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You know what Merlin fandom needs and I don't need AT ALL but really want? Merlin Remix Redux. AMIRITE??

1. “Lupin, you scoundrel!” Sirius howled, embracing him. “I’ve never been so happy to see you dead!”

2. "Perhaps my father will reward you by making you my manservant. That is how he seems to reward any old peasant these days."

3. This time, Edmund approaches her first and when he does say something, it’s: “Do you cry often?” and Susan laughs through her tears and replies, “Not as often as you know exactly the wrong thing to say.”

4. “You forfeited your right to civilized talks when you tried to kill me,” Edmund said flatly.

5. “Yes, I suppose that’s one way to put it,” Arthur mutters. “God protect us all from the favor of the High King Peter.”

6. You are doing better at supporting your arguments with concrete examples (I refer specifically to your expansion on the role of the military caste), but do cite them properly.

7. "Maybe," Morgana says, because she remembers a soft light at the periphery of her vision, something golden and sweet but constantly shifting as if separated from her by a thick veil.

This next thing is based on my post about the possibility of Arthur coming back to fix the recession. What does it say about me that this is not the first time I wrote about the Obamas hanging out with Merlin 'n pals?

1. Barack is awful at swordfighting, but he puts up with Arthur's ardent tutelage with grace and amusement. "Stop smirking, every leader of a nation has to know how to defend himself," Arthur says.

2. To Arthur's dismay, Sasha and Malia absolutely adore him. They clamber all over him and want him to listen to all their stories, and he has to say things like, "Sasha, give me back my crown." (To which Sasha replied, "It looks better on me.")

3. It's generally considered strange to say, "Your ears look familiar," so Arthur doesn't. But he thinks it.

I wanna do that meme where you guys tell me three things that you associate with me, and then I ramble about them in a separate post. Go!

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Philippines. Susan/Peter. Awesome AUs. Boondock Saints. OT8. Brad Pitt(?!). Take your picks!

It's generally considered strange to say, "Your ears look familiar," so Arthur doesn't.

I want you to write this so hard I can barely breathe.

Brad Pitt! Hahahaha. Awesome.

4. The meeting about transatlantic financial strategy somehow degenerated into an economics cram session for Arthur until Putin and Sarkozy had enough of rolling their eyes and going "Bah!" They're smoking cigarettes on the balcony, leaving Arthur to slump in his seat with no clearer idea of what direct foreign investment entails and Barack giving him sympathetic looks.

"Don't worry," Barack says. "If Bush could do it, so can you."

"Thanks."

"Don't you have some kind of adviser to help you out?"

Arthur shrugs. "Yeah. I did once."

Ahahaha that almost made me cry I wish I was kidding.

(Fight Club! Ocean's 11-13! Saving the world! Brad Pitt/Lassiter OTP!)

<3! Man, the way people are enabling me, I might be moved to compile more facts and post them somewhere. Arthur/Barack, what the hell?

Brad Pitt/Lassiter OTP!
I WHOLLY AGREE.

*ENABLES<3*

It makes so much sense, it really does.

It's generally considered strange to say, "Your ears look familiar," so Arthur doesn't. But he thinks it.

Oh. My. God. I need to see this now.

6. Arthur blames the ears. If it weren't for the ears, he probably wouldn't notice the boundless optimism, the headlong rush to overturn the system, and the familiar twinkle in Barack's eye that seems to imply that he thinks everything Arthur says is a big joke.

"Idiot," Arthur says affectionately when Barack misses an easy shot at the eighteenth hole.

"Don't call me an idiot, fool," Barack smiles.

Arthur supposes 'fool' is close enough to 'prat' for now.

1. “Lupin, you scoundrel!” Sirius howled, embracing him. “I’ve never been so happy to see you dead!”

Oh hi there, OTP! I've missed you.

3. This time, Edmund approaches her first and when he does say something, it’s: “Do you cry often?” and Susan laughs through her tears and replies, “Not as often as you know exactly the wrong thing to say.”

My favorite Pevensies!

3. It's generally considered strange to say, "Your ears look familiar," so Arthur doesn't. But he thinks it.

I WAS SO THINKING THAT. All rejoice at the return of "Obamas in Camelot"! Your crack is so addictive. Har har.

3 was one of the first Narnia fics I started writing, I just couldn't figure out where to go with it.

If Merlin is Obama, does that make Arthur Rahm Emanuel? Oh man, that is another crack for another time.

5. "Okay," Barack says. "So think of the United Nations as your knights of the round table."

"Ah, all right," Arthur nods. "So. Fight evil, do they?"

"In their way."

"They have to prove their mettle in combat and feats of strength before they join?"

"...It's kind of the opposite."

Arthur stares at him.

Barack sighs. "Okay, back to discussing security in Afghanistan it is."

Oh, please. Arthur is too nice to be Rahm Emanuel. Morgana is Rahm Emanuel.

(Is it bad that Rahm Emmanuel makes me miss Josh Lyman?)

Also, at some point I think we all need to step back and confront the fact that we all apparently have big damn crushes on Barack Obama.

NGOs, character bleed, and BIZARREITUDE.

I am mostest intrigueded by 1, 6, and 7. More plz.

1 is a cut scene from Hereafter (http://lassiterfics.livejournal.com/58987.html) back when I thought it was going to be a giant crossover about the afterlife, in which the afterlife is just the panfandom perfecter world of Aslan's Country. But then I saw it was never going to end if I went that way, so I ditched the crossover idea.

Here's the part where Remus wants to go find Tonks:

At first Remus was annoyed that his friends didn’t want to accompany him into Muggle London. He had spent some time there in his youth, but never for very pleasant reasons. When you’re in hiding or on the run, it’s very hard to enjoy things.

“I don’t even know where she is!” Remus sputtered.

Sirius rolled his eyes. “You’ll find her.”

“I don’t even know Muggle London!”

“You’ll find her,” said Lily, in a gentler tone. “That’s how these things work.”

“What things?” Remus asked suspiciously.

“Just hold her in your heart,” said James, “and start walking.”

And Remus would have said more, would have protested more, if he had not suspected that they were right. Something about the thickness of the sunlight here and the warm contentment of the

For real, that's where I stopped.

All I have of 7 can be found here (http://lassiterfics.livejournal.com/83725.html?thread=1296397#t1296397). And 6 is actually mostly done, it'll be up soon. :D

WHEEEEEEEEEE!

Which is apparently about all I've got right now. *blinks*

2. To Arthur's dismay, Sasha and Malia absolutely adore him. They clamber all over him and want him to listen to all their stories, and he has to say things like, "Sasha, give me back my crown." (To which Sasha replied, "It looks better on me.")

OH GOSH. MOST ADORABLE THING EVER.

4. “You forfeited your right to civilized talks when you tried to kill me,” Edmund said flatly.

EDMUND. BABY.

5. “Yes, I suppose that’s one way to put it,” Arthur mutters. “God protect us all from the favor of the High King Peter.”

CROSSTREE. (Yes? I remember that line? Or possibly I am hallucinating? I do that on occasion.)

three things:
commentfic, acculturation, drugs. *facepalm* (that last bit is me, going wtf.)

That's the fic where they try to assassinate Edmund! Man, I started writing that sooooo long ago. But I think it's running into a similar problem as your 'Tuesday' fic did, where it's just a bunch of action and no theme. And I suggested to you the theme I was gonna use in this fic. Our fics can be two sides of the Edmund assassination coin.

Yes, Crostree! Whatever happened to Peter and Arthur having blond kings of doomed destiny sex.

lololol drugs. Okay! :D

If we could ever write them. *dramatic sigh* Oh, Tuesday. You are currently being overwhelmed by desperate necessity to not have Susan start a riot in Cair Paravel, because we do not need that just now.

I don't know! I think you had it last.

I DO NOT KNOW.

I think you had it last.
I think you're right. SOMEDAY. Someday. If only our Arthur haracterization hadn't gotten jossed so quickly!

I don't think it's that Jossed, though. Like, I think he's extremely recognizable, he's not, like, not Arthur. (Hi, let us count the number of times I use the word "like" in this sentence.) And we were starting to pull away from the Peter and Arthur thing too, branch out into the rest of the Camelot crew, so it's not that big of a deal.

5. “Yes, I suppose that’s one way to put it,” Arthur mutters. “God protect us all from the favor of the High King Peter.”

askljdsfk omg yay crossover! please write this? omggg.

does 6 count? aren't we, like, there? unless it needs more shuffling, what do you think? *clicks send*

3. It's generally considered strange to say, "Your ears look familiar," so Arthur doesn't. But he thinks it.

I DIEDDDD. Obama RPF is my new secret guilty pleasure. Rahm Emanuel is my other new secret guilty pleasure.

okay things I associate with you:

1) Emile Durkheim
2) Benedict Anderson
3) Edmund/Jadis subtext

bedlamsbard and I are (were?) writing the Peter/Arthur together, and then... we stopped. Admittedly, kind of my fault, 'cos I had the ball last. Uhhhhh. Got distracted.

True that, I just included it because we haven't for real posted it. I'll post it tonight!

The amount of Obama fic out there is, like, FTW. Somehow I am not so surprised? Just, the squee that happens over him, he's such a rock star. Like, Bush never got any fic. (ARTHUR PENDRAGON/BARACK OBAMA IS TOTALLY MY NEW SECRET GUILTY SHIP.)

Well! Considering how many WIPs you two have and still manage to put out fic it makes sense that you would have to drop the ball somewhere in order to, like, sleep :))

I am really surprised at the amount of it. At first I was like "... hey, awkward, this guy is not just some celebrity actor! can we do this?" And then, well, I guess someone wrote it well enough.

DUDE, DOES ARTHUR/BARACK EXIST? as;lweivodsljkfg!

Hahahaha, I would read fic of anyone and anything if it's awesome enough.

No, not that I've seen. Not that this is stopping me. Not that I would be surprised if there WERE Arthur/Barack already out there actually, 'cos hey it's Merlin fandom. It has Murphy's law where instead of things getting worse, it's things getting stranger.

This Merlin icon I'm using. Look at how weirdly similar it is to my Edmund icon:

dude, they even have similar appearances, Edmund and Merlin. Clearly you have a Thing about dark-haired pale boys gazing up and to their left into the trees. (I MEAN WHO DOESN'T)

I think I will go looking for it some day, now that you have mentioned it. oh god, my life, what am I doing with it!

If you find some, you should share. And I will do likewise. Otherwise, maybe you can just write one, that'd be cool too.

They should totes hang out and commiserate about the overbearing blond kings they have to support. And also rescue each other! 'Cos Merlin is dumb enough to be constantly embroiled in all sorts of shit, but hey Edmund isn't magical. They can be complementary in unexpected ways and together they fight crime! And stare at the treetops on their left.

Google gives me this:

Black Knight [Clinton]: Right, I'll do you for that!
King Arthur [Obama]: You'll what?
Black Knight [Clinton]: Come here!
King Arthur [Obama]: What are you gonna do, bleed on me?
Black Knight [Clinton]: I'm invincible!
King Arthur [Obama]: You're a loony.

Nothing closer. *keeps digging* I really wish there were a Merlin Crossovers comm or something, for organizational purposes.

Overbearing blond kings, that's right! I would love to see Edmund and Merlin as a crimefighting duo. Merlin would definitely be the sidekick. He is just not as badass as Edmund, even if he is most likely taller.

AHAHAHAHAHA THAT IS AMAZING. Oh internet, I love you!

A Merlin crossovers comm would be AMAZING, omg. Add that to the list of "things that should exist in Merlin fandom and wish I had the gumption (AND TIME, mostly time) to organize". The only other thing on that list is Merlin Remix Redux. I'm sure the list will grow in no time.

Oh, but I can def see Merlin as the main superhero, 'cos he's such a Gryffindor protagonist and he goes into the thick of the action, and doesn't know how to be subtle with his powers. (Aside from plot necessity, I have no idea how Camelot doesn't know he's a sorcerer yet.) Edmund has to reign him in and probably facepalms a lot.

To-do lists of things that don't actually have to be done are the worst, in that they explode inexplicably right before finals week. sigh!

Remix Reduxes seem like the coolest thing to me, they always produce the greatest fics, and I have never done one, which makes me sad. So if there ever were one I would totally participate.

Ooh, you are right, he does rush headlong into saving people and stuff. And Edmund is good at reining in, I imagine. He is a bit like Watson, though Merlin is no Holmes.

HI. UM, I MAY HAVE SPOKEN TO YOU BEFORE BUT I ACTUALLY HALF STALK YOU BECAUSE YOU'RE INTERESTING. I WOULD TOTALLY MAKE THIS CROSSOVERS COMM FOR YOU. LIKE WHEN I SAID I WOULD TRY MAKING A FOLLOW UP TO YOUR BRADLEY/MERLIN FIC. BUT TOTALLY DIDN'T. I THINK THAT WAS YOU.

p.s. all your snippet things rock my entire sock drawer, but I love It's generally considered strange to say, "Your ears look familiar," so Arthur doesn't. But he thinks it. the very most. And the UN-thing.

p.p.s. there is like, one Merlania fic. (http://community.livejournal.com/merlinxarthur/535054.html?#cutid1)

OMG WOULD YOU 'COS I WOULD JOIN IT AND FOREVER AND EVERRRRRR <333333

Hahaha, hello half-a-stalker! :D I remember you! And what you said! I ended up commentficcing various trajectories of follow-ups with people in the comments though, so I got my fix of it in the end. XD

Ahhh thanks for the rec! I read Part 1 of that, but didn't know Part 2 is already up! Yaaaaaay!

":LAKNG"DJKA:

LAST NIGHT I WAS WATCHING VIDS AND THINKING TO MY SELF THAT HOW I FEEL ABOUT ARTHUR IS KINDA LIKE HOW MY FRIEND FEELS ABOUT BARACK OBAMA (not that I don't love our new president too, it's just that the intensity of my love is less psychotic). You are so very very timely. Also, I totally want to see Rahm Emmanuel take Morgana under his wing, and Michelle give Merlin advice on how to share your spouse with the world.

5. Merlarnia makes me happy \o/!

6. I have no idea what this comes from, BUT I WANT TO READ IT.

ARTHUR PENDRAGON FOR PRESIDENNNNNNNT. omg Rahm and Morgana would be UNSTOPPABLE. omg Rahm/Morgana AND Arthur/Barack, WHAT AM I GOING TO DO WITH MYSELF. SEND HELP. (Yeah man, apparently Merlinarnia was only the beginning.)

6 will be up later tonight!

SEND HELP. (Yeah man, apparently Merlinarnia was only the beginning.)

...Do you really want me to send help? Really? Don't you remember how we meet (and by meet I mean and then I dropped onto your journal and started harassing you)? I don't know enough about Rahm to write fic. YET.

I refuse to live in a world where Merlin/political crack does not exist.

Things I associate with you:
The Secret Garden
Merlin/Narnia OT8
CRACKKKKKK. Or, Karl Marx.

The more I think about it, the more Arthur Pendragon/Barack Obama wins my heart?? Maybe I should stop thinking about it. BUT THEN WHAT WOULD I DO WITH ALL THIS CRACK??

7. Barack has roots in all directions, but instead of pulling him apart, they hold him together. Arthur wonders at that. He shows Arthur on a globe all the places he used to live and where his forefathers had lived and, okay, first of all: a GLOBE. The earth is round? Who knew?

8. There's no magic in this new world. Arthur should have known, but he feels a pang in his heart anyway.

Merlarnia. Comment fic that goes back and forth for insanely long periods of time (I'm getting back to backpacking Bradley I swear). Being all studenty.

...Maybe this should just be considered a list of things Puckling and Lassiter have in common? WAIT NO. TRAIL OF DEAD. YOU LIKE THEM A LOT. I HAVE NO IDEA WHO THEY ARE. Good. I found something.

XD I got to Merlarnia when I talked about the OT8. Merlarnia forevs!

omg did you listen to this song (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bU827O-CArE) when I posted the link to it? It induces a capslocking of the heart. And this one (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzMEem448_4) is the first song of theirs I heard, which is all right, but there's not a lot of options on YouTube.

I have listened! They're actually pretty fun. I liked the ending of the first song, with the little children. Currently I'm into music like the Clash and the Dropkick Murphys so I like Trail of Dead.

THAT'S IT I AM GOING TO WATCH MERLIN. Only not until after exams. SPRING BREAK, I SWEAR.

(Can I still jump in with three things? Because 1) Susan/Jadis 2) Cracky and crazy crossover commentfics 3) economics (wtf, self))

YAY FINALLY XD

'Kay cool, I will get to those!

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