My cat is INSANE

Thank you Spike for nearly giving me a heart attack. The window washers moved the screens today. I live on the fifth floor. I opened the window without putting the screen back very briefly and I was sitting RIGHT HERE. I turn away for maybe five seconds and when I turn back Spike is literally half hanging out the window over a five story drop. And then he resists me pulling him back in. I'm sitting here shaking like a leaf and freaking out. He's glaring at me for ruining his fun.

Also, seen this in a few places (most recently at sweetestdrainand I'm curious.

What fictional character do I most remind you of (and why)? (Personality-wise, not looks-wise, because not all of you have met me. Although, if you have met me, I suppose that could be a factor. Whatever.)

Vid Rec: Women's Work

I'm going to do a full review of my VVC discs once I get my big screen TV to watch them on, but I wanted to do a specific rec of Women's Work by sisabet and Lum because it is so powerful to me on so many levels and I'm going to try, and probably fail to be articulate here in explaining why. It's disturbing, yeah. Very. And it's angry. I love it for that. I love that it expresses so clearly that feeling of helpless feminist rage I have every time I stop and really look around at how far we are as women from being fully recognized as people in so many ways. How deeply ingrained it is and how so much if it is what I can't do anything about except try to survive it.

I should say that I like Supernatural. Quite a lot actually, even though I generally don't post much fannishly about it. And I'll absolutely still be watching come the new season and talking about all the things I like about it with other people. Thing is, this vid stopped (if it ever was) being about Supernatural for me very shortly in to it and became a distillation simply of what's wrong with the images of violence against women, especially the sexualized images of violence against women that we're all just soaking in constantly. Because it sells. And there's nowhere you can go to avoid it. Why Supernatural? I don't dare try to speak for the vidders, but I'll say if I was going to make an angry feminist commentary on women in media...right now I'd use Doctor Who. Why? Because I love it. And I'm gonna say it again. There's nowhere to go. Nowhere. That thing we love, whatever it is will inevitably be problematic when it comes to women because our society is. We're incredibly good at repurposing text in fandom. It's what we do. I love that about us. We have the power to take the best bits and weave them into something new that really is just for us. And I love the shows we love for giving us more than enough material to do that, sometimes in just incredibly awesome ways. But sometimes you have to step back and go "Damn, that's fucked up." This vid does exactly that. Damn. That's fucked up. And we live there.