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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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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