she disregarding her ethics, personal standards and safety to jump him? What a bitch.'

I know you don't have to desire girls to like them, guys. Quit being so wretched, if you please.

Which segues into: tonight I saw a comment about how they thought they should be inserted into the True Blood world so they could sex up Eric. My first thought was; "Eric? I think I should be inserted into the True Blood world to sex up Sookie!" (My first thought. Seriously.) WHUT. I mean, Alex is pretty smokin', threesomes totally A-OK in this bizarre fantasyland, but COME ON GUYS. Anna Paquin is sexy as hell, holy crap. And Sookie is the most adorable little badass that ever adorabled.


this is how I stay happy on the internets, guys. With the attention span of a manic squirrel, and an armour of sheer crazy.

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Considering the outfits this show has her wearing, it is ridiculously hard to find Sookie-cleavage icons.

Not that I've been, like, searching high and low. But I watched episode four and reread cleolinda's summary, and I couldn't help but go, 'damn, but this show sure is dressing her rather scantily, so where are the icons acknowledging it?' I feel on some level that I should protest, given the show creators' general misogyny and dubious content, but geez you guys. I've got to have some eyecandy to soothe the raw wounds Jason Stackhouse left in my retina and psyche.

ETA: And Sam Merlotte. I don't know what I deserve for enduring a naked Sam Merlotte, but it's big.

And yet, given how much abuse she gets for not a) having a vagina, b) being attractive and c) not mindlessly worshipping and falling at the feet of the shows' attractive men, I cannot quite bring myself to be surprised.

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I really loathe it when authors put the fail out there where it will reach the public when real information might not.

A Critical Review of Ann Rinaldi's My Heart Is on the Ground: The diary of Nannie Little Rose, a Sioux Girl. I find this incredibly rage-inducing because we read about this in my IDS class, we read actual accounts, and they were heartbreaking. And this--this is just obscene.

ETA: For bonus gross: the author adds plagiarism to their list of accomplishments!

Then there's this: Seale and Dow essay on DARKNESS UNDER THE WATER, by Beth Kanell. This appalling piece of exploitative fiction is compounded upon by the author appearing to try to blame it all on the reviewers. Uh, what the hell?


I'm just going to go off and console myself with gazing upon Uhura, since I'm having trouble with actual episodes. (And her miniskirt. Damn those things were short!! I don't know whether to be exasperated--ETA: I am assured that the fashion was, indeed, that short. Rock on, impracticality. Rock on.--or just let my overheated brain gently dribble out of my ears as I die happy.)