swim through the fires to stay in this world

Does anyone have that really great close-cropped icon of Mitchell (from Being Human UK) smoking? Where you can see his eyes and his fingerless gloves and the cigarette and it's sexy as fuck?

I would really like another awesome Darcy icon and a Team Science! icon (a.k.a. an icon of Selvig, Jane, and Darcy sitting on the roof together).

Help an orphan girl out?

I saw Man of Steel last night and really, really enjoyed it. I went with qualapec, backtothesea, and a several other nonLJ people and we had a blast.

Before getting to the spoilery stuff, I was reading an article about Henry Cavill, and it mentioned that he'd been in talks to play Superman for about ten years, so that's why it seemed like I've heard Superman + Henry Cavill for ages. That said, he's fucking perfect. And so ridiculously hot, oh my god. Several times in the movie I was just going, 'goddamn that man is hot.'

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Please link me to your reviews, icons, fic, etc. I'd love to hear other people's thoughts and talk about this more and, okay, honestly, I just want to read all the smut with Clark and Lois. Like, all of it. (...I may even be writing some...)

I’m getting predictable with my meme choices; any suggestions? (I like memes that prompt discussion in the comments. And, obviously, are about fandom. Nobody cares what my favorite color is.)

–I was disappointed by the new Young Justice episode,
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–This post about Kate Bishop and the upcoming new Young Avengers comic made me super-excited. As did this article. (I'm looking forward to meeting Miss America.) (Will be released on January 23rd)

–AV club on why Hawkeye is currently Marvel's best comic (FACT.) (Hawkeye #7 on January 30th.)

–Is it possible to make this image into an icon or is it too large and too abstract?

Someone one my flist has a fantastic icon of Cecilia (aka Keira Knightly) from Atonement in that amazing green dress - either sitting on the steps or standing staring into the night... does anyone know the icon I'm talking about?

In other news, I am current on Rookie Blue! You do not know how happy I am to be up-to-date on at least ONE show.

Thoughts (especially on the most recent episode):


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So, fresh off the delicious tragedy of Code Name Verity, I read The Spymaster's Lady, which was a romance I had seen recced multiple places. AND IT WAS FUCKING TERRIBLE. Like, even for a fucking historical romance.

The breaking point for me was the horrific sex scene, in which "the hero" is fondling the naked "heroine" and she's going, "I don't want to have sex" and "the hero" literally goes, "yes you do, and I'm going to keep touching you until you tell me yes." This being romance, he was correct, but I wanted to throw up.

Other things that were terrible:

1.) despite being a spy for ten years and having the text imply that she was raped on the first page, "the heroine" was an unspoiled, untouched virgin who had never known a man's body before.

2.) "the heroine" choose over and over again not to kill people who were trying to kill her. I hate that kind of behavior just on general principles but I LOATHE it in female characters, because it ties into centuries of sexist bullshit about women being the gentler sex. Basically, if a fictional chick is choosing not to kill people when her life is in danger or other people's lives are in danger, even if this position is supported by the text and other characters, the only thing I think is YOU ARE WEAK, WEAK, WEAK and I want you to die.

Help me, flist, you are my only hope: do you have any recommendations for WWII romances (or romances in general) that do not insult my intelligence and end happily (as a subset of the above, I would also accept happy Steve Rogers/Peggy Carter fanfic).

Of Steve Rogers looking down at his arms right after he took the super-soldier serum. I swear of of my flist has it uploaded. It's glowy and awesome?

Ugh, man, today (technically yesterday) really, really sucked.

Blerg.

The only good thing is that while my plans kind of fell through in a really stressful way, I may have free time this weekend?

Other things that are good:

-Older brother stands up for younger.

–several kind souls bought paid time for het_reccers. Fuck yes.

–I don't have to work tomorrow. That is just so wonderful all on it's own.

Also, I'm looking for two icons that I can't believe I didn't save, but can't find on my HD: one was of Regina walking towards Emma right after Emma had chain-sawed Regina's apple tree and the other was on Stefan holding Damon back in order to keep him from staking Katherine. Help?

And she mentioned that she's looked for a femmeslash pairing that's as train-wrecky as Sherlock/Watson. We thought The Good Wife (Alicia/Kalinda) would be a good place to start - any other suggestions?

Also, enderxenocide - this is the vid I was talking about. Seriously, it was so tragic I had to stop watching. I don't know if I could handle the actual anime and yet I'm tempted to try.