swim through the fires to stay in this world

I'm skipping ahead on this 30 day shipping meme because alyse tangentially mentioned criminal minds and then someone reblogged a morgan x garcia gif-set and I was hit by a sledge-hammer of feelings about those two.

Day 27 - OTP That You Always Forget To Talk About

THE ENDLESS SEXUALLY CHARGED BANTER. THE GENUINE AFFECTION. THE STRAIGHT UP UST. THE FACT THAT HE IS CLEARLY JUST AS INTO HER AS SHE IS INTO HIM.

Ugh, I can’t with those two. They make me totally verklempt.

I forget about them for vast periods of time and then they're mentioned and I'm BOOM! right back in middle of a whole bunch of feelings.

Is anyone still watching criminal minds? Have those two finally had sex? Kissed? Because my god, did do those two need an epic kiss.

Because those two are (sidenote) the straight-up hottest male and hottest female on that show. Their adorable bi-racial babies would be the most epically cute things ever.

Day 28 - OTP With The Best Canon Story

I'm going to go with Han and Leia right here. Is any explanation needed? If so, just go watch the original Star Wars Trilogy.

I came across a meme on tumblr, which asked you to list your favorite characters from least cynical to most. And then I ended up having to retype the whole effing thing about three different times. So here it is, finally:

Male Characters:

Zuko> Han Solo > Clint Barton > Mal Reynolds > Jack Bristow

Female Characters:

Kate Bishop > Cameron > Faith Lehane > Natasha Romanoff > Adelle deWitt

I really liked thinking about this question ‘who is more cynical?’ but it actually wound up being way too easy.

The men are a slow, consistent slide from heart-of-gold dude with a shell of cynicism and anger to heart-of-gold-dude with a MUCH THICKER shell of cynicism and anger.

The female characters were pretty evenly divided between an optimist (Katie-Kate) and my violence, morally compromised ladies (Faith, Natasha, Adelle) right at Cameron, who I would argue is neither cynical nor optimistic.

[+] I have reached a heretofore unimagined level of adulthood; I now have matching crockery. Matching plates, matching bowl, matching appetizer plates, matching glasses, matching mugs.

[+] I have also followed latenightcuppa's lead, and had a friend change my tumblr password. It's been amazing tumblr, and I mean that truly. But I want to start writing again.

[+] However, prior to leaving tumblr, I noticed someone - no idea who, commenting about how Cutting Edge was one of their formative-as-fuck movies, so I watched that tonight with backtothesea a.k.a. the friend who locked me out of tumblr  (l lurve you too). It was, as promised, a deliciously '80's love story between an ice skating ice queen and the working class former hockey player. I feel that will either appeal to you or it won't. It had a very nice defrosting the ice queen arc and the male lead was delightfully doofy.

[+] This movie also got me thinking about what my formative-as-fuck movies are. Thus,



[1] Anastasia and [2] Star Wars both contain scrappy, snarky princesses who have romances with scoundrels. I mean... just go watch the movies if you haven't already. And if you have (and come on, you totally have) come talk to me about them in the comments. [3] Indiana Jones & The Raiders of the Lost Ark. The ONLY good thing I will say about the fourth movie is that it married Indiana and Marion. THE ONLY THING.
[4] Titanic (I don’t feel this one was as developmentally relevant as other movies, but I owed it and rewatched it often for several years, so it goes on here. [5] Labyrinth is a movie that I can literally use to trace my personal development. The first time I watched it I hated Sarah because she was too similar to me (to be clear, too similar to me at ten, not fifteen) and hated that she and Jareth didn’t end up together and didn’t understand why they hadn’t. The second time I watched it I understood that Sarah was growing and changing as a character, and that’s why she’s such a brat at the beginning, and why she couldn’t stay yes to Jared when he asks her to at the end. I also didn’t get how wonderfully, gloriously, hopeful the ending is. Think about what a great, progressive, positive message that Labyrinth ends on; that you do not ‘grow out’ of magic but can keep it with you.

Also, for those of you playing at home, yes, I have always shipped the inappropriate fierce young girl with the older, more emotionally open man. (I shipped Nick and Cassie from the trailer, people. The trailer. I remember watching the trailer and going ‘I don’t think they want me to ship hot older guy with inappropriately young multi-colored hair girl, but I totally am.’)

A post on mollivanders  got me thinking (again) about getting the original Star Wars, sans the stupid crap they added it. (And do my eyes deceive me, or is this it?)