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Some day I will make a post that has something to do with something that aren't Home Depot 'verse. Tonight is not that night.

circa_eve came away from the fics feeling really really bad for Chris. And let's be honest, the entire Home Depot 'verse was basically an exercise in making Chris suffer in increasingly horrible ways with seemingly little promise of even getting into ZQ's yoga pants at the end. So...

circa_eve: MAYBE someone needs to write a little something extra from ZQs perspective. Some people might be interested in reading it. That's all I'm saying.
merelyn: YOU write it. Join the circle of shame. And you have to post it yourself because you have no one to blame but you.
circa_eve: NO.

(No Less Than Six Hours Later)

circa_eve: There! Done. Happy!?

So without futher ado, I bring you:

Home Depot: ZQ to the Future by circa_eve (Zach/Kate Pine/Evil and what we've run of out of movie sequel titles to riff on by this point geez WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM ME.)


On another note, reel_merlin is coming up soon! Get excited!

SO. I was too exhausted to post anything yesterday after I got home. But:

PEOPLE WHO ARE AWESOME IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER (THE MINIMERLIN EDITION)

solar_cat is awesome for organizing the con and not going completely crazy and for just being an adorable ball of fangirl glee.

ras_elased and mirimeneume are both awesome for being great roomies, i.e. the kind who don't snore and/or kick me in their sleep. (I'M A LIGHT SLEEPER PEOPLE THIS IS IMPORTANT.) Seriously though, ignore my self-involved blathering- it was lovely to meet both of you! <3

ras_elased also made paper dolls. Paper Dolls FTW!

mariamme is awesome even though she wasn't there. <3

thisissirius is awesome even though she wasn't there because she sent us a con book.

libitina is awesome for getting there before me so I didn't have to awkwardly hang in the lobby by myself on Friday, and for taking me to an awesome Tapas restaurant. Also, can we nominate her for Fangirl Sainthood for cleaning up the con suite on Sunday?

ocelotspots is awesome for being a fast walker who walks fast like me. :)

Fangirls are awesome for making out.

ink_n_imp is awesome for reading porn.

puckling is awesome for reading porn while sober. (How do you do that?) Also, I feel like she would have been good to have around if we had been busted by security.

Speaking of which, the security staff of the Courtyard Marriott are awesome for not kicking us out onto the streets of Philly. But honestly they also fail at their jobs for lo we were loud and obnoxious.

cherrybina is awesome for being a doll and the alcohol fairy and having a king-sized bed in her hotel room.

leupagus and rageprufrock are awesome for many things, the least of which is living in New York and giving me a ride home.

<3<3<3

1. reel_merlin is finished! THE MASTER POST IS HERE. We ended up with 2 pieces of art and 19 fics and even though RL has kept me from reading a lot of them, everything looks great and I AM GOING TO CATCH UP THIS WEEKEND I SWEAR. (Also, I still can't believe I modded a fic challenge comm. :)

2. For the SGA fen on my flist who haven't seen it yet, sheafrotherdon is having a John Sheppard love post. Just look at his sad wibbly face in my icon if you don't go and check it out! OH JOHN. YOU ARE MY FAVORITE FOREVER.

3. I got sleep last night! And work should be fairly light today and tomorrow, yay.

I've been totally failing at livejournal lately. I have so many "to read" tabs open in my browser at the moment that I've stopped counting them. *weeps, rends clothing* I'm going to try to be better at commenting, but I have to devote more of my work time (normally my prime livejournaling hours) to you know, work, so we'll see.

As for TV, I've also been failing at watching shows. (So what have I been doing instead? Honestly I have no idea- I went to the Dentist?) In fact, the only TV I've seen lately is Season 2 of Skins. I'm catching up! Overall I think Season 1 was a little tighter, but it was still v. enjoyable and awesome. Also, I can already tell that I'm going to be the only person in the world who freakin' LOVES Pandora. (Anyone? Anyone?)


On the bright side, I have managed to (very belatedly) post some Merlin multishipping recs over at attheroundtable. They're here if you want to check them out.


How's everyone doing? ♥

I've decided to try this as a list this time:

1. I am behind on soooo many things, including my flist, my Netflix, my laundry, and my plans for catching up on BSG before the finale. I also somehow haven't managed to watch the last half of Being Human 1.02, despite having watched the first half days ago.


2. I have, however, managed to watch 1.01-1.08 of Skins. Loving it so much so far! Where does the fandom hang out? (Also, is it just me or is Tony/Sid/Michelle a fucked up OT3 of awesome?)


3. I got a new layout! And a paid account, with more icon space than I can handle. (There is a disproportionate amount of Merlin ones. Especially Morgana icons. I NEED HELP.)


4. On an unrelated note of TOTAL FAIL: Seriously???? Normally I can put PeTA in the "well intentioned but kind of crazy" box, but that totally crosses the line.


5. There's another addition to the discussion about that thingswithwings post over at mecurtin's here that's worth checking out if you're following it.


6. reel_merlin posting week is coming up really soon! (And since I'm not writing anything I can say that without a trace of panic or OHGODWHATWASITHINKING??) *bounces* (ETA: Posting is extended!)



Also, as per usual, a Merlin fic rec at the end, in shiny new blockquote format for emphasis!

That Which Binds by lavvyan

This is lavvyan's entry for today for 14_valentines. I read it early this morning and it's still sticking with me. lavvyan takes the (perhaps?) inevitable fall of Camelot and turns it on its head in a way that's brilliant and wrenching and somehow still hopeful all at once. (Also, her Merlin totally deserves the Rodney McKay Brave Little Toaster Award for this. Oh, Merlin.)

I'm going to MiniMerlin in Philadelphia!! It's the weekend of March 27-29, and as far as I can tell seems like some sort of unstructured extended sleepover where people just hang out and talk about Merlin. (A-OK with me!) I hope that lots of fangirls show up. Registration (only $20!) ends on 2/13, if you're considering it.

I haven't been to a con since the first Con.Txt, and I spent most of that being awkward in the corner with circa_eve, so WHEE! So excited!!

ALSO, if you're coming (AND YOU SHOULD IF YOU LIVE ANYWHERE NEAR PHILADELPHIA) and would like to room with me and ras_elased and mariamme, give us a holler, okay? We can still have one more person.

This is probably pointless but astolat wrote fic and it's grand and sweeping and brilliant and it hits practically every one of my buttons all at once and I also got a raise today so life FTMFW. Go read now and collapse in a puddle of happy goo like yours truly:

Onfindan by astolat (Arthur/Merlin, ME/THIS STORY, R/NC-17)

So I've been fairly busy and bad at the internet lately. Work being ridiculous + the holidays + being a bridesmaid in a wedding next Sunday for one of my best friends from college = my head will explode any day now. I'm still trying to catch up on things and maybe get some fic recs out, but we'll see how it goes.

BUT. That is not the point of this entry. You all may be asking yourselves, "What will I do with myself now that Merlin is over?"

The answer: GO SIGN UP FOR reel_merlin.


reel_merlin sign ups are closing this Wednesday, 12/17. That means you have only TWO MORE DAYS to decide to write that Princess Diaries Merlin AU you never realized needed to happen until RIGHT THIS VERY MOMENT. *cough*

GO. SIGN UP HERE.


(And before anyone else asks- um, I'm not writing anything for it. *ashamed* You can blame luthien82 and the epic Merlin/SGA fusion fic that's EATING MY BRAIN for that. I am a slow writer and a bad, bad mod.)

Happy Monday, flist! Merlin 1.12 was pretty and I enjoyed it and am flailing about next week like everyone else. :)

That aside, I have a very serious question for you all. Someone over on merlinxarthur linked to this article on AfterElton.com about Merlin airing on NBC in the U.S. It’s nice that AfterElton has also picked up on the gay (and sad that NBC won’t be airing the episodes anytime soon), but what really jumped out at me was this:


The weakest link in the cast is probably Katie McGrath who plays Morgana. She's almost a perfect clone of Keira Knightley, and like her big screen doppelganger she pouts and poses rather than actually acts.


I was shocked- shocked!- by that. She may not be the best actor on the show (that would probably be Colin I think? YMMV), but I’ve always thought that Katie has done a good job. And to be fair, the author admits that he hasn’t seen all the episodes, so I’m assuming he must have missed out on the ones where Morgana is AWESOME.

Even I have to say that I didn’t really like Morgana in the first episode. The scene with her twirling about in front of her mirror talking to Gwen about dresses has always felt off to me, especially as an introduction to her character. Don’t get me wrong, I love Morgana’s wardrobe (ridiculous fur shrugs, even more ridiculous heels and all). It just made her seem a lot more vapid than the she is, especially since she had nothing much to do that first episode other than wear pretty clothes and have the boys stare at her. (Also, the sleeveless number she ends up wearing was one of those whopping historical inaccuracies that hit me back when I was still bothered by those things. :) Still, she got better and better as the show went on, and by this point I would watch a show that’s just Katie McGrath fiercing her way around Camelot.

The reason why this really bothered me is that (confession!) I don’t like Keira Knightley- sorry sovietkitsch- I know she’s your girlcrush to end all girlcrushes. I’ve seen a lot of her movies actually (also somewhat thanks to sovietkitsch, because there would be no other person who could have convinced me to see Domino in theatres, which was for the record pretty hilarious). She was cute in Bend in Like Beckham, and surprisingly good in Pride and Prejudice, but I really really don’t think she can act. Or rather, maybe she can but her range is…not big.

Anyway, what I’m saying is, that when it comes to actors- Keira in particular, unfortunately- pretty people who can’t act but are inexplicably famous movie stars is one of my BIGGEST PET PEEVES ever. I don’t care how hot you are, if you can’t act your way out of a paper bag you should not be stinking up legitimate movies (obviously craptastic things like HSM and the Flan don’t fall into this category).

It’s been pointed out that I’m an opinionated person, but I really do make an effort not to be snobby. However this is one of those instances where I get disgusted with how shallow Hollywood is- and society by extension for laying out their money to see movies starring Channing Tatum and the like.

SO. The point of this rambling ramble is that I had noted the similarity between Katie and Keira, but I’d personally thought of Katie as the prettier, more talented though less famous one.

HAVE I BEEN WRONG THE WHOLE TIME? HAVE I BEEN LIVING A LIE? DOES KATIE MCGRATH ACTUALLY SUCK AND I WAS TOO BLINDED BY THE PRETTY TO NOTICE? THIS IS VERY DISTRESSING TO ME. D:

PLEASE WEIGH IN FLIST AND TELL ME IF I ACTUALLY AM AS SHALLOW AS AN INFLATABLE KIDDIE POOL.

( AND BEFORE YOU MAKE UP YOUR MIND LOOK AT THIS PICTURE. )

I have always loved franticsga's SGA fic, and now's she's writing in Merlin! *happy dance*

Not in the Room by franticsga (Arthur/Merlin, G)

Short but utterly adorable piece with a brilliant Arthur voice. As for the rest, I'll let the summary speak for itself: He was Prince Arthur of Camelot, not Prince Arthur, Despoiler of Shite Manservants. (He should also be Prince Arthur of a River in Egypt.) Go, read, and let's hope she writes more!

Hmm, now must go find my tap shoes for class after work...