'No, Elvis is not dead. He just went home.'

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The boys got Men in Black out of the library. I’d forgotten how wonderful Tommy Lee Jones is in it.

The River



Caught up. Still ridiculous. Still enjoying the hell out of it. There’s no explanation.

So Emmett Cole was in a cocoon this whole time. Huh. Haven’t seen that since Babylon Five.

There seems to be a lot of hate for Tess Cole on tumblr, which I can see, sure, but I have to say I’m kind of partial to her—and not just because she has a collection of headbands and wraps that any curly-haired girl in a humid environment would envy. No—I just kind of like her obsessive take-charge bitchiness.

Plus, the only relationship on the show that seems real enough to invest in (though not in a shippy way) is the mother-son relationship between Tess and Lincoln. You have to do a little hand-waving with their ages (not that much), but otherwise they seem so naturally affectionate and annoyed and passionate with each other, whereas most of the other relationships seem a little forced.

I was both tickled and piqued to find out that the show films in Hawaii rather than in Amazonia someplace. Piqued, because I like the Amazon (though it explains why the jungle looked suspiciously like...Oahu); tickled, because it seems to increase the likelihood of Steve McGarrett stepping out of the undergrowth, offering to let them use his satellite phone and curing all their ills with a hollowed out twig. And then taking them back to Kamekona’s for some spicy shrimp.

(This isn’t the Amazon?, they’d say, and Steve would say, “I’ve been to the Amazon, brah, and this ain’t no Amazon.”)

Next week is the last episode and I’m sad.



Grimm 1x14



Okay, again, my first comment has to go to the wonderful production design. All the copper ornamentation and sculpture was just amazing—particularly the dragon girl’s house and the mouth of the old railroad tunnel. Outsider art or what?

And I quite liked the dragon girl. It’s about time Nick had a slutty adversary *iz shallow* And the look on his face when he told Juliette, “um, her day job is being fire dancer” was priceless.

Most importantly, Monroe met Juliette!!! What will happen next?! (stay, Juliette, stay!).



Let me also rec you a lovely m/m romance novel, Bonds of Earth. This is straight-to-the-vein h/c id!fic.



I don’t mean this in a bad way at all, but it resembles nothing so much as one of those epic J2 AU fics. You know the type: Jensen Ackles has returned from the Great War crippled in body and spirit, secluding himself in his family’s Hudson River mansion. Jared Padalecki grew up rough in the Bowery, and thought that medical school was his way out. War crushed his dreams as well. When Jensen hires Jared as a gardener for the estate, they find they can help each other in more ways than one. (NC-17, schmoop, h/c, scar!fic, rimming).

But the fic-y-ness of it doesn’t really show up except in the neat and wish-fulfill-y nature of the plot, and the characterization and plotting are crisp enough to carry you past that.

Besides, who doesn’t want to read a book about a raven-haired boy with the build of a longshoreman who learned his state-of-the-art massage skills in a Village bathhouse every once in a while?



Also relevant to your interests: another great Casey-centric (with Casey/Walsh friendship) Unusuals fic, this one by topaz119

Happy weekend, folks!