ZOMBIES!

Have I mentioned I love zombies? I do. I particularly love zombie alterations to stories I already know and love. I'm reading Pride and Prejudice and Zombies right now and having a very good time! I'm thinking about requesting P&P&Z for Yuletide, only with the characters from Sense and Sensibility instead, because I think Marianne Dashwood dealing with zombies would be hilarious. (Also on the Yuletide list: Fringe fic set in the noir!AU episode universe :D)

Along the same lines, this Leverage fanwork website is so much fun. It's meant to be co-read with an apocalyptothon fic, Survival By Eliot; the website is basically the website Hardison would design for the Leverage gang's zombie-fighting endeavors in the case of a zombie apocalypse, and the fic is a narrative counterpart. Hardison's footnotes are HILARIOUS, and make sure to read the alt text for the links, too. SO GOOD. Creative fanwork, con artists, AND zombies, hooray!

When I start reading things like this, I inevitably start thinking of other fandoms + zombies, usually starting with the most recent.

( cut for lengthy speculation on Hikaru no Go, The Mentalist, Generation Kill, Criminal Minds, Life, Castle, Lord Peter, Burn Notice, Sherlock Holmes, Jeeves & Wooster, and The Middleman -- all WITH ZOMBIES! )

( ETA: Band of Brothers and 30 Rock )

Come tell me your own thoughts re: the above or your own favorite "X Fandom – WITH ZOMBIES!" scenarios in the comments. I would most sincerely like to hear them!

In conclusion: ZOMBIES.

World Cup!

I watched the US-England World Cup game this afternoon! Well, I missed most of the first half because I was caught up in something else, but still. It was an okay game; we got a squirrely lucky goal to tie it up 1-1, and then managed to hold onto the tie despite the fact that the US defense was giving me a heart attack every damn time the ball was in our half. Seriously, I don't know wtf was wrong with them, but they need to cut it out. MARK UP, ASSHOLES! We did well enough, though, particularly against England, and for the opening rounds. I always feel like the rest of the world resents having to play the US in the World Cup. They don't think we appreciate soccer enough. Which we don't, but that's not the national team's fault, is it?

It was enough to make me all nostalgic and emotionally engaged, though. ( cut for rambling pointlessness and reminiscing )

Aaaaannnyway. Most of you probably don't care about soccer. But you do care about hot guys! So here: sarkastic's The Non-Football Fan's Guide to the World Cup or What to do When You're Just Here for the Hot Men.

There are some BEAUTIFUL men in that post. MMMMMM. I love male soccer player bodies. They pretty much embody my type exactly: long, lean, muscular and strong but not bulky, quick, graceful, agile, no-nonsense (i.e. no strutting/posturing; soccer players always have the most amazing posture and balance). And, um, limber. :D Part of that is probably due to spending most of my years of sexual development around soccer players (hello, first crush. god he was cute. and a drummer.), but it doesn't change the fact that they are GORGEOUS.