Would that this hoodie were a time hoodie!

So, it turns out that my last comment stats reading was totally bogus, because I have more than 9999 comments and the generator I used won't count any past that, hence why the results looked much the same as they did a year or two ago. So, here are the actual results:

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Top Commenters on firthgal's LiveJournal
(Self and anonymous comments excluded from rankings)

1	15lbpurebunny	996
2	tinted_glass	918
3	glenvorian	570
4	michellek	265
5	woopiedoo	214
6	kungfucarrie	207
7	teamkaren	196
8	zombie_boogie	155
9	sonicbookmark	150
10	adlervan	150

( 11-100 )
Total Commenters: 399 (299 not shown)
Total Comments: 14637
Report generated 3/31/2011 9:42:14 PM by scrapdog's LJ Comment Stats Wizard 1.7

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Bunny is still in the lead, though. Because, in her immortal words, she rules.

Okay, got a chance to see The Other Guys today, and felt the need to review. It has been too damn long since I've enjoyed a Will Ferrell movie this much.

( Okay, so it wasn't the greatest, but it sure made me laugh like hell )

So, yeah, best comedy I've seen in awhile, but still does not measure up to Anchorman.

Stolen from piecesofalice:

( Icon meme! )

Also, I'm going to go ahead and answer that Proust meme that 15lbpurebunny posted awhile ago to prove that I am NOT too lazy to do it (even though I answered it as Andy last year).

( Firthgal: Totally a Proust Scholar )

I just signed up for The Breakfast Club on reel_merlin. I haven't even written a regular Merlin fic let alone a parody. ACK! WHAT HAVE I DONE? On the bright side, I get to mock two birds with one stone here. Uther = Judd Nelson. Morgana = Molly Ringwald. Arthur = Emilio Estevez. Merlin = Anthony Michael Hall. Gwen = Ally Sheedy. Gaius = Dude who keeps them all in detention. DO YOU SEE WHY I COULDN'T RESIST? OMG! The only thing is, I'm going to have to somehow turn the Emilio/Ally love story into Emilio/Anthony Michael Hall, because I cannot bear to have Arthur falling in love with Gwen instead of Merlin. I just can't. Oh man, this is going to be fun. But ACK! I HAVE REAL LIFE STUFF THAT I'M SUPPOSED TO BE DOING! WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME?

Reasons why my day was awesome:

1. My mom bought me some cannolis today for no reason other than to put a smile on my face, and that made me very, very happy. I love those things. Especially the little ones. Quite possibly the greatest pastry desserts ever invented.

2. This wonderful Uther/Morgana fic was posted on kingandward. Oooooh, well-executed porn, how I adore you. I'm still waiting for some hatesex fic though. *sigh* Everyone seems to be writing these lovely, slightly tragic pieces instead of "there's a thin line between love and fiery hot rage" fics. But hey, I'll take whatever I can get. I'll even take gen and decide to glean Uther/Morgana subtext from it, because that's just the way I am.

3. Andy and Oscar watched Brokeback Mountain together. It was a beautiful, beautiful thing. Ooooh, jesshelga, how I adore you.

4. Andy and Oscar are the greatest bromigos ever. I have no links for this. Just look at my header if you need proof.

5. Today is the day before Saturday. And Saturday is Merlin day. And it's going to be epic. I predict that I will be checking for a download at least twenty times tomorrow before it actually shows up.

6. I had homemade pizza and beer for dinner. This is quite possibly my favorite kind of dinner.

7. I was totally going to do that picspam for Bunny that I had promised her ages ago, but then I didn't. This isn't good, BUT... it means I've abstractly mapped out the theme she gave me, so it'll come one of these days. I PROMISE BUNNY! IT WILL! I JUST TAKE A LOOOONG TIME TO FULFILL WISHES!

8. Giles/Buffy. I felt they had to be mentioned.

This is the greatest Ugly Betty promo in the history of forever:



&hearts &hearts &hearts

I so wish The Office would make a musical promo. I mean, The Office already has the greatest promos ever invented, but a musical? Michael could sing Beers in Heaven, and Andy would very proudly do the harmony vocals, and Dwight could play his recorder, and Darryl could play his keyboard, and Creed could play his guitar, and Kevin could play his drums, and Stanley could look up from his crossword puzzle and roll his eyes and grimace then go back to his crossword puzzle, and Phyllis could shake her maracas, and Oscar would have actual maracas that Michael insisted he should play because he's Mexican, and Angela can stand around with her arms crossed looking angry and trying not to be embarrassed by Andy's enthusiastic singing, and Kelly could be ribbon dancing (what? It just sounds like something she'd do), and Ryan can be playing the triangle. And Toby would be at his desk with his ears covered trying to ignore everything. IT WOULD BE GLORIOUS!

In other news, I'm not liking these last two eps of Gossip Girl. Not enough Chuck and Blair for me, I guess, and too much Dan and Serena. Blerg. And Blaire's boyfriend's English accent is so atrocious that I can't take him seriously. But Chuck's scene in the limo did make me squee a bit. I love seeing him miserable. But... yeah, it's like the life didn't come back into the show until Chuck started whispering dirty, dirty things in Blair's ear. Apparently a lifeless Blair = a lifeless Gossip Girl. And, I used to tolerate Dan and Serena just fine, but now I pretty much want to shoot them. UGH!

In other other news, me, tinted_glass, and 15lbpurebunny are now an LJ OT3. It's official. &hearts &hearts &hearts And if you count Bunny's conjoined-at-the-nose twin adlervan, then really we're an OT3.5 They better not run off together and leave me all alone.

And, because I've recently been tormenting Bunny with photoshop, just thought I'd publicly share some of my creations:

( Madness... )

The Story of How Bunny Came to Realize Her Previously Unrealized Feelings for Will Ferrell



"You're right, Firthy, Will Ferrell is a sexy beast.  He makes me want to lick his tiny mannips and live in his curly fro forever." ~ Actual quote from 15lbpurebunny 

( As the story goes... )

© 2008 Firthilicious, Inc.
The characters and incidents portrayed and the names herein are completely real and any similarity to the name, character and history of any person, living or dead, is entirely not a coincidence and 100% intentional.  No animals were harmed in the making of this picspam.  Except for the snake, which died from the intensity of the sex vibes radiating off of Mr. Ferrell.
Picspam inspired by this nonsense.

Check out secret number 121.  And check out all the comments of the showering-Damian-with-love variety!  YAY!  And... I've been seeing that riddler picture on F!S just about every day, and it never once occurred to me that he looked like Damian.  I feel ashamed now.  But anyway, my D-crotch icon is fitting, because Damian totally has the balls to play an awesome Batman villain.  And... if he wears the spandex like Jim Carrey did?  I'd be in bulge heaven.  But... I'm pretty sure he'd go with the green suit.  Which would be classier, but still... BULGE!

Also, secret number 171 is a Sam/Fi secret.  Dude, that so doesn't have to be kept a secret.  BE PROUD OF YOUR SAM/FI LOVE!  Sadly, all the comments are saying crap like, "Ewwww, he's too old for her.  He should get with Michael's mom."  Which... just... no.  No, fandom_secrets commenters, that's just... blech.  He belongs in a car with Fi impressing her with his sensitive side, okay?  Plus, they are almost always playing boyfriend/girlfriend or husband/wife when they have to have cover personalities.  Only once did he play her father, and he was kind of insulted by it, but then they were all flirty with each other afterwards which proves she did that just to bug him.  So... Sam/Fi = YESYESYESYESOMGSOHOTYESPLEASE!  Sam/Michael's Mom = Oh good lord no.  She views him as Michael's little friend, so it just wouldn't be right.  Not that either one of the ships would ever happen.  But Sam and Fi often seem like they're close to jumping each other, which... is probably just the actors having wicked awesome chemistry, because the stupid writers are stuck on Michael/Fi.  Ugh.  You all know how I feel about Michael and women.  No chemistry whatsoever.  He belongs with Perry.  Too bad he killed him. :'(  By the way, all the commenters on that vid think I'm a dude.  Is that good or bad?  I'm shocked people like it though, it's so damn ridiculous.  Honestly, my mind boggles itself.

I'm thinking of revisiting my Forsyte Saga picspamming.  I never did finish picspamming series 1, and a few people have been talking about Soames, which is making me want to watch the show all over again.  And, I've had the screencaps from ep 5 wasting away in my photobucket since April, so I should do something with them, right?  But it's been ages.  I may have lost my lovingly mocking of Forsyte Saga touch.  But I have to talk about Damian dancing with the dress, right?  And practically dry humping it on the bed?  And him breaking my heart into a gazillion pieces as he begs for the one last chance that he never got?  Oh god, his whimpering, it kills me.  Kills me!  SOAMES!!!  So, if I'm still in the mood on the weekend, I might do that.  Although, I'm really hoping that my Life DVDs will ship extra early and I'll have them for the weekend.  I'm not counting on it, but a girl can dream.  Odds are they probably won't arrive until two weeks after the release date, because that's the kind of luck I have with these things.

Also, 15PPB, I MISS YOU TERRIBLY!  STOP GAMBLING AND COME HOME ALREADY!  No one will perv over Damian with me.



Do you see?  Do you see what happens to The Damian when you leave me? :'(

I totally thought of tinted_glass when I read #124 today.  I don't always read fandom_secrets, so I love that I chose today to read it.  #169 was my favorite secret though, I wish they were all as awesome as that one.  Hee.  I really love it when they have Damian secrets, by the way.  If you all ever see Damian secrets, ALERT ME!  The amount of excitement I get over seeing his face on there is ridiculous.  Actually, I get ridiculously excited when I see anything I know on there, because I'm not an anime fan at all, nor Twilight, nor Supernatural, so... I only know about 10% of the fandoms that ever get posted, but when I see Damian?  HUGE MEGA EXCITEMENT!  Because I am a dork.

Speaking of Damian, I demand that absolutely everyone takes a look at damianchesthair.  Greatest community in the universe.  I love that my picspams have inspired such greatness. *wipes tear away*  And yes, I am conceited enough to say that my many picspams of the DL have inspired other picspams that inspired this picspamming community. [WARNING: EGO INFLATED TO FULL CAPACITY]  Honestly though, I love you guys, because before you all came along, I was a lone wolf in the Damian-picspam-with-pervy-commentary world.  There were a few picspams floating around, but they were purely pics, no commentary, and Damian deserves commentary.  Although pretty pics speak for themselves, but still.  I'm a picspam with commentary kind of girl.  I'm sure Damian appreciates that about me. [See previous warning]  I was all set to do an expressive pants Damian picspam, but then my head started pounding and I lost my oomph, so I'll save it for a later time.  I was also thinking about a pointy-haired Damian picspam, because you all know how much I love that swooping point, but... expressive pants will probably get done before that one.  And knowing adlervan and 15lbpurebunny, they'll probably have both of those covered before I even get to it, which is good, because I take FOREVER to actually do anything that I say I'm gonna do.  That teacup picspam that I promised ages ago?  Still collecting pics, and pretty much waiting for screencaps of the infamous teacup holding in The Escapist before I post it.  Wine glasses and beer bottles may also make some cameos.

Do you know what baffles me?  Why I even bother to visit the USA Network message boards.  Honestly, what is wrong with me?  I must love to torture myself or something.  I just HAD to look at the In Plain Sight board, and I just HAD to wonder into the Mary/Marshall thread knowing full well that there would be flamers because it's the USA board, and I just HAD to be bothered by the negative comments despite the fact that this is the first fandom I'm in where about 60% of the fandom is in it for my ship.  Of course, way back when, that was the case for Ugly Betty too, then Henry appeared and caused ship wars in a fandom that had for the most part been completely tame and then the Daniel/Betty shippers became the odd ones out.  I guess that's why I have yet to believe that Mary/Marshall is really as popular as it appears to be.  Anyway, one of the comments was that Marshall adds nothing to the show and that he should be written out and they should focus on Dershowitz, which is just... no, I'm sorry, but that's ridiculous.  Everyone I know watches the show for Marshall.  And then another person was bashing Mary, calling her a stupid boring skank who doesn't deserve Marshall and that she should be killed off so that Marshall can be the focus of the show, and... OMG, I wanted to strangle that person.  Mary is a skank for sleeping with ONE guy 13 months ago?  OMG, WHAT A SKANK!  SHE SLEPT WITH SOMEONE!  GASP!  AND NOW, 13 MONTHS LATER, SHE'S SLEEPING WITH HER BOYFRIEND!  OMG WHAT A HO! <--Sarcapslock rules all, my friends.  Anyway, Mary is one of the very few female characters that I BURN WITH LOVE for.  Seriously, I love her like... like Marshall loves her.  I see her flaws, but I love her in spite of them, because if she didn't have them, she wouldn't be who she is today, and I love her so completely that I wouldn't have her any other way, no matter how much she makes me want to strangle her after she does something stupid, or how she makes me shake my head in disappointment.  I just... love her.  She's kickass and obnoxious, but she has a certain innocence to her that makes me want to protect her even though I know she can take care of herself, and she's a total commitment phobe and a little socially awkward and very self-absorbed and so ridiculously naive sometimes, but I love her.  She's strong, but she has flaws.  She wouldn't be as kickass without those flaws, nor as interesting.  And I love Marshall just as much as the next girl, but Mary's definitely the more complex of the two.  Marshall's fairly well-adjusted and comfortable with himself, which gives him this certain laid-back attitude, and he's such a great compliment to Mary.  Do I wish they would explore his character more?  Yes.  Do I want him to be the main star?  No.  I do, however, wish that the show would focus on the partnership, because I do think Marshall should be the co-lead rather than just a supporting player.  But Mary's awesome, and she shouldn't be discounted simply because she makes mistakes.  Now, I saw some rational arguments too, like Mary doesn't need a sensitive type like Marshall, she'd be better with someone who would butt heads with her, but I guess I see both Mary and Marshall completely differently than those who hold this view.  Marshall knows Mary, he accepts her for everything that she is and he doesn't want to change her, and he knows how to pick his battles, and when he does fight with her, he always gets results.  He doesn't push her because he knows she'll either run away or her stubbornness will get the best of her, so he eases into things with her, and she eventually compromises with him.  This is exactly what she needs.  Not someone who will try to force her to conform to their way of thinking, because this would just result in constant fighting and manipulation.  That's fine short-term if they go with the hot sexy fighting turns into hot sexy sex angle, but it doesn't work for the long term.  This is just one of those ships where I can't see either one ending up with anyone else, and yet, it's a ship that is full of doom, because Mary doesn't know how to let herself be loved and she will inevitably crush Marshall, because he's the real deal and that will scare the crap out of her, and I can honestly see her running away and him letting her, and years will pass and she'll still be alone and he would have married someone else and had a family, and she woldn't see him again until he's on his deathbed, and she'd sit down next to him, grab his hand and say something like, "You idiot, why did you let me go?" and he'd turn to her with a weak smile and say, "I love you, too," and she'd laugh and hold his hand to her lips, and he'd just stare at her with all the love in the world, and even though she never said it, he knew without a doubt that she loved him.  OMG, THE TRAGEDY!  YOU GUYS!  WHY DOES MY MIND KEEP TRYING TO MAKE ME WRITE MARSHALL DEATH FIC?  This damn idea has been rolling around in my head for weeks.  Everyone else gives them these lovely happy endings, and my head keeps breaking my heart with all these tragic scenerios.  It's horrible.  Here, this'll make me feel better:



ASDFJKL;JLKIKSSDKJFSDFSDFDFFGSDDSFJKL; CLOSE PROXIMITY!!!!!  And future family photo if you add some kids into it.  Or as someone suggested on mary_marshall, FUTURE WEDDING ANNOUNCEMENT PHOTO!  YOU KNOW IT!

And because this pic never ceases to be the cause of me needing new underpants (sorry, that was gross, but I speak the truth):



ZOMG SO HOT SO HOT SO HOT SO HOT SO HOT!  That prison guard totally wants to do him.  Who wouldn't?  Especially with the white at the temples.  OMG OMG OMG SO HOT!