HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!

Saturday was my birthday and it was awesome *\o/* I want to thank everyone for their lovely birthday wishes and emails and smoke signals, and lavcea, sparky77 and anonymous for my virtual presents with special adoration for maurheti who wrote me Southland fic wherein there is shaving of the beard. (No literally) \o/

I'd also like to wish my fellow birthday weekend girls (foxxcub, rageprufrock, slodwick) many happy returns of the day! It's hard sharing your birthday with major holidays; people are always trying to be out of town -- what's that all about?

And in conclusion: music, cause everybody loves music on their birthday!


50 Cent 'in da Club'

Stevie Wonder 'Happy Birthday'

K's Choice 'Everything for Free'

Last Week's Recs

A little something from me to you. Hope everyone's having a good start to their week.


Inception

How to extract when you are four inches tall and made from felt by fera_festiva -- Felt!Arthur and Eames. Daleks! Lego guns!

Now We're Cooking by red_rahl -- It's the holidays and Eames is going to cook for Arthur, dammit.


Sherlock

The Curious Case of the Heart by chibirhm -- Pretty much all the Sherlock fic I've read to date is from John's POV and understandably so. Getting inside Sherlock's head cannot possibly be easy and you clearly have to be willing to commit if you're going there. chibirhm committed and went there, and it's beautiful.

Homemaking by rageprufrock --John has Sherlock; Harry has Clara. Guess who turns out to be the scarier option?

Light Our Own Fires by black_eyedgirl -- From the AVENWiki: Demisexual - is a person who does not experience sexual attraction until they form a strong emotional connection with someone, often in a romantic relationship. The term demisexual comes from the orientation being "halfway between" sexual and asexual. In general, demisexuals are not sexually attracted to anyone of either gender; however, when a demisexual is emotionally connected to (usually in love with) someone else, the demisexual experiences sexual attraction and desire to the same degree as a sexual person, but only towards the specific partner(s).

L'instinct suffit by kate_lear -- I'm meant to be learning French in the new year. I really really really hope my lessons go like these. Just saying.

The Perils of Urban Warfare by phantomjam -- You don't choose who you love. This can make life rather difficult if you're in therapy. At least if your name is John Watson.

When The Bough Breaks by alice_day -- Molly's a witch; John is a baby and Sherlock is totally not down with this program. Even though John is the cutest kid on earth. Complete with amazing art by sadynax

Totally Biased Rec of Awesome \o/: aredblush was kind enough to make me this adorable Sherlock doodle for my birthday and it is lovely and I'm so very touched. Thank you, bb!


The Social Network

and that's why we're still waiting by figletofvenice -- Everybody knows that Mark Zuckerberg took the entire Facebook staff to see the movie. How would you feel about seeing someone else's interpretation of your life?

Bugfixes in the Redesign by black_eyedgirl -- Mark and Eduardo get trapped in an elevator post-lawsuit. Dear The Social Network Fandom, You are really bringing the A Game. And it is AWESOME. \o/

the farther I fall I'm beside you by therealw -- I think Marilyn is awesome. Andrew Garfield ships Eduardo/Mark. The author ships being awesome. It's a lot of awesome things that go awesome together. Prepare to be amazed and fall in love all over again.


Video of the Week

Andrew Garfield singing The Bed Intruder Song. Blame figletofvenice

Beeb Docudrama about Vincent Van Gogh (wherein Vincent is played by Himself, Benedict Cumberbatch). Thank pearljamz