What's the point of a revolution without general copulation?

So here is a video of the cast of VDiaries reading NC-17 fanfiction

2012-12-16T17:06:40Z

There is one example of slash in the mix, and it's femmeslash, but it's the wrong pairing.

I don't really ... approve ... of this sort of thing, in the sense that it's obviously done in a spirit of mockery. Yet I link because I assume that at least some on my FList will take an interest.

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Really?

2012-10-25T23:33:21Z

I watch Vampire Diaries but I've never read the books.

This excerpt suggests an Elena who bears no resemblance to the TV version - and who sounds way, way more interesting.

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On this week's Secret Circle and Vampire Diaries

2012-01-08T12:06:40Z

( Spoilers )

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I realize this may be the last thing y'all need before Yuletide but - fic recs!

2011-12-25T09:08:17Z

First, a fantastic Bonnie/Damon TVD ficlet that rivkat wrote for me!! In which Bonnie is awesome, of course, and Damon is snarky and hilarious, and in which there is blood sharing, for which I am discovering I have kind of a ridiculous kink.

Second, two stories about feelings:

yellow, angles or silences. Dean sees auras. Sam/Dean.*

Learn To Glow for Other's Good. Jensen is an empath. J2.

*It's actually killing me not to insert an Oxford comma in that title

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Vampire Diaries Season Premiere

2011-09-16T20:26:28Z

( Spoilers )

Meanwhile, how is no one talking about the new season of Top Chef: Just Desserts? The latest episode was fantastic.

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Attention Damon/Bonnie fans

2011-05-19T22:24:01Z

It's been around for a while, but I only just read it - get thee immediately to Hard to Be a Saint in the City, which is an awesome, epic Damon/Bonnie road trip story where they travel around and kill vampires and use magic and Bonnie tops Damon and he loves it. Fabulous.

(ninhursag, that's right, I'm talking to you)

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I finally finished watching Being Human UK Season 3

2011-03-26T09:14:08Z

And like everyone else, my reaction to that ending is - wow.

Except also, I spent the last ten minutes wondering if they would ever. stop. talking.

But still wow.

Annie is far and away my favorite character, and I'm beginning to recognize that I definitely have a thing for these sort of ditzy-appearing female characters who develop core strengths and power over time. Like, also, Cordelia on Angel (in that brief space between Queen Bitch and Saint Cordie), and Caroline on Vampire Diaries.

Anyway, here, have a wonderful Being Human vid, spoilers for all three seasons, focusing on Mitchell, George, Annie, and their relationship to each other.

Also, a fascinating meta comparing UK's Mitchell to US's Aidan, based in part on the cultural understanding of the wars their characters, respectively, fought.

Appropos of nothing, I keep seeing this "Thirty Female Characters" meme on my FList and I want to play but I really don't have time to do a long post with pictures for each one. I just kind of want to say - favorite female antagonist, Diana of V. Favorite nonhuman, Illyria of Angel. Favorite older woman, Madeline of LFN and Madeline of Burn Notice. Favorite from a children's show, Alexandra of Josie and the Pussycats. Okay, now you know.

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Driving by

2011-02-28T12:44:40Z

Awesome Caroline Forbes character study vid here.

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OMG, Vampire Diaries!

2011-02-05T14:45:26Z

That was actually kind of awesome.

( Not really spoilers, but just in case )

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Quick vid recs

2010-11-08T13:30:52Z

Come On, Vampire Diaries. Caroline, Bonnie, and Elena. It's S1 only and considering that it was made pretty much before ... stuff ... in S2, it's really prescient.

I Wish I Was James Bond, DS9. Yeah, that's Julian all over.

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Aaah, Vampire Diaries!

2010-10-30T14:00:43Z

Spoilers for Masquerade -

( Read more )

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TV in Brief

2010-09-24T16:27:52Z

The Undercovers

( Spoilers )

Vampire Diaries: Bad Moon Rising

( Spoilers )

Fringe Season Premiere

( Spoilers )

Nikita: Kill Jill

( Spoilers )

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OMG Vampire Diaries

2010-09-17T14:14:40Z

How is it that whenever Stefan is in a scene that does not include Elena (or Katherine), he becomes like 10 billion times more interesting? It's like those actors have an anti-chemistry that sucks the life out of any scene they share. Also -

( Spoilers )

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These are starting to actively annoy me

2010-09-15T12:03:37Z

Here you can see TV Guide's list of couples who should totally do it.

Here you can see Hollywood Life's list of the hottest vampire couples.

And look, it's not like I expect everyone to understand the strange ways of fandom, but these lists are at least partly intended to capture an internet audience and sell internet advertisements, and there is no way at this point for anyone even vaguely involved in online pop culture to not realize that on The Vampire Diaries, the biggest "will they/won't they" story isn't Damon/Elena, but Damon/Stefan. (At minimum, they might notice that TVP promo posters are essentially selling a Damon/Elena/Stefan threesome.) Or maybe they could have included other shows, like Serena and Blair from Gossip Girl, or Rizzoli and Isles.

As for hottest vampire romances? Sure, I'll give you Buffy/Angel and Buffy/Spike, but you'd have to be willfully blind to miss Angel/Spike.

That with this target audience, they can't come up with even a single non-heterosexual couple is just ... depressing.

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Vampire Diaries 2x01

2010-09-10T20:51:29Z

Bonnie is so awesome. If I knew how, I'd be putting up pictures of her decorated with pink sparkly hearts.

I still 'ship Bonnie/Damon like whoah, but in all honesty, the most romantic scene in the season premiere was between Damon and Stefan.

For a brief moment I was so excited because I thought ( Spoilers ) but, sadly, no.

Next week looks like fun!

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VDiaries Finale, Briefly

2010-05-14T14:36:12Z

( Spoilers )

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So, Vampire Diaries

2010-04-10T13:17:38Z

( Spoilers for Let the right one in )

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Oh, Vampire Diaries

2010-03-26T01:12:59Z

( Not even a spoiler, really )

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I'll say this for The Vampire Diaries

2010-02-13T03:03:13Z

The plot really, really moves.

I honestly have no idea how long they can keep the plot developments moving at this pace, but it's impressive while it lasts.

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Now it can be told!

2010-02-01T01:24:38Z

festivids reveals are up! The names of the vidders are listed at the Festivids master post, and the individual vid posts have been edited to include the vidders' names and to provide download information.

As for me, I ended up making two vids. They were in different fandoms, but they had similar ... ahem ... themes: variations on vampire angst. Download and streaming info at the links below.

Cemeteries of London for abby82 (Forever Knight)

AEIOU for greensilver (Vampire Diaries)

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Vampire Diaries: Unpleasantville

2010-01-30T12:25:34Z

Am I the only person who has trouble telling the male characters on this show apart? They're all so blandly similar in age and build that they look the same to me. I haven't had this much trouble distinguishing between characters since Malcolm and Trip on Star Trek: Enterprise.

( Spoilers )

Also, this Bonnie/Damon fic isn't bad.

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Festivids recs!

2010-01-15T02:44:09Z

Okay, so by now I've seen most - though not all - of the Festivids, because I was lucky enough to get a head start :-) (yes, I know who made them, okay? I KNOW). And I am not kidding when I say you should watch each and every one of them. I'm really quite amazed at how consistently good they all are (although in wildly different ways). And the source! I mean, there are vids with this gorgeous source you've never seen before, and then ugly-as-hell source but dear God, remember when television looked like that? And then there're all the vids to sources you always thought would make an amazing vid, and now you know - or source where you think my god, why didn't I realize how amazing that would be to vid, or source where, you'd have sworn it was unviddable, but you would be wrong, and just plain source where there are a few existing vids but you knew there needed to be more and hey! Now there are.

But this isn't like Yuletide, where there are something like 500 million stories, so that you can do a rec list of 100 and it's still not obvious which one's yours. If I went through and rec'd everything I loved, I'd essentially be outing myself. So I can't do that (unless I was wily and rec'd myself, which ... I am not going to do). So I'm saving a bunch of recs until after the reveal.

For now, though, I can't help but jump up and down and squee about just a teeny taste of what's good. And I can't emphasize this enough: it doesn't matter if you don't know the source. Hell, I don't know the source for many of these - you still should watch them.

I have to start with the vid that was made just for me: Sleepwalker (Profit). I love this show, which is about ~~how pretty Adrian Pasdar is~~ how a man who was literally raised by television as a child turned into a soulless monster who schemes his way through the corporate world. This vid is perfectly Profit - it's creepy and spooky and weird and in a million years I would never have paired Adam Lambert with this show but wow, that totally works. Like, not even in a cracky way - it works for real.

Other vids you should totally watch while you're, you know, watching everything:

( Recs below the cut )

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I have a question about teenagers today

2009-12-31T13:14:23Z

Yes, I am old enough to ask a question about teenagers today. American teens, let's say 14-18.

When I was a teen, teens did not drink coffee. I didn't start drinking coffee until sometime in my college years, and that was universally true of all teens of my acquaintance.

However, I did notice that at some point, teens started to come to Starbucks, which only really started getting big after I became a coffee drinker. As though it was Starbucks, and things like mochas and lattes and whatnot, that was attracting teens to start drinking coffee earlier. I remember, in fact, back when Starbucks was just becoming a phenomenon, noticing teen presence and being a little startled by it.

Today, I don't know any teens. But in TV portrayals of them, they seem to drink coffee all the time.

So here's my question: Do American teens today really drink coffee regularly and, if so, can we blame Starbucks?

This post brought to you by a rewatch of The Vampire Diaries pilot. (Speaking of which, I think my main 'ship in this fandom is Damon/Bonnie. By default, really, because they're the only remotely interesting characters on the show. Damon/that sheriff lady might be cool but I'd have to go into severe denial that he'd ever slept with her daughter.)

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