All sorts of things on a Sunday

[destina]

Good morning out there. By 7:15 AM I had already put gas in the car, grocery shopped, walked two miles, and cleaned the kitchen. I was supposed to hike up a mountain today with friends, but that's been postponed until tomorrow. (For those of you who know me well and who just raised an eyebrow in surprise because you're wondering why I'm climbing a

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[castalie]

Funny thing (well, I thought it was funny, not to say anyone else would too), I'd just finished my umpteenth re-reading of Small Pleasures when I saw your entry on my flist. Clearly this means I must pick a number and play :-)

Ok, I'll go with #19.

And good luck with your exam!

[destina]

:D It is kind of funny! And also quite lovely. Hm, personal head-canon. Maybe I should give two. For Merlin fandom, one of the things I think about quite a lot is the difference between how Merlin and Gwaine interact prior to season four and during season four. Merlin has become distant and cautious with Gwaine by season four - even wary in some circumstances, I'd say - where previously he was open and happy with him. So my personal head canon there is that in the year between seasons 3 and 4, they had some kind of a relationship, which ended because Gwaine recognized it will only ever really be Arthur for Merlin (requited or not), and Merlin was hurt by Gwaine letting him go. Hence the distance.

In SPN, my head canon is that Death is obsessed with Dean Winchester the way a scientist is obsessed with figuring out a mutated virus or something; he watches Dean from time to time, or sends his favorite reaper to do it for him. There's just something about that Dean Winchester.

[amnisias]

Oh, I love the idea of MadScientist!Death/Dean. There was always a mixture of irritation, boredome, puzzlement and indulgence in Death's interactions with Dean.

[killabeez]

I LIKE YOUR MERLIN/GWAINE HEADCANON VERY MUCH.

*surprises no one here*

[jenlev]

There needs to be an obligatory foot picture on top of said mountain! :)

[destina]

Heh, if I remember, I will do that! Or get someone else to; I'm trying not to carry much with me on the hike. I don't want to die before I get there. (Still hate hiking! Especially uphill!!)

[jenlev]

Yes to all of the above....er, meaning ixnay on the dying before you get there or even after. *smooches*

[frogspace]

And finally, I have begun using tumblr savior, and the joy and relief at not having to see anything related to The Avengers

That's fortunate! (Because I reblog a lot of Avengers related stuff. *cough*) But fear not, I reblog a lot of Merlin stuff too. :D

[destina]

I am excited about following your tumblr! Because I often wish I spoke/read German, which is the only thing holding me back from your LJ. *g*

[sheron]

Just curious :D

3. A pairing you have never liked and probably never will.

4. A pairing you wish you liked but just can't.

[destina]

Heh heh. *g*

A pairing I've never liked and probably never will: There really are not many of these, in any fandom I've been through, because even if I don't personally ship something, I often can see why others do. But one that has always skeeved me out for no particular reason (other than the fact that I was hardcore MSR at the time) is Skinner/Scully. That goes back all the way to my first fandom, mid-nineties; I avoided it like the plague then, and I still make faces when I run across it.

A pairing I wish I liked but I just can't: Sam/Castiel. It doesn't make any sense to me, because Castiel is so canon-connected to Dean, and because half my brain is given over to a Sam/Dean OTP, and the other half of my brain recognizes that Dean/Castiel is about as close to canon for a m/m pairing as this show ever is capable of giving us.

[sheron]

Heh, I never felt much about either pairing you mentioned, precisely because I did understand how people would like it intellectually but there were more compelling ships for me to ship.

If I may, I'll ask one more:

10. Name a fandom you didn't care/think about until you saw it all over twitter/tumblr/your social network sites.

Mostly because it made me think of how my answer would be Teen Wolf. *facepalm* I blame flist, there is no other possible reason I would have watched this show on my own.

[destina]

Fandom is so awesome that way - avoidance is absolutely futile. :D

10. Name a fandom you didn't care/think about until you saw it all over twitter/tumblr/your social network sites - Probably the best recent example of this for me was The Eagle. I was like, nope nope nope nope -- oh, wait, Romans? Devotion unto death? Exceptionally grimy and pretty Channing Tatum? Slavefic but for reals? Living happily ever after on a farm??? I'M IN.

[musesfool]

Tumblr savior is the best! It makes the whole experience so much better. I wish there was a tumblr savior for the entire internet.

15 and/or 23!

[destina]

That would be awesome. Just thinking about the amount of signal to noise it reduces, I'm wistful. *g

[musesfool]

Scully! In any universe!

And yes about Lucius Vorenus.

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