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[fajrdrako]

Nice day. Oh, I love holidays!

Breakfast at Tucson's with maaseru and Yolande. Afterwards we went to the Byward Market, to browse Chapter's a little. I got a wonderful book: The Marvel Comics Guide to New York City, a book I've longed for all my life. We went into the Market then, where I bought a shirt and Yolande bought 'sweet caramel' corn which I cooked for lunch for us all. maaseru and I are on a quest to find corn that is not so sweet. This wasn't it, but it was still enjoyable.

Then I worked on my current Torchwood story, did some housework, and wrapped birthday presents. I followed golden_hinde's advice and used a sterilized safety pin to pierce my left ear, where the hole had closed up; then I was able to put on my Star Trek earrings. New ambition: To fix the earrings I have (many of which are now singles) and get a few more.

Beulah came over and fixed the broken arm of my sofa, and then we both went to the Yangtze Restaurant at the corner of Somerset St. W. and Cambridge St. N. for Tasia's birthday party. There were about twenty people there, including StarWolf, Sheila, Andrea, Paul, Donna, Christine, John, Janet, some friends of Tasia's who aren't familiar to me from fandom, and, of course, Tasia and Peter. I gave her John Barrowman's autobiograhy, Anything Goes.

I wore a dress, joking that I thought no one would recognize me in one. Received much admiration, surprise, and downright incredulity. Donna said they's all have to stop complimenting me or it's go to my head and I'd go all femmy and start wearing dresses all the time, and make-up too. Hmm. Wouldn't that surprise them all.

Afterwards: exercises, listening to Terry Pratchett's Men at Arms.

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[walkingowl.livejournal.com]

Why was Mulder living in a house that Scully seemed also to be living in, somewhere in the western, more rural parts of either Virginia or Maryland? Why were they sleeping in the same bed? What happened to disconnect Mulder from the FBI? I lost track: last I knew, he was missing, and Scully was trying to figure out what had become of him (didn't see the last two seasons at all, I think). Scully had a baby, right? Named William after... after whom? Why does she now not have her child...?

That's for the start. Hm?

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I don't know the answers to those questions but I had thought Mulder and Scully married at the end of the TV series, which would be why they were living together.

[walkingowl.livejournal.com]

Married. Oh. Yep, that would explain the shared bed. And the coziness.

Thanks! Sorry you don't know, either!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

If I find out, I'll tell you.

[walkingowl.livejournal.com]

The USA Today review actually took the movie to task for the bedroom scene being "without sparks." Well, yeah, sometimes you just sleep [g]. It was, I thought, a wonderful and comfy little scene. They talked, they kissed, Scully broke it off with a muttered exclamation about "Ooh, scratchy beard!" and they grinned at each other and went back to sleep. And Mulder shaved the beard off the next day.

What I hated about the movie was that they introduced a wonderful new character, then threw her off a building two-thirds of the way through the movie. Frak that! And this character's FBI partner made two homophobic remarks that somehow didn't register with any reviewers that I saw. But I was bothered by them, especially because he was a black man, and American black men are much more likely to be openly intolerant of gays -- it's a subculture thing. "[Character X], to whom he's legally married in the state of Massachusetts" was one (they were neither openly/obviously gay, nor any other indication they were anything but friends and business partners) and the other one I now forget. Don't need that stuff. I was upset with Chris Carter for putting that kind of crap in and letting it serve as characterization for this black FBI agent.

Billy Connolly was awesome, however.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Mulder shaved the beard off the next day.

Aww, that's cute.

So hadn't they been together for a while?

I don't understand about the remark being homophobic - ? because they specified he was married in Massachusetts?