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[ishtar79]

I realise it’s been about a gazillion years since my last update-RL has been on the stressful side, and I haven’t exactly in the mood for fandom, or the Internet, or much of anything besides vegging out in front of old X-Files episodes (I’ve only just gotten into that, btw. Never let it be said that I can’t be decades late to a party).

I need to get caught up on old posts, but since that’s a near-impossible feat, can someone point me to what I may have missed? Fics, wanks, the next wave of 6A’s assitude, anything?

A quick movie rec: I went to see For the Bible tells me so at a Film Festival-it was actually the European premiere, and the director was there, which was pretty cool. It’s a documentary about the Christian Right attack on homosexuality, narrated through the stories of several gay people coming from religious backgrounds. I rarely cry at movies, and I did at several points in this-and yet, despite the heaviness of the subject and the truly terrifying sight that are religious fundamentalists (and I’m still trying to wrap my mind around the concept that these people are for real-they’re such caricatures, they’d be funny in any context besides reality), there was definitely a quiet hopefulness throughout. I recommend it without reservations.

Comments

X-philes

[talimama.livejournal.com]

Ah, The X-Files were one of my first tv obsessions. When life gives you aliens, make ships, or something like that. Too bad the last two seasons really stunk it up. However, in its heyday, they managed to produce the kind of consistently high quality storytelling that Lost can only dream of - standalone eps that ran the gamut from silly to creepy to outright gross; mythology eps that were tantalizing and so wonderfully complicated you could really sink your teeth into them.

I'm sorry life is so stressful! Apply episodes of X-Files liberally until you melt into a puddle of goo.

Re: X-philes

[ishtar79.livejournal.com]

The last two seasons were teh suck, but at least I was prepared for that. And the X-Files is awesome, I can't believe it took me that long to discover them.