we're all stories in the end

Actors posting goofy pictures of themselves on twitter = my favourite. Here a few recent delights for you!

( the ridiculous faces of David Hewlett, Freema Agyeman, Noel Clarke and Patrick Stewart )

Karen Gillan had her 25th birthday today. Flimsy excuse for picspam? I think so!

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Have been belatedly rolling around in all of the fannish excitement coming out of SDCC. Unsurprisingly, this has involved me spending a lot time fixating on the cast of Doctor Who and their stupid, delightful faces.

( space hipsters picspam: image heavy )

+ At white_lotus we've started posting fanworks for the Lunar New Year exchange - so far there are two fics, one about Ursa and one Katara/Zuko, and a vid about Toph & Azula. All highly recommended!

+ FESTIVIIIIIDS! I got a wonderful vid, Baby Got Going (Bridesmaids), which I looove and need to praise the vidder in much detail about why it's great, but have yet to find the right words. Basically it captures all the stuff I love best about the film (female friendships! ridiculous faces! hilarity!) and is really well-edited with some great timing and eeee. :D I shall have some more festivids recs later when I've had a chance to watch a few more. (I'm putting off some that look wonderful because they'll probably make me cry - so tomorrow when I'm home alone, then!)

+ Here in the UK it is the National Television Awards tonight (decided by public vote), and Matt Smith and Karen Gillan have picked up Best Drama Performance awards, hurray!

( They are both looking rather fab )

+ Speaking of Karen Gillan, her biopic about Jean Shrimpton, We'll Take Manhattan, is airing on BBC Four tomorrow evening and will presumably be on iPlayer thereafter - I don't know about international airings. From the promo pictures, it's going to be extremely pretty at the very least.

( picspam )

It is avendya's birthday today. Happy birthday! ♥ For the occasion, I decree KGill spam.

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I continue to bring the in-depth and insightful commentary to the interwebs, I know.

So Karen Gillan is 23 today! Which is all the excuse that I need.

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Favourite forever, basically. <33333

Oh my goodness, I am here with thingswithwings and eruthros and also anatsuno, who is visiting the home of kink bingo too, and they are showing me The Sentinel. I CANNOT BELIEVE THIS IS A REAL SHOW. I mean, seriously? It's kind of the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen.

I am thoroughly charmed!

Also, here are some more top fives that I got to - I was too lacking in brain to write any kind of explanation for any of these choices, and they were OMG HARD *shakes fist at toft and magic_at_mungos, but, picspam:

( Top 5 celebrity crushes )

( Top 5 non-white characters )


( Top 5 queer characters )

mundita wanted Amy picspam! As my love for Amelia Pond cannot really be textually rendered, this works out well.

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eta: SyFy edits the bio and takes out a lot of the worst of it.

I'm sorry, what the fuck is this shit? (SyFy attempts a character bio for Gwen, fails spectacularly.) I mean, it's not just inaccurate, it's also misogynistic and racist! a;lsdkjsa oh god.

Not even the most charitable person could call her beautiful.

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What is that I don't even. ANYWAY. Rather than picking apart the fail, let's have some picspam time! Share your favourite shots of Gwen/Angel, folks. I will begin!

( au contraire, SyFy, this girl is OFF THE CHARTS. <3333 )

+ A preview of V Magazine's upcoming issue featuring a plus-sized fashion shoot: Curves Ahead (the name's cheesy but the shots are gorgeous). \o/ eta: true_statement says the comments are awful, so, avoid for emotional well-being's sake!

+ FWD/Forward: Backscatter X-ray scanners, security theatre, and marginalised bodies

+ norahcharles: on the accessibility of fandom fests for people with social anxieties

+ Related to the above, FWD's Ableist Word Profile series is consistently good reading. I hope to have a more thoughtful post on that topic at some point, but today is not that day. I am, however, going back to coffeeandink's post on the subject, and mulling over comments.

+ Complex.com interviews Zoe Saldana, feminist awesome ensues.

+ bluejeanius made an amazing banner for the #biggaybattle. (See AfterElton if lost.

+ I keep going back to ( these ridiculously great shots of Angel Coulby )

+ Lastly, ( omg we has a snow )