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I had such great hopes for this post! It was going to be a list of like 20 awesome Susan things and I would explain why they were awesome and it would all be wonderful. That did not happen.

I tried, guys, I really tried! I bookmarked like forty Narnia fic to read so I could go through them all to find all the Susan-centric gems. Unfortunately I have the attention span of a hyperactive cat and have spent the past six months bouncing from fandom to fandom and occasionally looking at this post guiltily. Today I came to the conclusion that I will never finish this post to my satisfaction so I may as well post it now.

This post is dedicated to hmsharmony who is awesome and gets how lovely Susan is and how much her narrative totally screwed her over. Still side-eyeing you C. S. Lewis.

( No more dreaming like a girl so in love with the wrong world )

Augh, this is so shooort. =( One day I will return to this and add all the fic that I meant to read and rec. One day.

And now I don't need to see The Social Network. Awesome. =D

Backseat Merlin, 3.01 and 3.02 vid, on the breakdown of the OT4. This vid makes me so sad. All those missed connections and opportunities -- such_heights does a great job of bringing in past clips to heighten each relationship. They should have been forever. =(

not your Rosalie Hale TVD, Caroline gen. This is what I want for Caroline Forbes on the show. I want her to be okay and adapt to being a vampire and know that being dead is not a death sentence. And I love every one of her interactions here. And how it really goes into every single thing the show skimmed over over with Caroline -- her relationship with Bonnie, the fact that Elena and Bonnie didn't tell her anything. And I like that she remembers Vicki.

All the Broken Pieces of the World Fit Together Jellicoe Road, Jude/Fitz, Jude/The Fucked-up Four. Haha, man are any of you going to read this? Have any of you even read Jellicoe Road? Because if you haven't I am recommending it right now. Don't read the fic first, it's kind of spoilery by implication. Besides, it works alot better if you know the source. That said this was such an excellent surprise to find! When I read Jellicoe Road I loved Fitz and Webb and Narnie and Tate and Jude and how much they loved each other and this fic totally gets that, how anything between two of them is really about all five.

=DDDDDD I haven't even watched past episode five of Legend of the Seeker and yet this gives me great joy. Also it's possible I'm going to be spamming you this morning with wonderful things? IT'S OKAY WHO DOESN'T WANT TO SEE KAHLAN BE ALL ADORABLE AND ASK WHAT SHE WAS WEARING AND ALSO CARA'S AMAZING FACES.

EDIT: MOCKINGJAY HEALING AND HAPPILY EVER AFTER MEME, I TAKE BACK EVERY MEAN THING I EVER SAID ABOUT YOU FANDOM, YOU ARE WONDERFUL

Two recs today: one old and one new!

Between the Bars This vid is from last year. I downloaded it then and I still sometimes get the urge to rewatch it so I figured I might as well rec. This is one where the lyrics just fit so PERFECTLY you have to wonder if someone wasn't thinking about the Arthurian legend when they wrote it. My favourite part of the vid's got to be this.

The people you've been before
That you don't want around anymore
Or that push and shove and won't bend to your will
I'll keep them still

I love the way she cuts to footage of other incarnations of the Arthur legend (the people you've been before) and the idea of Merlin pushing them down. It really gives a sense of history to the legend. And while the song choice is brilliant this is one of the vids where you can watch it on mute (I just did, my mom's asleep) and the story is still clear to you. It reminds me a little of obsessive24's Red with the hint of tragedy lurking around the edges -- the story's happened before and it'll happen again. Definitely give it a shot, it's one of my top vids.

Watershed And this is the one that's brand new! Fandom's produced quite a few Morgana vids, most of them brilliant. They do tend to use alot of the same footage though, probably because in season 2 especially there isn't that much Morgana footage to use. This still manages to feel fresh to me though. It's a vid that benefits from rewatching, I've seen it a few times and I still don't think I've caught everything it's trying to say. I particularly like the section tying Morgana in with the other magical women of Camelot. I think this is my favourite vid to come out of Vividcon this year.

I just keep watching this over and over. It's like a concentrated shot of HI ZEINEB YOU REALLY LOVE THIS CAST A HELL OF A LOT, YOU SHOULD GO FIND ALL THE HAPPY FIC.

When will season 3 start again? Because I think it should be TOMORROW.

The Doctor Who finale airs today! I am full of anticipation and would quite like the clock to run a bit faster now. But since that seems unlikely to happen and I am not in possession of a TARDIS I am need of something to do while waiting for the episode. I COULD study for my exam Tuesday but that would be so out of character for me I would be frightened and begin to wonder if I've been secretly been replaced with an Auton. So instead you are all getting an Amy Pond rec post!

( Eleven Amy Pond centric recs under the cut. Also some bonus meta on this season of Doctor Who. )

This was a really good timewaster! Especially considering I could not resist the urge to reread and watch everything I just recced. =) The stuff here is just my favourites, for more Amy Pond check out her character tag on my del.ici.ous.

Yeah so NOW I really want to watch Legend. xD Apparently the key to my heart is vidding a kdrama to Brittany Spears? WHO KNEW.

On the book front: I finished the romance from yesterday. Our Hero acknowledged that the real heroine is in fact a whole lot better than fantasy! He just took his time because real people are harder than dreams and he was afraid (surprise!). At one point he provided her with a pound of iron to keep in her reinforced purse which she used to beat her uncle about the head until he was unconscious while attempting to rescue her aunt. It was my favourite part of the book. <3333 True love helps you prepare to beat down your abusers.

Second favourite bit: when the Hero reveals to his brother that he is not actually an idiot as he has been pretending to be for the last twelve years ever since his riding accident and his brother punches him the face because what a jerk move to pull God, he spent like twelve years mourning the person his brother used to be NEXT TIME BE LESS FAILY VERE. Probably it says something that my favourite scenes both involved some level of violence being inflicted on people who kind of deserved it. I don't know what though. o:)

Ahhh, so 90s. *_* I'm having nostalgia flashbacks to the days when I was a wee!madpoker and didn't really get this whole music I hadn't made up myself business (I used to make up songs all the time. Like when I was vacuuming. Let me tell you there was some brilliant angsting going on about the necessity of chores there 8D) and my cousin Hanae sat me down and forced me to watch The Hit List and I was like 'nooo boring give me back my cartoons DDDDD=' and slowly was converted to the power of singing groups and dancing. HOW FAR WE HAVE COME.