Aletheia ~ Veracious Reality

I'm all caught up with Merlin 2X06 now. Arthur's neatly brushed (combed?) bangs under his crown in 2X06 makes me want nerd!Arthur fics.

1. Sorority Boys -- with Merlin, Arthur and Will. Arthur/Ann clearly must be Adam/Adina, with his complex about his/her fat ass arse >=D
Will is the stoner eternal senior who takes crossdressing in stride.
Morgana is the nearsighted sorority president, because Katie McGrath wearing glasses IS CANON. Gwen is going to beat Merlin up (or get Lancelot to beat Merlin up) when she realized Merlin had been taking showers with Morgana =O

Sir Leon can be the sleazy scumbag loser who roofied Arthur/Ann.
Cedric is the guy who stole the fraternity's money and blame Merlin.

Uther hitting on Merlin on the yatch = BONUS because he's always thought Arthur's friend isn't quite right in the head.

2. Hors de prix/Priceless -- with Merlin as the golddigger Irene and Arthur as the hotel barman Jean. Merlin mistook Arthur as a millionaire and put the moves on him. Arthur went along with the charade, fell for Merlin, etc.

A year later, the two met again at the same hotel. It's Merlin's birthday and he's had a cozy arrangement with Uther for three years now. Uther caught Merlin cheating with Arthur, Merlin threw his lot in with Arthur only to realize that he's the help AHAHAHAHAHA.

Merlin moved on to Lancelot (du Lac sr. just croaked, leaving his massive wealth to Lancelot). Arthur wouldn't give up on Merlin and ended up being Lady Helen's boy toy so he can continue going on dates with Merlin.

I stopped watching the movie at this point so IDK what happened next, haha.

3. I'm contemplating claiming Bluebeard over at tobreakthespell. But IDK if I'll be motivated to see the fic through, since it's not a happy one =/

For some reason I can't think of any happy fairy tales that match the Merlin fandom =S (that hasn't already been claimed, that is.)

Arthur Blackguard--too evocative of WoW and RPGs, Y/N?


P.S. Hi! I'm sorta-not-quite back yet! *waves* Hope everyone's doing fine.
P.P.S.In other news, my laptop's monitor & graphic card died last Thursday.

[ LJ | IJ | DW ]

1. YES YES I got almost everything right AHAHAHAHA >=D

2 a. Love the one easter egg sarahtales dropped in the book =)
Suddenly made me see two of the characters in terms of Maya's HPverse.

2 b. I'm not the only crazy fan who contemplated the possibility of a TDL/FMA x-over/pastiche, yeah? Just think: homunculus, the philosopher's stone and automail in TDL-verse. *whimpers at the thought of Alan outfitted with automail*

2 c. There are ENDLESS pairing possibilities between Nick/Alan/Mae/Jamie. Nick/Alan, Nick/Mae, Alan/Mae, Nick/Mae/Alan, Nick/Jamie, Alan/Jamie, Nick/Alan/Jamie...you catch my drift.

3 a. Love how the second and third book will come out in 2010 and 2011 YESSSS \o/
3 b. This would mean me spending $45+ every year for the series. (~$30 for the Japanese translation and ~$15 for the UK cover.)
3 c. I need to buy a book cover for the uber-pretty Japanese translation.

4. The night after I finished the book, I kept on having vague dreams/impressions about Nick. And possibly [SPOILERY main antagonist's name].

5. If I use random Japanese The Demon's Lexicon quotes for my post subjects, that won't be spoilerific to you guys, will it?
If any Japanese readers on my F-list want to read TDL and haven't, please let me know now.

[ LJ | IJ | DW ]

Beta for AU Merlin drabble, anyone? Preferrably within hours.

'Tis for merlin_flashfic Thanks, oconel! =D

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As seen everywhere:

01. Anyone who looks at this entry has to post this meme and their current wallpaper at their LiveJournal.
02. Explain in five sentences why you're using that wallpaper!
03. Don't change your wallpaper before doing this! The point is to see what you had on!

Doing it three times, because I have too many gears & I'm connected pretty much 24/7 =P

Mildmay, my personal laptop ( Read more... )

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Archer, my T-mobile G1 ( Read more... )

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I have to admit that I only watched Star Trek because of:
1) Sylar with eyebrows! and,
2) I want to read ifyouweremine's pr0n

Like a gazillion other people have said, it was GLORIOUS.

I like every single character in that movie, and that _never_ happened to me before.
Yes, including the evil Romulan guy, who I found vaguely hot (which is understandable because he was played by Eric Bana, who played Hector in Troy).
I even like Spock's mother (didn't recognize Winona Ryder until her third appearance X-D)

ruien shared ST canon tidbits with me, but I was all, "Uh-huh. Sylar with eyebrows! Spock Spock Spock!"
I should like BlondPratJerk!Kirk better, but I don't. It's the power ot the eyebrows!111

I want to cuddle ickle!Spock with his pretty eyes <333 Spock! Spock Spock Spock Spock Spock! Spock!
Ickle!Kirk was awesome too! And Kirk was as pretty as everyone said <333
Mind meld! Spock! Spock!
Kirk Senior was hot too! Alternate Reality! Spock!

I even love the canon het pairing =D =D =D

Hikaru Sulu! Gold power ranger! Fold-out sword! Fencing!
17 y.o. Chekhov OMGSoPrecious ^___^ "I can do it I can do it I can do it"

Eomer Karl Urban's stupid haircut makes me want to cry, but otherwise YAY Bones! Spock!

I'm going to watch it at IMAX later tonight =D =D =D
PSA: It's only playing in IMAX until this Thursday.

Bring on the fics where Kirk licks Spock's eyebrows MWAHAHAHAHA >=D

- Awesome mind-meld plotbunny
- Star Trek Reboot Drabble Challenge: Journey to Drabble -- 100 prompts =)
- st_xi_kink's kink meme

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Non-Star Trek related:
- movie ads in Canada run TEN MINUTES LONGER than movie ads in the U.S., which is already pretty darned long.
- Canadian males in ads all have the same closely-set-together-eyes and tall straight nose, just like American TV actors all have square jaws =P

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1. And the Americanization of this batch of second generation Asian Americans is complete.

Two weeks ago, my friend--let's call her Sara--offered a group of preschoolers-and-older children black sticky rice pudding. Sara gave each kid a spoonful and asked them to "just try it."

Girl #1: *diplomatic grin* "We don't like this. Can we have goldfish crackers please?"

Girl #2: "I want Oreos!"

Boy #1: "Brownies!"

Sara's 1.5-y.o. daughter liked it, and Girl #2 shoved her plate across the table. "I don't want it. You eat it."

Granted, Sara should have heated up the dish and served it with coconut milk (It's not black sticky rice pudding without coconut milk!111), but it made me sad that they rejected the dish outright as being unfamiliar.

Food is so intertwined with Asian culture, and I'm not sure what to think of Asian Americans who are cut off not only from their grandparents' language, but also Asian food.
...and greasy Chinese take-aways are not Chinese food X_x;;

P.S. I do find it all sorts of awesome that Girl #1 has perfectly combined Asian "Respect your elders" with American "Be polite and diplomatic to get what you want." X-D

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2. I knew there was a reason why I don't like baby carrots.

[T]he cute baby carrots found in the supermarket are not a variety grown by nature but rather the product of technology. They are formed by a machine that cuts them out from full sized older carrots and in some cases, puts green food colouring at the "stem" end for further effect. --Carrots

And:

The success of baby carrots speaks to two things about American culture that sort of bug me:
1. The desire for food that is uniform in appearance and taste.
2. The desire for food to be sterile, already prepared and washed, and packaged for quick, mindless eating.
--Dickson, Andrea. Baby Carrots - The Frugal Idea That Isn't

I don't know why the fact that they don't have a yellow center didn't clue me in D:
This is why I'd rather buy fresh carrots, wash, peel and slice. No wonder baby carrots aren't tender at all O_o

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3. Food is not only about taste, but also presentation. Especially Japanese food.
(Chinese food, for the most part, is a slapdash stir-fry "It's fresh and steaming hot. EAT IT." thing.)

Yes, I've seen beautiful creative arrangements in generic plastic containers. No, throw-some-food-together in a bento box does not mean it's bento.

But the bento box is part of the presentation. Beautiful food arrangement in a generic plastic box = beautiful food arrangement in a generic plastic box. I'm not Japanese but I'm elitist on the subject, 'kay? =/
Also, you can get a bento box for as low as $1.50. (Ichiban Kan, Daiso)

(I always ask for a bowl & a pair of chopsticks at Chinese restaurants. I eat Chinese/Japanese/Korean noodles in a bowl with chopsticks* and spaghetti on a plate with a fork. I drink coffee in a mug and rice wine in a sake cup. Yes, I'm OCD about the strangest things.)
* I actually go one step further and eat Korean noodles with metal chopsticks. I don't own a Korean long-handled spoon though.

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Oh the indignities.

This reminds me of this Smallville/Superman fanfic where Clark tried out being human (thanks to the A.I.) and felt Deeply Betrayed because papers aren't supposed to hurt you >=/

Which in turn reminds me of Yomiko Readman/"The Paper" from Read or Die, haha.

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1. skellerbvvt has updated Citrus with a loooong chapter two! *shortcircuits* \o/

2. yue_ix's Dark!Merlin series:

2 a. No shades of grey: fingers (PG-13, kinkme_merlin prompt "Arthur/Merlin, Arthur sucking on Merlin's fingers")
2 b. No shades of grey: branches (Merlin, and an Irish Elk, my prompt "Merlin as a wild boy/man of the woods.")

3. Merlin S2 shooting:

- Is that Gwen? O_o This woman that [SPOILER] is hugging? Nvm. Can't believe I didn't realize it's Morgana.
- Pretty gleaming horses *_*

4. why_me_why_not wrote an eclectic of drabbles/flopsies:

4 a. A is for Alien Overlord, Dean and Luna (HP)
4 b. P is also for Princeling, Edmund/Caspian (Narnia)
4 c. W is for Wardrobe Peter/Draco (Narnia/HP crossover)
4 d. G is for Godfather, Dresden/Marcone (Dresden)

5. H/D and manga collide:

5 a. dampfnudl's Little Prince (G, Draco & Doll!Harry)
* Little Draco is v. Gothic Loli-shota Aristocrat in this.
* The only non-creepy Japanese doll story is Clamp's Angelic Layer. This needs to be said.

5 b. You Are My Sunshine (G, butler!Draco wrapping a scarf around Harry's neck)
* H/D-ers recognize the art style, of course.
* AHAHAHAH OMG 70s Manga Art X-D *dies* The roses, the roses! And the shape of the face!
Am I the only one who've read all the ballerina!Mari-chan series? There were at least a dozen permutations, I swear.

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Merlin to-do: ( Read more... )

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isiscolo's Remixy meta (for remixthedrabble):

The great thing about very short forms is that at their best they concisely express one single idea. A true drabble has to encapsulate set-up, crisis, and punchline in a mere hundred words. So it's a natural transformation, I think, to take a story and distill it into its essence, when one has only a few hundred words to work with - I think it's easier to get sidetracked when you need to write a longer story.

I've signed up both as remixer and remixee =) It's a Drabble Purist Round this time.

If the idea of remixing intrigue you at all, consider offering your fic up to be remixed. You don't have to write anything to have someone else remix your fic. (You only need to have written five drabbles in one fandom to qualify!)

- The sign up to write (remixers)
- The sign up for offering fiction (remixees)

Sign-ups for remixthedrabble are open until midnight Central US time on Monday, May 11th.

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1. Vote for your favorite late slytherin100 drabble =D

2. slytherin_100's current prompt, Seal, is open until May 21st. The Fly prompt is open until May 14th. Feel free to combine the two prompts.

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Please fill this out over @ LJ: Merlin characters' age poll! (With gratituous Narnia ticky boxes)

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Happiness meme - Day 8/8

* Why are there no Merlin/Narnia icons out there?

+ Finished writing for armer_gayms' Bro Code challenge and I like it \o/

* Speaking of which, would anyone be willing to beta?
It's < 1K words, Merlin/Arthur PG-13. ETA 04/29/09: Thanks, lilithilien!

+ Ep. 13 reaction: Hell, even I would have slapped some Emergency Het in after what amounted to a spiritual blowjob.
* It actually makes me want to watch it! Well, will watch it before Season Two airs, at any rate.

+ Warm kotatsu <333

Smut Love for every holiday: A regular holiday-a-thon community

The stories posted at holidaysmut are mostly original slash, but fanfic, femmeslash and het are also welcome. Using HP fandom's smut-o-meter, a lot of the stories I've seen are in the PG-13 range. (If I'm looking at the tamer stories, by all means, someone link me to the NSFW ones =P)

To quote the mod:

[A]ny rating is welcome, too. Despite the comm name, we definitely value romance over smut, so it doesn't have to be smut. Smut is, of course, welcome.^_^

Also, as long or short as you want, poetry or prose or art, all welcome.

And most importantly for me (and I suspect for many of you procrastinating writers out there), the challenges never expire. All the challenges can be found on this tag.

Some challenges that I'm toying brainstorming and/or writing for: ( Ten for now )

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Happiness meme - Day 6/8 & Day 7/8

1. Conversation seen at sams_cafe: Doesn't this news/blog business model sound cool?

2. Sinfest: "I'm good enough."

3. Link seen at ioanthe: Guitar Hero scarf =DDD ( Read more... )

:♥: skellerbvvt updated Citrus with chapter 1.3! \o/ \o/ /o/ \o\ \o/

:♥: kabal42 being bunnied by my "Familiar" drabble =DDD

:♥: My new Girl!Merlin icons from lizardspots' art <333
Please credit if taking.

* Isn't it kinda sad how girl!Merlin is my only "female" icon at LJ? I have Luna, Su Li, Jade Malfoy (my OFC), Yachiru (Bleach) and Natalie Portman at IJ.

:♥: kinkme_merlin Round #2!

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Happiness meme
Day 1/8
Tagged by oconel
1. Post about something that made you happy today.
2. Repeat for eight days.
3. Do it if you want to =D

+ See above

+ pretty new butterfly top! and cute white top with frilly accent =DDD <333
Both from Marqsmen.

+ $14 chirashi-sushi OM NOM NOM NOM

+ Frozen "tiramisu"* + Vividly Vanilla ice cream
* more cake than tiramisu, really

X-posted @ LJ

Friday afternoon while queuing for my badge at the anime convention registration, I saw this guy who reminds me of Nate/Specs from Shadow of the Templar series.

He has short light blond (but not white blond) hair, deceptively open eyes behind his wire glasses, and exudes an innocent-ravish-me-but-sekkritly-I'm-a-slut air.

He was wearing a long-sleeved white shirt, grey blazers, tight grey pants...and he carried a riding crop and a painted cat mask. He was probably dressed up for the masquerade ball.

When asked which character he was, he airily replied (with a slow blink), "Oh, I just made my own." By this point it would be AWKWARD if I asked to take his picture. (I have this thing where I only take pictures of characters that I actually recognize, no matter how awesome the cosplay is.)

After getting our badges, we walked past innocent-but-sekkritly-sluttish-guy, sitting on his boyfriend*'s lap and (this might be my wild imagination revisionist memory talking) licking on a lollipop. Idk, the last part was probably totally made-up, because otherwise my mind would've imploded, y/n?
* (The bf's an ordinary barely-out-of-high-school-kid with messy brown hair, wearing regular casual high-school-ish clothes.)

It would have been a GAZILLION TIMES MORE AWKWARD if I asked for his picture then. Ah well.

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Other than the pretty boy sighting report, Happy Belated Easter!

And lilithilien, I got your Camelot Pierrefonds postcard! Thank you! =DDD \o/

ETA 5:50 p.m.: Didn't realize Lunch in a Box has a Bento of the month contest. Will have to check the forum from time to time. This might push me into using my bento supplies =P Didn't realize how effective competition is for me, heh.

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I've been reading this funny shoujo manga called Otomen (a play on the words "otome" (maiden / young lady) and "men"), and this bento scene = <3

♥ alligator sausages
♥ little chickie quail eggs
◆ round onigiri + goma (sesame seed) + ume (sour plum)
♥ tofu money bags
◆ cabbage rolls + flower food pick
♥ thin renkon (lotus root) & cucumber (?) slices
◆ broccoli floret filler + a bed of shredded cabbage (?)

♥ apple rabbits
◆ strawberries

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✔ Participated in Life Without Plastic metal bento box giveaway on Adventures in Bentomaking (March 31st deadline)

Considering how many times I drop my water bottle on my toes, changing it into steel =/= good idea =P
I’ve stopped using plastic silverware. I pledge to phase out my plastic spatula, cooking utensils etc. and replace them with bamboo =)
Gotta check the price next time I pass by That Kitchen Shop.

✔ Participated in jewelmaker's bento bag & belt giveaway (March 31st deadline)

✔ Participated in ss_biggie's Kids Konserve metal lunch kit giveaway (deadline: Thursday, April 2)

Problem with metal boxes? You can't microwave them* =/
Chinese people use metal lunch canisters because you can then put them directly on the stove to make the food piping hot. Whereas here in the U.S. it's more likely that your workplace provides you with a microwave instead of a stove =P

*Granted you're not supposed to microwave your plastic bento boxes either so that they last longer...But people do it anyway =P

( My imaginary meal, let me show you it. )

Fandom content tomorrow, mmmkay?

X-posted @ LJ

1. Miss The Train Before by fahye (1/? WIP, modern-day AU, currently PG)

"I'd like to see you lift a wallet."

"What?" Merlin's throat seized up.

Gaius gave him the look from the previous night, the one which questioned Merlin's intelligence. "We're in a crowd. The conditions are ideal. Surely Hunith taught you…" He trailed off at the look on Merlin's face. "Or not. I revise my earlier opinion; your mother is either very stupid, or even smarter than I thought."

"Hey!" said Merlin, and then, "What?" again.

"Very sneaky of her, to stick you under my nose and flaunt your lack of basic education." Gaius waggled a plastic cup at him sternly. "I most certainly did not intend to spend my retirement running a school for amateurs, but I suppose I have no choice now. Very well. Watch closely."

It started in SINGAPORE guys. And Gaius runs a Chinese herbal remedies shop X-D
And it's all Mission Impossible-like, except hacker!Merlin is hired for a job to steal EXCALIBUR =DDD
There's Gwen and Lancelot (to come) and what more do you want?

2. Merlin Superhero (Lupin III) by solanyxe
Or, the fanvid that made me start this category.

Lupin III is a classic 1970s anime and that's all you need to know, really.

The fanvid has plot! (Summarized from vidder's description)
Merlin, Gwen, and Morgana are making plans to steal Arthur's sword. As Merlin ends in the jail, Gwen and Morgana steal around. Arthur tries to get his sword back, but he accidentally becomes Merlin's fangirl. Merlin returns the sword in the end, and Arthur joins the thieving group.

morrighan_sai, I totally spied the link from your comments section.

Just added #4 and #5 to The Ones Where Arthur is Vicious (But It's All for Merlin)

Next Installment:
- The Ones Where Uther Scares Merlin Like a Very Scary Thing
- The Ones Where Merlin and/or Arthur is Dark/Evil

And here's where I ask you for your Thief!Merlin recs =) (Or, you know, Thief!Arthur if such fics exist. *makes grabby hands*)

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Happy Hina Matsuri, F-list \o/
Yesterday, I made uni sushi and it was good NOM NOM NOM. I would've bought sakura mochi but I don't like it enough to justify the price. Also, not my cultural tradition, haha.

X-posted @ LJ

(Or, sometimes material goods can purchase happiness.)

Teh cute:

:♥: Hammie chorus *_*
:♥: The Mostly Unconscious Adventures of Bug the Rat
:♥: White Ferret \o/
:♥: Vegetable love (the non-pervy kind)
Isn't it great that I have to specify vegetable love as "non-pervy"?
Haha
:♥: Random: Shuriken magnets

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I felt like a traitor shopping at the Evil Disney Empire (TM), but they have a 3 for $10 sale for their meal ware and I can't resist. (Regular price = $5.50 each)

Yesterday I bought:
✔ a green fairies bento (for myself)
✔ a red princess bento (either for my friend's daughter or my niece)
(Both can be seen here)
✔ a red Mickey, Donald, Goofy bento (for River when he's big enough)
✔ a Minnie-Pluto-Mickey-Donald fork & spoon set
✔ an EVE bowl
✔ a WALL-E and EVE fork & spoon set

If they've made a WALL-E bento box it would've been so appropriate *_*

Bentos that I love but can't justify buying for as long as there are Daiso and Ichiban-Kan around:
:♥: Japan + Russian nesting dolls = AWESOME
:♥: With matching bag and chopsticks.
:♥: I love the wolf in this Red Riding Hood bento.

MOAR why-so-expensive stuff:
* Condiment drawing pencils. Cut a corner of a Ziploc bag? Not as environmentally-friendly, I suppose.
* How to use chopsticks game. Erm, I can always use real dried beans?

X-posted @ LJ

For the last four days or so, I've been completely engrossed in Manna Francis' Administration series. I stayed up to read until I felt like throwing up (part exhaustion and part hunger), read in the car and got even more carsick, ignored everything else on the Internet...
(Can't remember the last time I'm so addicted to a book that I went with minimum sleep. It might've been Narnia at age 17 actually. Erm.)

I'll post a proper review with fav. quotes, warnings etc. when I get the books from Amazon. There are one novella and one short story that are not available on the author's Web site.
(I'm one of those strange breed of people who almost never buy a book unless I've read it and loved it).

Important (!): since I have many EvilBlondBritishMan!Fetishist in my F-list, I am perversely happy to inform you that Toreth, the main character, is blond. Praise be, etc.

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1. benebu posted ApocalypticHorsePersons in an Internet Cafe for me ♥

2. I posted Wizard Howl quotes from Diana Wynne Jones' House of Many Ways here.
The quotes from Howl's Moving Castle are here.

3. My Draco het drabbles are here at IJ.

X-posted @ LJ

:♥: Drastically Redefining Protocol (Arthur/Merlin, modern-day AU, WIP, 7/?).
In which Merlin is a medic and Arthur is the Crown Prince of England.

“It doesn’t matter anyway,” the voice sulked, and suddenly there was the flicker of a lighter and the glowing orange coal-tip of a cigarette, suspended in the blackness of the tiny room. “We’re just going to have to wait until his royal highness is done molesting some patients and hies himself away before we start shouting for a nurse to let us out.”

Extremely put out, Arthur growled, “The crown prince does not molest children.”

“Right, like his visit to the hospital isn’t the most astonishing exercise in royal onanism,” the voice snorted, and the orange went obscured by a heavy cloud of smoke, filling the air over the cigarette before it blew right into Arthur’s face.

:♥: Finding this crack conversation in the comments

:♥: Pregnant abandoned Merlin fic WHAT. (Merlin/Lancelot, Arthur/Merlin, mpreg AHAHAHAH, modern day AU, WIP, 1/?)

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Day 7/8
1. Post about something that made you happy today even if it's just a small thing.
2. Do this everyday for eight days without fail.

+ See above ^___^
+ Downloaded Doctor Who 04X10 just to see Colin Morgan as an emo kid MWAHAHA \o/
+ Stalking tasabian

+ Antique whee <333 Pretty Korean boys FTW!
Who needs subtitles when I've read all the Antique Bakery manga and watched all the anime?
+ Swinging baby legs <3

X-posted @ LJ

Or, lilian_cho's Christmas list

1. The inevitable HP crossover in which Merlin is the DADA professor and is having a tumultuous affair with Snape. (It's like Snarry with a reverse power struggle!) ((Not that I like Snarry))

2. The one where Albus Severus Potter is visited by the Slash Dragon (no lie!) and told to raise hatchlings with Scorpius Malfoy because it is Their Destiny.

3. James Sirius Potter is the reincarnation of Prince Arthur because it is not enough that he was named after two dead people, nope.

4. A Good Omens crossover in which Crowley eggs on Uther to execute Merlin, and Aziraphale was too busy improving Geoffrey of Monmouth's library to help.

5. The one where Merlin has iridescent ejaculate--because of the high magical content, see?--and that's how Arthur finds out he's magical, haha (Smallville fandom has 'em--why not Merlin fandom?)

*. In Which the Metal Bunny Mask on Gaius' desk is possessed by an evil spirit! >=D (a la Donnie Darko)

I need to upload my Merlin icons.

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1. Post about something that made you happy today even if it's just a small thing.
2. Do this everyday for eight days without fail.

+ The things my brain came up with (see above)
+ toothless baby grin
+ pregnant friend =DDD
+ warm feet (kotatsu yay \o/)
+ my pwetty pwetty desktop wallpaper (Merlin/Arthur fanart)

X-posted @ LJ

Because it's fun.

* Make a list of 15 statements about yourself.
* 5 of the 15 statements must be LIES
* Post your list and have people guess which five are lies!

1. My grandmother's youngest is only two years older than my mother's oldest.
2. I learned to drive when I was 13.
3. My Biology teacher in high school played matchmaker for me and my Math teacher.
4. I was once left behind on top of Mount Sinai.
5. I've eaten goat's penis.
6. When I was eight, I literally fell into a gutter.
7. I like crispy chicken intestines.
8. I've been to Shanghai.
9. I refuse to eat pig's blood.
10. My nosebleeds can last up to 30 minutes.
11. I've been invited to join a gang back in high school.
12. I sipped sake from my parents' cups ever since I was ten.
13. I've slapped a girl.
14. Teachers tell me I'm the best student they've ever had.
15. I've made a little boy cry.

Circe_Tigana's reasons why you must abandon this ridiculous notion that the idiot potter is the heir of slytherin
(slytherin ensemble, PG-13)

Draco is tied spread-eagle to Salazar Slytherin's nose, and while he's intrigued by the She-Weasel's proficiency with knots and crampons, he's more intrigued by his Dark Lord's cheekbones. Now this is the kind of leader he could get behind.

megyal's Say Anything [1][2]
(H/D, Not DH-compliant)
Draco has a crush on Harry and tells him in French.

gatewaygirl's Girl Stuff and the Boys (Post-OotP, NC-17)
Characters: Ron, boy!Hermione, Harry, and Draco
Perposterice "Summeries"-based crack ficfest, Prompt 116: Hermione and Draco become head boy and girl stuff happens!
I'm fairly certain this was missing a semicolon between "girl" and "stuff," but it's more fun with a comma before the "and!"

lilithilien's A Vengeance So Sweet; or When Harry Met Draco and Ended Their War Games
Summary: Cast your mind back to 1997 and to a little film called Addicted To Love, in which Meg Ryan was no perky girl-next-door but a kohl-eyed hellion bent on revenge, with Matthew Broderick as her mostly willing accomplice. The situation was just begging to be rewritten with Harry and Draco in mind.
Rating/warnings: NC-17. Warnings for ridiculously naïve!Harry (is that canon?), drag!Draco, musical!Krum, and disloyal!Ginny.

megyal's The Naked Truth (H/D, 2120 words, PG)
slightly NWS images from an article in Cosmo, Naked Chefs

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In other news, I'm constantly tired lately. *types one-handed* =_=

(X-posted @ LJ)

I'm surprised that this is the first time I've heard of Real ID. Either it wasn't a big deal in my state, or the cave I've been in is more removed from civilization than I thought.

Supposedly Real ID will reduce identity theft. But considering that I lose my ID cards, insurance cards and library cards all the time I think Real ID is not better for me. Heh.

Section 202(b) of the Act directs that REAL ID-compliant licenses
and identification cards must include the following information: ( pretty standard stuff )

I haven't bothered getting a state ID ever since I lost mine a few years back. Should get a driver's license too *is lazy*. After I become a citizen and change my name.

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Anyway, I found out about Real ID via links from Batman, son of Superman Batman bin Suparman.
That's a real name. Suparman is a common name in Java, Indonesia. The similarity to a certain outside-underwear-red-boots-wearing alien is purely coincidental.

( Too funny to not copy and paste here )

My friend in junior high was named Yasser Arafat, I kid you not.
So in retrospect naming your son after an American angsty anti-hero superhero makes more sense than naming your son after two Middle Eastern dictators leaders someones. At least it's not "Dick Grayson, twelve years old."

(X-posted @ LJ)