making plans

OKAY:

PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN OR MIGHT CONCEIVABLY BE ABLE TO GET TO LONDON

ryokophoenix and I will be there between Boxing Day afternoon and, probably, the morning of January 2nd. A lot of you put your hands up in response to previous posts and said yes, you'd like to see me, which is awesome! (I think there was talk of a MilliBrit meetup, which would be great because I could see a lot of people all at once.)

I will probably be able to use the landline in my aunt's flat (which is very close to Holborn station on the Picadilly line) but I don't know for sure, and as I doubt I'll have a mobile phone or anything while I'm there, it might be good to make some tentative plans before I leave.

So: who can do what when? I am up for being shown your own personal part of London, or your favourite cafe/pub/museum/park/bookshop/laundromat/whatever, or just hanging out somewhere. If anyone knows of something fun happening on New Year's Eve, we're open to suggestions on that point too.

(If you want to email me your contact details, so that I do HAVE phone numbers: fahye dot diablo at gmail. I have the number of the flat we'll be staying in, so I can email you that in return.)

Merlin recs

Yes! It's time for Fahye to prod you all in the direction of a fandom for a show which she has never seen! (Note: I am planning to watch it. Imminently. Episodes are being sourced.)

First off, I offer you an excellent pimping post.

There is also this video by mamoru22, which I linked to yesterday. If it does not make you grin like an idiot, there is no hope for you.

Apparently everyone has chemistry with everyone else (hurrah!) but fandom being fandom, it has zeroed in on the DESTINED TO BE SOULMATES, NO REALLY, JUST ASK THE GIANT DRAGON pairing of Merlin/Arthur.

- And Still by foreverdirt is a plotty adventure story with MAGIC and QUESTS and other great things. The fact that I am even considering a new fandom in the midst of OH GOD EXAMS ARGH time is entirely her fault.

- Controllable Things by ariastar is about Arthur's fear and Control Issues (the type of issues closest to my heart!) and man, I am so glad I wheedled Aria into this fandom.

- the way the sunshine gleams by snakevsladder is a slightly darker take on their relationship and Merlin's opinions. Mmm.

- I have reread MERLIN by moonythestrals a couple of times now, and it keeps getting funnier. It is a FRAT BOY AU and it is stuffed full of meta and beer and scriptwriting and Arthur's BlackBerry.

I also feel duty-bound to mention that lassiterfics and bedlamsbard are cowriting some kind of epic Narnia/Merlin thing, and in the meantime there is Aslan talking to the Dragon which is hilariously similar to what happened when Lucifer met Galadan that one time.

fic. kind of.

I've had a pretty terrible couple of weeks. I needed violence, but I'll settle for the promise of it.

( Londinium in the hottest of the seasons, which blur into one another at the best of times; in the stifling heat the city rolls over like a bloated corpse and bares its ugliest side to the moons. )