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[Jun. 26th, 2009|08:32 pm] |
I haven't had the Internet at home in awhile, but I'm staying at my older sister Lucy's place tonight
1. I have started developing some knowledge of current events, largely because I've been tuning into the news almost every evening. It's all thanks to my ridiculously massive fangirl crush on Narelda Jacobs, the anchor of Channel 10's Perth nightly news. It started with me tuning in just to see someone who was Aboriginal and queer on TV every night, but before long my desire to show my support turned into a full-blown crush. If you hear girlie shrieking and/or swooning coming from the Chandler household, it'll either be me tuning into Channel 10 News, or my little sister seeing the New Moon trailer on TV.
My girlfriend Sarah is, naturally, doling out a healthy amount of teasing ("But you'll miss Lezzie McLez-Lez," she says, if I want to drag her off to make out somewhere between five and six on a weeknight), although she totally tunes in every night to see what Narelda says/is wearing.
Rachel Maddow better look out, because Narelda Jacobs is freaking awesome. When I found out that Narelda Jacobs was MC-ing the Perth Pride ball, I totally screamed like my little sister when she sees a picture of Zac Efron. I don't think I should go, though, partly because the tickets are crazy expensive, and partly because I won't be able to stop myself from walking up to Narelda and saying something accidentally creepy.
2. Sarah left for Melbourne on Monday night, and my mother, brother and younger sister left for Europe yesterday night. Getting Mum and the kids off to the airport was a bit of a palaver, because Mum kept holding everything up to have cigarettes, plus she overpacked by about ten kilos, so our family turned into one of those families you see at the airport, unpacking and repacking everything. I'm going to miss the family, but at least I'll get some peace and quiet to write. I miss Sarah too... a lot... but I'm trying to think of this as an opportunity for me to have some time to myself.
3. I started a new job! It's at a different newsagency, about ten minutes' walk from my house. The pay is better, and nobody has screamed at me or accused me of stealing. I haven't wanted to cry even once. It's brilliant.
4. Re. Michael Jackson - it was a little creepy that I was listening to the Jackson Five on my way to work this morning, and distinctly thinking, Oh, Michael, you were so adorable before... well, your life happened to you. This was before I knew anything about his passing.
5. The past week or so, I've been asking myself a very important question: why, oh why, isn't Calamity Jane a cult lesbian classic? I watched it with Sarah and Bridget on Monday, and it was FANTASTIC. Not just fantastically gay, but FANTASTIC. I can't even begin to describe what a feel-good movie it is, going way beyond the fact that it's just about the gayest straight movie I've ever seen. Needless to say, we all developed humungous crushes on Doris Day, because she spends the movie looking like this:
And singing like this:
The Deadwood Stage (Whip-Crack-Away)
Secret Love I can't describe all the ways that this movie is really, really gay, because I don't want to rob anyone who decides to watch it of the pure, unadulterated glee experienced by Sarah, Bridget and myself on Monday.
Now, I'm off to try and catch up with my friendslist. I'll get in touch with people very soon. |
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[Feb. 3rd, 2009|07:32 am] |
Well, my boss rang me last night to say that a $100 note had gone missing out of the till, and he suspected me of taking it. I think the only reason he's told me to come in this morning and go through the transactions with him is that I've been working in the newsagent for a year now- the last girl who stole had only been working two weeks, so she was fired on the spot.
I got very upset last night after he rang off, and now I'm dead scared of going into work. I don't want to get fired for something I didn't do. And, when you think about it, the idea that I would be stupid enough to nick a $100 note is... well, just that. Stupid. I mean, apart from the fact that stealing is completely against my moral code, my boss counts every last bit of money about an hour after I leave in the afternoon, so if I take so much as five cents, there's no chance of me getting away with it. Only one girl works in the shop at a time, so it's not like I have a younger co-worker I could blame if money disappeared. I depend on this job for my income, I'm not about to throw it away for a hundred bucks, especially this close to semester, when I'll be so caught up in my work I won't have the time to search for a new job... especially since my timetable this semester is absolutely diabolical, so I really only have one free day to work, which doesn't exactly thrill prospective employers.
But I still feel so scared of going in this morning, because he'll probably raise his voice, and the sound of a man shouting is pretty much guaranteed to raise the hairs on the back of my neck. And since if he shouts he'll be shouting at me, it's quite likely I'm going to burst into tears, making myself look very very guilty. |
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| *sheepish grin* |
[Jan. 24th, 2009|07:09 pm] |
Hello, lovely people. *waves* I haven't been online in about a million years, mainly because... well, the summer's been rather quiet, and I've been a bit fed up. My foxy girlfriend Sarah's gone to Ballarat to see her family (she left in December and returns in February), and my family are all planning a trip to Europe without me. See, Lucy and her boyfriend had a trip to the UK booked for awhile, and without warning, Mum organised to take my younger siblings to the UK as well, to visit our relatives. She didn't ask me whether I wanted to go, because she thought I'd want to have the house to myself. Which I do, but it would've been nice to be asked, especially since The Girl (my best friend from high school, I used to be totally heart-achingly in love with her) is living in England. Still, Sarah pointed out to me that I can easily go to Europe at some other point. In the meantime, I'll have the house to myself for fourteen weeks. I could get so much writing done in fourteen weeks. Just thinking about having a quiet house, without the television cranked up to forty at every moment of the day, makes me sigh.
On the 18th of February, I turn twenty and leave the awkward teenage years behind forever. *cheers* On the 21st of February, I'm having a birthday outing where the theme is Secret Identities/Double Lives- as in, you either dress as a hero, a villain or some racy alter ego. I'm trying valiantly to figure out a costume. I don't want to go as a hero, I want to go as something sexy and dangerous, just for a change. Not many people seem to know me that well, and since I don't talk much, I think they all tend to assume I am a prissy little square who lured my girlfriend into a horrible monogamous relationship. *sighs* I mean, I have absolutely no beef with anyone who is non-monogamous. I think anyone who manages to defy convention to do what they really want with their life deserves a round of applause (as long as what you really want to do with your life isn't, say, marrying and then butchering aged heiresses). But these days, it seems that popular opinion is that anyone who likes being with just the one person is totally repressed.
ANYWAY. Can anyone give me ideas for costumes? I rather fancy going as a Sultry Crime Boss in the style of Lucy Diamond (especially since Sarah is going as a queer superhero in a rainbow cape), but I'm afraid I wouldn't look dressed up. Oh, and it's got to be a costume that's OK to dance in, seeing as my birthday outing is going to be at a club.
Also, let me know what's been going on in your lives in comments. I've missed you guys. |
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| *sings* "Five di-i-i-irty jokes!" |
[Dec. 20th, 2008|06:59 pm] |
On the twelfth day of Christmas,  chilipeppasbaby sent to me... Twelve gay rights drumming Eleven corny puns piping Ten meerkats a-leaping Nine otters dancing Eight pirates a-milking Seven heroes a-writing Six parodies a-reading Five di-i-i-irty jokes Four urban legends Three ginger snaps Two nymphadora tonks ...and a feminism in a torrance/missy. |
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| If you could give your younger self advice, what would you say? |
[Nov. 18th, 2008|05:55 pm] |
If you could send a note to your younger self with advice in it, what would you say? I’m nineteen years old, and I know that before I came out (and even afterwards), I would have loved to flip open a glossy magazine and have pages and pages of advice waiting for me. When you’re gay and in the closet, you have to do a lot of your growing up with no guidance at all. Still, it's amazing how far a tiny bit of guidance can go. I have made so many friends on LJ who have made me laugh on days when I felt like I would never laugh again, who have supported me through some of the worst times I have been through. Although I'm busier nowadays (what with uni, a job, babysitting my siblings, being madly in love with my beautiful girlfriend Sarah and trying to write my novel), I think about you guys a lot.
Being older and maybe a bit wiser these days, under the cut is the advice I would have given myself at fourteen, sixteen, eighteen and earlier this year. (Except maybe for the advice at fourteen. Awkward fourteen-year-olds don't usually take all that kindly to being told they might be lesbians.)
( Dear 14-Year-Old Self... )x-posted to ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) lesbian
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| Girltrash! Fanfic - This Is How The World Ends (Daisy/Tyler, Tyler/LouAnne, Tyler/Lana) |
[Nov. 6th, 2008|02:35 pm] |
Title: This Is How The World Ends Author: Emily (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) chilipeppasbaby) Fandom: Girltrash! Rating: cautiously rated R (for language, implied violence, and sexual references) Pairing: Daisy/Tyler (with some Tyler/LouAnne and Tyler/Lana) Summary: Daisy was the one who suggested they turn to Lana for help. Yet, as they draw nearer to Lana’s place, Daisy is having second thoughts… (Something that could have happened at the end of Episode 9.)
Notes: Written just after Episode 9 aired, finished just today. Title is from a Killola song that I listened to a bunch of times while writing this story.
Thanks: As always, to Alicia (light_cascades), for her beta-reading skillz and incredible friendship.
Disclaimer: Girltrash! is the property of Angela Robinson and Ourchart.
( Lana’s neighbourhood is probably the ritziest place I’ve ever driven through. ) x-posted to pick_a_side |
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| HOORAY. |
[Nov. 5th, 2008|02:30 pm] |
*dances around* The words, "America, fuck yeah!" have never felt so appropriate as they do now. Well done, guys! |
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| "Booyakasha!" |
[Aug. 31st, 2008|03:51 pm] |
My little sister is round at a friend's house. My parents and my brother are in the other room, watching an Ali G tape in front of the heater. I think Mum's dozed off, but my dad and brother Alfie are still watching. Alfie has the most gorgeous laugh... you can almost hear him doubling over and tearing up from mirth. I can't even see him right now, but I listen to him laughing and I love him so much.
I'm sure the parents are going to start bickering later on, but right now it's peaceful, so I'm revelling in the atmosphere. |
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| Theo: Memories |
[Jul. 18th, 2008|07:18 pm] |
This last week was not fun. I ended my friendship with Sophia and Helen, and then, to cap it all, my kitten died. I'm only able to write about it now because I'm feeling a bit happier... my girlfriend came back from overseas, and I hung out with her and our friend Bridget today.
I decided to write a little about him, and post some pictures, because he was my little friend and we didn't have much of a funeral for him. 
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| I posted my reply to Usher's recent comment about what causes lesbianism... |
[Jun. 18th, 2008|10:08 pm] |
According to celebrity quote site linked to in this entry at ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) lesbian, Usher said: "Women have started to become lovers of each other as a result of not having enough men." According to a poster at the site, he then went on to say, "I'm clearly irresistIble. Cloning me would bring an end to lesbianism"
Here's my comment:
As my girlfriend would say, he's wrong and he's stupid. I'm a lesbian because I'm sexually and romantically attracted to other women. I wasn't abused as a child, or raped by a man, or converted by a predatory lesbian. I was already EXTREMELY gay by the time I became sexually active. I don't fit some people's preconceived notions of what a lesbian should look/be like, but that doesn't make me any less gay. I saw Usher in the film The Faculty when I was about fifteen, and spent a great deal of the film mocking him- singing, "This is my confession, I am a giant knobhead!" and remarking, "It's weird how he gets to walk around shirtless when he's got the biggest boobs out of anyone. It's not fair, Famke Janssen's so much hotter than him anyway!" Him being present didn't stop me admiring the hot women in the cast, like Famke Janssen, Jordana Brewster, Clea duVall and Laura Harris. I promptly went out and rented Eulogy (for Lesbian!Famke), D.E.B.S. (for Lesbian!Jordana) and But I'm A Cheerleader (for Lesbian!Clea). And Usher? Well, I was just jealous that he got to touch Alicia Keys (who I had been nursing a massive crush on since I was twelve) when they performed together at the AMAs that year. I remember I even made up a song, to the tune of 'We're Off To See The Wizard', about how Alicia Keys was "the very hottest chick in all of the music biz." It never even occurred to me to look at him. I'm not a lesbian because of men. I'm a lesbian because of WOMEN. |
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| New episodes of Girltrash? I think the word I'm searching for is OMGYESPLEASE |
[May. 7th, 2008|07:20 pm] |
If the official Girltrash! MySpace (http://www.myspace.com/girltrashy) gets 5000 friends, they're going to post the "long edit"- that's TEN episodes in one. As in, the first nine and then another, never-before-seen one. And there could be even more episodes to come in the future, so we could finally find out what the hell happens! I don't know how they're going to rope in 5000 people, but I love the show so much I'm willing to do my bit. Methinks it's time to dust off my MySpace... *grin* |
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| The best thing about this place is it looks good from outer space... |
[Mar. 27th, 2008|09:17 pm] |
Yesterday I went to the movies with Vee (remember her?) to see Hey! Hey! It's Esther Blueburger. I really liked it. I don't think it would be most people's cup of tea, but I enjoyed the humour and the performances. It made me laugh because the schoo situations reminded me forcefully of the way things were at my school. Plus, there was Keisha Castle-Hughes, whom Vee and I refer to as Keisha Total-MILF (because she has a baby daughter) or else as Keisha Hottie-With-A-Hyphenated-Surname. Once upon a time, she was the cute little kid in Whale Rider who got nominated for a Best Actress Oscar. She disappeared off the radar for a few years (popping up in Bro'town, one of the Star Wars prequels and the music video for Prince's Cinnamon Girl), then she reappeared as the Virgin Mary in The Nativity Story. Yeah, I think she's cute. And it's totally not gross or anything because she's only a year younger than I am. </defensive>
Vee and I had this big game plan for how we were going to yell, "MILF!" when the Hottie With A Hyphenated Surname first appeared onscreen, and it actually looked like Vee would do it as well, except it turned out there were two- count 'em, TWO- other people in the cinema, so she piked on our original plan. I didn't, though. I called, "MILF!" loud and proud (just the first time she appeared, not like every single time or anything), and thus have won bragging rights for the rest of this week. *smug hair-flip*
Anyway, I really liked the Esther Blueburger soundtrack, particularly this track: The Only One by Bertie Blackman (written by Paul Mac). It's so cute.
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| Interview with Riki Lindhome from the Girltrash! Bebo page |
[Jan. 29th, 2008|11:42 am] |
An exclusive interview with Riki Lindhome (LouAnne from Girltrash!) has just been posted at the GT! Bebo page. The top two questions were ones I submitted!
The Queer Officer at my uni has asked me to write a small column about whatever takes my fancy. I feel very excited about it. My first column is going to be about lesbian online series, mainly about GT! but also referencing other series like Rebecca Drysdale is a Time-Travelling Lesbian and 3Way (with Maeve Quinlan and Jill Bennett). |
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| Things I am currently in need of... |
[Jan. 26th, 2008|06:55 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | adelaide, alex nunez, bridget, costumes, degrassi: the next generation, dressing up, gayness, paige michalchuk, palex, parties, pictures, video ezy, work | ] |
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| | Peachy by Missy Higgins | ] |
Any decent pictures of Paige and/or Alex from Degrassi: The Next Generation, for my Wall of Pretty People/Incredible Gayness (otherwise known as the Wall of Incredibly Pretty People Whom I Wish Were Gay). There's this really cute picture I've seen in icons, where Paige is sitting on the floor laughing and Alex is sitting in a chair behind her, grinning. (I have a mad crush on Alex seeing as I'm generally attracted to dark-haired girls with dark features and attitude problems, but I like to have pictures of fictional lesbian couples that I like on the wall, regardless of whether I'm crushing on both characters or not. I've actually recently gotten up the brass to start putting up small pictures of women kissing, so yay for me.) Anyone care to direct me to a place with nice pictures, and that one in particular?
I also need Doc Martens/other military-type boots for my friend Bridget's zombie apocalypse dress-up party next Saturday. I know no-one on my friendslist is in a position to loan me shoes, but I just felt like whinging about how bloody difficult it is to find boots for my survivor costume. I'm going as a tough survivor of a zombie apocalypse- I already have camouflage trousers, and I'm going to wear a tank top (white or black? *ponders*) and carry a big gun (may be reduced to carrying a SuperSoaker if I can't get my hot little hands on something better).
I've started a new job! I now work at Video Ezy. I wear a dorky uniform shirt which flips up in the slightest breeze, my mum's A-line black skirt and some black ballet flats which kill my feet. Tomorrow I'm having a training session with a guy who my friend Adelaide reckons looks like Billy Corgan out of the Smashing Pumpkins. I have a feeling my mum may be eyeing him up as a potential boyfriend for me. *groans* |
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| You know that you're Emily when.., |
[Jan. 10th, 2008|08:56 am] |
... "Hot English girls in sassy little outfits, Lena Headey, Celia Imrie and Stephen Fry" is a perfectly good reason to watch any film, no matter how bad everyone says it is.
My inner hoodlum wishes desperately that my school had been more like this. My little sister watched this film trailer with me- I said to her, "Wouldn't you love to be a horrible little St Trinian's girl and blow stuff up?" She looked at me like I was insane.
So... just me, then? |
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| *snickergiggle* |
[Dec. 30th, 2007|01:20 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | funny stuff | ] |
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"Perfume must be one of the hardest things to sell. I already like it, but which to buy? All I want is a perfume that smells exactly like a fresh, trembling tuberose but what I get is pictures of Elizabeth Taylor looking like she’s totally lost her marbles, 11-year-old girls poncing around in evening gowns with velvet trains, women (who look like they’re struggling with an eating disorder as well as a dirty great bit of kelp) writhing at the water’s edge, a young woman with feathers coming out of her bum wearing a leg leash, a man lurking around with a bunch of peonies, pictures of one naked person giving another a firefighter’s lift, very many pictures of women looking wistfully airheaded surrounded by baskets of floristry and a whole lot of absolute crap written to describe a scent." - Kaz Cooke, Real Gorgeous |
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| Fandom meme! (Pleeeeease, someone ask me about Girltrash!) |
[Dec. 23rd, 2007|09:42 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | fandom, fangirling, meme | ] |
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| | Run and Tell That by Elijah Kelley, from Hairspray | ] |
Yoinked from ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) midnight_united:
Pick a fandom and a number (if I'm especially bored, I might do both for one.)
[1] Pick a fandom you know I know about, and I’ll tell you:
1. The character most likely to fall in love with the wrong person
2. The character whom I'm embarrassed to admit I adore
3. The character that would send me screaming in the opposite direction in real life, despite being fascinating in fiction
4. The character with the most annoying personality quirks
5. The character I most admire and why
6. The character with the worst temper
7. The character most likely to fail at everything
8. The pairings I prefer in canon
9. The pairings I prefer in fanon
10. The character with the most personal growth in canon
[2] Pick a fandom you know I know about, and I'll tell you:
01. The first character I fell in love with
02. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now
03. The character everyone else loves that I don't
04. The character I love that everyone else hates
05. The character I used to love but don't any longer
06. The character I would shag anytime
07. The character I'd want to be like
08. The character I'd slap
09. A pairing that I love
10. A pairing that I hate |
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| Another birthday girl! |
[Nov. 30th, 2007|08:34 am] |
I would like to wish an ecstatically happy birthday to mjknightley. Marie was one of the first people I met on LJ, and definitely is one of the nicest. She's a genuinely caring friend who shares several of my greatest obsessions, and is so much fun to talk to, we can yak away to each other in epic comment threads for days at a time. Have a wonderful day, Marie! *hugs* |
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