Does anyone here know how to calculate standard deviation? I keep googling it but then being like, "I don't give a fuck about this statistics shit" and getting distracted by the internet, and the Excel formula requires me to actually know what the fuck I'm doing. Oh Microsoft Office, how I loathe you and your indifference towards catering to the incompetent. OBVIOUSLY THE ONLY REASON THE INTERNET EXISTS IS TO HELP ME WITH MY LAB WORK, AM I RIGHT?

1) I have been unforgivably faily at replying to y'all's comments/keeping up with the f-list. I've been reading them, I swear! I just really suck at replying/commenting; I'm really sorry about this.

2) Haha, okay, I'm pretty embarrassed to own up to this, but I tried to cure my four-months-long writer's block by writing this (excruciatingly bad) thing at the kink meme for the prompt "Merlin loves to smoke, Arthur doesn't. That's why he wants Merlin to stop." I imagine the prompter wanted something cute and fluffy and somehow I managed to turn it into a 1000-word long angst fest in which Arthur is ridiculously melodramatic and buys Merlin chewing gum and breath mints when he's at the drug store for condoms, and Merlin is passive-aggressive without actually intending to be, and it's the *little things* that sometimes make a relationship fall apart because they're so silly you don't even want to talk about them, and there are run-on sentences like woah. (heh) FWIW I totally sympathize with Arthur here because I cannot imagine what it's like to fuck a smoker if you find cigarettes off-putting; that is not a smell that goes away. And Merlin, obvs, because it really sucks to live with people who are telling you to quit every five minutes. /speaking from experience.

3) Actually the real (totally pointless) reason for this post is that I cannot stop watching stop watching this vid. I'm sure everyone in fandom has seen it already, but if you haven't, go watch it seriously. Cheerleaders by day! Crime-fighters by night! It's so cute omg, it's likecandy. Really cute candy. It actually made me want to watch Heroes again, for like, 2 whole minutes. I'm pretty sure it's just as cute if you're not familiar with the fandoms (there's footage from BtVS movie and TV series, Bring It On 1 and 2, and Heroes) and it's just ugh. So adorable. Just a warning though, the music is terrible but ridiculously catchy, intentionally so I think, and will probably stay in your head indefinitely. I'm not sure what's up with all the italics, I think I'm just in a mood.

If I hear anyone use the term "politically correct" (or any derivative) as a way to shut down debate in the next, ugh, we're coming up on holidays and I'm feeling charitable so let's 1 month, I might be forced to cut someone! Am I the only person who becomes enraged every time I see the word PC in a way that is not referential to computers? Yeah I thought so. STFU, Mrin.

1) So. Uh. I may have started watching Supernatural. Their fandom has incest! And shotguns! And epically hilarious gifs! And Richard Speight Jr! And explosions! And epic RPF AU's! How was I supposed to resist its siren song? This is particularly embarrassing since I haven't seen past Merlin 2x01 yet; I read y'all's reaction posts and was like NO I CANNOT DEAL, GIVE ME SOME TIME. Shameful. But yeah, for the most part, the worse things I hear about a fandom, the more intent I am on becoming emotionally invested in it. What does this say about me, as a person.

MOREOVER, HOW DOES THIS HOW MAKE ANY SENSE? ARE THEY, LIKE, SUBSCRIBED TO EVERY PAPER IN THE WHOLE ENTIRE COUNTRY? FORWARDED TO: THE IMPALA C/O DEAN WINCHESTER, SOMEWHERE IN MAINLAND AMERICA? That shit worked in the X-Files because they were FBI Agents, what the hell. Also, I feel instinctively like they should at least have a spare tire in that trunk or jump cables or something. They are practically living out of that damn car! TELL ME, SPN FANS, DOES THIS SHOW EVER ACTUALLY EXERT ITSELF TO MAKE SOME SENSE, OR THEY JUST LIKE: PRETTY BOYS! GUNS! and expect the rest to take care of itself? Mostly my feelings are, in mixed concentrations, awww Dean <333 and lol Jensen Ackles. Not terribly profound. I have some Feelings about its treatment of women and fandom's treatment of women, and how sometimes feminist interpretations of things (by which I mean, mine) leaves no room for the assumption of agency or the assumption of choice, because, er, I dunno I have a tendency to not be able to divorce writing (/authorial intent) from what is being written about, I guess but uh. Yeah. FEMINISM, IT IS FUNTIMES.

Also I'm pretty sure that if I ever bother to become invested in this show, I will stop caring about Sam/Dean at all and suddenly be like DEAN/BELA OTP. Who is this Bela person and why do I love her so much already. Oh fandom osmosis.

Guys, they have a crossover big bang. Dean/Mazikeen/Constantine OT3?!!!! It even rhymes!

2) OKAY YOU KNOW WHAT. I TAKE BACK EVERYTHING I SAID ABOUT FRANK MILLER, AND "FRANK MILLER IS AN IDIOT, IT'S UNFAIR TO EXPECT HIGHER LEVEL BRAIN FUNCTIONS FROM HIM" How did I not know what he said this: (on Iraq)

"Nobody questions why we, after Pearl Harbor, attacked Nazi Germany. It was because we were taking on a form of global fascism, we're doing the same thing now ... It seems to me quite obvious that our country and the entire Western World is up against an existential foe that knows exactly what it wants.... For some reason, nobody seems to be talking about who we're up against, and the sixth-century barbarism that they actually represent. These people saw people's heads off. They enslave women, they genitally mutilate their daughters, they do not behave by any cultural norms that are sensible to us. I’m speaking into a microphone that never could have been a product of their culture, and I'm living in a city where 3000 of my neighbors were killed by thieves of airplanes they never could have built."

WHAT. WAY TO ADD RACISM AND GLEEFUL CULTURAL IGNORANCE TO YOUR (ALREADY EXTENSIVE) LIST OF SHITTINESS. Is there any kind of prejudice this man doesn't display, and proudly? Er, having done my research (like a good girl) evidently genital mutilation does happen in Iraq, BUT IT IS NOT A WIDESPREAD PHENOMENON YOU STUPID FUCKER, (except in Kurdistan failfailfailfail) I CAN'T EVEN. AND NO, AS AN ENGINEER, I AM PRETTY DAMN SURE WE WOULD NOT HAVE TECHNOLOGY WITHOUT ALGEBRA OR TRIGONOMETRY, I AM SO MAD IT ACTUALLY TOOK ME 4 ATTEMPTS TO SPELL THAT WORD CORRECTLY. /rage

Wow, that got long. (That's what Frank Miller said! /end immaturity) Crying.

sadly do not include writing Merlin fic in which they are dinosaurs. I have, however, never run away from a lab partner before; in fact in the past I have always been quite tolerant-bordering-on-fond of them. Today I did so twice! I am supposed to be in the lab right now. I imagine I will be shot.

Title: snails do it differently
Fandom: Jurassic Park!Merlin
Characters/Pairings: gen, omg. THEY ARE DINOSAURS
Rating: PG? PG-13?
Word Count: 2,800
Summary: In which a hypothesis is tested, everyone acts like a human highschooler, several invasive non-native species are eradicated, and a conclusion is reached.
Warnings/Spoilers: People-eating! Spoilers for the movie, I guess.
Notes: Huge, huge thanks to briar_pipe who waited patiently for me to get done with my revisions for like, two whole weeks and looked over the second draft for me even though I gave it to her at pretty much the last minute. Also to lassiterfics who enabled this madness pretty much from the beginning and probably doesn't want to be associated with it in any way. Uh, dino classifications and stuff under the cut

( Life will find a way )

( BSG )

( Angel, or why do Mia and I have such similar ships for this fandom )

( Band of Brothers )

( Merlin )

( Sandman )

ETA 2:
( BtVS )

PEOPLE WHO HAD BIRTHDAYS! I am writing your fic-things, I SWEAR. It is just that I am crazy and the thing I am writing for emei randomly became Arthur/Merlin and 2nd person (it is not an AU) AND WHAT AM I EVEN SUPPOSED TO DO WITH THAT, I DON'T EVEN KNOW, I KIND OF HATE MYSELF.

So! A meme! Because it all about me

Gakked from miakun and heather11483

Ask me a fandom, and I will tell you:

+ OTP
+ Runner-up
+ Honorable mention(s)
+ Crack pairing(s)
+ Ship everyone else seems to like, but I don't


ER, fandoms that I can probably do this for include: Merlin (duh) AtS, BtVS, BSG, Band of Brothers, Dexter, and possibly Glee or HP? Or various comic book fandoms, I think: Sandman/Lucifer, Hellblazer, Preacher, Fables, and I could totally try for DCU (although it will most likely be, like Harley/Ivy! Bruce Wayne/Selina Kyle nnnnnnngh or whatever) or, like, Top Ten or something. OR YOU CAN GIVE ME A FANDOM AND I CAN JUST MAKE SOMETHING UP BASED ON WHAT I KNOW THROUGH FANDOM OSMOSIS.

What on earth does Morgana do all day? Presumably Gwen's and Merlin's jobs entail that they actually do stuff once in a while, although the evidence isn't exactly compelling, and it's probably safe to assume that Arthur has princely duties of some sort beyond yelling at people and hitting them with things and wearing swirly coats, but to the best of my knowledge - which isn't very good, I haven't seen the series for a while - all Morgana does is dress and get flowers and look pretty and once in a while, hit people with things. It's very confusing.

I am having hilarious images of Morgana in some sort of Wealhtheow role, walking up to Arthur and being like, "Quaff of this cup, gold-giver" etc etc, only mumbling, "motherfucker" under her breath because that is just how she rolls.

Does she do whatever the queen would do if the queen were alive? What does that even consist of? WHY DO I EVEN CARE? WHY AM I TRYING TO FIND SOME SORT OF INTERNAL CONSISTENCY IN MERLIN FOR FUCK'S SAKE? WHY AM I ASKING THESE STUPID ASS QUESTIONS WHEN I HAVE LIKE 8 HOURS OF WORK LEFT?

I am done with reel_merlin! Well, in a manner of speaking, I'm done with reel_merlin, I've just submitted my draft, I didn't even look it over. It's 2100 words. The projected value was 1500. This may not seem a lot to you, but it is a lot to me! The summary is "in which a hypothesis is tested, invasive non-native species are eradicated, and a conclusion is reached" but probably a better summary would be THEY ARE DINOSAURS.
Pursuant to this, would anyone be willing to look it over for me? For - I don't even know what you would look a fic in which they are dinosaurs over for: inaccuracy of species classification? When I am not being a srs bznz fic writer I tend to fall back to my base state of "being sort of a prick" so maybe that too. (Posting starts on the 11th, so that's two days at least :\)
...no I didn't think so, I just figured I'd ask.

ETA: Er, my posting day is October 13, I think?


And now I am going to finish my German homework and take a nap and eat some ice cream and write srs bznz fic (hah!) about my imaginary boyfriends and their guns. Well, one or two of the above, anyway.

AND I HAVE A THEORY: If Morgana were a Russian revolutionary, she would be Michael Bakunin, amirite or am I right? Only, like, if Michael Bakunin were not an asshole. So probably the Ethan Hawke version of Michael Bakunin - with or without the incest?! Who knows. (Merlin could be Turgenev) NEVER MIND ME, I'M JUST A PRETENTIOUS TWAT.

Stories from my life: It takes a certain kind of person to go out for a lighter and come back with a TPB, two monthlies, and a liquid liner. Whatever, Ex Machina is gorgeous and about engineers! With superpowers! And the monthlies were Mike Carey’s new thing and everyone knows what a whore I am for Mike Carey.
And also 12, guys. The only thing that kept me awake in statics today was the fact that my professor had a hand gesture for the word shaft (AND I THINK YOU CAN GUESS WHAT IT WAS OKAY) in conjunction with words like "rigid" and "thrust." Yeah, I know.

Title: Functionality
Fandom: Band of Brothers/BSG
Characters/Pairings: Kara/Speirs, implied Kara/Lee, references to past Speirs/Mrs. Speirs, uh, implied (briefly implied!) Lipton/Speirs. gratuitous Harry.
Rating: R!
Word Count: 1,215
Summary: but steel doesn't bend much either (all of this will happen again) not quite reincarnation AU, gratuitous myth references. A better summary would probably be “in which Speirs is not as inhuman as he thinks he is, and neither is Kara, and free will trumps destiny” BUT THAT WOULD BE A BIT PEDANTIC, I THINK.
Warnings/Spoilers: violence, of the fisticuffs variety, vagaries; SPOILERS FOR EVERYTHING EVER. Only not really.
Notes: for 1sentence theme set, uh, alpha? Cross-posting there eventually. Ridiculously self-indulgent. ALSO, I probably don't have to say this but this is based on the character portrayed in the mini-series Band of Brothers, although certain aspects of his life that were not discussed in the miniseries are contained herein. (WIKIPEDIA, IF YOU WERE NOT THE FOUNT OF ALL KNOWLEDGE, I COULD JUST MAKE STUFF UP.) No disrespect is intended. Takes place after Korea, in Berlin, where Speirs was a prison governor, although all of this is hilariously exaggerated so I could indulge my buddycops kink. Shut up, we all have them. Probably I will be fucking around with this for a while because it doesn't sound right to me still, but I have too much that I actually need to write to worry about it at the moment.

( She's a loud drunk, sloppy and spilling over the edges, but she never shows her cards )

IT MADE ME RIDICULOUSLY HAPPY. OH PAPRIKA WHY SO PRETTY AND MIND-TRIPPY AND AWESOME SOUNDTRACKY? It made me particularly capslocky, so! A list! Several lists! I am in that kind of mood! (First actual journal post from school guys, omgggg)

( THINGS THAT ARE MAKING ME HAPPY )

( THINGS THAT ARE SHITTY )

( THINGS THAT JUST SORT OF ARE )

And since we have proved that I am an asshole, and also I feel the need for some sort of actual fannish content: uncut OT5 pictures (by which I mean, tell me to cut and I will, guys, I am sorry, this scene somehow sends me into PAROXYSMS of fangirlish glee) they are just so shiny and mutually fangirly (just uh, ignore the Colin Hanks, I know I do) and in particular: 1) HERE IS A HARRY, I MISSED HARRY WHEN HE WAS GONE AND I AM NOT SURE WHY YOU CAN ONLY SEE HIS BACK IN THIS CAP D: and 2) wow, I'm not an expert or anything, and this isn't really the right cap to prove it, but I strongly suspect that Philip Barantini's face is even more capable of weirdass contortions than Colin Morgan's I did not even know that was possible (HI SKINNY, ILU) ---> (you can ignore the Webster too, I'm not really sure why he's in this scene other than to look like he's wearing eyeliner) and finally 3) I think y'all know that I am sort of an aggressive multi-shipper mostly because I do not have the attention span to focus on one pairing for more than like, 10 seconds, but I am veering dangerously close to OTP territory with these two, and this whole scene, what with awkward maintaining eyecontact/awkwardly smiling at each other through doorways and the ( move over, I want to see my boyfriend get promoted ) is really not helping, to say nothing of the foxhole-hugging and singing and lahgkjrahgkl, stop making me embarrass myself . I guess then I remember that I pretty much love EVERYBODY in this series, but yeah. Wow.

and Webster is a hyena,

CONTINUING ON in my pursuit of writing a crack crossover for BoB/every fandom I have ever lurked in (Kara/Speirs. oh. mah. god. *considers*): BoB/Buffy. I AM A SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP OF ONE, GUYS. I am here to write shit that no one cares about! Webster, Anyanka, various pairings implied (Malarkey/Muck/Penk, Lipton/Luz - not that I'm predictable, omg - Bull/Johnny Alley/Popeye (haha wut) and uh...Liebgott/Webster, which is not implied so much as actually there) DDDD:

probably 1000+ words. Some words anyway. FAR TOO MANY WORDS. SRSLY, MOVE ALONG. THERE IS NOTHING TO SEE HERE.

Rated PG-13 for my inability to commit to writing people as irredeemable asshats, even when they are hyenas; swearing; mouth-licking; liberal quoting of Lord of the Flies (lolololol); and a whole lot of crack. Well, crack that becomes unsurprisingly and abruptly serious in the middle and unexpectedly shippy throughout. No offense is intended to the actual Webster, who was most likely not a total ass, and was almost certainly not a hyena, and whose cause of death is not actually funny (lol sharks). No offense is intended to the writers of Webster-the-character, who is a bit of an idiot, but still not as much with the asshattery or being a hyena. Electroshock therapy is not funny at all. And you know how sometimes relationships are, like, developed and things? That is not the case here. ALSO THIS WAS TYPED INTO THE "POST AN ENTRY" BOX, SO, AS EVER, IF YOU'RE EXPECTING COHERENCE/DECENCY, THIS IS NOT THE PLACE TO GO. These are not the droids you're looking for. etc.

Finally, if it wasn't already obvious, this is extremely AU, especially for BtVS because otherwise timelines don't match up in the slightest, and because Call of Duty didn't come out until 2003, but I can't be assed to go back and fix it.

In which! Webster is an ass, but he's a hyena so it's cool, and kind of oblivious, but he's a hyena so it's inexcusable.

( Once there was a private named David who walked around with his mouth open all the time because it was most convenient when he wanted to put his foot in it )

A PSA: seasons 1-3 of Buffy are on Hulu. PROBABLY EVERYONE ON THE INTERNET KNOWS THIS ALREADY. Anyway, I wanted to watch season 3 because of Faith love of my life BUT THEN I ENDED UP WATCHING SHITTY S1 EPISODES INSTEAD.

Do you remember the one with the hyenas? Who was there but Pvt David "I hope to defeat the enemy with the power of my creepy-ass stare" Webster. I almost died, guys. I KNOW IT HAS BEEN SAID BEFORE, but damn is it a good thing that Eion Bailey got so much hotter in the intervening years because his acting did not improve any, even for a really loose definition of acting, like limited to "being a creepy-ass starer/super gay for every dude in a 5 mi radius." BUT HE DID MANAGE TO KEEP HIS MOUTH CLOSED FOR A WHOLE TWO SCENES. I mean, good for him! He knows his strengths and plays to them.

( (But now I'm envisioning a Faith/Speirs AU )

ON THE BRIGHT SIDE: BUFFY. Dodgeball r srs bznz! Extreme amounts of homoeroticism! X-Files references! Lord of the Flies references! (I think?!) I had forgotten how awkward people look in gym clothes! I had forgotten how adorable they all were in the first season when they were happy and sparkly and held hands and the entire show wasn't like MISERYMISERYMISERYDRUGS-ARE-BADMISERYRAPE.

ON THE LESS BRIGHT SIDE: there is (was?) a commentfic party going on at lassiterfics's journal and I was like that person at the party who keeps talking and is too drunk (I wasn't)/socially inept to realize that no one is answering because NO ONE CARES. I wrote the sequel to that dino!Morgana fic (IT IS JUST GROWING AND GROWING, MY GOD) and BoB/X-Files crossover where Wintersnixon are latter-day Mulder and Scully (only not actually Mormon because that would add a whole other level of complications). Actually I kind of want to write more in this verse; Nixon would try to tell Winters about aliens and Winters would be really gentle, like "Nix, I think you're drunk" and it would cause all sorts of problems for him at the Bureau and there would be cameos by HARRY and maybe even SOME SORT OF PLOT. I also wrote one where Arthur/Merlin are in Bastogne (NO REALLY) ( Read more... ) and OH GOD, I'M DOING IT AGAIN. FICCING IS LIKE A COMPULSION; I DON'T EVEN MEAN TO DO IT. Seriously. JUST TAKE ME OUT BACK AND PUT AN END TO MY MISERY. IT WOULD BE AN ACT OF MERCY, I SWEAR.

ANYWAY, I AM BORED (is it at all obvious?!) so five things me plz! PLZ?

AHAHA CONSTANTINE IS EVEN MORE LAUGHABLY AWFUL THE SECOND TIME, GUYS. I am so behind on reel_merlin, I don't even know: rl is kicking my ass like a mule or whatever, one day I may even tmi about it! OH WAIT, NO ONE CARES.
Look! It is John Constantine's back! rsgh;ldgj;lkejgl

And other things:

( The Walking Dead because it is pretteh and ZOMBIES and also what I am reading right now )

And Lucifer covers! Because I saw this cover once and was like "omg Lucifer/Michael." Er, but unrequited, if not physically, because 1)IT'S NOT LIKE THERE ARE ANY OTHER PARALLELS BETWEEN LUCIFER-MAZIKEEN-MICHAEL THAT WOULD JUSTIFY THE WAY THIS IS FRAMED and 2)Lucifer/Mazikeen is pretty much my OTP of OTPs and also it's established in canon that he loves her as much as he is capable of loving anything and she loves him a whole lot and also OTP of OTPs ( Then I felt bad because, you know, Biblical figures, but not as bad as Neil Gaiman/Mike Carey(/Milton, man there's an OT3) should feel. )

Title: Dimorphism
Fandom: The Spirit (movie-verse only, I haven't read the comic)
Rating: PG-13
Characters/Pairings: gen, canon pairings
Summary: I start from scratch.
Word Count: 895
Warnings: references to potentially offensive material in the movie. Warnings for 1st-person narration, comic books-style; breaking the fourth wall with a sledgehammer; superfluous verbal acrobatics
Notes: I was surprised and saddened by the overwhelming negative reaction to this movie. It's Frank Miller: people expected it be good? Crazy. Actually I thought it was awfully clever, and I thought I might write fic about its cleverness. LIKE I DO. The break in the voice at the end is intentional, anything else is just my suckitude. At least it's short! One day I will write something long, and it will be more than an expansion of canon, and maybe it will even have a plot. For now there's this.

( Once, in another lifetime, I watched Sand walk away from me like this, sealed in my memory like words on a printed page, images in a comic book, the past shining around her like golden fleece. I am standing in a pool of Hercules's blood. )

GUYS, did you know that Patton wrote poetry? NEITHER DID I. I mean, I probably did know it during the WWII geekery of my erstwhile youth, but I think the poetry-of-Patton was probably not as funny when I was eleven. REMEMBER THAT TIME HE WAS LIKE, "IF I HAD BEEN IN CHARGE OF THE INVASION OF NORMANDY, THE WAR WOULD HAVE BEEN OVER BY CHRISTMAS?" AND THEN HE WROTE POETRY ABOUT WODEN? SO DO I.
Is it bad that this sort of changes the entire course of WWII for me? I am imagining him writing poetry in his head while slapping that guy in Sicily, like WODEN WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN SO COWARDLY. And then some rhymes. In iambic pentameter. D:

HAHA, I GUESS I AM GOING CRAZY. Thank you for nominating Propagation; I think that might have been you, briar_pipe? YOU CANNOT SEE ME, BUT I AM ALL AFLAIL. I am just trying to maintain my manly composure. On this note, a while ago I wrote dreams we should be having (i shouldn't have to clean them up like this) at kinkme_merlin for the prompt "Merlin/Morgana, she dreams that Merlin is a sorcerer." It's not good or anything, but considering that I wrote it in 15 minutes (I'M A SLOW WRITER OKAY) I was quite pleased with it, especially since it was nice to write Morgana a little more understanding than I usually do, and a lot more in control of her powers than even she realizes.

So it's not like I object to Tom Stoppard owning my soul; it's not a recent development or anything, but I should really pick my reading materials with more care. I do not need to be reading about Jewish Czech ex-pats after WWII when I am trying, with mixed success, to convince myself that it is the shittiest of shit ideas to write Liebgott/Webster post-war fic, especially since it's a pairing I don't even like. (I also don't need to be thinking about Rock 'n' Roll/The Book of Laughter and Forgetting nerdgasm crossovers, BUT THAT IS ANOTHER STORY ENTIRELY.) GUYS, also if I had known before finishing the series that this fic existed, I wouldn't need to write fic at all; it is what I would write if I could, you know, actually write. Gen, LiebgottandMalarkey (with bonus!MalarkeyandMuck undertones): Joe Liebgott is haunted by ghosts of his own, but unlike yours, who are few and personal, his ghosts are a great multitude of strangers. Malarkey here is just as awesome and heartbreaking as he is in canon, and Liebgott is - well, Liebgott is a hard character to pin down in the first place, and the author allows him his rage and his ambiguities without letting him off easy, either. She isn't afraid to face the obvious issues surrounding these characters, but she does it with extraordinary gravity and sensitivity, and it is totally, totally worth reading if you're familiar with the canon. Spoilers for "Why We Fight."

ANYWAY, my five things fic for merlin_rarepair I wasn't happy enough with this to post it there, but since you are all here, I figure I shall foist it on you instead. G like nobody's business (wtf there isn't even kissing, there was supposed to be kissing D:), 930 words, five misunderstandings.

( She's tired of making things make sense. )

OMGWOW, whoever nominated “of being someone else’s possibility” for Excalibur awards, it (and I) are ridiculously flattered. (Am I missing something or is there actually no Merlin/Morgana category? Dear Merlin fandom, NEEDZ MOAR MERLIN/MORGANA, KTHNX D:)

Tangentially, has anyone on the flist seen Band of Brothers? When I first saw it, I had no desire to do the fandom thing at all, but I have recently been rewatching, and ended up breaking my four months fic abstinence to read practically everything recced by crack_van. POINT BEING, y’all should watch it. NO REALLY! I mean, quite often it descends into War Platitudes, and it doesn’t seem sure whether it wants to do the war thing or the character thing and it is evidently unable to do both, so what you get is long periods of insufficiently explained war things (if your elder brother wasn’t the dweebiest thing ever to dweeb, I imagine) and long periods of not much happening, and this is pretty irritating, as well as Tom Hanks’s evident conviction that people in the 1940’s saw things in only like three colors. HOWEVER, IT IS REALLY AWESOME. Like, the last five-but-one episodes are genuinely heartbreaking (AND I AM NOT A CRIER OKAY, BUT I CRIED PRETTY MUCH STARTING AT THE SIXTH EPISODE, AND THE ONLY REASON I WASN’T CRYING FOR THE LAST TWO WAS BECAUSE I WAS BEYOND THE POINT OF TEARS) , and the acting is uniformly fantastic (except for David Schwimmer and that awfully attractive but unable-to-give-his-character-discernable-emotions guy who played Webster) and I love some of the characters (okay, just one) so much that I can’t even read gen fic for them, which never happens to me. And look, it’s like a fourteen hour program that has only like 30 minutes of screentime for women, and I still love it almost without reserve. And that is saying something. ALSO IT’S REALLY PRETTY, and it is almost impossible not to slash wintersnixon. THEREFORE PICSPAM TIME.

( image heavy but spoiler-free, warnings for implied violence, homoeroticism (haha yeah right) and Lee Adama )

All caps courtesy of cap_it Guys I now have a couple of hundred MB of caps from Band of Brothers on my harddrive (from pretty much every episode except that one that consisted almost entirely of Webster being dumb and Liebgott being bizarrely confrontational, even for him. I figured enough was enough) WHAT AM I GOING TO DO WITH ALL THIS.

Today the random pairing generator in my head threw up (lulz, that is some delicious imagery) Gwen/Will (background Arthur/Merlin, I guess). OBVIOUSLY, Will wants to be jedi knight like his father before him, which is to say, he really doesn't, but he doesn't want to be a farmer either and Ealdor's become boring without Merlin. He stays with Merlin, which is just as annoying as it sounds, since Merlin lets him sleep in the bed but steals the pillow and all the blankets because what else are friends for? He's obviously found out eventually (no gryphon because I'm kind of lazy and I'm not sure how that would work?) and he and Gwen have the following conversation:

Gwen: "I suppose you're going to leave now. Go on quests and things to prove your worth. Not that you haven't proven your worth already."

Will: "No, I thought I'd stay here. I'm thinking I'll train to be a blacksmith."

Gwen: "My father's the blacksmith actually. Only he doesn't need an apprentice."

Will already knows this, that's kind of the point.

Gwen: "Geoffrey, the farrier, has been looking for one though."

Will: "I don't want to be a farrier."

Gwen: "Well yesterday you didn't want to be a blacksmith. I don't think you know what you want."

Will: "Not that there's anything wrong with that?"

Gwen (agreeably): "Not that there is. Well, if you change your mind - I'm sure you won't but if you do, he lives just next door to us."

She smiles at him (not at all slyly) and walks away.

And he follows her.

The really boring Arthur/Sophia AU in which Sophia thinks she should want to be independent but really she just wants security, and Arthur doesn't know what he wants. They're both using each other, and they're not right for each other, not really, and it's far from perfect; but sometimes people just fall in love, it doesn't always make sense, and things work out in the end because sometimes things do. It would probably end something like this:

"You know, sometimes people fall in love," says Merlin, and Arthur remembers Morgana's severe expression when she told him she was getting married, and she wasn't marrying a girl, and she wasn't doing it for the benefits that married couples get. "You don't need to - Arthur, just because people think it's easy doesn't mean that it's wrong."

"Your insight is dazzling," he says, and Merlin smiles sideways at the floor.
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When he gets home that night, he finds the table's already set and Sophia's standing at the stove, cooking.

"You don't need to do that, you know," he tells her, but he finds himself sitting down anyway. He's never envied Merlin's and Morgana's easy undomesticity before, but suddenly he almost does, he doesn't want this, she's making this too easy, she's never made it this easy, he doesn't want this at all.

"I know that." She looks up at him, a quick, tired look, and says, "I want you to be happy."

He's (suddenly, irrationally) annoyed. "You don't need to say things like that either. And I know you know that because you never say things like that, you haven't said anything like that since - " since you realized I don't like it, he thinks, and thinks, I've changed you, and thinks, I hardly know you at all, I hardly know what you want at all.

A click as she turns off the stove, and then several more, she comes to sit across from him, folding her hands in front of her, she doesn't touch him. "I just - I want to be happy too," she says.


o_O SOMETIMES PEOPLE JUST FALL IN LOVE OKAY D: ...i'm sorry, Merlin fandom, I really am. I AM NOT DELIBERATELY AN ASSHOLE, IT JUST HAPPENS SOMETIMES. (Lulz heteronormativity, oh me) I love how I use my Cally icon for this. Sophia = Cally of Merlin, y/y?