Today’s episode “Earthlings” further reveals how Beast Boy got his shape shifting powers which was hinted at in Season 1’s episode “Image”. This origin of his powers has a way more interesting twist than being bitten by a green monkey. The idea behind it was from the collective minds of Brandon and Greg.
ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME HOUSE MD
(no but really, ARE YOU SERIOUSLY THOUGH GOING TO GO FOR THE “WILSON DIES” AS OPPOSED TO “WILSON AND HOUSE PUT THEIR PEENS TOGETHER”???? UGHHHHHHH)
She is so hot now.
okay so I am super behind on White Collar, like, I’ve seen the midseason premiere and that’s it
but
are they like
not even trying anymore
SPOILERS FOR SHERLOCK, HEY
SO, I have a few feelings about Irene Adler, because while I am pretty positive the interpretation they (ugh moffat just go away) meant was offensive and facepunch-worthy, part of me finds this Irene, the parts of her that fandom is rightfully objecting too… very relatable.
SPOILERS UNDER THERE
So, ignoring that very last scene there, which was shit in like 5 ways and not even worth salvaging, not to mention the completely fucking gratuitous part where she didn’t unambiguously win which just akldfdsksdlk, the thing we’re all like WHAT about is that hey, Irene Adler identified as gay! Fuck you, show, please stop your attempt to maybe-imply that she lost because of her ~feelings~ for a dude!
But, well, the thing is, a lot of that seemed like… me.
Not that I am a genius dominatrix capable of beating (show!!!) Sherlock Holmes, but I am a disjunctive bisexual with romantic attraction almost entirely to lady-identified people, and absolutely terrible taste in the men that I find sexually attractive. I like almost-assholes, is the problem: those smirky smart slight-douchebags that I could never, ever be in a relationship with because we’d kill each other but man, would I one night stand those jerks. Because of this, or because I felt like I had something to prove at the time, or because I didn’t want to deal with it, I have occasionally told people that I’m just gay. (Sometimes, it feels almost-true.)
When Irene told him that, well, she looked like I would have.
I probably would not want the show to attempt this interpretation, because I wouldn’t trust them with it. It is hugely problematic that, as someone said, the only sexual fluidity allowed is for queer people to like the opposite sex (while Gatiss and Moffat go off being tremendous douches about the very thought that ~little girls~ could possibly think Sherlock and John could be together (fuck. you.)).
But, well, fandom fixes things, and for me, so much of Irene’s character was absolutely perfect, and so little is required of me to fix her (she was attracted, sure, though that end “begging” was totes fakery because she works with what she’s got k, then she escapes, finds her copy of the phone, and later text-invites S&J on a double gaydate, delete that last scene and we’re golden) that, well, I’m gonna roll with it. Whatever, show. Whatever.
