despite shipping woes, i'm really, really excited about series 3 of merlin. i've kind of been away from the fandom since the break started, but i wanted to do something to commemorate the upcoming new season, and i thought, since my OTP is so pretty and i love making graphics so much, obviously a picspam would be the way to go. of course, since i'm the queen of procrastination, i got it finished just the day series 3 premieres. lol. ^^;;;




okay, so maybe they're not exactly underappreciated. a lot of people saw these and acknowledge them, but usually picspams tend to focus on the "big" moments, so these don't get enough love. honestly, i adore the armor scene and "my lady/my champion" just as much as the next shipper, but i'm also a big fan of the little details, and these scenes made me squee. they may not be in any way romantic (although if you squint, maybe--), but i saw something in them that made the moment stick in my mind. these are the moments you may have missed, or you may have noticed them but let them be overshadowed by bigger, more obvious shippy moments (or, in the case of series 2, by the lack of more obvious shippy moments. *rolls eyes*). but seriously, for a true fangirl, even having the couple just standing in the same frame is good enough reason to rejoice. ;)

~ WARNING: VERY IMAGE HEAVY. ~

( SHE'S A TROLL! )

ok, so here's the deal: i've started writing a magic school bus fanfic (there's a small snippet of what i have written so far over at my journal, in case anyone's interested). it will be a future fic, with the kids in their senior year of high school and long past the days of ms. frizzle's (awesome) field trips. mostly the kids dealing with their relationships, anxiety about college, friendship issues, typical teen drama, that sort of stuff. thing is, as MSB is a cartoon, i had a hard time picturing the kids "all grown up" so i set out to look for a real life version of the cast, much like i do with my original works, so i could picture the scenes correctly in my head.




i tried to look for actors that would match the kids' looks in the show; i kept them within the 19-23 age group 'cause i want them all to look around the same age-- and i didn't want them to look so old that it was on the other side of dawson casting, but when i tried looking for actors that actually were 17/18, they look so young that they're playing characters on the 14/15-year-old range. D: so i decided to stick to late teens/early twenties. i also tried to match the kids' ethnic backgrounds, although in some cases i didn't quite get there. and admittedly i don't know much about their acting ability (for some of them i haven't actually watched any shows/movies with them in it), but i think that can be worked on. xD i heard there were rumors about a MSB movie or something-- don't think it's going to happen, but if it ever did, i guess this would be my "ideal" cast for it.

also, sorry for the crappiness of some of the pictures. some of these kids are fairly unknown so there aren't many pictures of them, and google is not the picspammer's best friend anyway. ^^;;;

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