+ Thanks to everyone who left me birthday wishes yesterday! Tweets, PMs, emails, v-gifts, facebook wall thingies, LJ posts and comments - I really rather love you guys. ♥♥♥♥ And I had a great day, btw. :D

+ miakun wrote me happy Merls fic what has Gwen/Morgana and OT4 at the same time! Go looky!

+ Yuletide signups! I'm excited but a little freaked out by them. I have the fandoms I nominated, but there are so many more to choose from and I don't know where to start! I'm going to think on it a bit more before I sign up for reals.

+ That's all for today. I have to give a presentation tomorrow at work, but I only have half a day to work on it because we all have to go to this award ceremony/holiday party/contract renewal celebration thing. Free food and the possibility of heading home early, always good.

+ EEEEEEE. Bill Nighy cast in Deathly Hallows! *LOVES Bill Nighy* They're not saying who he's playing, though. Who do we think, Scrimgeour? Gregorovitch? Hmmm.

+ There is a femslash porn battle happening, people. :D:D:D Leave prompts; the more the merrier!

+ I signed up to write an essay on Teyla Emmagan for idol_reflection (it's like ship_manifesto, only with individual characters rather than pairings). *headdesk* I couldn't not. Someone (you know who you are *g*) nabbed Gwen before I could. Not that I won't love rambling about Teyla. <333 BTW, no one's done essays for any SGA characters except for John. And there are NO Merlin characters claimed except for Gwen just now, which is a shame. HP is pretty well-represented but there could always be more. :D If you have a favorite character in any fandom, make a claim and spread the love.

+ Finally, merlin_rarepair is having a Five Times challenge.

Here is where f-list participation is encouraged. Anyone want to leave me a prompt? Merlin/Gwen, Morgana/Gwen, Arthur/Gwen, Arthur/Morgana, Merlin/Morgana, OT4? Five Times/Things/Whatever. Lay it on me.

+ At some point I will talk about real life again.

Being a grown-up still sucks, news at 11.

+ My Twilight reel_merlin fic is eating my brain. It feels good.

+ Last night's BET Awards were such a hot mess of ego and self-promotion. SUCH A MESS OMG. I really only tuned in because it was supposed to be dedicated to Michael, so I assumed people'd be performing his songs, maybe some of his choreography, whatever. Always fun. BUT NO, NOT EXACTLY. As I mentioned on Twitter last night: In case you wondered, apparently a Michael Jackson tribute = tacking "rest in peace MJ" onto the end of your tired, lame-ass misogynistic lyrics. Oh, and plugging your tour. TWICE. I DO NOT WANT TO SEE YOU IN VEGAS, JAMIE FOXX, GO BACK TO HOSTING THE SHOW PLEASE.

Also, I am officially sick of Beyonce. I really wasn't, before.

Also, also, Maxwell is still hot, and Janet broke my heart. I have very little time for the rest of the people who showed up to make it all about them.

+ Leverage is an awesome show. I spent a small part of the weekend watching that and In Plain Sight.

+ True Blood ROCKED last night. But I can't take the cliffhangers! Why does HBO act all surprised when they manage to retain 95% of their viewership from one week to the next? As if we're not going to tune in next week when you keep cutting us off mid-sentence. Honestly.

+ I hope everyone's doing well and getting their weeks off to a good start. Welcome to new friends from various memes and ONTD affiliates! *waves* Feel free to add me on twitter if you really want to subject yourself to more randomness like I've displayed above. :P