Obey Zolac!

So I have a whole pile of completely unrelated stuff to post about, and rather than spam you all with, like, eight different posts, I'm just going to cram things haphazardly into this one. It's going to be incredibly schizophrenic. ...Time to make a list!

-Fic rec! Found Where the Light Drowns by odditycollector. It's 1600 words of Batfic, Tim POV, but uh... even if you're not into Batfandom, maybe consider reading it anyway? All you need to know is Tim Drake is one of a series of Robins to Bruce Wayne's Batman, and his parents, like Bruce's and like most Robins, are dead. Anyway. This fic. It's beautiful and strange and takes the Batman mythos in an interesting direction. I kind of love it.

-Fic rec! Apple Seeds by pprfaith. 3700 words of X-Men: First Class fic, may be a little bit triggery (read the warnings) but... oh my god, so beautiful. And it made me think. And it made me see Charles in a completely different way. And it made me hurt a little. My heart is for serious broken now guys, and I completely love it. The insight in this piece... just, GUH. Read it already, what are you waiting for.

-...! Idk, does this count as a meme? The Geek Zodiac; I am Year of the Alien, what are you?

-Doctor Who! So there was that episode this evening. Um. I have such completely mixed feelings about it, I can't quite process. On the one hand, A LOT OF GREAT STUFF. On the other hand... too much stuff crammed into one episode? On the gripping hand... kind of poorly written, I thought; was surprised it was one of Moff's, although considering hand number one I guess I shouldn't have been. ...Basically nothing in the ep went at all like I would have predicted. And. The thing I want to say about Hitler which is kind of a spoiler. Fuck. EVERYTHING IS SPOILERS.

( -H50 Season 2 trailer! )

( -Video rec! )

( -The icon meme! )

-That's it there is nothing else! I was going to post pictures and words pertaining to today's horseback riding adventure, but that's going to have to wait because I am LE TIRED.

HOW HAS THIS SONG BEEN OUT FOR OVER A MONTH AND I DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT IT?

look_alive, I'M DIVORCING YOU.

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...Don't be sad bb you know I don't mean it. xoxo

Luther. John Luther, I... I love you. I've been saying forever that you are secretly Batman, but... I think I love you more right now. More than Batman. I hope you appreciate what that means, coming from me. Because you don't have Batman's money or training, just stainless steel balls the size of cantaloupes, fuzzy gray morals, a gorgeous beautiful brainy box, and about ten metric tons of motherfucking swagger. Darling. You are my hero.

And your show is my favorite shoooooooooow.

I want more. ;_;

Oh my god season two episode one Luther CREEPIEST THING I'VE EVER SEEN AAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!

God I've missed this show.

Okay sleep time now. @_@

ETA: NO, WAIT, CAN'T SLEEP, MOM KEEPS EMAILING ME AMAZING YOUTUBES. HAVE AT THIS ONE, NEIL PATRICK HARRIS IS IN IT.

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OKAY NOW SLEEP.

So apparently Johnny Depp is a twentieth cousin to Queen Elizabeth.

I find this hilarious.

So there's this show on MTV called "Silent Library". It's a riff off of Japanese game shows, and it is unexpectedly hilarious, painful, and endearing. The idea is six friends compete together, they draw cards each round to see who has to undergo the surprise challenge. If the victim completes the challenge and the whole group avoids making too much noise (we're in a library, see, you have to be quiet), they win the money for that round, starting at $300 and going up. It's endearing because it's really cute to watch a group of bros, and then a group of WWE wrestlers, giggling and shushing each other and making sympathetic heart hands at each other. It's painful because oh my god some of the challenges. Some of them are just silly, like holding a pizza while your friends shoot the toppings at you with air guns, but then some are gross, like sitting in a nest and being fed a foul-tasting liquid by somebody dressed as a bird, or drinking a baby bottle full of fish water in twenty seconds, or eating a cookie made with coffee grounds and toothpaste in twenty seconds, and some are painful, like getting your hands slammed in a copy machine or having to sit at the end of a factory conveyor belt that drops cans on your junk or getting your nipples clamped and pulled by one of those automated horse races.

IT'S RIDICULOUS.

Later we were channel surfing, and there was some ghost show... on Animal Planet, I ask you, what even. Remember when television made sense? There was history on the History Channel, and the Animal Planet had animals. NOT GHOSTS. ...Anyway, this house had a wraith in it, and this team went in to BATTLE THE WRAITH, and they were burning sage and lighting saint candles and using holy water... and I was having a really hard time not giggling. look_alive, I think you know why. ♥

Another Robot Chicken clip, courtesy of Ivan. It's pretty freaking excellent, actually.

Star Trek: Le Wrath di Khan (Opera)

...I need a Star Trek icon. It's very sad that the closest I can get is Doctor Who.

Two things.

The Adventures of Sexy Batman on "Hark! A Vagrant". Your liver might explode from laughter. Or you might curl into a quivering ball of terror. Or both.

The music video for "The City", Patrick Wolf's new song from his new album, soon to be released. Booming piano. Epic drums. A saxophone. A beach. The 1980s. Top of the morning!

So, Gothamites on my Flist... "Battle for the Sun" by Placebo... perfect anthem for Jason Todd, y/y? (Go on, give it a listen. Try not to get distracted by how pretty Brian Molko is. Listen to it twice if you need to.) Like... kind of creepily perfect, actually, every single word of it. I noticed quite some time ago, but the more I listen to it the more distracting it becomes.

He could be addressing the Joker, or Bruce, or Dick, or all three of them at the same time or at different parts of the song, depending on how you want to interpret things, or how metaphorical you'd like to get. Also, slashy overtones with your pairing of choice! (I'd go for Jay/Dick myself, although Jay/Bruce certainly happens in fic. ...Jay/Joker... ahaha, ew, but... I've seen creepier, more improbable things in fandom... that could be kind of fun actually, if written well, and twisted in just the right way....)

While we're on the subject of Jason and Placebo, "For What It's Worth" (look more like a girl, Brian, I dare you) reminds me of him a little bit, too, although less so. I think about 90% of that is just the bridge: No one cares when you're out on the street, picking up the pieces to make ends meet. No one cares when you're down in the gutter; got no friends, got no lover.

...Basically, I just really love that album. Even the bits that don't make me think of Batfamily.

An addendum to my DCU-associated song list. Dammit, I knew I forgot stuff.

"King of Sorrow" by Sade - Another Tim song. You know how, within a fairly short time period, he loses his parents, his girlfriend Steph, his best friends Kon and Bart, Bruce, and his identity as Robin? Granted, he got Steph, Bart, and Kon back, and he knows now that Bruce is alive, but... JESUS CHRIST. How did this kid get out of bed every morning? "I'm crying everyone's tears... I have already paid for all my future sins" indeed. TIM YOU GIANT WOOBIE, COME HERE, YOU NEED A HUG. T_T

"Hey Mickey" by Toni Basil - Lolololol. Replace "Mickey" with "Dickie". 'Nuff said. I think this song fairly neatly expresses how every woman in the DCU feels about Dick Grayson. XDDD;

Also, bluerose16 found this for me: