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By the time I started looking into f/f media that wasn’t Xena or mostly terrible movies, the Runaways comics was already well under way. 

It was great to have an out character in Karolina but I was catching up on canon that already seemed to cement Nico as a one-sided straight girl crush and Xavin as the actual romance. But even then–or maybe, especially then–it was common to have subtext ships involving central characters and Karolina/Nico remained the popular fandom ship. They were both there from the start, with a great dynamic outside of romance, there seemed to always be something between them, and it would be such a fantasy for the straight girl crush to not be straight after all.

But it seemed too unlikely and almost…greedy? to have two original characters be into women and too much like wish fulfillment for Karolina’s enduring pining to be requited.

Fast forward to 2017. Like others, I watched the start of the TV series with some dismay as it somehow made Karolina’s story about Chase. By the time Karolina/Nico happened, it was nice butt felt temporary. I was projecting, perhaps, but given…everything, it wasn’t without cause.

But season 2! Their treatment has been so gratifying. I feared that on Nico’s side the feelings would be conflicted or hesitant, or that as a couple they would be oddly sidelined at times, the characters still there but the relationship simply not brought up. I was wrong and am happy about it! They’re both present as individual characters and as a couple. This is precisely why people love central character ships, they’re interwoven with the main plot and with those characters’ storylines. They touch so many more storylines and characters and they’re all affected by that relationship.

Knowing this is where they were heading, this even retroactively makes season 1 better for me, to know that it carried a weight for the writers even if I hadn’t yet realized it. And that season 2 is an actually good season of TV makes everything better. This is the dream, a good ship in a good show.

I was talking over this with a friend and I think I get why this is bringing me so much joy. It’s a great step forward for rep in itself, two main characters in a well-budgeted mainstream genre property. Like, applause, well done. 

But aside from that? It’s the only one from the big subtext era ships, Jo/Blair, Buffy/Faith, J/7, A/O, Faberry, SQ, Rizzles, B&W, etc, to finally go canon. We’re all living vicariously through it.

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By the time I started looking into f/f media that wasn’t Xena or mostly terrible movies, the Runaways comics was already well under way. 

It was great to have an out character in Karolina but I was catching up on canon that already seemed to cement Nico as a one-sided straight girl crush and Xavin as the actual romance. But even then–or maybe, especially then–it was common to have subtext ships involving central characters and Karolina/Nico remained the popular fandom ship. They were both there from the start, with a great dynamic outside of romance, there seemed to always be something between them, and it would be such a fantasy for the straight girl crush to not be straight after all.

But it seemed too unlikely and almost…greedy? to have two original characters be into women and too much like wish fulfillment for Karolina’s enduring pining to be requited.

Fast forward to 2017. Like others, I watched the start of the TV series with some dismay as it somehow made Karolina’s story about Chase. By the time Karolina/Nico happened, it was nice butt felt temporary. I was projecting, perhaps, but given…everything, it wasn’t without cause.

But season 2! Their treatment has been so gratifying. I feared that on Nico’s side the feelings would be conflicted or hesitant, or that as a couple they would be oddly sidelined at times, the characters still there but the relationship simply not brought up. I was wrong and am happy about it! They’re both present as individual characters and as a couple. This is precisely why people love central character ships, they’re interwoven with the main plot and with those characters’ storylines. They touch so many more storylines and characters and they’re all affected by that relationship.

Knowing this is where they were heading, this even retroactively makes season 1 better for me, to know that it carried a weight for the writers even if I hadn’t yet realized it. And that season 2 is an actually good season of TV makes everything better. This is the dream, a good ship in a good show.

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Hey, reading your tags on the Corrie preview vid and yeah tough week, but does this mean you won’t be gifing the 4 amazing kana scenes there were at any point? The kana one on one scenes were somehow outstanding and deserving of praise in an otherwise landfill of rubbish sort of week for Corrie.

I’m not sure yet. They were great in themselves, I did gif a bit of Monday’s scene that we got in the preview, but when placed within the larger storyline that I’m unhappy with, they lose some of their power. 

I have always said, though, that for soaps you have to take the broader strokes. So I might.

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Eliza Dushku: I worked at CBS. I didn’t want to be sexually harassed. I was fired – The Boston Globe

Eliza Dushku: I worked at CBS. I didn’t want to be sexually harassed. I was fired – The Boston Globe

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By Eliza Dushku
December 19, 2018

The narrative propagated by CBS, actor Michael Weatherly, and writer-producer Glenn Gordon Caron is deceptive and in no way fits with how they treated me on the set of the television show “Bull’’ and retaliated against me for simply asking to do my job without relentless sexual harassment. This is not a “he-said/she-said” case. Weatherly’s behavior was captured on CBS’s own videotape recordings.

I feel compelled to chronicle what actually happened after The New York Times published a story about how CBS handled my allegations. I declined to be interviewed for that piece because I wanted to honor the terms of my settlement with the network. I was under the impression that Weatherly and Caron would also not respond per our settlement. Instead, all commented to the Times in what amounted to more deflection, denial, and spin.

Before I get into what actually happened, here is some background. CBS vigorously courted me for several network shows. When presenting the offer to co-lead on “Bull,” CBS made the case to my team that the whole Dr. Jason Bull M.O. of bedding every female interest and winning every case needed strong female balance. CBS said it wanted to pivot to a classic “two-hander” (two main characters), a la “Moonlighting.” After I accepted, the network even brought in Caron, who created “Moonlighting,” as the new showrunner for “Bull.” And so I was hired to finish the last three episodes of season one, with CBS’s expressed intention of my beginning season two as a series regular with an option for up to six seasons.

In explaining his bad behavior, Weatherly, who plays Dr. Bull, claimed I didn’t get his attempt at humor. That’s how a perpetrator rationalizes when he is caught. For the record, I grew up in Boston with three older brothers and have generally been considered a tomboy. I made a name for myself playing a badass vampire slayer turned tough LA cheerleader; I have worked with numerous leading men, including Robert DeNiro, Leonardo DiCaprio, even CBS’s own David Boreanaz. I can handle a locker room. I have been on Howard Stern and was hired by Kevin Smith for a film where I wore a black leather cat suit and played a member of an international diamond-thief-gang-ring. I do not want to hear that I have a “humor deficit” or can’t take a joke. I did not over-react. I took a job and, because I did not want to be harassed, I was fired.

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Hi. Did you check out the recent GH epsiode? We got a bit more Kristina and Valerie. I wonder if we will finally get a storyline with them delving into this

I did! It’s actually kind of an interesting situation. 

On the one hand, GH (and other soaps) can be so impressive with their continuity and memory of past events, and it showed in how Kristina and Val were able to bring up all this history. And within the episode itself, I thought the things the topics they covered and the context in which they were all brought were really well done. Val’s history with Dante, the situation with Chase, how she focused on her mom to the exclusion of all else, that friendship with a girl that became “weird”, that’s all good stuff.

But, was it seriously their first scene since the detective’s exam? I wish they’d shared more. Basically two real scenes since like last year? They HAD to cover so much because they packed in a months of slow burn into one ep. 

For a bit, I thought maybe the kiss and rejection was going to be to push Kristina to Daisy, but I think we saw enough of Val, especially the post-kiss lip touch moment where clearly this isn’t as one-sided as it seems. I assume Val’ll help save Kristina from the cult as things progress?