Once again emulating 12_12_12, I offer my Top 10 Male Characters with the same rules as in My Top 10 Female Characters entry.

I got a little more carried away on finding quotes. It was particularly a labor of love for Don Draper, Tony Soprano, and Jed Bartlet. Unlike 12_12_12, I don't have the artistic sensibilities to come up with my own picpsam so I just ( Read more... )

I got this idea from 12_12_12, a veritable source of good fandom ideas. I will note ( Read more... )

I'm doing the username song meme, from kikimay, beer_good_foamy and lokifan. Post one song for each letter in your username. I even spelled out the "thirty three".

Space Oddity: Starting this off with a tribute to the late, great David Bowie.
Union Maid: By Woody Guthrie, and special plaudits to the Judy Collins/Pete Seeger version. It's a song to practically cheer to! "Now ( Read more... )

Thank you to whomever nominated me for the Willowy Goodness Awards, especially in The Big Gun category! What an honor! I was particularly touched by the rationale for the nomination: If you click on the "btvs/ats: willow is my homegirl" tag on sunclouds33's livejournal, you'll find a wealth of thoughtful, original essays and headcanons about Willow ( Read more... )

I wrote a review of Triangle for BuffyForums and I'm posting it (edited for LJ) here! First, I responded to some board comments on Into the Woods because it sets up the Triangle dynamics ( Read more... )

This is an awesome video description of a number of the Vietnam War metaphors in S6 of Mad Men, focusing on Chevy as Vietnam. Let's hear it for Slate Magazine. Mainstream outlets rarely do this kind of creative TV meta; usually the people WHO ARE PAID TO WRITE ABOUT TV merely write an article only a few evolutionary steps removed from a TV guide ( Read more... )

I did the 2015 Fandom Meme, inspired by frelling_tralk. I mostly speak in generalities for a lot of forms of media but beware of specific spoilers for Mad Men, House of Cards, Transparent, and Homeland.

( Fargo: You're a little touched... )

Is it just me or has there's been more asinine character-bashing of Wesley Wyndam-Pryce on Tumblr lately? I'd formulate a response but I'm not seeing a coherent (albeit wrong) series of metas on what's wrong with him so much as....tantrums so incoherent or tag-line so snidely empty that I....don't even know what to say ( Read more... )

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I wrote a REALLY long piece of my UOs for S5 Don/Peggy. I just decided to make it it's own post. I'll come back (probably much later) with my other Mad Men S5 Unpopular Opinions.

( Sometimes they drag the secretaries in for focus groups to try things and I was discovered. Like Esther Blodgett. )