AND THEN SETH GREEN IN FLANNEL GUEST STARRED ON X-FILES

[whynot]

The end of the paid account was like Y2K or something. I was all OH NO OH NO, but in the end all I lost was icon space and poll-making abilities. I didn't even lose my mood theme! So, okay. Also: GIP! If I were still doing the adjacent icons meme, I would be writing a drabble about Susan Pevensie and Bender hanging out.

Speaking of memes, lovestories gave me 5 things to talk about:

erasure poetry
This is all zempasuchil, actually. She took a whole course about it, and was posting links to Humument.com and other examples, posted her own erasures, and I became intrigued. Erasures appeal to my love of stories within stories. I suggested we erase each other's fics, and to my delight she said yea. Speaking of which, have ya'll already signed up for erasureathon?

Merlin/Will
Ah, Will: fandom's buttmonkey. Here's the thing. He is obviously a big part of Merlin's origins story, and he and Merlin obviously adored each other and perhaps canoodled in the pastures. I like his realistic reaction to certain doom (run awaaaaay) -- but he does come back to fight in the end, guys -- and I like his utter normalcy. Also, he's the only other person except Hunith who knew about the magic! Merlin may not end with Will by his side, but he begins with Will by his side, and this is just as valid as Merlin and Arthur's superspecial destiny. I said most of what I had to say about Will in Halcyon Days, though I suspect there may at some point be an AU where Will survives and follows the gang back to Camelot, then this happens. Have a Merlin/Will vid. I've recced it before but god, it gets me every time.

insanely glorious Narnia AUs
<3! AUs are insanely glorious fun! Oh, the 'what if?' game. These days I tend to blither on about Merlin AUs more, excepting this one I'm on with marycontraire wherein Merlin and Arthur are FBI agents and the Pevensies are the mafia, and Arthur and Edmund have secret meetings where Arthur tries to wrest information out of Edmund about Morgana's kidnapping. Thing is, I never used to like AUs, but then you start asking questions like WHAT IF ARTHUR WAS A DINOSAUR and how can you turn away?

Peter/Susan
What have I said about them that I haven't before. They are the inappropriate OTP of my heeeaaarrrrt. I think I've Peter/Susaned myself out, in that although I still ship them, I tend to write around them more now instead of directly addressing the issue. In the rambling meme, I talked about Peter/Susan.

Indonesian shadow puppets
I never got around to writing the drabble about Edmund and the shadow puppets, but it would involve comparisons to Plato's cave, and how the shadows cast on the cave wall are like the puppets' shadows on the screen. The 'real' thing may be the leather puppets and the human voices and hands that animate them, but what the audience is meant to see are their shadows. And the brighter the light, the sharper the shadows, and that's where the story lies. So, uh. I guess that's what it means to Edmund.



Here are a couple of things that have improved my Monday. First, a most gracious lady remixed me and zempasuchil's Narnia geek-off, Sea Change, for remixredux09. It is so lovely, please read it: into something rich and strange (the tempus aeternum backbeat). Awesome #1: there is more Lucy. Awesome #2: "Edmund has spent hours puzzling over black holes and maths and the curious turn of gravity trying to find a way to say, in the language of these scientific men, what he himself knows with an utter intimacy." <3 "Einstein's Dream" is now on my to-read list.

Second, my Merlin/Monty Python fusion, Only a Model, has been nominated for excalibur_award under Best Crack Fic, Best Humor Fic, and Best Crossover Fic. \o/! Thanks, nominator! If any of ya'll are inclined to agree with this nomination, uh, vote for me? I promise to reform the health care system!

Comments

[katakokk.livejournal.com]

AAAH! PETER/SUSAN! *cowers* They've kind of taken over my brain, and while I adore them and all their inappropriateness, I tried writing Lucy-centric (which I eventually fixed into the only things that echo, but I kept the Peter/Susan version because I couldn't bear to scrap it).

Also, if this meme works in the "comment and I'll give you ____ to post about" way, I COMMENT FOR IT. *nods*

Speaking of which, have ya'll already signed up for erasureathon?

(1) I HAVE TO GO SIGN UP.
(2) You say y'all! I don't feel so alone anymore! I went to camp and everyone thought I was weird because I say "y'all". 8D

[allothi.livejournal.com]

Indonesian shadow puppets

*image searches* Hey, wow! I'm mainly only a little familiar with the 19th century French shadow theatre (chat noir and all that) and a wee bit with the Chinese, mostly as source for the French; now I've got that door-opening feeling. I love that feeling! (Though I suppose that's why I rarely finish a thing, because I'm always racing about turning doorknobs.)

Can I give you five things? Or have you expired?

I think I'm slightly confused by excalibur_award; maybe I need to look at it properly. But why do all these things seem to have so many categories?

[animus-wyrmis.livejournal.com]

Dude, is this one of those memes where if I comment you'll give me five things? :)

OMG THAT REMIX OF YOUR FIC, IT IS BEAUTIFUL.

I dunno about Will. I really like him as a character, and I really wonder about him and his motivations--I wish fandom went into him more. Is it just that Will/Merlin and Arthur/Merlin are having ship wars? ::clueless about this sort of thing::

[zempasuchil.livejournal.com]

it excites me that I am in your post twice! about as much as that remix and erasures excite me!!! oh boy lass, I am glad to be back home, I missed spending hours on lj doing fandom every day.

HOW DID I MISS YOUR MERLIN/MONTY PYTHON FUSION??? ahahahahahahahahaha omg it slays meeee - esp. the combo bring out your dead / parrot scene! POOR WILL. POOR MERLIN. POOR HUNITH FOR PUTTING UP WITH THEM. And Gaius as Sir Bedivere!!! And the dragon must have been Tim the Enchanter.

congratulations on your nomination! I think that that thing should not have sooooo many categories. so like someone nominated Rewriting the Old Language for four categories and it's OT4, hence, it is the only thing nominated for about half of those categories. I don't know what that means. It means more people should write OT4 AUs and whatever qualifies as "OT4 pre-ship fic." (Wait, aren't all fics featuring our OT4 pre-ship? right?)

[marycontraire.livejournal.com]

Okay, so I'm staying with my uncle right now, and it's 1:30 and a gaggle of energetic and clingy cousins will be barging in here at exactly 10:00 to wake me up and force me to bond with them/supervise them in the pool (OMG POOL!) while their parents are out.

So I am going to bed.

BUT! While they are doing their requisite half hour of summer homework tomorrow, I WILL BE COMMENTFICCING THIS AU. (I wasn't sure what the verb form of that was.) Consigliere Edmund is just too hot to pass up.

[puckling.livejournal.com]

I think that it's your fault that I just took Inkheart out from the library. If it turns out bad I want my 2 hours back. :P

[be-themoon.livejournal.com]

*comments for meme*

I saw that! The remixredux. In fact, I've been meaning to comment ever since the reveal went up and haven't.

I... probably shoudl. Just feeling a bit overwhelmed and so very behind.