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I finally figured out how to take some of the pain out of making gifs without ImageReady; mostly it involves cutting out the scene I want and saving it as a .mov, then importing it into CS3. It's a hell of a lot less labor-intensive than capping the hell out of a scene, then making each frame individually in CS3. I sense lots of Rachel Maddow gifs in my future.



Also, I'm going to be in New York this weekend. Saturday I'll be in Central Park, waiting in line for tickets to Twelfth Night. I've got a pretty good book to read; I think I'll be okay. If I do get tickets, my Twitter feed is going to explode with Anne Hathaway. Obviously.

Sometimes when you have insomnia this severe, the only thing you can do is write a story about young Blake and Leighton on expedition with their fathers in British colonial India until a TIGER ATTACK one night separates them, leaving Leighton to be raised alone by her overprotective colonel of a father and Blake to be raised by some overprotective wolves. And then you have to write about how twelve to fifteen years later they meet again when the same tiger tries to finish the job on Leighton. Cue return-to-civilization montage.

I just want to GO TO SLEEP.

It's thelittlebang preview day!

Anne Hathaway is making things gay. And jetgirl78, being the savvy crack dealer that she is, clued me in to this.

Kisses From Anne Hathaway Can Cause Injuries
Audra McDonald stars in Twelfth Night for Shakespeare in the Park this summer. But when we caught up with the actress on opening night, we were surprised to see her on crutches. What happened? "Two nights ago I was running offstage and I ruptured my plantaris tendon, after kissing Annie," she told us, referring to her co-star Anne Hathaway. "It just popped. You know, to kiss Annie is something else. One gets excited and tendons rupture."

I'LL JUST BET, AUDRA. I'LL JUST BET. Anyone who's seen this production of Twelfth Night should feel free to describe what kind of kiss, exactly, we're talking here. Like, she pecks Anne and runs off? That's cute and all, but that costume calls for Anne Hathaway to dip a lady and kiss her, like her ship won't be coming back for a year.



So now my big deal (thanks, shrwyte) is this cracky RPF AU where Anne Hathaway is some kind of noble or lord (or maybe just a plucky young squire) and Cate Blanchett is the eeeevil Comtesse de Blanchett, who has plans on a fair maiden who may or may not be Emily Blunt. She may or may not be Audra McDonald. Rashida Jones might be there. We shall see. There will definitely be some kind of fight or tournament with swords and horseback riding. There will be much gallantry and heaving bosoms.

Bosoms. Heh.

ETA:



BRB, DYING.

G.I. Joe is gonna suck so hard you guys. SO HARD. BUT I DON'T CARE.



Yes, my lady, I will go see you on opening day. I'll brave the ten-year-olds, the fapping fanboys, the bored fratties, and the people who just plain didn't know what to see but wanted to see a movie, dammit. I'll sit through idiotic lines about accelerator suits, slightly off CGI, and who knows what kind of cock rock soundtrack. I do it all for you, Nichols, ALL FOR YOU. GOD I WISH ALIAS HAD HAD A SIXTH SEASON OF YOU KICKING ASS AND MAKING EYES AT SYDNEY.

I'm going to sleep now. And to cry. But mostly to sleep.

You may or may not have seen the pilot for Virtuality by now. All I know is that there was criminal underuse of Clea Duvall, and that the series is probably not getting picked up by Fox. Also, the only really good part used "Alive Alone" by The Chemical Brothers, and they even squandered that, because the sequence was nowhere near as cool as it could have been. You are slingshotting around Neptune, and you show some dinky little CGI, and then when the ship is supposed to be riding nuclear detonations, you just have everyone grinning into the camera? What was that inept fuckery?



Show, you had Clea Duvall as the surly, antagonistic Marine pilot who's into surfing. And you couldn't make a series out of that? Shame. I hope you feel it.

It just gets better and better and better.



"Olivia, please, baby! Emily Blunt was just a thing, I swear, she wasn't serious. You know I come home to you, sweet lips."

"OLIVIA DOESN'T LIKE COFFEE-FLAVORED ICE CREAM. Also, I'm pregant."

A review from Examiner.com

Yet, watching this savvy, thirty-nine-year-old act opposite the sapling Hathaway, I couldn’t help feeling something was off. Shakespeare loves to make fools of his mismatched couples. But there is no way to believe the bounteous McDonald would waste a minute of her time on this callow youth.

EXCUSE ME, HAVE YOU SEEN THE COSTUME ANNE HATHAWAY IS WEARING? It's a wonder the women of Shakespeare's collected works don't burst out of antiquity to get on that ass. Juliet would ditch Romeo at the balcony if that "trousered Viola" sauntered past with a sword at her hip. I said GOD DAMN.

I don't normally use this term, but in this situation I think it's warranted.



UNF UNF UNF. SWORDBELT.



"Why don't you be my girlfriend? I'll treat you good."
"I don't want no scrub."

I think if I actually went and watched this production, I'd just get disappointed that Viola/Cesario and Olivia don't totally do it, in the same way that some friends of mine were disappointed every time when the Titanic hit that iceberg and Leo DiCaprio died. Every time! Does the Twelfth Night Bleighton AU (in which Cesario Lively blows off Duke Westwick for Olivia Meester) already exist? Does everything eventually become a Bleighton AU in my mind?


ETA: MORE WOMEN WITH SWORDS AND ARMOR TO MAKE ME THE HAPPIEST LESBIAN ON EARTH.



Don't know what that is? That is CATE BLANCHETT once again DONNING ARMOR for all the fangirls of the world the new Robin Hood movie with Russell Crowe. OH CATE.

Riddle me this, LJ: which one is Maddow and which one is Cera?

Criminal Minds lolarity tonight, my friends.



1. I was wrong that they just photoshopped an old production photo of Paget for her goth yearbook photo, because JUST LOOK. They did OUTTAKES! And Paget was AMAZING. Hair and makeup must have EXPLODED WITH GLEE that day.

2. I don't know what A.J. Cook is saying and doing there in the picture at the bottom, but I laughed at it.

3. "Need I say more?"

4. wizened_cynic will probably have an opinion on the child on the left, so I'll leave her to it.

5. PAGET PAGET PAGET PAGET PAGET. GOTH. OUTTAKES.

I might be putting more effort into my preview for thelittlebang than my actual assignment. This is a problem.

Wow. Just...wow. Last night. My dreams. Let me tell you them. Because I had two fucking insane standouts.

1. Rachel Maddow: prizefighter
2. I can fly and Blake Lively digs me

1. I dreamt that Rachel Maddow was into bare-knuckle boxing and that this was a commonly known fact, just like how everyone knows she's into being a hardcore mixologist. I got to see her fight Armie Hammer:



And both of them were in sweaty tank tops and I think possibly Rachel was also wearing suspenders, like some kind of old-timey gangster.

2. I was able to fly (although I had to stick my fists out in front of me like Superman to do it) and flying dreams are the best, especially when they're they kind where you can control it. But the cherry on the icing was that Blake Lively witnessed me flying and was all about my superpower. I took her flying with me.

I think my brain was trying to make it up to me after the fail!dream of one my most reviled exes coming back and wanting to hook up again. Also, you'd think a dream about playing baseball with a T-Rex, a velociraptor, and everyone you know from grade school would be interesting, but it was just stressful.

OH MY GOD ANNE HATHWAY JUST DO ME NOW YOU GQ MOTHERFUCKER OH MY GOD.

WHY CAN'T BLAKE LIVELY DRESS LIKE THIS ALL THE TIME??? WHY DIDN'T I GO SEE TWELFTH NIGHT? WILL I EVER GET ANY WORK DONE AS LONG AS THIS PICTURE EXISTS?

ETA:



CAN'T. BREATHE. OH FUCK.

The Shane Bleighton AU needs to happen soon. Although I'm pretty sure someone in Xena fandom has already done it, or something similar. Aren't there tons of Gabrielle-as-gentle-prairie-woman and Xena-as-lonesome-gunslinger-with-a-past fics?

While I'm on the topic of AUs, Ana Marie Cox would be the perfect AU Marion Ravenwood. And Rachel has the intellectual side of Indiana Jones down; I'm sure it wouldn't be hard to also have her punch some Nazis. Well, maybe she'd have Heinrich Himmler on her radio show to question him very thoroughly about what was really going on in all those camps.

And then she'd punch him.

Omg you guys, Rachel Maddow made it to the MSNBC afterparty for the Radio and Television Correspondents' dinner, and Ana Marie is TWEETING about it. In PICTURE format.



Hands, ladies. Let's see those hands.

I know I'm a horrible person (but a GREAT fangirl) when my second thought is "Too bad her husband is there too."

anamariecox The good news: there 7 (7!) open bars at #nerdprom2 reception. But this is a vvvvvvvv bad sign: http://twitpic.com/7ugvh

anamariecox Current solution to #nerdprom2couragefail http://twitpic.com/7uhl0

I am following AMC's twitter and each successive "awwwwww" is louder than the last, because she is sitting there DRINKING ALONE in her nice dress and fancy hair. I want to be like that episode of Friends where Ross throws on a tux to take Rachel to the prom at the last minute because her date hasn't shown up. Minus the part where her date does show up and there's footage of Ross looking like his heart just melted into his jockey shorts.

Awwww. Where's Rachel Maddow when you need her???

ETA: "Awwws" ratchet up another level.

anamariecox I still haven't seen @Hodgman--one of the only people I know here. Also apparently only person at table. http://twitpic.com/7unjg

I thought Sunday was going to be overcast, but then the sun came out and it was absolutely gorgeous weather for a soccer game. I got some decent shots, which almost makes up for losing to the Athletica 0-1.



( The ref was pretty sucky, too. )

Spotted: Wonk and Wonkette
Rating: R
Word count: ~3,750
Fandom: RPF (Rachel Maddow/Ana Marie Cox), The West Wing
Summary: Rachel and Ana go public; CJ Cregg might or might not have planned it that way.

( With a bonus appearance by Kate Harper. )

Stephanie March returning to SVU next season

"NBC declined comment, but an SVU insider says March's pact calls for her to appear in a minimum of 10 episodes next season. The show is expected to introduce one or possibly two new characters to fill the ADA void when Cabot isn't around."

My first reaction was an ecstatic fist-pump. But when I took 15 more seconds to think about it, I realized 10 episodes doesn't mean a thing. When you consider Alex was also in 10 episodes this past season, you realize we didn't really see her very much. What are the odds we'll get another "Guilt," you know? It could be like season one, when they had the revolving door of ADAs. Not that season one was bad; it was pretty fantastic. But Alex being around != Alex actually coming back, and the prospect of getting Cabot drive-bys in little 30-second spurts doesn't really appeal to me. Also, Olivia isn't butch anymore, so some of the spice is gone from Alex/Olivia.

Well, maddow_cox is basically open, but damn if I don't think it should just be maddow_rpf. Because what if someone wants to bring Melissa Harris-Lacewell all up in there? You know?

Anyway.

maddow_cox: inappropriately perving on two married (to other people) women since 2009.

To everyone who voted in my poll, thanks. And if you voted for moxie: the name was already taken. Foiled!