well behaved women

In further evidence that I am possibly the most immature newly-minted ~Adult~ ever, I cannot actually manage to say Sooric--even in my head--without stretching out the double vowel for, like, five seconds. I don't know! I can't stop! I don't know whether it's the softer consonent after the 'oooo' or just how hilariously awful the amalgam of names is, I cannot stop. I have the sense of humour of a five year old.

What spurred this little segue was getting a review--a quite nice one, actually--complimenting me on a story I'd written that apparently featured the pairing 'Bolivia.'

...what? For starters, the man in the pairing they refer to has a name starting with P. There are three men in the canon just off the top of my head with last names that start with B. THIS IS A LITTLE TOO UNSPECIFIC FOR MY TASTES. I mean, normally they're sort of ridiculous but on an unmistakeable level, if you know what I mean.


The only potential pairing names I can come up of in Blood Ties fandom sound sort of like STDs to me. If you know of any actual ones--sounding like an STD or not--please do not share.

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I just realized I had the anonymous commenting allowed option set to off on my writing journal. Which meant that when I invited people to anonymously comment, I wasn't letting them. Er. **shifty eyes** Oops.

Back at school we are. I finished watching Fringe and am contemplating watching season two as it goes--I never finished the most recent episode, so it seems as good a time as any for a cutoff. Do I want to wait until I can buy the season two DVD, or spoil myself?

In other news, I picked up watching Mistresses, a British TV show about four women, because it has Anna Torv in it. Not, sadly, as one of the main cast, but as a fairly central character; she plays one of the womens' engaged love interest whilst looking like this, so needless to say I was hooked. The show itself is good, with good characters, but I have an adultery squick and probably will not watch beyond the point at which she exits the show.

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Meeting the Beast: Ginger Snaps and Feminist Werewolves

That is--ultimately--the real reason I never saw it, and am more and more frustrated with supernatural movies starring girls in any way. Just stop it, okay? I really want us to be claw our way past the eternal 'female sexuality/power is dangerous and evil and we must hammer this home with a thousand ham handed metaphors.'


In other news--the second-to-last Fringe episode was so fucking satisfying. I don't even have the words. Like, normally we're very quiet watcher in our house but there were some shouts of triumph. I mean, when I saw who picked up the phone I hoped it would happen, but I didn't really expect it to. And it did! &hearts &hearts &hearts Fringe!

...Olivia needs a hug. And is a badass.

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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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FRINGE!



The FBI teams up with a formerly-institutionalized scientist - who was performing experiments on the fringe of real science - and his son to investigate weird crimes that are seemingly part of a larger pattern, or so Imdb reliably informs me.

I love this series.

The crimes, abnormal as they are, are abnormal in a way that freaks me out a little bit? Like, watching it happen to the victims, or about to happen to the victims, nudges at my threshold. But they don't linger too much, and the cast is fabulous. Anna Torv is at once stoic, calmly contained, and exquisitely expressive, and the rest of them are great as well. (Besides whoever plays John Scott. I wasn't very impressed, but I don't like the character, so...)

Also! I have full approval for Olivia Dunham running around kicking ass, doing detective work and saving the manly mens with Peter Bishop as her stalwart backup and Walter Bishop as her crazy backup. The actors' performances are just wonderful, I think; I came away with the impression of an intense but not overdramatic show, (probably chiefly because of the lighting and sets/costuming because I am a sucker for visual impressions and they're generally fairly spartan) and I think that they've really pulled off making the whole thing part of a greater idea and still making each episodic storyline independent and incredibly satisfying on its own.

This is the first show that I've ever liked so wholly, and wanted so badly to see the next part as. But amazon tells me the first season should be arriving October 7, auugh.

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