birthdays, stories, gay germans, and Entourage recs
First, and most importantly, today is notthequiettype's birthday! I think we all know I love Ash, but in case that was not clear: I LOVE ASH. Hope Disneyland was fabulous. <333
Inexcusably, I forgot to mention ignited's birthday a few days ago, what the hell was that about. I love Stef toooooo!
I finally finished the Gossip Girl RPF! Jagged and Endlessly New (JC/Chace, Chace/Ed), which is the sequel to Some Surreal Country (JC/Chace). About damned time, too! It's really disconcerting to have your brain eaten for a couple of weeks by a fandom you are in no way in and that does not, in fact, really exist.
Now I can actually write Merlin fic instead of just scribbling notes down about it at work while watching the series from the start . . . again. It's Colin Morgan's ears, okay. They make me do crazy things.
Today I also, ahaha, started watching the Christian/Olli clips from Verbotene Liebe, aka That German Soap Opera With the Gay Boys. I told myself I was doing this because I can feel my German getting worse every day that I am not actively using it, and because last night, while well into the third pitcher of beer at a dive bar with my roommates and their tiny gay friend from college, I spoke very earnestly about wanting to move back to Germany (and also about wanting to marry a lawyer and/or Irishman, whatever, I blame the drink!). So clearly my German needed work. Also there are like 29837473 years of gay angst. I kind of wanted to stab myself in the eye about half of the time I was watching parts . . . 1-35 of 130-some, omg, but the other half of the time there were boys being really in love and freaking out about it, and who doesn't love a good gay freakout?
I was looking through my works-in-progress folder the other day, as one does, and discovered an Entourage recs list I put together back in, like, JULY, and never posted. What the hell! Let's fix that.
Entourage recs! All of these are E/Vince unless I say otherwise.
The Heartbreak Kid by astolat
explicit | 10,122 words
Vince wasn't planning on it, that was for sure; it just sort of happened. There was a party, somebody started truth-or-dare, he picked truth, somebody asked, "Have you ever kissed a guy?" and he said no. So far so good, except the cute-but-toasted girl curled up against him started laughing and said, "Come on, not even Eric?"
I looooove this fic. Love love love. Eric is badass and Vince is a dumbass and it's ~epic and also, one of the hottest kisses ever.
Top Billing by astolat
explicit | 5,400 words
Eric looked at the bill and the neat little line of coke lying on the polished desk. This was clearly the beginning of the end, doing coke with Ari Gold on a Friday night, just so he could get i's dotted and t's crossed.
This contains one of my favorite Ari lines I've ever read, and also Vince being amaaaaazing and in love with Eric, and Eric being like. I like my boys clueless about their big gay love. This will be a theme!
Home Sweet Home by astolat
explicit | 6,201 words
"Hail the conquering hero," was the first thing Ari said, to be fair, "and start working on your speech now; with the buzz you already got on this thing, that fat fuck Harvey will blow everyone in this town to get you that statue. Let's get some beluga."
Paparazzi chase Eric and Vince around trying to find proof that they're fucking each other. Which they aren't! Really! The ending turns me into a huge ball of SCHMOOP, seriously.
the Here's Us Together series by fourteencandles
ranges between PG-13 and NC-17, depending on the story | lots and lots of words
Starts with If We Were Anybody, then continues for a very, very long time.
Get Where You've Been Going by giddygeek
R | 5,000 words
Vince watches guys hit on Eric at clubs and realizes that Eric is (wait for it) totally clueless. There's that theme again!
Crisis Management by Ellidyay (dancinbutterfly)
R | ~5,000 words
Ari Gold is good in a crisis.
Eric and Vince get found out. By Ari! Lloyd is an incredibly amazing ball of schmoopy gay here, and it's awesome.
Good for You by giddygeek
R | 5,200 words | pre-series
Vince goes back to Queens to convince Eric to move to California.
And now for the crossover, which, really, you ALL SHOULD HAVE SEEN COMING: MERLIN/ENTOURAGE YO.
The Kingdom of the Blaggers by hackthis
Merlin/Arthur | NC-17 | 22,798 words | Merlin/Entourage crossover (modern day AU)
The problem with being the son of Uther Pendragon, legend of stage and screen, winner of Emmys (twice), Tonys (once), Oliviers (multiple), BAFTAs (twice), Oscars (once) and People's Sexiest Man (twice) was that nobody was ever going to take Arthur seriously as an actor in his own right.
This story occasionally reads like it's a set of notes for a longer story (like, a huge fucking novel-type-story) but it's still really funny and really very good. AND IT HAS ARI GOLD AND MERLIN EMRYS IN THE SAME PLACE. There is nothing not to like about that.
Inexcusably, I forgot to mention ignited's birthday a few days ago, what the hell was that about. I love Stef toooooo!
I finally finished the Gossip Girl RPF! Jagged and Endlessly New (JC/Chace, Chace/Ed), which is the sequel to Some Surreal Country (JC/Chace). About damned time, too! It's really disconcerting to have your brain eaten for a couple of weeks by a fandom you are in no way in and that does not, in fact, really exist.
Now I can actually write Merlin fic instead of just scribbling notes down about it at work while watching the series from the start . . . again. It's Colin Morgan's ears, okay. They make me do crazy things.
Today I also, ahaha, started watching the Christian/Olli clips from Verbotene Liebe, aka That German Soap Opera With the Gay Boys. I told myself I was doing this because I can feel my German getting worse every day that I am not actively using it, and because last night, while well into the third pitcher of beer at a dive bar with my roommates and their tiny gay friend from college, I spoke very earnestly about wanting to move back to Germany (and also about wanting to marry a lawyer and/or Irishman, whatever, I blame the drink!). So clearly my German needed work. Also there are like 29837473 years of gay angst. I kind of wanted to stab myself in the eye about half of the time I was watching parts . . . 1-35 of 130-some, omg, but the other half of the time there were boys being really in love and freaking out about it, and who doesn't love a good gay freakout?
I was looking through my works-in-progress folder the other day, as one does, and discovered an Entourage recs list I put together back in, like, JULY, and never posted. What the hell! Let's fix that.
Entourage recs! All of these are E/Vince unless I say otherwise.
The Heartbreak Kid by astolat
explicit | 10,122 words
Vince wasn't planning on it, that was for sure; it just sort of happened. There was a party, somebody started truth-or-dare, he picked truth, somebody asked, "Have you ever kissed a guy?" and he said no. So far so good, except the cute-but-toasted girl curled up against him started laughing and said, "Come on, not even Eric?"
I looooove this fic. Love love love. Eric is badass and Vince is a dumbass and it's ~epic and also, one of the hottest kisses ever.
Top Billing by astolat
explicit | 5,400 words
Eric looked at the bill and the neat little line of coke lying on the polished desk. This was clearly the beginning of the end, doing coke with Ari Gold on a Friday night, just so he could get i's dotted and t's crossed.
This contains one of my favorite Ari lines I've ever read, and also Vince being amaaaaazing and in love with Eric, and Eric being like. I like my boys clueless about their big gay love. This will be a theme!
Home Sweet Home by astolat
explicit | 6,201 words
"Hail the conquering hero," was the first thing Ari said, to be fair, "and start working on your speech now; with the buzz you already got on this thing, that fat fuck Harvey will blow everyone in this town to get you that statue. Let's get some beluga."
Paparazzi chase Eric and Vince around trying to find proof that they're fucking each other. Which they aren't! Really! The ending turns me into a huge ball of SCHMOOP, seriously.
the Here's Us Together series by fourteencandles
ranges between PG-13 and NC-17, depending on the story | lots and lots of words
Starts with If We Were Anybody, then continues for a very, very long time.
Get Where You've Been Going by giddygeek
R | 5,000 words
Vince watches guys hit on Eric at clubs and realizes that Eric is (wait for it) totally clueless. There's that theme again!
Crisis Management by Ellidyay (dancinbutterfly)
R | ~5,000 words
Ari Gold is good in a crisis.
Eric and Vince get found out. By Ari! Lloyd is an incredibly amazing ball of schmoopy gay here, and it's awesome.
Good for You by giddygeek
R | 5,200 words | pre-series
Vince goes back to Queens to convince Eric to move to California.
And now for the crossover, which, really, you ALL SHOULD HAVE SEEN COMING: MERLIN/ENTOURAGE YO.
The Kingdom of the Blaggers by hackthis
Merlin/Arthur | NC-17 | 22,798 words | Merlin/Entourage crossover (modern day AU)
The problem with being the son of Uther Pendragon, legend of stage and screen, winner of Emmys (twice), Tonys (once), Oliviers (multiple), BAFTAs (twice), Oscars (once) and People's Sexiest Man (twice) was that nobody was ever going to take Arthur seriously as an actor in his own right.
This story occasionally reads like it's a set of notes for a longer story (like, a huge fucking novel-type-story) but it's still really funny and really very good. AND IT HAS ARI GOLD AND MERLIN EMRYS IN THE SAME PLACE. There is nothing not to like about that.