Top 15 Mostly Queer Most Critterish Humans Of All Time
First, a definition of the term “Critter,” as defined by a friend:
A critter is someone who does things that normal people do in a way cuter than the average person. It can be used as a noun, adjective, or a greeting. If I was to see you on the street randomly I might say, “Hey Crit.”
Examples of critter behavior are as follows: being super cute and fun all the time, not causing drama, wearing hoodies that make you want to cuddle no matter what your relationship is, a stranger being super nice for no reason for no personal benefit for themselves, making the best out of awful situations, always being up for anything.
Critter is totally not a sexual term at all, although obvs we’ve probs all had sex with critters, it is by no means a qualification for the term.
My friends and I have been using the term “critter” for many years now, and qualifying various humans as critterish or not. Many of our dear friends and co-workers are critters but we couldn’t put them all on this list. However, we hope that this list will inspire you to think about the critters in your life and what they mean to you. Maybe you should give them an extra cuddle tonight.
This list is mostly but not entirely queer, because Rachael Hip-Flores is straight and Samira Wiley has yet to officially declare her desire to marry me.
Top 15 Critters Of the Day
in no particular order
15. Autostraddle Associate Editor Yvonne Marquez
Can I get real with you for a second — I was not sold on the re-emergence of sweaters with animal faces on them until I saw Yvonne in a sweater with a fox on it. With respect to “doing things cuter than the average person” I need only direct you to the photograph above, where Yvonne is wishing she hadn’t given up fried foods this year in a manner which is far cuter then the average person’s expression of that emotion.
14. Musicians Tegan & Sara
Tegan & Sara embody all things crit, including cute haircuts, hoodies and being awkward and funny in the coolest way ever. Plus there was that one video where they were swaddled in so much winterwear.
13. Rock Star Somer Bingham
If you’ve seen Somer perform live in 3-D or on your television set, or perused her various photographic presences online, you may not be aware of her intensely critterish qualities, as exemplified by her photoshop skills, overall life attitude, and hoodie-sleeve-clutching habits. Rock star by night, Crit by day.
12 & 11. Actresses Nicole Pacent & Rachael Hip-Flores
Our first and last list of Autostraddle Icons debuted in early 2010, and these two actresses, the then-stars of popular lesbian webseries Anyone But Me, took the honor of “Critters of the Year.” Therefore we must continue to honor them as such indefinitely amen.
10. Fashion Blogger Arabelle Sicardi
via rent the runway
I’m a hugger so I hug everybody I meet, but even if you’re not a hugger, I feel like if you looked at a photo of fashion blogger Arabelle Sicardi, you’d think to yourself I’d like to hug this person when I meet her. (But only if she’s okay with it, of course.) She’s like over a decade younger than me and already 500 times cooler than everybody I’ve ever known combined.
9. Writer Michelle Tea
Writer Michelle Tea emcees the events she produces with the most genuine enthusiasm of any event host I’ve ever seen in all my lifetimes on this earth. Thus she infuses poetry readings with a figurative group hug from a critter.
8. Actress Samira Wiley
Samira Wiley, Girl Crush Numero Uno, is certified critter material for her cute selfies, her many hooded shirts, her affection for string cheese and her declaration that she needs a boo to keep her lil ass warm in the winter.
7. New Media Star Hannah Hart
photo by robin roemer
Hannah Hart basically lives The Gospel of Critter, thus attracting hoards of Hartosexuals all over the world who swoon over her super-friendliness, versatile facial expressions, energetic body movements, kissing booth prowess, love songs to the internet and ability to rock a penguin outfit first thing in the morning.
6. Musician Mary Lambert
Did Mary Lambert intend for “She Keeps Me Warm” to be the official Critter National Anthem or did it just inevitably turn out that way? You will have to ask her the next time you spot her in Critter Cuddle City.
5. Actress Jasika Nicole
Actress Jasika Nicole has a tumblr called sugarbooty and she also knits and sews and made her wife a really cute sweater for the holidays. In interviews she is super-chill and laughs a lot. Also how can you not want to cuddle with that picture?
4. Comedian Deanne Smith
If you looked up “Critter” in the encyclopedia, it would be a video of Deanne Smith playing Nerdy Love Song on her ukelele while her kitten runs interference. Seriously go watch it right now, even if you’ve already seen it, you probably need to see it again.
3. Intern* Chelsey
We have a long and storied history of critterish Interns such as Forever Intern Grace, Intern Emily Choo, Hot Laura and Intern Lily. Today we want to draw your attention to Intern Chelsey, who was a mermaid for Halloween last year and Robin (as in “Batman and”) for Halloween this year. When Intern Chelsey and fellow critter Community Editor Vanessa Friedman share airspace, everything is beautiful because everything is crit:
critter-on-critter love
2. Musician Charice
Charice looked pretty damn crittery when she wore pigtails on an episode of Glee and sang with Rachel Berry, but the world was totally unprepared for how critterish she’d become with her alternative lifestyle haircut and subsequent coming out.
1. Actress Raven-Symone: Lifetime Critterish Achievement Award
Obviously Critter Status is, in many ways, dependent partially on said candidate’s ability to exude child-like energy, and nobody is better equipped to do so than Raven-Symone, cutest child of all time from The Cosby Show who has now blossomed into the cutest grown-up of all time. Plus, she’s totally queer. This is the stuff Critter Dreams are MADE OF.
* Chelsey isn’t actually an “Intern” anymore but “Intern” is a more critterish title than “Editorial Assistant.”
The 22-Minute “Anyone But Me” Finale is Here
After 26 episodes and a ton of well-deserved awards later, Anyone But Me ended their three-season run yesterday with a proper 22-minute finale. The story broke ground as one of the most successful lesbian webseries ever, and earned a special place in Autostraddle’s heart (we launched around the same time!) for the awesomeness of its stars, Rachael Hip-Flores and Nicole Pacent, and its directing/producing/writing team of Susan Miller and Tina Cesa Ward. The show will be sorely missed, but y’all get one last chance to savor its awesomeness.
Enjoy:
You can even watch it internationally on YouTube. You have no excuse to not watch/appreciate this.
“Anyone But Me” Is Ending, Needs Funding, Loves You
After three seasons of teen angst and lesbian drama, the webseries Anyone But Me is planning on wrapping up production with one final episode. Chronicling the lives of a small group of high schoolers and most notably the tumultuous relationship of two good-looking girls who are trying (and often failing) at a long-ish distance relationship, ABM has won loads of awards and gained more than 11 million viewers. Also, the series includes girls making out a lot. It was truly groundbreaking.
It’s also an Autostraddle favorite: Star Nicole Pacent was a calendar girl, and back when Anyone But Me and Autostraddle were basically in preschool together, Riese interviewed Nicole and co-star Rachael Hip-Flores. It was neat! We love them!
Just look at them.
The series finale, which is tentatively scheduled to premiere in early 2012, will feature the entire cast reunited again. But don’t fret! Executive producer Susan Miller said that the creative team is “in talks with a major literary agent to do a young adult book based on the series. And, [they]’ll be releasing DVDs of Seasons 2 & 3 after the finale airs.” So that’s something to look forward too!
But first, the team needs your help in securing finances for the finale. Independently run lesbian webseries don’t fund themselves. Give them 40 quarters, you guys.
DONATE HERE! Make a lot of queer ladies happy without even taking off your pants!
Here is the Season 3 Finale, in case you missed it/ forgot how much you love it.
Anyone But Me Season 3 Premiere: “Stick Figures”
Season Three of “Anyone But Me” is ON, picking up right where we left off with lots of stolen kisses and overall lesbian drama. It just keeps getting better and better,this show (starring Miss June Nicole Pacent & Rachael Hip-Flores, written/produced by Susan Miller and Tina Cesa-Ward, directed by Tina Cesa-Ward.)
THOUGHTS/FEELINGS??!!
Come Party With Us At PYT Productions’ HOLIDAY STRADDLE, The 2011 Autostraddle Calendar Girls Release Party
Hey hey gurl do you live in or nearLA? What are you doing Friday night? Whatever it is, you should cancel it, because something way cooler is happening — PYT Productions and Autostraddle.com are throwing a party to celebrate our first-ever Autostraddle Calendar, which you should order this week if you want it in time for the holidays WHICH OF COURSE YOU DO.
When you read these official words from PYT Productions, imagine Charlene is yelling them at you on a megaphone.
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**A PYT TEA ROOM EXCLUSIVE**
2011 CALENDAR GIRLS Release Party!
FRIDAY NIGHT – DECEMBER 17TH
PYT Productions presents…..
“THE HOLIDAY STRADDLE PARTY”
With your special guest hosts AUTOSTRADDLE.COM!
Miss April & Design Director Alex & Miss December Party at PYT
The ladies of PYT team up with the HOTTEST LESBIAN website to date, to bring you the ULTIMATE HOLIDAY WHITE PARTY! The 2011 Autostraddle Calendar is now on sale!! Get your copy on the website or purchase yours at PYT this FRIDAY NIGHT! It’s the Sexiest Hottest Lesbian calendar out there!!
It’s gonna be quite the debaucherous evening. With old skool jamz, hip hop, dance & house… Music will penetrate your body… HOT SEXY BEAUTIFUL LESBIANS will definitely be in attendance!
miss april, miss december, whitney mixter
*** Resident DJ SARATONIN!! ***
*** Resident DJ EUPHORIC!! ***
*** Holiday straddle photos by ABZ CRUZ ***
Friday nights get craaaaaazy!!! Come on in and see what all the buzz is about. You won’t be disappointed!
ATTIRE: It’s gonna be a WHITE Christmas. Bust out your WHITE PARTY Attire!!
WHEN: Friday December 17, 2010 @ 9:30pm
Cover: FREE FREE FREE ALL NIGHT!
RSVP to write2pyt@gmail.com
WHERE: “H.WOOD”. – Tea Room
@ 1738 N Orange Dr.
Hollywood, CA
So we’ll see you there right? Alex’s dance moves look even better in person, just saying! THIS WILL BE THE MOST ULTIMATE BEST PARTY IN THE ENTIRE WORLD TO EVER HAPPEN TO THE HOMOGAYSEXUAL COMMUNITY MAYBE SOMEONE WILL EVEN SIGN YOUR CALENDAR!
It Gets Better: 23 Lesbians, 10 Animals, 2 Children, 1 Message (#itgetsbetter)
Unless you’ve been living under a rock (we’re not judging if you do, it happens), you probably know about Dan Savage’s It Gets Better Project, which enlists homos to speak to youths via YouTube about how high school is a battlefield for your heart. Celebrities with shiny hair tell schoolchildren about how much better things are when you have a hit record and bang hot lesbo-chicks all day. In between those vids, you can hear real stories from normal not-fancy human gays all over the world. You might cry a little.
You probably wondered, where’s Autostraddle’s video, are they too busy reading editorials of the It Gets Better project to actually get better? Nah. We just needed it to be special and wanted a big complicated project to ensure a constantly haphazard publication schedule.
“Why are we waiting for permission to talk to these kids? We have the ability to talk directly to them right now. We don’t have to wait for permission to let them know that it gets better. We can reach these kids.”
We enlisted the worldwide troops for this one. However we can’t figure out how to get it on their site I keep getting an error message help.
The It Gets Better project requires you to put your location in the title. We can’t fit it all in there, so how’s this… (location is where the video was shot)
Starring:
DJ Carlytron & Photographer Robin Roemer (Autofocus) — Queens, NY
Actress Sarah Croce (Miss April) & AS Design Director Alex Vega — On the Road somewhere between New York and California (two bois, one road)
Celesbian Nat Garcia (Autonatic, More to L) & her dogs — Los Angeles, CA
Comedians Gloria Bigelow & Dalila Ali Rajah (Cherry Bomb TV) — Los Angeles, CA
Actress Julia Osen Averill (Miss February) — Brooklyn, NY
AS Intern Elizabeth — Chicago, IL
AS Intern Daphne Duck — Belgium
AS Intern Lily (College Lesbianage) — New York, NY
Tech Blogger Morgan — Boston, MA
Technostraddle Editor-in-Chief Taylor and Video Assistant Kelsey — Oakland, CA
Nicole Pacent (Miss June, Anyone But Me) & Jenn Klein — Los Angeles, CA
Vikki (Up Popped a Fox) and her cute family — Minneapolis, MN
Editor-in-Chief Riese Bernard & Managing Editor Sarah F. P. — Ann Arbor, MI
Actress Haviland Stillwell — West Hollywood, CA
Comediennes/actresses/executives Julie Goldman & Brandy Howard (In Your Box Office) — Los Angeles, CA
Autostraddle Calendar Girls: Nicole Pacent is Miss June!
It’s June, can you believe half a year went by so fast? And June is National Gay Month or something, so we knew it’d be especially important to have a really bangin’ Miss June. Duh.
Firstly, a little refresh of the Calendar Girl concept for any newbies:
We just think Maxim, COED and Playboy shouldn’t get to corner the market on “monthly devotions to very very good looking women.” We know lots of hot lesbians who also look good casually lounging on bedsheets and hanging out at the pool/on the couch.
Each month our photographer Robin will shoot a Le Cadeau by Robin set (as featured on WeTV) with one beautiful, talented, smart, interesting and sexy lesbian lady. At the end of the year, we’ll have a pretty kickass calendar that you can buy for 2011, which is our last year on earth before the apocalypse. Don’t you want to keep track of that in style?
Missed a month, or need an repeat performance?
We made this page of our 2011 Calendar Girls
for your browsing needs!
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This month’s Autostraddle Calendar Girl is:
Nicole Pacent
Miss June
From Photoblogger Robin:
Top 20 Autostraddle Icons of 2009: The Future is Bright For Our ’09 Favorites
Surely someone has proven, scientifically or statistically, that eccentricity thrives in times of economic strife. Because without a doubt; 2009 was The Year of the Weirdo.
The disillusioned proletariat is no longer interested in watered-down standard-issue art! We’ve been left desolate and recessed following eight years of mainstream cracker-jack “traditional” family values, eight years of Capitalist Religion, eight years of folksy dogma disguising the smart-alecky aristocracy joyriding our collective wealth into hell’s barren handbasket! So what did we do? We turned to the weirdos.
We elected the geekiest president of all time; a scrawny egghead with big ears and questionable athleticism who’s own wife admits she assumed he was going to be a “a little weird, a little nerdy” when they first met.
In 2009 we were nothing if not ready for a pop star who loudly credited the gays with “lifting her up” and forewent boring ol’ nip-slips & for ten-inch crystal-encrusted heels, golden underpants and a model of the solar system orbiting her magenta Goldilocks-Bob wig.
The it-ensemble of this year’s breakout show bears no resemblance to the Kelly Taylors and Brendan Walshes who, back in the 90s, occupied the same Fox time slot that Glee occupies now with the high school drama Beverly Hills 90210. Glee‘s motley crew of oh-so-adorable dorks are frequently subjected to Slushee Facials (not nose jobs) and they often sing rock-pop ballads in their heads, or while washing cars, or alone to the mirror, and with each other, in matching pajamas.
We also lost the greatest weirdo of all time, Michael Jackson, this year, and the reaction to his death was perhaps the only unanimous moment of the year.
There were so many freaks, geeks and losers to fawn over this year — who will, we hope, make 2010 the best year ever. And as you know, we’re all about the queer, outsider perspective on everything, and it may’ve been a bad year for everything else, but it was a great year for Outsiders. So much to choose from!
These aren’t the People of the Year, or the Best of Anything.
They’re just Autostraddle’s most-talked-about most-admired personalities of 2009. They’re our Auto-Icons.
20. Vogue Evolution – Drama Club
America’s Best Dance Crew featured its first all-gay/transgender (Leiomy Maldonado is a trans woman) dance crew, “Vogue Evolution” this year. In their first appearance, Lil’ Mama revealed her secret awareness of the Voguing Ball Competition underground (history sidenote; rent Paris is Burning asap, kids, holler) and all the judges agreed that America is ready. Shane Sparks said, “Y’all just ripped the stage … it’s about time for this style to be exposed. It’s been underground for so long … thank you.”
It’s not often that we’ll say we agree wholeheartedly with Shane Sparks, but these kids did bring a ridiculously significant underground style into the mainstream (quote AC Slater) and event though they didn’t win, they brought some genuine diversity of gender expression, body size, race and sexuality to a show which often congratulates itself for showcasing such diversity (and is #1 in its timeslot on cable amongst 12-34 year olds). We love them. We just really, really love them.
2010: Follow them on twitter and check in at their website for updates. Leiomy will be guest starring on the National Talent Search’s College Tour in Atlanta in mid-January.
19. Jane Lynch – The Queen
We’ve been aware that Jane Lynch can do no wrong for quite some time now — starting in 2000 with her role as a dog trainer romancing Jennifer Coolidge in Best in Show. Really by the time she showed up in Season Two of The L Word and Alex sat behind her on an airplane to Dinah Shore in ’08, we were 95% convinced that The Lynch could do no wrong. And then in 2009, the rest of the world caught on to what we knew already. Lynch guested on Reno 911 and Two and a Half Men, was a series regular on Party Down and is now perhaps best known as Sue Sylvester on Glee.
2010: More episodes ahead of Glee and The Cleveland Show (Jane Lynch does a voiceover). She stars in Paul, a Sci-Fi/Comedy starring Sigourney Weaver, Seth Rogen, Jason Bateman, Kristen Wiig, Blythe Danner and Jeffery Tambor, which is due out in 2010.
18. Shannon Wentworth – Businesswoman of the Year
Shannon’s a big deal right now. Why? The actual service provided by Sweet Lesbian Travel (Incredibly Awesome Vacations) isn’t even really the point. The point is that she’s created a company which manages to encompass so many of our community’s most reveled ideals — Environmentalism, Community Service, Philanthropy, Social Responsibility, Business Success & Mutual Support — without sacrificing style, fun, hot girls or a good-looking website. Sweet’s celesbian-packed maiden voyage provided an unforgettable vacation and unrivaled networking opportunities — an an inspiring experience to be surrounded by so many ambitious queer and queer-friendly ladies (and the occasional dude!).
2010: Sweet kicks off the year with an African safari from February 7-16, 2010. A Cruise to the Hawaiian Islands goes from July 31 to August 7 2010 and Sweet will take over the Cozumel Palace Resort from September 4-11, 2010.
17. Lindsay Lohan – Dyke Drama of the Year
Even if her first public lesbian relationship wasn’t exactly perfect, perhaps this year Lindsay learned that lesbians aren’t always great girlfriends but they are always great girl friends. No one’s public meltdown could’ve landed on softer more welcoming ears & shoulders. The gossip rags tore her to pieces but the gay media stayed largely polite, and maybe that’s ’cause she wasn’t really so unlike your heartbroken best friend, crying on the floor in the handicapped stall while you stroke her hair and tell her it’s okay. If Lindsay Lohan was your BFF all broken up you would tell the teacher she was sick so she could miss class, and you’d let her cut corners or throw things at the wall or embarrass herself at the party. And when she got better again, you’d pretend like none of that hysterical stuff ever happened. And you’d tell her she still looks pretty, too.
2010: Lindsay Lohan is set to expand her leggings label, 6126, to a full-fledged contemporary apparel line for fall 2010.
Action/Thriller Machete will premiere April 16, 2010. Lindsay’s co-stars include Michelle Rodriguez, Robert DeNiro, Jessica Alba, Steven Segal, Rose McGowan & Cheech Marin.
“Modern-day fairy tale” The Other Side is currently in production. Lindsay’s co-stars include Jason Lee, Giovanni Ribisi, Woody Harrelson, Kieran Culkin, Anjelica Huston, Alanis Morissette & Dave Matthews.
Musical/romance Dare to Love Me is also in production. Lindsay Lohan plays “La Ritana.”
More importantly, Lindsay has announced on Twitter the following plans for 2010:
WHAT DOES IT MEAN?
16. Jill Bennett & Cathy DeBuono – Celesbians of the Year
From executive producing and starring in We Have To Stop Now to their live weekly vlog The Gloves Are Off to globetrotting around film festivals with And Then Came Lola, out actresses Jill Bennett and Cathy DeBuono were very busy bees in 2009. In their spare time they also managed to become cover girls for Curve Magazine and spend some quality time with Autostraddle for an exclusively candid interview.
2010: Season 2 of We Have To Stop Now premieres this Spring. We were on set during filming on the Sweet Cruise and can confirm that the second season will be off the chain. Guest stars include Meredith Baxter, Erin Foley, Nicol Paone and Kate McKinnon among MANY others. Pre-order your subscription for season 2 now!
Next: Funny Girls, Sources & Activists!
Anyone But Me Season Two Premiere Party New York City
On Tuesday, December 8th, Team Autostraddle ventured forth into the cold night, leaving our laptops behind for the exciting interactive human beings at the Anyone But Me Season Two launch party. After some confusion at the coat rack involving Natalie looking for chapstick and a mysterious unclaimed inhaler, we bounded gallantly through the stylish Blip TV offices and behind a giant hot pink curtain to discover a bunch of super talented and ridiculously attractive people!
We were greeted by Autostraddle Bestie and ABM creator/writer/executive producer Susan Miller, writer/producer Tina Cesa Ward and of course the whole wonderfully beautiful cast including the two lovely leading ladies Rachael Hip-Flores and Nicole Pacent. You may remember that fantastic interview & photoshoot we had with them back in August where they were completely adorable, funny, and awesomely geeky? The type of girls you dream of dating? Refresher:
You should also love Susan Miller who we also interviewed because she wrote the best L Word episode ever: the one where they deploy a mission to ascertain the disposition and intent of one Ms. Lara Perkins. Also she’s won Obies and stuff.
Despite Intern Lily, Natalie, Alex, Jess & Riese ALL being in attendance, none of us had the incredible foresight to bring a camera, so instead we only have other people’s pictures to prove we attended! The party photos were taken by James George.
Howevs our friend party-lurker Grace Chu of Grace the Spot was much smarter than us. She’d picked up a camera just that day and told us we were partially responsible for her party attendance as Brooke (Autostraddle’s Chief Operating Officer of Drinking With Other Important Media Lesbians) told her about the Anyone But Me party when they’d had a post-Gay-Magazine-Panel drink (or ten) last weekend. (The remaining partial responsibility goes to her actual editor at AfterEllen, later). Unfortunately Grace is more comfortable behind the camera and insists she’s not totally abandoned her “I prefer to be an avatar” rule, so we have no photos of her either. You wouldn’t know about these jovial laughs Grace shared with the highly linkable website autostraddle.com by reading the AfterEllen write-up of the event but perhaps you should check it out just the same, and either way, we just snatched this photo of hers from it:
We also got to meet ANOTHER INTERN! Intern Meredith is the intern for Anyone About Me and so we hung out with her too ’cause we’re intern magnets. Susan introduced us to a lot of people who all seemed really special! Rachael Hip-Flores wore a cute dress and Nicole Pacent had a big leg boot on her leg from fighting with an alligator!
Who else was there? Wine!
And then suddenly it was 8 PM we all settled in for a series of celebrity videos and a sneak peak of Season Two’s first episode — and we think you’re really gonna dig it, guys! The new season looks incredibly promising and will BLOW YOUR MINDS. No seriously though, it was funny, edgy, smart, witty, and definitely takes the show to a whole new level.
Vivian & Aster in "Anyone But Me," Season One
Riese Recaps: If you missed Season One you can catch up now ’cause the premiere is gonna be December 15th, just in time for you to be home with your families wanting to watch something sweet. Though Miller once wrote for the unstoppable Showtime lesbosexy vehicle The L Word, expect more South of Nowhere than TLW.
At Season One’s start, Vivian and her father are leaving Manhattan for Westchester, which is apparently 30 human minutes but 300 teenage lesbian lovebird minutes away, which means Vivian is leaving her smokin’ hot girlfriend Aster behind unsupervised to go swap spit at Cubbyhole. Will Vivian & Aster’s gaaaaay relationship survive the distance? Will they send each other cute sexts?
As the season journeys on, the relationship hits its ups and downs as Vivian settles in to a new school and runs into Sophie, a blast from the past currently caught up in the Angela Chase-Jordan Catalano Problem — her boyf wants to bang, and Sophie does.not.want. Why not? I dunno, but when Season One ends and Vivian finally consents to make out publicly with her girlfriend in the middle of the street outside of her school, Sophie seems SUPER INTERESTED IN THE SCENE. You know what I mean. That straight-girl-best-friend in school fantasy might come true. But then what about Aster, she’s so hot! See, these are the kinds of dilemnas you will be pondering in three short days! [xoxo Riese]
Look, we were there —
SUSAN MILLER
I SEE RIESE'S HOODIE
But our true lingering thoughts went something along the lines of “Ah, I can’t tell who is hotter: Nicole Pacent or her girlfriend date?” [An intern is getting 40 lashes for not calling the fact-checker] [we don’t have a fact checker]
Susan and Tina toasted to the cast and crew and their web master and also to us! Which was very nice!
As we left Blip TV’s fantastic studio Tuesday night we couldn’t help but be struck by the love that the Anyone But Me cast, creators, and crew seem to have for one another. Meeting the people involved and seeing how cute they are to each other makes the show even more fun to watch.
You know how in movies or on TV, a whole bunch of people who are totally different will seem to effortlessly get along with a sort of youthful, earnest, gap-bridging-is-like-swimming attitude? For Anyone But Me, it’s rubbed off on the cast. Don’t tell them though, ’cause it’s pretty cute just the way it is.
Season 2 of Anyone But Me premieres December 15th
Catch up on Season 1 at AnyoneButMeSeries.com
Follow Anyone But Me on Twitter!
Nicole Pacent Wants to See You at “Relief Through Rock”!
Oh hey, what are you doing this Thursday, October 15? If you’re in New York, maybe you should think about going to see girls with guitars. Nicole Pacent–you know her, she’s the pretty girl with the lips from “Anyone But Me“–is throwing a fiesta to raise money for cancer research. She’s got eight girls set to play at Relief Through Rock: Chicks for a Cure, including Carrie Manolakos from Mamma Mia, Allison Case from Hair, Jo Lampert, Shaina Taub, Ani Niemann, Drew Citron, and Lindsay Wolf.
The show starts at 7 pm at the LGBT Community Center on 208 West 13th Street. You can email reliefthroughrock@gmail.com for more information or to reserve tickets for $15.
Anyone But Me‘s Nicole Pacent & Rachael Hip-Flores: The Autostraddle Interview & Photoshoot
Our photoblogger Robin is preparing to shoot Nicole Pacent & Rachael Hip-Flores, the star couple of the coming-of-age lesbian-themed webseries Anyone But Me, and Nicole is fixing Rachael’s hair
when Rachael jokes, This is her other job, I’m so clueless about this stuff, and Nicole laughs in agreement, I’m always moving this one strand of hair!, and then Rachael laughs at something else, like a thought she just had, and she shares it with the group, You know what’s really funny? Every time I say Hi to you [Nicole], in a context outside of the show, and we hug, I have this instinct to like — kiss you! And I have to be like, no no, we’re not shooting —
Nicole cracks up, That is so funny, that is amazing, and it is, and so we’re all laughing. Sure, out actress Nicole Pacent has noteworthy lips and it’s arguably difficult to even speak to her without wanting to kiss her, but Rachael’s instinct likely comes from other places — like that these two bright, interesting, radiant girls, brought together by a TV show to kiss all the time, have an effortlessly comfortable friendship. After spending the afternoon talking to & photographing them, we can safely say that this genuine bond is part of what makes Anyone But Me so quietly magical.
