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Oh, television, you've been back in my life two days and you're already making me feel like I'm falling behind. GREAT, THIS SEMESTER WILL BE AWESOME. Oh well, at least while I'm watching you I've been super happy.

( Law & Order: What Is This Fuckery? becomes Law & Order: Continuity? B-But... what? I don't understand. )

( Big Bang Theory )

( How I Met Your Mother )

Can we talk about last night's HIMYM? ( How I Met Your Mother )

It's a good thing that at least one show is actually showing new episodes, because this 6 week hiatus of The Office is driving me crazy. Plus, I had to do the fandom newsletter (scranton_times) all last week by myself, because kyrafic was out of town, and man, I don't know how she did it alone for so long. I kind of wanted to shoot myself in the face. Though doing the newsletter DOES mean that you get an intriguing look at fandom trends -- which The Office is actually small enough to have on an all-fandom scale. I mean, back in BtVS, I had no idea what half the fandom was doing at any given time, because there were so many enclaves (I mean, the Buffy/Angel people? I have noooo idea what went on in those circles, except every once in awhile when a rumor would get out, or there'd be a war with the Spuffy contingent or whatever). But it's interesting to watch how strongly canon drives fic (only surprising in its degree, but still. The hiatus ended on a Michael/Jan note, and sure enough, there has been a FLOOD of schmoopy Michael/Jan fic -- which is pretty beautiful, and also weird. Michael Scott, perfect boyfriend y/n?), and how challenges drive fandom (you know, I LOVE Five Things fic as a genre, but apparently that is in moderation, because it's at the point right now where if I could declare a 6 month moritorium on them, I would). Fun times.

So in the last two weeks, like five members of my flist who I don't think even know each other have all seriously gotten into bandslash. What is going on? Is there something in the water? And one of these is imogenics, and Saturday night she and throughadoor fandom booty-called me at like 12:30 via lj comment to be all, "You're still awake? COME OVER. WE'LL MAKE PANCAKES." So in the course of the, I don't know, pancake eating, I accidentally let slip that I really like blink-182, to the point where I own like 5 of their albums. Which - I don't know, it was very late, Jim. For, uh, those three years. Which was like blood in the water for them, so they played me a bunch of Fall Out Boy, and you guys, SERIOUSLY. I can't think of anything more embarrassing than getting into bandslash, except maybe getting into bandslash BECAUSE YOU KIND OF LIKE THE MUSIC. Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelp.

Speaking of my bad taste in music, have you guys seen Avril's new video for "Girlfriend"? I still don't know how I feel about it. I feel like the old Avril maybe wouldn't like the new Avril? Also, she is weirdly Kristin Bell-esque in it. Also, weirdly Hermione-esque, if Hermione were a pop-punk singer. (I think it's the knee socks that make me think this - I don't even know, you guys. I have a problem. Many of them.) Also, I feel like the song actually sounds younger than her earlier stuff, which is weird, and sounds vaguely like something Josie and the Pussycats would sing. (Not to say that I don't like it, because oh, I do. Repeat one, my old friend. Also, how good is that movie? I haven't watched it in forever, either.)

Also, I rewatched the SVU episode where Olivia comes back the other day, and now I really miss SVU fic. LOTS.

I don't know how this happened. There were LJ comments? And things got out of hand? And 6500 words of what is basically curtainfic later, here we are.

Title: The Funny Thing About Destiny
Fandom: The Office/How I Met Your Mother
Pairing: Jim Halpert/Ted Mosby
Rating: PG-13
Length: 6500 words
Summary: Jim and Ted get married and have babies? I'm not kidding.
AN: This fic is for torchthisnow, who instigated it and who now owes me some Lily/Ted. Thanks to kyrafic for the read through.

( The fourth weekend in a row that Jim came into the city to hang out was the one when things started to change. )

I saw the movie "The Holiday" the other day with my parents, the one with Cameron Diaz and Jude Law and Kate Winslet and Jack Black. It was actually pretty enjoyable, even though it was full of over-the-top monologues and kind of ridiculous scoring. I might not have thought as much about those things, except that the movie had characters that were screenwriters and score composers, and you know, if you are going to write mediocre monologues/music, you really shouldn't draw attention to those parts of movie making IN YOUR MOVIE. It kept reminding me of how they originally scored Strangers With Candy to, like, "Schindler's List" music for the rough cut. Hahahahahahaha.

The really beautiful part of the movie, though, was that there kept being all this apparently unintended innuendo. The most egregious instance: Jude Law, to Cameron Diaz: "I know that I'm a three-for-one package. And maybe you don't really want my package. Maybe my package doesn't look so good in the light of day." Okay, are they serious with this? That's some screenwriter thinking it's hilarious to make Jude Law say that as a straight line, RIGHT? I mean, I spent my entire youth in church, there is no way that I'm the person with the dirtiest mind in any given room. (This is much how I feel about the "Wet Pam/Jim" tag at the Office fic archive. Come on, I can't be the only one who sees that!)

I finally head back home tomorrow, which is good except for how I'll have to do serious work when I get there. Vacaaaaation, don't leave meeeeeee.

If you guys like How I Met Your Mother, you should totally read Thank You by boundbyspells, which is Robin/Barney and just FANTASTIC. I didn't even know I wanted Robin/Barney until I read this, and now I really, really ship them.