and i'm still mainlining "the good wife"

[whynot]

H50

- 1x03: I got all nostalgic when the episode opened with the war dance. The rugby coach at my high school was Kiwi, and the rugby team would perform this dance during pep rallies. Aww <3

- 1x05: I felt like it was only a matter of time before something Filipino-related came up on H50, but I'm kinda :-| at it. At first I was like "Filipinos! :DDD" and then I was like "Filipinos as villains and redshirts :((((". And at first I was very >:( at the words of Steve and the ambassador but then I thought, "Well, I guess it's IC that Steve and the ambassador would actually think this... I guess..." and I was kinda heartened when Carlos did his spiel about taking his country back. But it still left a bad taste in my mouth. I mean, we're not supposed to sympathize with Carlos, no? Yes, Steve, tell me moar about how America is keeping American democracy safe in the Philippines. Yes, Mr. Ambassador, tell me more about how all this aid is completely awesome and not at all perpetuating cycles of dependency or steeped in colonial legacy.



NCIS

- And speaking of bad things in my mouth (heh), what... is this episode? That is a genuine question. NCIS may have been trying to stand up for Islam, but I get the impression they're standing up for what they think Islam is and not what it actually is? But then again... what actually is Islam? My experience as a Southeast Asian Muslim obviously differs from that of Middle Eastern Muslims, but this THING about Gibbs allowing the grieving father to kill his son's killer because Islam said it's okay is... uh, seriously? Am I completely out of line to call bullshit here? Whose Islam is this?

It's like the white guy they interrogated who converted to Islam and was frothing at the mouth all, "ALLAH WILL PUNISH YOU!!" I feel like he was subscribing to Fox News Islam, even though he was a believer. Whatever you're defending or putting faith in, can you just... actually know what it is, please?

Like, am I the crazy one here?



Merlin

-- Otherworldly creatures envesseling your body ever since you were a kid in order to prep you for bodysnatching when the time is right? I mean. Maybe the angels should pick up some tips from the sidhe. Start envesseling them early, bit by bit.

-- One thing that the angels seems to have picked up from the sidhe is political tactics. How are we reconciling the sidhe's plan from 1x07 with this vastly different one in 3x06? Aulfric and Sophia just didn't know of the sidhe's plan to marry Arthur when they were sacrificing him? Or does time pass differently in the sidhe homeworld so that when years pass there, it's only the ~blink of an eye here? But then how did Elena...?

-- OMG GWEN'S BRO NEXT WEEK :DDDDD WHO WILL I SHIP HIM WITH I WONDER



Here are the rest of the meme answers for vanitashaze, hiza_chan, murron, metonomia, cherryshadowz, zempasuchil, dayadhvam_triad, and animus_wyrmis.


1. Balthazar (SPN)
2. Edmund Pevensie (Narnia)
3. Susan Pevensie (Narnia)
4. Anna (SPN)
5. Sam Winchester (SPN)
6. Castiel (SPN)
7. Morgana (Merlin)
8. Dean Winchester (SPN)
9. Claire Novak (SPN)
10. Morgause (Merlin)


vanitashaze asks:

Because you gotta have a mutant AU: Edmund, Susan, and Morgana are superpowered. The Mutant Registration Act goes up; how do they react?

Morgana takes it personally and joins up with Magneto. Edmund gets in contact with the X-Men and gets frustrated when they sideline him. Susan pretends she isn't a mutant, except for small things when no one's around, like fixing the toilet.


What did make Balthazar and Claire fall in love?

HEEEEEEEE. My first instinct is that Claire/Balthazar is All About Cas. My second instinct is that Claire pulls an Alex Burgess and traps Balthazar in holy fire for years, convinced that he knows where Castiel/Jimmy is. He becomes kind of like a confessional for her obsession, which she occasionally can't separate from hallucinations or dreams. Claire is seventeen; she is smoking a cigarette and sitting cross-legged by the fire, telling him she is tired of his lies. Claire is twenty-three and stumbles drunk into the room, and begins raging at him for everything that's gone wrong in her life. He rages back. They have both been angry for years. They hate this place and they hate these questions, and they don't know how to leave.

Um. In conclusion, I fail love.


Morgause and Anna decide to steal a baby; why? Also, the baby belongs to Sam. What happens?

Well, Anna has been meaning to cook her special veal parmigiana for a while. Toddler meat will be about as tender as veal.

"It's all just babies anyway," Morgause shrugs. "Oh, and don't forget to invite Sam to the potluck. Poor thing's so worried about his baby that he hasn't eaten for days."


Castiel, Dean, and Claire have two guns and one bullet between them, and the Chekhov's Rule About Guns applies.

Dean yells no, but it's too late. Claire fires the Colt and the bullet hits Cas in his borrowed heart. The body flickers with light -- Claire catches the impression of wings arching from her father's shoulders -- then Castiel cries out, his human voice bending into his true voice, hurting her ears. And then there is one more blinding flash, and the world goes dark. She hears the thud of a body falling to the floor.

"Is he--?" Dean asks. "Are they--?"

"Yes." Her vision is blurring, her eyes are wet, her cheeks are hot. "It's over. He doesn't have to suffer anymore."



hiza_chan asks:

Morgana, Dean, and Susan are caught together in a zombie apocalypse, how do they survive and who doesn't survive?

omfg, look at this power trio. They ALL survive. They all survive by being ridiculously good-looking, and also good with guns and swords and bows. (Dean laughs and makes Renfest jokes at first, but then he runs out of bullets.)


Claire and Anna are stuck together in a broken elevator, how do they pass the time?

Claire: I spy with my little eye something that begins with... W.
Anna: ...Wings?
Claire: Yeah.
Anna: You can see my wings?
Claire: A little bit.


Castiel, Sam, and Edmund. One is an old time god, another is a witch/vampire/supernatural creature of your choice, and the third is an angel. Which one is which and how do they strike up a friendship?

Cas was an old time god once. After he drank that liquor store, he accidentally drunk-time-traveled back into the Paleolithic Age, where some Cro-Magnons mistook him for a deity. Ed is an angel... of Aslan! Sam is S6!Sam. They met on the internet and yelled at each other on theology forums.



murron asks:

There was this one time when Susan and Sam got stuck in the elevator -- what did they do to pass the time? And how did Balthazar get them out?

I think the only real answer to the first question is "succumb to unbridled lust", and the answer to the second is "belatedly, and with much innuendo".


Also, how did Anna and Dean fall in love?

Between 4x10 and 4x21, she often dropped by to give the Winchesters tips on seals and also to hang out when she has time. Sam isn't blind, so sometimes he takes a stroll when Anna visits.

She reminds him of Sam. "Sometimes," she says, "the best thing you can do is remove yourself from the situation." Dean can't agree with that. "Sure everyone has a duty," she says, "but a duty to what?"

"To family," Dean says, and Anna just does that sad smile thing she does.

She lets him buy her ice cream, then kisses him at a crosswalk. One day, a well-meaning old woman approaches them and tells them they look adorable. Caught by surprise, Dean replies that she ain't looking so bad herself.

Anna smiles at the lady, and squeezes Dean's hand. "I think he's more adorable when he's not talking, too."



metonomia asks:

Sam is sharing his conspiracy theories with Edmund, Castiel, and Claire.

"No, I'm telling you," Sam insists. "There is this huge stone structure -- temple thing, whatever -- somewhere under Maine, and if we don't stop it from rising, we are all fucked."

Claire is the only one who believes him.


Balthazar, Susan, and Dean are creatures in a tide pool :D

"Hang tight, guys," Sam says. "Morgause is working on a potion to change you guys back, and Edmund is chasing down the bastard that did this to you as we speak."



cherryshadowz asks:

Dean and Edmund are best friends but Morgause won't allow them to hang out anymore, why?

Because they broke into her laboratory of powerful magics and when she returned to it, there was boomslang skin all over the place and no way to pin the evidence on them. Do they know how difficult it is to procure boomslang skin outside of HP canon?


Balthazar is in love with Sam and decides to propose...how does Balthazar do it?

Both parties were too drunk to remember, but the next thing Sam knows, he's a bored nesthusband taking care of ungrateful fledglings (and three eggs on the way) while Balthazar has menage-a-douzes in Monaco.


Castiel, Anna and Claire get drunk whose house do they destroy and how?

8DDDDDDDDDDDD THEY DESTROY ALL THE HOUSES. Houses are just collateral damage for Claire and Her Angels' Excellent Adventure anyway. Then they go dancing on the surface of Aldebaran until it spins off its axis and causes the collapse of the whole star system.


Morgana and Susan are hit with sex pollen do they drive to their respective love interest at top speed? Is there another way to go them faster (magic/angel travel/etc) or do they just say screw it and do one another?

Do you know how long I have been shipping Morgana/Susan, do you know. Of course they just do one another. Destiny rolls off Susan in waves. It makes Morgana ache how little Susan cares about it, envies her and pities her at the same time.



zempasuchil asks:

Who would Susan fuck, marry, or kill out of Edmund, Dean, and Claire?

She would marry Claire, because it's good to ally oneself with a connection to Heaven, reluctant as the connection is. She would fuck Dean because hello. She would try to kill Edmund, but he mysteriously vanishes the night the assassin is supposed to stab him in his sleep.



dayadhvam_triad asks:

Susan, Morgana, Claire: rock, paper, scissors, who is which?

They all throw rock, every single time. Rock. Rock. Rock. Rock.

Unless you mean what their souls are most like or something? In which case, Susan would be the rock, Morgana is totally scissors, and Claire is paper.


How did Edmund steal Sam's underwear?

It was a hit-and-run, if by 'hit' you mean 'seduce'.



animus_wyrmis asks:

Balthazar, Anna, and Castiel are roommates. How do they feel about Susan sleeping on the couch?

...I would watch this sitcom. Honestly, they'd be fine with it. Susan is neat and quiet and clean and charming. She even gets Cas to emote occasionally. She keeps up a harmless flirtation with Balthazar. She is also good in bed, not that you heard that from Anna. Oh, you did hear that from Anna? Okay then. I was wondering why Susan doesn't sleep on the couch much anymore.


Edmund asks Dean out for coffee. Why does Morgana try to crash their date?

Revenge on Edmund for that time he stole Morgause away on sisterly bonding night to help him solve a diplomatic SNAFU in Calormen. Morgana had the ball gag and paddles ready and everything.


There's only one spot left on the lifeboat and the Titanic is sinking! How do Morgause, Claire, and Sam solve this problem?

Sam says he will sacrifice himself. Morgause and Claire are like, shrug, "Okay."

"...'Okay'? What, you're not gonna protest--?"

"Bye, Sam!"


Most importantly, who stole the cookie from the cookie jar?

You did. 'Fess up, Wyrm, we all know you did it.


[originally posted at http://whynot.dreamwidth.org/38761.html | comments]

Comments

[switchbladesis.livejournal.com]

-- Otherworldly creatures envesseling your body ever since you were a kid in order to prep you for bodysnatching when the time is right? I mean. Maybe the angels should pick up some tips from the sidhe. Start envesseling them early, bit by bit.

Clairestiel is always the answer.

-- OMG GWEN'S BRO NEXT WEEK :DDDDD WHO WILL I SHIP HIM WITH I WONDER

THE CORRECT ANSWER TO THIS IS EVERYONE.

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

...GWEN'S BRO/CLAIRESTIEL??

[switchbladesis.livejournal.com]

. . . I'd totally read it. From the three seconds of footage I've seen, I'm sure they'd get along swimmingly.

Actually, Claire/Gwen's bro works even better. They can commiserate about their father's being killed by overly righteous people with too much power for the sake of the story!

[anjali-organna.livejournal.com]

*jaw drops* Since wheeeen did you watch NCIS? And how did I not know this??

Merls: Aha trying to find logic in this show, I see? XD I am shipping Elyan with, um, everyone? Except Gwen? But especially Lancelot hehe "That's not how your sister does it" hehehe ohgodi'mtwelve.

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

I actually don't watch NCIS, but I caught a marathon last weekend when I was at CT and this particular episode gave me a major o____O. So I had to share my feelings. But usually it's the show other people watch while I'm doing something else in the same room. Ziva is the best thing about it.

I thought I would be shipping Gawain with everyone too, but maybe I'm just underwhelmed by how he is pretty much just Sassy Lancelot. I wonder if Elyan will have a real personality!

[anjali-organna.livejournal.com]

Ah okay. I was going to say, it doesn't seem like a show you'd especially be into.

Haha yes and no. They were given the exact same plot, but Lancelot fell in love with Gwen and is too noble to exist and Gawain...possibly fell in love with Merlin? Himself? The teeniest flower in the world? IDK. But I know what you mean, and I really hope Elyan is not like that, either. Would be nice to find a middle ground between Noblest Commoner Ever and Han Solo.

[vanitashaze.livejournal.com]

MORGANA/SUSAN FTW. Also, that fic about Claire and Balthazar? Needs to be written.

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

I have Morgana/Susan ficbits posted around in various comments somewhere. I think these ladies would be so interesting together.

AND OH GOD CLAIRE AND BALTHAZAR. The crazy quiet conversations they have; it's like riddling with a sphinx, or it starts that way. And she gets older but he stays the same. She asks him what Castiel is like. "Insufferable," Balthazar replies, but it doesn't change the expression on her face.

[dayadhvam-triad.livejournal.com]

I haven't really been feeling the Merlin vibe since this season began, but I am quite looking forward to Gwen's brother! He looks pretty awesome. :D

I like this: Anna and Morgause, starring in a production of "A Modest Proposal." EXCELLENT.

haha yes, I meant what their souls are like. Claire as paper, going up in angel-lit fire, mwahahaha. Morgana IS scissors. :D

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

Nor have I, honestly. I used to be nuts over Merlin, but I think now I'm too invested in SPN to be as nuts over Merlin anymore? I look forward to the new characters they bring in, and I am all "OOOOOH" over ~twists, but I don't have the fic mojo for it currently.

ANGEL-LIT FIRE, YES. Also, Castiel writes the will of God all over her. Well, the will of someone, at least... She will be dealing with erasures and rewrites her whole life. Also, [requisite origami metaphor goes here.]

[dayadhvam-triad.livejournal.com]

Must say, I liked digging around Merlin fandom more than Merlin canon--I watched most of S1 but kept up with S2 much more sporadically. Never had the fic mojo for it myself, but I read a lot of fic. Merlin/Arthur doesn't really ping me anymore though, I'm more interested in Uther/Morgana. 8D

ohhh that is pretty to imagine. Shall she be folded into a crane, one of a thousand to grant wishes? Or a box, to hold secrets? Or a fortune-teller, to tell people their fates that they write upon her themselves?

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

Yeah! Being part of fandom has completely changed how I consume media. idk, canon has become mere ingredients. When I'm watching my shows, it's like I'm shopping and planning what I'm going to cook for dinner later. Merlin/Arthur bores me too. I used to love it, but then by the time the unicorn episode came around, I was glutted out. Then I moved on to Merlin/Morgana and Merlin/Will, Arthur/Gwen, Arthur/Morgana. Morgana/Morgause. Everyone/everyone. I also have a fondness for Mordred/Morgana, which totally explains my fondness for Castiel/Claire.

Plus, Merlin:Will :: Castiel:Novaks. y/n?

OMGGG CASTIEL AND THE THOUSAND PAPER CLAIRES DJSKALDJKSLA. OMG A FORTUNE TELLER. Or will she be cut and trimmed at the corners to make the final folds fit?!

[ariadnes-string.livejournal.com]

I love the comparison of having a fairy inside you (dirty!) and having an angel. Because the fairy never seemed to "fit"--poor Elena was all clumsy and dyspeptic and scruffy--whereas angels on SPN tend to make you all glowy and fluffy (in a good way). I'd love to see more of Jimmy wanting to go one way, and Castiel another--

And re: H50, I was mostly all "why go there, Show? why?"--you know it's going to make us all uncomfortable, poke holes in the fantasy. Why not stick with the cliches of absolute evil, like people traffickers, etc.?

Still, the pacman thing was so fabulous everything else is almost forgiven :)

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

Angels on SPN seem to consume you entire. They *make* it fit. I would love to see more of Jimmy and Cas fighting over the remote, yes! I have seen a few prompts on the sharp-teeth horror meme that have requested for this, actually. And maybe you've read gabby-silang's "Skin & Bones"? :)

Yeah I'm kind of torn between "yay acknowledgment of things!" and "boo perpetuation of the colonial patriarchy :(". idk, I would actually love a complex villain, but I know H50 is the wrong place to be wanting that. Yes, Carlos is a murderer and he killed a kid and collaborates with rape enablers, and that is all terrible. But I'm also like... I'm not quite decided whether my sympathy for his nationalism is intended by the show or is just my own projection.

TRIPLE BANANA, BITCH XDDD

[ariadnes-string.livejournal.com]

I'll have to look for gabby_silang's fic! I'm always way behind with my Cas reading--

I know what you mean--Carlos did seem slightly more complex than an evil warlord from central casting--and Kyle Secor and his family had a slightly creepy edge--so it was hard to know what to think.

I had the same thing about the K&R guy (I've forgotten his name). Clearly, we were supposed to think K&R guys=bad; Governor's Task Force with their questionable methods=good. But....

If I had the wherewithal to write a long, complex fic, I'd have Steve and Danny going undercover in a private sector K&R outfit (idk, to fight corruption, or something), and learning that things are more complex than they seem--possibly in some unstable, post-colonial setting....

But my brain can't really process more than pacman jokes atm....

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

and Kyle Secor and his family had a slightly creepy edge
Maybe that comes hand in hand with being a politician? ;)

I dunno if we're supposed to find what Steve and Danny do any better than the K&R guy, but I think we're supposed to find them cooler because they can get away with it. But sometimes TV is like coolness=morality, so idk. Or maybe it's TV fans who are like coolness=morality.

[lexhibition.livejournal.com]

Balthazar, Anna, and Castiel are roommates.

The best sitcom everr. Especially if it's set in the ocean. Susan can stay on a blow up couch.

ALSO CLAIRE/BALTHAZAR! Or Claire & Balthazar, whatever. Both of them wish he could be used as bait for Castiel. "You're just like him," he tells her. Birds trying to get back into their cages. The line about jumping on the bed doesn't go down any better with her, but he thinks maybe she was intrigued by the cocaine.

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

Whenever I read that sentence, I am seized with the desire to write shameless fluff of roommate shenanigans. Cas never does the dishes, Anna plays her music too loud, and Balthazar is always late with rent! It all ends HAPPILY. I also like the idea of Susan on a blow-up couch floating in the middle of the ocean, like, reading a book.

CLAIRE/BALTHAZAR I am hungry for it now. She makes him tell her stories about Castiel. She's pretty sure some of it is just calculated lies, but she finds herself not caring. She notices the change in timbre when Balthazar talks about him. She asks about the vessels Castiel has had before, and Balthazar laughs.

[lexhibition.livejournal.com]

Angels arguing over the contents of their fridge (that was totally Balthazar's mayonnaise, Anna!) might just be my new favourite daydream.

Also what I want now is Balthazar convincing Claire that the best way to get Castiel's attention would be to become a business woman. She doesn't have the ease of teleportation, but it turns out there's a thriving local market for divine weaponry. Claire holds a soul in her hands for the first time and Balthazar says "Give it to me." Claire just rolls her eyes.

[animus-wyrmis.livejournal.com]

Is this the NCIS episode where they have to do like an MRI instead of an autopsy and it sort of reads like "Look how tolerant Ducky is?" Because that ep also made me :/. Also I am not sure Gibbs has ever let anyone else kill their son's murderer...? (although it is kind IC for him I guess)

Maybe the Sidhe had like multiple plans going...?

EVERYONE. SHIP WITH EVERYONE. OR LET HIM JOIN THE GAWAIN/LANCE DUO speaking of have you read this fic (http://kaydeefalls.livejournal.com/618140.html) because it is ALL I WANT.

I WANT CLAIRE AND ANNA SO BAD. LIKE WHAT IF ANNA WAS HER BABYSITTER OR SOMETHING.

Destiny rolls off Susan in waves. It makes Morgana ache how little Susan cares about it, envies her and pities her at the same time.
omfg tell me more. (also have I heard this line before?)

I WOULD WATCH THIS SITCOM TOO. SUSAN WOULD BE THE SENSIBLE ONE WHO CALLS THE SUPER WHEN LIKE THE HEAT STOPS WORKING. ALSO SHE MIGHT FIX THE SINK.

women and children first, sam!

LOOK IT WAS STILL WARM I NEEDED TO EAT IT

[animus-wyrmis.livejournal.com]

I would watch that spin-off SO DAMN FAST.

Susan would be the best roommate ever! But yeah, she would sensibly be like "I shall call the plumber!"

NOT AN EXCUSE! WAS HUNGRY!

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's the exact NCIS episode. Meh, NCIS. They should just give Ziva her own spin-off and be done with it.

Someone else was reccing that fic! I'll put it on the ol' to-read.

You probably heard that line before. If I didn't use it in a real fic, then I think I definitely used it in commentfic. Also, these are sentiments and relationships I've become rather fond of, the mix of envy and pity.

LOL SUSAN DOES NOT FIX SINKS, she finds other people who will fix the sink for her. :))))

EXCUSES, EXCUSES.

[murron.livejournal.com]

Hee. Can I just say: Lucky Susan!! :D

"I think he's more adorable when he's not talking, too."
::hearts you:: FRIGGING GLORIOUS!!

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

IKR? Everyone wants her because Susan Pevensie is the mothereffing queeeeeen of the universe. Susan <333

:DDD