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so today is gillian's 40th birthday. i've never been one with much interest in celebrities apart from their various roles. if i like an actor or musician it's because of his/her talent. for ten years i was passionately in love with tori amos' music, but i never had the urge to actually meet her. similarly, as an adolescent i didn't have posters of people decorating my room - i had solar systems and nebulae; i didn't crush on band members - i crushed on characters from books.
so to find that somewhere over the last fifteen (almost sixteen) years i've developed a ridiculous, hopeless, teenaged crush on gillian anderson is somewhat disconcerting. to say the least. that's not to say it also isn't a hell of a lot of fun.
to that end i've done something else i've never done before: i donated money to one of her charities in honour of her birthday.
beauty is entirely a genetic accident; it's in the eye of the beholder; it's the cover of the book when what's important are the words underneath. and yet there are people who are beautiful because we love them, because who they are underneath the skin and the excellent bone structure gives their physical beauty more substance.
there has always been more to gillian than meets the eye. it's something chris carter knew when he campaigned to put her (and keep her) in the x-files as scully. it's something fans knew early on in the series. and it's something that the rest of the world eventually caught on to. unfortunately, we can only see what's on the surface. and while i hate to reduce the woman to her physical appearance, i can't deny that i think she's incredibly beautiful. to that end i bring you a happy birthday gillian picspam. because i'm certainly happy about it.
the smile, the hair, the green sweater, the underarm sweat! the woman cannot be 39 here.
i just love the lighting of this photo. the way she's in mid-thought, mouth and hand poised, distance-focused.
gillian at cannes. when we were all sure she was pregnant because of the boobs! guh.
look at that smile. it just lights up the fucking room.
gillian anderson. the only woman in the world who could make me think pregnancy is sexy.
aw. just aww.
dear god. *hyperventilates* i put in a bid for an autographed print of this on ebay. didn't win, of course. but still. imagine waking up to that image every morning.
i have a truly inappropriate love of gillian in glasses. one day i might have to do a picspam of just glasses photos. in any case, this is one of my favourites.
yearbook photo. baby gillian!
another of my favourites. i so wish i could find a larger version. the benevolence of the obviously divine gadd1960 at haven has provided! *pets*
(eta: i have never noticed this before, but the top photo has been flipped: her beauty mark is actually on the left. i wonder why they did that.)
"The fears that live inside of us, whatever they are, and however they manifest, prevent us from living our highest potential, as individuals, and as contributors to the human race. If we consciously and vigilantly transmute those fears through compassion for others, and for ourselves, we will know what it is to live a peaceful existance on this planet."
i like this outfit. she could totally be a bond girl. i'm shallow, sue me.
look how blue her eyes are. and the freckles! *keels over*
would it be inappropriate to say how much i love that she pokes her tongue out when she smiles? 'cause i really do.
another of my weird gillian loves is photos of her sitting in chairs. what the hell, tree? yeah, i don't know. i adore this photo: she's all frilly and posh looking and her face is saying "you've put me in this dress but i'll be damned if i'm going to sit like a lady."
if i had to pick a favourite photo this would be one of the contenders.
it sort of killed me to resize this image because the HQ version is so gorgeous. but lightlack told me i had to put this in and one must obey one's super!beta.
this entire photoshoot was gorgeous, but this one is my favourite. *salivates*
one of my favourite candids: rehearsal of 'what the night is for.' the messy hair, the focus on her face.
an impossibly beautiful shoot.
an odd little shoot, but i like it. chair! feet! boofy hair guy!
ah, movieline shoot. how i love you. how i wish i hadn't had to leave all my magazines behind when i left america. *sob*
gillian at Alinyiikira Junior School. she's so engaged.
some of the continuity polaroids are hilarious. this is my favourite.
she manages to be lovely even with her hair in pincurls. for heaven's sake.
miss piper.
moar baby!gillian. first season XF press conference, i think. the scan has fribbles on it, but you can see the freckles! and the beauty mark! and the parallel lines on her neck! *faints*
the x-files 100th episode party. fuzzy blue sweater! glasses! combustibly adorable!
straightheads premiere. moar pregnancy!boobs. and i think that's the same pink string she's wearing in the buskaid photo too. listening to her commentary on the straightheads dvd is very enlightening. also hilarious. "why did i do this movie?"
just lovely.
sexy and vulnerable and strong. look at that bicep.
suit? check. cleavage? check. incredibly hot photo of gillian? check.
barefoot at home on a chair. it's like porn to me.
her second feature in FHM. mostly naked gillian in bed smiling at you from under her flippy hair? i don't even have a penis and that gives me an erection.
the 1997 golden globes. my favourite awards event ever. her hair, her dress, everything about her was luminous that night. i love this photo partly because i think she looks a little like milla jovovich in it.
another photo in lightlack's honour. the lighting in this shot makes her even more ethereal than usual. and bare feet!
as alice in straightheads. "my back will never be that toned again in my life!"
oh scully. no one can ever take your place in my heart. not even gillian.
lady dedlock. only for gillian would i suffer through charles dickens. and like it.
lily bart. it's an amazing performance but i can hardly bear to watch because she breaks my heart every single time.
image credits go to: http://www.irresistible-gillian.net/, http://www.davidandgillian.net, and http://www.gilliananderson.ws, as well as random sites here and there along the way that i can't remember. but these images are not mine.
so to find that somewhere over the last fifteen (almost sixteen) years i've developed a ridiculous, hopeless, teenaged crush on gillian anderson is somewhat disconcerting. to say the least. that's not to say it also isn't a hell of a lot of fun.
to that end i've done something else i've never done before: i donated money to one of her charities in honour of her birthday.
beauty is entirely a genetic accident; it's in the eye of the beholder; it's the cover of the book when what's important are the words underneath. and yet there are people who are beautiful because we love them, because who they are underneath the skin and the excellent bone structure gives their physical beauty more substance.
there has always been more to gillian than meets the eye. it's something chris carter knew when he campaigned to put her (and keep her) in the x-files as scully. it's something fans knew early on in the series. and it's something that the rest of the world eventually caught on to. unfortunately, we can only see what's on the surface. and while i hate to reduce the woman to her physical appearance, i can't deny that i think she's incredibly beautiful. to that end i bring you a happy birthday gillian picspam. because i'm certainly happy about it.
the smile, the hair, the green sweater, the underarm sweat! the woman cannot be 39 here.
i just love the lighting of this photo. the way she's in mid-thought, mouth and hand poised, distance-focused.
gillian at cannes. when we were all sure she was pregnant because of the boobs! guh.
look at that smile. it just lights up the fucking room.
gillian anderson. the only woman in the world who could make me think pregnancy is sexy.
aw. just aww.
dear god. *hyperventilates* i put in a bid for an autographed print of this on ebay. didn't win, of course. but still. imagine waking up to that image every morning.
i have a truly inappropriate love of gillian in glasses. one day i might have to do a picspam of just glasses photos. in any case, this is one of my favourites.
yearbook photo. baby gillian!
another of my favourites. i so wish i could find a larger version. the benevolence of the obviously divine gadd1960 at haven has provided! *pets*
(eta: i have never noticed this before, but the top photo has been flipped: her beauty mark is actually on the left. i wonder why they did that.)
"The fears that live inside of us, whatever they are, and however they manifest, prevent us from living our highest potential, as individuals, and as contributors to the human race. If we consciously and vigilantly transmute those fears through compassion for others, and for ourselves, we will know what it is to live a peaceful existance on this planet."
i like this outfit. she could totally be a bond girl. i'm shallow, sue me.
look how blue her eyes are. and the freckles! *keels over*
would it be inappropriate to say how much i love that she pokes her tongue out when she smiles? 'cause i really do.
another of my weird gillian loves is photos of her sitting in chairs. what the hell, tree? yeah, i don't know. i adore this photo: she's all frilly and posh looking and her face is saying "you've put me in this dress but i'll be damned if i'm going to sit like a lady."
if i had to pick a favourite photo this would be one of the contenders.
it sort of killed me to resize this image because the HQ version is so gorgeous. but lightlack told me i had to put this in and one must obey one's super!beta.
this entire photoshoot was gorgeous, but this one is my favourite. *salivates*
one of my favourite candids: rehearsal of 'what the night is for.' the messy hair, the focus on her face.
an impossibly beautiful shoot.
an odd little shoot, but i like it. chair! feet! boofy hair guy!
ah, movieline shoot. how i love you. how i wish i hadn't had to leave all my magazines behind when i left america. *sob*
gillian at Alinyiikira Junior School. she's so engaged.
some of the continuity polaroids are hilarious. this is my favourite.
she manages to be lovely even with her hair in pincurls. for heaven's sake.
miss piper.
moar baby!gillian. first season XF press conference, i think. the scan has fribbles on it, but you can see the freckles! and the beauty mark! and the parallel lines on her neck! *faints*
the x-files 100th episode party. fuzzy blue sweater! glasses! combustibly adorable!
straightheads premiere. moar pregnancy!boobs. and i think that's the same pink string she's wearing in the buskaid photo too. listening to her commentary on the straightheads dvd is very enlightening. also hilarious. "why did i do this movie?"
just lovely.
sexy and vulnerable and strong. look at that bicep.
suit? check. cleavage? check. incredibly hot photo of gillian? check.
barefoot at home on a chair. it's like porn to me.
her second feature in FHM. mostly naked gillian in bed smiling at you from under her flippy hair? i don't even have a penis and that gives me an erection.
the 1997 golden globes. my favourite awards event ever. her hair, her dress, everything about her was luminous that night. i love this photo partly because i think she looks a little like milla jovovich in it.
another photo in lightlack's honour. the lighting in this shot makes her even more ethereal than usual. and bare feet!
as alice in straightheads. "my back will never be that toned again in my life!"
oh scully. no one can ever take your place in my heart. not even gillian.
lady dedlock. only for gillian would i suffer through charles dickens. and like it.
lily bart. it's an amazing performance but i can hardly bear to watch because she breaks my heart every single time.
image credits go to: http://www.irresistible-gillian.net/, http://www.davidandgillian.net, and http://www.gilliananderson.ws, as well as random sites here and there along the way that i can't remember. but these images are not mine.