LOVE IS POISON

Fucking Real Life

Okay, I'm stressed over this fucking exam. So. Fucking. Much.
There just isn't enough time. And I've tried but I can't concentrate, and I know why. I'm just sick and tired of studying and I don't care about physics and I just want out. London needs to happen. Or something. I need to go somewhere, have a change of pace some time soon, or I'll lose my mind.

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The fucking huge fandom

The only thing keeping me sane lately has been tea and Glee. Seriously. (It kind of rhymes but that wasn't the point.) There are no words to describe just how much I love that show and its cliché-riddled cast. I can just turn off my brain and hum along when I know the songs. And I kind of watched 5 episodes today with my sister because I knew stuff would happen on 1x12, and then 1x13 was Sectionals and we just needed to finish, and we were supposed to watch two episodes on Merlin tonight but after the failboat that was 3x09 (though I liked the punch-to-the-arm scene) I didn't really want to watch 3x10 so switching back to Glee seemed like a good alternative and then 1x15 was the Madonna episode... So yeah.

We're officially marathoning it. Late to the party and everything, but I don't really care. I just think I'll stay clear of the fandom because I don't really care for unnecessary drama and I miiight just have some unpopular opinions about characters/ships. (I also want to adopt Brittany, but that's beside the point.)
And I have a new favourite song. Lately I change favourite songs a bit too often. I have the attention span of a deranged rabbit. Unless it's time to watch another episode of Glee. Honestly I think this show might just have brainwashed me into some kind of mindless minion but I don't really care.

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The small fandom that makes me happy

I've signed up for yuletide and I've got a feeling nobody else is offering or requesting Locke Lamora. Which makes me sad, because, seriously. The author is cool too, personal problems aside, he's got a livejournal and pulled his main character's name from a Final Fantasy game and said he was okay with fanfiction as long as he didn't have to read any of it. And he's got the full prologue from his first book online here, I don't remember if it's the part about little Locke or the start of their highly entertaining con, but either way it's a good read.

There are conmen and witty remarks and badassness and female pirate captains. There's also much use of the word "fuck" and similar, but if you read my entries I suppose it doesn't bother you too much. Oh, and he tends to create characters and make you love them and then kill them off brutally. But apart from this, the books are cool. So, uhm. Read them? Please?

Day 14 - What is your favorite book pairing?

I have a ton of book pairings since I used to read a lot a few years back. Not so much any more, but I still have a huge amount of book fandoms. Shockingly enough all the HP shipping wars went over my head since I wasn't in that part of the fandom, as I said a few years back. Definitely not because I wasn't interested in the ships itself - I've got the firm belief that Harry/Hermione shippers are delusional and Harry/Draco makes me laugh. So yeah, definitely not conductive to a peaceful co-existence with other shippers. But I don't have any pairings that make me go OMGWANT from HP.

Right now, I'm really into Lawrence/Granby from the Temeraire novels by Naomi Novik. I don't really like Novik's style, but the stories itself are brilliant. It's the Napoleonic Wars, with dragons. Just the backcover summary hit all of my buttons. There's this Navy captain, Will Lawrence, who wins a dragon egg in battle and becomes the trainer of a battle dragon. They battle from the back of a dragon, with a crew and all! (I've always had a thing for naval battles, due to reading too many Salgari books when I was an impressionable youth.)

Granby is Lawrence's first lieutenant. He's very earnest and outspoken and his duties include saving Lawrence's arse every time he tries to do something brave and stupid. And they have all these adorably and gentlemanly conversations and call each other by their surname most of the time even though they're best friends. And Granby sewed up Lawrence's shirt and and and! They're adorable. Uhm, words fail me, so just take it for granted.

Obviously hooking up in canon will be impossible, sodomy laws in England being what they were and Lawrence and Granby being decent, old-fashioned fellows. Oh, and Lawrence already has a very badass love interest -- at least up to where I read, and I hope nothing bad happens to Jane in the next books because she's made of awesome too. But that never stopped the shippers, didn't it?
I haven't read much fic for those two since I want to avoid major spoilers, but I did find Uncharted which is my favourite fic forever and ever so that makes up for it. There's also this artist on DA who draws fanart of the series, not of Lawrence/Granby specifically but it's cute so who cares.

Oh yeah, I also have a bunch of pairings from ASOIAF but I'm thinking to make a separate post later about ASOIAF and the HBO series, since LJ lacks dedicated communities for those. I'll take the chance to do some picspam in preparation for 2011.