Song of the Day: Prove It On Me Blues by Ma Rainey

"They say I do it
Ain't nobody caught me
Y'all got to prove it on me."

Scotland passes marriage equality bill!

I'm proud of my home country today as Scotland have officially passed the bill for equal marriage. Marriage there is apparently set to start in the autumn of this year.
In celebration, good old George Takei posted this great quote that I thought was worth sharing.
We're not re-defining marriage. We just want equal rights and representation. 

LGBTQIA: A Helpful Masterpost

I decided to compile a list of helpful links and resources for the LGBTQIA folks out there who may benefit from using them. It's a bunch of fairly basic information on determining sexuality, coming out and mental health. I hope that, by sharing these, it gives people information and resources that they can be of some help.

• LGBT Health Summit 
• Gay Center
• The NO H8 Campaign
• LGBT.co.uk
• Pace Health: A Mental Health service for the LGBT community
• The Trevor Project
  Read other Coming Out stories
• Asexuality.org
• Article: "The moment I realised I was asexual"
• UK Intersex Association
• What Is "Intersex"?
• Info on Bisexuality
• "What is pansexuality?"
• Gay Center: What Is "Trans"?
• LGBT Youth - The Queer Youth Network
• Stonewall and Advice on Coming Out

31 Horror Films in 31 Days Challenge: Film Twenty Five: Life Blood (2009) / Pearblossom

This is yet another blog-along post where I'll be blogging along as I watch another horror film as part of the 31 Horror Films in 31 Days challenge. 
Warning: Since I'm blogging my thoughts whilst watching the film THERE WILL BE SPOILERS.

These are raw blog posts. I start and I write until I finish without any editing afterwards. I just post the raw thoughts from the film as they occur. I enter this film with absolutely no prior knowledge. Enjoy, 

Apparently this film is also known as "Pearblossom"

UH OH. LESBIANS. THURRR BE LESBIANS. I hope this is handled tastefully, dear God I do...

Uncomfortable threat of sexual assault isn't fun to watch. No wonder the actress in this role has since tried to downplay her role within this film. At least the rapist was confronted and is depicted as an utter jerk. 

I suspect a case of Schroedinger's douchebag.  

I, like Amelie, cannot stand when characters don't pay attention to the road when driving. AND LOOK THEY KILLED A POSSUM AS A RESULT, AH GOD NO.

So wait... is Rhea more sad about the death of the possum than her friend now? Not that I think the lives of animals are less than that of a human. 

I like how the possum has become a big thing. The possum was a sign apparently. A SIGN. A sign of a potentially shitty film.

When is this film meant to be set? A lot of the make up styles, hair styles, clothing etc it seems very modern but is meant to be set in the 60s or something?

Two deaths and an angelic lesbian vampire... they're kicking off the year in a pretty interesting manner.

"I promise you... we will make you proud" - If I were in this situation I think I'd be a little more creeped out by everything. Carmilla The Vampire, it is not. Happy New Year! ...You're a vampire. Enjoy!

Creepy truck driver just casually driving past two potentially unconscious women...

OK maybe it's just this scene but things have turned pretty comedic. I thought this was a horror film. I do like that this film depicts people calling out other people for being sexist or for attempting to rape someone. It's pointing out wrongs.

How exactly does Rhea know that they've been underground for 40 years?

Bill has such a funny voice/way of speaking. It's the best part of the film so far...

This is a pretty decent B Movie horror film following two lesbian vampires with a tendency of calling out people for being shitty and for treating as sex objects. Of the two lesbians, Rhea and Brooke, one represents good and the other represents evil. Brooke provides the immoral horror and gore and Rhea is a moral breath of fresh air. They kill some people and take over a small gas station store. It's not the strongest film but it's better than many.

Isn't it sad when vampirism tears a couple apart?




Watching this film has made me realise that I haven't read Le Fanu's "Carmilla" and as a self professed vampire connoisseur I think I really owe it to myself to read it. The actress playing Brooke looks a lot like model Rebecca Romijn.
This film is actually more interesting and way more promising than I initially thought it would be. My expectations for films such as these are usually very low.





If you suspected something weird was going on at a gas station, would you really stay?

So far, and I must now be a good way into the movie, there hasn't been as much horror as I'd expect.

"Dude I think she's a vampire, run!"
Finally, a knowledgeable person in a horror film...

Oh wait, I spoke too soon. There's another little dash of horror...

"This is the Pearblossom Police!"
That sounds like a group from a bad TV show for toddlers.

This day at the gas station has gone by really quickly.

I think it's interesting to leave the film with a moral vampire who aims to use their powers to rid the world of evil. As far as B Movie horror films go this one was way better then most are. It has some virtues and I'll probably mention it in conversation with people when discussing vampire movies without the urgent need to buy the DVD. It was fresh, not overdone at all. It was a strange and pleasant surprise.

That's So Gay-ven.

Oh God. I already feel totally rotten about that awful title but as a pun fan I couldn't help myself.
Raven-Symoné, famous for her titular role in Disney show "That's So Raven" and films like The Cheetah Girls may have come out today via Twitter.

Earlier today the star tweeted 'I can finally get married! Yay government! So proud of you' which indicates that, due to movement in legislation for same sex marriage, Raven is celebrating this. Whether she is or isn't I can only wish her every happiness. I appreciated her as a performer when she graced my screen. I suppose secretly, deep down, I hope she is a member of the LGBT community. It's good to have people in the media we can support and relate to, people that represent the community positively. It takes courage to come out for anyone but it takes a particular kind of courage to do so when you're in the media spotlight. If this is Raven's coming out moment then I fully and heartily congratulate her.

Recommended Reads!

Here it is! Another Wednesday where, as per usual, I give you wonderful blog-ghosts some recommendations of blogs/articles/websites I've found on the internet lately.

Having posted the Game of Thrones confessions last week I thought I'd share some more confession tumblrs I've found...

If YOU have any blogs or articles you'd like me to mention in an upcoming blog then please let me know and I shall share it in an upcoming recommended reads blog.

For those of you unfamiliar with blogger, if you'd like to recommend any blogs, articles or websites please do so in the comments section below. To comment click on the blog title then scroll down and click on the pencil icon.

• 20 Things Lesbians Are Tired Of Hearing from Buzzfeed. Is it sad that I think I've heard all of these questions specifically asked to me? Seriously. This is perfect... in that it highlights all the bullshit we take.
• The Salacious Slayer Confessions - a collection of dirty fan confessions about Buffy The Vampire Slayer
• Mat Hofmann, alt model. A hilarious parody of typical female alt model pages.
• Ugliest Tattoos - exactly what the title suggests. Why do so many people get bad tattoos of dicks and pizza?
• Shit My Students Write - a wonderful collection of stupid things students have written in essays
• Lord of the Rings Confessions (less dirty than the other confession blogs)
• Poorly Dressed - a collection of questionable fashion moments
• Glee Logic - detailing plot holes, mistakes and criticism with the show Glee. 

Lesbian relationships: fetishes, formality and fucking rudeness.

So I'm a little poor. It's cool - for a while we didn't have a place to live but now everything is sorted, we have somewhere, we're getting by. One thing that wasn't a necessity was internet so we didn't think ot get any when we moved our stuff into the new apartment (you know... because we had about £20 between us for food for an unknown amount of time) The guy upstairs bumped into us and said we could use his which was mighty generous. We were very thankful. I'd think he was a super awesome guy... if it weren't for the way he talks to Hannah and I. I mean this dude says some pretty fucking outrageous stuff. Like when I first met him we went to his apartment and had a cup of tea together and Hannah and I were talking about how I didn't really want Hannah to get piercings because I think her face is so classically beautiful I don't want it to change. He then immediately replied to Hannah 'Yeah and you know... to be fair she's the one that has to sit on your face, so...' and began to laugh.
 I. Was. Appalled. 
 First of all that's pretty forward for a first meeting with someone and you should probably be attempting to make a decent first impression. Second, you should NEVER assume that a couple have sex - some people/couples just don't and even if they do it's none of your business. Asexuality isn't discussed or taught as commonly as it should be but as someone who pretty much is asexual and with many asexual friends comments like this piss me off. It reminds those of us who simply don't care for sex that you're abnormal in the eyes of most people around you. You could have really hit a nerve there. It's private and in no way was it his business. I also feel that if we were a straight couple or two men he wouldn't have said that and it is because we are women that he feels he can get away with saying that. It isn't the first time I've had people pry into sexual aspects of my personal life. Growing up I've dated men and women. When I dated men no one EVER asked about what we got up to, if we got up to anything but whenever I've been with a woman (which I have for the past 5 years or so) people have felt it's OK to ask incredibly personal questions. The usual suspects? 'So what do you guys...do?' 'Which one of you is the guy?' 'Isn't that weird/gross?' 'Is it better with girls or guys?' etc. Do you want to know my usual answer? 'It's none of your damn business' Except for when they ask which one of us is 'the guy'... Well since we're both women in this relationship I guess, huh, neither of us?
It is the narrow minded view that every relationship, regardless of the people in it, has to have a 'guy' and a 'girl'. I won't go into the whole gender binary argument, any educated person will be well aware.

What I'm tired of is the feeling that it's OK to ask same sex couples increasingly personal questions. If they've previously stated they're OK with that, fine - they've allowed you to ask such questions. If not then what happens/doesn't happen in their bedroom (or their kitchen floor, or their desk at work or Disneyland or wherever they may like to get it on) is up to them. Now back to Mr Pervert Upstairs. I'm finding it increasingly difficult to tolerate his inappropriate speech/behaviour. it went from inappropriate comments to flirty messages. As soon as I log onto my laptop to check what's going on upon the interwebz in the morning there he is, popping up on my screen with 'Morning beautiful :)' which could be a compliment from a friend, but from him it makes me squirm. He constantly tells me that he thinks I'm pretty or cute but such comments leave me feeling uncomfortable rather than complimented. Sadly, though, I'm not the one he REALLY has eyes for. Yup. He really has a thing for Hannah. Now I am sure that if I were in a heterosexual relationship he wouldn't say this shit... But the other evening out of the blue he told Hannah: 'It's a shame. If you weren't all girls only you'd be my perfect woman' and kept hinting at how she was perfect for him, how he'd love to date her. How he's working out, losing weight, becoming more attractive and really making stupidly obvious hints. It seems upsetting as it is as if he doesn't accept her legitimately as a lesbian and that she is something he can 'turn'. Unfortunately this is a highly popularised opinion amongst some males.

There are more examples. If you could be a fly on the wall you'd understand how horribly uncomfortable it is. He patronises Hannah, belittles her for being a woman/being younger than he is/not having a job, any time Hannah and I disagree on something (which we tend to do in a jokey manner) is referred to as a 'domestic' as if to belittle our relationship. His badgering, his flirting, his bullying of MAH WOMAN is literally driving me mad. We're in the process of getting our own internet sorted so we won't have to rely on him/be gracious towards him for letting us use his internet. In conclusion I guess the point is I'm tired of people feeling that because people aren't in a heterosexual/heteronormative relationship that they can ask incredibly personal questions. Maybe, for lesbian relationships, people want to know because lesbians have been so highly fetishized that people (I hate to say, they're usually male) want to know all the sordid details. It's not for you to know and quite frankly that's what the internet is for. The guy within this rant just takes it to a whole new level. Apologies for the rant, I hadn't had a good bitch in a while and that one has been building up for about 3 weeks now.