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Half Magic is very much a women's movie. Written and directed by and starring Heather Graham, it focuses on three women's attempts to improve their lives and relationships with a little help from each other and some magical candles.



I rarely watch romances and this was in the romance section of Sky Movies but I'd seen wonderful gifs featuring Luke Arnold (Black Sails) and I knew it starred Stepanie Beatriz (Brooklyn Nine-Nine) so I gave it a shot.


Gif from: http://significanceofmoths.tumblr.com/post/171215086687

Sexism, Friendship, Sensuality, Sexuality and Self-Acceptance

Honey (Graham) is working as a development assistant with her asshole boyfriend (Chris D'Elia) who uses her for his sexual gratification over making sure she's enjoying it and puts her and her ideas down at every opportunity. She wants to make his movies less sexist, wants to write and direct her own screenplays. Supported by fellow office worker and a female sponsor, Honey keeps pitching to make the scripts featuring her boyfriend feature more women with sexual agency.
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Personal/Memes
questions and answers meme
whining about writing
what punctuation mark are you
Black Sails S3 – aye or nay?
White Collar S6 – fic requests

Versailles mini recap/review
s1e5-6
s1e7-8
s1e9-10

Indian Summers
Camptown Races audio clip and pics from the show
You Should Be Writing meme pics
What S3 of Indian Summers could have offered
Blake Ritson as Charlie singing nonsense clip
Gifs from S2e08
Picspam; I want my wife
Ride a Cock Horse clip

Gifs

Da Vinci's Demons – message
(DvD/Indian Summers) DvD/Indian Summers
We're Borgias

Graphics: Da Vinci's Demons with Desperado quotes
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I also made and submitted some TFLN/DvD graphics to Texts From Florence: here and here and here

Fic recs

Da Vinci's Demons fic: Under Boughs of Sunlight by emeraldsoul
2 x Black Sails (silverflint) fics by writesometimes
show me the way to go home Black Sails fic by vowelinthug

Article recs

MEDIA
6 reasons you should be watching Black Sails

Midnight, Texas Trailer

SOCIAL ISSUES
tumblr rec of this article, How to Positively Represent Asexuality within Humorous Fiction: Part 2, “Options that can be funny without being hurtful!. ” (Part One by the same wordpress author: How to Positively Represent Asexuality within Humorous Fiction: Part 1, “What to Avoid”)

tumblr rec of this article, Holidays, Holy Days and Harvests

my thoughts and link to this article What it’s like to be called Isis: ‘People ask, where’s your machine gun?’

Link to this article Why we should have fewer children: to save the planet
quotes from and link to this article Stop Having Kids: We Already Have 6 Billion Too Many

Link to article about regretting parenthood
Links to 2 articles on regretting parenthood

A Woman Turned Down An Arranged Marriage ‘Cause The Guy Said She Had To Give Up Her Dog Good for her

Recap/review/rant about S3e08 La Confessione Della Machina. SPOILERS.
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SPOILERS and excessive feelings and over analysis.
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This is not going to be the same format as my previous reviews but then this is one whole big mess of an episode. If you thought it was "best episode ever" then you probably don't want to read this.
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Da Vinci's Demons s3e2: Abbadon
My rambling review/meta about the episode with some side conversations and a couple of pics and gifs. SPOILERS.
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Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang The original post contains information about the film "Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang" and I've reblogged with critical commentary/review of the movie – I enjoyed it, but there are some issues around beauty=good that need addressing.

Gifs 5 x Borgias gifs made by me for a landcomm challenge

Da Vinci's Demons flashback gifs Gifs not made by me, but I've reblogged with commentary on character development, and the skill of the writers and actors, based on this scene and how it changed the way I thought about a character.

Civil Partnerships For Everyone link to an article from the guardian about why Civil Partnerships (rather than civil marriages) should be available to everyone, I quote from the article and associated comments and give some of commentary of my own

Costume Dramas A reblogged link to a post by arrogant historical author Hilary Mantel who thinks she's marvellous (and everything else is crap) because she prizes historical accuracy over anything else (like say, a plot that can be followed, or characters you can root for). I lay out my reasons for not wanting to ever read any of her work, but basically in any genre you can't point to books or shows I love and then say "That crap? Well it's the same genre only my stuff is good" and expect me to regard you with anything other than utter contempt.
In fact another article talks about The Tudors, singled out by Mantel for criticism, as being unfairly derided – "the show actually sticks much more closely and in greater detail to the historical record than any other production" and concludes that "despite the condescending remarks of the British press, the show is actually intellectually far more demanding than “The Six Wives of Henry VIII”. Perhaps its chief offense is being “pop” rather than “literary”. I reblog the article here and agree that it's literary snobbery that is at play, given how the mainstream British press were rude about The Borgias while preferring the low budget Borgia for reasons that seemed to come down "it's foreign".

Crack rambling review of "Wizard" with three images for the legendland rewatch challenge.
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A tongue in cheek review of the episode "Home" for legendland, 600 words approx.

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For the legendland journal challenge, "Puppeteer" review. 690 words approx, 5+ pics, two gifs

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