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Yuletide has been revealed! I still have a list of fic an arm's length long, but that's half the fun, right?

My Yuletide contribution this year:

"Conversations Neatly Placed In Tired Mouths" (Life, Charlie, Dani & Ted {Gen}), for dotfic

I just loved writing it - something like coming home, I guess. I miss those three so much, so it was both happy and bittersweet revisiting them.

Also, bantha_fodder, in a spell of joint Pretender squee and birthday madness, wrote a Pretender/Adam Lambert fic for mandysbitch and it's FREAKIN' AMAZING.

"The Lights Just In Sight"

READ IT. There's flirting! Liquid liner! Miss Parker! Adam calling Jarod 'J'! *hearts made from hands*

It's very quiet as both members of my house-fam are watching the final Tennant Doctor Who. I feel like running around and screaming about Miss Parker and Jarod's OTPNESS OF OTP-ALL-TIME-ZOMG, but that would possibly be annoying.

Right?

ETA:



I CAN'T STOP LAUGHING

I'm off site today, sitting in the back office of one of our stores and waiting for IT to fix my settings because I can't log on remotely to our network. So instead of doing other work, I will post fic and read my flist.

I wrote this when I flew to Brisbane a month or so ago, and although bantha_fodder has read it, you guys haven't. Lucky!

TITLE: Airports Filled With Grace
FANDOM: The Pretender, Miss Parker/Jarod
RATING: PG
DISCLAIMER: Not mine, Stevo and Craigger's.

( The last call comes across the airwaves, but she doesn't move. )

Sigh. I wish I could go home.

bantha_fodder and I have been watching too many Pretender vids lately, and have decided to help you on your journey through YouTube's large aray of vids by reviewing those we feel have impacted us highly. Or made us LOL. Handy!

Pen's reviews are here.

VID ONE:
"Twins" by Pretender55



This vid is set to "Clubbed to Death" by Rob Dougan, and is a psychological profile of what it means to be a twin in today's rabidly commercial society.

Really.

The idea behind this vid was inventive and fresh - the only problem being? The song is 7 and a half minutes long, and, well...there's only so much thinly-veiled twin-lovin' phrases you can have flash up on screen before it starts reading like someone's LJ rant on why Miss P and Jarod aren't the OTP OMG LYLE ISN'T RILLY HER BROTHER HES GOOD OKAI?!

2.5 out of five lols

Times we get hit over the head with canon in words and video: 8

Times "MONSTER" appears on screen: 4

Amount of time in seconds "MONSTER" floats at us: 26 seconds

Times I laughed out loud: 3

Number of times scenes from Island of the Haunted are used: 0!

Scenes with Jarod: 2

Minus points: the useless facts on twins, TOO FUCKING LONG.


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VID TWO
"Fix You" by Fleurdejude



Vid Zwei is a Parker-through-Jarod's-eyes piece to Coldplay's "Fix You".

The opening organ solo mixes perfectly with a moody scene from IOTH and Jarod catching the news after Thomas Gates is shot. The mixture of Young and Older!Parker and Jarod, the heartbreaking scene from "Bank" where Parker tells her father she's fine - all this captures everything we've come to love and freakin' hate from our favourite un-touching couple.

The rising action at about 2mins 40secs has great effect, although the timing is a little off. The scene from IOTH in the rain is especially fantastic. All in all, a fun, heart-wrenching time for all!

no lols out of five, just loves.

fade from gigolo!jarod to miss parker on the couch (or vice versa): 2 points

number of times scenes from Island of the Haunted are used: Too many to count - around 20 or so

no touching: 4 points

bonus points for the rising action, the great use of black and white and not overdoing the fades.

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Wasn't that fun. Until next time, remember - the first rule of Pretender Club is NO TOUCHING.

I got the Pretender movies on DVD last week, and have only watched Island of the Haunted because, really, who gives a crap about Pretender 2001?

It shall forever, from this day, be known as LOLsland of the Haunted, thanks to THAT SCENE.

You know the one. The one where Jarod's nipples are horribly erect.


( It would come springing! From my lips! )

( Remember when Jarod was a Jailbird? )

OH, SHOW. I LOVE YOU.

So I picked up this book called Twilight, by Stephenie Meyer, right?

And it's a young adult book about a vampire and a human falling in love, right?

And I've really, really, really enjoyed it. Like, I'm re-reading it, even though I just finished it.

And I'd really like to have a look around fandom, maybe write some fic, get into some nice meta discussions.

So why are there no older fans, huh?

I'm not saying the fandom that exists is bad, per se, it's just not my cup of tea. Anyone know of a place where I can squee talk about said books without fear of Evanescence song fic?

In the meantime, I can't stop laughing at this picture:



LOL RAINES IS HIDING & JAROD IS JAUNTY

I've been ploughing around YouTube looking for distracting crap today, thanks to me being "missing" (don't ask) and having the worst bout of writer's block since forev.

So: here is PIECESOF'S THE WONDERS OF YOUTUBE LIST.

♥ For gunderpants: Tonks/Lupin vid.
To the Monkees, natch. I just know you're going to love me after seeing this, Gun.

♥ Adrian Munsey - The Lost Sheep.
If you don't watch anything else in this post, watch this. Please. You will thank me in the morning with a full breakfast in bed.

♥ Mommie Dearest vs The Monkees. Dig that large, large text!

♥ BECAUSE I NEEDED TO SEE YOU DANCE LIKE THAT, D'ONOFRIO.
Or, in which Detective Robert Goren goes undercover for no reason whatsoever.

♥ Scene from "The Posthumous Collection"
Season 4 of "Criminal Intent". If there was any scene that could turn me into a gushing 'shippy fangirl, this is it. Squeetastic.

♥ "Everybody Wants You" - Pretender-vid.
Finally! My Billy Squire and Pretender loves, smooshed together in one handy vid! The author has also done one to "Incomplete" by BSB - IT'S LIKE SHE'S STOLEN MY SOUL. Actually, all her vids are kick-ass - here are all her vids. Yo, LeoChick!

♥ *NSYNC performing "This I Promise You/ByeByeBye/It's Gonna Be Me" at the 2000 VMAs. Easily the best freakin' performance EVAR. Even if Woodridge Weenie Robson choreographed it. Note: fast forward to 1min 10secs, coz, yo, I don't think you wanna sit through "This I Promise You" unless you have to. "LAYDEEEEZZZ!" OH KIRKPATRICK YOU OWN ME.

♥ And finally: AJ's fave singer is Crazy Frog, because he's so high on cocaine he thinks he's regressed back in age and is eight again.


_{This is for my mother, who claims my LJ is BORING. I &hearts U, Mummo!}