In other words, I have seen Merlin 2x12, The Fires of Legolas Iolas Igolas Irdisajldhaklfaolas.

First things first:( spoilers are really freaking depressed right now )

+ I haven't been around much this week! Well, unless you're on Twitter and/or tumblr (read: things I can do in 20-second bursts), you wouldn't have seen me. When I haven't been doing actual RL work, I've been working on overdue fic, wibbling about overdue fic, wibbling some more, writing a little bit more, distracting myself, rinse, repeat, blah blah. Hopefully I can submit one this afternoon, we'll see.

+ After work I'm going down to hang out with seakisst and bratkartoffel at Sara's place in Vienna (if I can manage to find my way there without losing myself). We're going to drink butterbeer because we're nerds.

+ Won't be home to watch Merls until late tomorrow, but I still anticipate posting about it when I can and jumping into the comm threads late. Only two episodes left and my Saturdays will be my own again, even though they will be way more sad. Luckily there will still be Fleet parties.

+ I have lots and lots of feelings about the last two episodes of Glee: part squee about the kids (Quinn! Rachel! Brittany! Mercedes!), part squee-harshy ranting about the adults (bar Sue), the fail, and how the show keeps trying to tell me who the best singers are and I keep disagreeing. :/ It's probably for the best that I don't have time to make a reax post, huh? *g* (First of many things, Will legit scares me. No, seriously. DISCUSS IN COMMENTS IF YOU WISH.)

+ My profile! Full of cookies and hot chocolate and penguins and snowballs, I LOVE YOU GUYS! ♥

+ It's FREEZING.

+ Lastly, a cracky little itunes meme from schmiss:

1. Put your media player of choice on shuffle.
2. List the first fifteen songs that come up and add "in my pants" to the end.
3. Bold the ones that actually made you LOL.

TBH a lot of these made me LOL, I'm easy.( 15 songs under the cut )

Merls 2X11, "The Witch's Quickening."

MY HEART, YOU GUYS, MY HEART

MUST GET THIS OUT SO I CAN FINISH WRITING BUT I DON'T KNOW WHERE TO START

MY HEAD IS FULL OF SUGGESTIVE MADONNA LYRICS ABOUT TEENAGE REBELLION, SEND HELP

( spoilers are like a virgin touched for the very first time )

It's snowing.

A lot.


Er, that's all. *goes back to working on fic; tries to stop, like, deleting huge chunks of it*



I'm sure I'll have Merls thoughts later.

Second of all, SKIP TO 2:37 IT WILL BE THE HIGHLIGHT OF YOUR DAY... if you are me.



FYT:



+ In other news, Sons of Anarchy finale last night: I AM SAD OVER CERTAIN EVENTS AND CLIFFHANGERS SHOULD BE GUNNED DOWN ON A HIGHWAY WITH A SAWN-OFF. That's all I have to say about that. SoA is one great show.

+ ALSO, DRUNK!MORGANA LIVES, EVEN IN 1950's AUs.


Back to work, thank you for indulging me in distracting myself.

+ Argh, very busy, very distracting holiday/weekend. I have so much to finish still and I don't want to be back at work. Gah, I'll get it done.

+ Still swooning over this week's Merlin. May actually never stop. It was far from perfect, but. ( this brief squee contains spoilers, just to be safe )

+ PIMP: SAY IT WITH FLOWERS INTERNATIONAL POSTCARD PROJECT. In which we 1) send postcards to Angel and Katie at the Beeb to show them some love, and 2) hopefully the producers will notice that some of us don't find the concept of a Gwen-Morgana buddy movie episode to be the most hilariously absurd concept ever, Johnny. (We are nothing if not ambitious.)

+ I HAS GOOGLE WAVE. (Thanks, cherrybina!) I don't know a thing about it apart from a demo vid I watched back in the summer, but it looks neat? Ya'll know I can never resist. So, if you're on it, let me know and I'll add you or... however it works? And we can do ...something? IDK. I'll figure it out. I don't even know if I have invites - where would those be?

+ I hope everyone's week is off to a good start and that you aren't as behind on things as I am. I still need to find myself a personal ass-kicker. ♥

2x10: "Sweet Dreams". You know by the title you are in for some crack. AND YOU ARE. PURE. UNCUT. SHAKESPEAREAN. CRACK.

( spoilers' job... is to WOO )

I barely feel like rehashing this one, but it did have some lovely moments, and I would feel weird not doing a reax post. SO. MY THOUGHTS ARE THESE (um, upon reading them over, they may or may not make sense):

( spoilers were sure they had TWO drumsticks )

2x08. THE SINS OF THE FATHER. IN OTHER WORDS:



(except not really. -__-')

( spoilers are giving off wronghot 'cesty vibes right now )

Or, Beauty and the Beast, part deux.

Last week was the beast, this week was the beauty, y/y? (also omg I rambled a lot.)

( spoilers have definitely been hiding under your bed all this time )

+ Back at work today, feeling fine. It's wet and icky outside, though.

+ zahrawithaz reviews Beauty and the Beast (Merls 2x05). Or rather, the characters of Merlin do. Better than the episode in some ways. *g* I love Merlin to extremes, I seriously do, but this reminds me how many people I know on my own f-list who could write a better show than we actually have.

It's kind of weird/funny that the shows and source material that need the most help are always the ones with the big fandoms. As much as I'd love to be able to roll around in Being Human fic all day for example, I have to admit that it's just a better show, it doesn't need holes filled in with fic and such, so people don't flock to it.

+ Glee fic continues to be better than the actual show. Giving Quinn and Kurt and Sue etc. much better treatment. I do wonder if there's any fic about Tina or Mercedes, though.

+ randomneses alerted me to this bullshit yesterday: Howard University's Hilltop mag has a staff editorial that details the ways students can prevent getting into dangerous situations at night. Money quote:

As well as making themselves look like easy targets by distractions or lack of awareness, female students are often guilty of another serious offense-strutting through the streets of Washington, D.C. in badly chosen attire (...) If walking through the streets in seductive club attire isn’t a blatant call for sexual harassment, then nothing is.

Do I even need to rant about the ways in which that passage is infuriating? Because yeah, you really want to send a message to college kids of all sexes that girls who dress however the hell they want to are asking for whatever happens to them. Fuck that.

+ That's all for today, must finish coursework for class later, and oh yeah also, am at work. :P

Must finish meme responses and get back to the fleet party, but first, Beauty and the Beast.

Hahahahaha.

What can I actually say?

( spoilers are as deep and profound as this week's episode )

+ I may have created a Katie/Angel/Morgana/Gwen tumblr, for picspamming and general sharing of prettified pics, quotes, videos, gifs, and whatever else concerning the girls. If you're on tumblr, follow it! With Flowers. :D

+ Fest season is in high gear and I am sitting on my hands. I definitely don't need to be signing up for Valensmut, Wizard Love, 3 Ships (man, 3 Ships is tempting) etc. when I have yet to finish Smutty_Claus or camelotsolstice and am definitely doing Yuletide. Also, the art that's being used in the banners for hp_nextgen_fest makes me want to sign up for it, it's so pretty. *cuddles Rose and Albus and Lily and Scorpius* But that is a ridiculous reason to sign up for an exchange if ever there was one, so I'm not, you know, going to. But you all should, if you're inclined, they look like much fun even if I don't think the stress would be good for me.

+ merlin_femslash. Need I say more? Also, merlin_cliche. Because magic unicorns made them do it, and it was good.

+ Art rec: Arthur/Gwen/Merlin film-noir THEY ARE SO HOT I CAN'T TAKE IT. And it's completely safe for work. The accompanying kinkmeme ficlet? Definitely not for the kids.

+ Fic rec: I've been reading a lot of lovely things lately, which reminds me how much I fail at my recs-listing, but here's one real quick: Please (NC-17) by blackmamba_esq. Kinky Arthur/Gwen. Dom!Gwen hits buttons I didn't even know I had.

+ I've been reading Glee fic. Kurt/Puck and Quinn/Rachel. Oh yeah. (Thanks, Inell.)

+ Apparently Christian Bale had TOM CRUISE in mind when getting into Patrick Bateman's character for American Psycho. brb loling forever.

+ I am having a good day at work. Stuff is working. :D Hope everyone is doing well - hugs to everyone who needs them. ♥

+ Yuletide nominations! It's my first year participating, I'm pretty excited. The fandoms I nominated are nothing revolutionary or even particularly obscure as far as obscure fandoms go, BUT:

Jacqueline Carey - The Kushiels Legacy series
Mad Men
RPF - Merlin
Sons of Anarchy
Southland
The Wire

What, ya'll know I had to sneak some Merlin in there. *g* You can nominate here if you're thinking of participating. Any fandom that is tiny, old/inactive, or had its first season/book/premiere date in the past year. Except for Leverage apparently. *sadface*

+ That Merlin character meme was much fun. And my thread - I've been overwhelmingly dubbed Guinevere (yay!), with a dash of Morgana and a smidgen of Merlin to taste. And flowers. Which makes me GLEEFACE. You guys are the best in all the land. ♥♥♥

+ Welcome to new friends! I'm on Twitter too if for some reason you'd want more of my random babble. ;-)

What Merlin character am I most like?
MY THREAD

Do eeeet. And link me to yours! ♥

OH GOD YA'LL. MY HEART.

MY HEART.

AWESOME. SO MUCH OT4 WITH AN OPTION FOR FIVE.

LEMME 'SPLAIN.

( spoilers for Merls 2x04 and an open letter to fandom under the cut )

+ The Vag Fest is back! Girl-centric, het and femslash only, any fandom. I haven't had time to read, write, or even leave prompts for it yet, but I'll get to it. :P

+ blackmamba_esq made an Angel Coulby comm! angel_coulby. I hadn't realised until now how sad I was that everyone in the cast had one but her. ♥

+ And while I'm pimping, beyond_camelot. Because everyone needs to write fic about Aglain now. Oh right, and obscure Arthurian characters that need to be Merlinized. (One day I will let the Colin Salmon thing go. Today is not that day.)

+ LOLtastic review for Merls 2x03. IDK, it made me feel better. ( spoilers in which I ramble a bit more about the ep )

+ Inell's trying to get me to try bridge2sickbay. She says I can write drabbles within 30-minute time constraints. Isn't that sweet, that she thinks I can do that? ILHER. ♥ Still, I'm considering it, because it looks like fun.

+ Dollhouse Friday was... hm. I don't know what to say about it right now.

+ OH BUT MAD MEN WAS AWESOME. DON AND BETTYYYY. JOANNNN. ♥

+ Okay, back to work with me. I hope everyone's getting their weeks off to a good start. Eventually I will post about something non-fannish. ♥

IDEK, guys.

Not sure where to start.

( spoilers for episode 2x03 )

Code jacked wholesale from themadlurker.

♥ Gwen/Morgana Kiss Meme ♥

Based on the

♥ Merlin/Arthur Kiss Meme ♥

This one's for the girls.

*\o/* brb, writing a li'l something.

I always feel like when I make a ranty post, I should make up for it if only to cleanse my own palate, so, a linkspam:

+ ETA: Mirroring my last post, Celebrities NOT supporting Polanski.

+ irrel drew Arthur, Gwen and Merlin of prettiness, and at the bottom of the post is a sketch of Morgana braiding Gwen's hair and it's making me happier than happy.

+ fiiishy's writing Merlin fic now, which also makes me happy, and she wrote what Morgana was up to in The Once And Future HBIC. (the last episode, which presumably I will stop re-watching at some point.) Hi personal canon! Go tell her not to be nervous.

+ Sesame Street does "Mad Men." Hee.

+ I caught up on Glee, and while I want less Will and his drama, I must have watched Kurt (and the football team) do the Single Ladies dance 8 times in a row. Each. It took me like two hours to watch that episode.

+ Tumblr picspams. I'm especially in love with Made of Gold, all Bradley/Angel/Arthur/Gwen all the time. fuckyeahmerlin, colinmorgan and bradley-james are also made of awesome. I'm tempted to start an Angel/Katie/Gwen/Morgana tumblr called ... idk, flowersftw or something. SEE IF I DON'T.