windtossed

You've been given fair warning: some of this stuff is abysmal. If you must read it, I'd start off with the stuff that was written most recently. Catalogued in descending order of the date posted, with most recent posts at the bottom. Ficlets are not archived, and can be found instead in my memories. Pairing is Brian/Justin unless otherwise noted.

( Queer as Folk )

( Queer as Folk RPS )

... thoughts behind the cut because i'm afraid of giving something away. ( spoilers for white collar's fall finale. )

spoilers for merlin 2.06: beauty and the beast, part 2, under the cut. also, spoilers for the preview of next week's episode. ( this is an lj cut. )

Let me be clear here--I am in my final year of undergraduate life, I'm taking rigorous courses at a relatively prestigious university, I spend my free time running errands for the choir for which I'm essentially a vice president/tresurer, and I watch literally 10 television shows. Which means that I really really can't like this new USA network show "White Collar."

UGH.

( White Collar 1.01 spoilers. )

For those who are keeping a tally, I watch Mad Men, Gossip Girl, Castle, How I Met Your Mother, Glee, Modern Family (new addition), The Office, 30 Rock, Community (also new), Merlin, and now, White Collar (probably). To be fair though, Mad Men and Merlin are both short seasons and Mad Men will be ending in two weeks. But still! Too many.

( cut for brief spoilery thoughts. )

also, this fanvid was posted a couple of weeks ago now, but i keep going back and watching it. i also downloaded the song, because it's beautiful. it's sort of kirk/uhura/spock and kind of kirk/spock!prime, but not really, at least not in my mind, because i think it's more that kirk wants what he thinks he sees in spock!prime--ANYWAY. fanvid by talitha78. go watch!

So people're reporting that Jonathan Groff will be guest starring on Glee. My only request for this entire thing is that Glee makes some meta comment about Spring Awakening--it'd be hilarious. Or at least I think it would be.

Oh my god, you guys.

( spoilers for the office, 6.04. )

( homoerotic tension is alive and well in camelot. i mention stuff that occurs in the preview for next week. )

( a little musing about arthur's hypocrisy. )

I watched a bunch of old Queer as Folk clips on Youtube today, mostly from the first season. The dancing at Justin's prom still fills me with glee.

Yessss, LiveJournal is back.

( ... huh. )

So, once upon a time, when I was in high school (ugh, gross), acne-ridden, hormonal, and totally into gay dudes, I wrote a bunch of fanfiction for the Showtime TV show, "Queer as Folk." "Queer as Folk" ended in 2005, so from that, you could extrapolate my approximate age, if you wished, but trust me, it's not all that interesting. I'm above the age of consent, I'm an adult, whatever. The story continues. After I stopped writing fanfiction, I pretty much also stopped updating this LiveJournal, since I didn't really see any point in continuing, plus, I mostly stopped writing once I got into college.

But here's the thing, which has come up within the last couple of years: I really really love television. Remember what Kenneth said on "30 Rock"? "There are only two things I love in this world: everybody and television." Yeah, that's pretty much me. So all of this introduction is to say that I'm going to try and update more often, because I watch a lot of TV and it's fun to see what other people think of it. Currently, I'm following Mad Men, Gossip Girl (shh), How I Met Your Mother, Castle, Glee, The Office, 30 Rock, and Merlin. Things which have recently fallen off my list are Heroes and Grey's Anatomy. So! Expect to see thoughts and commentary about the shows on this list, plus random musings that may slip in under the radar.

Can't help but notice that there've been people friending me lately, in order to, I can only presume, read my Queer as Folk fanfiction. Just so you know, here's really only one locked piece of fanfiction, which was some RPS which I have linked in my memories.

As for what I'm into now, it sort of varies. I've somehow become entrenched in watching what seems like fifty television shows, which include Gossip Girl, How I Met Your Mother, Heroes (when I can get over the fact that it used to be so good and is now... not that good), The Office, 30 Rock and True Blood. I'm still an avid fanfiction reader, but in fandoms such as the Star Trek reboot and BBC's Merlin. If you're at all interested in the fanfiction which I've found really excellent, my delicious account is here, mostly sorted by fandom and rating, unless I've been really lazy.

Let me know what you're interested in! Tell me about yourself!

okay, i don't watch heroes anymore, really. but i've sort of been keeping up with spoilers, so i know generally what's going on, and evidently it's been getting good again, so that's good, whatever. but really? come on.

( spoilers for season finale of heroes. )

so hey, sup.

In a desperate attempt to avoid doing work (I have a Faulkner paper to write, and a Physics midterm next week), I figured I'd update my LJ.

Like everyone else in fandom, but no one that I can tell in real life, I've gotten into Merlin. I've found, after years of reading fanfiction (I probably started reading fanfiction around ten years ago now -- I started early), that for me, it's often not the episodes or the book that's necessarily what keeps me interested in the series or whatever, but the fanfiction. Merlin, for some reason or another, has this ability to inspire some amazing fanfiction in some really awesome authors, some of whom I've loved in other fandoms. There's really no need to rec her, but astolat's recent fic, The Crown of the Summer Court is an excellent example of why I enjoy reading in the Merlin fandom so much. Also, Merlin has the added bonus already messing with the premise of Merlin and Arthur's relationship, bringing from a mentor/student relationship to a friendship, so that messing with Arthurian lore (in ways which still fit with the characters) is acceptable, and can be done very well. Also, Merlin is able to hit one of my favorite fandom plots, which is that of reincarnation in a modern setting. It doesn't always succeed, but sometimes, it can be done very well. And the AUs in this fandom are amazing -- I point you toward rageprufrock's Drastically Redefining Protocol, in which Arthur is the Crown Prince of Britain and Merlin is a medical student and there's a Vanity Fair article at the end.

Also, if for some reason, you felt the need to read lots of Merlin fanfiction, I have my favorites linked here, sorted by rating, pairing (spoiler alert, it's all Merlin/Arthur) and sometimes by genre, such as future fic and AU.

In real life, I'm a third year undergraduate at a state university, racking my brain desperately, trying to figure out whether I want to be a dentist or a doctor or an amoeba for a living. It's fun times.

How're you all?

I am so proud of my home state of Virginia. I'm sitting in my dorm room listening to the hollers of joy and car horns going off for Barack Obama. It's a good day to be an American citizen.

God knows why I still love this show, and why I feel the need to write a reaction post defending (yes, defending it) instead of writing a paper on the authentic Walt Whitman... But here goes.

( Spoilers for Heroes 3x05. )

So Gale Harold's gonna be a desperate housewife's man. That's cool and all. See what Kristin (of E!Online) has to say here, and laugh at the absurdity!

Non-plot related spoilers behind the cut. ( SPOILERZ. )

OH NO YOU DIDN'T.

( Heroes 2x11 Reactions, omg. )

( Reaction to Heroes 2x03: Kindred. )

Note to self: You are really busy this week. Do not write Petrellicest fanfic.