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If you know of anywhere in New York where I can put my social science quantitative skills to work, you let me know omg. I need to find an opportunity that lets me volunteer/intern/work for 20+ hours a week for my OPT (Optional Practical Training, but the 'Optional' part is right now kind of a lie). Let me run a regression analysis on your data, baby. YOU KNOW YOU WANT IT. Let's you and I get serially correlated all night long!
...LOL J/K IT'S ACTUALLY TERRIBLE TO BE SERIALLY CORRELATED. Oh god. To prevent my head exploding from inoperable data sets, a post of Things:
* I'm sure by now everyone has seen the 'Merlin' Children in Need 2009 special. It's like someone sent them crackfic, saying, "Can you film this pretty please???" and they were like, "Oh what the hell, sure why not!!" Also, it is weirdly similar to that commentfic that![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
katakokk and I wrote that one time. ETA2: ZOMG AU!Pudsey!Camelot Meme
*animus_wyrmis, remember the 'Merlin' extras meme we were talking about, with the servants and the guards etc? The Fleet is on top of that shit.
* An interesting article about the hazards of transitioning from fanfic to original fiction. Well, it's sort of a review of Cassandra Claire's 'Mortal Instruments' books, which I've never read, but it makes some salient points that give one food for thought. "Essentially City of Bones reads like fanfic - and I don't mean that as kneejerk indicator of poor quality, I mean that it reads like something constructed for a different purpose, functioning on a different ruleset. Leaving aside any criticisms of the actual style, this scene would probably work - for me - if I read it as fanfic."
* 'Merlin'-related things from my GReader that make me go 'fjlksdfj!': Angel and Bradley!! and KATIE AND ASA!!! <3333
* Wait wait wait. Katie McGrath AND Emilia Fox are both on 'The Queen'?! So I guess this is on my to-watch list now.
I suspect that's all I have to say for now. So, meme time! Respond to this post with a completely made-up memory of you and me.
ETA: God help me, I think I'm addicted to Fuck Yeah Merlin. All these pictures deserve fic: 1) MOTHERFUCKING PENDRAGONS; 2) What comes next in the story of their lives? Vaguely Edward Hopper-ish, no?; 3) Mordred is still crushing on Morgana and no one cares; 3) Uther passes on the sword; 4) Uther and the Lady Catrina take a breather from terrorizing the citizenry; 5) HOLY SHIT IT'S A MAP OF CAMELOT AND SURROUNDING REGIONS; 6) Arthur gets tetchy when he doesn't get his candy bar; 7) To no one's surprise, Merlin is a Death Cab fan; 8) Family photo!!; 9) Hanging with the guys!! <3333; and 10) I don't even know where to begin with this one.
...LOL J/K IT'S ACTUALLY TERRIBLE TO BE SERIALLY CORRELATED. Oh god. To prevent my head exploding from inoperable data sets, a post of Things:
* I'm sure by now everyone has seen the 'Merlin' Children in Need 2009 special. It's like someone sent them crackfic, saying, "Can you film this pretty please???" and they were like, "Oh what the hell, sure why not!!" Also, it is weirdly similar to that commentfic that
katakokk and I wrote that one time. ETA2: ZOMG AU!Pudsey!Camelot Meme*
animus_wyrmis, remember the 'Merlin' extras meme we were talking about, with the servants and the guards etc? The Fleet is on top of that shit.* An interesting article about the hazards of transitioning from fanfic to original fiction. Well, it's sort of a review of Cassandra Claire's 'Mortal Instruments' books, which I've never read, but it makes some salient points that give one food for thought. "Essentially City of Bones reads like fanfic - and I don't mean that as kneejerk indicator of poor quality, I mean that it reads like something constructed for a different purpose, functioning on a different ruleset. Leaving aside any criticisms of the actual style, this scene would probably work - for me - if I read it as fanfic."
* 'Merlin'-related things from my GReader that make me go 'fjlksdfj!': Angel and Bradley!! and KATIE AND ASA!!! <3333
* Wait wait wait. Katie McGrath AND Emilia Fox are both on 'The Queen'?! So I guess this is on my to-watch list now.
I suspect that's all I have to say for now. So, meme time! Respond to this post with a completely made-up memory of you and me.
ETA: God help me, I think I'm addicted to Fuck Yeah Merlin. All these pictures deserve fic: 1) MOTHERFUCKING PENDRAGONS; 2) What comes next in the story of their lives? Vaguely Edward Hopper-ish, no?; 3) Mordred is still crushing on Morgana and no one cares; 3) Uther passes on the sword; 4) Uther and the Lady Catrina take a breather from terrorizing the citizenry; 5) HOLY SHIT IT'S A MAP OF CAMELOT AND SURROUNDING REGIONS; 6) Arthur gets tetchy when he doesn't get his candy bar; 7) To no one's surprise, Merlin is a Death Cab fan; 8) Family photo!!; 9) Hanging with the guys!! <3333; and 10) I don't even know where to begin with this one.
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*ahem*
Thank you for providing me with time wasting links as I am currently doing nothing productive.
THIS MEME IS LAZY, BTW. YOU DON'T EVEN DO ANYTHING?
Remember that time we kidnapped the producers of Merlin trying to convince them to make a spinoff called "AVALON" with all the deceased characters having wacky after death hijinx?
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THIS MEME IS LAZY, BTW.
THE BEST KIND OF MEME.
The kidnapping probably would have gone better if our getaway van hadn't gotten lost. Good call on the guard costumes though! Those fake lances were wonderfully handy.
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TBH I wasn't that interested in Cassie Claire's fanfic, so I had zero interest in reading her published stuff, especially as I heard there were a couple of scenes kinda re-written from the Draco Trilogy.
Asa looks like a tiny Elijah Wood in that photo. He's a hobbit in training, I swear. It's the eyes...
Remember the time we sang backup for Simon and Garfunkle? What a hoot!
Oh, btw, were you going to write any more?
Also, Conchords; whoop whoop!
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LOL HE DOES. Startlingly blue eyes! Asa would make a great hobbit.
THAT WAS THE BEST. Though it was kind of creepy how Art kept on saying, "You can touch my 'fro, ladies, it's cool. I know you want to." I bet Paul touched it all the time though.
I will write more! At some point. Sorry, I'm just so done in trying to get as much work finished before I leave for Thanksgiving break on Tuesday. If I don't have anything by then, I'll write a segment on the bus. WHICH HAS WIRELESS ACCESS. *LOVES THE BOLTBUS*
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How could we resist the lure of the ginger 'fro? I can only imagine Garfunkle speaking in Jemaine's voice now tho.
it's cool, I was just wonderin =) but OMG, wireless on a BUS, how is it I've never heard of this before O.O
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Man, I really loved our backup singers phase. Why did we quit?! Screw this thesis, let's go sing backup for Rihanna.
I mean feel free to write more if it moves you, we don't have to follow a strict you-me-you-me order :)
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Oh hell yeah! Who needs deadlines and stuff anyway when we can wear skimpy clothing and dance on a stage?
Woooah, free-form, no rules! but not anything goes! That blows my mind, man. I just might.
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YES FREEDOM VIA SINGING AND DANCING AND COMMENTFIC \o/
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*does the can-can across the journal* Freeeeedoooooooom!
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SLAP FIGHT YES. Uther and Lucius need to go on Celebrity Deathmatch right the hell now! And Arthur and Draco can sort of stand to the side feeling embarrassed for their respective fathers.
("It's kind of hard to stop him once he gets like this," Draco remarks as Lucius casts a a leg locker curse on Uther.
"I know what you mean," sighs Arthur.)
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("GUARDS! GUARDS!" Uther shrieks, throwing the nearest thing at hand -a fruitbowl- at Lucius' head and catching him on the ear.
"D'ya wanna go sit on the wall and heckle my servant while he mucks out the stable?" Arthur asks, and Draco shrugs, so they wander off to make fun of Merlin cos he's a servant and they're not.)
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"Where I come from," Draco says, "we have house elves that do these things."
"I hope they're more efficient than he is," Arthur says, loud enough so Merlin can hear.
"The elves have got magic, is the thing," says Draco, "so they're generally more efficient than muggles."
In the background, Merlin makes a strangled noise that suspiciously sounds like a laugh.
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"Still, my one is pretty loyal, are your house elves very loyal?" Arthur asks, throwing a clod of dirt at Merlin to keep him on his toes.
"Oh yes, well they have to be. We tell them to be and they have to obey." Draco shrugs. "Its a pain having to do our own laundry though. If we give them clothes it frees them."
"Well if there's one thing Merlin's good at, it's washing my clothes," says Arthur smugly, pleased to get one up.
Above them, Uther and Lucius tumble through a window, Uther yanking on Lucius's hair which Lucius tries to jab him in the eye with his wand.
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"Shush, you," says Arthur.
Behind them, there is an explosion of clucking and feathers as the fight rolls through the chicken coop.
"You're not so bad for a muggle," Draco says airily to Arthur, "and if you ever tell my father I said that, I'll have your head."
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Draco pulls a face as Lucius tackles Uther and starts trying to strangle him, while Uther punches him in the ear.
Merlin pokes Arther in the side and nods towards Draco. Arthur rolls his eyes at Merlin. "And you're not so bad for a witch," he says, Merlin giving him approving nods.
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"Sorry. I must have gotten confused because you are wearing a dress."
"IT'S CALLED A ROBE."
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Oh hey, remember that thing with the guy in the place? Those were some wacky, wacky times, man.
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For serious. Now whenever I hear a Lionel Richie song, I sigh fondly and think of you.
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I had, in fact, not seen the Children in Need special. But now I have! And it is exactly like someone's crack!fic that they filmed! I especially loved the bit about the hair product. Because if Katie McGrath's hair Just Looks Like That, I will actually have to kill myself.
BRB, wasting time on Fuck Yeah Merlin.
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FUCK YEAH MERLIN IS ABSOLUTE MAGIC
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LEONCRAIG IS EXCELLENT, BUT SIR FARMER-BOY IS EVEN MORE ADORABLE OMG. FLAIL FLAIL FLAIL NOW I HAVE TO GO TO WORK!!! NOOOOOES!CAPSLOCK = CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOL!
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SIR FARMER-BOY IS SO HAPPY-LOOKING AS THEY ARE ALL AND I BET HE IS ALL AWKWARD AND WONDERFULLY BUMBLING WHEN CRAIG ASKS HIM QUESTIONS ABOUT HIS KNIGHTLY TRAINING
"I FAVOR THE LANCE. COS, UH. COS IT'S BIG. YEAH."
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AND OMG PRETTY LINKS. *runs off*
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Ugh, how is the Merlin cast so adorable, Lass? Sometimes I feel like they must have been something dreamed up by fandom's collective subconscious, like Misha Collins.
OKAY, REMEMBER THAT TIME WE TURNED INTO DINOSAURS? CRAZY. True story, there are like 50 million dinosaurs statues scattered around Pittsburgh because evidently Andrew Carnegie used to go to excavations and just, like, get the bones shipped back to Pittsburgh without actually consulting anyone, and then compensate the scientists/whatever afterwards, and apparently this is something that we are proud of, as a city? I guess people weren't as litigious in the first half of the 20th century or something. I have no idea how/why this could have been considered appropriate behavior. There's even a statue of Mr. Rogers as a T-Rex, if, uh, you're familiar with that program, and it's holding these kittens or something. A-are they trying to suggest that Mr. Rogers ate kittens? It's horrifying. And it's at this preschool thing, but sort of situated behind/between a lot of shrubbery, so god forbid you walk past it when you're tired/drunk, it's fucking scary. I'm not entirely sure why I'm telling you this story, I'm kind of tired.
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ahahaha but in a way they are, aren't they? I feel like the producers MUST know what they're doing when they stage the publicity sometimes, because they know how fandom minds work and how we'd react to it? Or am I giving these dudes too much credit?
AHAHAHA I LOVED THAT TIME WE WERE DINOSAURS. WHO ISN'T FAMILIAR WITH MR ROGERS. DO YOU REMEMBER THE TIME WHEN WE WERE DINOSAURS AND ATE MR ROGERS (AND THEN HIS KITTENS). That's how he died, everything else was a cover-up conspiracy.
SO RELEVANT
THEY HAVE NO IDEA
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Also, ooh, that is very interesting about fanfic vs original. I've thought about it before, I guess with fic? But in terms of how sometimes you can just say "And then this couple was together" because someone else has done the work of convincing the reader, and sometimes you have to go into it. Hm. OTOH there are lots of fic writers who write awesome OCs so shouldn't we be better at original characterizations?
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