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

[zempasuchil.livejournal.com]

ASLKFDSLK Merlin/Morgana matchmaker match (<3 that pairing) and Arthur saving himself for Lancelot!!!!!! XDDD I would be so sad if Merlin didn't end in an orgiastic OT# lovefest; I guess I am setting myself up for disappointment, but that is what we have fandom for.

Morgana's secret HAS to get out! somehow! she's been increasingly realizing her power / having her visions get more out of hand throughout the series, so she's got to realize it soon. Hopefully before Uther does. omggggg what suspense! Also I would love to see more Merlin with sketchy morals. As it is he is soooo idealistic, like with Lancelot and stuff, and it is endearing but also a little, Come on now Merlin there are big things at risk here. Agh oh Will I love him and his homespun innocence, chumminess = confiding and such. Camelot needs more of him and Lancelot and Gwen, y/y.

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

I was watching clips of Katie McGrath and she's like, "I can't wait until I'm the villain!" or something to that effect. I wonder if she will actually go seriously evil. I can't quite imagine the show going that way. Hopefully this will just fudge up her morals and make her more interesting, and Gwen tries to save her, and Merlin tries to save her.

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[zempasuchil.livejournal.com]

I hope they milk the Gwen-and-Merlin-try-to-save-Morgana plot for as long as possible. I hope it lasts a season, her slight moral confusion complication and slow decline into the grey area, with people not noticing or trying to pull her out. Merlin and Arthur get enough saving already.

I don't think I could imagine her seriously evil! Like, actually against Merlin and Arthur and Gwen? No way... Against Uther yeah duh for sure; I'm sort of disappointed that the sorcerer's stone ep made her morally incapable of killing Uther because it sort of indicates that she won't be the one to do it. that would be tragically awesome.

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

I want everyone to save each other all the tiiiiiime.

Yeah, her or Arthur ending Uther would be INTENSE. Too intense for primetime?! Hopefully not. It would be so lovely, if by lovely we mean heartbreaking, and most of the time that is exactly what I mean.

[zempasuchil.livejournal.com]

I really hope it's not, like, heart disease that gets him. awww. I want more heartbreaking/lovely than that.

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

"I'M SORRY, SIRE, YOUR FATHER HAS DIED BECAUSE THE NEW COOK WAS NOT AWARE OF THE KING'S FATAL PEANUT ALLERGY."

XDDD

[zempasuchil.livejournal.com]

VILLAIN OF THE WEEK TRIPS HIM ON THE STAIRS

HE ABDICATES AND SKIPS AWAY TO A LOVELY RETIREMENT HOME IN THE COUNTRYSIDE

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

SYPHILISSSSSSSSSS

Arthur and Morgana exchange glances over Uther's body.

"We'll announce it was the pox," Arthur concedes, and Morgana nods furiously.

[zempasuchil.livejournal.com]

EWWWWWWW
where is Gaius in this exchange?
PROBABLY HIDING IN A CORNER ABSOLUTELY MORTIFIED

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

XD

Gaius is more stoic than the kids are. Being court physician during the middle ages, you see a lot of gruesome shit about the human body.

[zempasuchil.livejournal.com]

*shudder* I bet. I only mean he feels very embarrassed about this. Imagine not noticing your beloved king had syphilis...