No Filter: Katy O’Brian Is a Very Important Part of Mission: Impossible if You Ask Me

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Hello and welcome back to No Filter! This is the place where I tell you what our favorite queer celebrities are up to, via Instagram! How fun! How thrilling! Let’s rock n roll!


CORRECT! Serena always gets first! She is the greatest of all time!


One thing about my people (millennials) is that we all attached so hard to M.I.A’s “Bad Girls”


It has to be said, and it IS said with love, but this is simply the most elderly post I have ever seen! The content, yes that’s easy. But look at this image: the zoomed in photo of a website on a laptop. The full dock? Nary a program removed? The tabs? Pinterest? A Ben Stiller tab? God this is perfect!


Katy O'Brien on Instagram

This is such a good and hot photo I forgive Katy for accidentally getting “Blurred Lines” stuck in my head. Man, remember when she was in Mission: Impossible????? That rocked.


I have never been more jealous of Lena Waithe in my life??? Like to the point where I was like “why are YOU talking about this show with Kristin and not ME” but I can accept that is a unkind impulse!


A rare…well…not quite a miss? This is a perfectly serviceable look, but I don’t know, I wanted something a little more fun? This is giving Golden Globes to me, not AMAs? But then again, what the hell are the AMAs?


Oh HELL yes, this is what I like to see! For my money, there is no one better than Keke at asking personal questions! I would tell her everything in .3 seconds.


Shadows are the most important part! Sorry, I have been watercoloring nonstop and currently I am on a light and shadow journey, so it’s top of mind.


Couple of things: 1. This duo was pulled directly out of my brain in 2010. 2. It seems Cat and Stacy have broken up, I scrolled them tagged pictures for a long time and nooooo Cat! Sad!


Yes please! It’s summer, I need some TUNES!


You HAVE to watch til the end when JB realizes Niecy is talking about a different wig…still the best couple of all time!


Meg THEEEE Artist! How can I love her more? I don’t know but I am sure I can!!


It’s hard to express how delightful it is to hang out with your friend’s kids for a weekend and then…going home to your quiet home. Bless!


The next time someone asks me what it means to be a femme, I am sending them this video.

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3 Comments

  1. I think I just found the inner circle of my personal Venn diagram of queer desire, and it’s the love child of that Katy O’Brian photoshoot (!) and Omar Rudberg’s more androgynous or femme stylings.

  2. This Mission Impossible is even more an expression of the lesbian gaze than they normally are. Tom Cruise loves capable, flinty women and so do I. Atwell’s white buttondowns, Katy O’Brian obviously, Pom Klementieff’s extensive scarred midriff shots. Even Lucy Tulugarjuk is very cute and charming in a “that is the kind of person I would like to have been married to for thirty years” way.

  3. Exactly why does it have to be said, re: the “elderliness” of Holland Taylor’s post, though? Does it somehow negate her point? So insufferably condescending. Why don’t you just pat her on the head and talk real loud while you’re at it.

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