Uther Pendragon will make you an offer you can't refuse.

[whynot]

Let's play Good News Bad News and Tangent!

BAD NEWS: Updating project descriptions sucks like a vacuum and omfg there are three more hours on the clock UGH THAT IS PRACTICALLY FOREVER.

GOOD NEWS: Office is closing early!

BAD NEWS: ...because a typhoon is coming.

GOOD NEWS: Waiting for my ride to come, I'm tooling around on Cracked, as one does, and discover that, once upon a time, Kirk and Spock had to fight the mafia in space. What in the whaaaaaat. YOU GUYS. Can you imagine this with the Reboot cast? jhfjkhf. Speaking of strange things The Shat has done, there is also a spoken-word song called "In Love" in collaboration with Ben Folds.

TANGENT: Every fandom needs a mafia AU. How about the one where Uther Pendragon is Vito Corleone the don of all dons, and what Arthur really wants to do is go legit, but Uther goes on about legacy and duty, and shoves that in Arthur's face. You don't turn your back on the family, son! Now Morgana, she doesn't need to be told that. Taken in by the Pendragons as a child, she has earned the position of consigliere, and is not afraid to fuuuuuuck your shit up. MAJOR clashes between the kids here (and Uther possibly encourages it in a subtle way), 'cos typically Arthur should be the underboss, but he's all I WILL NOT HAVE YOUR LIFE OF CRIIIIME and Morgana wants to be the underboss, but she's not really family. Not by blood, and blood, it's everything. Although she and Uther don't take kindly to people talking shit about how she shouldn't wield this much power if she isn't really family, Morgana knows that the aegis of the Pendragon family will only last as long as she doesn't challenge how things work.

BUT THEN A RIVAL BOSS MAKES AN ATTEMPT ON UTHER'S LIFE. Arthur is drawn into resorting to criminal acts to protect him. Morgana is conflicted because Arthur is doing a pretty competent job at protecting Uther and the family's interests, but then again his competence can possibly edge her out. But they have to band together, FOR FAMILY. Blood is thicker than water, but blood runs out, dries up, and you know what doesn't? Loyalty. Legacy. stuff happens blah blah blah William Ealdor sleeps with the fishes and then Arthur and Morgana kill all the rival bosses and rule as king and queen of the criminal underworld HAPPILY EVER AFTER (except for the part where Arthur's conscience will never sleep easy again, and Morgana continues to quietly undermine him).

I really should've signed up for reel_merlin.

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[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Randomly, I saw The Godfather for the first time in my life last week.

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

OMG WHAT DID YOU THINK

WAS SONNY NOT THE BEST

ACTUALLY

THEY WERE ALL THE BEST

waaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Well, now all the mafia-related stuff that came later makes sense!

It was good, I liked it, I am kind of shocked at how many classic well-known liines come from that movie that I hadn't known about.

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

Right?! It's like Star Trek like that. Like, you watch it, and 90% of pop culture suddenly makes sense! Okay maybe not 90, but you know what I mean. Soooooo many depictions of the mafia in pop culture owe something to The Godfather. If not Godfather, then Goodfellas. And I love the whole "we're powerful and ruthless criminals... who looooove our family!" deal they got going. Mafia honor, man.

Edmund as the awesomest consigliere, y/y?