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[chibirhm]

A PLETHORA OF THOUGHTS:

• I cannot stop listening to this song lately, for some reason:
  
  
  
  
• I just realized it's been like a week and not only have I not told you anything about my new gerbils, I haven't told you what I ended up naming them (with your help). THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE:
  
  The big fellow eventually got named Charlie, but more often than not, he goes by his grab-bag of nicknames (Charliebears, Chaz, Chazmataz, Chuck, Chuckles, Senor Chuckles, Mr. Big Fuzz, etc). He's still quite nervous and not much into being held, and he's very protective of his little brother. He always sleeps on top of him and if the little fellow ever leaves the cage, he'll pin him down the second he gets back and wash him like a mama cat while he squeaks in protest, like "STOP COMPLAINING, I KNOW WHAT KIND OF TROUBLE YOU GET INTO". Often he will glare at me accusingly, as if to say "AND YOU! YOU ARE ENCOURAGING THIS KIND OF BEHAVIOR."
  
  The little fellow now goes by Gus (or, more often, Gusgus), and is a little flirty mcflirtface. Also, still a douchey little brother who is constantly tugging at Charlie's back paws like ME ME ME PAY ATTENTION TO ME PLAY WITH MEEEEEE or stealing food directly from his mouth or trying to get Charlie to give him a piggyback ride. (It's not humping, he is literally going for a piggyback ride. What is this gerb I don't even.) Altogether they are lovely little gentlegerbs and we are all getting along quite well. I just wish they enjoyed attention more, but we'll get there. None of my other gerbils did at first and it only took them a few months before they' squeal in the corners going LOVE ME LOVE ME SAY THAT YOU LOVE ME.
  
  
• So I just received an utterly hilarious reply to my final Merlin review at work which was all poorly spelled and full of lol-speak and ended with "stop with the gay thing!!!"
  
  ...I'm sorry, do you know what show you're watching? I've nosed around other sites of similar calliber and they all allude to the gay thing, but none of them ever mention it as explicitly as I do, and I'm pretty sure that's because it's "not professional". I mean, I've talked to the people who write stuff for, say Hawaii 5-0 and while in private they'll be all OMG GAYEST EVER once it comes to their article they sort of politely gloss over it as a "nice friendly bromantic moment".
  
  I don't think I'll ever get why it's "unprofessional" to be like "GUESS WHAT, EVERYONE, THIS IS GAY. WHEN TWO DUDES ARE LIKE ABOUT TO KISS, THAT'S GAY". It's like... when people encounter it, they seem to sort of treat it the way they would treat someone with boils that ooze puss all over their face, like, oh my god, it's rude to mention that, quick,let's talk about how they have really nice eyes and a stellar personality! I have no problem discussing the nice eyes and stellar personality, it's just my personal belief that if there are GIANT PUS-OOZING BOILS on someone's face, it should be pointed out. Especially when they aren't something horrible like boils at all! They are something very nice! Like boys who love each other!
  
  But seriously. I will stop with the whole "gay thing" when there are no longer moments that look like this:
  
  
  
  or this:
  
  
  
  AKA NEVER.
  
  
• You know what I've stopped looking at and don't miss? The Mean Meme. It was starting to be so pointlessly irritating to me I just stopped going, and this weekend I was bored and thought "huh, I wonder what they thought of my vitriolic Julian letter" so I went and... oh my god. You guys, I stated explicitly that I was not going to send it in like the third line down from the top and the entire thread was like a really bitchy Emily Post guide like OMG WHY IS SHE SENDING THIS LETTER TO JULIAN MURPHY.
  
  So I am really glad I went back one more time. It was cathartic. (Well, it was cathartic once I stopped laughing.) Because it was at that moment I realized something - they can't read. And if they're too dumb to read, than their opinions don't count. Ever. And it was like all my angst evaporated and I can see clearly now, the rain is gone.
  
  So goodbye, meme. I won't miss you even in the slightest.
  
  That being said, I'm not British, so I'm not sure how effective this would be, but do you think it would be helpful to do a sort of... positive re-enforcement letter send in? Like, as a group? Because I think we can all agree that the finale wasn't perfect as far as fixing all our S3 Arthur/Merlin woes, but it was like, glory hallelujah, they're actually friends again. If a lot of fandom got together and sent in letters that said, effectively, "I was really sad about the Arthur/Merlin friendship in S3, but thank you so much for the finale, it made me feel so much better, please do more of that", would it help? I mean, ego-stroking tends to be an effective method of getting someone on your side, I've found.
  
  
• I'm not, like, upset about tumblr, but I do find myself vaguely concerned about the length of time its been down. The first few hours it was cute, like, awww, your server's overheated, hasn't it? Now it's been long enough that I'm sitting here going OMG IS THIS THE WORK OF ANTI-HIPSTER CYBERTERRORISTS!?!? I'm just about Tim Gunn levels of concerned, is my point.
  
  
• So we're getting one side of our house re-shingled, and it happens to be one of the sides that my bedroom window is facing. And you know what's creepy-weird and irritating? Waking up to BANG BANG BANGITYBANG BANG BANG BANGITY every morning (I don't know how I sleep through most of it, honestly) and also THE FACE/BODY OF A CONSTRUCTION WORKER DUDE. (Sadly not of the hot fanfic variety. Sigh!) Now, these guys are super-professional and never once have glanced inside my room, but the fact that their turned away faces are RIGHT THERE creeps me out. I have taken to zooming out of my bed so fast it's like it's on fire and when I have to go out, changing either under my covers or crouched in the bathroom.
  
  I will be so glad when this is over.
  
  
• So my sister's boyfriend spent his first Hannukah with us on Saturday and he got us all presents because he has what my sister refers to as "a gift-giving problem" (and we both agree that, as problems go, this isn't a bad one to have). Now I knew he'd get my parents gifts because he's very polite and proper like that, but I wasn't expecting he'd get me a gift. But you know what he got me?
  
  AN ALPHONSE MUCHA CALENDER.
  
  Guys, he doesn't read my livejournal. He doesn't even know I have a livejournal. We've had one conversation on Art Nouveau but that was more on Klimt and if he counted or not. And he got me an Alphonse Mucha calender.
  
  My first reaction was to wait until he had left and then inform my sister that if she didn't marry him I'd be severely disappointed in her, and then my second reaction was OMG NOW I HAVE TO GET HIM SOMETHING, because I have a bit of a gift-giving problem as well. I know back when I first met him around August I thought up a Christmas present and then dismissed it because, like I said, he's very proper and polite and I didn't want to make him feel uncomfortable and like he should have given me something when I thought there was no way he would. And I can't remember what that idea was! Any ideas for the most thoughtful, creepily insightful brother-in-dating-law that's about $10 or under?
  
  
• Dear Future Husband Joseph Gordon-Levitt,
  
  There are times when you post pictures like this on your tumblr:
  
  
  
  And we need to have a talk. Because, you see, you need to stop doing that. Let's face it, you are not actually my future husband, you are way too hot to be my future husband. But when you post pictures of you with your dad making funny adorable faces in those glasses that you know give me feelings, it's really unfair. And causes me to make inhuman high-pitched embarrassing noises.
  
  Please, I know I've requested this of you before, but if you could stop being so fucking adorable and falsely accessible, that would be nice. Just, like, get caught with a transvestite prostitute. It didn't hurt Hugh Grant's career! And it would make me feel so much better about my life to know that there aren't creepily perfect people out there. RIGHT NOW YOU ARE A LITTLE TOO CREEPILY PERFECT.
  
  Sincerely,
  Me.
  
  
• NEW HAWAII 5-0 TONIGHT!!!!! WHO WANTS TO WATCH AND LIVESQUEE WITH ME?!?!! YOU KNOW YOU DO. C'MON.

Comments

[lolafeist.livejournal.com]

I adore that song.

[lolafeist.livejournal.com]

ALSO I LOVE THAT ICON. HEEEEEEE, those boys.

[chibirhm.livejournal.com]

The weird thing is, when it first came out, I liked it, but I wasn't like OMG LOVE THIS SONG MUST HAVE IT ON AT ALL HOURS but now, like a year and a half later... suddenly I am?! Normally that's what happens if lyrics become suddenly meaningful to me, but these lyrics are BARELY COHERENT. What gives, self?

[ella-bane.livejournal.com]

And it was like all my angst evaporated and I can see clearly now, the rain is gone.

HEE. GOOD PLAN, BB.

WHAT WILL I DO WITH MY SATURDAY? MERLIIIIIIIIIIIIIIN.

Gerbils are love. ♥

[chibirhm.livejournal.com]

THEY ARRRREEEE. THEY ARE SO CUTE AND FUZZY AND HAVE LITTLE FAAAAAACES.

[blameitonmerlin.livejournal.com]

Hawaii 5-0! The best part of Mondays, imho, even though I usually end up watching on Tuesday anyway because I have no tv-time. I WILL TRY THOUGH.

H50 bingo card does make mention of Steve and Danny's flirtiatious ways, and it is by EW so there is obviously some acknowledgement that those two are married. So there, people :P

Gerbils remain ridiculously cute :D

[chibirhm.livejournal.com]

It does! MORE PEOPLE SHOULD TAKE THE HINT and be like "look at this! it is super gay!"

And yes, they are cute. I've told them people say so and they gave me a look like "well, duh."

[the-muppet.livejournal.com]

You know what I've stopped looking at and don't miss? The Mean Meme.

Good for you!

Your gerbils are so cute =)

[chibirhm.livejournal.com]

THEY ARE. I tell them that every day, and they just go "well, of course we are."

[hermette.livejournal.com]

I WILL NEVER BE DONE LOVING THEIR FACES, OMG.

You know, I don't have any problem personally with the meme. I've had really lovely conversations there and I really do enjoy the meta and conversation, but I've discovered that it's just not a place for me. It can just wear you down, you know? And RL is such shit right now and the fucking holidays, so my anxiety is peeking in again and blah blah blah, so I haven't been in a week or so. It's definitely putting me in a better headspace. I do sort of miss it, but it's just better for me to not hang out there. Lighters out, I reckon.

;ljs;lkjdfs HAWAII 5-0! SO EXCITE!

F5ing tumblr now.

[chibirhm.livejournal.com]

THEIR FAAAAAAACES. MARRIED LITTLE FACES.

I enjoy meta and conversation oodles, but I've never really heard anything insightful there that I haven't heard someplace else, you know? Plus, I've never understood needing to do things anon. The whole point of the internet is you can be as anon as you like. Unless someone explicitly shares, like I do, parts of their real life, you're basically just giving an electronic signature. If someone feels so self-conscious that they can't even e-sign their opinions, that makes me a little concerned. I mean, I understood that part when it came to the whole Facebook thing, but now? Now it just seems weird.

THIS IS THE EPISODE WHERE STEVE MAKES SURE DANNY GETS LEI'D. I'M READY WITH LOTS OF PUNS AND FLAILING.

[sweetp000433.livejournal.com]

What is tumblr? I'm in my mid twenties I should know this ish.

[faynia.livejournal.com]

That song is my train riding song. It's the one I queue up right as I board trains. There's something about the rhythm that fits nicely with riding a train.

[chibirhm.livejournal.com]

It's also the biggest earworm ever. Like, up there with Justin Beiber levels of earworm, only AWESOME.

[moonie]

I'm a total Gus girl already. HE'S SO TINY AND BLACK AND CUTE AAAGH. <333

[chibirhm.livejournal.com]

A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE BECAUSE HE IS SO WEE. He's only seven weeks old! And already since I got him he's grown so much. I've tried to pick him up and we've had serious talks where he squeak-agreed to NEVER EVER GET ANY BIGGER EVER, but he keeps growing. He's clearly not very good at considering the needs of others.

[gwy.livejournal.com]

I love that song as well! <333 (which is not surprising because i seem to love a lot of things that you love too :D)
♥

I am sick so i feel very lazy with typing. Everything is so slooow and i can't mooove. UGH work tomorrow D: I haven't eaten all day, ugh. SORRY FOR WHINING.

Anyway tumblr? AAH i haven't been there in ages. It takes too much time away. SAme with the mean meme. I totally forgot it exists. I hope everyone can forget it exists.

AHAHAHA OH JOE. I looove him. How is he so amazing and hilarious?

MEEERLIN MERLIN. YAY <3

lol my comment is kind of unstructered. I hope i find fic or something so i won't have to get up again tonight and just read.

[chibirhm.livejournal.com]

BECAUSE YOU ARE MY STRUDELTWIN, THAT IS WHY.

BB, maybe you should eat? AND THEN FIND ME JGL AND BRING HIM TO MY HOUSE SO I MAY START SEDUCING HIM.

What, that plan is awesome and in no way creepy.

[sweetp000433.livejournal.com]

I agree he's way to hot, he really should tone it down it's just rude now. I want to livesquee with you!!! I love Hermette for getting me into this show, it perfect!!!! Buck 'em Dan-no :)

[chibirhm.livejournal.com]

IT IS SO UNFAIR THAT WHILE I WAS SORT OF IGNORING HIM AND FORMULATING MY IDEA OF WHAT MY IDEAL GUY WAS, HE WAS GOING AND BECOMING THAT GUY, SO NOW MY TASTE IS ALREADY ETCHED IN STONE AND HE'S LIKE RIGHT THERE BUT NOT REALLY AND IT'S LIKE OH, LIFE, FFS?!?! THAT IS JUST MOCKING AND CRUEL.

Are you watching EST?

[alba17.livejournal.com]

That's really interesting about them not wanting you to mention "the gay". One of the reasons I started watching Merlin (sometime during S1) was because I'd seen mainstream media references to the gay subtext! Russell T. Davies even mentioned in an interview how gay Merlin was.

And interesting about people not mentioning it re: H50. (except Entertainment Weekly did mention Steve and Danny flirting) Looking forward to the new ep tonight and finding out the context for the lei thing.

[chibirhm.livejournal.com]

It was just such a weird comment, you know? Like, if she didn't want it mentioned, why did she read my article?

Yeah, the Hawaii 5-0 thing boggles me. Are there people who missed the whole "book 'em Danno is a sign of affection" exchange? HE BASICALLY SAID IT MEANS I LOVE YOU.

[altri-uccelli.livejournal.com]

So glad to get a gerb update! I'm sitting here with my rattie on my lap and feeling the rodent!squee. 'Chazmataz' is TOTALLY a name I would come up with, and Gusgus's douchy little brother qualities are very familiar (his analog in my household lies on his back and pulls at his long-suffering brother's loose underarm skin with his teeth. Plus, his favorite thing to do is to rustle around in my underwear drawer. So cute, so zany).

[chibirhm.livejournal.com]

Gus does that too! He seems to have a thing for squirming under Charlie's chin and driving him crazy. Why, I do not know.

[lizie-muffy.livejournal.com]

OOh what is JGL's tumblr? Whenever it comes back I want to find him! (I agree, he's way too perfect).

[chibirhm.livejournal.com]

It's hitrecordjoe - just like his twitter.

[sheswatching.livejournal.com]

Gerbils are ADORABLE. I love pets. Pets are the best. Charlie is looking all gangster. I like him.

Also - those gifs are such love! :)

[chibirhm.livejournal.com]

Aren't they?

Also, hah! Charlie is the least gangster gerbil ever, hes such a worrywart.

[alexi-lupin.livejournal.com]

Don't you have curtains you can close?

HAHAHA MERLIN STOP BEING GAY? PFFT WHEN PIGS FLY.

[chibirhm.livejournal.com]

I do, but then I get no sunlight! I need sunlight. I am like a plant. OTHERWISE I WILT AND DIE.