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sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2025-06-17 01:59 am

With that you're-on-camera smile like she wants to try me on

Shortly after we had headed off to collect fish and chips for dinner with my mother, [personal profile] spatch's delivery of "Frying tonight!" led into my description of Kenneth Williams as the "total package." We had earlier in the day been discussing the cultural relativity of communicating in quotations. At one point in order to indicate that it was time to leave the house, I called, "To the lighthouse!"

(Fresh Pond Seafood gave us extra of everything and I had a lovely interaction with a young trans woman wearing all the jewelry she had been able to find in her newly moved house. The treasury looked spectacular on her, especially the rhyme of the silver heart bangle on her wrist with her heart-framed, literally rose-tinted glasses.)

WERS has introduced me to Muna's "Silk Chiffon (feat. Phoebe Bridgers)" (2021), which I assume is on rotation either because it's Pride or because it's a banger. I am as incapable of selecting one favorite fictional lesbian as any other single shot, but the first contenders look like the ironclad classics of Florian del Guiz in Mary Gentle's Ash: A Secret History (2000), Manke and Rifkele in Sholem Asch's גאָט פֿון נעקאָמע/God of Vengeance (1907), and Corky and Violet in the Wachowskis' Bound (1996).
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[personal profile] selkie 2025-06-17 08:27 pm (UTC)(link)
If you don’t hold a lesbian dear to your heart whose internal dialogue is “logic, logic, impressive competence, cool composure, self-denial, *fizzle pop* aaagh” are you even really living?
(It turns out when we make it to our forties the whole dialogue shorts out to “aaagh.”)
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[personal profile] selkie 2025-06-18 08:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Today in sharp as a tack, I just now!! realized why the gaze of Bound makes so much more sense in hindsight, Jesus how can you stand having such bright friends