you down with OPT? / yeah you know me!

[whynot]

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 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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[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

lol I agree with you about Draco, but that's why I find him endearing? Fictional character-wise, I tend to gravitate toward bastards, especially the cowardly sort, the ones who try too hard and don't try enough. :) I'm generally terrible at fluff; I tend to go back and forth from crack to angst without a level between.

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.)

[moment-of-sen.livejournal.com]

Ahhhh. Darn twisty, complicated characters. I tend to be either fluffy-fluff or painful agonising angst with little in between. I also disliked Snape intensely but I bet you liked him for the same reasons I didn't! His resolution wasn't enough to excuse his previous arsiness, IMO.

("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.)

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

COS HE IS A SERVANT AND THEY ARE NOT ahahaha oh privileged boys

"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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teehee, oh boys XD Merlin with his magic, dear me.


"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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"Especially socks," adds Merlin. "Go on, sire, tell him how good I am at washing your socks."

"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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"I am going to be king, you know," Arthur points out, like it's no big deal but it actually is, then glanced over his shoulder. "Possibly sooner than anticipated, too."

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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"Wizard," Draco corrects. "Witches are girls."

"Sorry. I must have gotten confused because you are wearing a dress."

"IT'S CALLED A ROBE."