[what kind of fool]

[tellitslant]

Stolen shamelessly from sophia_gratia: I've added a few people to this journal in the last little while, and also I am feeling chatty, so come and be chatty with me in the comments! Ask me stuff: fannish, non-fannish, realistic, fantastic, whatever. I reserve the right to avoid questions if I so desire, but hey. :P Three-question maximum, and go.

Oh, and this applies to those of you who have been hanging around for a while as well as those of you who are brand-new. Yeah? Yeah!

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Re: i don't take enough opportunities to use this icon.

[tellitslant]

1. I don't know if I have a favourite! I have a lot of least-favourites (the u-haul perhaps chief among them). But my favourite is actually possibly one that I would also classify as a dislike, paradoxically. I really dislike the cliche that is so prevalent that it became the image around which the L Word chart was based, that every lesbian is inevitably connected to every other in one little incestuous circle. But while I dislike the small-town-ness of that, I like that it leads to close-knit communities of women with complicated relationship statuses. I was thinking of this the other day as the old dykes' networks - the antidote to old boys' clubs.

2. OMG HEE. Okay.
Get Crazy Drunk With: Jaime Murray. Because, come on, there are photos of her arguably completely sober with a lampshade on her head already available on the internet. I can only imagine the hilarity that would ensue at the crazy drunk stage.
Go Crazy Dancing With: Christine Baranski. Because, have you seen "Does Your Mother Know?" Yes, I know you have. Q.E.D. Sadly she would completely out-dance me, but I think I would be okay with that.
Have Snuggles With: Amanda Tapping. Because soft textiles, and also mrrr.

3. I am pretty sure Kalinda would cause a minor riot in the ExecuDyke Bar. But I suspect the first person to emerge out of it would in fact be Kira. It would be less a case of buying her a drink and more a mutual-sizing up, a cautious exploration of similarities, and an ensuing bout of subtly trying to drink each other under the table with everyone else looking on and quietly placing bets.

Re: i don't take enough opportunities to use this icon.

[sophia_gratia]

Yeah, the incest-network is just so completely not my experience. I do like laughing at the screwy dynamics of queerlady communities I'm only tangential to, though. I think my favorite cliché is flannel, or more elaborately, a friend of mine's comment on dyke culture in the midwest: 'The only difference between the femmes and the butches is that the femmes are wearing floral long underwear under their Carharts.'

Question 2 was a pretty stacked deck – I'll get better at making the choice hard in future. But dancing with Christine Baranski! Mrrrr. (And I'll need a link to that lampshade photo, plz.)

You forgot the last part of 3: "And then they take over the world." (I'm still pretty sure you're placating me, though. *side-eye*)

Re: i don't take enough opportunities to use this icon.

[tellitslant]

It's not really been my experience either, but I do like its existence. Sometimes. And I've never been a fan of flannel, personally (I know right? Bad dyke.)...

I do feel like the Drink Dance Snuggle conundrum needs to be explored more often, with more groups of ladies. For example, Alicia, Kalinda, and Diane. And have you really not seen this? :D

Seriously, I just have this very clear mental picture of the two of them looking at each other, prior to drinking. Following the hangover I feel like there would be a lengthy period of detente before some crisis had them working together and then, once they'd established bonafides, they could take over the world.