I've had a bad week.
Scratch that.
I've had a bad
month.
I have four computers in my room -
four! four computers! - and none of them is entirely functional. Two of them are completely dead, one of them I swear just sits there and
mocks me and the fourth isn't of use when writing papers. All I want is a computer, at my desk, where I can write papers. Instead, I've got an adorably retro G3 PowerPC with only a Gmail Compose Message window as a word processor. I'm
cursed. I've been joking that I'm all you need to defeat Skynet: just sit me down with it and within a few months the entire network will be bricked.
Then there's
school. Don't even get me started.
In an attempt to Make The Pain Stop I've been absorbing as much
Merlin fic as I can. Mostly because it's a show mostly about cheerful people being happy. The fic can be silly, it can be sweet, it can be creepy, it can do
Heroes better than
Heroes, and some of it? Some of it's
not even slash.
It's been fun watching fandom drink the
Merlin kool-aid, and I think - I
think - for me the
Merlin fandom has reached a crack-filled maturity. Why? I found my first
Merlin zombie!AU.*
Aside from being hilarious, and mentions of zombie cows
and zombie Tennyson (♥), Merlin says,
"“I prefer laughing to crying,” and that right there is why I watched the show. It's a show with darkness (it's set in a world barely a generation out from genocide where difference is punishable by public execution, fer crissake) but it's never a terribly dark show. The class clown of fandoms, maybe. But there certainly aren't many shows where people laugh so much, and so guilelessly.
*There's got to be a model for mapping the length of time from a show's premiere to the first zombie!AU with a correlation to the level of crack on the show and in fandom.![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
