Dear Livejournal,

I am a. still alive, b. stuck in the last summer classes I need before graduation and c. probably dreaming over Thore Schoelermann's hot little dimples at this moment. <33333

(No really, how does Christian and Oliver get cuter and more in love every day? And Thore's hurt puppy look when he saw Olli with another guy, awwwww. I am such a sucker for love stories, and I am in the happy place where I am constantly surprised that Thore is actually a really decent actor and I am not constantly cringing at the crappiness of what is going on. Like I keep catching snippets of As the World Turns on Gays of Daytime and I cringe at just about every line. It doesn't help that both actors are very unattractive in my book.)

Also, I would like to point out that World of Warcraft is addictive and terrible and ruins relationship. I was on a happy Wii Fitness regime until I became consumed with leveling and getting my +healing past 2k. Video games are totally evil. More porn instead!

Finally, since ok WHERE ARE ALL THE CHRISTIAN/OLLI FICS GUYS THEY NEED TO BE SEXING NOW!!!! I am in serious fanfic withdrawal, could any one send some recs my way? I will take anything especially if it's Rome or funny Draco/Harry (omg don't judge) or anything. In a prefect world, someone is writing long, thoughtful, lovely Shelter fic out there....

Dear Thore Schölermann's people,

Can we please agree on a spelling of Schölermann? Is it Schölermann or Schöelermann? Or is the e only present when we don't have umlat above the o? Hi, I have seen it both ways in very official looking places and it confuses me muchly.

In other words, let's all just speak English ok? (Don't worry, I don't really believe this. Especially when Thore has an angry scene and his voice goes all high and I giggle like a girl even though I have no idea what he is saying. Thore = &hearts!)

Love,
Chel

P.S. Jo Weil's face is still weird to me, but at least his name is easy to type! No special characters! And Olli is somehow the cutest, sweetest, chillest guy on tv.

Today's VL clip has a bit of my current favourite kink which is Thore Christian speaking English! &hearts&hearts&hearts!

( Also, it could be just me but today's Olivia confuses me so much. )

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So Thore + English (OMG &hearts!) makes me want to mention that my biggest random pet peeve ever is when tv/movies have a very very western language speaking person try to speak mandarin. I mean, I was born in China and lived there till I was six and I speak mandarin and sir, that is not mandarin.

Like the other day, I was forced to watch Firefly and there's this one scene where the captain rambles off something that's supposed to be Chinese and I watched it at least three times and couldn't understand a syllable of what he was trying to say. And just when a character is suppose to be fluent or at least know the language well enough, it really takes me out of the reality of the scene when they just can't do it.

So here's thing thing: Chinese is all about short, concise sounds. Like you know how in English, you can have two distinct sounds in one syllable? Like the word 'well', there's a 'woo' sound and an 'ell' sound but it's just one syllable? Ok, in Chinese that would be two separate words. So for something like 'chen', in English you would have 'ch' + 'ang', but in Chinese it would all be together.

Also, you know how English has a natural rhythm of up and down intonation in a sentence? Not so much in Chinese. Our intonation distinguishes between words. (I could be wrong about this since I know nothing about linguistics, but I did notice that the boyfriend pronounced my name weird because he went down on one of the characters and I would be all, "But it goes up!")

In conclusion, please consider trying Japanese if you need an exotic Asian language for your alternative ratings-friendly words: I am told it is much more pronounceable by those who know nothing of Asian languages.

(<--- Because if anyone makes me want to talk about hair, it's Orli.)

So last week I got a new haircut that puts my hair at basically shoulder length even though after the last time I went shoulder length, I swore that I wouldn't go above boob level ever again. I lied. And literally while I was watching my hairguy remove inches (inches!), I had a very not-mini panic attack and thinking "bad idea, Chel, bad idea".

But now I kind of dig it for some reason. It's fun to shake around. Even though I have official bangs (a fringe, whatever) for the first time since possibly grade school, and no matter how much you tell me it's back, I totally still say it went out with the early nineties. (I disguise this with my still very cool side part.)

So: shorter summer hair cut: the cool sexy funky way to go or guys don't make passes at girls who wear glasses and who can't snottily toss their hair over their shoulders?

Also: change your haircut =/= change your life no matter what television tells us or when I dramatically pause in front of the mirror and then take a pair of scissors/a knife to my long flowing locks, I am a new person?

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In other tv crush news: Christian's hand's heterosexual freakout of OMG MAN PENIS 12 O'CLOCK and skipping to Oliver's shirt two episodes back was really cute, but that could be because I draw pink hearts around Thore Schoelermann's dimples. Also, Jonas 'that Robin Hood dude' (don't know his real name) has a really pretty stubble. Um, and finally, dear AWZ, please please please stop making Roman a creepy villain guy just because Deniz is apparently straight now NO REALLY NO I SWEAR. Like seriously spoilers, WTF? I can't believe I'm saying this but *ahem* Igor is not that pretty. Roman, you have a medal: go flash it at someone shiny!

01. Firstly, words cannot express how utterly excited I am that gigitrek has written Roman/Deniz. Literally, I just sit here and make high pitched dolphin noises and then the boyfriends asks, "Is this about your gay german soap operas (plural guys, PLURAL) again?"

(The only possible response: "OMG, GAY! GERMAN! SOAP OPERAS! OMG!")

So I wanted Roman/Deniz fanfic so badly that I actually started writing it myself even though it's like all teenage angst. (My canon is a soap opera, IT IS NOT MY FAULT!) And I don't think I ever write stories that I really wanted to read; I just write stories that I enjoy writing if that makes sense. But yeah, I don't think I have wanted this badly to read fanfic about a couple since possibly ever. Brutus/Antony comes close. (I have reread babel's stories so many times it's ridiculous.) Apparently, the only Roman/Deniz fanfic that exist are in German, and why yes, I have googled translated them, and yes, badfic is basically completely unreadable when it's grammatically incomprehensible.

But again I note that gigitrek has promised, PROMISED!, that Roman/Deniz is written and now I'm going to be on the edge of my seat until it is posted. gigitrek = &hearts!

02. ( This post could have also had the subject G(default)IP but it just doesn't have the same ring as GGGSOP! In other words, I love Christian/Oliver so so much. )

03. So I ended up watching a clip of Luke/Noah only because it's talked about all over the place and I've come to realize that not only does America totally suck in terms of what is allowed to be shown on television, but the Germans also win with the hotness of their gay boys. (Brian Kinney does not count. Brian Kinney surpasses the hotness scale.) Get back to me when you can find someone that smiles as prettily as Igor or Thore.

04. ( Why I think Deniz is gay gay gay. )

05. P.S. So Deniz (and his dad) both wear guy necklaces, but it's ok because it's not at all fugly like Ianto/Gareth's. Plus, we all know Deniz is the toolest of all the tools so it suits him.

Apparently, I too have discovered German Soap Operas, even if it was more of the Roman/Deniz variety (thanks to gigitrek for pointing this out!) than Christian/Oliver. I stayed up too late hopped up on coffee hunting down clips, and then having weird dreams in wannabe German even though I think I know maybe three words of German which are: thanks, welcome and shit. Oh, and geist! And uh, volkswagon? You'd think reading all that Marx and Hegel would have had more of an academic impact on me, but mostly I just remember my ex-roommate shouting 'scheisse' when she was late. 'Ich bin' means 'I am' right?

(The guy who plays Deniz is absurdly sneaky hot. Like at first I was like 'eh', but the more I saw of him, the more I was like 'mmmmm'.)

Also, I've finally watched most of Life on Mars and a: I totally get why everyone was !!!!! about The Master on Doctor Who, I agree!, and b: !!!!! (c: would be that I have great love for Bowie that stems almost entirely from Labyrinth but now also makes an appearance when I start humming 'Is there life on Maaaaars?' in the lifts.)