We don't talk business at the table.

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Every time I rewatch The Godfather, I LOVE IT EVEN MORE. Augh, I can totaly trace my love of motherfucking Pendragons and motherfucking firebenders to my hearteyesing at the Corleones. The TIES THAT BIND, the sacred bonds of familyyyy, an honor full of hubris (or a hubris full of honor??), and don't turn your back on the family EVER AGAIN omg. Their power is ubiquitous, as generous as it is terrible. Their loyalty is dangerous, and their balance of power complex. NOW IF WE'RE DONE PLANNING MURDERS AND BRIBING FEDERAL JUDGES, I WOULD LIKE TO ATTEND MY DAUGHTER'S WEDDING. MOTHERFUCKING CORLEONES <3333

I have Top Fives.

From fahye: top 5 fictional battles, which was difficult because I'm not a battle scene kind of person, but voila anyway!

1. Hot Fuzz, at the end, because it is HILARIOUS.

2. Prince Caspian, at the end, with awesome surprise!crater.

3. Planet Terror, at the end, because it is also hilarious. Also: ZOMBIES.

4. Uh, then I start to blank out. Did Hero have a battle scene? Kill Bill Vol. 1 at the end was pretty cool. I also like the Gangs of New York one, although this may be because I recently rewatched it.

5. The Warlords



From mrinalinee: top 5 crossovers that I want written, which was difficult because I want crossovers of everything ever. I'm going to treat Merlarnia as a given.

1. Merlin/Avatar. Arthur and Zuko hanging out being noble warrior-princes trying to grow into their kingship, dealing with tyrant fathers and scene-stealing sisters. They learn things about themselves and each other, and have many Moments.

3. Disney/Warnes Bros. Donald and Daffy hanging out, hating on people with big ears, griping about anti-feather prejudice.

2. "Real World: Cryptic Mentor Figures." Yoda, Dumbledore, the dragon, Aslan, Professor X, and the Oracle (and whoever else), all in one house, bickering over whose turn it is to do dishes and who keeps hogging the phone.

4. Johnny Maxwell/Narnia, because Johnny and his gang would be hilariously genre-savvy about it.

5. Captain Planet/RPF. The Planeteers work together with world leaders to better the planet, but navigating the world of international politics is harder than they thought. The multilaterals bully them, human rights groups hassle their environmental conservation plans for not considering the livelihood of peasants, and Greenpeace is just wack, man, totally wack. Ma-Ti wonders if he should use his Heart power to influence politicians.

Bonus 6. X-Men/Captain Planet. Wheeler and John, feisty fireboys together living it up in New York.



top 5 X-Files crossovers, which is QUITE TIMELY as I have been binging myself on X-Files episodes for the past couple of weeks

1. Narnia. Scully tries to come up with a scientific explanation for a forest in a wardrobe, and before she can stop him, Mulder dons a fur coat disappears into the woods. So, she goes too. (MAYBE SAMANTHA IS IN HERE.) Another possibility is Mulder and Scully investigating Susan Pevensie for some reason, maybe something to do with magic boat pictures and wardrobes. Mulder and Susan can have sibling angst together.

2. Merlin. This can be tackled a number of ways. One possibility is reincarnation fic wherein Mulder and Scully investigates a telekinetic/pyrokinetic who claims he is trying to find the once and future king.

3. bedlamsbard created a post-TLB Narnia 'verse I played around in for a while, wherein Susan is immortal and joins the FBI, then Peter is somehow raised from the dead and also joins the FBI. I would cross the X-Files over with this, and develop an OT4.

4. Harry Potter. Mulder and Scully investigate weird goings-on that, unbeknownst to them, are caused by foolhardy Death Eaters.

5. Captain Planet. Mulder and Scully investigate a group of kids who appear to be able to control the elements.



From allothi: top 5 fictional places for a talking chicken to do an internship

1. UNCRC (United Nations Chickens Rights Council)

2. Narnia, 'cos what better place for a talking animal?

3. In Ankh-Morpork's Unseen University library, under the tutelage of the Librarian.

4. An apprenticeship with Death, of any fandom. If Discworld can have a Death of Rats, why can't there be a Death of Chickens?

5. The chicken mafia, shipping illegal feed and trafficking hens, extorting protection fees to terrorize other chickens during the Bird Flu scare. I guess this is more an apprenticeship than an internship, if anything. The work's tough, but the pay is great and you meet all sorts of interesting people!



From animus_wyrmis: top 5 things I want to see in the Dawn Treader movie

1. Peter & Susan in some form. Either in the beginning/end, or maybe in flashbacks. Not that this is going to happen, apparently.

2. hot actors and compelling characterizations for Drinian and other crew members, to encourage fiiiiic

3. buttloads and buttloads of chemistry between Edmund and Caspian, whether antagonistic or otherwise. Maybe they challenge each other's kingship, or maybe Edmund ends up guiding and supporting Caspian, because Edmund has much experience being "the other king".

4. references to how things Used To Be

5. the star's daughter having a name



From miakun: 5 things Will would have done if he'd gone to Camelot, which is more a solidification of the comments section here. When I write my "Will lives!" AU, the following things will totally totally happen.

1. surprise Arthur by being rather competent at hunting. Much more so than Merlin, who relies on magic than actual skill when it comes to hunting. Merlin is excused from future hunting excursions, much to Merlin's relief, and Arthur and Will get bonding time.

2. share Merlin's room. It was meant to be a temporary arrangement, but they get used to it.

3. recognize Morgana's magicalness without anyone needing to tell him. Will grew up seeing Merlin struggle with the same kind of thing, and he knows the signs.

4. is one of the people struck down by the Old Religion in the finale when Merlin bargains for Arthur's life.

5. seamlessly become Gaius's other son-figure because it's demand-and-supply with Will's own father issues.

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The TIES THAT BIND, the sacred bonds of familyyyy, an honor full of hubris (or a hubris full of honor??), and don't turn your back on the family EVER AGAIN omg. Their power is ubiquitous, as generous as it is terrible. Their loyalty is dangerous, and their balance of power complex. NOW IF WE'RE DONE PLANNING MURDERS AND BRIBING FEDERAL JUDGES, I WOULD LIKE TO ATTEND MY DAUGHTER'S WEDDING. MOTHERFUCKING CORLEONES <3333

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5. Captain Planet/RPF. The Planeteers work together with world leaders to better the planet, but navigating the world of international politics is harder than they thought. The multilaterals bully them, human rights groups hassle their environmental conservation plans for not considering the livelihood of peasants, and Greenpeace is just wack, man, totally wack. Ma-Ti wonders if he should use his Heart power to influence politicians.

And this sort of shit is why I love you. &hearts TELL ME MORE ABOUT IT LASS. TELL ME MORE.

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

<33 OMG PUCK SO HERE IS HOW I THINK IT GOES

There'd be like, meditation on how no one actually tries to be evil. That's what makes it so difficult now, because the burden of responsibility is distributed all along the chains of power, instead of just one man who liked to loot and plunder, one woman who loves detritus. (OMG GOOD OMENS/CAPTAIN PLANET: DR. WHATSHERPOLLUTINGFACE/POLLUTION??) If you topple corporations, you deprive people of jobs. If you put a quota on fishing, you deprive fisherfolk of their livelihood, of their right to be in some cases, because their fathers were fisherfolk, and their father's fathers, and it's almost like this relationship with the sea is, like, an heirloom. A right passed down from generation to generation until uppity industrialized nations come along and tell you to stop.

UH OH. APPARENTLY IT IS GOING TO BE A SOAPBOX. Where was I? Oh yeah: so where to strike? Who is the enemy? Maybe a couple of the Planeteers turn away from environment as their main cause, sort of. Well, more like Gi says, "The best way to protect the environment is to empower the women, who tend to be direct-resource users in these low-income countries." But Linka says, "No no, the best way to protect the environment is to improve the economy!" [INSERT POST-COLD WAR RESENTMENT HERE, OH LINKA.] And Wheeler is like, "THEY JUST NEED SOME DEMOCRACY."

Or I dunno, maybe Wheeler won't be like that, maybe I should restrain myself from making them anthropomorphizations of their countries. And as for Captain Planet, maybe after vanquishing Looten Plunder et al once and for all, the Planeteers decide to give up their powers once and for all so that Captain Planet can forever walk the earth being an advocate for the environment. And everyone loves him, you know, politics, the media, Hollywood. He's so full of hope, the sheen of the media spin all over him, his white teeth and his blinding smile, up in lights. Captain Planet in a suit, addressing the United Nations. Captain Planet awarding Oscars for best documentary. He's kind of unreal. But that's always been the point of Captain Planet -- he isn't human, he is deus ex machina. And now, on TV and magazine covers, he is less real than ever. What is real is the work that the Planeteers now do, dirt under their fingernails, sweat under the sun, fancy words on a project proposal that make the tribulations of a land and its people so indirect and abstract. Black-tie charity dinners. Well-formatted emails. Identifying the bullet-riddled bodies of community organizers. Having difficulty buying vegetables at the local market because your phrasebook is useless.

And recycling, feh. Recycling is end-of-the-pipe. That's filters on smokestacks. What we need is to change production techniques and lifestyle habits. Kwame is like, "What we need is a revolution." And Gi says, "It's better to work within the power structure." And Linka says, "There's not much you can do within this power structure!" And they're arguing again, but they have to argue these days, it's the only way to get anything done.

And it's so strange, talking to Captain Planet these days. He's changed. Or maybe it's them who changed. The gilt has been scraped off (of what? of who?).

And sometimes Linka and Wheeler have sex, of course. And sometimes Linka writes emails in airport lounges to various contacts while waiting for a plane to take her to DC for a meeting with the World Bank. Sometimes Ma-Ti misses the way things used to be. Sometimes Linka tosses her plastic bottle into the trash and not a recycling bin, and when Wheeler points it out, she laughs. Ma-Ti says, "Don't you miss how things used to be?" and Kwame replies, "You can change the world, my friend, but you cannot change history."

God, is that it? I feel like there's more. If ever I join Yuletide, I'm requesting Captain Planet.

[puckling.livejournal.com]

I AM SO NOSTALGIC FOR MY CHILDHOOD TEEVEE SHOWS RIGHT NOW.

Well, more like Gi says, "The best way to protect the environment is to empower the women, who tend to be direct-resource users in these low-income countries." But Linka says, "No no, the best way to protect the environment is to improve the economy!" [INSERT POST-COLD WAR RESENTMENT HERE, OH LINKA.] And Wheeler is like, "THEY JUST NEED SOME DEMOCRACY."

BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAH. Oh Wheeler. Bless.

Also the contrast between Captain Planet and the people that the Planeteers become is absolutely lovely, and a little heart breaking.

If ever I join Yuletide, I'm requesting Captain Planet.

DUDE. I want you to sign up to WRITE Captain Planet. IT WOULD BE AWESOME.

more ninja!merlin fic coming soon, promise!

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There is exactly one (1) Captain Planet fic (http://yuletidetreasure.org/archive/19/preservation.html) on Yuletide.

Fandoms to request on Yuletide are like an ongoing list in my head, like the list of things I'd name my hypothetical band. This is in addition to Johnny Maxwell, The Godfather, and Gangs of New York. DISPARATE MUCH? I don't necessarily want ships for the Godfather, I just want family tragedy gen. Maaaaaybe I might request The Secret Garden.

HAVE YOU WATCHED THAT EPISODE WHERE CAPTAIN PLANET MEETS HITLER?? HEY REMEMBER THAT ONE WHERE THEY WENT TO NORTHERN IRELAND?? omg lololololol foreverrrrrrrrr