{"id":125508,"date":"2015-11-26T16:31:27","date_gmt":"2015-11-26T16:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/11\/26\/big-finish-sketches-personal-story-time-first\/"},"modified":"2018-09-04T15:46:27","modified_gmt":"2018-09-04T15:46:27","slug":"big-finish-sketches-personal-story-time-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/11\/26\/big-finish-sketches-personal-story-time-first\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-125508 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/11\/26\/big-finish-sketches-personal-story-time-first\/attachment\/125509\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/tumblr_nydmfzO9mH1r8ge6mo7_400-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail 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src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/tumblr_nydmfzO9mH1r8ge6mo6_400-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/tumblr_nydmfzO9mH1r8ge6mo6_400-150x150.gif 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/tumblr_nydmfzO9mH1r8ge6mo6_400-100x100.gif 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/11\/26\/big-finish-sketches-personal-story-time-first\/attachment\/125514\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/tumblr_nydmfzO9mH1r8ge6mo3_400-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/tumblr_nydmfzO9mH1r8ge6mo3_400-150x150.gif 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/tumblr_nydmfzO9mH1r8ge6mo3_400-100x100.gif 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/big-finish-sketches.tumblr.com\/post\/133931155698\" target=\"_blank\">big-finish-sketches<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Personal story time! First time I read the\u00a0\u201cyou people and your quaint little categories\u201d line somewhere on the internet, I thought it was the most pretentious thing I had <i>ever<\/i>\u00a0heard. I pretty much vowed right there and then not to get into Torchwood, because the idea of a bisexual guy calling other orientations\u00a0\u201cquaint\u201d just struck me as offensive as fuck.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say I did end up getting into Torchwood, and as it turned out I was so so so <i>so <\/i>wrong. Because \u2014<\/p>\n<p><b>What I thought the line would mean:<\/b> Some bisexual nerd telling people that bisexuals are enlightened and everyone else is dumb.<\/p>\n<p><b>What the line actually meant:<\/b> An omnisexual guy from a future in which gender and orientation categories are incredibly blurred and eternal sexual freedom is the norm, stuck in 21st century Cardiff, working with a bunch of bisexual monster hunters including a woman who\u2019s in love with a human popsicle and a man whose idea of a date involves slipping people mind-altering aphrodisiacs, faced with an alien who can literally hypnotise people into sex in order to steal their life forces via orgasm\u2026 being told that the\u00a0<i>odd <\/i>part about Gwen being kissed by said alien is that she <i>has a boyfriend<\/i>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2026Anyway I love Torchwood.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>big-finish-sketches: Personal story time! First time I read the\u00a0\u201cyou people and your quaint little categories\u201d line somewhere on the internet, I thought it was the most pretentious thing I had ever\u00a0heard. I pretty much vowed right there and then not to get into Torchwood, because the idea of a bisexual guy calling other orientations\u00a0\u201cquaint\u201d just &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/11\/26\/big-finish-sketches-personal-story-time-first\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[50,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125508"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125515,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125508\/revisions\/125515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}