#lizzy griffiths

[sailorplanet1997]

Tink’s closest to the least closest friends (including none fairies)

i doubt Tinkerbell plays the favourite here but i do think she get along better with some characters more then others and it might surprise you but Tinkerbell and Zarina despites some simulair experiences they are the LEAST closest friends from all of the characters Tink gets along to, i even added none fairies characters here since it’s only fair in my opinion Tinkerbell and Terence have feelings for each other but won’t admit it because they act really differently towards each other in good ways, besides Tinkerbell have her redemption and changed herself for the better because of Terence (he taught her almost everything in the lost treasure movie and Tinkerbell have stayed in pixie hollow 2 times because of him, she mostly feels so miserable without Terence by her side after their fights, i doubt she act like this towards her other friends) she gets along with Periwinkle very well too, in less then a day already, i feel like they can tell each other everything without being confronted or anything, they also defended for each other to Lord Milori when he confronted them Tink’s closest friends from the group and the third closest friends from everyone is Vidia in my opinion, they are opposite characters, likes, dislikes and even their personalities are the opposite from each other don’t get me wrong about this but despites that they get along with each other very well and rather works with each other when things get serious as helpfull, brave and responsible fairies and allthough they often clash with each other, they cares for each other and whenever one of them are angry or frustrated, they literally calms each other down (Vidia is often doing that job towards Tinkerbell though and she said it herself to Periwinkle how Tinkerbell can be difficult to handle at times but still ends up doing the job since she became into Tink’s picture) ironic how they used to be enemies at first but after the human event have happened they actually became close friends to each other (thankfully for Vidia’s mistake and the past that got the best of her, she wanted to become a better person, mainly for Tinkerbell but also towards the others, she felt like she was the reason it puts Tink in danger so she felt responsible for her actions and for that reason she wanted to save Tinkerbell from the humans and instead of staying enemies with Tinkerbell she wanted to make it up to her at somehow but had no idea how but all turned out very well as she and Tinkerbell made amends with each other moving everything in the past and became close friends after it became from rescue to rescue, Vidia used not wanting everything to do with Tinkerbell but all have changed as even Vidia have a heart not wanting Tinkerbell to die from the humans, Tinkerbell was very lucky Vidia did all that for Tinkerbell in the third movie, she even spoke for Tinkerbell towards the others, she even put everything aside to rescue Tinkerbell, she just wanted the best for Tinkerbell’s sake) these are actually my top 3 who Tinkerbell gets along with the best then comes Lizzy, Tinkerbell was afraid of Lizzy at first but quickly started to have a friendly bond with each other and spends the time with each other, they obviously want to make each other happy, they taught stuff from each other then comes Fawn, they understand each other, are supportive towards each other, have each others back if one or the other have troubles, are loyal towards each other, cares for each other and are sympathetic person, their likes, dislikes and even their personalities are simulair to each other, Fawn is the only one who spends alone time with Tinkerbell in almost each movies, they are the most think alike from the group or even outside the group and barely disagrees with each other (Fawn almost completely act like Tinkerbell in her own movie, it looks like she’s not herself anymore and decided to steal Tink’s personalities and Tinkerbell act like Fawn in the legend of the neverbeast movie) my top 5 and now i’ll go with the other 5 and so on

Blaze as the second from the none fairies but the 6 closest friend in general, they had rocky starts and despites their arguments they actually really care for each other and worked together, Tink wouldn’t make it out of the situation alive if it wasn’t for Blaze, he helped her through everything then comes Silvermist because they are both bubbly, understanding, caring, friendly, optimistic, supportive, loyal, helpfull, welcoming, open-minded and sympathetic characters that will do everything to make others happy, both think of a solution on a situation even if it’s bad, they are trying then comes Rosetta, she’s not that close with Tinkerbell but they gets along with each other very well and barely argues but Rosetta complains about like everything so i’m sure Tinkerbell gets irritated by it, they cares for each other no matter what

then comes Bobble and Clank because they are rather co-workers then an actual friend to Tinkerbell, they both gets along with Tinkerbell and cares for her well-beings and they won’t mind working with her but they are not that close to Tinkerbell then most friends do then comes iridessa because they are the exact opposite and will clash with each other and i’m sure it annoys Tinkerbell since they have like almost the exact opposite personalities, the exact opposite likes and dislikes, iridessa does save the day at the end but it needs convincing to do, mostly thanks to Tinkerbell who puts everyone in danger, i feel like the only reason iridessa befriended Tinkerbell is because iridessa was already in the group before Tinkerbell was even born, they get along but they are not that close friends in my opinion (iridessa rather NOT want challenges at all, dislikes Tink’s ideas the most, needs more convincing to do in general, rather stays out of troubles and panics very easily about the situation most of the times, she needs more convincing to do then Vidia in my opinion) this is my top 10, we only have 3 characters to go after iridessa it’s Cheese but they are rather allies then friends, other then the first movie, and a tiny bit from the third movie and 1 speaking line in the fourth movie they don’t have any interractions with each other then comes Gruff, they are not friends but they aren’t enemies neither last but not the least one is Zarina so can you completely blame me? Zarina was an antagonist and only get along with each other briefly, the only reason Zarina redeemed herself is thanks to Tinkerbell and the other girls who have saved her i’m surprised they have almost the same experiences, their personalities are at somehow alike yet get along with each other the LEAST when you expect them to get along with each other, it’s kind of the opposite to me these are my ranks about Tinkerbell with characters who she have met so far

[firelance2361]

She Lives Life In Her Own Little Fairy Tale

Just a follow up piece I did for my Great Fairy Rescue-inspired piece, with a new design for Lizzy Griffiths as a fairy.

Hope you like it!

[rambleonwithrosie]

Inspirational female representation is not flawless girl-bosses. It never has been. That's another one-dimensional unattainable version of perfection same as the 50s Housewife was. We can't all be Aunt Bea or Black Widow those are caricatures of what it means to be a woman and only highlight limited aspects of femininity without character growth or nuance. Assassin is no more of a personality than cook is.

Inspirational female representation in media is women who make mistakes and are still given value even after blundering. It's Anne falling off a roof. It's Evie wrecking a whole library and nearly ending the world. It's Eowyn in a suicidal depression riding into battle with the goal of dying. It's Lizzie believing everything Wickham says about Darcy.

It's Anne learning that you shouldn't fall for a bully's bait and pride has its place and it should be kept there. It's Evie learning that maybe don't assume something is safe because sometimes it definitely isn't, whether that's ladders or big black books. It's Eowyn learning to love herself and that she doesn't have to prove anything to anyone. It's Lizzie learning not to jump to conclusions about people's character.

It's the space for mistakes and growth. These characters are loved and lovable before, during, and after their mistakes. While they learn from the mistakes they make there is no pressure that from that moment on they are perfect and do nothing else less than perfectly (the mummy sequel doesn't exist here because they made Evie into a cardboard cutout of who she had been in the first film and stripped her depth and warmth). These women are allowed to fail, learn, and grow. They are also some of the most resonant characters in the history of women in literature and film. Who here consumed the media where they are represented and didn't feel akin to at least one of them in some way?

[birdawgg]

shout out to sweet adorable royal ladies who do no wrong and just want to be loved, gotta be my only gender

[odd8ball]

"There's barrels of fun for everyone and you'll get treasures by the ton! 🎵"

Shhhh he doesn't know it's not a character James does.

Enjoy more of this crack ship.

[shinigami-striker]

November 2023 Birthdays | Wednesday, 11.01.2023

Here are the upcoming birthdays for this month (November 2023) down below:

Thursday, 11/2 - Josh Grelle | Lizzie Freeman

Saturday, 11/4 - Chris Cason

Tuesday, 11/7 - Reba Buhr

Wednesday, 11/8 - Phil Parsons | Rachael Messer

Thursday, 11/9 - Kevin Afghani

Friday, 11/10 - Trevor Devall

Sunday, 11/12 - Lex Lang

Monday, 11/13 - Christina Kelly

Tuesday, 11/14 - Amanda Winn Lee | Jessica Straus

Wednesday, 11/15 - Alejandro Saab

Thursday, 11/16 - Andrew Love | Caitlin Glass

Saturday, 11/18 - Austin Tindle

Monday, 11/20 - Tyson Rinehart

Tuesday, 11/21 - Sean Schemmel

Saturday, 11/25 - Molly Searcy

Sunday, 11/26 - Ike Amadi

Wednesday, 11/29 - Jason Griffith

[thedoctorwhocompanion]

What Is Doom's Day? Your Complete Guide to the Multi-Platform Doctor Who Event

What Is Doom's Day? Your Complete Guide to the Multi-Platform #DoctorWho Event

More details have appeared on the merchandise soon to be released as part of this year’s multi-platform story Doom’s Day. Said to be ‘the universe’s greatest assassin’, new character Doom has to embark on a 24 hour quest to find the Doctor, in the hope the Time Lord can save her from ‘the ever-approaching Death’. It’s fair to say that the initial response to Doom’s Day back in March was less…

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See what's coming in July from Fantagraphics

See what's coming in July from Fantagraphics #comics #comicbooks #graphicnovel

Werewolf Jones & Sons Deluxe Summer Fun Annual by Simon Hanselmann and Josh Pettinger In the tradition of the once ubiquitous British hardback annuals comes the Werewolf Jones & Sons Deluxe Summer Fun Annual! One hundred fun-filled seasonal pages of spoofs and goofs for the whole family to enjoy (no minors allowed)! Featuring fun appearances by beloved friends of the family such as Megg, Mogg,…

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featuring tag dump

[sailorplanet1997]

here are MY ranks from good, does the job and the worse duos

great duos/teams characters:

1: Tinkerbell and Terence (without doubt, they have chemistry i don’t see it in other fairies and their personalities are SO different, just exactly what they both needs and even if they DID had flaws at first, they took their responsibilities for their mistakes so all is great, an another bonus one is that Terence kept Tink’s situation as a secret and thoughtfull enough to do all the damage control and cover things up FOR Tinkerbell so the others won’t get involved in her mess, they realized they needed each other after some fights and to mention about risking each others life, it’s so romantic)

2: Tinkerbell and Periwinkle (best communications in my opinion even if they made a small mistake, they takes their responsibilities for their mistakes, they won’t need convincing to do to stick by the plans) 3: Tinkerbell and Vidia (despites their differences and disagreements most of the times they are being there for each other and one of the other insist of helping even if it’s a bad idea, i barely sees flaws in them, they are especially seen to team up with each other then the rest of the gangs and Vidia can partly control Tink’s temper, also because they puts all of their differences and everything aside to focus from what needs to be done they are true friends!!)

4: Vidia and Silvermist (Vidia rather teams up with either Tinkerbell or Silvermist then anyone else for some reason)

5: Silvermist and iridessa (they help each other out, they are the same yet so different at the same time too but they’re still really good as a team)

6: Tinkerbell and Blaze (despites a few fights, they saved themselves out and help each other out, it’s cute, they survived lives by working together DURING a mission)

7: Gliss and Spike (because of the opposite personalities that might can work out, the one that wants to take a break while the other one is a very hardworking person who WANTS to practice, it can go both ways, either by taking a break or go to work again)

does the job duos/teams characters:

1: Tinkerbell and Lizzy (they have a special bond with each other and despites putting the others in danger trying to save Tink, it turns out to be good but the way they confronts the dad makes me gonna place them as “does the job”)

2: Tinkerbell and Silvermist (they are the same but so different at the same time, like they are both helpful and optimistic persons but both are extremely idealistic besides half of their influences are the same)

3: Silvermist and Rosetta (they’re good but based on their personalities it’s a meh to me, still not bad duos though)

4: Silvermist and Fawn (because they’re different yet so alike at the same time, they are always a yes person and just like i said from above Silvermist is a idealist and Fawn is all into dirt and playfull still yet not the worse team but they’re not a good team at the same time neither, so more like in between, they DOES at times comes in as handy though)

5: Vidia and iridessa (might have to do because they are both reserved and think through stuff, very protective ones, won’t support the ideas when it involves dangers but they’re gonna be an okay team to me)

6: iridessa and Fawn (they can comes in as handy no matter how different they are in most parts and sticks together, they also have each other back, Fawn just intervene first then iridessa, so more like “does the job”)

7: Tinkerbell and Bobble (because they’re both clumsy, they both have a temper but they never had anything against each other or anything that’s why i don’t rank them so high)

8: iridessa and Rosetta (they both think too much about the damages instead of what’s more important so all the fightings makes sense at times but they work things out at the end)

9: Tinkerbell and Zarina (i was close from ranking it worse but at the same time they did a good job when these 2 girls beated james so all ended well)

10: Rosetta and Chloe (they have opposite personalities and they had rocky starts thanks to Rosetta but they were doing great at the finale race and i love when the one and the other are doing their efforts to do better)

worse duos/team characters:

1: Tinkerbell and Fawn (their personalities are almost the same and will put others in danger but the misscommunications are hilarious that leaded to its awkward situations so i rank it a little higher then the upcoming duos)

2 Clank and Bobble (they often argues with each other and their personalities makes sense too but it’s still very funny to me how they are both very clumsy and leads to its awkward situations)

3: Tinkerbell and Clank (just like the first 2 above ones, i feel like they are gonna mess things up as 2 Tinker fairies but still really hilarious)

4: Tinkerbell and Rosetta (they both have a temper even though they never had anything against each other i feel like they are gonna argue sooner or later so it’s a meh yet bad duos)

5: Rosetta and Fawn (simply because Rosetta is a girly girl person while Fawn is a tomboy person, the one is all into playfull and getting dirt while the other one is all into beauty and oh so against getting dirt and mud and Rosetta thinks more about the disasters and judgemental then Fawn)

6: Tinkerbell and iridessa (because it doesn’t really match to me, Tinkerbell is all into dangers, adventures and stuff while iridessa avoid what Tinkerbell is doing and their personalities explains a lot too)

7: Fawn and Vidia (simply because the one isn’t supportive while the other one makes fun of that certain person when it’s deadly serious, something tells me they can’t work as a team for some reasons)

8: Rosetta and Vidia (they get on each others nerves and both have a temper, i just don’t have the vibes with them to work as a team)

9: Fawn and Nyx (allthough they both did what was right, it made a situation even more worse when it comes to weathers and Gruff, all ended well but still but maybe it’s because they were ENEMIES)

10: Tinkerbell and Peter Pan (to mention the Peter Pan version if that counts? compared to ALL of the above ones, they simply doesn’t care for each other, they are toxic towards each other and Tink act like a villain, the only teams they work things out is when it’s the right time to beat the pirates but that’s REALLY rare)

i shared it on instagram but i forgot a few of the fairies there so i rank it WITH a update, Peter Pan is the exact opposite from Terence, that’s why Tinkerbell is on the highest list with Terence yet SO low with Peter Pan at the same time, both have changed Tinkerbell in other ways

Terence have good influences on her while Peter Pan is the exact opposite of it, it explains a lot why Tinkerbell became SO mean in the Peter Pan but redeemed herself because of Terence in her own movies

with the expections of Peter Pan, all the other duos still cares for each other at the end no matter what, just NOT Tinkerbell and Peter Pan

[hpowellsmith]

Recommendation request! books/stories/games with trans guy or transmasc love interests because I read a dark erotica anthology about queer masculinity* and although there were some trans guy protagonists, there weren't any trans men treated as objects of desire**, and it made me realise I've really not read many. And I would like to read more!

So I would love recommendations:

something at least a bit steamy

I'm less interested in positive rep (whatever that means) than in characters that draw you in and don't let go

I'm not very into a highly quippy/bantery sort of style of dialogue/narrative

I'm not super interested in adorable smol bean trans guy love interests currently, unless there's something weird going on with them underlying the adorableness

I don't mind bigotry being depicted, but a cis protagonist having weird feelings about the fact that they're into romancing a trans guy is not of interest to me (weird feelings about things other than the character being trans are great)

Trans protagonists are not a must but are a great bonus

Varied genres welcome especially horror and erotica, but I'm not in the mood for YA right now. I'm on the fence about contemporary romance - I loved Make You Mine This Christmas by Lizzie Huxley-Jones because it had such heart but I think it really needs to have solid, substantial foundations for me to keep focused

Some queer fiction I've enjoyed in the last year or so: The Companion by EE Ottoman, Wrath Goddess Sing by Maya Deane, Summer Sons by Lee Mandelo, Spear by Nicola Griffith, The Others of Edenwell by Verity Holloway, Real Life by Brandon Taylor, Dead Collections by Isaac Fellman, Make You Mine This Christmas by Lizzie Huxley-Jones, anything by May Peterson, anything by Rien Gray

*not to diss the anthology by any means: I liked a lot of the stories in it, and I'll be posting a bit about it at the end of the month, just that I noticed that all the guys the protagonists were interested in were cis

**in this case "love interest" wasn't really applicable because of the nature of the stories - I'm happy to read stories where the relationship isn't so much of a love thing, as well as romantic or aromantic stories but I would enjoy some spiciness and a depiction of trans men as highly desirable

[victimsofyaoipoll]

Round 4

Casca

She is part of a weird fucked up love triangle with two dudes. All three of them are honestly kind of terrible for each other but she gets shoved aside in favor of the two dudes in most fics and is not allowed to grow past the toxic relationships of her past. Also she’s a cis woman who dresses pretty masculinely (because she’s in a mercenary band) so she gets type casted as the mean lesbian friend, when she’s straight in canon

I've seen more than one Yaoi Shipper say that Casca should have died during this one big canon event as opposed to being assaulted by one of the people in the Yaoi Ship, which of course conveniently would remove her from the narrative and as an obstacle to said Yaoi Ship. Aside from that specifically, though, I think it's particularly cruel to imply that being killed is a better outcome than being a victim of SA, and is an example of the contempt fandom on the whole has for female characters who act traumatized - particularly when both male characters in the ship have similar trauma and its never implied they should have died rather than be assaulted.

She's an incredibly interesting character in her own right with really good dynamics and parallels to Griffith and Guts, and the way those three play off of each other is integral to the story, but most of what I've seen completely ignores her in favor of focusing on only Griffith and Guts

Elizabeth Midford

She started as just a cutie fiancée trying her best, turns out she's also a swordfighting genius, very under pressure to perform feminity in the Victorian Rose type of way. Fandom crucifies her bc she's Ciel's fiancée and they want him to be with his butler, Sebastian, the demon he sold his soul to for revenge

anime was a shitty canon divergent adaptation that butchered her character down to her "cutesy silly girly" persona, which obviously made the 2008 anime fans hate her with a passion (nothing wrong w being girly I'm just saying the adaptation made her super one dimensional) anyways fujoshis used to treat her as a villain because she's the fiance of Ciel,, who as u might know already was HEAVILY shipped with his butler, Sebastian back then (now it's kinda looked badly upon, nice tbh that ship sucks ass xD) She's a bit similar to Misa Amane from death note in the way she was treated. (Like an obstacle the yaoi ship must overcome rather than a person)

she's my silly little rabbit! i could gush about her character but i'll keep it short and just say that she's really well written and one of the best characters in the series. anyways she's ciel's fiance and she's like, rightfully annoying as any other 13 yr old girl would be but the fanbase fucking crucified her for even existing. she gets demonized for being 'annoying', but then ciel gets yaoishipped with an even more annoying guy. there is 100% an argument that lizzie/ciel is weird bc they're cousins (i personally don't ship it) but that falls flat when her detractors then ship the 13 yr old ciel with an eons old demon who Canonically looks like his father. the anime also never reached her main character development until years after its peak and that was only in a movie, so she really got the bad end of the stick here. not me though i had a giant crush on her when i was 12

[ar3s-r4t-qu33n]

Masterlist and Intro

I'm Lizzie, I'm a writer (or trying to be) and a big ol' horror and thriller fan. I mainly write little analysies on the things I'm into, but I am looking to post more of my writing so I'm starting with more fanfic-y stuff so that folks can get a taste for what I can do before sharing more of my personal work. I also make edits occasionally but they're nothing special haha

Masterlist:

Fandom:

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (Game):

Rush Week: Initial Thoughts

Rush Week: Victim Observations

Sally Hot Take

Johnny's Bluffing

Why I Think Johnny Kills Danny (Before the Events of the Game)

Nebulous Slaughter Family Headcanons

Why I Think The Luggage Room Was Sissy's Bedroom

The Outlast Trials:

Me, Being Hilariously Bad at the TUTORIAL

The Insomiac: Reagent Fic

Chapter One: Reawakening

The Insomniac: Documents

Reagent 3001

OC Stuff:

Mood Boards for my Girlies <3

Mood Board Sources

Edits:

Roxy Morgan Art/In Game

Star Griffiths Art/Lore (gotta beat Gun to it with the characters since we DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THE SORORITY GIRLS YET (19/09/2024)!!!)

'They Both Reached for the Gun' TCM

Franco Barbi Edit

Sissy Slaughter Edit

Franco Barbi Edit II

Personal:

'Mama's Boy' Intro Post

'Mama's Boy' Excerpts

[bitewrites]

★ — writing partner search! … i'm a long - time roleplayer with 10+ years of writing experience who is returning to the rpc and looking for a few new [hopefully long - term] friends to write and explore fandoms with. currently, my interests are focused entirely on the vampire diaries universe — tvd, the originals, and legacies.

i'm 25+, reside in the est timezone, and enjoy writing both female and male characters. i prefer para and novella - style threads, but enjoy text and multi - character threads as well! i'm a big fan of angst, hurt/comfort, fluff, horror, smut, and open to writing against original characters!

if you find that you are interested, please send me a message! i am more than happy to answer any questions, offer writing samples for you to view, and see if we share similar thoughts and interests before moving to discord! ☆

— characters i currently write … hayley marshall, klaus mikaelson, hope mikaelson, davina claire, caroline forbes, lizzie saltzman, landon kirby, bonnie bennett, rebekah mikaelson, jackson kenner, aurora de martel. — characters i would love to write against … hayley marshall, klaus mikaelson, hope mikaelson, kol mikaelson, camille o'connell, bonnie bennett, elena gilbert, lizzie saltzman, josie saltzman, freya mikaelson, landon kirby, damon salvatore, rebekah mikaelson, milton 'mg' greasley, rafael waithe, marcel gerald, elijah mikaleson, cleo swoande, vincent griffith, enzo st john, ethan machado, stefan salvatore, aurora de martel, tristen de martel, and jackson kenner. — potential romantic ships … hayley x klaus, hayley x elijah, hayley x jackson, klaus x camille, klaus x caroline, klaus x aurora, hope x landon, hope x lizzie, hope x cleo, hope x rafael, davina x kol, caroline x stefan, lizzie x mg, lizzie x ethan, lizzie x rafael, landon x cleo, landon x lizzie, bonnie x enzo, bonnie x damon, rebekah x hayley, jackson x freya.

[odd8ball]

[jastersmohnson]

Lizzy Caplan’s full thoughts on the “Monkey Business” episode

This is from an article that was published in December.  I just discovered it (apologies if it’s already been shared), but I thought it was pretty illuminating.  I had no idea that Lizzy had such distain for the scene, I do feel very sorry for her.  It’s bizarre that Michelle Ashford and the writers insisted on the storyline making it to air when the cast and crew seemed fairly vocal about it being a bad idea, and the critics and audience have almost unanimously agreed that it’s the worst episode of the show by several degrees.

So here’s Lizzy’s full thoughts on the scene/storyline, filmed on her birthday, June 30, 2015:

“This was season three, which was not our strongest season — like, objectively and for some very valid reasons that are not worth getting into now. It was not as refined, let’s say, as the first couple seasons.

“So, it was summer. We were deep into shooting the season and one weekend Annaleigh Ashford, who is amazing and lovely and was on the show, she was doing a cabaret show in Las Vegas. A bunch of us decided to go. My birthday was that upcoming Monday and it was also the very early days of dating my now-husband. We wanted to go have this fun, early birthday Vegas weekend.

“It was a perfectly debauched weekend and then we flew back to LA Sunday night and I was in pretty rough shape. Very hung over. Like, Vegas hung over. And then Monday morning, crack of dawn, I had to be back at work.

“We were shooting in Griffith Park all day. It was easily 100 degrees outside. So hot and there was not a lot of shade and I was still feeling pretty bad from the night before. Exhausted, nauseous, overheating in all those wool clothes that people wore back in the 50s, with 30 undergarments underneath.

“And I’m also dreading the scene we had to shoot that day. I had been trying to convince myself that it wasn’t going to be as bad as I feared because this is a respectable show! The setup of the episode — I have never watched this nor will I ever watch it — was that esteemed sex researchers Masters and Johnson are called to the St. Louis Zoo because their gorilla just won’t mate and (the zoo staff) are tearing their hair out and they need help. And who are you going to call? Sex researchers.

“Somehow Masters and Johnson come to this realization that this frigid — I don’t even know if you can use the word ‘frigid’ for a male gorilla? — but this frigid gorilla needed motivation to get there. So my character, Virginia Johnson, does the most obvious and logical thing, which is to expose her breasts to the gorilla to inspire him to mate.

“When I tell you the amount of times we tried to push back on this storyline (laughs) to no avail. So here we are on set, it’s happening.

“And I remember this very, very vividly: I was feeling physically terrible, but also a deep, deep, deep embarrassment. I think it was hour 13 of what ended up being a 16-hour scorching hot day. And I’m unbuttoning my blouse to show my boobs to a man in a gorilla suit. And also, please don’t forget: It was my birthday.

“The camera was focused on my back, so you didn’t see nudity. You see me from behind, opening my blouse — I’m 90% sure it was only from the back. Again, I haven’t seen it. From my understanding, I wasn’t showing nudity, but it was very implied. And nudity was not uncommon on that show.

“So I remember looking over at the camera guy and I just saw the pity on his face as he’s mouthing: ‘I’m so sorry, I’m so sorry.’ And he was actually a camera guy on ‘Fleishman is in Trouble,’ so we were just reminiscing about this.

“So I do the thing and I’m filled with a deep guttural shame — I didn’t want to do it but I had to do it. Then (laughs), the man in the gorilla suit — who is the only person on set having a worse day than me because it’s a billion degrees outside and he had to spend the whole day in this gorilla suit — he, in character, reacts to this display and then the gorilla is in fact inspired (laughs) by a human woman flashing him her breasts.

“And then the guy proceeds to go and start mating with the female gorilla.

“But the really crazy thing is that the guy in the female gorilla suit? That was the male gorilla’s actual son.

“So he had to look at me, and then make his way over to his son and pretend to mate with him.

“And I just wanted to walk into the ocean and die. That was the worst moment I’ve ever had at work.

“Working on that show was one of the most collaborative experiences, which was probably why this felt extra strange. There were things that pushed my level of comfort, but certainly, it was all my own choice and I was aiming to push it. I was never pushed by any producers to do anything I didn’t want to do — up until this point. There were a lot of times on that show where I had to steel myself in my trailer beforehand for scenes that I really believed in, but I was never pushed into doing anything. Which is why this felt like such an anomaly.

“When I signed up for this show, I had a pretty good idea of what might be involved. But it’s safe to assume that I did not anticipate I would be asked to show my breasts to a man in a gorilla suit in order to inspire the gorilla to mate.

“But also that’s what made everybody so sad. This was a show that was so respected and deservedly so. This is one of the jobs I’m most proud of ever, I’m so happy I was in this show. But there was something stinky about this third season. And to all of a sudden go from this lofty level of prestige to flashing your breasts to a gorilla — that feels like a pretty steep drop.

“The scene was made up, I say that with 99% certainty. I think they really were asked to go to the zoo, but I highly doubt — because it doesn’t even make sense! I don’t think this is how animal psychology works. I have no degree in animal husbandry, but I think it’s safe to assume this was a flight of fancy from some writer.

“Michael Sheen was as horrified as I was, if not more so somehow. Nobody wanted to look anybody else in the eye the whole time (laughs), it was horrifying.

“And it was so clear that everybody — the crew, who feel like the true team you’re playing on — we all felt the same. I couldn’t wait to get to a point where this was funny. But in that moment, it didn’t feel funny to me at all.

“I was probably a little more afraid to speak about this thing, even in a joking way, at first. But we had to do some press pretty soon after and Michael Sheen just went right into how stupid this gorilla thing was (laughs).

“I can’t imagine what this was like for the two guys in the gorilla suits. And they were clearly the best in the business. They were great at being gorillas! But you need therapy after that.

“I just imagine them driving home in complete silence (laughs) not knowing how to process the day.

“Perhaps we should employ the use of female breasts to solve all the world’s problems. Female breasts will heal the world — or at least, the world of the frigid gorillas in 1950s St. Louis.

“When I heard about this column, I knew there was no other story that would hold a candle to the level of deep shame I felt. I was feeling anger when I got home at the end of that day, but my boyfriend and I had this dinner reservation, and by the time we went to dinner, I was a shell of a human. It was definitely a memorable birthday.”