Cordazar Calvin Broadus would like you to get yours before his.

[whynot]

There are some things you should check out.

1. FIC: Fornaldarsögur Norðurlanda by alice_pike. Narnia, Golden Age, Edmund/Lucy, PG13. BIOMEFIC. Which, okay, isn't a real term, but you know how 'and sometimes you hear the silence speak' is like, "Deserts!!" and 'The Light of a Different Sun' is all, "The tropics!" This fic is like, "THE ARCTIC," and it is so. Fucking. Incredible. You guys. Edmund and Lucy are Arctic explorers, just read it.

2. THINGATHON: All hail the Gwen/Morgana Thingathon (Week 1)! Before you can post a prompt, you must answer a prompt, and it doesn't have to be fic. It can be icons! It can be fanart! Whatever!

3. SNOOP DOGG

4. CHEESE, EVERYTHING'S BETTER WITH

5. RAMADHAN: starts in like two weeks, and eid_ka_chand (and maybe eid_fic?) needs YOU to make some fic/meta/picspam/whatever about Muslim characters. I'm, uh, lapsed, but since Islam has informed who I am and is a part of my family and culture, I'll be playing in that sandbox when the time comes 'cos -- and I'm gonna quote dhobikikutti here -- "[c]elebrating Eid is personal for me because it is a festival I share with friends and relatives, but wanting to see more characters like them in fandom is political. Because I think that fiction has enormous possibilities for inciting change in how we define 'normal', and whom we learn to love and care for despite differences in culture."

The call to action! The list of Muslim characters! Set this on percolate, guys.

...Okay, so I'm scrolling down that list of Muslim characters and, under 'TV Shows', I SEE: THE ADVENTURES OF SINBAD. omg. WHO REMEMBERS THIS SHOW.

Quoth TV Tropes, "The story followed the adventures of a caucasian Sinbad, his older brother Doubar, Firouz the alchemist, the mute Rongar, and Celtic sorceress Maeve."


Where to begin.

So anyway, I totally read Adventures of Sinbad fic and shipped Sinbad/Maeve. MY DARK PAST.


IN OTHER NEWS. The "Will lives!" Merlin AU is bugging me to pay attention to it. Ask me questions about it or give me prompts or something, because I want to flesh it out some. THE STORY SO FAR: he returns with them to Camelot. Also, ask me questions/give me prompts about Gaius? Because he's been niggling too.

Comments

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No, no, I get what you're saying. I tend to think he's more benign in non-magical medicine. As for the other stuff, I have a feeling Gaius almost justifies it to himself as saying, "I'm only acting sketchily because Uther acted sketchily. He started it, and I'm just picking up the pieces." Maybe Gaius has control issues. Like, if he lets Morgana know, who knows WHAT she'll do, he thinks. Endangering herself and possibly implicating himself. Also it's Uther who asked Gaius to drug Arthur, and how do you say no to your king? Especially a violently punitive one, who has been known to chain up his own foster daughter in the dungeons. Gaius maybe recognizes that he's only passing the buck here, but maybe this way everyone will stay alive. Maybe it's a habit he picked up from the days of the purge, doing what you need to do and shirking responsibility. No one ever did anything, during the purges, and yet things got done and people got arrested anyway. I WONDER IF Gaius, at the root of it, is ultimately just protecting everyone from Uther, even Uther -- another habit developed during the purges. As much as Gaius has come to care for the old king, he still sees what a nutjob the guy can be.

In non-magical medicine, I do imagine he takes some liberties. Like maybe someone was going to lose an arm, but then she has children to take care of, so Gaius magics it better. But he tries not to be extremely successful, because that might attract suspicion? He goes for 'very competent'.