:: one's real life is often the life one does not lead ::

My Entries for this year's PB:

Comfort - Common Law, Travis Marks/Wes Mitchell

Evil Geniuses and Their Desks - Breaking In/Smallville, Cameron Price/Lex Luthor

Lim(b)o Sex - Chuck/White Collar, Chuck Bartowski/Neal Caffrey

Masterful - Chuck/White Collar, Chuck Bartowski/Bryce Larkin/Neal Caffrey

Not Just Bros Helping Bros - Glee, Blaine Anderson/Sam Evans

On Canvas Or On Film - White Collar, Elizabeth Burke/Neal Caffrey/Peter Burke

Rude (But Sexy) Awakening - Chuck, Chuck/Bryce

Stroke of Genius - Chuck RPS, Matthew Bomer/Zachary Levi

Things We Lost In The Fire - Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Haymitch Abernathy/Peeta Mellark/Katniss Everdeen


All of these can be found on AO3.

Psych is back! :D Hurray! A bright spot on USA network television, with White Collar ending its Fall season this week. How I love the boys when they banter and Pierre Desperaux :p

I know a gameshow isn't the place to go looking for a shining example of humanity, but still, it really bugs me that so many women on the Game Show Network game Baggage seem to have a phobia against bi-sexual men :/

That show is a guilty pleasure of mine. For those who don't know it, it's a dating show in which three people vie for a date with a man or a woman by revealing more and more uncomfortable secrets about themselves.

I've seen some really good-looking, basically attractive people passed over for some very foolish reasons (like when one girl said she wouldn't date a man because he prays for two hours a day.) But what bothers me the most is when a woman gets a whiff that a man is anything but 100% heterosexual and freaks. On an episode tonight, there was this incredibly hot, really cute and funny guy who (okay, I probably would have rooted for regardless - he's a LOTR fan who loves Europe! - but still) was an easy pick against a guy who admitted he used vacation tickets that his girlfriend had bought him to go on a trip with another woman. And just because he'd once French-kissed a man, the woman turned him down! It reminds me of an older episode on which a woman chose a man who admitted that he's currently cheating on 5 different people over a sexy, well-spoken sportscaster who admitted to flirting with both men and women :p

I can see how it could be an issue for someone, even if I don't think it would be much of one for me. But a bigger issue than whether a man is honest or dishonest, loyal or untrustworthy? Huh. Not as obvious.

oxoniensis's Pornbattle was a lot of fun (again) this year.

There are great fics here, including ( my favorites. )

I managed to pen these for the cause:

Don't Wanna Kiss You (But I Need To) Gossip Girl, Dan Humphrey/Chuck Bass

Misappropriation Chuck, Chuck Bartowski/John Casey

I Imagine That Yes Is the Only Living Thing Chuck, Chuck/Ellie + Chuck/Ellie/Sarah

Any Other Princess Tangled, Rapunzel/Flynn (Eugene)

Being Responsible Was Never Hotter iCarly, Spencer Shay/Freddy Benson

Tender Is Far Too Fierce For Us Smallville, Clark Kent/Lex Luthor

And It Will Be That Way Tomorrow, Just Like Every Day Before RPF, Jared Padalecki/Zachary Levi

When All The Things You Are, Are Mine RPF, Matthew Bomer/Zachary Levi

(These are all on AO3 now, too.)

Wow. I have been super scarce lately. Preoccupied with oxoniensis's Porn Battle and such. But I have been checking in with TV Land.

( Say-y Stuff Under Here )

For those who want to know, Alan Sipenwall is posting a different segment of a restrospective interview with Chuck creators Chris Fedak and Josh Schwartz every day this week, in anticipation of the Chuck *sniffles* series finale.

You can find the first post here.

There's lots of great stuff here, including fun bro-like bantering between Fedak and Schwartz, behind-the-scenes revealations about the show that I hadn't heard in an interview before, and the kind and appreciative tone that is always present in Sipenwall's discussions of my favorite genre-masher :)

Go give Alan an ear. Love, grieve and enjoy.