Aletheia ~ Veracious Reality

"I shouldn't have kissed you."

"Sorry?"

"I'm sometimes bad at receiving other people's signals. Not as bad as you, obviously—"

Merlin gave Gwen a confused little smile.

"And with what you said about Prince Arthur last night, I realized you only feel that way for one man in particular."

He opened his mouth to ask What way?, but Gwen went on, "I'm glad we can be friends."

She was looking at him with a painfully earnest expression, and he couldn't bring himself to correct her—that this was not the secret that he was keeping from her.

"...Thank you."

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Remixed from sophinisba's "Just Friends" for remixthedrabble.
Beta-ed by roflolmaomg and snakeling.

Bonus crack gag reel: ( I wanted to do a plot twist for the remix, but the plot refused to budge. )

[ LJ | IJ | DW ]

1.

Fandom is drama. Fandom is melodrama. Fandom is high school. [...] Fandom is smarter than you. Fandom is stupider than you. Fandom is five arguments over and over and over again. Fandom is the first time you've ever had them. [...]

Fandom is love for characters you didn't create. Fandom is recreating the characters you didn't create. [...]

Fandom is signal and response. Fandom is a stranger moving you to tears, anger, laughter. Fandom is you moving a stranger to speak. [...]

Fandom gets no work done. Fandom is too much work. Fandom was/is just a phase. Fandom could never be just a phase. Fandom is where you found a friend, a sister, a kindred spirit. Fandom is where you found a talent, a love, a reason.

Fandom is where you found yourself.

--hesychasm's "in lieu of life."

♥ Hard to not c & p the whole thing *_*

2.

"I'M BRILLIANT. MORE MILK, MORE MILK! NOW SCOWL, I WANT FIERCENESS. GROWL AT THE MILK! HATE THE MILK! GRIMACE! I'M SUCH AN EPIC ARTIST I SHOULD JUST CHOP MY EAR OFF NOW"

-- ifyouweremine channeling the photographer of that video of milk being "flung suggestively" at Zachary Quinto X-D

...you'll have to watch it yourself. I recommend the "I'm Too Sexy" alternate soundtrack. (The milkshake thing is overdone, really.)

3.

Mr. Spock [...] holds the valid belief that he shares a bloodline with Mr. Holmes. The relationship at first seemed easy to explain; While Mr. Spock exhibits the physical characteristics and upbringing of his native planet Vulcan, he is in fact half human. His mother, Amanda (neé Grayson) was American, but the name Grayson is of English extraction.

[...]

[T]he Graysons can only trace their family back as far as Professor Jeremy Grayson of Boston in the year 2045. Spock cannot know, then, that his mother's family tree includes a Holmesian branch. At this point, we have eliminated one possibility: the only other one, that Spock gets his Sherlockian ancestry from his father's side, must by Spock's and Holmes' own rule be true. But this is an audacious possibility, because we know from Spock's World that the marriage between Spock’s father Sarek and Amanda Grayson was the first interracial marriage between human and Vulcan, and that genetic engineering was needed to produce Spock. If Holmes was Spock's ancestor, then, it follows that Holmes was a Vulcan.

--Scott, David M. "Sherlock Holmes: Visitor to a Small Planet"

Not only does Spock descend from Sherlock Holmes, he's related to Dick Grayson, twelve years old >=D Oh wait, actually it's not a good thing to share Nightwing's genes.
Genetic engineering --> Spock ~ Conner Clark Luthor? X-D

[ LJ | IJ | DW ]

( The turtle moves. )

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This was originally submitted as an answer to armer_gayms' ModernDay!AU challenge. Check out roflolmaomg's submission, 'tis epic! Whereas ifyouweremine slays you with baby cuteness =P

[ LJ | IJ | DW ]

tiny!Merlin: "Help, help! I'm being swallowed by the mystical Black Sleeping Bag monster!"

( Never fear, Merlin! Your prince in shining armour shall rescue you! )

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HP drabblers, please fill out this poll on drabble trees @ slytherin100

1. The Janus Thickey Ward by et_tu_lj
(Molly, Gilderoy, G, 362 words)
Summary: Sometimes a little bit of happiness is enough.

2. Headmaster!Snape fanart by camillo1978
(w/ bonus painting!Dumbledore picking his nose! *g*)

3. Remix_Redux is back this year! And they're considering RPF and bandom, so you should go fill out their poll if you're interested.

4. The new writing_game board is here =D

5. slytherin_100's Fly prompt is open until May 14th, 2009.
The Masks prompt is open until May 7th, 2009.

1. A Very Serious Business Story (a Merlin/Babysitters' Club crossover) by syllic
Logan!Merlin/Stacey!Arthur, one-sided Nimueh/Arthur, Claudia!Morgana/Gwen
Word Count: 8,500 words

My only complaint is: Isn't Logan supposed to be Mary Anne's boyfriend? Stacy you h0r.
Also: I can't believe I never realize the depths of Kristy/Mary Anne in BSC. Now someone just needs to write Kristy!Bradley and MaryAnne!Colin and the crack will have reached ITS FULL POTENTIAL OF CRACKTITUDE.

2. Love-Trap, aka No Invisible Worms Allowed by xsmoonshine (PG, 760 words)
Warnings: Merlin eats worms. (in other words, crack is the new black.)

It's cute like a v. cute thing *_* And funny too!

3. Ten drabbles over at merlin100 here. Mine's #4. My fav. is #2. Only the original 50 members can vote =)

4. armer_gayms sign-ups close tomorrow.

5 a. merlin_flashfic's current challenge is anachronisms. Open until Friday 13th March.
5 b. merlin100's 15th prompt, Mask, is open until 13th March.
You know you want to write about the evil bunny mask on Gaius' desk >=D

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Everyone has seen Draco in shabby muggle clothes Tom Felton with floppy hair.
Let's relive his uber-cute 12 y.o. self and his ickle!w00bie-ness, shall we?

Also, Tom's twitter is a thing of beauty:

- writing songs in my pyjamas!
- In bed watching The Truman show, freaked me out a bit,starting questioning everything!? Early morning tomorrow, night world x
- i'm sitting in bed reading a new script...interesting stuff :) why does reading always make you so sleepy?!
- p.s i love tweeting! :) is that really sad?

X-posted @ LJ

hp_hardcore presents Hardcore Valentines! Click here to get your own!

( One of them was a Slytherin and he was probably the bravest man I ever knew.... )

( Ja, mein Kommandant! )

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1. I'm currently writing original fic over at writing_game =)

2. slytherin_100's 11th prompt is Delusional (open until March 1). Bonus points if you include Ginny Weasley.
The tenth prompt, stormy weather, is open until February 23.

3. More fandom links over at my LJ.


(X-posted @ LJ)

So Draco Malfoy was secretly Sirius Black's underage lover, and he was being all angsty in the library of Malfoy Manor because he couldn't see his cousin, who was confined at Grimmauld Place.

In comes Snape with his black robes whipping behind him, telling Draco that "the fool Black" had gone to the Department of Mysteries and fell into the Veil.

Draco shed a perfect teardrop. Snape tried to console him.

Sixth Year happened. Voldemort (who's now all pretty and young again thanks to some awesome elixir Snape brewed up) loved to taunt Draco about Sirius, Lucius and Narcissa.

Seventh Year. War, blah blah blah. Harry was going to hold Draco's wand ransom until Draco would agree to shag him. To his consternation, Draco could not be found anywhere.

One day, Harry was ogling pretty figure skaters on TV when he noticed that the slim French Canadian skater had the same Sectusempra scars that Draco had.

To be continued...

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P.S. Written yesterday for Rabbit Hole Day,
I did it last year here ;-)

P.P.S. The cracktastic plotbunny above is inspired by this AWESOME Harry Potter fan anime video. (Don't you wish it's a real anime? D:)

P.P.P.S. I've submitted more prompts over at Phoenix_Flies @ IJ:
- Schizophrenia/Possession
- Malfoy blond: Blondes are going extinct!'
- Figure-skater!Draco

(X-posted @ LJ)

Lucius: "I don't understand why you won't use the hair-fluffing charm I taught you."

Draco: "With all due respect, Dad, I look gay enough as it is by virtue of being a Malfoy. Just yesterday someone groped my arse at the Ministry lift!"

Lucius: *is interested* "If you flirt with them, will they give you a promotion, do you think?"

Draco's hair: *threatens to stand up*

Draco: "ARGH!111" *leaves the room with a dramatic robe swirl*

Lucius: "That boy. Wherever did I go wrong? I suppose I should be thankful he washed his hair everyday unlike Severus."

Narcissa: *pats her gay clueless husband*

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The conversation that led to above crackfic: Lucius has the ultimate comb-over...