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First:

If you can get yourself to any of these cities, you really really must go and see La Mission. It's currently playing in the SF area, the LA area, and NYC, and it will be playing in Dallas and San Antonio, and San Diego at the end of the month. It's absolutely in my top five of best movies I've ever seen, and it needs to get wider distribution.

It's a stunningly beautiful love letter to the city of San Francisco, and to the Mission District--La Mission--and even my mother, who never notices such things, was gushing about the cinematography as we were leaving the theater. But more than that it is a movie about people who are proud to be who they are. Proud to be a strong woman who owns her decisions, has agency and opinions, and who shares them. It's about pride in culture, in history, in family. Queer pride. Pride that goes before a fall. Pride that picks you up again. Pride that gets you killed. Pride that makes you strong. It's a Latino movie; it's a queer movie; it's a men's movie; it's a women's movie. It's a movie about how important family is, and how important community is. It's a movie about low riders and a love of cars. It's breathtaking.

I saw it in a packed 700-person theater and it was the most diverse crowd I've ever seen. Mostly you get your "date-movie" crowd, or your "action-movie" crowd or your "queer-cinema" crowd or your hipster-indie crowd. But everyone was here. All ages (late teen and up; they didn't hold back on the swearing and it's definitely R rated), all races, all points on the sexuality and gender spectrum, and a broad class spectrum. And listening to the conversations going on as people exited the theater, and looking at the people asking questions and making comments when a couple of the actors and the director spoke afterward, everyone in the theater found something that spoke to them, that they could look at and say, "This is my life."

Second:

This post by weesta is a wonderful look at Devil's Trap and the latest SPN episode (so spoilers for that), and how the people making this show do such a great job visually and thematically. And how even when they seem to be circling around the same issues, there are levels. It filled me with EVEN MORE love of Show. You should check it out. :D :D

Third:

Today's Sunday Sweets post at cakewrecks. Adorable animal cakes that made me grin and grin.

Something tells me that this show I kind of love is airing it's 100th episode tonight. I remember when that happened on Buffy, and when it happened on Smallville, because I had fangirl friends (of the merch-buying, con attending rather than internet-based, fanfic-reading variety) who cared about such things. I'd never even known it was a big deal before.

This time I'm a little more caught up in the excitement. and so I share my Supernatural story
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Right now I am sitting in a cafe, and outside there is a boy repeatedly tying his leg to a chair leg while a girl gives him pointers. I think they are probably doing some kind of rock-climbing preparation, but I cannot help but think of Sam Winchester, who is always getting tied to things in canon, and of Dean Winchester who was literally all tied up in the first SPN fan fic I ever read. Some people would probably say that makes me perverted, or obsessed, or at the least weird. But to me it feels like I'm in on something amazing.

Dear Show. You've brought me so much happiness (and not a little heartache) in the last three years. Thank you, and carry on.