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Nichelle Nichols Vs. Eartha Kitt
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Eartha Kitt - (Batman) - No text propaganda
Nichelle Nichols - (Star Trek) - She speaks for herself. Legendary, iconic, at the forefront of feminism and civil rights in the 60s, she is a triple threat who did so much more. She volunteered from 1977 to promote recruitment diversity within NASA, including some of the first female and ethnic minority astronauts. Martin Luther King Jr. compared her work on Star Trek as a 'vital role model' to the civil rights marches. She refused to be dismissed, fought for visibility and shone whilst doing so. As a woman in stem, and simply a woman she means the world and stars above to me.
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Additional propaganda below the cut
Nichelle Nichols:
She is the original badass babe. She was a black woman in a leading role on TV in the 60s, a trailblazer for black actresses for years to come. She is so beautiful and so awesome.
she's fantastic. have you seen her? paved the way for black actresses on TV even while her lines and scenes were being cut and improvised the most iconic uhura line in the series. (sulu: "I'll save you, fair maiden!" uhura, pushing him away: "sorry, neither!") she's incredibly talented and it's a crime the show didn't give her more screen time (or make her sing more often because she also has a beautiful voice!)
“Sorry, neither” in response to “fair maiden” was ad libbed by her. There’s a lot more I could say but what else do you need??
A sci-fi icon!
She was such a trailblazer, and Uhura was such an important character for so many people to be able to see on TV. Apparently Mae Jemison (the first African American woman to go into space) cited her as a reason she wanted to become an astronaut. She was just an absolute legend!
The story of Martin Luther King telling her not to quit Star Trek gives me chills. Representation matters. “Thank you so much, Dr. King. I’m really going to miss my co-stars.” Dr. King's smile, Nichols recalled, vanished from his face. "He said, 'What are you talking about?'" the actress explained. "I told him. He said, 'You cannot,' and so help me, this man practically repeated verbatim what Gene said. He said, 'Don’t you see what this man is doing, who has written this? This is the future. He has established us as we should be seen. 300 years from now, we are here. We are marching. And this is the first step. When we see you, we see ourselves, and we see ourselves as intelligent and beautiful and proud.' He goes on and I’m looking at him and my knees are buckling. I said, 'I…, I…' And he said, 'You turn on your television and the news comes on and you see us marching and peaceful, you see the peaceful civil disobedience, and you see the dogs and see the fire hoses, and we all know they cannot destroy us because we are there in the 23rd Century.'"
She shared the first interracial kiss on Star Trek, helped propel real life African American women into space-related careers, and looks divine in a mini skirt.
HOW DID UHURA WALK BACKWARDS SO FAR??? WOW!
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Shōgun (2024) | Chapter 10: “A Dream Of A Dream” | Favorite scenes
“Let your hands be the last to hold her.”
#GOD. THE FINALE. *sobbing*#john carrying mariko's cross like a lifeline :'(#“Let your hands be the last to hold her.” -> INDEED he was the last one to hold her *THIS SHIP i'm-*#“No translator.”+ the empty space where mariko used to sit... stabbed me right in the heart#the heartbreak on his face at losing his ship after losing mariko and then the joy at it emerging from the waters#shōgun#shogun 2024#shogun hulu#shogun fx#cosmo jarvis#john blackthorne#anna sawai#toda mariko#lady mariko#period drama#book adaptations#historical drama#hulu#tv shows#currently watching#gifs#mygifs#myedits#fx shogun#tv ships#shogunedit#ships#hands#ship dynamics#usami fuji
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A young Christopher Lee guest stars as dastardly Larry Spence - a rising star in the world of journalism, turned blackmailer and then murderer - in The Vise: The Final Column (1.16, ABC, 1955); the episode wasn't seen in the UK until 1963, as part of ITV drama anthology Tension
#fave spotting#christopher lee#the vise#tension#1955#the final column#for more information on the complicated origins of The Vise (a US production entirely made in the UK) see my prev fave spotting post for#Jacqueline Hill's appearance on the series#Lee was hardly a newcomer when he made this ep; he'd been acting professionally since being demobbed a couple of years after ww2 and#was something of a stock player in british cinemas‚ usually in minor bit parts as caddish gentlemen or authority figures and military men#one of his first really significant roles would be later in '55 as a submarine commander in The Cockleshell Heroes#he was also making semi regular appearances on tv in small guest spots‚ albeit sometimes uncredited (as in ITV's The Adventures of the#Scarlet Pimpernel also around this time). a jobbing actor‚ basically‚ and not yet the cinematic icon he would begin (that journey starting#at the end of the decade and the beginning of his association with Hammer studios and horror immortality). he's very good here tho#host and narrator Ron Randell even describes him near the start of the ep as (something like) 'young‚ handsome‚ but sinister' which#may as well have been printed on business cards for the kind of work Lee would find himself doing for the next decade or so#yes he's a real rotter‚ a strangler of ladies and a blackmailer of tycoons‚ and in true Vise fashion he gets his just desserts and the mora#status quo is maintained (this is a very moral series and takes pains to inform us via Randell exactly what kind of punishment the villains#received after the events depicted)#Lee made two more Vise episodes but as Network (rip beloved) seemingly took a random approach to which episodes to include in their#first volume of the series (and obviously as it turned out only volume) i have no idea if either of those are on the set#one can hope! and i do bc it's lovely seeing him so young but with such a meaty role
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when do we as sapphics, create our own streaming platform, filled with all the "canceled after one season" tv-shows and the "scrubbed from the internet" shows/films?? Because fed up with the corporate wlw homophobia 🤬
#no bc then we can have a place for old/new shows we care about#grease rise of the pink ladies#willow#warrior nun#one day at a time#everything sucks#first kill#sense8#a league of their own#also on this sapphic platform we're getting a new KE season 4 finale#and laura neal is literally banned#this is why i don't watch tv anymore
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i do have one patron crush but it's a beautiful sixty year old woman with the world's most chic silver hair she's like five foot tall weighs like forty pounds less than me i could pick her up and she would laugh so beautifully . i taught her how to do peyote stitch at one of the bead workshops and she started coming to our crochet club but ive MISSED EVERY ONE SHE'S ATTENDED. she knows my mom's best friend now because they do food pantry together. she's married . her name is cindy winter . cindy winter i would leave it all for you
#she's like an elf to me. an elegant little elf who always dresses like a cool old lady on tv only she's a cool old lady in my life#sometimes i like to daydream about what it'd be like if instead of a straight married woman with kids she was a single lesbian#and i charmed her with my quarter life crisis and interest in hiking and fiber arts. and in a need to impress her i finally got my life tog#cleaned my house finished my book . and we would garden together and she would wear the neatest straw hat. and#honestly i have not thought what the sex would be like but she's built like a very small ballerina like come on dude#cindy i hope you never find this#dont know why you WOULD but.#what they dont tell you about being older than 25 is that your idea of a dateable person goes anywhere from your own age to like sixty#at least in my experience. how many of those age difference hand wringers are only freaked out abt the concept#bc they havent yet reached their own threshold for acceptable older crushes#like mine doesn't go as far as seventy. yet. but by the time i'm forty it probably will
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in lieu of doing my homework that is due tonight (i will still do it) i have instead invented three cowboy bebop ocs
#still ironing out the final one but the first two#are an old lady who owns a curio shop full of retro stuff and junk#and the tv head robot from an exhibit she went to as a child#she was refurbishing and restoring it when it went missing#so she pays a pretty penny for people to go search places it might be (and for any other old stuff they bring back to her)
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so no one was going to tell me there was a 1988/1989 dirty dancing spin off mini series that existed..........i saw that it was all on youtube and i started going through the first episode and it's actually pretty decent and cute?
#the movie is one of my all time faves so i was surprised i never came across this#i'm flip flopping between watching it and FINALLY my lady jane#also tv! baby/johnny and janeford lowkey have the same banter and dynamic in a way lol#personal#maria rambles#dirty dancing#my lady jane
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#warrior nun#avatrice#hsmtmts#madlyn#willow disney+#willow tv series#willow the series#tanthamore#yellowjackets#taivan#grease rise of the pink ladies#rise of the pink ladies#horror#the parent trap#enamel pins#stickers#final girls#final girl#queer art#shop small#queer artist#wlw shows#wlw art#sapphic#lesbian#bodies bodies bodies#the haunting of bly manor#bly manor#damie#fear street
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MIDNIGHT REVIEWS Shōgun Episode Ten
Well. Here we are. No more Shōgun Day. But it all led to a terrific series finale that ends so unexpectedly.
It was impossible to talk about it without spoilers, but here is my review of Episode 10.
Check out my other reviews and such things, if you like.
#midnightreviews#tv review#tv shows#fx shogun#shogun 2024#hiroyuki sanada#cosmo jarvis#anna sawai#tadanobu asano#lady mariko#to#toda mariko#kashigi yabushige#lord toranaga#torana#yoshii toranaga#japan#feudalism#feudal japan#series#series finale
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Very homophobic of my period to start on the first day of pride month
#fucking cramps#I usually don’t get cramps so like when I got them today I just straight up laid down and stared at my tv for little bit#(btw the tv was playing YOU for background noise i wasn’t just like staring at a blank tv)#and then I took a nap#that added with it being an ‘if I leave my room at all I will disintegrate’ neurodivergent day#safe to say today wasn’t much fun#but hey. rise of the pink ladies finale#nobody cares maddy#maddy says dumb stuff and no one listens#tw cursing#cw cursing#tw all caps#cw all caps
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My media this week (19-25 March 2023)
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📚 STUFF I READ 📚
😊 The Burning Issue of the Day (Lady Hardcastle Mysteries #5) (T.E. Kinsey, author) - Emily & Flo help out some suffragettes
😒How To Marry A Marble Marquis: A Regency Monster Romance (C.M. Nascosta, author) - boring & disappointing - I basically read this overnight from 1-3 am during an insomnia episode or I probably wouldn't have bothered to finish
🥰👂The Forgotten Dead (OutFoxing the Paranormal #1) (Jordan L Hawk, author; Tristan James, narrator) - very satisfyingly spooky ghost story/paranormal investigator + romance! I have the 2nd book but I'm trying to make myself wait for the audio bc I really dug this narrator
😍over the hills and far away (througheden, author; , narrator) - 84K, steddie - just a fucking great 2nd chance fic
😊 The Wolf and the Wallflower (Wolves of the Ton #1) (Devin Harnois, author) - cute enough fantasy/fairy tale regency werewolf queer romance - I did enjoy seeing their OTT HEA! (and compared to the gargoyle romance it was a fucking masterpiece)
And then I started my biannual (at least) reread of The Muderbot Diaries, inspired by my oldest bff finally reading the series!
😍👂All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries #1) (Martha Wells, author; Kevin R Free, narrator)
😍👂Artificial Condition (The Murderbot Diaries #2) (Martha Wells, author; Kevin R Free, narrator)
😍👂Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries #3) (Martha Wells, author; Kevin R Free, narrator)
💖���� +245K of shorter fic so shout out to these I really loved 💖💖
[Podfic] So Loud & So Clear (quietnight (reader); StilesBastille24 (author)) - MCU: stucky, 26K - relisten; good WS recovery fic
I'd Burn the Castle for You [Podfic] (singinginmay (reader); AidaRonan (author)) - Stranger Things: steddie, 3.6K - relisten; absolute forever fave
On the Count of Three series (lightgetsin) - Dresden Files: dresden/marcone/kinkaid, 31K - good & very hot series that starts with the threesome but really kinkaid is just there to buffer marcone and dresden as they work out their issues
Peek-A-Boo (rainbow_nerds) - Stranger Things: steddie, 1.7K - short but super hot and excellent accidental exhibitionism fic
📺 STUFF I WATCHED 📺
Maine Cabin Masters - s7, e11-12
Dickinson - s1, e4-10
Schitt's Creek - s2, e4-6
Where We Call Home - s1, e1-2
Game Changer - s5, e9: "Escape the Greenroom"; s2, e6; s4, e1-2; s5, e1&e3
Dirty Laundry - s1, e1-6
Ted Lasso - s3, e2 [x2]
Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
Black Mirror - s3, e4 "San Junipero"
🎧 PODCASTS 🎧
Desert Island Discs - Jenny Beavan, costume designer
Into It - 'Swarm' and the Killer Beyhive
Switched on Pop - 100 gecs make good bad music
Shedunnit - At Home With Agatha Christie
⭐99% Invisible #529 - The Wilderness Tool
Vibe Check - I Thought Hell Was Hot, but It’s Wet
Off Menu - Ep 184: Nick Mohammed
⭐Song Exploder - Seal - Kiss from a Rose
⭐Twenty Thousand Hertz+ - Insurance Jingles… Why?
Ologies - Domicology (ABANDONED BUILDINGS, RECYCLED HOUSES & GHOST TOWNS) with Rex LaMore
Off Menu - Ep 22: Suzi Ruffell
Into It - Are We Into the Return of 'Succession,' Grounded Nepo Babies, and A24 Casting?
⭐You're Dead To Me - Sarah Bernhardt
Endless Thread - Asking Science About Giraffe
�� MUSIC 🎶
The Go-Go's
80s Sing-Alongs
The Essential REO Speedwagon [REO Speedwagon] {2004}
#sunday reading recap#bookgeekgrrl's reading habits#bookgeekgrrl's soundtracks#vacation week babey!#not much music bc i used tv as background instead#and i felt like i didn't do a lot of reading but i really actually did#the murderbot diaries#outfoxing the paranormal series#fanfic ftw#lady hardcastle mysteries series#why didn't they ask evans?#fucking loved it#great adaptation#finally watched 'san junipero'#which absolutely was as good as hyped#ted lasso#schitt's creek#maine cabin masters#game changer#dirty laundry#20k hz podcast#99% invisible podcast#song exploder#you're dead to me podcast#vibe check podcast#switched on pop podcast#desert island discs#shedunnit podcast#off menu podcast#ologies podcast
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Congratulations to Eartha Kitt! Winner of the Hot Vintage TV Women's Tournament!
It was a narrow victory only winning over Nichelle Nichols by less than 1%. What a nail bitter of a final! Thank you so much to everyone who participated in any way! Please feel free to keep sending in stuff about the hot vintage TV ladies you love while we take the next three weeks for submissions for the men's bracket! We'll be around with information on submitting stars for the men's tournament, sharing our thoughts from throughout this past tournament, and continuing to share hot vintage TV ladies in the interim.
- Sincerely, Mods Vintage and Violet
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anyway. This is gonna fucking rule
#never made these before because I always associated them with like. seven layer dip or whatever that cheese thing is which I am not into#but the recipe I’m loosely following is just graham cracker choc chips walnuts sweetened condensed milk and coconut (five layer bars?)#which are things I like in combination. best part of working in an environment where 90% of regular customers are over the age of 70#is the lady who loves baking but hates eating sweet things so brings us baked goods regularly. she brought in these and I was like#fuck my coworkers and ate way too many 💀 and then went out and bought ingredients and now I finally have the chance to use them lol#anyway the entire house smells so fucking good I can’t wait for these to cool.#also unrelated but i look so cute today fyi. I’ve got on a homemade skirt that’s a similar pink to my hair with a nice flower patter#and a blue sweater that used to be my moms. and I had a lovely morning with my mother as well since she got to go into work later than the#rest of the family today so we went out. my brat cat is finally settling down and I’m going to chill and watch tv for a bit I think while#the bars cool. listening to mcr mad gear and the mussile kid on repeat the last 24 hours as well so I’m in an epic mood for real#like. lubrication. can you turn off all the lights so I can see. etc#anyway Idk why I’m saying sooo much I’m just feeling chatty and self obsessed I suppose haha#followers u get first pick when I’ve sliced the bars. enjoy.#speaking#text#pics#food /
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Pathfinders in Space (ABC, 1960)
"Now, the remainder of us have fifteen hours of oxygen left. That leaves fifteen hours in which to complete our research here."
"Well, what's the good of all that if you can't come back with it?"
"The moon never destroys her treasures, Henderson. We shall leave a record and it'll be preserved in the vacuum of the caves. And the future expeditions you mentioned, they will find it."
#pathfinders in space#1960#children's television#classic tv#abc#malcolm hulke#eric paice#guy verney#peter williams#gerald flood#harold goldblatt#richard dean#gillian ferguson#stewart guidotti#pamela barney#irene sutcliffe#hugh evans#astor sklair#michael guest#the first sequel to the seminal (and sadly entirely lost) serial Target Luna; for reasons best known to the production team‚ despite being#a direct sequel with the same characters‚ every major role was recast for Pathfinders (and so sadly we don't get to see a young Michael#Craze). often described as a precursor to DW‚ and honestly that's hard to deny: this might be the first uk kids sci fi serial to really#nail that family friendly vibe‚ with enough interest for both children and adult viewers alike. it's a rare gift that it exists complete#and finally getting to it i found it a genuinely compelling series. it can be a little cheesy and a little silly in places (adorably‚ our#astronauts take a full tea service to the moon and regularly stop for tea) but i actually ended up learning some stuff about the moon from#this 64 yr old series. Gerald Flood's everyman journalist is a nicely constructed audience avatar but it's missing cheese expert Peter#Williams who gives the orders (and regularly imperils his own children). a lot of fun! well worth seeking out for old tv fans#also needless to say the various miniatures and fx work is frankly adorable.#and shoutout to Prof Mary Meadows‚ it's nice to have a kickass lady scientist in a show this old (and who remains cooler and more capable#than her male counterparts on more than one occasion).
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Rosalind Bennett, Hugh Fraser, and David Suchet in Agatha Christie's Poirot (1989) The Adventure of the Western Star
S2E9
Poirot is thrilled to receive an invitation from renowned Belgian actress Marie Marvelle. She has been receiving anonymous notes about the Western Star, a valuable diamond purchased by her husband at a cut-rate price several years before. The notes speak to the mystical nature of the diamonds and that they should be returned to their rightful owners. The next day, Lady Yardly claims to have received similar notes about her own fabulous diamond, the Eastern Star. When Poirot and Hastings visit Lord and Lady Yardly the diamond is stolen in a daring robbery. Needless to say, none of this sits well with Poirot who finds he has a very tight knot to untie.
*Poirot is seen placing a card with the words "Mlle. Marie Marvelle." on top of the flowers he has brought with him to the apartment before putting final touches to the tea table. When he gazes at the bouquet before he picks it up later on, the card is nowhere to be seen.
#Agatha Christie's Poirot#tv series#1989#1990 episode#The Adventure of the Western Star#S2E9#season finale#robberies#diamonds#Western Star#Eastern Star#Marie Marvell#Lady Yardly#crime#drama#mystery#Poirot#Agatha Christie#based on a novel#just watched#period drama#Rosalind Bennett#Hugh Fraser#David Suchet
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has anyone watched the acolyte is it worth watching or should I not waste my time
#I think I’ll at least check it out for manny but I heard he doesn’t have a prominent role :(#I’ve got several shows on the go atm#just finished this is us making my way through 911 slowly also rewatching glee and humans#started bridgerton too to be part of the zeitgeist and finally watched it’s a sin last week#got big mood we are lady parts s2 on my watchlist and want to rewatch lost#you would not believe I work a full time job with the amount of tv I watch 😅 its just I don’t have a social life
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