my moral standing is lying down

One thing I adore about the new Sherlock is its quotableness. <333! Sherlock is brilliant and cutting-- just as he should be.

Friday night I watched episodes 1 and 3 over with Juliet. There was much fangirlish squeeing. It was adorable and disgusting by turns. UGH. THIS SHOW IS JUST. SO. FUCKING. GOOD.

Here's a really interesting AU by rubberbutton, in which vampires have enslaved humans and control, well, everything: A Priori. And then there's the sequel: White Noise. A pretty fresh take on the whole vampire thing. And an interesting perspective on the dynamics of the relationships between Sherlock and John, Sherlock and Mycroft, and Mycroft and John. ...and then there's a touch of Moriarty, which I hope anticipate being followed up on in another part.

This, along with my undying love for wordstrings's Paradox series, tells me that I take my headcanon!Sherlock with a good dose of teh crazy (and my headcanon!John with a dose of the helplessly enthralled).

This? Doesn't come as much of a surprise to most of you, I know.



ION... I am SO ACHY FROM MOSHING you would not believe! Bruises on my arms, aching muscles and god, my feet hurt so much. I also have a cut on my neck and I have no idea where it came from. At first I thought it was from my earring, but I really don't think it reaches that spot... but who the hell knows. Could've happened at any point during the moshing, or possibly one of the several times I was pushed down? The three of us were satisfyingly (but achingly) exhausted after the show; Liz and I took a cab home and promptly fell asleep for a good TEN HOURS WTF!

Clearly I've been on a TV-watching kick recently. Aside from the 4 eps of Supernatural I mentioned in a previous post, I've also caught up on:

1. The last 9 eps of The Mentalist (season 3). Which I really watch for Simon Baker's shamelessly impertinent Holmesian character, Patrick Jane... and Cho's SUPER EXTRA DRY delivery of every single line ever. I'd have dropped this show long, long ago if it weren't for these two characters. There's no episode in which they do not make me happy (and no, I don't ship them) so I just couldn't stop watching.
   
   
2. All 3 eps of BBC Sherlock. The first episode was perfect, or as near to it as I think we'll get! Cumberbatch is amazing as Holmes; Holmes and Watson's relationship is. just. perfect. Their give-and-take is simply a delight. Eps 2 and 3 were not as good as 1, but (at least in my mind) a lot can be forgiven, plot-wise, when the characters are just so dead on.
   
   I find it hard to ship Holmes and Watson in my own head... but that's what awesome fic writers are for, y/y?! Do yourself a favor and read wordstrings's EPICALLY FUCKING AMAZING Paradox Series. It features sociopathically-fucked-up!Holmes and there-to-keep-him-on-the-right-track!Watson. I can't thank pixie_darling enough for bringing this to my attention. NGL, I think I may be spoiled for anything else in this fandom after having read this one.
   
   
3. Series 1 of Merlin. Plus the first 2 eps of season 2. I enjoyed what I've seen and, oddly enough (because I often like the main character best) I like Arthur more than Merlin? This makes my brow furrow to think on because by all rights I really thought I'd like Merlin more. My frustration with the fact that Merlin hasn't told Arthur about his abilities is kind of peaking. I don't normally like spoilers but I think a teeny tiny one in this case would help me to persevere...
   
   So. Does Arthur, at any point up to the current series 3 episode, find out about Merlin's abilities? I'M BEGGING FOR SOMEONE TO TELL ME HE DOES. Don't tell me how or when or why, but if the answer is yes, I'm going to dive back in and continue watching and push through to the end. But if the answer is no.... I'll probably stop watching now... unless someone can give me a really good reason to keep going.

I watched the first two episodes of Shattered a month or so ago, but I dunno... it was good but... I think I'm just not quite in the mood for it just yet. I'm downloading all the episodes for when I want some hardboiled cop stuff. I hope it's soon because I'm actually missing all my CKR-squeeing buddies from C6D fandom. =(

ION, Inception fandom has slowed down quite a bit AND IT MAKES ME EXTREMELY SAD. Especially since I'm so impatiently awaiting updates on a multitude of WIPs. This is probably why I'm dipping into other fandoms for a fix. Jesus. THEN AGAIN, IT'S ONLY SIXTEEN DAYS UNTIL INCEPTION IS RELEASED ON DVD/BLURAY SO I'M HOPING THERE WILL BE AN UPSURGE IN FIC AGAIN.

/junkie