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1. In the realm of LOLWAT, theyr in ur internets, pr0ning ur president. It will only be a matter of time before Obama/Putin/Sarkozy. OR SO I HOPE.
2. They were filming Life On Mars outside where I was having lunch yesterday. I don't watch the show at all so I didn't care much, but it did make me vaguely wish that shows I care about film here, except not really. It's not like Uther and Arthur are ever going to show up on their horses in Manhattan with a retinue of knights to try to negotiate an alliance with Mayor Bloomberg. ALTHOUGH THAT WOULD BE AWESOME. (Merlin gets lost on the subway, and Morgana and Gwen wander happily in Chinatown shopping for cheap perfume.)
3. There is one request on Yuletide for Johnny Maxwell fic! And thirteen offers! OH PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE OH PLEASE.
4. I watched Episode 8 sober and I have
"Once Gaius starts talking about anatomy, there's no stopping him!" AHAHAHAHAHAHA WHAT. WHAT. I'M NOT EVEN GOING TO GO THERE.
"I'M GOOD WITH SECRET DOORS AND THINGS." MERLIN <33. YOU ARE A HUGE DORK. YOU ME GWEN: BFFL?? I THINK SO.
"Sound the warning bell" STILL MAKES ME GO WEEEEAAAAAK IN THE KNEES. ARTHUR-KING OF MY HEART I LOVE YOU.
"I DO NOT SEEK HER FORGIVENESS." gjalskfd';sl;fld;'s UTHER ZOMG. OH MY DOOMED KINGS.
"BECAUSE YOUR FOREHEAD WRINKLES LIKE A LIZARD'S ELBOW"? GAIUS. WHAT. I love you anyway.
WHAT, SLEEPING GAS? What? Uh. ...Okay, whatever. It's not like this show tries to hide its contrivances anyway.
5. Further thoughts on
THIS SHOW really just needs be called PENDRAGONS and be all about Uther and his hardassery and emotional baggage, and how Arthur struggles to be both a good prince and a good son although Uther's crazyface is making it hard to be both. PENDRAGONS, BREAKERS OF MY HEART.
Okay, so I don't usually write these long metas, but Arthur has like, EATEN MY BRAIN and what is LJ for if not for going OMG OMG OMGGGGGGG about such things as these.
My favorite moment from Episode 8 is when Arthur and the guards corner Morgana and Mordred. After Arthur does his "Halt or I'll run you through" hotassery and realizes who it is OH MY GOD THE CONFLICT WRIT ALL OVER HIM jfa;kfsafks I LOVE IT FOREVER. His whole mental journey that ends in him ordering in a strangled sort of voice, "Restrain her." <3333333333 ARTHUR.
AND THEN. IN THE NEXT SCENE, which is ALSO MY FAVORITE: Uther and Morgana are having their lover's tiff, and ARTHUR is all STARING AT THE FLOOR ashamed of what he should be proud of (his father, his honor, his duty). Uh, I have no pictures but refer to icon #43 in this post and you'll SEE: Uther is SO ANGRY and Arthur just wants no part of this. When he exits the room, he pointedly avoids looking at Morgana (THAT IS THE SOUND OF MY HEART BREAKING) -- he knows he's done her wrong, he knows he's done the druid boy wrong (OR SO HE THINKS), and if Arthur can't even save the life of an innocent boy in his own castle, then what kind of a king is he going to be?
And in a way it all boils down to that, to Arthur's king angst, and how Arthur learns from watching Uther's growing list of fail about what kind of a king Arthur wants and doesn't want to be (HINT: NOT THE FAIL AND FUTURE KING). And in the future, there will be Arthur breaking free from his family, from Uther and Morgana and the long claws they've sunk into him, and how this is going to fucking HURT because once upon a time Uther was a ROCK and Morgana, even now, can make Arthur do almost anything, BUT. BUT. Don't mistake power for love, don't mistake familiarity for tenderness, don't mistake passion for what is truly important. (I SUSPECT THAT IN THE END ARTHUR WILL MAYBE NOT LEARN THESE LESSONS VERY WELL. JUST SAYING.)
I wanna say that I don't ship Arthur/Morgana beyond how it is canon (so to speak) and how everyone in Camelot is obviously fucking anyway. I think they're both fascinating as individuals but as a ship they're kind of yawnface. I don't fixate on them. All that up there can be def be construed as Arthur/Morgana, but really it is about how ARTHUR IS THE AWESOMEST.
The crown prince of Camelot is canonically what assholes become fanonically. Out of fandom habits, I keep thinking he is a douchebag prick with more bark than bite. But, right there on the show, in-between bouts of being pompous, he keeps on risking his own life to save everyone else's and being a capable warrior leader-type and TRYING SO HARD. Better than a fanon Draco, he is canon Arthur! And I love it! And hey, remember that part in the beginning where Uther is all like KILL THE LITTLE BOY KILL HIM FOREVER and Arthur is the one being level-headed and trying to talk sense into him? Yeah. SEEING GLIMPSES OF THE KING THAT ARTHUR WILL BE IS MY FAVORIIIIIITE.
ARTHURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR the end
6. EVERYONE. EVERYONE. YOU GUYS, I NEED YOUR ASSISTANCE. Please tell me in comments about all the other shenanigans that happen in this reality show. I NEED TO KNOW.
2. They were filming Life On Mars outside where I was having lunch yesterday. I don't watch the show at all so I didn't care much, but it did make me vaguely wish that shows I care about film here, except not really. It's not like Uther and Arthur are ever going to show up on their horses in Manhattan with a retinue of knights to try to negotiate an alliance with Mayor Bloomberg. ALTHOUGH THAT WOULD BE AWESOME. (Merlin gets lost on the subway, and Morgana and Gwen wander happily in Chinatown shopping for cheap perfume.)
3. There is one request on Yuletide for Johnny Maxwell fic! And thirteen offers! OH PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE OH PLEASE.
4. I watched Episode 8 sober and I have
"Once Gaius starts talking about anatomy, there's no stopping him!" AHAHAHAHAHAHA WHAT. WHAT. I'M NOT EVEN GOING TO GO THERE.
"I'M GOOD WITH SECRET DOORS AND THINGS." MERLIN <33. YOU ARE A HUGE DORK. YOU ME GWEN: BFFL?? I THINK SO.
"Sound the warning bell" STILL MAKES ME GO WEEEEAAAAAK IN THE KNEES. ARTHUR-KING OF MY HEART I LOVE YOU.
"I DO NOT SEEK HER FORGIVENESS." gjalskfd';sl;fld;'s UTHER ZOMG. OH MY DOOMED KINGS.
"BECAUSE YOUR FOREHEAD WRINKLES LIKE A LIZARD'S ELBOW"? GAIUS. WHAT. I love you anyway.
WHAT, SLEEPING GAS? What? Uh. ...Okay, whatever. It's not like this show tries to hide its contrivances anyway.
5. Further thoughts on
THIS SHOW really just needs be called PENDRAGONS and be all about Uther and his hardassery and emotional baggage, and how Arthur struggles to be both a good prince and a good son although Uther's crazyface is making it hard to be both. PENDRAGONS, BREAKERS OF MY HEART.
Okay, so I don't usually write these long metas, but Arthur has like, EATEN MY BRAIN and what is LJ for if not for going OMG OMG OMGGGGGGG about such things as these.
My favorite moment from Episode 8 is when Arthur and the guards corner Morgana and Mordred. After Arthur does his "Halt or I'll run you through" hotassery and realizes who it is OH MY GOD THE CONFLICT WRIT ALL OVER HIM jfa;kfsafks I LOVE IT FOREVER. His whole mental journey that ends in him ordering in a strangled sort of voice, "Restrain her." <3333333333 ARTHUR.
AND THEN. IN THE NEXT SCENE, which is ALSO MY FAVORITE: Uther and Morgana are having their lover's tiff, and ARTHUR is all STARING AT THE FLOOR ashamed of what he should be proud of (his father, his honor, his duty). Uh, I have no pictures but refer to icon #43 in this post and you'll SEE: Uther is SO ANGRY and Arthur just wants no part of this. When he exits the room, he pointedly avoids looking at Morgana (THAT IS THE SOUND OF MY HEART BREAKING) -- he knows he's done her wrong, he knows he's done the druid boy wrong (OR SO HE THINKS), and if Arthur can't even save the life of an innocent boy in his own castle, then what kind of a king is he going to be?
And in a way it all boils down to that, to Arthur's king angst, and how Arthur learns from watching Uther's growing list of fail about what kind of a king Arthur wants and doesn't want to be (HINT: NOT THE FAIL AND FUTURE KING). And in the future, there will be Arthur breaking free from his family, from Uther and Morgana and the long claws they've sunk into him, and how this is going to fucking HURT because once upon a time Uther was a ROCK and Morgana, even now, can make Arthur do almost anything, BUT. BUT. Don't mistake power for love, don't mistake familiarity for tenderness, don't mistake passion for what is truly important. (I SUSPECT THAT IN THE END ARTHUR WILL MAYBE NOT LEARN THESE LESSONS VERY WELL. JUST SAYING.)
I wanna say that I don't ship Arthur/Morgana beyond how it is canon (so to speak) and how everyone in Camelot is obviously fucking anyway. I think they're both fascinating as individuals but as a ship they're kind of yawnface. I don't fixate on them. All that up there can be def be construed as Arthur/Morgana, but really it is about how ARTHUR IS THE AWESOMEST.
The crown prince of Camelot is canonically what assholes become fanonically. Out of fandom habits, I keep thinking he is a douchebag prick with more bark than bite. But, right there on the show, in-between bouts of being pompous, he keeps on risking his own life to save everyone else's and being a capable warrior leader-type and TRYING SO HARD. Better than a fanon Draco, he is canon Arthur! And I love it! And hey, remember that part in the beginning where Uther is all like KILL THE LITTLE BOY KILL HIM FOREVER and Arthur is the one being level-headed and trying to talk sense into him? Yeah. SEEING GLIMPSES OF THE KING THAT ARTHUR WILL BE IS MY FAVORIIIIIITE.
ARTHURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR the end
6. EVERYONE. EVERYONE. YOU GUYS, I NEED YOUR ASSISTANCE. Please tell me in comments about all the other shenanigans that happen in this reality show. I NEED TO KNOW.
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and it should all be about how they are all three of them tangled up in each other in complex ways, through loyalty and love and fear and power and habit BUT, it is not ACTUALLY about THIS but about the three of them GROWING APART OH SO APART and it is their complex entanglement that makes it difficult to let go OMG. [possessiveness goes here!] merlin at this point has started blabbering to arthur about his destiny, and arthur is like "wtf are you talking about fool" but is beginning to suspect that merlin is right. so arthur and morgana drift for their own reasons and uther starts to develop the WORST CASE of empty nest syndrome EVER. EVER.
[determinism angst goes here.]
and everyone is totally still sexing each other.
OMG SORRY I GOT CARRIED AWAY PENDRAGONS FTW
EPIC FLAIL
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I'm the same way with Sir Gawain and the Green Knight- one request and seventeen offers. I'm the request. I keep thinking "sweet, I'm probably getting Gawain-fic for Christmas", but the Yuletide Algorithm doesn't take fandom popularity into account, does it? Just the number of possible matches per person...
woe.
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Like biblical porn. I mean, seriously, who *thinks* of this stuff?
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Actually what surprised me most about Yuletide's biblical section was that there are some serious introspective pieces about Jesus- about the relationship between god and humanity, and so on: the sort of thing that a few years ago I was writing and using in *church*. And they're in there next to all the porning...
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Except for the one time in 616 where he became the Phoenix. Complete with red and gold bodysuit.
...we don't talk about that arc much, to be honest.
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*is dazzled*
Xavier I never knew you had it in you! Or one of you, as the case may be.
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someone needs to write the fic where arthur is conflicted and depressed because he wants to prove himself to his father! but no, he has to be valiant and do the right thing! and gwen and morgana and merlin decide to cheer him with nakedness! y/n?
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not me because i have a squillion other things to write
oh my WIP folder the despair it bequeaths unto me!
WHERE IS ALL THE OBRAHMA SLASH?!
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YES! That! Right there!
LOVE THIS SHOW.
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I AM ON A CAPSLOCKING HIGH