OMG

How did this happen???

My daughter's favorite show is iCarly - which I heartily approve of - and so I've been watching it kind of collatorally since it's on nearly every afternoon for an hour or so.

I don't know how this happened, because I usually don't think like this. I mean, it usually isn't my cuppa or anything. But - chemistry, ya know? It can just take hold of a fangirl......

I...think...I think I ship Spencer (Carly's twentysomething guardian brother) with Carly's best friend, Samantha Puckett.

who is somewhere around sixteen or seventeen years old.

I'm almost certain these are the actors' ages as well as the characters.

It feels so wrong and yet I half-heartedly went looking for fic on this a couple weeks ago. And not genfic, either.

I realize this is nothing to new in fandom. Not even a little bit new. But it's new to me, and I'm a bit freaked by it.

My only consolation is at least I wasn't doing this back when Samantha Puckett was thirteen or fourteen.

*slinks away*

Ack! I need a souled Angel icon!

You know how you can enjoy a song? And how it can spur your writing creatively?

But you never really stopped and LISTENED to it before?

So that happened to me last week writing Persephone.

Now I need someone to use the song in an Angel(us) vid, because it's a FLIPPIN' PERFECT fit.

So glad to see you well, overcome them
Completely silent now
With heaven's help
You've cast your demons out
And not to pull your halo down
Around your neck and tug you off your cloud
But I'm more than just a little curious
How you're plannin' to go about makin' your amends
To the dead
To the dead

Recall the deeds as if they're all
Someone else's
Atrocious stories
Now you stand reborn
Before us all
So glad to see you well

And not to pull your halo down
Around your neck and tug you to the ground
But I'm more than just a little curious
How you're plannin' to go about makin' your amends
To the dead
To the dead

With your halo slippin' down
Your halo slippin'
Your halo slippin' down
Your halo slippin' down

Your halo slippin' down
(I'm more than just a little curious
How you're plannin' to go about makin' your amends)
[repeated]

Your halo slippin' down
Your halo's slippin' down to choke you now


-The Noose,
A Perfect Circle