and i'm still mainlining "the good wife"

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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.


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