#syfy fangrrls

[girl4music]

INTERVIEWER: “Renee, what do you think that Gabrielle saw in Xena that made her want to leave everything she knew behind?”

RENEE: “You know, it’s what I still see in Lucy. And she can say she’s not Xena and many ways she’s not.

*to Lucy*

Don’t roll your eyes.

*back to the interviewer*

But she has a leader in her. She’s strong. It’s just a quality that I admire in women, in strong women. So I can definitely see how Gabrielle just said, ‘Oh, that’s my ticket. That is who I want to be like.’ So there’s definitely that quality in me that just says I admire Lucy and all that she does. Especially with the environment.”

LUCY: “I’m a very reluctant leader. I’ll only do it if nobody else will step up. I’ll do whatever. But um, and the other question is, why did Xena take her along? She said ‘I’m an outsider in my own home, take me.’ And it was that being an outsider. We all feel like we’re slightly fraudulent, you know? Yeah, I think that’s part of human nature. So something in her appeal made Xena pull her up on the back of a horse and take her away from her home and everything she ever knew. To a world of adventure and danger. Also, you don’t know what’s going on in the mind of the strong, silent one unless you have the sounding board of the best friend.”

I’ve always said this. I’ve always said it’s the feeling of being an outsider that is what brought them together. I mean obviously, Xena, herself. The origin of her name in Greek is “stranger”. She was seeking a sort of companionship without recognizing that she was. And as for Gabrielle - she just wanted to get away from the boring conservative lifestyle that she led in Potidaea.

But it is them being outsiders that is what made them find that ‘home’ in each other. They’re a found family.

[fuckyeahbreagrant]

https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/natasha-kermani-and-brea-grant-on-the-dark-inspirations-for-their-slasher-satire-lucky

[thirstaidkitpodcast]

THIRST AID KIT | S3E06 | OUR FAVORITE GENRE IS THIRST

HELLO, THIRST-BUCKETS!

We went to New York Comic Con again this year, didn’t we?!

That’s right — our lovely, hilarious and nerdy friends Cher and Preeti AKA the supremely generous cohosts of the SyFy Fangrrls Strong Female Characters podcast invited us to Comic Con with them! Look at us up in that photo with our close personal Thirst Object friends, Henley shirt-wearing Keanu Reeves and altogether topless Michael B. Jordan!

There was a whole live show (you should listen to the WHOLE THING HERE), and we basically discussed all things fandom and thirst. That was the whole remit. it was great, and shoutout to everybody who came out to listen and watch and yell out their many thirsts – we appreciated it!

That means the format of this week’s show is a little different. Listen well: there’s a short clip from the live show in today’s episode. Thirst Objects were all over the fandom map. There’s a moment where Nichole goes to town describing her one of the thirstiest scenes in True Blood, and we only wish you were there to see her enact it IRL. She got off her stool and e v e r y t h i n g. 🐺💉 Alcide Herveaux, tho!

And Bim? Well, she got a little... enthusiastic when it came to discussion of one man from literature: The Lord of the Rings’ Aragon, son of Arathorn. Bitch! 🚬

This was also a great episode if you’re into The Walking Dead’s Richonne AKA the greatest ship of Bim’s life. We got two Richonne experts to join us from outside the TWD panel at NYCC: Kia, the cohost of the superb podcast, Two Dead Chicks, and Ash aka Tumblr’s own @cake-by-thepound, Richonne fic extraordinaire. We spoke a lot about the secret of Rick’s walk 🤠, his kindness, and also his MOUF, which seems ideal for its true purpose on this earth: kissing Michonne. 👀💦

Finally, we went into the inbox and retrieved some truly blessed listener correspondence that made us tear up and blow kisses. We appreciate you all so, so much. 💜 You can listen to the whole wondrous episode, RIGHT HERE (more links to listen are down below).

We’re on Twitter at @bimadew and @tnwhiskeywoman; the show is on Twitter at @thirstaidkit. You can find the SyFy Fangrrls Strong Female Characters podcast on Twitter at @syfygangrrlspod. Cher is @thecherness and Preeti is @runwithskizzers. You can listen to the whole NYCC live show over on SyFy, or wherever you get your podcasts. 📻 Ashley is on Tumblr at @cake-by-thepound (read her fics!) and Kia (and her Two Dead Chicks cohost Mel) can be found on here at @twodeadchicks. TUNE IN.

Send us your Thirst Sommelier requests at 765-884-4778 aka 7658-THIRST (international listeners: send us a short recorded message via email, please) and your (short!) drabbles at thirstaidkit@buzzfeed.com. Rate and review us on Apple Podcasts, please; we love that shit!

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Stay hydrated, lovely ones! 🥤😋

[cootiekid]

My book got a nice write up.

[writer-of-geekdom]

Me, watching the garbage fire that is The Handmaids Tale Season 3 

https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/the-handmaids-tale-discussion-unfit-makes-a-major-misstep

[damnyourdarkeyes]

This whole panel was pretty great. I’m linking from the question that I got to ask, which was for examples of cases where the panelists learned to say ‘no.’ 

[startorialist]

Happy Halloween from the BOOniverse, which is a word I just made up in my day job as a science writer. 

But seriously, the Universe is gorgeous as we already know, but it is also freaky as hell when you think about it. I wrote about some of the more terrifying aspects of space for @syfy Fangrrls, where I now have a weekly column called Star Stuff <wink wink>:

Star Stuff is a weekly column by rocket scientist & astrophysicist Summer Ash highlighting some amazing things happening every day on and off the planet, especially great science done by and/or for women. She harnesses her science communication powers to smash the patriarchy and advocate for equality and inclusion across all time and space. Throwdowns with pseudoscience may occur.

As pictured above, the current column’s highlights include: the Ghost Nebula, the Witch Nebula screaming at Rigel, the Hourglass Nebula keeping an eye out for women in astronomy (full story in article), galactic cannibalism, and the gravitational lens that is taunting us about the lack of women being awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics (also in article). 

I also had to throw in this dark spooky web of dark matter featured on today’s Astronomy Picture of the Day. It’s a still taken from the Dark Universe film now playing at the Hayden Planetarium and created by the folks at the American Museum of Natural History. Oh btw, it’s also Dark Matter Day so this counts as a twofer. 

Shameless plug: you can check out all of my columns for @syfy Fangrrls to date here.

- Summer 

[bookgeekgrrl]

But Beard loved. It loved action, it loved being there to protect Captain America’s face. It loved feeling Bucky’s face against its softness in Wakanda. It loved, it loved, it loved.

We mourn Beard and its short life because we know it had so much more to offer. So many more gifs and ecstatic tweets. Beard inspired us to be better because Beard made Captain America better.

[mikedeodatojr]

“BAD MOTHER by Christa Faust energizes the tired mom trope.” -Stephanie Williams, SYFY WIRE/FANGRRLS https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/bad-mother-by-christa-faust-energizes-the-tired-mom-trope #syfy #syfywire #fangrrls #comics #femalelead #momtropes #tropes #badmotherbreakingbad #badassmom #women #underestimated #visiblewomen #ncbd https://www.instagram.com/p/CDgfQ-XJ432/?igshid=5wiibnjmq3v

[milana-vayntrub]

Milana interviewed about New Warriors on the red carpet of the Captain Marvel Premiere

[fuckyeahbreagrant]

https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/heroes-brea-grant-on-the-personal-stories-behind-the-horror-of-lucky-and-12-hour-shift

[syfy]

Tatooine is in retrograde.

[cootiekid]

Inclusion and diversity are a big part of my work. When I had the chance to introduce some cool characters to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, I took it. I’m exceedingly happy they’re getting some traction.

Check out the Syfy write up HERE.