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. ♥

Good news: We get to leave work 3 hours early. *\o/*

Bad news: It wasn't announced until I had started my experiment. I'll be lucky to leave an hour early.

Things could be worse, though.

Hope all of you who are traveling have a safe trip! I'm going down for dinner with the fam. My only contribution will be wine, and probably helping to finish with the cooking. If I don't get to post tomorrow, Happy Thanksgiving. ♥

+ Is nine months too old for a puppy to start trying hump legs? Ew Ew Ewwwww. I feel like I just got him last week!

BINGLEY YOU CAN'T DO THAT

YOU ARE NOT A DOG

YOU ARE A PUPPY

My Twitter feed tells me I'm lucky he waited so long. Apparently he's a late bloomer.

*pats him* Poor woob isn't even likely to meet any potential girlfriends or boyfriends with his current social schedule.

Is that too much information? That was probably too much information.

+ In other news, Dollhouse is canceled and I am disappointed but ... not? It was REALLY getting too squicky for me.

+ In other other news, Jensen Ackles and Danneel Harris are engaged. I think they are adorable together and am very amused at SPN fandom right now. Also, Danneel is awesome.

+ IDK this post is pointless, but at least I didn't mention Merlin?

Oh wait.

+ I am home from work today. Know how on Friday I was wondering if I was coming down with something? I WAS. :D Starting to feel better now though; I think it's just a cold and not the flu or anything.

+ If any of you remember Geocities, check xkcd's page today. Serious lulz, and memories. Oh god, the stars and scroll text and comic sans. COMIC SANS. I remember when almost all the fanfic I used to read was at Geocities or Angelfire. Animorphs slash? What Animorphs slash?

+ Two things I am newly watching: Emma (which is now over) and Parks and Recreation. I like this adaptation of Emma better than any I've seen; it's gorgeous and delightful and actually pretty hilarious. I wasn't sure I'd like Jonny Lee Miller as Knightly, but I was wrongggg, he is wonderful in it. And Parks and Recreation is just endless lols. And my crush on Rashida Jones is epic. Reminds me to do that massive picspam of my favorite female characters.

+ Mad Men seriously made me teary last night. Did anyone else wibble like a complete fool? Because I did. Don and Betty, Don and Betty. GAH. ALSO GO JOAN. But also aww, Joan. I want so much more for you. And Peggy had one line the whole episode, but if you're only going to get one line, it should definitely be "I can't turn it off; it's actually happening!" <333

+ Congratulations to everyone doing NaNoWriMo next month! I'll be cheering you on whilst NOT DOING IT. But! I did join wrisomifu (short for Write Something You Miserable Fuck), which sophinisba and briar_pipe pointed me to yesterday. You basically commit to writing anything for ten minutes of every day in the month of November. Literally anything; in my case, fanfic. And usually, if I can strap down and focus for ten minutes on something, it stretches out much longer than that. If anyone else wants to join me there, just comment here for an invite.

+ 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. ♥

So either this is a very peculiar camera angle, or Joe Gordon-Levitt finds Leo DiCaprio's crotch fascinating.



idek, ya'll. Oh, Joe. ♥

...okay, I should go back to making banners now.

+ I changed my LJ layout! Was getting tired of the old one. I kept Annie; just used a different shot of her. She's really only recognisable because of her outfit and the tea, but still. *g* It's taking some getting used to, but I like it. It's more polished than anything I've managed to customize before (I was working from a stylesheet by refuted.) The random song lyric is from Tegan and Sara. Anyway:

heather11483 heather11483 heather11483

Also changed my profile. IDK, no matter what I put in it, it feels silly. :P

+ It's actually Friday, yay - and my last day of work for a week. I haven't taken vacation time since last Christmas so, yeah, I can't wait to get out of here this evening.

+ I might have some squee to post about last night's Supernatural. Might do it later, or just go around squeeing on your posts instead. Didn't catch Vampire Diaries because, well... I didn't really want to. :P But I hear some of you thought it was all right. I just didn't like the lead chick when she was on Degrassi (oh like some of you never watched that show at least a couple times).

+ I hope everyone's having a good day. ♥

+ Today at work we had our normal bi-weekly Friday meeting, even though it's Thursday, because Boss is out tomorrow. Now it feels like Friday. Meh.

+ What part of "if you don't want to read/discuss/participate in meta, then DON'T" do some folks not get? Have peoples' scrollbars stopped functioning, or do they somehow think they should be able to dictate what other people want to talk about as well?

+ Supernatural starts tonight! I can't wait to see what happens. For those of you who love the show but will still be compartmentalizing the race and gender issues, like me, ABW has An Open Letter to Eric Kripke. And seriously, don't read if you're afraid your squee might get harshed or something, idk.

+ The Beatles: Rock Band is out, and OH MY GOD DO WANT. Why am I so broke, f-listies? Whyyyyy?

+ Actually, there's something I'm NOT cranky about today, and that is MERLIN. Guys, I have Merlin on the brain. Is this what TV fandoms are like? Because with HP fandom we only got new canon every couple of years, so the mass fandom flailing was few and far between. But if I'm going to get THIS BOUNCY every time a couple of promo pics or a trailer is released over the next thirteen weeks? I am afraid I might, like, pull something.

+ Though Merlin is on the brain, I happen to be writing epic Potter fic at the moment, which is kind of cool. (inell is the master of plotbunnies, by the way.)

+ I missed Glee and Leverage because I was politicracking last night. Oh well, I look forward to catching them tonight. :D

+ Also, Ronon is pretty in my icon. No reason to be cranky about that!

+ I am told that this is yet another s2 promo.



(click for bigger because I am trying to be better at adding image attributes to protect your layouts.)

Also, I'm going to need them to stop being so pretty and piling onto each other like that, it fills my head with prurient imagery and irregular dirty wrong un-ladylike thoughts about hot peoples. SOMEONE STUDY ME. HOGOD THEY APPEAR TO BE UNDER THE COVERS.

+ In other news, last night I signed up for smutty_claus and camelotsolstice. I'm really excited about both. And am thrilled that so many of you signed up for the Merlin one, that should be fun. Mutual flailing, etc. *g*

+ I've been in a bit of a fog the last couple days, busy at work and with school and fandom commitments. A week and a half until my vacation and it can't come soon enough.

+ Tonight is beta-ing and collecting lonely prompts from the party and making HBB banners. kendas I'll send your thingie back tonight.

+ Also, it is early. Need an extra hour or two of sleep, kthnx.

Know how to take one's mind off of fandom irritants?

SCIENCE, BBS. It doesn't wank. There are no sides. It just IS.

BEHOLD, PENTACENE:



That right there is a molecule. Atom-by-atom, the first image ever taken of one. Look at those carbon rings, ya'll; do you have any idea how small it is? BECAUSE IT IS.

COOL.

Hat-tip to amphigory.

That's all.

+ Sorry for the rant last night. Thanks for the hugs. ♥

+ It's Friday, Real-Life is being an annoying, money-sucking jackass at the moment, and I feel the need to post positive things, SO:

+ Inception trailer with Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Leonardo DiCaprio. To be honest it looks weird but could be awesome. It really matters not, because Joe is in it, therefore I will see it, and love it. *drools*

+ Not that it should be news to anyone, but Angel Coulby is hot. Why is EVERYONE in the Merlin cast so hot? (This is the reason why I was requesting watermark help yesterday, by the way.) Also, bonus crackfic bunnies in the comments.

+ It's reminding me that I really need to make that shallow obsessions picspam I've been planning.

+ There is an Uther/Morgana friending meme, and it is glorious. Musicspam, picspam, squee, GIFs, and new friends FTW. I love that ship. It's Anthony Head and Katie McGrath being hot and self-destructive and dark-and-twisty with each other. And Uther keeps the leather gloves on during sex, is all I'm saying.

+ Anyone have anything happy and random to share?

FYT, a gif. And a drabble for whoever can tell me what show or movie it came from (seriously, I don't know). It's Free Agent -- thanks, luisadeza. *g*

+ Happy birthday, seakisst! Hope you have a great day bb, and I'm looking forward to hanging with you next month. ♥♥♥

+ Welcome to new friends from the meme - hope you like it here. *g* And if you're on Twitter, look me up! That is if you want my linkspam, political mutterings, and random outbursts. It's funtimes.


+ *glances at new icon* That makes twelve Gwen/Angel icons out of 115, either by herself or with other characters. It's officially getting ridiculous.

+ Does anyone know how to remove watermarks from photos? Yes, yes, they're there for a reason but that's quite beside the point. I may or may not have accidentally stumbled on a new photoshoot that is all watermarked up. >_>

+ I put in for some vacation time in mid-September. Not that I'm going anywhere, not that I could afford to, but I need some time off. And I've racked up a LOT of vacation and sick leave that I should probably start burning off. I'll probably just be doing boring things like getting my hair done, possibly shopping, writing -- oh and NOT WORKING. Also, will be cleaning my house because inell's coming to visit on the 18th. :D

+ What exchanges are everyone doing for the holidays? I'll be doing smutty_claus, yuletide, and probably camelotsolstice.

+ I start class again tomorrow. Medical Virology. Hopefully it'll be more interesting than what I took last semester.

+ I didn't post about True Blood, did I? Suffice it to say that it's officially the most insane show on television. In a good way, except for the dubious appropriation of paganism that makes little sense. It's sad how much TV show writers can screw around with non-Christian religions with impunity, but very typical.

Still. The episode was so unbelievably cracked out I didn't mind too much. And Pam is back next week. I've missed her.

+ An American version of Skins? How about NO.

+ Dan Radcliffe and Tom Felton, why so adorable with your BFF-ness?

+ It's almost time for smutty_claus! I think it'll be my only exchange this season, and I'm excited about it. I want to write HP again. I may end up doing the Merlin solstice exchange as well; haven't decided.

+ Merlin premieres in a few short weeks! *dances* I'm still tickled with Merlin fandom in general. Today there was Gwen vitriol at one of the comms, and it was met with an almost-solid wall of "OH HELL NO" from most of the commenters. <3 Very gratifying to see. Multishipping and poly love FTW!

+ Hope everyone had a good Monday. All that I've posted in the last few days has been icons, so I thought I'd check in. Which reminds me, must finish graphics for hermionebigbang.

+ How's everyone? ♥

Do this meme. DO IT (please): Ask me my fannish Top Five [Whatevers]. Any top fives. Doesn't matter what, really! And I will answer them all in a new post.

+ Seriously, WTF. Twitter gets a DDoS attack, then LJ at the same time? How much more am I to take? I hear facebook got hit as well.

+ I'm about two thirds of the way through Kushiel's Mercy, sixth book in the Kushiel saga thingy by Jacqueline Carey. It's one of my favorites of the six, as emo as Imriel is. I might review the lot of them when I'm finished. It's an entertaining series, for the most part.

+ Joe GL and Zooey Deschanel need to marry each other already. Alternatively, they could marry me. Yes, both of them.

+ Star Trek fandom is a bit ridiculous at the moment. I haven't looked at the kink meme in weeks, and I'm in no mood to go back to it. Why can't we have nice things, fandom?

+ In other news, Katie McGrath apparently has a tattoo that reads 'purity' across her lower back. Heh. I feel another Angel/Katie fic coming on.

But I just saw this and think it's exceedingly cool.

""5min and 6sec after 4am on july 8th this year, the time & date will be 04:05:06 07/08/09. Such a consecutive sequence will never happen again."

Neat, innit?

(H/T to likespring.)

How are ya'll doing today? I haven't had much to say the last couple of days.

+ Off work today -- feels good. I should probably do something productive like clean my place.

+ Instead I'm tinkering with fics and watching Wimbledon - great match happening between Andy Murray and Andy Roddick. (Side note: they are VERY pretty.) Murray's giving Roddick a good fight.

Ad, Deuce, Ad, Deuce. Oy. As Stephen Fry put it on his Twitter earlier: "Wimbledon. Oh, in the name of cock-mothering arse mustard. The tension."

+ I signed up for startrekbigbang. Possibly I shouldn't have. And yet.

+ Right now I'm working on a random piece of Gwen/Morgana smut as well as reel_merlin fic number one. And the femslash porn battle prompts are up for comment-ficcing, but I'm not looking at those at the moment because really. Like I need another distraction.

+ 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

+ More money quotes here. God, stop being such a boss, Adam Lambert. ILU. ♥

And, because I don't think anyone's seen it yet (snerk):

( i should probably cut this )

Whyyyyy is this cover so hot? I think it's the snake. I don't know but my ears are all red and hot and flushy just looking at it. I don't usually... whatever; I can't really explain it.

+ Now, looky, more Joe GL and Zooey being adorable in the new 500 Days of Summer trailer. I am dead from the clip at the end, btw. Oh, Joe, you fantastic dork.

( under the cut )

Random stuff:

+ I am kind of weirded out/impressed/geeking out about this 10-minute abridged version of the Google Wave demonstration on YouTube. It looks ... shiny. And a bit freaky at the same time. Being able to see what the other person is saying as they type it letter-by-letter. Being able to hold a group chat and hide some replies from some users within the same chat. That real-time automatic translator thing. Syncing with Twitter. (LOL @ 'Twave'.) A lot more cool, largely unnecessary, probably-hard-to-get-used-to but still COOL stuff. I should like to try it out. XD /nerd

+ I just left a load of prompts for oxoniensis's Porn Battle VIII. Go! leave some!

+ Speaking of prompts, I am FULL of fic ideas -- Trek, Merlin, and HP -- but nothing has made it to completion yet. *browses folder of started fics and frowns* Actually finishing one would be lovely. I am currently playing with Uhura/Gaila genfic and Kirk/McCoy kidfic, hermionebigbang Trio fic, and Gwen-centric boxofmagic fic of as-yet-unknown pairing. *headdesk* It's still gen at the moment; maybe it'll stay that way. I'm seriously not sure if I'll get that done in time, but I'll finish and post it either way. It'll be nice to finish something long for Merlin fandom.

+ I get distracted too easily. Maybe I should do one of those fandom to-do lists.