Nerdiness of Nic

Been hearing about it forever and finally watched it today (mostly by myself and the end few eps with the gf) and mannnn, I love it. I mean, it's nothing like unexpected in terms of plot but I love ghost stories and I love mild horror and I love drama and angst ridden romance and well, yeah, this has it all. Plus an evil house filled with awesome ghosts.

My favorite is Nora hands down. I squee everytime she shows up in her pretty time period outfits crying about her lost baby. Poor sad Nora. I had a weird moment of shippiness when Hayden showed up to snarkily comfort Nora and talk about dead babies together while hating on Vivian. Also, I really liked Hayden once she died. She's strangely fun as a ghost. She cracked me up when she had sex with Travis and said she just did it to see if she could fuck the living. Anywayyy, Nora/Hayden everybody! lol.

ETA: Livejournal seems to be getting shittier by the moment so I'm going to import my journal over to Dreamwidth and do crossposting from there. If anyone is on Dreamwidth and has some good femslash communities (and otherwise) to recommend let me know. I'll continue to post femslash here as well but with how things are going I should start looking into fic posting places over there. Really didn't want to do this as a creature of habit but LJ keeps making crappy changes and not taking their userbase in account at all.

No real news about AMC move online. We've got Ryan, Cara, and Jesse on the new show. One Life To Live is fairing a lot better with Viki, Clint, Blair, Natalie, John, Tomas, and Sean moving online. I wish we had news about Tea, Jessica, and Todd. Yeah, I'm referring to them by character names and not actors. It's just easier for my puny brain.

Still winding down from going to game seven. That was a party to end all parties. St. Louis loves its baseball and this was a crazy underdog come back from the dead a million times season for us. It's one for the history books and I'm super proud of my hometown team.

In other news Debbi Morgan and Melissa Claire Egan are moving to Y&R. I think Debbi is already on? I haven't been watching Y&R so I don't know. Debbi played Angie on AMC (love her) and Melissa Claire Egan played Annie on AMC. I love love love love love MCE. Her being on Y&R tempts me to try and do a little back history and watch the show again for she is made of fierce.

New Florence + The Machine album is fabulous and Cardinals rule all. I love them forever.

Honestly. This whole thing with the two Todds is torturing me (exaggeration obviously) on One Life To Live. The storyline is delicious, it really is, but it kills me because I know that Trevor St. John is leaving the show before it officially goes off the air in January and while I love Roger Howarth for originating the role of Todd, TSJ owns the role now and I hate the idea of his Todd being the fake one.

Particularly since I love TnT (aka Todd/Tea) like burning and TSJ Todd owns that ship like burning, imho. RH Todd is more about Blair and as much as I love Blair I fangirl more over Tea than her. Just slightly because I do love Blair but Tea is my hands down favorite female character on OLTL closely followed by Tess. Who only got... what... two days of happiness with Ford before Jessica came back? Sadness!

Anyway. OLTL is so fucking good. It always is though. I have irrational loyalty to AMC as my favorite soap but the rational part of my brain has to acknowledge OLTL is the better written soap opera. Probably always has been. I mean, I almost never fast forward characters on OLTL but I do that a lot with AMC. Mostly Jake/Amanda. So dull.

So that's that. I love the two Todds storyline because it's delicious angst and is well written soapy drama but I hate hate hate it's going to rip apart the sheer epic awesome that is TSJ version TnT which is my favorite ship on the show. I just hope that Blair/Tea remain BFF's when this whole thing is through. I love their friendship so.

HOLY SHIT YOU GUYS. Sarah Michelle Gellar is going to be on All My Children before it ends on ABC and moves to the web. Duuuuude. What the hell. Original Recipe Kendall meets her most awesome (and best done) recast? This is crazy. I can't wait.

In celebration of this awesomeness here is one of my favorite Original Recipe Kendall clips. You know, I really really really want Eden Riegel to show up with Elizabeth Hendrickson to just float around in the background with SMG now. It would be delicious. Although Eden never did act with SMG. Just the bad assery that is Alicia Minshew's Kendall.

Or at least, that's what I'd like for them to carve in that tree. You know they have to do it, seriously, it's too ridiculously romantic for them to ignore. It must be done. Anyway, yesterday and today's All My Children proves without a doubt that thus far Marissa is the best girlfriend candidate Bianca has ever had.

( LJ Cut for video proof of Marissa's awesomeness )

I'm in Wisconsin celebrating Fourth of July with Katie's family for a few days but being a nerd I brought my laptop and I open it up to find out about this...



All My Children why are you so fucking awesome right before you get cancelled? I will never get over you leaving me. I will be sad face for a long time. No soap will replace you in my heart. I swear it.

Some negative Nancy's online are being all, "Bianca looks like an awkward straight girl in that kiss." Which, yeah, okay, I give into that analysis but please, give her a break. I don't think I'd be completely passionate kiss after Marissa does a 180 and says she's all into her after claiming to be straight, straight, straight. So, you know, I think we'll get good kisses later, but right now I can see why Binks would hold back some and not completely go for it with that kiss.

I've been neglecting my obsessive All My Children video posting, probably out of depression that my all time favorite soap opera has been cancelled, but no more! It has returned because fuck it all, I want Bianca happy when they end this and I'll throw a severe shit fit pout if it doesn't happen. Also, ditto for Erica and Kendall.

( LJ Cut for a mammoth amount of Bianca/Marissa related AMC videos )

It feels like I'm doing that with all these videos but whatever. It's my LJ I can post what I want. Just a few short scenes with them but I didn't even expect to see more Bianca/Marissa today. Spoilers said we just got two days of them not three but color me excited!

Scenes are at 0:41 and 9:42 minutes in.



Hand holding and discussing of love lives while looking at each other with big affectionate eyes. Hello anvils again. Also, is it just me or do these two just gravitate really close together when they're next to each other? As much as I find all this encouraging I really didn't like the way Bianca looked at the end of that last scene. I don't want her pining over Marissa who is torn betwixt Bianca and JR. If they do this I want Marissa to keep up her stance on JR is crap for me and unwittingly finds herself falling for Bianca because, you know, that's what happens to all of Bianca's women. They start talking to her, they hang out, they're friends, then all of sudden crazy in love! lol. Well, maybe not all of a sudden but Bianca has a thing about making people fall for her.

But she also has been known to angst over people and I had enough of that with the ongoing Maggie saga for several years and I don't want to see it replayed now. So please, no pining. Have Marissa fall for Bianca first or at least acknowledge it before Bianca goes into angst mode because Bianca angsting over women is the worst.

Somewhat boringly but hey, it's leading to Bianca/Marissa bonding, and I sort of like how because of AMC's weird stance against recasting Reese she's never actually there, she's just spoken about and eluded to. Which makes this divorce and custody battle a little easier to deal with in terms of viewer bearability.


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As another seems to be setting sail. For those of you who aren't obsessed with forty one year old soap operas, on All My Children their lesbian heroine, Bianca Montgomery, is currently in the process of divorcing her wife Reese Williams. Ever since Bianca's recast, which was eight or nine months ago, and return to town her relationship with Reese has been reduced to long distance phone calls and elusions that their break up was in the works.

Well, now it's finally happening.

( LJ Cut for AMC videos and soap opera rambling )