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trancer21Fandom Meme: If my TV habits were my dating life:
1.) The one who seduced you and fucked you over and broke your heart in a million pieces and laughed about it:
Bad Girls - I resisted this one for as long as I could but finally succumbed to temptation. I was hooked by the end of the first episode, completely besotted with Helen and Nikki. We were happy together for three series but then Helen and Nikki left me and the rebound girls just couldn't take their places. After that it was all over... SHIT HAPPENS.
2.) The old flame you don't see very often any more but whom you still really enjoy getting together with for a few drinks and maybe a pleasant nostalgic romp in the sheets:
Xena - I fell hard and I fell fast. I devoted myself to this one completely, it nealy took over my life. When it ended I was inconsolable and seven years later I still consider it to be my one true love. Every now and again I'll sit down and watch an episode or two and remember why I loved it so much in the first place.
3.) The mysterious dark gothy one whom you used to sit up with talking until 3 a.m. at weird coffeehouses and with whom you were quite smitten until you realized she really was fucking crazy:
Babylon 5 - There had never been anything like this for me before. There was depth, there was debate and there was a desire to know all the secreats of the story. The first four series were spot on; intriguing and slick and then in the fifth series it totally lost the plot.
4.) The one you spent a whole weekend in bed with and who drank up all your liquor, and whom you'd still really like to fuck again although you're relieved she doesn't actually live in town:
Birds of Prey - I really did spend a weekend with this one and did it twice. After the second time I was still pissed that it was over and wished I could have done something different to save it.
5.) The steady:
Law and Order: Special Victims Unit - Always there when I need a fix and always keeping me interested. Always a little something new... Abbie to Alex to Casey to... Alex apparently. (Haven't watched the new girl yet.)
6.) The alluring stranger whom you've flirted with at parties but have never gotten really serious with:
Battlestar Galactica - Everytime I even think about this one I get a shiver run along my spine. I know it's good, I know it's clever, I know it's like nothing I've ever seen before and maybe that's why it intimidates the hell out of me.
7.) The one you hang out with and have vague fantasies about maybe having a thing with but ultimately you're just good buddies 'cause the friendship is there but the chemistry ain't:
Charmed - It's entertaining, and every and now again I like to kick back and spend the evening with it. But that's where it ends.
8.) The one your friends keep introducing you to and who seems like a hell of a cool chick except it's never really gone anywhere:
Gavin and Stacy - Yeah I watched a few, yeah it's pretty good but I'm not rushing back to watch more.
9.) The one who's slept with all your friends, and you keep looking at him and thinking, "Him? How the hell did he land all these cool babes?":
The L Word - I even went with this one for a bit, but it just couldn't hold my attention. I felt cheated by it and can't understand why my friends don't feel the same.
10.) The one your friend has fallen for like a ton of bricks and whom she keeps babbling to you about on the phone for hours, and you'd be happy for her except you just know it's going to end badly:
Womens Murder Club - Actually I was the one who fell for it, I was the one who talked incessantly about it and I who knew it would end badly because it had been axed (It still didn't stop me from watching it and getting Debs and Maureen to watch it and feel my pain aswell).
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- Music:'Surfacing' - Sarah McLachlan
So I was clicking through flist to flist, picking random names and reading journals when I found this little gem of a questionaire. I copied it and pasted it into Word so I could fill it out at a later date and here we are at the later date... and I forgot where I got it from.
You pick 12 of your favourite television/film characters and then get to mix and match them in the questions that follow. Whoever I stole it from had chosen an all female list for the slash possibilities and I'm going to do just the same. (And should the person I stole this from ever happen upon my journal... you had people from Murder in Suburbia, Firefly, Desperate Housewives and Sex And The City.)
1) Gabrielle (Xena: Warrior Princess)
2) Alex Cabot (Law and Order: SVU)
3) Barbara Gordon (Birds Of Prey)
4) Xena (Xena: Warrior Princess)
5) Delinda Deline (Las Vegas)
6) Helen Stewart (Bad Girls)
7) Olivia Benson (Law and Order: SVU)
8) Sam Marquez (Las Vegas)
9) Susan Ivanova (Babylon 5)
10) Talia Winters (Babylon 5)
11) Nikki Wade (Bad Girls)
12) Helena Kyle (Birds Of Prey)
You pick 12 of your favourite television/film characters and then get to mix and match them in the questions that follow. Whoever I stole it from had chosen an all female list for the slash possibilities and I'm going to do just the same. (And should the person I stole this from ever happen upon my journal... you had people from Murder in Suburbia, Firefly, Desperate Housewives and Sex And The City.)
1) Gabrielle (Xena: Warrior Princess)
2) Alex Cabot (Law and Order: SVU)
3) Barbara Gordon (Birds Of Prey)
4) Xena (Xena: Warrior Princess)
5) Delinda Deline (Las Vegas)
6) Helen Stewart (Bad Girls)
7) Olivia Benson (Law and Order: SVU)
8) Sam Marquez (Las Vegas)
9) Susan Ivanova (Babylon 5)
10) Talia Winters (Babylon 5)
11) Nikki Wade (Bad Girls)
12) Helena Kyle (Birds Of Prey)
1. Have you ever read a Six/Eleven fic? Do you want to? (Helen/Nikki)
Okay, I swear I put the 12 in random order and still managed to get a canon couple! I have read many, many fics for these two characters and yes I would read many, many more.
2. Do you think Four is hot? How hot? (Xena)
She is pretty damn hot, I mean come on, she wears leather to bed.
3. What would happen if Twelve got Eight pregnant? (Helena/Sam)
Well I read a fic where Helena's meta powers did get Barbara pregnant so it is within the strange realms of possibility. However I don't think Sam would be too happy to be pregnant, pushing a stroller whilst trying to get a whale to bet big would be be out of even Miss Marquez's multitasking ability.
4. Can you recommend any fic(s) about Nine? (Susan)
Gia Cogli Angeli, Ivanona? and Oblique, both by Penumbra. Not only do they have good sex scenes but they have a damn good storyline running through them.
5. Would Two and Six make a good couple?
It would be the battle of the power suits, with Alex trying to put the perps in prison and Helen trying to get them out again.
6. Five/Nine or Five/Ten? Why? (Delinda/Susan or Delinda/Talia)
Susan would probably not know what to make of Delinda, she wouldn’t understand why a total genius insisted on acting like a total ditz, but I think Susan would definitely apreciate the woman anyway. Delinda would enjoy a woman in uniform and would enjoy trying to break the Commander even more. Talia and Delinda would look very hot together, style and sass. And with the fact that Delinda’s head never seems to stop working Talia would never get bored. I’m gonna go with the Delinda and Talia pairing, even if they are both blondes.
7. What would happen if Seven walked in on Two and Twelve having sex? (Olivia walks in on Alex and Helena)
Oh dear, this would not be good. Despite the fact that Helena is a metahuman with above average strength and speed I think Olivia would still attempt to kick the Huntress’s arse. Alex would then employ her above average lawyer skills to placate Olivia with the old ‘she was wearing a leather coat and I thought it was you, especially when she purred’.
8. Make up a summary for a Three/Ten fic. (Barbara/Talia)
A metahuman with the ability to bend the space time continuum catapults Barbara Gordon in the the future where she journeys to Babylon 5 and her vigilante abilities come to the attention of Security Chief Michael Garibaldi. He brings her in as a consultant and in one of his sidetrips to stalk Talia Winters the two women meet. Talia is immediately fascinated by the ‘tinkering’ that Barbara has done with her wheelchair (she thinks, therefore the chair moves). Friendship becomes courtship becomes a relationship and Talia’s telepathic abilities become essential in overcoming any lack of sensation that Barbara’s paralysis might cause in their sex life.
9. Is there such a thing as One/Eight fluff? (Gabrielle/Sam)
No, and I don’t think there should be. But if there was I think Sam would be guest starring in that episode that had a Las Vegas style casino in it and shall remain nameless.
10. Suggest a title for a Seven/Twelve hurt/comfort fic. (Olivia/Helena)
Her Blood, My Hands (Helena held her mother in her arms after she had been stabbed, Olivia sort of held Alex after she had been shot. Both lost loved ones on the streets of the cities they were destined to protect. Both have lost their mothers. Both of their love interests were shot. Would this be a fic that got our leather clad heroine’s together? Or the story of two crimefighters helping each other to realise where their hearts truly lie? Who knows?
11. What kind of plot device would you use if you wanted Four to deflower One? (Xena/Gabrielle)
LOL, let’s see there are so many. Hot water is in short supply so they might have to take a bath together. The weather has turned nasty and they seek shelter in a handy cave. Not enough money for a room at the inn, Gabrielle will do the bard thing but it will only get them one room with one bed. The Amazon’s are having another party, it all gets sensual and erotic and frisky. They need to pose as mistress and slave, again, and this time they have to prove it. It’s a mission where one or both of them might die and just have to tell the other how they feel and then have mind blowing sex. To name but a few.
12. Does anyone on your friends list write Seven slash? (Olivia)
Yes, ralst. Thankfully she only slashes her with Alex, I’m not into the Casey stuff. And of course I love the Olivia from the Femslash Anonymous series.
13. Does anyone on your friends list read Three het? (Barbara)
I have no idea. I think the only one who would read any sort of Birds of Prey fic would also be ralst and in most cases Barbara always has a Het moment with Dick or Wade before she gets down to it with Helena. Does that count?
14. Does anyone on your friends list write or draw Eleven? (Nikki)
Yes. Including me who has written and vidded her. And once again ralst makes the cut. (I think I need more people on my friends list.)
15. Would anyone on your friends list write Two/Four/Five? (Alex/Xena/Delinda)
God I hope not. Just the logistics of trying to get them into the same universe and timeline would be a nightmare. Take Xena out of the equation and Alex/Delinda might be a possibility. Given the belief that Alex is a trust fund kid and Delinda is a clothes horse they would have fun maxing out credit cards in both New York and Las Vegas.
16. What might Ten scream at a moment of great passion? (Talia)
’The Corps is mother, the corps is father’, though hopefully not if she’s with Susan because she would spend a month on the couch. On a more vague, enigmatic approach she might say something about ‘Mirrors’, she once said that when telepaths make love it was like all the thoughts were reflected.
17. If you wrote a song-fic about Eight, which song would you choose? (Sam)
’Hey Big Spender’, though that might be more like Sam singing it. She likes her clients to spend lots of money at her casino.
18. If you wrote a One/Six/Twelve fic, what would the warnings be? (Gabrielle/Helen/Helena)
WARNING: Xena, Nikki and Barbara did not okay this story.
19. What might be a good pick-up line for Two to use on Ten? (Alex/Talia)
"Do you think we look alike? Maybe we should go see what else is a mirror image." (See answer 16)
20. When was the last time you read a fic about Five? (Delinda)
Never. Alas the love between Delinda and Sam exists only in my mind, but I do tell myself stories every night.
21. What is Six's super-sekrit kink? (Helen)
She likes to read letters from her imprisoned lover whilst in bed. And we all know what she does afterwards, at least I know what she does.
...Okay, I swear I put the 12 in random order and still managed to get a canon couple! I have read many, many fics for these two characters and yes I would read many, many more.
2. Do you think Four is hot? How hot? (Xena)
She is pretty damn hot, I mean come on, she wears leather to bed.
3. What would happen if Twelve got Eight pregnant? (Helena/Sam)
Well I read a fic where Helena's meta powers did get Barbara pregnant so it is within the strange realms of possibility. However I don't think Sam would be too happy to be pregnant, pushing a stroller whilst trying to get a whale to bet big would be be out of even Miss Marquez's multitasking ability.
4. Can you recommend any fic(s) about Nine? (Susan)
Gia Cogli Angeli, Ivanona? and Oblique, both by Penumbra. Not only do they have good sex scenes but they have a damn good storyline running through them.
5. Would Two and Six make a good couple?
It would be the battle of the power suits, with Alex trying to put the perps in prison and Helen trying to get them out again.
6. Five/Nine or Five/Ten? Why? (Delinda/Susan or Delinda/Talia)
Susan would probably not know what to make of Delinda, she wouldn’t understand why a total genius insisted on acting like a total ditz, but I think Susan would definitely apreciate the woman anyway. Delinda would enjoy a woman in uniform and would enjoy trying to break the Commander even more. Talia and Delinda would look very hot together, style and sass. And with the fact that Delinda’s head never seems to stop working Talia would never get bored. I’m gonna go with the Delinda and Talia pairing, even if they are both blondes.
7. What would happen if Seven walked in on Two and Twelve having sex? (Olivia walks in on Alex and Helena)
Oh dear, this would not be good. Despite the fact that Helena is a metahuman with above average strength and speed I think Olivia would still attempt to kick the Huntress’s arse. Alex would then employ her above average lawyer skills to placate Olivia with the old ‘she was wearing a leather coat and I thought it was you, especially when she purred’.
8. Make up a summary for a Three/Ten fic. (Barbara/Talia)
A metahuman with the ability to bend the space time continuum catapults Barbara Gordon in the the future where she journeys to Babylon 5 and her vigilante abilities come to the attention of Security Chief Michael Garibaldi. He brings her in as a consultant and in one of his sidetrips to stalk Talia Winters the two women meet. Talia is immediately fascinated by the ‘tinkering’ that Barbara has done with her wheelchair (she thinks, therefore the chair moves). Friendship becomes courtship becomes a relationship and Talia’s telepathic abilities become essential in overcoming any lack of sensation that Barbara’s paralysis might cause in their sex life.
9. Is there such a thing as One/Eight fluff? (Gabrielle/Sam)
No, and I don’t think there should be. But if there was I think Sam would be guest starring in that episode that had a Las Vegas style casino in it and shall remain nameless.
10. Suggest a title for a Seven/Twelve hurt/comfort fic. (Olivia/Helena)
Her Blood, My Hands (Helena held her mother in her arms after she had been stabbed, Olivia sort of held Alex after she had been shot. Both lost loved ones on the streets of the cities they were destined to protect. Both have lost their mothers. Both of their love interests were shot. Would this be a fic that got our leather clad heroine’s together? Or the story of two crimefighters helping each other to realise where their hearts truly lie? Who knows?
11. What kind of plot device would you use if you wanted Four to deflower One? (Xena/Gabrielle)
LOL, let’s see there are so many. Hot water is in short supply so they might have to take a bath together. The weather has turned nasty and they seek shelter in a handy cave. Not enough money for a room at the inn, Gabrielle will do the bard thing but it will only get them one room with one bed. The Amazon’s are having another party, it all gets sensual and erotic and frisky. They need to pose as mistress and slave, again, and this time they have to prove it. It’s a mission where one or both of them might die and just have to tell the other how they feel and then have mind blowing sex. To name but a few.
12. Does anyone on your friends list write Seven slash? (Olivia)
Yes, ralst. Thankfully she only slashes her with Alex, I’m not into the Casey stuff. And of course I love the Olivia from the Femslash Anonymous series.
13. Does anyone on your friends list read Three het? (Barbara)
I have no idea. I think the only one who would read any sort of Birds of Prey fic would also be ralst and in most cases Barbara always has a Het moment with Dick or Wade before she gets down to it with Helena. Does that count?
14. Does anyone on your friends list write or draw Eleven? (Nikki)
Yes. Including me who has written and vidded her. And once again ralst makes the cut. (I think I need more people on my friends list.)
15. Would anyone on your friends list write Two/Four/Five? (Alex/Xena/Delinda)
God I hope not. Just the logistics of trying to get them into the same universe and timeline would be a nightmare. Take Xena out of the equation and Alex/Delinda might be a possibility. Given the belief that Alex is a trust fund kid and Delinda is a clothes horse they would have fun maxing out credit cards in both New York and Las Vegas.
16. What might Ten scream at a moment of great passion? (Talia)
’The Corps is mother, the corps is father’, though hopefully not if she’s with Susan because she would spend a month on the couch. On a more vague, enigmatic approach she might say something about ‘Mirrors’, she once said that when telepaths make love it was like all the thoughts were reflected.
17. If you wrote a song-fic about Eight, which song would you choose? (Sam)
’Hey Big Spender’, though that might be more like Sam singing it. She likes her clients to spend lots of money at her casino.
18. If you wrote a One/Six/Twelve fic, what would the warnings be? (Gabrielle/Helen/Helena)
WARNING: Xena, Nikki and Barbara did not okay this story.
19. What might be a good pick-up line for Two to use on Ten? (Alex/Talia)
"Do you think we look alike? Maybe we should go see what else is a mirror image." (See answer 16)
20. When was the last time you read a fic about Five? (Delinda)
Never. Alas the love between Delinda and Sam exists only in my mind, but I do tell myself stories every night.
21. What is Six's super-sekrit kink? (Helen)
She likes to read letters from her imprisoned lover whilst in bed. And we all know what she does afterwards, at least I know what she does.
- Mood:crazy
- Music:'Britney' - Britney Spears
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ralstList the first five OTPs that come into your head, but preferably from different fandoms.
1. Xena and Gabrielle (Xena: Warrior Princess)
2. Helen and Nikki (Bad Girls)
3. Olivia and Alex (Law and Order: Special Victims Unit)
4. Helena and Barbara (Birds of Prey)
5. Susan and Talia (Babylon 5)
1. When did you first fall in love with ship number 1?
From the very first episode I watched, Comedy Of Eros. When Gabrielle got shot with one of Cupid’s arrows, she called Xena’s name and you just know that if Joxer hadn’t got in the way she would have been ripping that leather corset off the tall, dark and deadly one.
2. When did you fall in love with ship number 5?
6. What's your favorite moment for ship 4?
In ‘Lady Shiva’ when Barbara is dressed in her Batgirl costume and sitting in her wheelchair while Helena kneels before her begging to be able to help Barbara with her battle. (And because Dina Meyer looks gorgeous with the dark eye makeup.)
7. How long was there between the time you got into the fandom and the time you started shipping ship number 3?
From the very first episode I watched, Comedy Of Eros. When Gabrielle got shot with one of Cupid’s arrows, she called Xena’s name and you just know that if Joxer hadn’t got in the way she would have been ripping that leather corset off the tall, dark and deadly one.
2. When did you fall in love with ship number 5?
Someone got me to watch an episode called Ceremonies of Dark and Light and told me to listen very carefully to the secret that Susan was going to confess. When she said ‘I think I loved Talia’ I begged anyone who would listen to loan me the entire series, I had to know who Talia was and why Susan loved her.
3.What is your favorite moment of ship number 3?
3.What is your favorite moment of ship number 3?
The devastation in Olivia’s eyes when Alex tells her that she has to go into protective custody.
4. What will the ship be if you take the boy from ship 2 and the girl from ship 1 and mesh them? If one or both of the ships are slash, then pick and choose.
Nikki and Gabrielle… Interesting. Well Gabrielle stood by Xena who had carved a bloody path across most of the known world to conquer it, Nikki is mild by comparison having only killed to protect her previous girlfriend. And Gabrielle could write epic tales and Nikki could read them and answer essay questions.
5. Vise versa.
Xena and Helen… Scary. Not sure how well Xena would react to being told to ‘grow up and stop all this macho crap’ but then she would probably see the woman fighting for the ‘greater good’ of her charges and get on board with it. Not sure what Open University course she would get the Warrior Princess to sign up for though… Woodwork? Embroidery?
4. What will the ship be if you take the boy from ship 2 and the girl from ship 1 and mesh them? If one or both of the ships are slash, then pick and choose.
Nikki and Gabrielle… Interesting. Well Gabrielle stood by Xena who had carved a bloody path across most of the known world to conquer it, Nikki is mild by comparison having only killed to protect her previous girlfriend. And Gabrielle could write epic tales and Nikki could read them and answer essay questions.
5. Vise versa.
Xena and Helen… Scary. Not sure how well Xena would react to being told to ‘grow up and stop all this macho crap’ but then she would probably see the woman fighting for the ‘greater good’ of her charges and get on board with it. Not sure what Open University course she would get the Warrior Princess to sign up for though… Woodwork? Embroidery?
6. What's your favorite moment for ship 4?
In ‘Lady Shiva’ when Barbara is dressed in her Batgirl costume and sitting in her wheelchair while Helena kneels before her begging to be able to help Barbara with her battle. (And because Dina Meyer looks gorgeous with the dark eye makeup.)
7. How long was there between the time you got into the fandom and the time you started shipping ship number 3?
The ship was part of the reason that I decided to watch the series. I decided to watch the series from the beginning and Alex Cabot does not appear until the second season, but by my watching schedule that was about three days.
8. When did you start shipping ship number 4?
From the unaired pilot episode. There was a hug and I was hooked.
9. Take three random people from three of the ships and create an OT3?
Talia, Alex, Barbara…THUD!
10. Rank your OTPs in order.
8. When did you start shipping ship number 4?
From the unaired pilot episode. There was a hug and I was hooked.
9. Take three random people from three of the ships and create an OT3?
Talia, Alex, Barbara…THUD!
10. Rank your OTPs in order.
Currently
1 - Olivia and Alex (Law and Order: Special Victims Unit)
2 - Helena and Barbara (Birds of Prey)
3 - Xena and Gabrielle (Xena: Warrior Princess)
4 - Helen and Nikki (Bad Girls)
5 - Susan and Talia (Babylon 5)
Honorary ships that didn't quite make the five:
Sara and Catherine (CSI: Las Vegas)
Honorary ships that didn't quite make the five:
Sara and Catherine (CSI: Las Vegas)
Buffy and Faith (Buffy, The Vampire Slayer
Elphaba and Glinda (Wicked)
Sam and Janet (Stargate SG1)
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- Music:'Headline and Deadlines' - a-Ha
I'm a geek.
I'm a fan girl.
And I'm proud.
And I like to show my geeky fan girl obsession whenever I can. When I was a Star Trek fan I started going to a sci-fi bar. When I was a Babylon 5 fan I attended conventions. When I became a Xena fan I began organising themed evenings. But I also wrote fan fiction, wore costumes and eventually fell into making music videos.
Though I liked it when people would tell me that my fan fiction had them hooked, that my costumes were eyecatching, it was when they told me that my music videos were amazing that I felt the most accomplished. When I would hear the fans chanting for 'Circle In The Sand' to be played one more time before the end of a By The Gods, or that time when we auctioned the 'Bitch' and 'Let Me Entertain You' videos and raised over £100 for charity that I knew I had something special.
In 2003, a year after the final By The Gods, I launched my website - Masque Productions. A place where I could archive all of the Xena music videos I had produced over the previous five years, where they could be downloaded by anyone who wanted them.
Then about a year ago somebody stumbled upon my single Bad Girls music video and posted the link to a messageboard; I started to receive requests to make another, I was more than happy to comply, in fact I made another nine.
And then I found YouTube.
I posted all of the Bad Girls videos and later the Xena videos joined them. I watched in total fascination as the viewing figures grew, the comments appeared and people subscribed to my 'channel'.
About six months ago there was an influx of comments for 'Right Kind Of Wrong' and when I checked the page the viewing figures had shot up by thousands, upon reading the comments I discovered that afterellen.com had picked the music video as the Lesbian YouTube 'Video of The Week'. Cool.
Back in February Bad Girls premiered on the LOGO channel in the United States, and in honour of this momentus occasion afterellen.com selected my 'I Will Survive' music video as an overview of the series. Very cool.
This weekend I received an email from a friend letting me know that afterellen.com had a small article about the Dinah Shore weekend that Renee O'Connor had attended; and in order to refresh memories of Xena: Warrior Princess they featured my 'I Turn To You' video. I think they like me over there, or at least they like my videos, which is still cool.
And so I will just take this opportunity to say thank you to Sarah Warn over at afterellen.com, as she seems to be the one who selects my videos. I'm glad she enjoys them.
Anyways, as I struggle with vague lyrics in a beautiful song and limited footage from dubious sources and a fandom that doesn't lend itself to making music videos, it was nice to be reminded why I do this. It's because I like to tell the story another way.
And because I'm still a geek and a fan girl at heart, and still very proud.
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- Mood:pleased
- Music:'Karma' - Delerium
Not my usual series to get obsessed with at all. There was no spaceships or telepaths or swords for a start, and I very rarely watched British drama anyway. I guess it was the gritty nature, the character dynamics and storylines - some plausible, some not - that drew me in. The humour of the two Julies brewing alcohol in the potting shed, the ingenuity by Yvonne of forming a gospel choir to drive the prison officers crazy and get their open visits re-instated, the frightening but mutually beneficial relationship between Shell and principal officer Fenner, the heartbreak of Denny being re-united with her alcoholic mother Jesse after she was taken into care as a child, the devastation of the wrongly imprisoned Monica being seperated from her son Spencer. But it was the growing relationship between prison lifer Nikki Wade and wing governor Helen Stewart that hooked me... no surprise there then.
I loved the way that they saw the potential in one another; Helen saw the respected ring leader that she needed to get onside and Nikki saw a 'screw' that actually gave a damn about the welfare of the prisoners. It was only a matter of time before the path of true love took its course; there was just the matter of Niki's girlfriend, Helen's fiance and the prison bars to get rid of. With the girlfriend moved firmly into the ex category midway through the first season and the fiance dispatched by the finale only the prison bars remained to be dealt with in the second season. If there was anyone that could pull off a prison break it was Nikki Wade, and she did. In the season two finale she escaped from HMP Larkhall and showed up on Helen's doorstep, spent the night with her and then broke back into the prison before the end of the season three premiere. Genius.
It was nice to finally watch a lesbian relationship; not the implication of Susan and Talia, not the subtext of Xena and Gabrielle, but an honest, truthful portrayal of a lesbian relationship. We knew Nikki was gay from the start; she was in a long term relationship with another woman, who she had killed to protect. Helen was straight and engaged but her infatuation with Nikki led to a struggle with her sexuality that lasted for three years. They flirted, they kissed, they groped, they ended up in bed together. They broke up and made up several times. And even in the worst of times were still there for each other when no one else would be.
Though it was sad that both Mandana Jones and Simone Lahbib decided to leave the series after three seasons, at least Nikki and Helen got their happy ending. During their last year at Larkhall the pressure had become too great and Helen had ended the relationship; while Helen fled to the waiting arms of Doctor Tom, Nikki had found comfort with another inmate, Caroline. Helen had Caroline transferred, not because she was jealous but because she feared for Nikki's safety when the rest of the wing learned that Caroline was a phedophile. Then as Nikki's appeal draws closer Helen is forced to resign when Fenner threatens to expose the affair in order to save his own arse. Not wanting to jeopardise Nikki's chance at freedom she quits but Fenner can't resist telling Tom about the relationship. Realising that Helen had risked everything to be with Nikki Tom breaks things off, forcing Helen to deal with her sexuality and the depth of her feelings for Nikki. The final few minutes saw Helen and Nikki reunited and ready to start a new life together.
It was music videos that I turned to first as a creative outlet to my obsession. 'Right Kind of Wrong' was a Helen and Nikki tribute, this was followed by very rough cuts of 'I Will Survive' and 'You Gotta Be' as ensemble pieces, but only the first one was posted to the internet. In 2006 someone contacted me, told me how much they had loved 'Right Kind of Wrong' and would it make more... it was all the incentive I needed. I re-aquainted myself with the series and 'Crash and Burn' went into production followed by several others and culminating with 'All The Things She Said'.
Every now and again I like to revisit the series. The Julies are still hysterical, Yvonne is still cool, Shell is still a bitch, Fenner is still an arse and Helen and Nikki are still one of my favourite couples of all time.
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Some favourites:
Fan Fiction (unfortunately a lot of my favourites are no longer easily available, but here are the titles anyway)
~Classic~
Coming Up Lillies by Kat
Forever Desting by Tracey
Inside Out by Bella
Time Out by Susan
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And Then We Kiss: www.youtube.com/watch
Too Lost In You: www.youtube.com/watch
Bring Me To Life: www.youtube.com/watch
Hero: www.youtube.com/watch
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All The Things She Said: www.youtube.com/watch
Crash and Burn: www.youtube.com/watch
Right Kind Of Wrong: www.youtube.com/watch
Goodbye To You: www.youtube.com/watch
I Will Survive (Ensemble): www.youtube.com/watch
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