#rizzoli and isles liveblog

[thelastevilregal]

Maybe it's because I just got done working a 12 hour shift but the baby epsiode is so confusing

Why does it have like 7 parents?

[sweettoothedtrickster13]

i forgot that the Jane T.P. tail and her pretending to be Korsack's wife at a yoga studio were from the same ep lmao

[themostfinalofpams]

I'm only on the third episode of Rizzoli and Isles, but, um, there is no way Maura Isles is neurotypical. 

[hilsonapologist]

rizzoli and isles not being about a butch-femme crime solving couple is just about the biggest disappointment like what is even the point of watching that show otherwise

[mrsluthordanvers]

This may seem like a really random question but has writing and reading femslash helped you come into your sexual and/or gender identities? I've been in the Supergirl fandom and other primarily f/f fandoms for quite some time and this is something that I've been wondering about recently.

Yes!!

This got really long, and really rambly, and probably tells more about my experience with fandom then you needed to know to answer this question. But here it is lol

I grew up in a relatively conservative and catholic family with limited access to media both bc of this and bc my family was low income. I remember as a little kid we only had a couple channels and when we did get cable when I was older, my parents would stop pay for it during summer months because they wanted us to go outside.

The only gay media I remember ever seeing growing up in my parents house was Imagine Me & You. I caught it once on TV and I have vivid memories of realizing what I was watching and sitting on the edge of the couch paranoid that my parents would come downstairs and catch me watching it. I remember setting up the remote so that when I hit the quick back button it would take me back to some cartoon channel. And glee. Which I was surprisingly actually allowed to watch. I was always waiting for it to get turned off but it never was.

Both my parents were very big on encouraging reading. When we asked for books, it was almost the only time I don’t remember being told no. I remember I spent tons of time in libraries as a kid and it was one of the only places I was allowed to go after school by myself when I was in junior high. And I loved to write, my mom was always asking her to tell me stories and I was always writing in journals.

Basically what I’m saying is that I really did Not have exposure to the gay community. And looking back it seems really natural that I started reading and writing femslash.

It took me a long time to get into though, and to seek out. Instead I was sneaking Nora Roberts books out of the library at grade 7 because they had sex in them. Sex, I thought, that was safe/healthy/whatever because these were the books my sister was reading. Plus my mom said they were too mature for me, and what’s a better motivator then being told no. I didn’t find famslash until very late into high school bc it never even occur to me that I could be reading cheesy romances that were f/f instead.

My first experience actually reading femslash was Rizzles fics on ff.net. I honestly have no idea how I found it bc at the time I couldn’t have told you what fandom was, or that tumblr existed. The only thing I remember knowing about fanfic was that if you said you read fanfic people assumed you were reading about weird sex about characters and would laugh at you. Honestly I might have only found fanfics bc glee was really big at the same time and I was probably hearing people talk about ships and fanfic even if I don’t remember it now. Either way I found it lol. And I read A Lot of rizzoli and isles fics.

And it helped. Towards the end of high school was when it really started to dawn on me that I might like girls and I didn’t have words for it, I didn’t know there was a community, and there certainly wasn’t people I was willing to ask.

Reading femslash was like opening a door. Suddenly I was being introduced to the same kind of cheesy romance writing I was already reading. I was being introduced to the idea of two women going on dates. Having healthy relationships. Having unhealthy relationships. Soft sex. Rough sex. Falling in love. Getting married. Having kids. And it really started to solidify that I liked women.

Up until that point the idea of being gay scared the fuck out of me bc what I knew was so limited, to me being gay = being alone. It meant I wasn’t allowed to have any of those things and I really resisted that.

Reading femslash was a big part of changing that perspective. It made me comfortable enough to tell a girl at 19 I had a crush on her. It helped me feel like it was okay to tell people I wasn’t straight when I went to university. It prompted me to search out more gay media when I went to university. I started to watch glee again. I watched DEBS, and Imagine Me and You, and Saving Face, and Gray Matters, and Bloomington, and Kissing Jessica Stein, and Loving Annabelle. Basically I went through the LGBT section of Netflix in a year. 

A friend introduced me to tumblr and told me there was a big gay community. I followed some cool people and aesthetic blogs but honestly I still wasn’t quite finding it.

Then I watched The 100 while it was in season 2 in my last year of university. Completely unaware of Clarke and Lexa. I became obsessed lol. They kissed on screen and it was like a switch went off. I don’t know why it was that show instead of anything else I had been watching that spurred me on. But it did. I started looking up accounts on tumblr and following people and reading so so so much fanfic. I had started to find that vast community on tumblr my friend mentioned and started sending people asks and saw people actually answering asks, and posting their art and their writing. It encouraged me to try writing again, and ask a couple people if they would read stuff I posted.

And then supergirl came out and I was soooo excited for it that I started to try mimicking accounts I saw in the clexa fandom. I figured out how to make gifsets, and I liveblogged, and my friend told me to make a side fandom blog or she’d unfollow me lmao. Which I also didn’t know people did. I started this blog just before season 2 happened and it made for the perfect storm. I already had a small following, I was making content (even if it wasn’t great), and Lena got introduced. And suddenly I REALLY discovered how vast the gay community is bc it was suddenly knocking at my door. It was also a big BIG learning curve.

I was reading people’s fanfics and looking at their fanart. I was seeing depictions of different sexualities. And how two characters can be interpreted in such vastly different ways. I was being shown perspectives I hadn’t seen before, some that made me stop and go. Oh. It helped me identify my first label, and then also taught me labels can change, and mine did. I wasn’t just reading fics about two women in a relationship, I was opening fics and seeing me. I saw a piece of fanart of Butch Kara and thought, she looks like me. And then I started to see people writing about butch Kara and commenting about butch Kara and it wasn’t just, she looks like me. It became she looks like me, and that is desirable. And that gave me confidence. I stopped shaving, my wardrobe has started to change, I started buying things I wanted to wear not that I thought I should wear. I learned I wanted people to see me and think I was handsome or attractive before they thought I pretty or cute lol

Writing femslash has a different kind of self reflection. I like to think I have started to notice when I project things on to characters, and think about why those things are important to me. Or why I get defensive over certain headcanons. All things that have made me step back and look at my own sexuality and gender identity. Which honestly I’m still figuring out and is still changing, but I’ve learned that’s okay too (fanfic has also normalized that for me lol)

Art is meant to make you feel things, think about things. I don’t think fanfic or fanart is any different. Sometimes it is just meant to make you feel you horny and sometimes it makes you reflect on whether or not you might be butch. Personally I think it’s very cool that it’s so powerful

[ajawkwardsauce]

I remember when I first saw episode 1 of Rizzoli & Isles I thought I was going to hate Angela and Frost and then I fell in love with lovely, over-protective Angie and I bawled when Frost died. Also. THEY'RE ALL SUCH BABIES. Maura and Jane where destined to be together from the beginning and it is tragic that they never became a couple.

[docholligay]

List of items to be drawn for a January liveblog slot

At the end of this Eight Days event, I’m going to draw one of the shows that was nominated but did not win for an Eight Days style six hour liveblog! This list is for me to more easily have access, but also I love hearing what y’all are excited about! An asterisk STILL indicates that we’ll vote on an episode for me to do. 

THE LIST

Avatar: The last Airbender

Gargoyles

Gravity Falls*

Bojack Horseman*

Over The Garden Wall 

Overwatch Shorts*

Pokemon

The Dragon Prince

Hey Arnold*

Bob's Burgers*

Jem and the Holograms

Little Witch Academia

Ducktales (2017)

Azumanga Daioh

Death Parade

Princess Principal

Oniisama e

Shouwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuu

Yuki Yuna is a Hero

Star Versus the Forces Of Evil

Psycho Pass

Hilda

The Smurfs

Laid-back Camp

Top no werae 2! aka Diebuster

The Good Place*

Black Mirror*

Parks and Recreation*

A Series of Unfortunate Events*

The Haunting of Hill House*

The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina

Xena*3

Firefly*

Star Trek: DS9 

Star Trek: TNG*

Community

Leverage

Veronica Mars 

Orphan Black

Tipping the Velvet

Jane the Virgin

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel*

Jim Henson's The Storyteller

Wynonna Earp

The Curious Creations of Christine McConnell

Rizzoli and Isles

End of the Fucking World

Please Like Me

[randomthingsthatilike1]

i love ur rizzoli n isles liveblog its so funny

i dont know why i’m doing this to myself

[fantasmicprincess]

I need Angela to wear that leather outfit all the time please!

[thelastevilregal]

Like I get with crime shows you have to surprise people with who the murderer is but I can't help but feel annoyed when the statistics are so grossly misrepresented.

Most of these murders should be male on male (that scenario has happened exactly once so far and was also my favorite epsiode).

Not the biggest fan of watching women get brutalized by men (the scenario that has happened the most).

And there are wayyy more female killers than there realistically should be. The one that seemed the most plausible was the one where the stepmom killed her stepson and it was clearly largely racially motivated.

The other two were just plain offensive, implying that a lesbian's greatest threat is other lesbians (her wife no less) and not heterosexual men and the second one being about a woman who was trying to kill her sister's rapists.

The killer of the rapists was arrested and shown to be morally in the wrong even though none of the rapists had had been convicted for their crime. The last surviving rapist was arrested but only because of a technicality. What would Jane have done if the statute of limitations was up? Would she have let him walk away free? While the woman who was doing a public service gets locked up?

I could rant about how stupid I find the framing of that situation for hours but I'll stop here for now. I am really enjoying the show, it just makes me wanna bash my head into a wall sometimes.

[sweettoothedtrickster13]

Me? Crying because Korsack's son thought he didn't care about him? Yep.

[kanikashaykerr]

So are they going after Maura because she means so much to Jane? Find out shortly

[bishopsbelova]

Jane with food is me with food

[aretez]

the first thing to do in maura's list was Jane, we all know that. 

[fantasmicprincess]

Um why are we calling Hope instead of Constance?!

[thelastevilregal]

"My little brother and my partner are falling for a drug dealer" said with such intense earnesty I fucking can't

Noooo not the woman who sells ecstasy oh noooo