Spike in Space!
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shadowscastMy husband* had a wonderful surprise for me when I got home from work today: a taped episode of "Andromeda" with Spike in it! Er, well, James Marsters really, but the character was pretty darn Spike-like on the surface, what with the bleached hair and the kinda British accent. Hee! I squealed and everything.
How is it that I didn't know this existed? I mean, I'm an obsessed fangirl. Shouldn't I know about James Marsters having appeared in other sci fi series? (Andromeda's a show I've seen enough eps of to be intrigued, but not enough to really understand what's going on.)
*use of the term "husband" not meant to imply that I'm straight
How is it that I didn't know this existed? I mean, I'm an obsessed fangirl. Shouldn't I know about James Marsters having appeared in other sci fi series? (Andromeda's a show I've seen enough eps of to be intrigued, but not enough to really understand what's going on.)
*use of the term "husband" not meant to imply that I'm straight
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Date: 2005-02-18 07:51 pm (UTC)That said, he was awfully, awfully pretty in it, wasn't he? I love the two-tone hair.
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Date: 2005-02-18 08:09 pm (UTC)I'm quite fond of the two-toned hair, myself! The only time we see Spike with that look is in his first crazy!basement ep, right?
Embarrassing fact: when I was younger, I didn't realize the two-toned look was the result of a dye job growing out. I thought people did it on purpose, painstakingly dying just the tip of each hunk of hair.
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Date: 2005-02-18 08:13 pm (UTC)This is very useful if you like changing Spike's look in fics, which I do. I've seen a few where he's stuck with the platinum forever, and that kinda sucks.
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Date: 2005-02-18 08:19 pm (UTC)Now that you've got me thinking along those lines...I guess it's also proof that Spike's as hairless as a prepubescent boy. 'Cause it's only logical that if he's too far gone to dye his hair, he's also too far gone to shave, and he certainly wasn't showing any 5 o'clock shadow. :P :)
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Date: 2005-02-18 08:23 pm (UTC)Y'know, there's no sense even trying to make Jossverse canon re vampire biology work, is there? I mean, they never did satisfactorily explain why they're able to eat, when in 99% of the other vamp stories out there they can't. Not to get gross, but where does the food go?
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Date: 2005-02-18 08:33 pm (UTC)Personally I'm rather fond of the body-hairless Spike idea. But that's just my kink...
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Date: 2005-02-19 06:45 am (UTC)I prefer him smooth and shiny myself. It's always a bit of a shock to see James off-season with actual body hair.
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Date: 2005-02-19 07:47 am (UTC)I have, I have indeed. :) In fact it's a plot point there that he's not naturally hairless (I think that aesthetician must be one of the most evil OCs ever created for a fanfic!)
Husbands and sexual orientation
Date: 2005-02-18 08:27 pm (UTC)Bwah! Glad you clarified.
Mo
Re: Husbands and sexual orientation
Date: 2005-02-18 09:02 pm (UTC)It really bugs me, actually, that every time I refer to my husband in conversation I'm sending out this implicit message of straightness. Not that there's anything wrong with being straight—heh—but the politics of it depress me. I feel like every time I let people think I'm straight, I'm doing my little bit for queer invisibility. Ugh. But at the same time, I am in a monogamous het relationship, all legally married and everything. My orientation may not be straight, but my lifestyle certainly is.
Thus the footnote.
Re: Husbands and sexual orientation
Date: 2005-02-18 11:46 pm (UTC)Re: Husbands and sexual orientation
Date: 2005-02-21 06:29 pm (UTC)Re: Husbands and sexual orientation
Date: 2005-02-25 10:02 pm (UTC)Heh. Never mind. ::waves jauntily at your lucky husband::
Re: Husbands and sexual orientation
Date: 2005-02-19 01:42 am (UTC)Well, you don't HAVE to say "husband" just because you are married - you could say partner...
I know what you mean - if I get into any kind of acquaintanceship with anyone, I feel obliged to bring up my bisexuality in some way - reference to an old girlfriend etc. just so as not to do the invisibility thing.
Re: Husbands and sexual orientation
Date: 2005-02-19 07:12 am (UTC)In fact I do that occasionally, to keep people wondering...but then as soon as I use a pronoun the game's up.
I know what you mean - if I get into any kind of acquaintanceship with anyone, I feel obliged to bring up my bisexuality in some way - reference to an old girlfriend etc. just so as not to do the invisibility thing.
Totally! But how to do that without it seeming totally contrived? Especially in situations where you don't tend to reveal much personal information anyway.
Re: Husbands and sexual orientation
Date: 2005-02-19 08:01 am (UTC)Yeah, its hard, but there's usually some point at which you can challenge someone's expectations: even if its not in direct relation to yourself, you can find ways to show you're pro-equality. "My friend Steve's boyfriend..." etc.
Re: Husbands and sexual orientation
Date: 2005-02-19 04:13 am (UTC)And then beyond internal feelings of identity, there's identity politics. You do have heterosexual privilege. Does having it mean accepting the privilege? Is pointing out that one isn't straight trying to have it both ways - accepting privilege but distancing oneself from it? And how does the whole changing legal climate where you live affect that? It lessens the privilege differential, certainly.
Anyway, I do think this is all interesting stuff and topics I've thought about a lot. I was in a (legally unrecognized) marriage to a woman for over 25 years, and we had three kids together. We're all affected in many ways - legal and social - by that lack of recognition. FWIW, I referred to her as my spouse. Wife seemed too gendered to me, but I wanted to make clear that our perfectly valid marriage was not on a different plane or of a different (lesser) level of commitment than those that received the privileges we did not.
Mo
Re: Husbands and sexual orientation
Date: 2005-02-19 07:43 am (UTC)The questions you raise are all good ones, in that there's no easy answers for them.
If queer people had equal rights in Canadian society and homophobia didn't exist—if the gender of one's spouse was widely considered as unremarkable as their height—I don't think I'd worry about people assuming I'm straight. It wouldn't matter any more than if they assumed, from looking at my husband, that I prefer blonds. (Also untrue, but irrelevant, you know?) But queer people are still marginalized here (though the situation seems to be improving—equal marriage is just around the corner, yay!) and one part of that is the "Well, nobody I know is gay" syndrome.
And I'm keenly aware of the privileges I'm accorded because I went and married a man instead of a woman. (Hey, I wrote an essay about this once for one of my education classes—I think I'll post it!) I am not out as bi at work—I work at a very conservative private school where I'm on a one year contract, and I don't know of any out staff or students there. If I had a wife instead of a husband, would I have brought her to the staff Christmas party? I really don't know.
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Date: 2005-02-19 03:09 am (UTC)Talk about UST!
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