Aletheia ~ Veracious Reality

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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 *_*

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"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.)

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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.

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[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 ]

Several of my post titles since April are quotes/snippets that have compelled three of you to wonder, "Who's Simon?"

Simon 'Templar' Drake is from Shadow of the Templar series, which some of you probably have heard about from sansa1970's rec last year. The series follows an FBI team and a world-famous jewel thief in a series of cases. The main pairing is Simon Drake (FBI team leader)/Jeremy Archer (thief). Banter, random geekery...oh and Archer is British =P What's not to love? ;-) ( Read more... )

Simon Drake aka Templar 29 y.o., 6'3", team leader, defender of the free world, an all-American middle-class boy from the Midwest.
* Good-looking and knows it >=D
* Repeatedly tell Archer point-blank that his job and his team members are way more important than him. Ouch. IDK why Archer doesn't just dump him. Oh right, because he is SO FINE.

Jeremy Archer aka Shadow aka 'James Crown', and dozens other aliases
27 y.o., 5'10", criminal, adversary, pain in the ass, British. ( Read more... )

Nathan 'Nate' Waxman aka Specs 28 y.o., 5'9", tech (hardware), bomb disposal, all-around mascot, a nice Jewish boy from New Jersey.
Has a crowbar with "Speak Friend And Enter" etched down the length of the grip. ( Read more... )

Michael 'Mike' Takemura aka Honda aka 'that crazy bastard' aka 'the loose cannon'
27 y.o., 6'1, undercover work, combat/tactical driving, general muscle, crazy
The Brooklyn-born son of a first-generation Japanese-American father and a mother of Hispanic descent.
* I just LOVE that his nickname is Honda. Not as bad as Toyota, but still. ( Read more... )

Sandra 'Sandy' Leone aka Springheel 28 y.o., 5'7", second-in-command, undercover work, general muscle
Came from old New England money. The best martial artist on the team. Have kicked Mike's ass so bad on numerous occasions.
* The only woman on Simon's team, but she doesn't feel like a token female character at all. ( Read more... )

Jonathan 'Johnny' Pilgrim aka Texas 33 y.o., 6'0", weapons wrangler, general muscle
Started his law enforcement career with the local police force.
* I like his interaction with Specs, mostly. So awesome protective =3 Like his jibes at Honda too. ( Read more... )

Richard 'Rich' Story aka Specs Two, 30 y.o., 5'6", tech (software), hacker-of-all-trades
A computer genius par excellence (and a nerd in the most classic socially-awkward sense). Native Seattleite.
* Total jerk to Archer, but you can't help but like him. ( Read more... )

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.

[ LJ | IJ | DW ]

1. ☆ "Late bloomer" & ★ "Fairy Tale" (Scorpius, Draco, G, 2 X 100 words)

Links seen at ajatsharu:
2. [identity crisis] On Race, or Privilege, Or Just Being Human

Rights, I guess, equals entitlement, equals a demand for privilege. It's hard for me to think of a right to be free when I've grown up in a family and a society where my family members - and country members - have sacrificed everything they are (in "Western terms") for their family. Their time, all their income, every inch of their soul and being, in family. Their children are their assets, their stability is their bedrock. Whatever right one has to be something less than practical, to leave the family home, that right gets overwhelmed by other desires. Same as freedom. The desire to see parents happy, or the wish for a smooth life, even in exchange for doing what one loves.

3. Why Aren't People Commenting on My Post/Story/Whatever?

15% were planning to get back to that post later. It's open! It's in a tab! Or it's in Read Later!
[...]
10% of the people who read you only lurk. They lurk everywhere. Maybe they can't type. Maybe they have tentacles and can't find a tentacle-ready keyboard. You don't know. And do you really want to risk displaying your prejudice against the betentacled?

Link seen at animeartistjo:
4. Mmm, Catholics, you deviant old thing, you

Legend says that Bacchus appeared to the dying Sergius as an angel, telling him to be brave because they would soon be reunited in heaven.

While the pairing of saints, particularly in the early Christian church, was not unusual, the association of these two men was regarded as particularly intimate. Severus, the Patriarch of Antioch (AD 512 - 518) explained that, "we should not separate in speech they [Sergius and Bacchus] who were joined in life". This is not a case of simple "adelphopoiia." In the definitive 10th century account of their lives, St. Sergius is openly celebrated as the "sweet companion and lover" of St. Bacchus.

AHAHAHH Patriarch!Snape X-D

Link seen at sams_cafe:
5. Why Dreamwidth?

The question then is: why don't people click on ads on social media sites?
[...]
[W]hen you're browsing your Livejournal flist or Facebook feed, what you're not looking for is to purchase something. Not usually, anyway. Spending money is probably the farthest thing from your mind. You're looking to find out what your friends have been up to, browse your sister's vacation snaps, or read some fanfic. Buying something is probably the farthest thing from your mind.

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Happiness meme - Day 4/8 & 5/8 ( Read more... )

( The rest of Maria Mena's 'I'm in Love' lyrics )

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In that new HBP trailer, what's that thing Draco holds up to the light? A dust mote? =O
Am referring to the cabinet scene.

Also, yay for pretty straight-haired brunette Katie! =D (Mainly for Drop Dead Gorgeous visualization purposes)

That unicorn-in-captivity tapestry in the background of Harry/Ginny? Totally on purpose. Because their love is SO PURE and some such. James, Al and Lily were products of immaculate conception MWAHAHAHA.
For some reason, I had a flashback to the second Matrix movie when I saw that scene.

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1 a. Am so crazy-obsessed with this fanvid:
Merlin - The Dance (LJ post) by mamoru22
Merlin/Arthur vid to Maria Mena - I'm In Love

1 b. Untouched by solanyxe
PG-13, 'Untouched' by The Veronicas, 00:02:55
Summary: Arthur and Merlin both feeling 'untouched'

Motivational posters by andropovka:
2 a. Ventriloquism: "Ooh yes, Arthur you're so strong!"/ "Mmm, Merlin, I need you now!"
2 b. Sweet: Son, men do not give each other flowers.
2 c. Kingship: We built this city on rock and roll. And dead magic people.
2 d. Unwise: When dealing with an aerial foe, get into a target-shaped-formation
2 e. Arthur fanboy: the lights are on but there is no one home. Mmm muscles...

3. otempora42's Ep. 1x05 picspam: I love how everyone just stands around while Arthur does all the fighting. Makes you wonder why it's so important to be of noble birth when you're just going to be Arthur's cheerleader.

seperis' listfics:
4 a. Three things that Merlin doesn't know about Arthur, but will do, eventually.
4 b. Five magical creatures Arthur didn't kill
4 c. Five ways Arthur almost found out about Merlin, but didn't.

5. Awesome personification of emotion as laid out in 1 Corinthians 13:
Of Anger and Love by Ras Elased
Summary: Anger is a false thing. It is never alone. Anger lies like a harlot with a multitude of other emotions, shrouding them in her bed linens to hide them from sight...Love, when it is true, is always alone.

X-posted @ LJ

1. Ficlets and drabbles galore. Sooo easy* to write them.

2. Merlin characters are v. v. easily transplanted into AU situations.

3. Present tense.
Are your English/Creative Writing teachers telling you to do this? Stop it, please D:

4. People are less concerned with Britpicking (compared to HP).
I still maintain that Merlin's referring to a donkey when he calls Arthur an "ass."**

5. Reverse print.
Why white on black, whyyy? =O Think about your poor readers' eyes!
?format=light*** to the rescue.

* Is this the case with all TV fandoms? It seems to me that SV was filled with epic-length fics.
** So "arse" should still be "arse." Or you can use "bottom" instead.
But in general it doesn't bug me, because Merlin/Arthur = hot. Shallow reader is shallow.
*** Even more annoying is the few people who changed their fonts on an html level, so that the font stays a funky shape/color/size even when using "?format=light" or "?style=mine." *cries*

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1. zed_pm's Top 10 favourite scenes from Merlin series one

2. lilithilien's picspam of Camelot Pierrefonds

3 a. mr. pratdragon r total hotass
3 b. i rly fink i needz impirical evidents okay

lonelyfajita's Merlin picspams:
4. I was watching this with my thirteen-year old cousin, and he was really into the whole Arthur-running-from-the-spiders bit and right after Merlin moaned "FASTER! GO FASTER" my cousin went, "YES! YES! HARDER, ARTHUR, TRY HARDER! DON'T STOP! DON'T STOP!"

5. 'Sophia may have been your first love, but she won't be your last.' Uther is trying to secretly remind him that he has already twice tried to convince him that he was in love, first with Merlin and then with Lancelot. He'd even started bonding with Merlin, trying to get to know his son's new boyfriend.

* Apparently Merlin also owns a red jacket? It matches the shade of Arthur's (expensive-looking) red jacket X-D

X-posted @ LJ

1 a.

Jonathan/Jack: "Is that what you're wearing tonight?"

David: *looks down at his military dress*

Jack: *looking laid back and awesome* "I'll have something of mine sent over."

David [179 cm]: "I think you're taller than me."

Me: ORLY?

Jack [180 cm]: "I'll send the tailor with it."

It's only one centimeter! Oh David, why so insecure?

1 b. David wearing Jack's suit = Jonathan giving his robe to David. Huzzah! \o/

2. ruien explained where the butterfly crown imagery came from.

3. Am gonna start thinking of David and Jack as "The Australian and the European" so as to not keep thinking "David looks so Aryan D:"

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1. PICSPAM: ARTHUR/GWEN (1X13)
You can almost ship Arthur/Gwen after reading this. Srsly.

2. Obedience is Better Than Sacrifice (or, That One Time Bradley Does as He is Told by Katie)
Merlin RPF, Bradley James/Angel Coulby, PG-13, 1159 words
'Tis so precious =D
* Oh look, the title's what Samuel told Saul. We've come full circle! \o/

X-posted @ LJ

I would totally get into this fandom except I'm afraid of the inevitable Kings/Eragon x-over O_o
This will probably be like House M.D. for me--love the show, read fanfic only occasionally, write genfic if I ever get around to writing fanfic.
I'm def. buying the whole set once it's out on DVD. Which would make it the first TV show I actually want to own. It is _that good_, people.

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This has turned into a "Spot that Biblical allusion!" game for me =P
(Typed this as I watched the show on NBC.com. Am currently re-watching it <333)
Click "CC" on the bottom right for close captioning/subtitles.

My blow-by-blow (read: SPOILERIFIC) reaction to the awesome episode:

( If you need convincing to watch the show, read #21 )

X-posted @ LJ

The following WIP would be more properly labeled as Arthur/Merlin/magic. I've always loved the idea of magic as a separate entity. There you have it, scorching hotness included.

:♥: Citrus 1a 1b 1c by skellerbvvt
Pairing: Arthur/Merlin, future OT4 (Morgana/Merlin/Arthur/Guin)
Kink, NC-17, slave!fic, mental revolutions, dub-con

Summary: The other bits of him, all little dust thoughts whirling around and him never quite catching them, never quite dwelling on them, they’re dancing attendance in his head, in his lungs, breathing them in and out as he works, as he watches, as he waits.

His magic was, and always had been, simply something he could do. Objects, all objects, wanted to move and he just let them.

[...]

His magic was ability: it reflected him. Now he was angry, extremely angry, with Arthur, enough to see some of the papers fluttering and the table jittering with the slightest tremors, begging to move. However, there, twirling through his veins, sitting in his mouth like the taste of cool, sweet plums, making the fire crackle and snap and rise, was something else. Something not him, something that made him hard and hot and something like hunger and something like thirst, and something like not enough.

skellerbvvt also wrote insane!broken!Merlin:

:♥: Penance (R, Dark themes, crazy Merlin, references to torture)
Summary: He had been...so...proud

( More Merlin recs: Harlequin's fics )

"The world is changed because you are made of ivory and jet. The curves of your lips rewrite history" <--I found this line in Maya's Drop Dead Gorgeous funny even though I didn't recognize the reference. (Until they pop up in another fanfic! In a different fandom!)

I'm a bad slash fan because I still haven't finished Oscar Wilde's Picture of Dorian Gray, and I haven't watched Velvet Goldmine =P

X-posted @ LJ

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

I signed up for armer_gayms here because I couldn't resist the horrible manips D:
It's eight challenges over eight weeks for points, and you don't have to participate for every challenge =)

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1. Colin is a Pterry fan! =DDD

If they ever make a film of Terry Pratchett's Mort, I want to play the character of Mort. He’s death’s apprentice.
[...]
I’ve got loads [of favourite books]. Right now I’m reading One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. I like most of Terry Pratchett’s books, and I also like The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time and The Life of Pi.
--20 Questions With … Colin Morgan, 4 February 2008

Life of Pi is awesome! Everyone should read it! \o/

2 a. Merlin and Arthur 02 in forest by ~DYKC
Pretty manga style \o/
2 b. Another modern!AU. Arthur thinks he's slick by trolleys (Merlin/Arthur fanart, G)
2 c. Children's Games by givemethebook (PG, Will and Merlin, Merlin/Arthur, 100 words)

3 a. 45 s of Sex Magick *_*
Vidbite : 'Need' (Arthur/Merlin)
Plot: It's all about the longing and the lust.
3 b. The Sword In The Wizard: The fanvid that will make you believe in the possibilities of Gaius/Merlin X-D
Also features Arthur/Merlin and Gaius/Arthur date rape I'M SORRY D:
Unbeknownst to many viewers, the BBC TV series "Merlin" was merely a testbed for the latest fantasy gay romance movie; "The Sword In The Wizard".
3 c. Merlin/Arthur fanvid: Reach out and touch me X-D
LOLOLOL Hilary Duff's voice AHAHAHA 's too funny
Warning: Metaphorical shooting of unicorns in a homoerotic context.

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Comment!fics I love:
✔ Similar, Crossover, Dr Who/Merlin, Jethro/Arthur, now
✔ Keys to the Kingdom, Sweeney Todd, Anthony/Johanna, locks.
✔ So Kind, A Bit Of Fry And Laurie, Tony/Control, coffee
✔ Iron Man, Batman: Tony Stark/Bruce Wayne.
✔ Sandman/House: Delirium as clinic patient.

X-posted @ LJ

1. Someone should write this fic:

*So Harry goes for Sectumsempra, his new favorite spell. The one he’ll use when this is all over and he becomes a serial killer who stalks and kills pretty blond boys in men’s rooms, always seeking to capture that first great rush of using it against Malfoy.

*ETA: Seriously, I think he did. But nobody ever caught him because a) Wizards are completely inept at investigating anything, b) Harry's the head of the police, c) He only goes after Slytherins so killing laws aren't all that strictly enforced for them

--sistermagpie's HBP Chapter Twenty-Eight

ETA 02/24/09: The nod in the epilogue is actually Draco's shorthand of "I know that you just killed another random blond man in the men's room. I'm grateful that you never came back and finished the job in my case, really I am. Now please to be leaving my pretty blond son alone D:"

2. Present for the Boy (Draco, Teddy, Andromeda, G, 100 words)

3 a. Check out benebu's nifty Weasley drabbles

3 b. You may post any gen drabbles, old or new, to hpgen100 until Tuesday, February 24.
The twelfth prompt, Throne, is open until Tuesday, March 3.

4. Pretty Draco/Hermione fanart by trolleys!

5. hp_sas sign-up open until March 7th. No extension rule. Available pairings: Draco/James, Draco/Al, Draco/Scorpius, Harry/James, Harry/Al, Harry/Scorpius

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:♥: Pretty Pink Princess Barbie Bradley *_*

:♥: Fanfic included! (Bradley/Colin RPF by elandrialore, G)

:♥: Their initials are BJ/CM, AHAHA X-D

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Being in two fandoms simultaneously is confusing. Should I put the Merlin links above or below? Which icon should I use?
Should I separate them into two posts? (I hate making two public posts twice in one day)
< hr > is a life saver ~_~

Thankfully, so far I never pictured Arthur Weasley when reading Arthur/Merlin. Because that's just totally YAAAARGH Bad Association D:
Esp. considering Merlin Colin's allergy of ginger.

...someone should write Ron/Merlin.

X-posted @ LJ

Gacked from benebu

a. comment on this post and I will choose seven interests from your profile.
b. you will then explain what they mean and why you are interested in them.
c. post this along with your answers in your own journal so that others can play along.

benebu picked ( childhood, courage, footnotes, intertextuality, present, twins, and uniform )

X-posted @ LJ

Guess what's complete? =D
[Insert annoying glittery font here]

\o/ Drastically Redefining Protocol by rageprufrock (Arthur/Merlin, NC-17, Complete)
Summary: In which Prince Arthur meets Merlin and all hell breaks lose.

I'm so charmed by this story, not least of all by the nifty multimedia details!

( The story is in the details [SPOILERY fangirling] )

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DRP Fanarts by spaggel:
:♥: Lets Play King and Wizard (PG)
Warnings: Tiny wee Arthur and Merlin
Tiny people crossdressing =P

:♥: Based of off Drastically Redefining Protocol Where Merlin cannot SHUT UP ABOUT RAPING NINJAS.
NWS >=D

DRP Trailer by zoetrope here.

X-posted @ LJ.

ETA 5:35 p.m.: The Administration books just arrived via UPS Ground! *makes clappy hands*
Nice cover and font. I wish there isn't half a nekkid man (at least no hairy chest?) in the back cover, and hope nobody in rl looks too hard at the rope bondage in the third cover, haha. I can say they're playing cat's cradle? X-D (with rope?)
*reads*

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

So after two Merlin fanfics (one modern-day band AU and one crackfic) refer to Patrick Wolf's "Tristan", I decided to look him up on YouTube.
(Nothing will induce me to brave MySpace, except for the highly implausible scenario in which Jason Isaacs open a MySpace account.)

And I found "The Magic Position," which is super-catchy and colors-of-the-rainbow and boy-in-shorts-and-rumpled-dyed-hair.
Here's an acapella group's awesome rendition of the song <3
(There are nowhere enough acapella in the world.)

Love this quote:

When I think of the rising star Patrick Wolf, I think glam rock, glitter, sparkles, bright colors, flamboyance, fairies, magic, the horrified looks on the yuppies' faces in the audience when I saw him open for Amy Winehouse.
-- Amy Phillips, Pitchfork Media, Jun 27, 2007

X-D

And here's the Merlin crackfic, which is ten times funnier when you know who Patrick Wolf is =P
It MAKES NO SENSE if you haven't watched 1X09 (Excalibur)

Welcome to Campalot: Arthur and the Gay-Off (Starring Patrick Wolf as Tristan) by arc_ady
PG-13, Merlin/Arthur
Summary: Arthur’s coronation as crown prince doesn’t go to plan, as the incredibly sexy Tristan makes an appearance. Massive gayness ensues.

I would link to the band AU (which is pretty nifty too) when I come across the link again. Enjoy!

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Random quiz: ( I'm 'tab' )

X-posted @ LJ.

I'm reading Naomi Novik's His Majesty's Dragon, and my OTP-er nature can't help but rear up at this exchange:

"I suppose you are one of those hoarding creatures," Laurence said, looking affectionately up at Temeraire; many dragons had an inborn fascination with jewels or precious metals. "I am afraid I am not a rich enough partner for you; I will not be able to give you a heap of gold to sleep on."

"I should rather have you than a heap of gold, even if it were very comfortable to sleep on," Temeraire said.

D'aww <333
Laurence, forget your childhood sweetheart! You're as good as married to your dragon anyway!
ETA: And four pages later Laurence bought Temeraire a gold necklace <3 *squishes*

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Modified from gelsey

Book I Should Read:
Movie I Should See:
Website I Should Visit:
LJ/IJ User I Should Stalk:
LJ/IJ Comm I Should Check out:
Fanfic I Should Read:

X-posted @ LJ

First, Clark was not completely, 100% heterosexual, contrary to prior evidence, which included some truly pathetic behavior on Lex’s part. Thus, Clark had rejected Lex himself, not Lex’s equipment. Lex actually felt himself moving through Kubler-Ross’s five stages of grief: denial (she can’t be right; she’s never met Clark’s boyfriend; there’s no actual reason to think he has a boyfriend—except for what Clark says about his boyfriend’s eyes, moron), anger (wondering how hard it would be to run the Kent farm into the ground and get Clark kicked out of school), bargaining (maybe he’s changed his mind and would like me now), depression (Dad was right; no one could genuinely want me, and certainly no one like Clark), and finally acceptance (a mélange of all these feelings, with a thin candy coating of calm).

1. Read rivkat's "Rainbow Sign" (Smallville, Clex) and her DVD commentary =DDD

2. Months and months ago, rivkat wrote "No Such AU" (Clex) for my Thief!Lex prompt. It ended up being Spy!Lex, but close enough!

3 a. mahaliem wrote this hilarious Clex drabble: "A Cherry"

3 b. and Things I Love About Smallville - Post 4 (Warning for b00bies and nekkid Lex chest)

X-posted @ LJ

And if the vampire turns someone, even if it’s only once per book, extrapolate that back for however many centuries or millenia vampires have existed, figure out about how many vampires there probably are in the world, and escalate the problem accordingly. Even the occasional Van Helsing with a satchel full of stakes isn’t going to be able to hold back that particular tide — how long before the human population dwindles to the point where the vampires are all going to starve to death?

--"Building Your Own World," May 9th, 2008 by Angela Benedetti

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1. Last day to post requests at hallowedmoments.
For some reason everyone's been asking for gen and canon pairings. Go request some fanon pairings, why don't you? Rules for requests are here.

2. Submit D/s and BDSM prompts for thematic_hp round 10.

3. Claim your Malfoycest Day prompt.

4. Lucius in Azkaban uniform looks so much like buttfacemakani's fanarts X-D
For some reason the image link in that article is broken. If anyone wants the large sized image I can upload it.

5. Another video of Tom Felton playing the guitar:
Feltbeats - Time well spent medley
I prefer when he's not singing and just playing (Silhouettes in sunsets), but the dork boy's having fun *g*

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)