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[lirazel]

Y'all, I am behind to the point that I'm not even going to try to catch up on my flist, so if there's something you really want me to see, you'll have to link me to it. I'm too overwhelmed to try to wade through everything. This is why I try not to get behind.

Anyway! I heard from the doctor and apparently the reason I've been feeling so tired/wonky/dizzy recently is because I have a Vitamin D deficiency. Fun times! The average healthy person's is 50--mine's 10.5. So. I've got a prescription, so hopefully that'll be taken care of soon. Meanwhile I just haven't been feeling that great. Not flat-out bad, just kind of blah.

I have, however, been catching up on Leverage, and I had forgotten how much I enjoy that show and how much I passionately love Parker and Hardison and how much I love the dysfunctional little family vibe of the team and how huge my crush is on Aldis Hodge (CALL ME!). Other than that, I've been doing a bunch of nothing.

So I'll throw some randomness at you, as is my wont. Sometimes I sit around and think about fics I would like to read. Here are some I have been thinking about this week.

+ Buffy and Spike (and Dawn and possibly Andrew) watch The Vampire Diaries. Spike’s favorite character is Katherine. Obviously. Though he’s becoming fonder of Elena all the time, especially when she starts training to be able to fight. Basically, he appreciates all the ladies and how awesome they are, but thinks all the guys are gits (well, maybe not Ric. He kind of wishes he had his own Ric, but he won’t admit it). Buffy understands the appeal of both Stefan and Damon, and Dawn is a huuuge fan of Anna. Andrew thinks that Damon isn’t nearly as cool as Spike.

+ Buffy gets sick and everyone takes care of her. BECAUSE BUFFY IS MY WOOBIE, OKAY? I want to see Buffy wrapped up in blankets and waited on hand and foot. Why is there so little awesome h/c involving Buffy?

+ The Leverage team goes on a road trip. Nate and Sophie end up playing the beleaguered parents while the kids sit in the back seat and fight. Hardison and Eliot definitely need to fight over who’s on whose side (or who is touching whom or whatever), and Parker needs to ask if they’re there yet a lot. Bonus points if Nate and/or Sophie actually refers to them as “kids.” Because I am obsessed with them as this weird little family, okay?

+ More Eliot-gets-roped-into-helping-Parker-negotiate-her-relationship-with-Hardison fic. Because I think I've read everything in that category on AO3, but there needs to be MORE. Eliot being the world's most reluctant matchmaker/wingman/whatever is my FAVORITE THING.

+ Hardison meets Mac from Veronica Mars. They hack something together. Anything. I am not picky.

+ Any Happy Endings fic, especially involving Brad and Jane, because they are the best. Is there any fic for this show? There should be fic for this show.

+ Ann and Ben have a conversation about what Ben did for Leslie in last week's episode (the trial one). Because there should be way, way more Ann-and-Ben conversations. That end up devolving into a conversation about how awesome Leslie is. (Unless this happened in the episode from last night? Was there an episode last night? I haven't gotten to download Thursday night tv yet because I was actually being social).

+ Damon decorates his room. WHERE DID ALL THE DECORATIVE SOAPS COME FROM? Seriously, though, there has to be a story behind that. Hopefully involving Damon shopping at, like, Bed, Bath and Beyond or Pottery Barn or Restoration Hardware or something. I can only imagine how much Damon would start drooling if he walked into a Restoration Hardware. He would die. Damon/Any Kind of Domesticity has become my Ultimate TVD Kink. I don’t even know when that happened.


Feel free to catch me up on your lives in the comments--I'm always interested. Or share stories you've always wanted to read that no one writes. Anything. I'm cool.

Comments

[fenchurche.livejournal.com]

It is really amazing what a difference a bit of Vitamin D can do! Like pretty much everyone else who lives in the Seattle area, I'm really deficient. Awhile back, we ran out of D and I hadn't had a chance to go pick a refill but I figured, really, how bit a difference can it make? Within just a few days I was literally dragging... couldn't figure out what was wrong and was really worried I was coming down with something, until a lightbulb finally went off. Got a refill on my D, started taking it again and within a few days was amazed at the amount of energy I had.

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

This is hugely encouraging to hear. Mine's prescription-level and I only take it once a week, so I don't know how long it will take to get me to a good place, but just knowing how much of a difference it can make gives me hope!

[fenchurche.livejournal.com]

Wow! Hopefully you'll notice a difference quickly, then! My doctor has me on 5,000 IU a day for most of the year... then 5,000 IU every other day during our three months of "summer." It really is interesting how much of a difference it makes, though.

[gryfndor-godess.livejournal.com]

That BtVS/TVD fic sounds adorable. I especially agree with Dawn liking Anna and Andrew thinking Spike is way better than Damon.

Glad you got a prescription- hope it works quickly!

Did you see the new Spuffy cover for S9?! http://coalitiongirl.tumblr.com/post/13960134496/now-with-cough-covers It is a thing of beauty and probably the most exciting Spuffy fandom thing to happen in a while. Of course, the wonderfulness of the cover probably means that the actual story will make us want to tear our hair out, but it's still so dreamy.

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

I feel like there should be mirror fics--the TVD kids watching BtVS, the BtVS crew watching TVD. How would that not be fun?

Thanks! Me, too!

I didn't see it yet! It's honestly kind of creepy how realistic it looks in the faces. But I love how comfy they look together on the couch. Awww!

[pocochina.livejournal.com]

I hope the vitamins help!

Come explain the Eleven love to me. I don't get it and I'm disappointed.

Hopefully involving Damon shopping at, like, Bed, Bath and Beyond or Pottery Barn or Restoration Hardware or something. I can only imagine how much Damon would start drooling if he walked into a Restoration Hardware.

HAHAHA. I bet he goes to the little stalls at outdoor markets.

[zombie_boogie.livejournal.com]

There was a new Parks episode last night! AND IT WAS ADORABLE AND FILLED WITH CHRISTMAS MAGIC. There were no Ben/Ann scenes, but there was a lot of lovely Leslie/Ben and Leslie/Ann love.

Why isn't there more Happy Endings fic? ESPECIALLY Brad and Jane. Fandom should love adorable marrieds more.

LOL Damon domesticity fic would be amazing.

[laeria.livejournal.com]

Mine was a famously, memorably, remarkably bad week, right down to the "and then the dogs chased me all the way home. again.", so, you know, blech, but! But let's talk about fic that needs to exist.

I LOVE your Buffy-as-woobie idea, and also them watching TVD. I think Xander is probably a Bonnie fan, Willow has a crush on Caroline and Giles doesn't see the appeal.

Because I am a deeply tragic person, I crave Sherlock/Being Human John/Sherlock/Nina/Annie OT4fic. Mostly because, I don't even know, I'm vaguely enamoured by Sherlock still, and I want him and John to move into a house in Bristol and John to get a job in the hospital and I anyway kinda wish Mitchell and George elsewhere a lot. (They'd get on just fine with Mrs Hudson, I suppose.)

Like. Nina really wants to tell the new doctor off - he's sleeping on the job, for god's sake - but she doesn't, because she wants to keep her job but then for some reason she does anyway and then there's bicker - bicker - bilateral smittenness. Sherlock figures out the origins of her scars but she figures out his tendency to sneer a lot, so that's okay. John and Annie bond over tea and death and cold cold kisses. Sherlock is obsessed with solving Annie's death but she forbids him to tell her about it and he eventually accepts it's up to her to find out; sometimes they have staring matches that last for hours.

It's kind of exhilarating, really. I never had an OT4 before, and this one's just so random. (Besideswhich, there is DEFINITLEY not enough Annie/Nina. There is, I suppose, enough John/Sherlock, but there can always be more.)

[kelpyfinners.livejournal.com]

Buffy and Spike (and Dawn and possibly Andrew) watch The Vampire Diaries.

YES TO ALL OF THESE THOUGHTS!

Current kink right now: imagining Katherine listening to Christina Perri's "A Thousand Years" and having fond Stefan-sexy thoughts, but interrupted by Damon complaining about ... anything. Road!trip Katherine and Damon with Perri as soundtrack = possibly the happiest thoughts I've had today.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

+ More Eliot-gets-roped-into-helping-Parker-negotiate-her-relationship-with-Hardison fic. Because I think I've read everything in that category on AO3, but there needs to be MORE. Eliot being the world's most reluctant matchmaker/wingman/whatever is my FAVORITE THING.

Do you happen to have ANY recs for this? Because I think I've read one fic that I thought was going to be this, only then it took a lazy right and turned into Eliot/Parker/Hardison. And I was not pleased.

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

I actually like the Eliot/Parker/Hardison stuff okay, but I can imagine if you don't know that it's going there going in it would be rather annoying.

Anyway!

There this one which has a E/P/H sequel, but you definitely don't have to read it. And this kind of. And this one which I remember loving.

[ever-neutral.livejournal.com]

Sorry to hear about your Vit D deficiency! Oh, bodies.

I'm pretty sure Damon and Spike would HATE each other. There'd be a leather jacket competition~ (Though, they'd bond over their mutual irritation re: Angel.)

Spike and Ric, hey? ::strokes chin thoughtfully::

WHERE DID ALL THE DECORATIVE SOAPS COME FROM?

A COMPELLING QUESTION. Ikea is the answer. Stefan has to drop by at least once a week because Damon keeps breaking all the shot glasses in the house out of boredom/irritation. Much like this person on Tumblr describes. Also, you have read this crack!fic, right? Because it is good for the soul.

[eilowyn.livejournal.com]

Ooh! Ooh! I have a vitamin D deficiency, too! I take 1000 mg pills every day because of it! It's exciting to add yet another pill to my daily regimen! /not

I want to write that Damon goes to Pottery Barn fic so bad! But alas, I have way too many papers to complete! Though I'm learning interesting things about the fandom, like did you know that Tara/Willow is considered the most feminist relationship in the 'verse? Yeah, it is. And when I asked this of the fandom some people bitched at me that "feminist" is an arbitrary term and that feminism isn't about any individual way to be a woman and therefore you can't call a character feminist and blah blah blah. And I think you're one of two people who think Dawn is feminist. Which makes me sad.

My French teacher still hates me, and if I get lower than a B on my oral final I'm going to the dean of students about her, but I don't need her to write a recommendation for me so YAY!

School is eating my braincells right now, but otherwise I'm good. I'm enjoying reblogging Parks and Rec gifs during tumblr breaks even though I haven't seen an episode in forever, but I'll be watching it from the beginning over break, so I'm good.

[mollivanders.livejournal.com]

Hopefully involving Damon shopping at, like, Bed, Bath and Beyond or Pottery Barn or Restoration Hardware or something. I can only imagine how much Damon would start drooling if he walked into a Restoration Hardware. He would die.

Excuse me while I dissolve in to giggles ;)

That said, I'm glad the doctors figured out what's up <3 Feel better soon hon.