Happy things
Yesterday my iPod shuffled I Got Rhythm from An American in Paris as I was walking down the train platform, which meant that I heard Gene Kelly tap-dancing for about five minutes and had to hold myself back from dancing with him, because I tragically do not know how. There was some skipping and head bobbing though.
You may have heard about this wedding that happened yesterday! I watched the Lifetime William and Kate which aired on TV the night before, which was so bad, so bad, but it appears that I am an absolute sucker for modern day royalty AUs (or non-AUs, as the case may be), and I want to read all the modern day royal AUs in the world, especially for YOU GUESSED IT Bandom. And then Kate & Leopold was on after that -- they were having a Kate and-- evening -- and I wanted a Bandom AU of that as well. Can you not imagine a 19th century Brendon or Gerard finding themselves in the modern day and age? *___*. (Or, okay. It's true that The Bootstrap Paradox and Other Tips for Finding True Love has satisfied pretty much every time travel itch I could have had, with 21st century Spencer and Ryan going back in time to encounter 17th century pirates Brendon and Jon, and some reverse time travel as well -- but in the end, there are never too many time travel fics.)
ETA and APPARENTLY a Brendon/Spencer royalty fic was just posted at the Bandom commentfic meme! HEARTS. (I have also been delighted with every single other fill there so far, oh my god.)
Okay, so let me also talk about this photo of Brendon and Spencer from the Ready To Go video, which is so utterly strange and lolsome. At first I thought it was paratrooper!Brendon, except no, it's just Spencer's drum, but anyway he looks like his overblown head was pasted on the body of his 17-year-old self, and Spencer looks like he just dropped in through the roof and also kind of like a cloth doll. I don't know. Every promo I have seen of this new video so far has made me O_O, but I'm looking forward to seeing it when it premiers.
A couple of tiny recs I've recently read:
Get Me Out of My Mind by
fictionalaspect -- Brendon/Spencer, R, 3300 words, highschool first kisses and so, so sweet ♥.
Hold My Tongue Until You're Gone by fiddleyoumust -- Brendon/Spencer, PG-13, 5400 words, where Spencer hs a kid and Brendon is the nanny and oh my god I have been craving nanny fic for SUCH a long time and this is so cute. Another itch scratched, yay :D But also this is seriously just happymaking.
circumnavigating foundations by
preromantics -- Brendon/Spencer/Shane, NC-17, 3400 words. He watches Brendon slide up close to Spencer in fast food booths, and comment on his ever-growing hair just so he can take a piece of it between his fingers.
Aaaand a couple of other stuff!
--I've finally finished listening to all the Pop Culture Happy Hour podcasts, which makes me sad because they made both the commute to work and washing the dishes really fun. But there's a new episode up every Friday, which is good. Like I said last time, this is basically four people just geeking around about pop culture -- Linda the host (who used to write for TWOP and is a general fan of everything), Stephen the music/reality TV show guy, Trey the theater guy, and Glen the comic book guy, although really, they are all pop culture and internet nerds. I have no idea what any of them look like, but at some point last week I realized that I imagine Glen as looking like Rodney McKay -- a kind of fast-speaking super nerdy light misanthrope, and while he's not socially inept like Rodney was, he's kind of like I imagine Rodney in all those AUs where he's achieved some kind of success on earth and can, you know, conduct himself without insulting the entire universe. So anyway, it's very fun to listen too :D see here an episode that begins with them all talking about the two comic books Glen gave them to read as homework assignments (a current issue of Batman and Batgirl), where just they talk about comics and how accessible they are to beginners and other meta geekery, and then have a round of things they're thankful for without being shmoopy (mostly). And-- okay, no. One day I will make a post naming all of the episodes I think y'all will like, depending on which fandoms you're in. but you can also just check out the official page and scroll through the post summaries to find a topic you'd be interested in listening to.
--Via tieleen: Jersey Shore Gone Wilde -- Jersey Shore soundbites acted by the Broadway cast of There's Something About Earnest. Super funny :D
--There are loquats on our treeeee! And they are delicious. The high ones on the treetop always ripen first and I can never beat the birds to them, but I managed to snag a few ripe&unpecked ones today, and a few have ripened on the lower branches as well, and I ended up eating about twenty. Which seriously can't be healthy, but summer fruits! I cannot resist them.
Loquats! Or shesek, in Hebrew.
How do you eat them, you ask? I usually peel them with my teeth, and then I eat the peels. As kind of an appetizer for the ~real thing, and also because I can't bother to look for trash cans and I don't like to litter by throwing them on the ground outside, even though they are totally compostable. If I'm outside and picking an eating straight from the tree, sometimes I won't eat the peels because it's cleaner, or feels that way.
Right, so then you take a bit and eat around the pits. Each loquat has a different number of pits, to no predictable logic as far as I know -- bit ones can have four or five, small ones can have one or two. Loquat pits are the coolest pits I know -- unlike peach or plum or apricot pits, these are completely smooth and glossy, kind of like tiger eye gemstones.
This particular fruit had four. And then you are left with pits, which kids sometimes collect and play with like marbles, and the tip of the core which you throw out, and that it that. Loquats \o/
--I just came back from watching Thor with
marina. I like Loki. I continue to dislike 3D :/
--My grandmother yesterday, lol. My mother speculated that maybe one of the women sitting behind the Queen at the wedding was her sister, Margaret.
My grandmother: Of course not! Margaret died a few years ago, we were friends. I've known her her entire life, we were about the same age -- I saw her want to marry the man she loved and be forced to marry another, saw her through the divorce, all these years we've been very close. I loved her very much.
Us: O_O WAIT. You were seriously friends with the Queen's sister?
Grandma: Oh no, she didn't know we were friends. But we were.
Seriously, I'm thinking of having a, like, Ask My Grandma Stuff meme or something. Last night we had steak for dinner and I randomly asked her about what meat they ate as a child, because I'd never really through about it but steak was not exactly something you had in Palestine in the 30s! (The answer was: whenever her mom bought meat she would put it in soup, and all of the actual meat pieces would go to my grandmother's father. Occasionally she would buy innards -- hearts, spleens, liver, etc, and make something from them. Most of the time, though, there'd be chicken, not beef.) Anyway, I am seriously thinking of just collecting questions from people and asking her. Surely there are questions I've never asked her because my imagination is too limited. I will update further on this matter.
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You may have heard about this wedding that happened yesterday! I watched the Lifetime William and Kate which aired on TV the night before, which was so bad, so bad, but it appears that I am an absolute sucker for modern day royalty AUs (or non-AUs, as the case may be), and I want to read all the modern day royal AUs in the world, especially for YOU GUESSED IT Bandom. And then Kate & Leopold was on after that -- they were having a Kate and-- evening -- and I wanted a Bandom AU of that as well. Can you not imagine a 19th century Brendon or Gerard finding themselves in the modern day and age? *___*. (Or, okay. It's true that The Bootstrap Paradox and Other Tips for Finding True Love has satisfied pretty much every time travel itch I could have had, with 21st century Spencer and Ryan going back in time to encounter 17th century pirates Brendon and Jon, and some reverse time travel as well -- but in the end, there are never too many time travel fics.)
ETA and APPARENTLY a Brendon/Spencer royalty fic was just posted at the Bandom commentfic meme! HEARTS. (I have also been delighted with every single other fill there so far, oh my god.)
Okay, so let me also talk about this photo of Brendon and Spencer from the Ready To Go video, which is so utterly strange and lolsome. At first I thought it was paratrooper!Brendon, except no, it's just Spencer's drum, but anyway he looks like his overblown head was pasted on the body of his 17-year-old self, and Spencer looks like he just dropped in through the roof and also kind of like a cloth doll. I don't know. Every promo I have seen of this new video so far has made me O_O, but I'm looking forward to seeing it when it premiers.
A couple of tiny recs I've recently read:
Get Me Out of My Mind by
fictionalaspect -- Brendon/Spencer, R, 3300 words, highschool first kisses and so, so sweet ♥.
Hold My Tongue Until You're Gone by fiddleyoumust -- Brendon/Spencer, PG-13, 5400 words, where Spencer hs a kid and Brendon is the nanny and oh my god I have been craving nanny fic for SUCH a long time and this is so cute. Another itch scratched, yay :D But also this is seriously just happymaking.
circumnavigating foundations by
preromantics -- Brendon/Spencer/Shane, NC-17, 3400 words. He watches Brendon slide up close to Spencer in fast food booths, and comment on his ever-growing hair just so he can take a piece of it between his fingers.
Aaaand a couple of other stuff!
--I've finally finished listening to all the Pop Culture Happy Hour podcasts, which makes me sad because they made both the commute to work and washing the dishes really fun. But there's a new episode up every Friday, which is good. Like I said last time, this is basically four people just geeking around about pop culture -- Linda the host (who used to write for TWOP and is a general fan of everything), Stephen the music/reality TV show guy, Trey the theater guy, and Glen the comic book guy, although really, they are all pop culture and internet nerds. I have no idea what any of them look like, but at some point last week I realized that I imagine Glen as looking like Rodney McKay -- a kind of fast-speaking super nerdy light misanthrope, and while he's not socially inept like Rodney was, he's kind of like I imagine Rodney in all those AUs where he's achieved some kind of success on earth and can, you know, conduct himself without insulting the entire universe. So anyway, it's very fun to listen too :D see here an episode that begins with them all talking about the two comic books Glen gave them to read as homework assignments (a current issue of Batman and Batgirl), where just they talk about comics and how accessible they are to beginners and other meta geekery, and then have a round of things they're thankful for without being shmoopy (mostly). And-- okay, no. One day I will make a post naming all of the episodes I think y'all will like, depending on which fandoms you're in. but you can also just check out the official page and scroll through the post summaries to find a topic you'd be interested in listening to.
--Via tieleen: Jersey Shore Gone Wilde -- Jersey Shore soundbites acted by the Broadway cast of There's Something About Earnest. Super funny :D
--There are loquats on our treeeee! And they are delicious. The high ones on the treetop always ripen first and I can never beat the birds to them, but I managed to snag a few ripe&unpecked ones today, and a few have ripened on the lower branches as well, and I ended up eating about twenty. Which seriously can't be healthy, but summer fruits! I cannot resist them.
Loquats! Or shesek, in Hebrew.
How do you eat them, you ask? I usually peel them with my teeth, and then I eat the peels. As kind of an appetizer for the ~real thing, and also because I can't bother to look for trash cans and I don't like to litter by throwing them on the ground outside, even though they are totally compostable. If I'm outside and picking an eating straight from the tree, sometimes I won't eat the peels because it's cleaner, or feels that way.
Right, so then you take a bit and eat around the pits. Each loquat has a different number of pits, to no predictable logic as far as I know -- bit ones can have four or five, small ones can have one or two. Loquat pits are the coolest pits I know -- unlike peach or plum or apricot pits, these are completely smooth and glossy, kind of like tiger eye gemstones.
This particular fruit had four. And then you are left with pits, which kids sometimes collect and play with like marbles, and the tip of the core which you throw out, and that it that. Loquats \o/
--I just came back from watching Thor with
marina. I like Loki. I continue to dislike 3D :/
--My grandmother yesterday, lol. My mother speculated that maybe one of the women sitting behind the Queen at the wedding was her sister, Margaret.
My grandmother: Of course not! Margaret died a few years ago, we were friends. I've known her her entire life, we were about the same age -- I saw her want to marry the man she loved and be forced to marry another, saw her through the divorce, all these years we've been very close. I loved her very much.
Us: O_O WAIT. You were seriously friends with the Queen's sister?
Grandma: Oh no, she didn't know we were friends. But we were.
Seriously, I'm thinking of having a, like, Ask My Grandma Stuff meme or something. Last night we had steak for dinner and I randomly asked her about what meat they ate as a child, because I'd never really through about it but steak was not exactly something you had in Palestine in the 30s! (The answer was: whenever her mom bought meat she would put it in soup, and all of the actual meat pieces would go to my grandmother's father. Occasionally she would buy innards -- hearts, spleens, liver, etc, and make something from them. Most of the time, though, there'd be chicken, not beef.) Anyway, I am seriously thinking of just collecting questions from people and asking her. Surely there are questions I've never asked her because my imagination is too limited. I will update further on this matter.
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