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calebs face when the goblin bartender tries to hit on The Girls

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real-person shipping ruins fandoms

pass it on

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OMG you guys I finally convinced one of my friends to start reading the books! They just finished the first two seasons of the show and want to know what happens so they’re starting with book one. It’s great timing, too, because they’re just starting a massive, ocean-crossing, three-month trip, so having huge long books on their phone is just the thing!

This is huge for me. Talking about the show with this friend has been amazing and now the books... wow #blessed

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Dear Sam: fucking quit it with the Fat Jamie jokes. Like, joking that Jamie would get fat is one thing. Invoking the image of Mike Myers’ extremely harmful “Fat Bastard” character is another. Look, I know you’re an actor and actors are weird about their image and bodies and it’s probably super stressful for you to have to be aged or whatever, but that doesn’t mean you can’t try not to be horrible about it.

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outlander s3 writers

So I’ve been Googling the new writers, and I found out something great! Shannon Goss (the one who got her start on E.R.) is mixed race Japanese. This is excellent news to me because all-white writing rooms are never a good thing for a show, ESPECIALLY when your show will be introducing non-white characters. (And perhaps, especially, a particular potential Asian caricature known as Mr. Willoughby...)

Other Shannon Goss facts: she was born in Hawaii and raised in Oregon, she majored in Sociology and is a mother.

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note to self: chill the fuck out

Look, we’re all fans here, we all feel these emotions, so I hope you’ll all bear with me while I process my ~feelings.

What I need to work on remembering is that no one on the show so far has been miscast.

There’s a first time for everything. NO. CHILL OUT, SELF. Fuirich agus chì thu. Wait and see!

As a tallish woman, I take Brianna very personally. (Additionally, I don’t mind her as a character -- yeah, she’s frustrating at times, but I remember being 20 years old and I was the worst back then so I cut her slack).

I say I’m “tallish” because I’m as tall as the average man -- 5′9″. I know that being this height has a huge effect on how I’m perceived in the world and I know that women who are really tall -- as in, 6 feet and above -- experience this on a whole other level.

Unlike eye color, height affects so much about your daily life. Tall people and short people know this. So, I was pretty disappointed when the actress cast to play Brianna was shorter than me.

I complained expressed my concerns about it on CompuServe and Diana said to me (paraphrasing) “I agree it would be nice to have a very tall Brianna, but it’s more important to have someone who can act the part.” And she’s right, of course. Given that I haven’t seen her act the part... I gotta chill out and wait. Diana also pointed out that Brianna’s height never figures into the plot of the books, and that’s true...

I mean, it usually doesn’t happen that two tall people (6′3″ and 5′10″ as they appear onscreen) have a child whose adult height is shorter than theirs. So it frustrates me that this show seems to be enacting the Teens Are Short TV trope.

Months ago, I heard an audio sample of Sophie’s American accent and it wasn’t great, but I also know that this show takes dialect pretty seriously so I have to trust they’ll get all that ironed out as well.

As for Richard Rankin -- why does he have a beard? Clean-shaven, he looks mid-twenties, but that beard is pushing him into “Bree’s dad, maybe?” territory. I’m fine with Richard, though. No, he doesn’t look like Roger is described in the books (dark-brown-almost-black hair, olive skin) but neither does Caitriona look like Claire in the books (shorter, curvy, light brown hair)

So why am I so hung up on Brianna’s height? I guess it’s because actresses, in general, are short. They always have to be shorter than their leading man. As a result, taller women aren’t represented onscreen very often (and when they are, tall women get super stoked. A six-foot friend of mine just completed her Master’s thesis on depictions of tall women in television). And it sucks when an an opportunity for representation is missed.

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i’m dying

“Hello, Starz, I’m calling to complain about William Shatner.”

I don’t know why adults would continually and continuously work SO HARD to embarrass their own selves, but they are!

Being an active fan of a TV show is a nerdy pursuit. Dorky, even. Believe me, I don’t count “Outlander fan” as one of my “cool” hobbies.

The secondhand embarrassment I feel is the standard human empathy thing, like what you feel when a drunk uncle of the bride gets up to make a super inappropriate speech at a wedding.

It’s not embarrassment, however, at being an Outlander fan. Because seriously, these people are -- as any given singular Outlander fan, including myself is -- insignificant and irrelevant in the broader scheme of things.

Also maybe it’s because, as a quasi-millennial, I hate making phone calls so much that the idea of making one to a cable network because of something an unrelated celebrity said on the internet is completely outside of anything I would ever think to do.

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Honestly, I’m totally blown away by how astute Shatner’s assessment of the whole situation is.