I got my period yesterday and it was one of those times where it felt like my ability to think had ground to a halt. Just a really bad case of the dumb. Today I feel so much more alert and able to function.

I did manage to write a cute little Arrow story though:

We'd take a limousine 'cause it costs more (@ AO3)
Arrow; Felicity, Oliver, Diggle; g; 855 words
In which Felicity and Diggle introduce Oliver to the wonders of Kraft macaroni and cheese.

So angelgazing says to me, "there should be an Olicity vid to 'If I Had $1,000,000'" and I say, "yes! And also the story of how Felicity introduces Oliver to the wonders of Kraft macaroni and cheese." This is that story. Sadly, we'll have to rely on the universe to get the vid. So if you decide to make that vid, please let us know!

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Links:

chaila has written a great intro/recruiter post for Wonder Woman comics. Go read it! And also read The Hiketeia and JLA: A League of One if you're interested in standalone Wonder Woman stories where she is AWESOME. I also enjoyed the Wonder Woman/Batman crossover "The Gods of Gotham" where the Wonders and Bats team up. I haven't read the Azzarello run because I am still upset about the changes he made to the Amazons and I didn't want to give DC money, but I'll probably end up reading it in trade, because Cliff Chiang's art is amazing. I don't have high hopes for the movie, because DC, but maybe they will surprise us. Anyway. ALWAYS BE WONDER WOMAN. (the most popular tumblr post I've ever made is the one with the link to the New Yorker article about her from September.)

Also about awesome ladies: The Cult of Connie Britton:

And the way we understand Britton's demeanor is as an extension of Tami Taylor, who spent five seasons negotiating her way to power from the stereotypically subservient position of "coach’s wife" in a football-obsessed town.

Instead of forcefully critiquing the cultural infrastructure from the outside, she works within its existing boundaries to change it. Her beauty, her smile, that nice-lady voice, all of it is a way of getting what she/the high school students she counsels want or need, especially when dealing with apparatuses of power (the boosters, the school board, Joe McCoy). She kills not with kindness, but with y'alls.

Tami's power is negotiated, but it's also a realistic rendering of how women in much of America are able to fight and win battles on a daily basis. Instead of busting balls, attempting to engage in conversation. Instead of insulting another's way of life, trying to inhabit it. Tami's mix of the soft Southern exterior with steely drive emulates a form of activism wholly recognizable to anyone who's attempted to effect change in an environment wholly resistant to it.

And another link that may be relevant to your interests: It's Sesame Street Week at the AV Club. Though they don't seem to have an index page up for links to each day's articles.

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Teevee in brief:

The Good Wife ( spoilersCollapse )

Brooklyn Nine Nine ( spoilersCollapse )

Gotham
I actually dozed off and I didn't see last week, so I wasn't going to say anything about how terrible what parts I saw were, but ( spoilersCollapse )

Sleepy Hollow
Man, after such a fun first season, this season is bobbling on core levels. From the AV Club review this week: The basics are still here—the monster kills, the cool special effects, the great quips, the creepy twists—but there so many other unfortunate decisions being made that it feels like we're on a terrific ship that is somehow, despite our best efforts, deeply in love with icebergs. I don't think that Sleepy Hollow has completely fallen apart; I still look forward to the show each week, and if somebody ever managed to bottle Mison and Nicole Beharie's chemistry, you could probably save the world. But man, things need to get tighter. Bring back Jenny, stop trying to push empty romances, and come up with better reasons for our heroes to stress out. Seriously why are we stuck with Hawley while Jenny and Irving are sidelined? No one is interested in an Abbie/Hawley/Jenny love triangle, least of all Abbie and Jenny!

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Star Wars Rebels
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While I was never involved in any organized fandom for it, I have a lot of deep ~feelings~ about Star Wars - I was 7 when it came out and it was one of the very first things I got super-obsessed with as a kid (as I think many, many people in my age group did), and I still feel that pull sometimes, though I never got into the extended universe beyond the Han Solo novels and the Thrawn trilogy. But it consistently makes me want more, even when that proves to be a giant mistake. *cough* And one of the things I think this show has going for it is that it is set in such a large universe with a long history, even if the majority of the previous ancillary materials has been moved out of canon. And so far I think it's done a better job than Gotham about being a show that takes place years before the main action starts, though I'm still wondering when they're going to get to the fireworks factory Rebel Alliance.

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I'm making the honey rolls for my work holiday potluck tomorrow, and it must be really humid today or something because the dough was just super-sticky even after I added more flour. Hopefully they turn out well.

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This afternoon, fleurdeleo and I went to see The Muppets. ♥♥♥♥ My face aches from smiling so hard. I'm not sure how it worked for the anklebiters in the audience, who aren't even old enough to have watched The Muppet Show on DVD. We got the preview for Brave, which looked really good.

Yesterday afternoon, I watched The Proposal, in order to get some fake dating inspiration, and I was surprised by how much I liked it. Also, it was kind of weird to see the Dunkin Donuts where I am a regular onscreen.

Speaking of fake dating, I have scrapped yet another opening for the story. I don't know why it is sucking so much, but good lord, it is sucking.

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Via this post of Chris Evans and Steve/Bucky goodness, I can't stop staring at this screen cap of Bucky gazing lovingly at Steve (see also, my icon). There is a huge amount of eyefucking in that bit. It makes me all heart-clenchy. I ship it so hard, you guys, and there is so little fic. It makes me a sad panda. All I want are Steve/Bucky cuddles and makeouts. Is that too much to ask?

Also of note in that post, not only is Chris Evans #5 on the People's Sexiest Man list, but Josh Charles is #7. Somewhere, Dan is crowing about that to Casey.

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My thread at the holiday love meme.

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The Muppets are going to cover "Smells Like Teen Spirit" on the soundtrack to the new movie. I would really like to do a midnight show with fangirls for that (the movie, not the soundtrack), but as it's the night before Thanksgiving, I won't be in the city. If there are even going to be midnight shows. I mean, it's the Muppets. I feel that there should be.

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I uploaded this for mousapelli, but if you're interested in Young Avengers, here's 1-7, 8-12, and YA Presents. (there's more, but that seems like enough to be starting out with.)

Young Avengers is about a group of teenagers who come together to fight bad guys after the actual Avengers are disbanded (I...don't know exactly why that happened but I don't think it's particularly important in this case). There are time-travel shenanigans, alien invasions, long-lost twins, a canon gay couple (Billy and Teddy, who are adorable), plus Kate Bishop, who is the badass normal of the group, and she is as badass as they come, and Eli Bradley, who is cranky and adorable and possibly my favoritest of them all, and also the grandson of the original, black Captain America, and thus, very aware of the burden and legacy of history, in a way most superheroes (let alone teen superheroes) are not. The adults are all pretty much "teenage sidekicks/superheroes, no!" (ah, the kicked puppy look on Steve's face every time the subject comes up warms my heart. dead sidekick angst ftw!) which is an interesting difference from the sanctioned superheroing shenanigans of, say, Young Justice or the Teen Titans.

Speaking of whom, I will also take this opportunity to once again rec the hell out of the Jaime Reyes Blue Beetle (and, um, one stray issue is here), about whom I have waxed rhapsodic before. (this is the non-rebooted version. accept no substitutes.)

If you like nerdy bug-men but are more interested in the really good but super-depressing Ultimate Spider-Man (the Peter Parker version), I can help you out with that, too. I don't have any of it currently uploaded, but I'm willing to share so if you're interested, drop me a comment.

These are all things I'm contemplating asking for/offering for yuletide (oh, so also, if you want the Rikki Barnes stuff, so you can write me some Rikki/Anya, I have some of that, too, though not currently uploaded; or Gotham Central, which should be required reading for everyone who likes police prodecural stuff and also has Renee Montoya, who is the best), so I'm not exactly being altruistic in my offer, but I feel like I have enjoyed these things a lot, and because of fandom, so consider this me returning the favor.

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OMG INTERNETS NEVER LEAVE ME AGAIN.

*clings*

The cable guy is supposed to show up between 2 pm and 5 pm to replace my modem, and fleurdeleo is supposed to keep me updated with detailed reports. Oh god, I hope I have internet when I get home tonight.

I did some baking (I made the blueberry lemon bars on Friday and then again yesterday) and made some ice cream, and read a lot of Wonder Woman comics - ( lots of blather about Wonder WomanCollapse )

So there was that, and I also started reading Ultimate Spider-Man, and Peter Parker is still my actualfax favorite forever omg. (this goes back to the Amazing Spider-Man cartoon of the 80s and explains SO MUCH about my preferences, don't you think?) Though this incarnation makes me facepalm a lot. I have to remind myself that he's 15 and has no training, because he absolutely does not do anything strategically, or even with any kind of planning. It's all boots on the ground, wade in wise-cracking and figure things out later. The one thing I really do like is that ( spoilerCollapse ) I've already cried a couple of times, and not just when Uncle Ben dies. I should probably get myself an icon.

In other news, we got 8" of rain yesterday. What the hell is that even? I'm just glad it wasn't winter, because that would have been a metric fuckton of snow. And I can't stop sneezing. Even though I took a zyrtec before I left for work. I wasn't going to, because I'm scheduled to donate blood this afternoon, but I seriously stood in the bathroom for five minutes, sneezing, with that awful tickle in my nose that has recurred sporadically over the course of the morning. I'm going to have to buy more tissues just to keep on top of it.

In more fun news, here is a link (via fox1013) to some info about the upcoming new Muppets movie. You can thank me for brightening your day with that later.

But seriously, internets, never leave me again.

*hugs*

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