Trabia Garden

All right, 'Laryngitis' is probably my favourite episode of Glee so far.


( Spoilers for 'Laryngitis'. )


Non-spoilery notes: Kurt's relationship with his father does such things to my heart. There is so much love between them, and things may not be perfect but they both try so hard.

One of the things I love about Glee is the little things characters do in the backgrounds of scenes. When Rachel is singing angrily in 'Hell-O', Tina surreptitiously moves a chair between them! I tend to keep my eyes on Kurt whenever he's visible, because he'll usually be doing something worth watching, whether he's the focus of the scene or merely a background figure.

At this stage, Kurt and Quinn are probably my favourite characters, although I'm also rather fond of Mercedes and would like to see more of her. (Have I mentioned how adorable the Kurt-Mercedes friendship is? Awww. And the relationship between Mercedes and Quinn really interests me.) I have at least a little affection for most of the characters (even Rachel, who is self-obsessed and irritating but still good-hearted), but I have definite preferences.

To everyone on my flist who doesn't like Glee, erm, I'm sorry for lying when I said I wouldn't talk about it much.

I cannot find any Mentalist fanvids set to 'Read My Mind' by The Killers. You disappoint me, fandom.

(I also cannot find any Jane/his entire team fanfiction! Come on, guys, don't make me cry. Although, as I have just stumbled across a Patrick Jane/Tony Stark fic, I think I may have to forgive you. I SHALL EXPECT JANE/EVERYONE AT SOME POINT, HOWEVER. (And possibly Pepper Potts/Van Pelt.))


Something that interests me: although I have written very little Mentalist fic so far, I have already noticed that I tend to gravitate towards Van Pelt's point of view. I have no idea why. I suppose it makes sense that I'm not writing from Jane's point of view, despite the fact that he is easily my favourite character, because the actual show tends to obscure his intentions from us for most of the episode and so we're always kept at a slight distance from him, but why Van Pelt specifically? There are aspects of her character - her faith, her very careful morality - that make me worry about whether I'll be able to write her well, but somehow hers is still the perspective into which I naturally fall. Odd.


I have now seen the first two episodes of the second season! And, oh, the beginning of 'Redemption' was all about the team having become Jane's family and his inability to admit it to himself. I love the amount of support The Mentalist offers for the pairing of Jane/everyone. I'm not sure how genuinely I believed it when I came up with the theory, but then every episode reinforced it and now I can't help thinking of 'Jane is deeply in love with every member of his unit' as canon. Best canon ever.

Minor spoilers for the episode; highlight to read: AND HE HUGS LISBON. ♥! Just Cho and Van Pelt to go! I mean, it's totally okay if Jane wants to hug any member of his team more than once, but he certainly has to at least give them a hug each. (And, oh, when he says 'I have nothing else to do' and literally means that the job is the only thing that has any meaning in his life, augh.)

NUMBER ONE ON THE LIST OF THINGS I AM ABSOLUTELY NOT ALLOWED TO FIND HOT: PATRICK JANE SNIFFING A DEAD BODY AHDHSHHDDFJFGH RIONA STOP REWINDING TO REWATCH IT WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU


Regarding 'The Scarlett Letter': I love how rubbish Jane is at running. Possibly a weird character detail of which to become fond, but I love it. I love that, if there is any way he can possibly avoid running, he'll take it. I love that, if he is forced to run, he's so half-hearted about it that he looks like he's moving in slow motion. I love that he's out of breath in seconds.

I also love that he thinks of the couch as 'his couch' and is far too protective of it. Aww! (Jane was so cute in this episode.)


I want to see an episode in which Jane completely screws up. I know he's screwed up before, not generally in a 'reaching the wrong conclusion' sense but in an 'approaching things the wrong way and getting the suspect killed' sense, but what I want is an episode in which he screws up and as a result a member of his team is almost killed.

I am sorry that I want so many horrible angstful things to happen to you, Jane, but I can't help it. This wouldn't happen if you weren't so good at having horrible angstful things happen to you.


EDIT: I just started watching The Mentalist: Revealed, and Simon Baker said, 'Call me a sex symbol all you like, 'cause sometimes, when I wake up, I wouldn't want to sleep with me,' and I immediately wanted so much Jane/Jane fanfiction.

Oh, dear.

(ALSO THIS IS A REALLY WEIRD EXPERIENCE. A man with Patrick Jane's face is speaking with an Australian accent! Rigsby's actor is British! I do not know what to think any more. (Yeoman's accent startled me so much that I had to rewatch what he was saying a couple of times before the similarly disconcerting fact that Rigsby's actor was talking about how attractive Jane's actor is sunk in.))


EDIT AGAIN:

Owain Yeoman: I clearly have a crush on [Baker]. I've just literally just told you I love him! (giggles)

Oh, help. Who wants to take bets on how long it'll be before I'm writing RPF? I love this documentary already.

I want so much horrendously wrong and angst-inducing 'Born Under a Bad Sign' sex, oh dear.

Horrible fic ideas beneath the cut! Spoilers for 'Born Under a Bad Sign'.

( Because you can never have too much Winchester-torture. )

I never used to find blood this much of a turn-on, honestly. Supernatural has done something very weird to me. (I've never had much of a foreign-language kink, either, but Dean speaking Latin? In 'Crossroad Blues'? Hot. He's probably mispronouncing every word, but I do not care. MORE SEXY EXORCISMS, PLEASE.)

Sorry for inflicting my sexual-identity uncertainty upon all of you! It's not something that fills me with angst or anything (I've been perfectly content without a significant other for nineteen years, so - ahahaha, 'Touch A Touch A Touch A Touch Me', that's the best Shuffle coincidence I've ever had! - I don't feel that I'm in desperate need of a sex life; so long as I have people I love and who love me, I'm happy); it's just something I wonder about occasionally. I DON'T LIKE TALKING ABOUT THESE THINGS BECAUSE I DON'T LIKE REVEALING THAT I AM JUST AN EMOTIONALLY CONFUSED FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD AT HEART. With apologises to those of you on my friendslist who are around that age and are more emotionally mature than I'll ever be.

I was going to make a poll about something that came up in the comments to that entry, along the lines of 'if offered the chance to spend a week as the opposite gender (painless transformation and it's guaranteed not to screw your normal life up), would you take it?', and then I decided that it would be pointless, as everyone would say 'yes'. Possibly I am wrong about this; I've been entirely mistaken about the nature of humanity before.

What about spending a week as a cat? I think I'd take it. Or a day as a mosquito? I'd probably have to decline that one; you'd get to fly, but you'd be a mosquito. (IF I THINK FOR TOO LONG ABOUT THIS I WILL BE UNABLE TO KILL MOSQUITOES FOR FEAR THAT THEY ARE MEMBERS OF MY FRIENDSLIST. Mosquitoes are the only creatures in the world I will deliberately kill. I have tried humanely releasing a couple, but then I concluded that doing that for all the millions of mosquitoes that somehow sneak into the house in summer would be ridiculous. Stupid mosquitoes.)