one more miracle

Merlin Rec!

Sometimes I Forget I'm Still Awake by paperclipbitch, Arthur/Gwen, PG, 4000 words, big spoilers for 1x12
An absolutely gorgeous, quiet little story about Gwen and her sadness, her complicated fondness for Arthur, and his complicated fondness in return. I can't say more because of spoilers, but if you've seen 1x12 you know what this is about. And it's beautiful. There are some lovely Merlin and Morgana moments as well. Just a wonderful story, and I hope the show does as much justice by Arthur and Gwen.

And now, The Hot People Meme! Basically an excuse to picspam prettiness. Who am I to say no? Going with the random sixteen number because 10 just isn't enough! :) I imposed a strict 5 pictures per person rule or else this would have taken me HOURS. (ETA: Okay, so it took hours anyway. WHOOPS. Pleeeease take a look? Haha.)

( Come see the pretty! Something for everyone, I promise. )

Wow, I... essentially wasted most of the afternoon on that. *FACEPALM* Ummm at least it's very pretty? Sigh.

It's been snowing allll day, it's quite lovely but keeping me from going and doing a couple errands. Classes start tomorrow and it'll be nice to have something to do. So in the meantime I'm basically just being a blob!

Lalala.

I had a Norman day yesterday a couple weeks ago (there was a power outage while I was writing this, so my internet went down, and I saved it as a document... didn't remember til now).

Watched Gossip, which I realized I really had seen all the way through a while ago, but alas I was not madly in love with Norm then, and this movie isn't one to really cause me to fall for him. I mean, he's cutely artistic and shy and I loved every second of him, but I realize that I'm biased ^_^ Overall, not a terrible movie - I like the lead female character a lot (holy shit, we just lost power! Like, completely O.O Fuck.) and James Marsden is pretty charismatic, but the ending has so many holes that can be poked in it that it loses most of its credibility.

I also watched most of Blade II - well, sort of. I was on my computer and only looked up when Norman was on screen. I missed the first half hour, so I'm guessing I missed the introduction of his character and other important stuff. It was such a bad movie, oh my god. When ( cut for spoilers, even though who cares? ) At least I didn't waste a Netflix rental on it. I happened to catch it on TV. Oh Norm, my love. For all he talks about only choosing roles that speak to him, how the hell did he end up in that movie? Silly, dear boy.

In other movie watching news, around the same time I watched Interview with the Vampire, and I'm rewatching parts of it right now. First of all, I far prefer Brad Pitt to Tom cruise, in general and also specifically in this movie. I think he's prettier, for one thing, and also a more soulful and unique actor. He really is quite talented. For a long time my impression was that he was just the resident Hollywood hottie, with little to no real talent, but I have been pleasantly surprised, first with Fight club and now this. Second of all, this is the most homoerotic movie EVER. Lestat calls claudia "our" (his and Louis's) daughter - basically saying they're a couple. Later, Armand's interactions with Louis are barely veiled as come ons. It's all very exciting, hee. Thirdly, Kirsten Dunst was quite the little actress! She portrays her character's complex journey with surprising ability - from a scared little girl, to a naive little vampiress, to a tortured woman trapped in an eternally prepubescent body. Her relationship with Louis is fascinating, how she calls him "beloved" and even kisses him once, despite their visual age disparity. Yeah, I really liked this movie a lot. :) I meant to make some icons, because there are exactly zero decent ones out there (unless I missed a random post in some icon makers journal, which is likely, but no good ones posted on the icon comm for the Anne Rice universe) but now I just don't have the time, and besides, I really wouldn't use them. So, no vampire icons, I sorry.

Do you know what I would sell my soul for?

A picture of Norman Reedus and Sean Patrick Flanery together outside of the BDS movie.

Or the video that the BDS test images come from.

Yeah, my soul doesn't go for much.

So I've seen two movies purely for my boys' sake, and they were both WEIRD. Thoughts:

( Six Ways to Sunday, featuring Norman Reedus )

( Shallow Grave, featuring Ewan McGregor )

Off to either icon or watch some Boondock Saints! ^_^

The second part of my Floating picspam, featuring a shirtless Norman Reedus. The first part can be found HERE.

And it's Van again. He's still really hot.


( Arms! Tattoos! )

Here ends the beauty. Hope you enjoyed :D