#sally martin

[namsoek]

Power Rangers Ninja Storm | There's No I in Team

[aquila1nz]

Queer Women on Shortland Street in 2023

2023 started with Maeve battling it out for top dog in Ferndale Prison, as soon as she won she rang Rebekah, the leader of the evangelical cult Brightshine and asked her to get her out on bail. Meanwhile Brightshine was bankrolling the Shortland Street rebuild and Rebekah ended up in the CEO seat. She gave Maeve a no patient contact job, and as they spent more time together a romance built. Maeve was so relieved to have someone supporting her that she was prepared to overlook Rebekah's need to remain closeted, with only Nicole finding out about their relationship, but Rebekah's various lies slowly came to a head; when she had to go on the run she finally admitted to Maeve her part in Wilder's murder - Maeve tried to drown her but decided not to, and Rebekah was arrested. Goodbye Antonia Prebble.

Maeve returned chastened to Nicole's arms, and despite an STI scare they started fixing their marriage.

Gia took off to a job in Chicago and I guess is unlikely to return since her family has mostly also left the show.

Dawn also left for pastures greener, which is a pity because she was always a character who attracted gay shenanigans.

Six new surgery registrars were introduced, and one of them, Quinn, proved to have very good gaydar, admiring Harper and flirting with both Nicole and Maeve… Somehow Nicole acted liked they'd had a big romance instead of a weirdly inappropriate kiss when Quinn died in the winter cliffhanger. Pretty coulrophobic on the part of the show.

Leanne lost all her money financing son Eric's pyramid scheme, then won the lottery for the second time and announced she was off on a world tour - taking Rosalyn with her! Last we heard she and Rosalyn were living on a vineyard in the South Island - Pele went to stay with them for a while, and we saw Jennifer Ludlam on a video call briefly just before Christmas. Offscreen reunions are better than nothing!

Harper - still married to Drew. Billy - still a preschooler. Marley briefly had a storyline where he played with Drew's clippers and had to buzz cut his long hair, and then Billy had short hair just like their idol older brother a week or so later, I wonder if one or both actors wanted shorter hair in real life.

In the latter half of the year Cassie, Wilder's girlfriend, returned, no longer pregnant but with no memory of what had happened to the baby, and that mystery has been Maeve and Nicole's main storyline.

So an odd year, with decreasing numbers of queer characters, but at least Nicole and Maeve are still together, something that seemed unlikely this time last year. Somewhere in there they've become the show's longest running gay couple, passing Jay and Maia's threeish years.

Shortland Street returns on the 5th of February. Let's see what 2024 brings.

And let me know if I've missed anything, it's been a long year and I wasn't always paying attention!

[damnamour]

↳ Shortland Street - Nicole & Maeve

[winteringart]

Sometimes you scrape and sink so low/I'm shocked at what you're capable of/And if this is the coronation, I ain't feeling the love 

- Mabel Week Day 5 - Yew Drawn for @andromerot ‘s prompt list celebrating @mabelpodcast! I really wanted to do a No Children lyric here but tomorrow is the King and Luna, so I needed to save it. Can we get an f in chat.

- Image ID: A copic marker illustration of Sally Martin and Luna Thorn. Sally Martin is an old naked white woman with white hair and faint blood running up her face. She is upside down in the top left of the composition, with her arms spread out and over Luna Thorn, an equally naked Mexican woman with branches of yew coming out from her body and cracks like you might see in a broken mirror or window spiderwebbing out from her right cheek, which is facing towards the audience, and on her left breast. Luna’s ears are pointed and her teeth are sharpened stained with presumably Sally’s blood. Luna’s hair is silver but mixed with dark brown. They lay on a black void. End ID. 

[minisinmedia]

Jacki Piper as Sally Martin wearing a sparkling orange-brown-ish mini dress in Carry On Loving (1970)

[barrycoganart]

Ninja ready to Storm. 

 A slightly different interpretation of Tori Hanson, the Blue Wind Power Ranger on the rooftops of a city looking out for trouble. Not entirely sure what I was trying to achieve with this image, since I had originally intended her to be wearing a cloak. And the random outline of her ninja symbol behind her was a last-minute space filler. But still Enjoy! #sallymartin #torihanson #torihansonfanart #bluewindninja #powerrangers #powerrangersfanart #powerrangersninjastorm #ninjastorm #saturdaymorningcartoons #illustration #penandinkdrawing #caricature #cartoon #fanart #powerrangersforever

[hitku]

by Sally Martin

[sasa-chan]

Day 22:

Wendy Wu: Homecoming Warrior (2006)

[cloudberrylane]

taskmaster + pedantry

series 5:

series 9:

series 15, episode 4:

series 15, episode 8:

series 15, episode 9:

series 16, ep. 8:

[pool-spidey]

[namsoek]

Power Rangers Ninja Storm | Prelude to a Storm

[aquila1nz]

Shortland Street's Queer Women in 2022

We finished 2021 with an unexpected kiss between Samira and Francesca, plus two ongoing f/f relationships, and then 2022 turned out to be an absolute rollercoaster.

The new relationship between Samira and Francesca was very popular and absolutely lovely - and then went downhill very fast, as Francesca pushed too hard, then left the show. Samira immediately decided Marty was the love of her life instead, then promptly left the show without him.

Dawn tried to set Louis up with cosplayer Demelza but instead she kissed Dawn. Dawn was very flattered and is never good at saying no to people, but had to tell her she had been down that path before and it was not for her. Demelza turned out to be an ex of Maeve's (pre-Saskia) that she had a bad break up with which Maeve was apparently still harbouring a lot of anger over. I'm sorry Demelza didn't hang around after that.

Rosalyn left Leanne for a man who grew flowers; Rosalyn's side of the breakup all happened off screen. Leanne didn't swear off women forever (which would have been within character) but she did sleep with newly married Damo and then got involved with an evangelical church which would have drastic repercussions down the line. She did quit the church when her closest friend there proved homophobic, in time to prevent them fleecing her of all her money, so well done Leanne. Not sure if she'll get a girlfriend again but she has evolved a bit. Still trying to run Nicole's life though. And then at the end of the year Ros showed up for a funeral.

Nicole and Maeve have had a difficult year of never quite being on the same page, struggling with intimacy and whether the other really wants them. Which culminated in Maeve suggesting a threesome with a woman who had been flirting with Nicole because she thought that might make things better with Nicole. Nicole was not pleased but later trying to initiate a threesome with a man they worked with which Maeve said yes to but then freaked out about, and shortly after that Nicole decided their relationship had become too hard and asked Maeve to leave. Maeve did not take this well, got drunk a bunch and kissed Harper once. And then someone from Brightshine church killed Wilder, which briefly brought them back together in their grief, the year ended with them loosely together, Nicole obviously not happy about it, and Nicole was last seen in the IV as it burned down. Cliffhanger! On the one hand that's three f/f couples that have broken up on Shortland Street this year. On the other, that's a soap record, because no other soap has three unrelated (or overrelated) wlw couples to break up.

Saskia also returned for one episode for Wilder's funeral (not surprising - Amanda Tito had been doing some directing - including directing the episode where Nicole and Maeve first broke up).

Young Billy is still not quite up to full dialogue scenes, but has become more vocal with the addition of Marley, and there was a nice storyline where Marley wanted to wear a blue Frozen dress for Halloween to match Billy's princess dress. After Marley came home from school angry at being laughed at for wearing it to the school Halloween Drew also dressed in a dress to go trick or treating, leading to drama with a friend's parent who had unnecessary opinions. And Billy ended the year with a full sentence of dialogue!

In other news in November new doctor Gia Te Arakura was introduced when Jack employed her as a locum. Gia was avoiding meeting TK who had recently found out that the older child he was estranged from was dead, and it quickly became clear that Gia was that child, who had transitioned. And had also become a fully fledged doctor in the five years since she last appeared on the show as a teenager focused on rowing - we could solve the country's health worker shortage if we used Shortland Street's sped up training methods! Gia is played by trans actress Awa Puna.

So yes, a year with lots of ups and downs for the fans. Shortland Street is back from hiatus on Monday, it'll be interesting to see where they go this year.

[psikonauti]

Sally Lightfoot crab in Galapagos Islands

Photographed by Martin van Lokven

[camyfilms]

THE PRINCE OF EGYPT 1998

But I was their enemy. I was the prince of Egypt, the son of the man who slaughtered... their children! You've chosen the wrong messenger! H-how can I even speak to these people?

[gatutor]

Sally Field "Norma Rae" 1979, de Martin Ritt.

[laurelwen]

Just me rambling for a minute:

"I can’t remember when I first noticed the change. It’s not that I didn’t see it coming, I just didn’t want to believe it. I guess that’s not much of an excuse, but it’s the truth. I guess it didn’t look good. But he had to die. It was a necessary means to an end. All I can tell you is that the heavens were falling. And the sound, it… the sound… it was incredible. It was… It was like the gods were rejoicing for what was done."

Never forget that Alex is a bad, bad boy. Look at that monologue! How was he going to say all this and Sally just completely forgot about how deeply sus it was? Just because later on he pulls a Sad Wet Cat routine?? And she was like, "yeah, that sounds right, I'm just going to ignore that deeply ominous pronouncement about the heavens falling and the change happening and how Nigel had to die." Not to mention the Cathar stuff, and gestalt, and him deliberately trying to push her off balance with the whole kids thing. She somehow just completely forgot about all that. Absolutely absurd.

I think despite being initially guarded, she went in there expecting Alex to be innocent, which is honestly McKenzie's fault. Martin put her back up immediately by pressuring her to support his Male Cop Gut Feeling™, and she not only refused but then set out to intentionally prove Martin wrong just so she could throw it in her ex boyfriend's face. She went in there subconsciously looking for any reason to disprove McKenzie, and just spoon fed Alex as much time and attention as he needed to give her the excuse she was looking for.

AND ANOTHER THING: let's not ignore the inherent sexism on display in the script. McKenzie's gut feeling turned out to be right and Sally's was absolutely wrong, which values the Manly Hunch and devalues Women's Intuition. Those silly girls, with their pesky emotions and motherly instincts getting in the way of seeing rational truth...even though McKenzie is clearly the overemotional unhinged bitch here. Don't get me wrong, this film treats it's (three) female characters appallingly anyway. Sally is really just there as a stand in for the audience. Suspicious at first then slowly lulled into believing Alex's story only to find out that we've all been duped by this smug little shit.

I have no point to make here, I'm just ranting about my thoughts like an old man shouting at the clouds.