Women Love Fest

There's a Women Love Fest going on over at womenlovefest.

Initially begun to celebrate the women that fandom hates, it's more generally turned into a women love-fest, simply because every female character in the history of fandom has been run down by someone who thinks she shouldn't have kissed/smiled/spoken to/stood beside a male character, or dressed like a slut/whore/woman who's comfortable in her own skin, or done something good/something clever/something morally questionable/anything at all.

So far, I've found threads for Teyla, Jennifer, and Elizabeth in Stargate Atlantis; Sam and Vala in Stargate SG1; Helen, Ashley, and Kate in Sanctuary; Olivia and Altlivia in Fringe; Morgana and Gwen from Merlin; and Ziva from NCIS - to name a bunch of my most popular fandoms - but there are plenty more fandoms and plenty more threads!

I know the majority of my f-list love the female characters, so I think this counts as 'relevant to our interests'.

hockey finals

We drew the hockey finals, which means that we're in the Grand Finals as the team that's higher on the ladder!

It, I think, was an awesome game. 5-5 both ways, with them getting two goals ahead to begin with - one of them in the first minute of the game - before we started kicking back. I got our first goal, and three other people scored the other goals. But I had several chances on goal which bounced off the goalie pads, alas.

We played well, they played well, they were good sports - although one of their girls got carded for shouldering and one of our girls got carded for hacking - and we hung on for grim life.

Some of our players got a bit narky with each other at the end of the game - partly because we didn't know what was going on and they were getting anxious. They were the older members of the team, too - and a hothead or two - but I think we settled them enough.

But, y'know, even if we'd lost, it would have been a really great game.

I wish I'd gone to church tonight - I forgot there was a fellowship dinner on, which I could have attended - but I was kind of too exhausted at the end of the game to do more than take a shower and flop on the couch with half a chicken and the Beeb's recent series of Emma.