Post-Holiday Linkspam

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Welcome back, y'all. Hope everyone who celebrated something had a nice holiday. I spent the week at my parents' house, with a brief foray to New York to see First Date (more on that in a separate post, and as soon as I figure out how to get pictures off my new phone and into a post) and utterly failed to keep up with the Internet. So here are some links that you probably already saw a week ago.

* A Sherlock minisode in preparation for the new season starting in January.

* The Americans announced a premiere date for season 2. Also, a new trailer!

* Jennifer Lawrence is taking over the world because of her incredible talent, not her propensity for fart jokes. Duh.

* Neil Gaiman talked about strong female characters and why Buffy was so good at it (hint: it has nothing to do with physical strength).

* I'm sure some of you had figured this out already, but apparently Loki is literally in his rebellious teenager phase.

* The cast of House of Lies did a long-form improv at Upright Citizens Brigade. House of Lies is not the greatest show, but it does have a great cast (Kristen Bell! Don Cheadle!) and this involves mpreg and kittens and other weird shit.

* This is really interesting - did you know that you physically feel different emotions in different parts of your body?

* The "Call Me Maybe" chick is taking over for Laura Osnes as Cinderella on Broadway. THERE IS NOT ENOUGH "NO" IN THE WORLD.

* The Vampire Diaries is adding a gay character. I hope he lasts longer than any of their (non-Bonnie) characters of color...

So tell me what I missed! Tell me about your holiday! Or whatever else you want!

Comments

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I listened to the BtVS podcast yesterday/day before that, and though it was nothing new, it was quite good and generally on point. There was more focus on s1-3 than everything that came after which made me a bit :/ though.

I was glad to hear Neil Gaiman got it--though am amused that the words spoken by (popular white male) him are the ones that make an article.

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I haven't actually listened to the whole thing, just read the Gaiman quote, haha.

I was glad to hear Neil Gaiman got it--though am amused that the words spoken by (popular white male) him are the ones that make an article.

Yep. It's something women have been saying for ages.

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THE AMERICANS! \o/

That article is on point about Jennifer Lawrence. I still think there are a dozen other telling reasons why she's better liked than someone like (the painfully socially anxious) Kristen Stewart, but her resume is no joke.

I love Neil Gaiman, but I am pretty over that dreaded adjective constantly thrown around to describe female characters fandom hates marginally less than others.

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True true. It also helps that Jen has done really good films, too, not just that she is good in them. With socially anxious actors, it seems that having a good movie to promote is half the battle (see also: Chris Evans).

I think with Kristen Stewart, she got the double whammy of not only ending up majorly in the spotlight when she didn't want to be, but also being in the spotlight for a film that is painfully indefensible. She's not self-confident enough to make fun of herself, which is really all you can do with Twilight.

(I like to imagine that Jennifer Lawrence would have been a GLORIOUS TROLL promoting Twilight, lol. CAN YOU IMAGINE.)