reasons to be cheerful
I seem to have hit a patch of work/life busyness. So much busyness I don't have time to participate in mad_server's wonderful Again, but with More Colds meme, or my most favorite thing, the Five Acts Meme going on this week. :( Too busy to have watched the latest episodes of Downton Abbey, Person of Interest or Homeland yet. :( :(
I got no sleep over the weekend and I'm sitting here trying to convince myself that going running will make me feel less like crap.
BUT--there are some lovely things!
The talented and generous twasadark recorded a podfic of my Jewish!Lestrade series for the Fall Fandom Free-For-All. I've never been podfic'd before, and I'm tickled pink! She does an absolutely lovely job with it, and it's a wild experience to listen to someone else reading your own words aloud.
Here's the link -- thank you, bb!
Merlin 4x03
And when I say lovely in this context I mean reduced me to tears. I'm so, so glad they've decided to let Merlin and Arthur grow up a little this season. I completely agree with all the tumblr fans that the "it's a new day" scene may have been the best scene the series has ever produced. But all the Arthur-Uther scenes were so touching, as well--Bradley James and Tony Head have always done beautifully together (remember that S2 episode where Arthur almost found out what had happened to his mother?), but this episode took things to another level.
I loved, loved, how simple, heartfelt and direct a lot of the writing/delivery was in this epispode--it had a kind of, well, grown-up emotional intensity about it.
And I was interested in the way both Arthur and Merlin feel so guilty about (and implicated in) Uther's death. And the way that guilt seems to have made them more devoted to each other instead of pulling them apart.
Who would have thought my interest in Merlin would outlast my interest in SPN, but there you go.
Oh, and thanks to tumblr:
hope y'all had a good weekend!
I got no sleep over the weekend and I'm sitting here trying to convince myself that going running will make me feel less like crap.
BUT--there are some lovely things!
The talented and generous twasadark recorded a podfic of my Jewish!Lestrade series for the Fall Fandom Free-For-All. I've never been podfic'd before, and I'm tickled pink! She does an absolutely lovely job with it, and it's a wild experience to listen to someone else reading your own words aloud.
Here's the link -- thank you, bb!
Merlin 4x03
And when I say lovely in this context I mean reduced me to tears. I'm so, so glad they've decided to let Merlin and Arthur grow up a little this season. I completely agree with all the tumblr fans that the "it's a new day" scene may have been the best scene the series has ever produced. But all the Arthur-Uther scenes were so touching, as well--Bradley James and Tony Head have always done beautifully together (remember that S2 episode where Arthur almost found out what had happened to his mother?), but this episode took things to another level.
I loved, loved, how simple, heartfelt and direct a lot of the writing/delivery was in this epispode--it had a kind of, well, grown-up emotional intensity about it.
And I was interested in the way both Arthur and Merlin feel so guilty about (and implicated in) Uther's death. And the way that guilt seems to have made them more devoted to each other instead of pulling them apart.
Who would have thought my interest in Merlin would outlast my interest in SPN, but there you go.
Oh, and thanks to tumblr:
Click to viewhope y'all had a good weekend!