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I was going to talk about my new found love and appreciation for all things NCIS. Really, can I get a Gibbs? Baring that, some really hot Gibbs porn. And then I was going to ask where the hell is all the Kirk/McCoy and can we not have people crying or being broken or whatever, but doing what they do best? Namely, being snarky and hot as fuck. Or possibly, I was going to see if I could get some of you snitches to make me beer icons. BUT. That has all been pushed aside, because apparently Michael Cudlitz (Cooper to you lot) is friends with FUCKING DONNIE WAHLBERG. ETA: I'd forgotten that they did Band of Brothers together, which again, goes to show that EVERYBODY was in that series and it's my favorite for a reason. I love that they're still in touch almost ten years later. Seriously, if you haven't seen BoB, this is The Offical hackthis Boot (TM) of GET THE FUCK ON THAT.

*Said boot also applies to Generation Kill, The Wire, Homicide, Southland, Skins, Life on Mars (UK edition only), Kitchen Confidential and Mad Men.

Please don't make me embarass myself. Seriously though, it also turns out that Michael's son wants to make his own throwing stars. And a crossbow. He's a total ninja baby. I love the hell out of archery myself, and would not object to the throwing stars, but that's not my kid, so...

Also, plz, feel free to bring me your smoking hot Gibbs pron, Kirk/McCoy pron and snark and beer icons. Thx. Peace out.

ETA #2: alethialia, trolleys, et al, GK types, please go and tell sparky77 that the baby hackthis will CRY if she doesn't write Mermaid!Brad. Yeah, you read that right. Enabling is a team sport!

Comments

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

Wait, srsly? Brad-the-hotass? Can people even see the shrapnel scars when he's, ya know, wearing clothes?

LOL. Do you think pretty people don't have insecurities too? That they're not plagued by doubt. Hot or not, people have issues. Or in the case of Brad, do you really think he considers himself good-looking? Honestly? Brad considers himself strong. In body and in mind. Physically able. Mentally capable. In my mind, Brad appreciates aesthetics in others, a good stride when you run, a strong arm in sports, a hot girl scantily clad, but appreciation does not necessarily follow *self* appreciation. In fact, most times it doesn't follow at all.

The irony, of course: Nate would share if asked.

Yes, but that's the idiocy of most people. You get further if you ask, but most people are too retarded to do so.

[alethialia.livejournal.com]

Oh, I realize pretty people have insecurities, but I got caught on the irrationality of the scar preoccupation, coming from Brad. Because he knows it's something people can't see, so Nate meeting him for the first time won't be pondering his scars. But then, yes, insecurities aren't rational, I know. ::waves hands:: Just ignore me.

do you really think he considers himself good-looking?

I think he knows that other people consider him good-looking, a range of enough other people to inform him that they must be seeing something, it's not just a one-off. But recognizing and internalizing are two different things, so.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

Oh, I realize pretty people have insecurities, but I got caught on the irrationality of the scar preoccupation, coming from Brad. Because he knows it's something people can't see, so Nate meeting him for the first time won't be pondering his scars. But then, yes, insecurities aren't rational, I know. ::waves hands:: Just ignore me.

So say he's got a couple scars. One that creeps above the collar of his shirt and a few in his leg. Most people look at his face - as you pointed out - and even if Brad's got doubts, people respond to him. But this journalism thing is complicated. He's a white man. An American no less. He is not the norm. So, now people are staring for different reasons. Which, I think, is another reason he likes being abroad so often. Not that he's throwing it in anybody face, but here, he thinks he's judged more for who he is and not how he looks. Even though he is this anomaly, it's for a different reason. And women - this being Iraq - don't tend to look at him at all. The female journalists are so few and far between that they're like ghosts...

[alethialia.livejournal.com]

One that creeps above the collar of his shirt and a few in his leg.

I fully thought the same thing. Maybe something that reaches his neck, that IS visible.

Even though he is this anomaly, it's for a different reason.

And that is fascinating...since he knows he'll be judged, he's picking that on which he will be judged. Which actually lets him skate by on facing any insecurities in some ways.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

I fully thought the same thing. Maybe something that reaches his neck, that IS visible.

It's not small though. It's large, discernable, almost the size of a hand. And when Brad first was injured, he was just glad to be alive. Because the other people in that market? Not necessarily so lucky. His jugular is still in tact. And when he was in that Iraqi hospital, because freelancers don't have medical and he wasn't going to go home, not even for this -- he thought long and hard about his life. About what he was going to do next. Because everyone else told him to go home. Told him to get that good old US healthcare, but Brad's saving for a rainy day, and he'll only think it's raining when he loses a limb. When he ended up stateside again, months later, this time for the shrapnel in his leg, the doctors tried to convice him to let them clean up his neck. Skin grafts, the whole thing would look like new. Or at least better. And Brad said no, because he's spent his whole life being looked at, now, now people don't stare as much. Now when people look at him, they look him in the eye. These are his terms. Fuck everyone else.

[alethialia.livejournal.com]

::loves him lots::