There are always two sides to every story. It's still with a heavy heart that I take down the entry that was for advertising our Save WMC campaign. Yes, still.

On the other hand, there isn't much time to nurture the disappointment in a certain network anyway, as in fandom, Women's Murder Club will never die. In this spirit, the team of wmc_vs will create an all new virtual season with 13 episodes, bringing you back the club on Fridays, starting September 12th, 2008.

Love,
demeter94

Thanks to James Patterson for creating the murder club, Sarah Fain and Elizabeth Craft for bringing it to TV, and Angie Harmon, Paula Newsome, Laura Harris and Aubrey Dollar for bringing those wonderful characters to life.

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"This September...

Welcome back to the Club.

A killer murdering in God's name pushes The Women's Murder Club to the edge. How far will they go to stop him? Especially when he targets one of their own...

Lindsay Boxer, Cindy Thomas, Jill Bernhardt, and Claire Washburn will need more than a prayer to stop him. They'll need a miracle.

Join us for 13 all new virtual episodes of The Women's Murder Club beginning September 12th on Live Journal."



Promo poster: grumpybear1031
Promo text: inspectorboxer

Okay, I'm going back to work on VS 'in a little while', but I had to get this off my chest; a thought that occurred to me after reading a Dollhouse's fan's post about how she (I assume she) was ready to send lollipops to Fox. I'm thinking there's a deeper metaphor in there somewhere.

Think about it for a moment:

The Dollhouse: The Networks
The Clients: The Sponsors, The Critics
The 'Actives': The Fans

Translation: Does *anything* fans do these days has any real impact (like sending loads of letters, candy, crashing phone and email, or even chartering a plane), or is it all just humoring us, fake closure like the big exodus on Dollhouse? The networks want their viewers nice and docile, and within a certain age/gender boundary. They create reality by making us think that everyone wants to see things like Wife Swap in the first place, things where you don't need to think. 'Dolls' in their resting state. Right. As a fan, I felt very much 'sent to the attic' last year.

The best thing ever, though (well one of them) was when Echo stood up from that chair ready to fight for her self. There might be hope. Someday, if we don't believe in their lies.

Hello everybody and Happy WMC Day, one year after cancellation of the TV show, a little over two months away from Virtual Season 3! Join the party and share your snapshots of the past year. This is an open discussion post for you to share your thoughts on everything WMC. Have you stopped holding a grudge against ABC or are you still looking back in anger? Have you read 8th Confession, or do you even plan to? Can you still quote everything in between "Don't you need a warrant for that?" and "I'd rather have a bathtub full of bourbon!" and everything beyond?

Pics, links, and most of all, your thoughts are welcome.

So... I think can hear and see the wave of groans and eye rolls all over the flist ;)... but let me explain.



Not far away from now is May 13th which last year made the supposed end official. Seeing what's going on on the Dollhouse comms totally slams the memory home. I won't cry into my coffee over the end of Dh, though for sure I did so last year, regardless of all rl issues at that time and later. Because it did matter, and because it was more than just another show we liked being cancelled.

But a year from now - we've all moved on a few, with new goals, new shows and new rl issues, but we also survived as a fandom. So there might not be as many fics as we'd hope for, but it isn't over yet, there'll be one more season of VS to come, there is WMC fic being written; I'd say we did a lot of work building the fandom house brick by brick. Might be tedious at times, but didn't we have fun too, getting our hands dirty?

I think we should celebrate May 13th this year to give credit to this fact. So it's only two weeks, and it might be totally disorganized and spontaneous, but who cares. Fic, art, discussion, it could be a good chance to start and revive comms on which nothing has happened in a while.

It could also be a nice training run for this year's IDF ;)

So, what do you think? Wanna party?

We don't fear no network and no rl shit either. I wish. But whatever happens, the next episode watching is due:

Sunday 26th, 2 PM EST.

Same place on Yahoo IM, if you have any questions, send me a message.

This month's episode will be Train In Vain. Cindy does her bathroom stalking and Jill so loves watching Lindsay interrogate. You know you want to be there.

Edited to say I'm sorry but you've been had ;)... it is April 1st after all, but almost over where I am.

Didn't happen. Most likely never will. But look, almost... this is how close we were.



[For those of you who didn't hear the good news yet, there will be WMC DVDs, and from what we hear, the bloopers *fans self* will feature the kiss all vidders in fandom have been waiting for!! (well, a lot of them anyway). I am speechless. *squees* :))]

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Okay everybody, here it goes:

We'll get together via yahoo messenger conference and watch on episode on every last Sunday of the month. To join is very simple; you just need a yahoo ID. If you add me or anyone who you know is going to be there as contact, we can add you to the conference and the fun. This is open to all WMC fans.

We already watched Welcome To The Club, but that was so long ago, I just assume we start at the beginning again.

The 2009 dates are:

March 29th: Welcome To The Club
April 26th: Train In Vain
May 31st: Blind Dates and Bleeding Hearts
June 28th: Grannies, Guns and Love Mints
July 26th: Maybe Baby
August 30th: Playin Through The Pain
September 27th: The Past Comes Back To Haunt You
October 25th: No Opportunity Necessary
November 29th: To Drag and To Hold
December 27th: FBI Guy

Time: 3 PM EST

I know it was supposed to start earlier, but all kinds of fandom and RL things took over, sorry. We're gonna start all fresh with this, and you can join at any time. Some dates might be moved due to holidays, but that's going to be decided by the majority.

I'll leave this post public, so feel free to pass on the information to any interested parties :). See you all on Sunday - and don't forget to bring cookies :)

This is for all of you on my flist who really need that light now.

It's all over now, Baby Blue... at least where Season 2 is concerned. So I felt like taking a look back and remembering some of my favorite moments.

There'll be spoilers!!!

( Welcome to the Hotel California )

Just so I keep them straight in my head...

(Straight, right. Good joke.)

The WMC Virtual Season

... has been picking up speed again this year! Two more eps to come until the big finale. Read, enjoy, comment. ;)

The WMC VS


The WMC Fanfiction Archive

Come and submit your fic to the growing archive (and don't make me feel like a spammer). I have seen some amazing fic in this little over one year of time. If you want to go back to read something, find a story by name or pairing, it'll work here. The more complete it is, the more it will also be a place where new fans can go.

And you know we're going to attract hordes of new fans, right?

The WMC Fanfic Archive

WMC ep watching

We started on December 20th with 'Welcome To The Club' and decided it would be fun to continue. Since we only have 13 eps plus the unaired, it would be over too soon if we did it once a week, so, once a month it is.

Since too many things are already going on Saturdays, qbeck and I thought a Sunday would be nice. February and early March will be a busy WMC time, so we're going to continue with 'Train In Vain' on the 15th.

Taking place on Yahoo IM.

( The Dates for 2009 )

We should have a newsletter... since it wouldn't look much different from this, I guess I could just do it. Also, we were talking about reading and discussiong the books. We could discuss VS episodes once we're through with the TV eps...

And yet more plans that shall not be revealed at this point.

It's not gonna be boring.

You know there are folks who put in many hours to make all of this happen. You know their names. They are my heroes.

is now right here.

Come, submit your fic, read, help to make sure that all WMC fic can be found in one place. Since this place has been created by grumpybear1031, you already know it's gorgeous. All pairings welcome. Check it out today!

And J, I will come up with a profile this weekend. I promise.

It's Christmas and someone gets a free book. While this is awesome, the book also is.

( Let me tell you about it. )

Order it here.

For grumpybear1031. Happy Birthday! The muse came up with a birthday fic after all, if different from what I had planned. Fluffy, with a tad of drama. Hope you like :)

A/N: Technically, Cindy is a Libra if we go with Aubrey Dollar's bd. I bent the rules a bit.

( Will Lindsay ever buy a clue? Cindy's birthday seems like a good occasion. )

If you want to unfriend me, there would be just one thing I'd ask you for: Tell me so. I promise I won't badger for reasons or throw virtual stones or anything of the kind. It doesn't matter in this case if you came here hoping for stories and found that I'm only mostly literally waxing about more or less dramatic things in my life or fandom, or if we at some point, considered ourselves more than just virtual pen pals.

Chances are, you are simply not interested in anything I'll say on this journal, so a single line maybe won't take too much of your time, so I know and can un-friend you back, so you won't have any stuff on your flist you don't care for anyway.

That's it.

I'll still remember the good things more than anything else, because they weigh far more for me.

Just one thing: Don't show me up on a mailing list, no matter how small or private it might be, about something that's really about something I annoyed you or pissed you off about and is between you and me. No matter how much I respect you and/or am grateful towards you for many reason, that is something that pisses me off.

Nevertheless, if you want to leave this joint, I hope you'll remember the good times too, and I wish you all the best.

Worlds collide ;)

I told promopro about TS and WMC chat schedules, and suggested to do the now planned weekly WMC chat at 6 p.m. GMT so it would overlap with TS, but not at start at the same time. She joked about me saying 'Lindsay' in the wrong chat, which was quite funny, because in fannish circles, WMC is pretty much all I talk about atm --

-- so imagine my surprise, when I tried to be all unobtrusive tonight, and then in the TS chat someone mentioned Lindsay! Not Boxer, of course. I had totally forgotten that the name of the girl in 'Most Wanted' was Lindsay, too. Shame on me. I've neglected watching TS, though that had never been one of my favorite episodes. Whenever I watched it, I couldn't help thinking how close to the end they actually were. Just - funny.

I really want WMC to survive for long enough to have our home built the way it already was when I came to TS - solidly, with enough fic to last for years.

WMC will return on Tuesday, April 29th, at 10 p.m.!

some random WMC ideas -

i find it highly ironic that first, we're given a storyline about a killer who wants to silence women. He is being chased by strong female characters, so far so good, but then, all of a sudden, these strong female characters are about to be silenced by the same network. Welcome to the glass ceiling, ladies.

Must. Go. To. Bed. Now.

But before I go... a big hug to alynt for helping our cause - and letting me introduce the sisters to Brothers in Arms ;-).

Good night, folks.

This sucks --- I changed my links on the weekend, and already forgot where I need to go in oder to do it. I'm dreaming of a world where abc never even considered yanking WMC AND live journal was really user friendly.

The link for the Save WMC page doesn't work, so if anyone can please help me change it?

Obviously, I was able to do it on Saturday, but I can't find my way back now.

*headdesk*

ETA - I found it. Accidentally, but the link to the SAVE WMC site works now.

Look at the woman who said, no challenges this year, cut down the lj activity. Well, I did all of it, only to start over with WMC - but it's a little different; the new community to save WMC is for the sole purpose to help putting all the efforts together, and it's great to have fans with me who are talented in areas where I so not am; spreading the word is what I'm mostly working on for now.

I really can't imagine atm to not have the show come back; I've felt from the first few snippets I saw that it's been *tailor-made* for me.

Many shows have strong women characters, but not four of them, interacting like real friends and not envying their boyfriends or their shoes behind their backs.
That, and there's a lot of anger about the demographic thing. Sure, it's all about business and potential sales of products in the commercial break, but totally dismiss the cultural and financial importance of women over 50 (make that women in general, there is a reason why there's a community called Feminist Fandom) is just so - wrong? Ridiculous? Stupid. Because all these women, guess what, are intelligent enough to find themselves something else than watching TV if they don't get to see what they like.

On a side note, I couldn't care less if was WMC actually never aired in Germany. Of course, it would be bad for some fans who don't watch English, or don't have access (and for them, I'd want it, just not for me, because I couldn't imagine anyone replacing Angie Harmon's voice. No way).

Lastly, I'm really happy to be a TS fan, too - it gives me faith to be in a fandom that has shown TPTB what the 'wrong demographic' can do.

At this point, I'm not above sending ABC letters with my professional stationary/logo.

(oh, and something cute; I showed my Mom the last vid I made, Too Lost In You (and she was just amazed as I am about what people with absolutely no technical knowledge can do with WMM) - her comment was, "They're pretty." That had me almost squealing. Yep. That's why I want them back... among 50 other reasons).

I've got a new entry on top of my lj, regarding the likely cancellation of Women's Murder Club. It's really making me mad, this wrong demographic crap. Women over fifty - why dismiss them without a second thought? In a lot of cases, they have more money to invest (in fannish things like DVDs and in those that are shown in the commercials); they are at least as loyal as the younger viewers.

About WMC, I didn't even get as far as mentioning on my LJ what exactly I like about this show. It's so relieving to see women on TV whose first thought is not finding the right man, and who don't compete with each other in that category. It was such a step forward regarding all those other 'women' shows.

Oh, and no more fanfic in the immediate future. I can't write. I can't even think; that's because I'm really mad, hoping that a whole lot more of us are.

And I guess I'm going to carry this to my feminist groups, because they might have a word to say about this.