My weekend in a numbered list...

[bluflamingo]

1. I am victorious over my packing (moving house on new year's eve, yay!), my laundry, my posting of christmas presents and my buying of furniture (including an amy moment* in which I acquired a chest of drawers that would have been £70 including delivery for only £30, because I went by a nice secondhand place). However, I have also packed all my

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[_la_la_la]

Yes! Another one falls to the sparkly power of Merlin :D I love all the characters, even if I'm shipping Merlin/Arthur so hard. Morgana and Gwen have some lovely scenes together, though I'm hoping for more development of Gwen in the second series.

Yay - more John, Cam, & Alex! *smishes*

[bluflamingo]

Yes! Another one falls to the sparkly power of Merlin

I was going to stay away from pseudo-medieval fandoms (my first fandom was the 2004 King Arthur movie), but I was seduced by franticsga's Air Force weather forecasters AU.

[ariadne83]

I hope you know, I'm really looking forward to #3, whichever idea you end up writing.

I sympathise - my brain has been taken over by a Rodney/Jennifer friendship-fic plotbunny.

[bluflamingo]

I hope you know, I'm really looking forward to #3, whichever idea you end up writing.

Thanks. I really want to do both of them, but the prospect of the second one kind of terrifies me, because it's break up fic from Jennifer's point of view, where she's not the bad guy, but Rodney kind of is a little bit, because of the team and John, and I just - ugh, it has so much potential to go horribly wrong and be hated by everyone. And also get me accused of hating Jennifer, which I really don't want since I like her and I want her to be sympathetic in it. And also because I'm sick of stories where they break up and it's all her fault because she should just step aside and let Rodney be with John, and Rodney is totally innocent.

So, yeah, it has a lot of potential for disaster, I feel :)

my brain has been taken over by a Rodney/Jennifer friendship-fic plotbunny.

Cool :)

[ariadne83]

See, as much as I like Rodney I enjoy seeing him be the bad guy on occasion. Really, sometimes he's not very nice - he can be oblivious and forgetful, and he can have a one-track mind. I've even see him forget who he's talking to and just say whatever insult pops into his head, even when it makes no sense. It's one of the things that make him so compelling. I say bring it on, but I understand the wariness about fandom's reaction. It's a crazy place at the moment.

I've just about hit my limit with stories where he 'realises' he never cared about her at all, on any level. As much as I want to see Rodney and John get together, sometimes I *want* it to be hard, especially because choosing to be with John is arguably the more difficult option (and I know we don't *choose* who we love, but I think Rodney's practical-minded enough to at least try).

[bluflamingo]

Really, sometimes he's not very nice - he can be oblivious and forgetful, and he can have a one-track mind.

Exactly. They're not really suited to each other, in my opinion, but it's as much him as it is her, and her pointing out ways in which he could be different is not a sign that she's a terrible person, nor is it a sign that Rodney's helpless before her machinations. If he doesn't want to, he doesn't have to, and also, he could leave her. They're dating, not married with three kids, and even if the latter were true, if he hated it that much, he could still leave! She doesn't have magical mind-controlling powers over him!

I've just about hit my limit with stories where he 'realises' he never cared about her at all, on any level. Definitely. And John always ends up admitting his feelings after the break-up and having Rodney fall into bed with him, declaring that if he'd only known, he never would have been with Keller, and there's never a moment when either one of them is bothered by this. If I was John, I think I'd be pretty

[kyizi]

it has wizards, sorcery, Anthony Head and a dragon

...see, I'm at a loss as to why I haven't started watching that yet!

I'm off to write about John, Cam and Alex, and snow, and hot chocolate. And possibly make myself hot chocolate to go with it.

*flails* Really? *g* YEAY!

[bluflamingo]

see, I'm at a loss as to why I haven't started watching that yet!

You really should :) Just don't think too hard about how it's supposed to be medieval times, and you'll be fine (and try to ignore them saying 'ok')!

[kyizi]

lol, ignore the little things and enjoy the whole, then? ;)

[bluflamingo]

Basically. Or at least pretend that everything they say is being translated from medieval to modern English, so they're using their equivalent of ok, rather than the actual word!