charlie crews says to hang tough

Today was an unexpected!Easy day, apparently. I'm in the middle of rereading Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan series (which, I know, seems kind of uncharacteristic for a lover of gay sci-fi, but whatever, I have a massive crush on Clark and Chavez, and Clancy writes political thrillers like nobody's business). And there on p.385 of Without Remorse:

"I didn't like Europe all that much myself, but I didn't see the nice parts."
"What outfit?"
"Easy Company, Second of the Five-Oh-Sixth."
"Airborne. One-Oh-One, right?"
"All the way, doc," the detective said, confirming that he too had once been young and foolish, and remembering how skinny he'd been, leaping out the cargo doors of C-47s. "I jumped into Normandy and Eindhoven."
"And Bastogne?"
Ryan nodded. "That really wasn't fun, but at least we went in by truck."

Jack Ryan's dad was Easy! FANDOM COLLISION WHAT. I've decided he was clearly buddies with Babe Heffron.

And then I got a new Netflix disc in the mail, and which episode of Life am I up to? YEAH THAT ONE. Muck! Charlie Crews wants to jump out of an airplane! WHAT.

It's one of those days, clearly.

OT4 OMG.

I finally decided to play catch-up with Merlin a bit, and am now in the middle of 2x04. This season is MUCH better than the first already. I vastly prefer the darker, more serious storylines -- most of season 1, though very cute, was too fluffy and silly for my tastes. That changed with the Druid episode, which was when I started taking it all more seriously. And THIS is even better. Way to 100% back up my personal canon for Morgana and Merlin, 2x03! My Morgana fic WIP isn't looking too badly jossed at all. I'm kind of sad that I'm not going to have any more free time this week, I'd really like to mainline this whole season in one go.

Also? I ship everyone on this show, oh my goodness. This was not untrue last season, but I was more inclined towards Morgana/Gwen and Arthur/Merlin. Now? EVERYONE. Arthur/Gwen! Merlin/Morgana! Gwen/Morgana/Lancelot! Merlin/Arthur/Gwen! All four in a bed together! Lancelot can come too! There is no bad combination here, for serious.

Gwen is still my favoritest, and Morgana is still the most interesting, and Arthur is still the snarky hotness, and Merlin is adorkable beyond belief. YAY OT4.