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So, I recently asked people for prompts, and um... got a few! Here are the results:

1.Eric is imprisoned in Camelot on account of him being a magical creature. (Merlin/True Blood)

( 458 words )


2. NATE AND BRAD WATCH AMERICAN IDOL ON TV. (Generation Kill, adult)

( 140 words )

3.Kirk and Spock go to the beach. (Star Trek XI)

( 255 )

4.ERIC/GODRIC YES PLEASE (And because I love making you break your own rules: Eric topping.) (True Blood, adult)

( 445 )

5. ANDREI/ILYA ; PUPPIES AND UNICORNS AND ~RAINBOWS~. (Kadetztvo)

( 194 words )

O HEY! So, I usually only update this LJ with fannish creations already completed, but this time I'm taking prompts for fics/snippets over at my personal LJ (the results will probably be posted here) so if you guys would like to prompt me, please feel free to do so either here or on that post. :)

It was bound to happen eventually and bbs, I am so happy it finally has.

Title: A Deeper Hue
Pairing: Godric/Eric
Rating: NC-17
Summary: Vampire adventures through the ages.
Words: ~2300
Author's note: This is not the fic I originally wanted to write, which is both good and bad. Much thanks to miarr for squee and thoughtful suggestions along the way.


( Jerusalem and Vikings and Mozart, oh my )

OMG you guys seriously this week has been kind of hell on wheels for me, but in less than two days I'm going to IRELAND! WOO! So um. Here's a picspam to brighten up your week, whether it be gloomy or sparkly.

( I just love watching two men together )

True Blood picspam for 2x09!

( they only like me for my sex skills )

So I made 2 True Blood picspams last night HERE'S TO HOPING MY INTERNET WILL NOT DIE ON ME IN THE MIDDLE OF POSTING as it did last night.

( evil whores of satan )

So, Torchwood.

Before the cut, let me say: I loved Children of Earth. I loved the writing, I thought it was about 6 times better than the usual Torchwood stuff, I was overall fascinated, brokenhearted, excited and entertained by the storylines. The acting was good, the writing was good - the scifi was full of plotholes but wow do I not watch Torchwood for the plot - the directing was gorgeous and the characterization... well, I need a whole cut tag to talk about that.

( spoilers omg like whoa )

Ladies and gentlemen, I hope you're having a lovely evening. I did my Mandarin Chinese final today, concluding 2 years of studying Mandarin at Uni, so I present to you: a picspam of True Blood, episode 2, season 2. Beware the pics for they are HUGE - I'm working on the laptop right now and basically only have VLC and Word on this thing.

( SHUT UP THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT )

Tonight roga and I watched the play Hamlet with an actor who... was so remarkably like Jack, from Kings, we couldn't help but be overwhelmed by the similarities. Both physically and in terms of how he played the character, he really was an alternate version of Jack.

This is not really an explanation for anything, but at some point roga leaned towards me and whispered, I'd really like a Jack/Hamlet crossover... and at that point, I knew I was doomed.

This relies heavily on the canon of the specific production of Hamlet we atteneded so I don't actually epxect this to make sense to anyone but us.

Title: Sweet Prince
Fandom: Hamlet/Kings
Characters: Hamlet, Jack
Rating: PG

( 700 words of WHAT?! )

So, I started writing this like a week ago, and it stalled and stalled and lo, it is finally fucking done.

Title Balance, Interrupted
Fandom Kings
Summary Jack has always struggled to maintain his balance.
Warnings graphic m/m sexual content, some of it featuring persons under 18.
Words ~5000
Beta the wonderful roga and miarr, who are awesome beyond belief. All remaining mistakes, atrocities and purple unicorns are entirely my fault.
Author's Note the alternative header of this story would have been:
Title – OMG what the hell did I just write?
Warnings – no, seriously, what?!
Summary – BRB getting brain back

( Balance, Interrupted )

So, I'm still dealing with the fact that BSG is gone and done. I keep wanting to make graphics or a picspam or something but it's just... too early. I can't even look at a K/L fanvid, you know? roga helpfully pointed out I'm kind of doing my own unplanned version of a shiv'a over my favourite show. So, you know, when the grieving process evens out a bit, I'll be able to return to dealing with the reality of it.

Meanwhile, since I can't touch anything BSG, I'll do something completely different to pass the time.

( some Kings icons )

People who know me know I have 2 basic modes when watching a show. Either I'm completely riveted by the canon - usually this happens with HBO shows: The Sheild, The Wire, Rome, Deadwood - and I am just... floored by how happy the show makes me, how unblievably amazing it is, but at the same time, because the canon is so awesome I don't really feel the need to do the fandom thing. I mean, I'll make graphics sometimes, but really I just... I have nothing to say because it's all said RIGHT THERE in the canon. Those tend to be the shows I like and consider myself a fan of.

Then there are shows where I think the canon blows, but that have a general idea - a plot, a character - that appeal to me and that I think could be done very well in right hands. This doesn't have to mean I think the show is bad, sometimes the format just isn't to my liking. The Stargate verse falls into this category for example (though I actually do find the Gateverse to be absolutely awful). It has ideas and characters I would like to see explored differently. That's when I go to fandom. That's when I read and even write fanfiction and participate in things. It's funny because in those case, I couldn't technically refer to myself as a fan of the source material - I generally think the source material sucks ass.

And then came BSG.

I hadn't actually been in a fandom for a show I was excited about since probably Buffy. And Buffy doesn't count because I was 13 at the time and it was my first experience with fandom, period, and therefore a bit of a strange mix of everything.

And BSG became... it became the show I could think about, really, sink into that universe and play around because it was so rich and well crafted, but at the same time there was so much I wanted to talk about, so much I wanted to comment on and explore and imagine on my own.

I've never read fanfiction for BSG, because I love the source material too much, I just have no room in my head for anyone else's interpretation, but at the same time I've squeed and commented and discussed and analyze and oh god how I've shipped.

BSG was probably my first fandom as an adult person. A fandom I was actually part of in some small way, that I took part in and that I considered "my own", my home base.

I began watching the show shortly after being discharged from the military. I sat at home and mostly stared at the walls and tried to get out of the shock of getting discharged back into civillian life, and then BSG popped up on my radar and I gave it a spin. I fell in love with Starbuck immediately - a soldier! And a girl! - and Laura and Lee and Cheif and Bill... what killed me was how utterly flawed they all were in such subtle, subtle ways.

Bill was a stereotypical Wise Old Leader Father Figure guy, but at the same time he was an emotional commander and that HAD ITS FLAWS. He didn't just love them all like his children - he also had fits of utterly disproportionate rage, just as parents do towards their children, when they did things he disagreed with.

And in Lee's speech in the flashback, we see that reaffirmed in the very last episode of the show.

The show, on the whole, overall, managed to avoid glorifying and simplifying its characters. And that's RARE. Even some shows that start complicated end up being reduced to black and white when the creators along with the fans fall in love with the characters.

But with BSG, I never felt like the creators were catering to my tastes, or anyone's. They were doing it out of their own desire to see things unfold, they took ont eh burden of being storytellers and allowed me to be a viewer, to be childish and squeeful.

And I loved the characters so much. God. I know for some people it was about the plot, the theology, the action but for me, all that stuff was bullshit. I get a philosophical discussion several times a day in my various college classes. I have books and friends for that. What I was here for was the characters. All I cared about was them, as people, and what they went through and what that meant to them.

Kara, who, to the VERY END of the show, one of the VERY LAST SCENES, is seen as an utterly ambivalent, complicated character. She NEVER conforms to being a good girl or a bad girl, she's just human, she's just her. Lee is never a stereotypical hero, he's hesitant and flaky and sometimes full of self deception and they are all cowards sometimes, emotionally, personally, and bastards, and they make mistakes and just move on because you can't make everything right and you can't always make amends. They are all such incredibly flawed, fucked up, bastards, my heart is filled with love.

BSG broke so many stereotypes, did so many things that had not been done on television before, especially not in the scifi section of American TV. As an example, check out how many female soldiers and politicians exist in the universe of the new scifi-esque NBC show Kings - a show that's been hailed as "progressive" and "liberal".

Now, don't get me wrong, BSG was not perfect. I say this as someone who's used to HBO's programming: not on issues of race or gender and not on issues of characterization and writing was BSG up the standard I wish it had been. It was still a step behind where I'd ideally have liked it go. It fucked up on some storylines, on some characters, and those issues will be part of my experience with it as well.

But it was, without a doubt, exceptional in its genre, in its time, in its niche. It restored my faith in modern American scifi TV - scifi that could talk about what I had grown up to understand scifi to be about. Human nature. Metaphors of social critique. Philosophy.

I love you show, deeply and profoundly. You were my fandom, my home. I don't know when, if ever, I'll have that again. You changed me and affected me, as a storyteller and as a viewer. You've shown me ways of doing things that others hadn't. You were kind of amazing. Kind of a lot.

It occurs to me that BSG is kind of my personal land mark. I've never known anyone in real life who was a giant Star Trek or even Star Wars fan, but I imagine that 10 years from now I'll still be that girl who, when the conversation comes up, will talk about how amazing and ground breaking and incredible and deeply personal BSG was for me. How I still remember the old jokes and still have feelings about the characters. Still my own criticisms and moments of squee. I'm sure the day is not far when I'll have sunk back into the routine of "ordinary" television, that I'll open up my BSG episodes and sigh and remember how awesome it was to have this show on the air.

I love you show. At the end of the day, I really do.
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OMG BSG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG

OH MY GOD BSG

I am, overall, very very pleased with this episode, except one thing which I simply can not stomach and that is ( spoiler )

Everything else, despite whatever flaws and problems and whatever the fuck, I am totally cool with at the end of the day. It fulfilled my expectations of what the show is like and what it's about and so on. But ( spoiler )

(this icon has never been more appropriate)

So, I should really just change my name to roga's Little Bitch at this rate. At some point last week she suggested that Jackathan Benjamin/Arthur Pendragon could never happen KNOWING FULL WELL, I AM CERTAIN OF THIS, that it would make it impossible for me not to rise to the challenge.

I have never written this much crack a crossover before. I'm not sure I've even read more than two or three crossovers in my life.

Title: And That's To Be The King
Fandom: Kings/Merlin
Summary: Arthur thinks Jack is kind of a giant prat, really.
Wordcount: ~2500
Author Notes: Beta by the brave and unstoppable roga, who I really do not feel sorry for at all since SHE IS TO BLAME FOR THIS MESS TO BEGIN WITH. Shoutout to nextian for also taking part in instigating this disaster. This fic ate my brain for like 36 hours.
Title is from The Lion in Winter (&hearts) which, really, should be used to title every single fic in this fandom.

( No, really, a single story can not have this much crack )

So, roga is COMPLETELY to blame for me spending 2 hours watching the new show Kings today, aaaand then picspamming it.

(for those who care, I'm hoping to get the BSG picspam done some time in the next two days.)

( I'll be using the BIBLICAL names of the characters because I'm not sure if I like this show yet. )

So, spontaniously, a while ago, I realized I really wanted to do something nice for roga. Below is my present for her in the form of two graphics and one fic (IN HEBREW OMG WTF).

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BSG, 4x17!

warning: my compy's been acting up this week and as a result the image sizes didn't quite work out as they usually are. So, the sizes range from "ok" to "pretty huge". Be advised.

( reveille! reveille! )