But you're OK with girls watching science fiction TV shows, right?

[phoenix64]

OK, I know Primeval is just fluff, but that didn't keep me from actually shrieking aloud when Abby said, "Girls don't talk comics."

Uh yes, quite a few of them do. Some of them are pretty cute, too.

More importantly: hey, Hodges and Haines, HOW COULD YOU HAVE ABBY SAY THAT?! How many comic-reading young girls did you just make feel a smidgen more insecure about being themselves by that comment? You idiots.

Even more importantly: that's hardly even a real question. Wolverine, of course.

Oh, and about that reveal concerning Stephen and Helen: I called that weeks ago, but the truth is part of me thought it was the fan goggles.

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[rustydog.livejournal.com]

Gah, I think my eyes rolled *out* of my head, rolled across the room, and jumped up and thwacked the TV when Abby said that. Not only was it incorrect, it even seemed out of character. A stereotypical girly-girl might not have a flat full of pet lizards and work as a biologist, either. I would think Abby would at least be open to girls liking comic books, even if it wasn't her thing particularly.

that reveal concerning Stephen and Helen: I called that weeks ago, but the truth is part of me thought it was the fan goggles.

I think there was something specific somewhere in the middle of the season that made me think that, too - a reaction on Stephen's part, or some look Helen gave? Because I had the same idea in my head. I don't want to attribute too much subtlety to this show though. Heh.

[smithy161.livejournal.com]

This. *Clings to graphic novel collection*

[rustydog.livejournal.com]

I was thinking recently about how I could rearrange things in my apartment to get them away from potentially broken windows and rain coming in, and one of the first things I thought of was, "How well would bag covers protect my comics in a flood? Would I need to move my storage boxes on top of a table?" :)

[smithy161.livejournal.com]

Makes sense to me! I have a little table for mine. Since they are pretty I don't just chuck them on the floor with the rest of the books that won't fit on my shelves :0)

[phoenix64.livejournal.com]

My comics are in boxes, but most of my graphic novels are on the floor. I have one shelf with the graphic novels, but at least a good four shelves worth on the floor. My bookshelf situation has actually been pretty insane for a while now - almost all my shelves (the ones that can fit them) have books two deep on them, and I have just so many books in boxes and on the floor - insane.

[rustydog.livejournal.com]

I have similar storage problems. I've tried to organize and make choices and move some books into storage, but that only goes so far! (And where am I going to put my action figures and give them room to play?) And then the comics keep increasing every month. I've got the older ones organized in hanging files inside cardboard storage boxes, but the only place left was on a utility shelf under my plants by a window, and I don't like their chances during a big storm!

[phoenix64.livejournal.com]

In my last apartment one place I had put some shelves and also stacked books was underneath the breakfast bar. But the breakfast bar was on the other side of the kitchen sink, and because of clogged pipes elsewhere in my apartment building my sink had overflowed, and for some reason I didn't realize at first that some of it had gotten underneath the breakfast bar and had soaked the bottom books. By the time I discovered it they were heavily mildewed and the mildew had started to spread. I still haven't replaced all those books. *sniff*

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

isn't that the way bookshelves are supposed to be?

[phoenix64.livejournal.com]

This is why I dream of being able to own a home someday. I don't have kids to dream of a yard for them to play in or anything like that - I dream of having enough bookshelves, of having enough space to put bookshelves up.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure there is such a thing as "enough bookshelves"

[phoenix64.livejournal.com]

Possibly not, but I'll continue to hope to achieve that someday, the way some people hope to achieve enlightenment. ;)

[phoenix64.livejournal.com]

I wonder if, to the writers, Abby fits into that "lots of girls want to be veterinarians" pigeonhole.

There was a bit in this season's Bones premiere, when Hodgins says he thought women secretly liked it when men fought over them and Cam's response was, "'Women' is an unacceptable generalization". I kind of wanted to hug my TV when she said that.

It gets a little odd sometimes, sorting out intended subtext from fannish subtext, doesn't it?

[rustydog.livejournal.com]

Ah, I know the pigeonhole you mean, I just wouldn't have thought herpetology would be part of it! You could be right, though. They needed a cute girl, they needed everyone to have some halfway plausible way to be related to dinosaurs, so the girl gets to be a vet.

Cam's response was, "'Women' is an unacceptable generalization".

I think I said, "Thank you!" out loud to my TV when she said that.