idealists are the cruelest monsters of them all.

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

It's Wednesday. Let's do Friday Recs! \o/ What can I say -- I see no reason to postpone the sharing of awesome.

This is the first week I'm attempting diversification of Friday Recs, we'll see how it goes. I had to start drafting this fucker yesterday, so don't say I never did anything for you. This week's recs are REALLY REALLY art heavy (*fist pump*) cause that's what I'm feeling right now. Plus, there's so much Sherlock fic to go through I'm not even sure how to go through it apart from just reading until my eyeballs fall out. ( This is broken up in three sections by fandom: Inception, Social Network, and, of course, Sherlock. And videos. Love the videos. And yes, it is long enough to warrant a cut. Finally. )

Also, I have been most remiss in not wishing the most beloved United States Marine Corps a very happy birthday. The older you are the hotter and more competent you get! \o/

You ever tried to put a rec list together after your laptop died for the... third time, and all you can think is fuck my fucking life? Probably not. I don't recommend it. How am I posting this shit? With goddamn smoke signals and a fucking stolen laptop. Don't try this shit at home, children.

Art Recs


Missing Marketing Art for Inception by thisisnotbruce -- So Warner Brothers made art for every other team member but Yusuf. I AM NOT OKAY WITH THAT. *thinks of blood pressure* Thankfully, thisisnotbruce rectified that. High five.

More Inception Care Bears Art by aredblush -- There is a pretty pretty princess crown with Grumpy Bear Arthur's name on it. In conclusion? \o/!!!!

Pulp by fanlay -- This is THE art. The art we have all been waiting out entire lives for. For reals. The color, the body language. The bruises on Eames' knuckles and Arthur's face. The way she did the lighting. The lines, the coloring, the shading, oh my god. *swoons*

Saito Art by blue_phlox -- Oh my god, the colors in this are exquisite. Also, I think the tattoo it's now my new fanon. Like for real. This. Yes.

And, because I am admittedly super fucking biased johanirae made art for my story just because a man visits another man doesn't mean they're doing anything illegal (yet) which is AWESOME. AND. AND. loobeeinthesky made art for my story j'veux ton amour, et je m'en fous d'après because she is awesome, too. And I gotta say for a horrible fucking week, y'all are making it way better.


Fic Recs

Give Me The Number (If You Can Find It) by ifeelbetter -- Eames and Arthur switch phones by mistake, but this story is really about what your phone says about you. Your apps, your texts, they are all hints about who you are as a person. Also, better wooing through concrete shoes, y'all. What do you mean I'm a twisted fucker. Did you not know this? I feel like this is not news.

Incipit by thehoyden -- I assume y'all have read this already; I mean I'm pretty sure my vicar has read this one. Well, he or she would've if I was religious and like went to church. Or whatever. If you haven't read this I can only assume your laptop bit the big one this week too: Eames is a brilliant writer and Arthur is his long suffering editor. Yes, it's as good as everyone says. Actually, no. IT'S BETTER. AND. They go to Munich. Win-win all around.

make a home from a rented house by smallacts -- I haven't been in a fandom where fake!marriage was a trope... uh, probably ever. What, that just didn't happen in my fandoms. Deal, bitches. So seeing this in Inception is a novelty to me. An awesome one. Except for when Arthur is being a prat.

Nice Shoes, Wanna... by pyrimidine -- Arthur is very protective of his property -- even when it's not his property. Contains what is one of the hottest threats against someone's livelihood that I've heard in a long time. I don't even know, I suspect Arthur reading the phone book is hot and I plan to test out that theory in the story I owe cmonkatiekatie (no, darling, I've not forgot about you).

protect this house by atomicskull -- It's Fashion Week and Eames and Arthur are very interested in the goings on. Okay, first of all whatever you think it's about, it's only kind of about that. Really it's about relationships and being in love and how there's really no such thing as the right time, but there is right now. Oh and it has Simon Spurr. So you know, I had to rec it based on that alone.

Technically a Virtue by mirabella -- Okay, so see what had happened was somebody was all, "hey, this is a story about fairy wings" but I'm not a fairy wing person so I emailed sparky77 and said, "It has wings; you will love it" (cause she's REALLY into that sort of stuff) And then I went and read it anyway and what I told Q is very true, "It has wings, you will love it."

this life looks good on you, by gyzym -- I don't even know who gyzym is or where he or she came from, but one minute there was no gyzym and suddenly this person shows up and is all GOTCHA, BITCHES! In this story Arthur has three rules for cohabiting; Eames only has one. Several weeks ago someone blamed me for this whole 'Arthur can't cook' hook in fanon. I do not have that much power, but you know, if it produces stories like this -- go ahead and blame me. I'll just have to turn him into Marcus Samuelsson in my next story (or six).

Also by gyzym (who wins mad points for the mosty hysterical LJ name in a while) A Whole New World, where Arthur is a very reluctant Disney Princess and i thought of you and where you'd gone, which has two the most enjoyable closing lines I've read all week.


Video(s) of the Week

Finally, the Arthur/Eames videos have started to roll in, and oh my fucking lord, they are BOSS. People are drawing from Joe and Tom's retinue and there's The Take and (500) Days and RocknRolla and all kinds of shit up in here. LONG LIVE THE VIDDERS, PEOPLE!

1) From almostgaby Under the Sheets

2) From orlisroses29 Darling...

As always, you know the deal: you like the work, show the creator some love. Artists and writers and vidders need love just like your blow-up dolls and life-sized JGL cut-outs

1. Thank you to anonymous for my football! You can never have too many footballs! But this does raise the question: why is there no football on my TV right now? I HAZ NEEDS! I NEEDS MY 90 MINUTES OF HOTASSERY!

2. I am sick. I am a terrible sick person. Drugged to the gills and grumpy as hell. And completely unable to stop staring at that fucking animated windmill on the LJ home page. Speaking of the LJ homepage, if I wanted to see the current ONTD posts, I'm pretty fucking sure I'd just join fucking ONTD!

3. Where is the A-Team fic? Where is the Losers fic? Where is my Leverage/Losers/A-Team fic sparky77? School what? Pffft.

4. I, uh, shit, oh, yes, I watched an Adam Lambert video for "What Do You Want From Me?" It's the drugs. Who really wrote that song? Was that the song P!nk wrote?

5. Baby Daddy! Landon Donovan is going to be on The Daily Show tonight along with my Baby Daddy Bob Bradley. There may even be talk of football ;-)

6. Y'all know I'm on a lot of drugs, right? Like, I think that's pretty clear.

7. Michael Hastings Dickhole from the Rolling Stone McChrystal expose was on The Colbert Report the other night where he said the administration was looking for a reason to fire McChrystal and his article was the excuse they used*. ::pause:: He also says he represents the troops on the ground. :::big pause::: If you looked up "pretentious greasy hipster asshole" in the OED you would see his photo. With full sincerity, hipsters of the world, y'all need to kick this guy out.

*I wasn't even going to link to this because I thought in my drug fuelled haze I might not be very charitable, but fuck being charitable. This is the guy you want to send hunting with Dick Cheney.

8. fantasticpants did a Brokeback Justified trailer for, well, Justified. Everybody must look at this. It is parody; it is truth. It is AWESOME. thefourthvine that means you.

9. I love the hell out of this AT&T commercial, because they are right, all it takes is one second to convert an entire nation to a sport (USA) or another second for everybody to say, "The lot of you are talentless dicks! I could do better playing in the back garden...France, Italy, England looking at you" Plus, the guy looks just like a friend of mine who now DJs in Belgium.

Have you ever wondered what would happen if the military joined the Cult of Lady Gaga?

Wonder no longer. The fine men of the 82nd Airborne Division took it upon themselves to cover "Telephone" for your viewing pleasure. While they're stationed overseas. And it's complete with dances and costumes. Improvised costumes (it is the Army).

My only thought apart from stunned disbelief was, "You know, Ray Person would fucking love Gaga. And he'd be pissed that the Army got in there and defiled it." This is so up Ray's alley.

Read about the making of the video on The Smoking Gun

I just had a Marine at my door.

He was about four foot six.

In my request I'd said Six foot FOUR. Who's running this show? Are you the same people that lost Brad's turret? WTF!


I understand that White Collar was on last night and I would have words about it, but Matt Bomer + Hat + Vest and all my brain power just goes POOF!


Happy Halloween/Samhain/ All Hallow's Eve/Saturday Evening! Have a video in a graveyard on me.

a) I very much want to thank everyone who has helped me so much over the last few days with trying to sort out the Neville Disaster of '07. You all have gone way above and beyond and I thank each and every one of you immensely.

b) As you can tell I'm not having the best patch at the moment, and sameoldhope wrote me some fantastic Peter & Nathan (gen) Four Razors, which has nannies and aftershave and wee!Peter and family dynamics which I adore. Read it. Thank her on my behalf.

c) I know if you are in Heroes fandom you know all about the heroes_bigboom, which you know = yay. Yesterday, linaerys posted her story Lethe's Shore, which you know, I don't know what I was expecting, you write Nathan/Peter and sometimes you start to think there are really only so many things you can do and then something comes along and makes you rethink the whole pairing. This is that story. It's long. And brilliant. And heartbreaking. And made me really like Mohinder. It's just... it's everything a story should be. Read it. Oh, shit, and watch the fucking trailer. I admit that the trailer was so good I wasn't sure the story could live up to the hype, but I was fucking wrong. Sometimes it's nice to be wrong.

d) Reminder: BURN NOTICE MARATHON! All day today. Watch eeet!

[Poll #980313]

ETA: Apparently I am oppressing you, because the poll is in radio buttons, so vote for what you want most and then talk about anything else in the comments -- okay serialkarma?

Also, step away from the coffee pot.

Leaving Things Unsaid is a Nathan/Peter fan vid by kimochi and I don't know if I'm a bit emotional today or something, but I just kept thinking, *sniff* WOOBIES! Theirloveissofuckedupandwrong! Shut up, the lot of you. The past few weeks of Heroes has been very fucking traumatic for me -- in that awesome, here, slap me around some more way.

Speaking of slapping people around:

Dear barely_bean, linaerys, scribblinlenore and sparky77 -- having now seen six of the eight Profit episodes I can safely say, uh, WHERE CAN I GET ME ONE OF THOSE? It's so wrong, but so deliciously right, you can totally see how much fun Adrian had with that role, especially in Sykes there are these moments when he's just got these little mannerisms -- I want to lick Jim Profit in all his bad 80s-replicated suits. Also, um, so, Gail/Profit all the way, yes? YES. Definitely. It's not even a sexual relationship as much as it's this sort of learning how to trust someone who is clearly off their nut, but still has your back. Yes, awesomeness. DAMN YOU FOX, YET AGAIN!

Wednesday will be my five year El Jay anniversary and I'd totally planned to post a story on that day, except that I've forgotten how to write, yet again. Doesn't it figure I'd get performance anxiety now. This never happens when I'm having sex in public! Just saying.

Is it time for The Petrelli Show yet?

a) I put up The Fratellis 'Chelsea Dagger' last week, except, whoops, wrong file! This is Chelsea Dagger. Last week was 'Whistle for the Choir' *Thanks saturnalia

2) them0rgue wrote an absolutely beautiful Peter & Nathan story Not All Words are Truths, which I urge you to hightail it over to her El Jay and read. One of the things I adore about Morgan's writing is her exquisite attention to detail and that's here is spades, so you know, LOVE THE AUTHOR! Why? Because if you want to get it -- you have to give it. Duh.

c) Peter/Nathan vid to Snow Patrol's You Could Be Happy by kaiyote. Yes, I am still on Snow Patrol strike, but that's no reason not to enjoy the vid. Also, you know, support your fandom, people!

d) Yesterday, it was Sylar/Mohinder. Today, it's Nathan/Peter. OMG! People! WTF! I have, like, real shit to do. antheia this is your fault. slodwick you really didn't help.

Heroes
Nathan, Nathan/Peter
Spoilers through 1.18

In My Dreams it's Always You


( God told him to choose. So, he did. )