Just get over it

[sigyn_halja]

"Because it's cute" and "because they look cute together" are perfectly good reasons to ship something. "They never interacted in Canon but I think they'd get along great because of their personalities" is a perfectly good reason to ship something. "It's interesting", "it's funny" and "they're my favourite characters" are all perfectly good reasons to ship something.
"I ship them because" is a perfectly good reason to ship something. 
The important thing is writing and reading good fanfictions, drawing and looking at good fanarts, making and watching good fanvideos. Why do we have to question everybody and their reasons and say that they aren't "good fans" or "true fans" or whatever when we could just lay back and enjoy shipping in all its shapes?

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[geilie11.livejournal.com]

He is, and that's why I love him. One of the many reasons why, at least. XP

Yeah, you know, the eagerness with which everyone just starts throwing pointy things at that poor bastard as soon as they get a chance always struck me as suspicious, if nothing else. I get the party hard mood, I get that putting together gods and alcohol usually means trouble, but I too think that Baldr was too much of a golden boy to be truly loved by anyone. Except his overprotective mother, and probably his wife, rest her soul. It wouldn't even be that unlikely for them to feign grief afterwards, in Asgard they certainly love their little lies...

Merlin was fun, indeed! The first two seasons were a blast, with all their stupidity and humour and bromance and whatnot... Then, oh, then they thought "why don't we pour a drop of angst in the mix?" and they must have dropped the whole freaking bottle, 'cause it became a lot darker and even less plausible than before. Worse than that, what everyone was waiting for since the first episode, i.e. the magic reveal, happened in the most anticlimatic way EVER in the last ten minutes of the series finale. Right after Camlann. Camlann. Camlann as in Arthur's-final-battle-WHERE-HE'S-MORTALLY-WOUNDED. I mean, WTF? What about "let's all teach Arthur how magic can be beautiful and good so he can rule in peace and be the great king he's destined to be"?
I swear, it was a very sad ending, but I was just laughing and laughing in disbelief. XD It would have been better if they'd really forgot about Mordred, anyway, but they fucked up badly with him instead. And with Morgana. She was so beautiful, at the beginning, and then they morphed her into this kind of... psycho-witch, acting with not a single grain of logic. Just hilarious. XD

The Almighty Johnsons sounds like a lot of funny crap, that's why I'm saving it for a rainy day. Well, more like a rainy week: there's a limit to the number of episodes I can watch in a single day, whether I like it or not. XD

I totally agree with you about Camelot! Totally! The magic felt real, for a change, and I loved that. I loved the fact that it really came with a prize, a very high one, and that Merlin's talents were more of the strategic and make-believe kind than anything else. I loved Morgan, I loved many of the secondary characters, but Arthur and Guenevere? My goodness, they couldn't make them worse if they tried! I would have put Kay on the throne in a heartbeat, if I had a choice. He was cute. u_u

Ooooh, would you really pass me the links? *_* I'd love it. I'm really looking forward to read some of the comics, I've got a feeling that I'm gonna love that particular take on the characters very very much indeed. <3

As for American Gods, I've got it (in english, of course) as an ebook, if you'd like. ^^ It's a wonderful novel, with a wonderful BAMF Odin and a perfect son-of-a-bitch Loki and a marvellous assortment of very well modernized deities. I think you'll literally wolf it down, references to norse myths or not. ;)

[sigyn-medea.livejournal.com]

There are WAY too many reasons to love him! XD

Nobody parties as hard as Norse gods! XD But yeah, I’ve always thought Balder made almost everybody around him uncomfortable, really. Poor guy was either really lonely or just too much of a naive and innocent Purity Sue too notice. Anyway, it would make for a really interesting death!fic …

Merlin really fucked up when it tried to go all Darker & Edgier. It did get angstier, but it didn’t get any deeper or more complex, and that made the flimsy plot and weird changes in the characters stand out even more. And Morgan … oh, poor Morgan! ç-ç They could have fleshed out her relationship with Uther and Arthur more, talk more about her past and use her friendship with Gwen to give more depth to both characters … but no, clearly they couldn’t make her into a villain and keep her IC at the same time. *snort*

I hope The Almighty Johnsons doesn’t go the same route as Merlin, really. Right now it’s all light-hearted fun where you can switch off you brain and just look at the incest-inspiring eye-candy - though it does have some problematic stuff. But at least for now I can forgive the problematic stuff because there are references to minor gods like Ullr and Hod (heck, I even remember a joke about Frigg shagging Vili and Ve!) and a hilarious spin-off somewhere on YouTube about the hippy grandpa’s not-so-plausible youth stories.

I seriously loved stuff like Morgan killing Uther (I think she was grinding bones in a bowl or something?) and meeting the wolf-demon-spirit-thing. I absolutely adore that kind of traditional, folk-ish magic, like in Pan’s Labyrinth or bookverse!Stardust. It just feels truer and more natural, less fake than other kinds of flashy, glamorous magic with glowing special effects and colourful smoke and hissing Super Special Ancient Tongues. Magic based on belief and the reality-warping that comes with it is also a huge turn-on for me, like in The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett.

I thought the way Morgan struggled with magic was really believable and deliciously creepy, and it made Merlin’s life choices much more understandable - excuses for not using magic like “power corrupts” and “if you use magic selfishly it will ruin your karma” get old super fast, but this was really great. Merlin having to rely more on his wits than on his powers made him more human and interesting to watch - and it made the frozen lake scene so intriguing, because it basically said “this is what this guy is when he’s not holding back, and it’s scary”.

Just sent you the links, honey. Tell me if you have any problem. <3

I’d be soo happy if you could pass me the ebook! *-*