swim through the fires to stay in this world

Due to gif-sets, I just realized that the guy who plays Slade (Manu Bennet) was also in Spartacus...AND IF I REMEMBER CORRECTLY, WE GET TO SEE HIS COCK.

I'M GOING GO CHECK ON THAT, FOR REASONS.

“Everything about my heart is a crime scene.
I drink to forget things it takes me 2 beers to name.
I pour my breath into things only worth forgetting.
I have nothing left to say to the ghosts.
Their cold hands and bitter mouths keep kissing me awake
when I have asked them nicely and then not-so-nicely
to be left alone.
I have nothing left to say to the ghosts.
Two decades full of nothing but monsters and crime scenes
and sometimes I am the monster and sometimes
I am the crime scene. There is nothing I would undo
so much as things I wish would wake up forgotten.”

–Clementine von Radics

#natasha romanoff #jason todd #cassel sharpe #faith lehane #wesley wyndham pryce #jesse flores #james barnes 

I read this month’s Avengers + X-men because Jessica Drew, and it answered something I’ve been wondering, which was how Jessica’s pheromones affected (presumably heterosexual) women? Answer: by making other women dislike her. (I would strongly argue that there is also a psychological element at work with that, e.g. as in women who consciously or unconsciously believe that other women are competition react particularly badly to Jess because we’ve seen her have positive relationships with Kitty Pryde, Natasha Romanoff, CAROL DANVERS and sort-of Bobbi Morse.)

But Jess! My baby! Why is everything so hard for you?

Learning that makes me SO glad for the epic friendship between Jess and Carol, which is just so epically supportive and awesome. AND it makes me ship Carol/Jess even harder, because Jess COULDN’T make Carol want her, which is always a plus when you have a character who can manipulate emotions like that. There is always the question of whether or not the other person in the relationship was manipulated into being in it.

Basically Carol +/ Jess = AWESOMENESS.

A year ago I listed my top ten favorite male and female characters, in order.

It was brutal.

And even at the time, I knew that there was no way that list was going to stay static.

So may I present, Redbrunja’s Top 10 Male and Female characters, 2013.

(To save time, I’m only providing commentary for characters who are either new to the list, or have moved up or down it in noteworthy ways.)

( Drumroll, please. )

Coming up, Top Ten Pairings and Top Five Friendships.

Does anyone have recommendations for books about bad girls? Girls who are not nice? Who prioritize their survival over other people?

Because I was reading the opening of Keturah and Lord Death and when I got to the part (about four pages in, so not a spoiler) where Death tells the heroine that he’ll spare her if she names someone she’s prefer to die in her place and she’s like, ‘oh, no, I couldn’t possibly!’ and I’m like, ‘BOOM, DONE WITH YOU, POLLYANNA.’ It could have been anyone! It could have been someone she hated! Someone she barely new! Sweet jesus, I can think of five people who I’d be willing to trade for my life WITHIN THIRTY SECONDS.