rionaleonhart | Apparently There's Some Sort Of Life Thing Outside The Internet.

Tomorrow, I am returning to university. My new Brighton abode does not have Internet access, and so I am probably not going to be around much for a period of time as yet undetermined.

'But, Riona,' I hear you cry, 'surely you wouldn't leave us without giving us more of your thoughts on incestuous implications and other matters in a terrible American high school drama series watched by perhaps four people on your friendslist, would you?'

I'm glad you asked.

Regarding the One Tree Hill episode 'How Can You Be Sure?':

- LUCAS SCOTT. SERIOUSLY. HOW IS IT POSSIBLE FOR ANYONE TO BE THAT ADORABLE? When I see him, of course, there's always a small part of my mind laughing uncontrollably at the fact that he is being played by a man who has his own initials tattooed on his arm (oh, Chad), but the vast majority is just 'awww'ing. Especially when he is with his mother. Cutest parent-child relationship I have ever seen in fiction? It is quite possible.

- Also ridiculously adorable: Nathan/Haley. You guys! I am so charmed! Nathan is kind of an idiot, and kind of a git, but when he is with Haley he just becomes incredibly lovely. Haley doesn't need a Nathan to make her lovely, but she is especially charming when she is with him.

- You know, One Tree Hill, when you open a scene between Keith and Lucas with Keith carrying a pair of jeans across the room and continue to film him from the waist up for the entire conversation, I am going to assume that he is calmly speaking to his nephew sans trousers.

I'm just saying that maybe that's something you need to think about.

Not - not trouserless Keith speaking to Lucas. You need to think about your filming choices. (Unless 'Keith is not wearing trousers; Lucas is unfazed' was what you were actually going for, in which case you did a very good job and also, er, why?)

Seriously, is this show actually full of incestuous implications or has fandom just warped my perception?

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Seriously, is this show actually full of incestuous implications or has fandom just warped my perception?

I ask myself the same thing all the time. Then I remember the crazy Lucas/Nathan dynamic, and the way Lucas has chemistry with every single thing on screen. He also can make people change their entire personalities in the space of seconds (except his dad) and is a paragon of morality (even when he's not) and walks on water in his free time.

Um. I really need to get back to watching this show.

Lucas has chemistry with every single thing on screen.

SO TRUE. Which is a bit alarming when about a third of the recurring characters are related to him. Fortunately, I have yet to see any Lucas/Dan chemistry, but I'm sure it's waiting to ambush me somewhere along the line.

JUST YOU WAIT.

JUST YOU WAIT.

"Seriously, is this show actually full of incestuous implications or has fandom just warped my perception?"

After Supernatural, I'm seeing every possible ship EVERYWHERE. It's massively disturbing. ~~Which is how I like it.~~

I think I have to blame Top Gear. When I entered the fandom, I was writing fairly normal things (if you ignore the fact that writing fanfiction for a car programme is in itself pretty weird, and, er, also the fact that the first thing I wrote for it was a Harry Potter crossover. I was writing fairly normal pairings, at any rate); by the time I came out of it I was pairing the presenters up with dogs and cars and zombie editors all over the place.

I think everyone's got a particular fandom that broke them. For the people who haven't been broken yet, it's just a matter of time.

See, I got to dive headfirst into the perverted crackhole that is the Spn fandom, it being my first real fandom. I went from being "Ew, slash!" to "Ok, slash is cool, but EW, INCEST!" to "Ok, incest kinda rocks here, but EW, EVERYTHING ELSE."
...By now? I've pretty much accepted that I have zero boundaries left.

Ah, but you have an abode! So that's good.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=A7C-iEoArAc&feature=related

I should probably listen to that every day. It is not an easy thing to remember.

('I'm gonna jump!'
'Don't do it!'
'Okay!')

Riona, with each new entry you post I find myself strangely drawn to stupid One Tree Hill more and more. Dammit, I swore to myself that I'd NEVER watch that show ~~but I also swore to myself that I'd never watch Camp Rock or listen to the Jonas Brothers, and look how that turned out~~. HOW DO YOU MAKE EVERYTHING SO APPEALING???

It is so ridiculous, but it is also terribly addictive, and I actually really like the characters. I would suggest that you give it a try, because I am a bad influence, and because you obviously have the secret fondness for terrible things that One Tree Hill watchers require.

Once upon a time, I er, may have watched the Pilot. I don't really remember much except I thought that Lucas and Haley were extra sparkly and that I hated Peyton for being 'punk!!!!! and emo!!!!!' in a way that was more stupid than punk or emo. I think my brain attempted to ERASE IT FROM MY MEMORY or something.

Peyton is pretty ridiculous in the first few episodes, but then she becomes great. Or so I think;

wanttobeatree may disagree.

Lucas and Haley were extra sparkly

VAMPIRES?

WHAT, NO, NOT VAMPIRES. ~~This is what I get for using my KStew icon.~~ Sparkly, on the inside! Dammit, that sounds...kind of wrong. MAYBE THEY REALLY ARE VAMPIRES.

Well, you've only seen one episode. For all you know, they could be vampires.

...are you trying to lure me into the scary vortex of One Tree Hill by dangling the possibility that the show's actually about the extended family of Edward Cullen in front of my face? ARE YOU?

What if they are actually the Cullens? Peyton is Rosalie. Hayley is Alice. Lucas is Jasper. Perhaps Nathan is Edward and Brooke is Emmett. Karen is totally Esme, and Keith is Carlisle.

Perhaps your watching experience will be improved if you watch with this in mind.

(Of course, this results in a few weird inter-Cullen pairings. Jasper/Emmett, anyone?)

The thought of you without internet is terrible! WILL YOU AT LEAST LEAVE US A MAILING ADDRESS BEFORE YOU GO?

Awww! I'm going to miss you a lot. ♥!

Though I warn you, you may be getting a box of graham crackers and twizzlers showing up at your door as soon as I figure out my pay schedule and, uh, how flat-rate boxes work on international shipping.

YOU CANNOT MAKE S'MORES WITHOUT GRAHAM CRACKERS, RIONA.

I will miss you too! And may send you Awkward Slash to read while you're gone, which will be LOADS OF FUN if you sneak into campus computer labs!

I think that our strawberry bootlaces are a bit like your Twizzlers, so please don't trouble yourself unnecessarily. (And I had absolutely no idea what s'mores were until a few months ago, when

th_esaurus made them with digestive biscuits.)

I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO BEING EXPOSED AS AN AWKWARD SLASH-READER ON CAMPUS.

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