swim through the fires to stay in this world

If you haven't seen it, Thor 2 trailer.

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Day 13: The ship you love for the way they hurt each other.

Irina Derevko and Jack Bristow.

Okay, I'll admit, if we're tallying up who hurt who more, Irina is probably going to win by a mile. That said, Jack did shoot that doppleganger he truly thought was her, that one time.

Day 14: The ship you love for the angst, banishing all joy and sunlight.

Lila and Cassel, the Curse Workers series. I was actually just thinking about way that I could get more people to read this series (the first book is White Cat by Holly Black). Fandom would love the book series and this relationship. It has:

• a badass lady


• the snarky, self-loathing guy who loves her ridiculously


• dubious consent treated like the serious thing it is while also being fucking romantic as fuck


• the girl

• trying to 'get over' her feelings for the guy by having sex with someone else

• the guy thinking he is a complete monster and still struggling to make the most moral choices he can, despite his fucked up ethics.

(Oh, also, the main character? I'm 99% sure he's black.)

(Also, side rant: the first two original covers for this series are AWESOME and I still haven't bought the third book because LITERALLY NO ONE sells the awesome third cover, they just have the terrible rebooted cover. So I'm going to wait and hope they reboot the covers again so I can find one that sucks less than these.)

Day 15: The couple that are at their moral worst when around each other.

I had the hardest time coming up with a good answer for this. The thing is, I don't tend to ship bad guy/good guy pairings, so I don't have examples of couples who get together and go on a crime spree. The closest answers I have are Zuko and Katara and Jeff and Annie for the exact same reason. Excuse me while I talk about one of my favorite tropes:

Something that sets my shipper sense tingling is when a female character is comfortable enough with a male character that she doesn't need to be "good" around him. He is the person who is going to go with her on a roadtrip of revenge. He is the person she is going to behave like a selfish adult around.

Basically, when a female character is so comfortable with a male character that she shows him her darkest, unglies parts and his reaction is, 'let me start the car,' I'm hooked.

(Does that make sense?)

fannish5:  5 characters who would totally camp out outside a store all night just to get sale prices.

(In order to actually answer this question, I thought about what characters I could see waiting all night outside for something, and then listed their motivations. Because let's face it, not a lot of the characters I care about from shows I watch would be too invested in sale prices, for various reasons.)

1.) Caroline Forbes. You do not want to get between her and on-sale shoes.

2.) M'gann. Would stand outside all night in line simply to experience Black Friday. Then she'd wander around the store looking at everyone else rushing around like frustrated idiots and being crappy. She'd go home with a migraine from all the negative emotional bombardment.

3.) Leslie Knope (Harry Potter), Ben Wyatt (The Hobbit, Thor 2), Wally West (everything LOTR, Marvel-verse, involving superheroes, Ridley Scott, etc, etc) and Dick Grayson (accompanying Wally West) are all huge enough geeks that there is a selection of movies they would stand in line all night (or day, for a midnight showing) to see.

4.) Sansa Stark, in a modern AU, for the sale prices.

5.) Abed (see Wally's list).

Community was eh. There were some funny jokes but on the whole, I'm predicting that this season is going to be a lot like last season, i.e., the quality will be very uneven and there will be too much 'let me give you Jeff x Annie fanservice and LAUGH AT YOUR SHIPPING' and lots of Britta-bashing and not enough actually funny, amazing episodes.

Parks and Rec, on the other hand, WAS TWENTY MINUTES OF PERFECTION.( Read more... )

As for TVD, let me start by talking about the five minutes that was actually relevant to my interests.( Read more... )

This happens to me all the time.

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Once again, on Pop Culture Happy Hour, Jeff/Annie fans were referred to as crazy. God, this pisses me off so fucking much. Over and over and OVER again (starting from episode nine of season one, people, if not arguably before) this ship has had kisses and UST-filled scenes and actual legit conversations about emotions. Just because Britta and Jeff have had sex doesn't mean that Jeff/Annie as a ship is non-existent. God, pairings are not a zero-sum game! And stop acting like the fanbase is delusional for seeing intentional subtext! Sweet christ. I'm not saying you have to like Jeff/Annie but just because you don't doesn't mean it's not there.

This is such an instant hot button for me. Seriously, I just hear the comment and I want to smack someone, hard.

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This True Blood promo is making me happy.

( Read more... ) ~~~ Also, I watched last week's Doctor Who. It was lame. I can't believe they thought this would be a good idea for a two-parter.

Top 5 Partners

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Top 5 Vampires

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Top 5 Female Friendships

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Top 5 Friendships

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I'll be honest: I have a tendency to think in more romantic than platonic lines, so these two questions were a challenge!

Top 5 Female Villains

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Top five OTPs!

Okay, there are the pairings that I just can't quit - the ones that even when I don't want to ship them or think I should move on, I still love to pieces.

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Top Five Currently Airing Shows

Okay, this is a slightly biased question, given that several shows have just wrapped, leaving me vaguely disappointed, and several shows have not yet started with new episodes, leaving me hopeful and optimistic.

So I'm going to answer this question in a completely un-5-things format.

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Top five unexpected canon pairings

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Top Five Disney/Pixar Movies.

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Top Five Guilty Pleasures

(Be they shows, movies, books, manga... whatever. )

I defined 'guilty pleasures' as media that is not good enough I'd feel comfortable reccing it to just about anyone.

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Top Five Shows That Need More Fandom Love

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TV has been so disappointing lately. Seriously, so many shows have either been a half an hour of blah to get to ten minutes of awesome or 20 straight minutes of horrible. Speaking of the latter, I finally watched Community 2x20 and it was terrible. Seriously, there was about one funny thing in that episode and the rest was just offensive and mean. To make matters even worse, my mom did not get ANY of the jokes, so I had to stop and rewind and explain, prolonging the experience. And then the latest Doctor Who episode was like the sucky, less awesome version of Vampires In Venice. Breaking the pattern, the first episode of In Plain Sight's season four was really solid, even if I am still braced for an upcoming plot point that I am going to loathe.

Last week's episode of Community was physically painful to watch.

God, I wish I didn't know that they were never, ever going to get rid of Pierce. I don't even hate him. I just think he's a horrible human being, unentertaining, and a waste of time better spent on other characters.

Festivids' masterlist is up and I would totally recommend that my flist checks it out. It's a bunch of vids for little-vidded fandoms. I haven't watched them all yet but I want to STRONGLY URGE you to watch the two amazing Push vids and "Space Oddity" which, using a large amount of material from one of my least favorite episodes ever, crafted an epic ode to the awesomeness of Abed and Troy.

I am really in the mood for some Jeff/Annie.

Also, i am making apple pie and cut myself and my finger will not stop bleeding.