A Ditty Goes Sexy

(a completely biased essay on femslashy goodness by Sensei Riley LaShea) Once upon a time, the cheese stood alone. And the cheese was Xena. In the time before Xena, there existed in the universe relatively dull substances that occasionally joined together in a union somewhat resembling femslash, but the emergence of girl/girl pairings like fire…

– OR – If Emma and Regina Aren’t Endgame, I Don’t Know What the Once Staff is Writing – OR – I Ship These Ladies So Hard, Packing Peanuts Fear Me Well, it’s the end of another season of Once Upon a Time, and, once again, the season finale saw the forces of good and evil…

We were in New York for a few days a couple of weeks ago, as you might remember. Or maybe not. Before we got there, there was a little airport shenanigans on both ends. Not ours, oddly enough. First, we were at Raleigh-Durham International waiting for our flight, and I pulled out my notebook to…

My first recap since the Comic-Con… uh… let’s call it a debacle, and I felt as if I couldn’t just launch into a new season of unintentional/intentional subtext without some sort of acknowledgment of said debacle. It was here that I was going to touch on events as they unfolded. I spent a good deal…

There is a rare, bittersweet joy in watching the unfolding of a love story that will never be allowed to fully blossom. It’s what makes movies like Malena and Never Let Me Go so poignant, what makes songs like Almost Lover feel so lonely. That stated, the subtext in Going Home was so-not-even-subtext that I will…