Thank You, Gods Of Media

[+] News regarding The Winter Soldier. Short version? Black Widow is co-starring.

[+] Elementary casts Natalie Dormer as Irene Adler. A+++

[+] Game of Thrones actors doing normal things. I cannot with Sansa and Arya's actresses mugging. I just cannot.

Off-Topic Post

Come talk to me about anything.

Wednesdays We Talk About Books

In SHOCKING and UNPRECEDENTED news, work has been super-stressful lately. As a counterbalance, I have been reading a lot of romance novels on my iTouch.

Someone (on tumblr?) recommended Courtney Milan, and I’m gone through most of her available work so far.

The Governess Affair and A Kiss For Midwinter were my favorites.( Read more... )

Meme Time

gacked from qualapec:

Give me a character/pairing/canon, and I'll reply with a gif that summarizes my feelings about it.

You Ain't Mine To Miss

My iPod played:

and

all in a row. Is tonight's theme adultery?

This Entire Post Is Made Of Tangents

I have had such bad luck trying to buy things recently (e.g. I received an email telling me that the sheets I'd ordered had been delivered when IN REALITY they are in a random post office NOT EVEN IN MY CITY) that I was telling my mom that I need to ritually sacrifice something to appease the angry gods... but which gods? Since most of my trouble was from things that I ordered online, my mom went internet>web>electricity and told me to pray to Thor and Spider woman.

Me: ...remind me to tell you about Jessica Drew.

Would writing Carol/Jess appease whatever techno-sprite I've apparently offended?

Maybe?

Regarding Jess/Carol and fucked up spies and assassins and the marvel verse, while I think it's in character for a lot of characters to avoid and distrust mental health professionals, it does get really frustrating because I think culturally and within fandom there is this presentation of people who at one time or another need counseling as weak or therapy as ineffective, which is flat-out-factually untrue.

Which is my round-about way of saying that I think that Jess is a character who would both benefit and be willing to have counseling and also, a lot of my fondness for this Bucky/Steve/Natasha story comes from its mostly positive take on therapy.

Hawkeye #009

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I Know What Friendship Is, And It Sure Doesn't Feel Like Us

Now I understand why my iPod was in the mood for adultery tonight.