On the whole, I think I will be happier if I don't read any news for the next few days.
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Metzger MeisterIt Gets Worsebefore it gets any better.Registered Userregular
2016 is gonna be one of those years I tell my grand nephews and nieces about (cuz passing on my shitty genes and mental disorders to an innocent child would be cruel as shit so I'm gonna settle on being the wacky gay uncle)
Her last role on screen will probably be Episode VIII, it filmed this summer but won't be out til next Xmas.
I hope we get at least as much of her in Episode VIII. She absolutely nailed it in TFA.
Good quote I saw elsewhere:
She taught countless little girls that being a princess isn't the goal, it's the starting point. Becoming a General and commanding an army is the goal.
I think they actually met and became friends a few years earlier than that when Fry made a documentary on depression (Which he also suffers from) which she featured in.
I think they actually met and became friends a few years earlier than that when Fry made a documentary on depression (Which he also suffers from) which she featured in.
I never really understood people crying over celebrity deaths until today
Heh, I got it back when Terry Pratchett announced he had Alzeimers's disease. In a weird way that hit me even harder than his death. It was the first time that something happening to a celebrity felt like it had happened to a family member.
David Bowie's death hit me a hell of a lot harder than I expected. I never thought of myself as a David Bowie fan. Maybe because I first knew him as The Goblin King in Labyrinth, which made me think I wasn't a fan of the "real" Bowie. It wasn't until the news broke of his death that I felt an emotional gut punch and realised not just how many of his albums I had and listened to regularly, and how much his music had been a feature of my life, but how David Bowie being weird and cerebral and experimental and a bit Queer had seeped into my veins and made me realise slowly but surely as I took my adult shape that I was okay being me.
Don't even get me started on the influence the princess gun toting rebel rescuer of male damsels in distress turned badass elderly general has done to my psyche over the decades.
Fuck this year. But not you, Death. Never you. Let's go have a curry and stroke a few kittens. It'll cheer us up.
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2016 I AM READY TO ASCEND TAKE ME UP INTO YOUR KINGDOM OF TORTURRRRRRE
I mostly just remember when Grade School Cello had to write a report on a woman who inspired her, and she wrote about Leia
There wasn't any other woman I knew of, fictional or real, that made me think I could be that strong or that brave; later I'd find Ellen Ripley or Leslie Knope or a fair few other role models, but she was the genesis of feeling like I could be whoever I wanted so long as I was smart and stubborn and believed in myself enough to let it carry me through the hard times
I'd go back to those movies as I got older and times got tougher and found more to relate to and they honestly just... they mean a lot to me
All I can do is hope her example, on-screen and off, shows another generation of young girls that they can be just as brave and strong as she was
Honestly the only thin, slight glimmer of hope that I have is between this, Jo Cox's murder and Clinton's defeat there's a generation of furious little girls grinding their teeth and whispering "Fuck the Patriarchy!" to themselves every night.
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Der Waffle MousBlame this on the misfortune of your birth.New Yark, New Yark.Registered Userregular
2016 is gonna be one of those years I tell my grand nephews and nieces about (cuz passing on my shitty genes and mental disorders to an innocent child would be cruel as shit so I'm gonna settle on being the wacky gay uncle)
You should consider fostering some people, pass on the memes.
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I think they actually met and became friends a few years earlier than that when Fry made a documentary on depression (Which he also suffers from) which she featured in.
Can I like, just challenge 2016 to a duel or something like that? Anything that lets me end it's reign of terror.
I am deeply saddened, because Ms. Fisher and her performance as Princess Leia was absolutely a part of my formative years, and definitely showed me that girls were definitely on equal footing with guys, and even cooler in some cases. And now I'll never get to thank her for that.
"Go down, kick ass, and set yourselves up as gods, that's our Prime Directive!"
I was scarred for life by Watership Down, not really it's fault tho, more the era thinking everything animated was 100% for kids back then when I was plopped in front of the TV at age 7 or 8 to watch the animated bunny movie on TV while the adults did adulting.
I have a good friend (formerly a colleague for several years) who met Carrie recently-ish at a con, and put the picture up on Facebook. Of course she has nothing but great things to say about her. It is weirdly bringing me some slight - very slight, but still non-zero - measure of comfort to know that the degrees of separation are thus reduced so much.
Strange the way these things can affect, isn't it.
Like, I've personally been fortunate enough to meet several celebrities in my time in various circumstances. Some are, as is the way of these things, genuinely very important to me in some way. All have, rather wonderfully, been awesome to meet (so far). But right now it's kind of like I know someone who, however briefly, met Carrie Fisher.
And of course she was amazing, because of course she was.
princess leia didn't mean that much to me when I was a kid
I figured she was fine, and I never really developed a fetish for her the way a lot of Xers did
but thinking back, considering how much I loved Star Wars and how often I watched it, it is pretty likely that she was one of the main reasons I've thought oldschool misogynist sexism is fucking laughable for as long as I've been able to think about it
Yeah, Princess Leia was always more of a sisterly figure to me. I watched a lot of Star Wars as a kid (so much that no one would watch it with me because I would say all the lines before the characters could) and most of that was before being at all interested in girls. I also had an older sister, and of course identified with Luke (It was only as an adult, hearing people complain about Luke being whiny, that it occurred to me not everyone liked him. I mean, he's the main character! C'mon!). Leia was naturally mapped to the sister position.
Thanks, perhaps, to such influences, I grew up considering women with a basic, default respect (and indeed fear - my sister and I had some real fights) as just another type of people, with their own strengths and goals. The idea that not everyone behaved the same way would initially seem strange, later.
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Oh fuck that.
I will finish out this year
I hope we get at least as much of her in Episode VIII. She absolutely nailed it in TFA.
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Good quote I saw elsewhere:
This is the first good laugh I've had since hearing about this
I dunno how she kept that secret
I thought that was public knowledge? She wasn't shy about it when I saw her back in 2013(or was it 2014?) at the Calgary expo, anyway.
But I guess it wasn't!
*sigh*
Just as a side note, this is an exceptional documentary and everybody should give it a watch.
It certainly helped me work through some issues.
It was really brilliant. Here it is on YouTube
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Heh, I got it back when Terry Pratchett announced he had Alzeimers's disease. In a weird way that hit me even harder than his death. It was the first time that something happening to a celebrity felt like it had happened to a family member.
David Bowie's death hit me a hell of a lot harder than I expected. I never thought of myself as a David Bowie fan. Maybe because I first knew him as The Goblin King in Labyrinth, which made me think I wasn't a fan of the "real" Bowie. It wasn't until the news broke of his death that I felt an emotional gut punch and realised not just how many of his albums I had and listened to regularly, and how much his music had been a feature of my life, but how David Bowie being weird and cerebral and experimental and a bit Queer had seeped into my veins and made me realise slowly but surely as I took my adult shape that I was okay being me.
Don't even get me started on the influence the princess gun toting rebel rescuer of male damsels in distress turned badass elderly general has done to my psyche over the decades.
Fuck this year. But not you, Death. Never you. Let's go have a curry and stroke a few kittens. It'll cheer us up.
I'm pretty broken up about this, guys
I mostly just remember when Grade School Cello had to write a report on a woman who inspired her, and she wrote about Leia
There wasn't any other woman I knew of, fictional or real, that made me think I could be that strong or that brave; later I'd find Ellen Ripley or Leslie Knope or a fair few other role models, but she was the genesis of feeling like I could be whoever I wanted so long as I was smart and stubborn and believed in myself enough to let it carry me through the hard times
I'd go back to those movies as I got older and times got tougher and found more to relate to and they honestly just... they mean a lot to me
All I can do is hope her example, on-screen and off, shows another generation of young girls that they can be just as brave and strong as she was
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We must protect Betty White at all costs.
You should consider fostering some people, pass on the memes.
I used to have a pickle blog called Brine Blessed
Nobody understood why I had the hawk guy from flash gordon as the avatar picture.
Fuck that! Betty White needs to protect us.
Sadly it does not appear to be something one can watch outside of the UK (legally, anyway)
God damnit you fucks. What have we just learned about tempting fate?
I've never actually read the book. I should probably rectify that.
I love the movie, though.
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I am deeply saddened, because Ms. Fisher and her performance as Princess Leia was absolutely a part of my formative years, and definitely showed me that girls were definitely on equal footing with guys, and even cooler in some cases. And now I'll never get to thank her for that.
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But sometimes they're pretty okay
Strange the way these things can affect, isn't it.
Like, I've personally been fortunate enough to meet several celebrities in my time in various circumstances. Some are, as is the way of these things, genuinely very important to me in some way. All have, rather wonderfully, been awesome to meet (so far). But right now it's kind of like I know someone who, however briefly, met Carrie Fisher.
And of course she was amazing, because of course she was.
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Yeah, Princess Leia was always more of a sisterly figure to me. I watched a lot of Star Wars as a kid (so much that no one would watch it with me because I would say all the lines before the characters could) and most of that was before being at all interested in girls. I also had an older sister, and of course identified with Luke (It was only as an adult, hearing people complain about Luke being whiny, that it occurred to me not everyone liked him. I mean, he's the main character! C'mon!). Leia was naturally mapped to the sister position.
Thanks, perhaps, to such influences, I grew up considering women with a basic, default respect (and indeed fear - my sister and I had some real fights) as just another type of people, with their own strengths and goals. The idea that not everyone behaved the same way would initially seem strange, later.