Okay, so clearly heroes on the mind.  Synthesis thoughts resulting from my last two posts on heroes and heroism.  I noted, when talking about modern heroes, that we (or at least I) like heroes with All Of The Problems.  And then I noted that how your modern hero exposes all his Problem-inducing situations (ie, saving the world -- it's got to be ( Read more... )

I have progressed from obsessing about The Avengers as characters to also obsessing about the actors who play them.  This is probably the fault of this video I found about the Iron Man special effects.  Which are, of course, super shiny.  And made me want to do tech for film, because watching the footage of designing the suit, or building Tony's ( Read more... )

So I have this theory. I keep thinking maybe it should be fic, but whatever.  For the record, the only Avengers I know are moviecanon!Avengers, so if this conflicts with other canon, I apologize.

The jist of my theory is this: The thing people don’t realize about Pepper is that she went to MIT too.  Got her MBA from Sloane, actually, which is ( Read more... )

So.  Avengers obsession.  It's a thing, and it's a thing I'm falling deeply in love with.  Because (1) eye candy and (2) Tony Stark and Natasha are kind of designed to hit all of my love-this-character-now buttons.  Also because some people (cough http://archiveofourown.org/ ( Read more... )