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I'm pretty sure everyone's seen this, but just in case:

Honestly, I'd love a SHIELD movie, just two hours of Coulson and Widow and Hawkeye being awesome without the superheroes getting their nonsense over everything.

*hugs* for all the comment happiness in the last post! As a thank you, here's two College Humor videos that always make me smile:

Minesweeper: The Movie (which I would totally go see)

The Tetris God

(Giving up on trying to embed now. Oh, technology why do you thwart me?)

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So behind on word count. *types types types*

Oh hey, I should probably pimp this in my own LJ too. The fabulous peachpai and thinlizzy2 are hosting a SPN rare pairing fic/art exchange, spnraritiesfest!


click to sign up!

(The pun on that banner kills me, and I don't even ship them.)

For the purposes of the exchange a rare pairing is defined as any pairing not Sam/Dean, Dean/Cas, or Jared/Jensen, so whatever exotic flavor of fic you favor, this is the place to prompt for it. Sign ups are open until the 28th.

Sign ups!

Rules and Timeline!

FAQ!

I know there's at least one or two Gabriel fans out there on my flist, so this is right up your alley.

(I still have to sign up myself. Pairings are easy but prompts are hard. Especially tricky for this kind of fest, because you want them to have enough substance for your gifter to have something to work with but at the same time they need to be general enough that no one feels pigeon-holed into having to write a particular pairing. No one wants to be that prompter, you know?)

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You know what I saw being sold at the checkout when I went grocery shopping yesterday? Snap bracelets. Are these back? Have I traveled through time?

Of course, they weren't real snap bracelets --- they were the plastic cheapy kinds that replaced the fabric-covered metal ones after those were taken off the market. Just because the fabric could fray and then kids would be snapping sharp pieces of metal around their wrists! What could go wrong?

Ah, the fads of my youth. Does anyone remember those clacky ball things everyone had for around two weeks back in the early '90s or so? The ones you would hear at all hours of the night, clackclackclackclackclack?

Good times.

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Should be fic tonight, assuming I don't fall into a coma editing like last night.

I was surprised at how blank I felt last night when I heard about Bin Laden's death last night (on twitter, like apparently the rest of the universe.) I still don't know how I feel --- part of the problem is that I've been assuming he's actually been dead for years now so the news that he's actually dead feels strange.

Watching the firefighters celebrating in Times Square last night made me teary. I hope people get closure. It's been a long ten years.

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The macros coming out of Obama's speech last night have been pretty lolarious, gotta say.

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On a more silly and fannish topic, remember how I said I need to be kept away from kink memes for my own protection? Yeah. Right now I have four open office files open, all with fics in various stages of completion.

Because saying it in public will allow you all to shame me into working, here are the deancaskink prompts I'm currently working on:

1) Cas gets hurt, Dean finds out and goes BAMF, and uses Cas sword to protect him and gets revenge. Up to writer how Dean is able to use sword(profound bond, mating etc.)

2) Cas falls, and is reborn is a human. 16-18 years later, he manages to track down an older Dean, who thought Castiel died. Dean feels weird around such a young Castiel, but Cas isn't going to let him deny them both their second chance.

3) Clairestiel/Dean, anything based in 5x04. Prefer Clairestiel/2014!Dean.

4) Cas has to travel back in time (for whatever reason you think of) and gets stuck in 1994 maybe because he's running out of mojo. There he runs into a teenage!Dean, and Cas finds himself saving Dean's life.

(I want to point out that three of those are potentially underage, which I generally don't write. Except apparently in this fandom. *throws up hands*)

I'm giving myself two weeks to play with these before buckling down on my everlasting birthday fic, because that thing's going to be a monster.

Hoo boy. ABC pulls Adam Lambert from Good Morning America after AMA performance. The boy needs to go to Japan where he'll be properly appreciated. Can you imagine the debauchery he and Gackt would get up to on a double bill? Audience members would spontaneously combust.

In happier news, USA picked up Psych for a fifth season! *throws confetti*

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I'm reading The High Window; Marlowe's gotten himself tangled up in a murder and is being hassled about it but the investigating detectives. The lead detective isn't buying Marlowe's story. "What I'd like to get clear is this. Everything you told us might strictly be the truth, and yet you might not be telling us the truth. If you get what I mean."

Marlowe responds my talking about a long ago murder case that resulted in a cover up, and wraps up with:

"Until you guys own your own souls you don't own mine. Until you guys can be trusted every time and always, in all times and conditions, to seek the truth out and find it and let the chips fall where they may --- until that time comes, I have a right to listen to my conscience, and protect my client the best way I can. Until I'm sure you won't do him more harm than you'll do the truth good. Or until I'm hauled before somebody that can make me talk."

*swoons*

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1. Comment on this post.
2. I will give you a letter.
3. Think of 5 fictional characters and post their names and your comments on these characters in your LJ.

gehayi gave me S.

1) Sherlock Holmes: The Great Detective. Probably the most influential and imitated character in modern literature; you find his DNA everywhere, from Shawn Spencer's hyper-observation to Spock's elevation of logic over emotion to Philip Marlowe's two-fisted distrust of the police. For all his talk about the superiority of logic, Holmes was certainly capable of being swept away by emotion; one story has him distracted by the beauty of a flower while interviewing a client, while in another Watson marvels at Holmes seemingly being enraptured by the music during a concert. He's much more concerned with justice than the law (count the number of times he turns poor Watson into his accomplice!) and enjoys showing off his deductive powers more than is probably good for him. What makes that bearable is that Holmes really doesn't think he's anything special; he really believes that anyone could do what he does with the proper training. And of course there's his friendship with Watson, the template of a thousand buddy movies and one of my favorite character dynamics.

2) Scandal Savage: (DC Comics) Scandal is the daughter of Vandal Savage (immortal Cro-Magdon who wants to rule the world. Go with it.) and his legitimate heir, for whatever that's worth. Scandal heads up the Secret Six, a mercenary group of villains who basically keep up this gig so Batman doesn't punch them in the head quite so often. This is very much like herding cats, only the cats carry uzis (Deadshot) or have replaced every joint in their bodies with artificial ball-and-socket ones (Ragdoll). She cares about honor and about her team and doesn't really care what anyone else thinks, including her crazycakes father (his demand for a grandheir didn't go ever so well:) while still being proud of her name and her heritage. And her team cares back; their attempts to cheer her up when her girlfriend died in the Death of the New Gods crossover were both sweet and hilarious. I ship her very, very hard with Renee Montoya; I think she would be a perfect Catwoman to Renee's Batman.

3) Susan Ivanova: (Babylon 5) Say it with me, now: "Ivanova is always right. I will listen to Ivanova. I will not ignore Ivanova's recommendations. Ivanova is God. And if this ever happens again, Ivanova will personally rip your lungs out."

4) Stanley Tweedle: (Lexx) Oh, Stan. Stan's a lot like Rincewind; both spend so much time running from danger they wind up going right towards it and have to be pushed until they stumble into honor. He's petty and a coward but always manages to do the right thing, even if he has to be dragged kicking and sreaming all the way there.

5) Starscream: I love me some scheming lieutenants and Starscream is probably why. There isn't a series where he isn't plotting and planning like a metallic Iago, only Megatron is usually a little too wily to fall for his sycophantic fawning. Usually.:) And in those rare times where he actually does get everything he wants, it's only to set up a long, painful fall. After he died in G1 his ghost actually showed up and kept scheming, because a little thing like death wasn't going to get mighty Starscream to shut up. And you can't deny his voice.:)