I'm not sure how exactly I survived this week, BUT I DID. WHICH IS AWESOME. Two essays! DONE! THREE HOURS OF SLEEP COUNTERED BY AN UNINTERRUPTED FOURTEEN! YES.

Okay, so, on my way out, because The Dodos are in town and I have tickets and while I know--I KNOW--roadtrip and WOOING and everything, but. Y'know. THE DODOS. Men! FABLES! THEIR SONGS ARE M/A FICS WAITING TO HAPPEN, so all in all, I'm still keeping the shippy spirit alive. Also, dragging zarathuse with me. ALSO, having dinner at the King Arthur's. SO. DON'T LOOK AT ME LIKE THAT. This is not bailing out. THIS IS GIVING THE NIGHT ANOTHER DEGREE OF AWESOME, OKAY.

...But I'm also expecting you to keep me updated. ALL THE TIME. IN THIS POST. So reply with links to the good stuff, bbs. Posts, reviews, squeefests, whatever. JUST LINK ME TO IT, so I can come back and gatecrash all the parties once they're over :D

In exchange I'll give you fic.

(ALSO RAS YOU ARE FIRED FOR NOT KNOWING. SAME GOES TO MIA. I talked to you about it MOMENTS before I posted. MOMENTS! DO YOU NOT REMEMBER THE WHINE! THE TEARS! HOW COULD YOU NOT HAVE KNOWN! So yes. Fired. I mean, come on. IT HAD HYPHENS. Who else uses more hyphens than commas? Who? ...FIRED. But rehired, because I love yous. DAMMIT.)

At Our Best When It's From the Hips | M/A | NC17 | ~13K | Merlin goes to a brothel to get rid of that virginity thing and runs into Arthur. From there on, it's all madness. Originally posted here at kinkme_merlin. Don't know why it's so long, it's all porn and angst, but there you go. WRITTEN FOR ras_elased, WITH ALL MY PORNY LOVE ♥

I would really, really like to explain the last couple of weeks, but I CAN'T. I mean, not as in, 'if I tell you I'll have to kill you!/the N key on my keyboard is broken and my story is about bananas!', more like, 'THERE IS NO POSSIBLE WAY OF PUTTING THIS INTO WORDS.'

Not in a bad way. OR A GOOD WAY. Just genuinely strange and alarming. If I had any way to use twitter, it'd look something like this:

@xDerryEre87x

Exams over!
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BDAY! This is a nice restaurant. It's called King Arthur's. We're inside King Arthur. 'S. They serve Bradley tea.
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#bdaynight Why am I not this drunk enough to misspell this? What is happening? ARE WE AT A GAY BAR? WHO ORDERED THE FRIES?
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Did not finish hw. Am going to say something in class and hope no one will notice all I ever did for this was read sparknotes summaries.
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#class PEOPLE NOTICED. People ON THE STREET noticed. PEOPLE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WORLD NOTICED. LOL.
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Will I go lasergaming? ABSOLUTELY I WILL GO LASERGAMING.
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@LastTrainHome: nooooooooooooo :O
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Waiting seven hours for first train back. This city is strange. There are people dressed as dinosaurs.
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Some Irish dudes are dragging a guy around by his ankles. Using their belts. Singing. Are there laws against this? Why?
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UHM. http://i33.tinypic.com/20qi8hi.gif
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A mouse in a bagel shop! IN A BAGEL SHOP!
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@Mother: once again, for the love of all that is holy, i am NOT joining a jewish dating site. NOT.
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@Bed: NO I HAVE NOT BEEN SLEEPING ON SOMEONE ELSE. I'm just very busy. And my phone as off. IT WAS A THIN MATTRESS OKAY IT MEANT NOTHING TO ME~
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Talk Solstice to me! Or, in other words, SOMEONE PLEASE SCARE ME INTO WRITING MORE. I know some people on my flist are already done (you impossible little creatures D:), but I am almost certain there are still a few around who are flailing around every time they open their doc. And weep at the sight of their wordcount. SHARE YOUR PAIN, PLEASE. MY MISERY IS HOT FOR YOUR COMPANY.

Ugh, plus all the other unfinished shenanigans. Not even talking about the WIPs commentfics. I mean the real stuff. I want to do the snippet meme, only minus the part where you go, 'I won't ever finish this one ANYWAY!' because I can't do that to the babies. Am way too good at having delusional notions of accomplishments to even try. I WILL DO THAT LATER TODAY OKAY. First this one:

Pick a paragraph (or any passage less than 500 words) from any fanfic I've written, and comment to this post with that selection. I will then give you a DVD commentary on that snippet: what I was thinking when I wrote it, why I wrote it in the first place, what's going on in the character's heads, why I chose certain words, what this moment means in the context of the rest of the fic, lots of awful puns, and anything else that you'd expect to find on a DVD commentary track.

FUN! ...FOR NO ONE BUT ME, probably. Oh wells. DO IT ANYWAY *prods*

Heading to bed (exam tomorrow, ohmyfuckingod I am so not ready), but before I do I just wanted to share this:

( Merlin 206 spoilers? SORT OF? RPS SPOILERS? BIGGEST FUCKING ONSCREEN LOVE AFFAIR SPOILERS? Whatevs, point is, they're doing it. )

Ngh. It's getting too easy *_*

Mondays are GETTING to me this year. JESUS. Maybe it's not the Mondays that are getting worse, but the weekends that are just too AWESOME to deal with? Because the weekends are great. AND DEAR GOD YESTERDAY WAS AWFUL. I made such an ASS out of myself in class. I hate when that happens, when you embarrass yourself in a way that AS IT HAPPENS you're already aware you're gonna be thinking back to this and cringing for WEEKS/MONTHS to come. The trouble is, this time, is that while this HAS happened to me before, generally there are either friends around who can make fun of it and then it's not that bad--or you know the people in the class, and they know you, and they know that sometimes your brains function like ass and that you occasionally end up saying truly inspired stupidities. BUT THIS CLASS, RIGHT, I'm like a complete stranger to these people. I KNOW NO ONE, THEY KNOW NOT THAT I CAN'T BRAIN V WELL AT TIMES, and then it's just embarrassing and awkward and FUCKING ANNOYING BECAUSE I BLUSHED LIKE A THOUSAND BURNING SUNS.

And then on the train back I was in the same compartment as two people from my class, and they just went, 'Yeah, we're, just gonna...' AND THEN THEY TOOK OUT THEIR BOOKS AND READ. I cannot understand this level of SOCIAL REFUSAL. I don't care that you're a lit major, homeboy. There is no excuse for not even trying to have stunted conversations and painful silences before you give up altogether.

...But then again, then I get to come home and use awkward gangster speak in my lj posts and I guess the world really can't be all that bad. RIGHT. SHORTIES.

:D

What Merlin character am I most like?
MY THREAD
(jsyk, farmer#26 is totally acceptable, too. OR MORRIS. Shit, I'd love to be Morris. DO YOU EVEN KNOW HOW MUCH THAT KID GETS TO ANGST? People throw knives at him! No one knows his name! He has to linger just outside of shots all the freggin' time! God! FHL!)

LOL, btw. LOL LIKE A MILLION LOLLERBLADES LOLLING DOWN THE LOLLEROAD: Arthur/Gwen/Lancelot/Merlin. SERIOUSLY. Take the bunch of them, put them in jeans and hoodies and tops and heels, and you'll get ( SPOILER WHO KNOWS ANYMORE WHATEVER HERE HAVE A CUT )

(BTW, wtf Trinity?! There are no words for the insanity that is this show. Basically, Merlin on viagra meets History Boys meets Mean Girls. NOW I WANT CHRIS COOKE TO COME ON MERLIN AS A SNOOTY PRINCE THAT EVERYONE LIKES SOMEHOW BUT ARTHUR HATES, and he's trying to steal Merlin away. SO BASICALLY A REVERSED CEDRIC, only hotter, because ♥♥♥CHRIS COOKE. Also, that would give people an excuse to write BJ/CK/CM rps triangle. There is only one reaction you can have to that mental image right there, and this is it: YES.)

SEE NOW this is what happens when you've got a midterm in five hours. YOU WRITE FIC. Or something like it, anyway.

Super belated EP1 codas. I've got some for EP2, but they're not done, so. SO. Those will happen tomorrow, THESE are happening now.

I'm Bolding This So It'll Look Like An Explanation (But It's Not, Really, It's Mainly Bullshit Hurray For Bullshit! \o/): okay, so, here's the thing. The new season? I do not know whether to laugh or go 'WHAT WHAT WHAT' a lot. CONFUSED YET AMUSED. SO! I have two codas. One accepting BBC's interesting take on both Merlin and Arthur's characterisations so far (ADMIT IT, secretly, you all LOVE IT. SUPER EMO MERLIN, GOD, we've been waiting that shit forEVER), and another slightly more redeeming one. Redeeming for whom, you ask? EVERYONE. EVERYONE GETS REDEEMED. AWESOME.

Coda 201a goes out to zarathuse, who promised to record a dramatic reading of this and publish it as a podfic. YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW BAD I NEED THIS TO HAPPEN. PLEASE HARASS HER UNTIL SHE CAVES, FLIST.

201b goes out to, uuuuhhh, whoever wants it. Does anyone even wants it? It's GEN. RATED G. WHO WANTS THAT? leandergasped, I think this is perfect for you. GOOD, CLEAN FUN. PERFECT.

(Let it be known that this is the most gen thing I've written in three years. The last one was about Neville LBottom being stuck in a living bunker with Seamus, reading Nostradamus and decidedly not wanking. AND EVEN THAT ONE WAS AT LEAST PG13. SO. SO!)

Merlin 201a/b codas | G | M/A preslash | A) Emo Merlin, You Are Emo | B) Sit Down Child And Let Uncle Arthur Explain To You Why He's Such A World-Class A-Hole | Beta'd by the lady. YOU KNOW WHO. cherrybina. THE LADY.

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In the meanwhile, this. I recommend going through those pictures while listening to this song, then gazing a good fifteen minutes at that last shot. WHILE PLAYING THAT SONG ON REPEAT.

If you don't see the love by then, baby, you're a lost case. LOST.

OKAY. Now I'll go spend a while pretending to study even though I won't process any of it, and then fall asleep on my notes. DROOLING. ~*THE GOOD LIFE*~

ETA:

♥ Merlin/Arthur Kiss Meme ♥

Go *_*