broken-nosed gods

So I kind of . . . totally disappeared for a while there! My apologies. Normal service should resume shortly, though possibly not until after midterms.

I keep wishing I'd signed up for Kaleidoscope, but I know I didn't have enough energy or time. With this in mind, I should definitely not sign up for Yuletide, as that is way more stressful and I like the people running Yuletide a lot less. But they let Utena in as a fandom this year, so maybe I have to. HELP. (edit: FUCK THEY HAVE THE MIDDLEMAN NOW I REALLY DO HAVE TO.)

The actual point of this post: There is a prompt-fest for whatever the hell you please going on, and everyone should get right on that and tell all their friends about it too. Right now it's pretty western-television-centric, but if you're into that at all a lot of the prompts are great. There's at least one Korrasami fic already! And, um, I may have posted a couple of prompts for The Middleman. As you do.*


*Incidentally, I have discovered that when I say 'Middleman' out loud, it comes out like this: ~MIDDLEMAN~!

This show gives me all the feelings. ALL OF THEM. I was going to say 'all the good feelings', but then I ran headlong into the crushing despair you get when you're drawing close to the end of a story you love with all your heart and soul. FOUR EPISODES LEFT.

I haven't been this badly gored by the approaching ending of a story since Gokusen. Then again, this show reminds me of Gokusen in a lot of ways. The quirky yet ultimately human and relatable characters! The humour! The main characters who I feel kind of bad about shipping!

Ever since Gokusen (and possibly even before) I haven't been able to resist the (over)enthusiastic hero/cynical-yet-loyal sidekick ship. On the one hand, platonic F/M relationships as the main focus of a story are extremely rare and I should treasure the ones I get like the precious gems that they are. On the other, Yankumi/Shin dynamic! Thus far I am settling this problem by a) shipping them like FedEx, and b) being utterly glad they are not canon.

So, all one of you who has watched this show, tell me what crossovers I need to write once I finish watching it! Everyone else, ask me why you should watch The Middleman, and I will tell you in great detail.