Because a girl can only do so much between hormones, too little sleep all week and not eating for 15 hours because of a clusterfuck with our delivery order from a new restaurant. But some of it was good crying! And some of it was just melodramatic.

When you talk of the Tampa Bay Rays' 2011 wild-card drama - and you will - know this - St. ( Read more... )

Like everyone else this morning, I woke up to the new Delicious, a stunning example of what happens when you throw a bunch of money and developers at a problem that doesn't exist, while doing zero audience research to figure out how your service was being used. Having been largely out of fandom for about five years, when SGA was still The One ( Read more... )

Serb Cousins Share Same Strange Attraction - Associated Press

Why yes, that IS the headline the story came across the news wires with.

David's mother said her son loses his magnetic powers when he is asleep, but regains them when he wakes up and starts moving. When he plays with his friends "anything will stick to him," she said. Afterward he ( Read more... )

Yada yada yada, life is busy and stringing sentences together is hard. I sometimes feel like my job uses up all my literary creativity, which is ironic given that journalism school mostly consists of sapping it all away until you're writing declarative sentences of 35 words or less, and any modifiers are a strict 10 points from Gryffindor.

Humane ( Read more... )

Fic On a Clear Day - sheafleur (R, slight retcon of the beach scene)

This is Charles and Erik after going their separate ways, and it hurts so much, knowing that they've both been indelibly changed by the other but not enough to set their differences aide. I like to think that Charles learned something on the beach, that sometimes, some people (and mutants ( Read more... )

Say that it's mere "brotherhood" or "friendship" if you will. But when the Bad Thing (sob) happens at the end of X-Men: First Class, Erik doesn't respond exactly like a buddy. He passionately drops 500 missiles, clutches Charles to his chest, homicidally freaks out at everyone else on the beach and then basically proposes marriage ("I want you by ( Read more... )

One of the UAE's two (state-owned) internet providers had an "IP outage", as the customer support agent described it, for about four hours last night, during which Brandon and I finished watching X2 (meh) then X3, about which I have thoughts. Why were the X-Men defending Worthington Labs? To keep one mutant, who was being used to exterminate the ( Read more... )

Catching up with an established fandom like X-Men, even with a decent chunk of its canon rewritten by First Class, is exhausting, to the point that I'm so busy reading everyone else's thoughts and fic and looking at art and GIFs and Texts from Xavier Academy that 7 a.m. sneaks up and I collapse into bed with no room for my own thoughts in my head. ( Read more... )

I don't have anything intelligent to say about the X-Men reboot, other than it was an excellent film on proper film merits, because I'm still flailing about trying to textually render all the ways in which James McAvoy is amaaaaaaazing. [GLOM]

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