Ok, having just seen Avengers: Age of Ultron with a pile of fannish feminists, I can say that this is pretty much the most accurate & funniest summary of the movie you could hope for.

Also, the trailers before the movie made me despair for the future of humanity.

But on the other hand I got to convince multiple people to read Station Eleven. So ( Read more... )

(See, I DO have a Star Wars icon!)

In other news, yes, your dog loves you.

Oh, man, this flowchart about whether to go to law school. Yikes. If it had existed in 1989, my life would be very different now.

Chris McDougall's Born to Run kicked off the minimalist running movement. He's hoping to do the same with parkour in his new book, Natural ( Read more... )

Or in other words, I found some linkspam from a few weeks ago, hope nobody notices how dated some of this is...

I remember the stories in the press about the Iroquois lacrosse team passports a while ago, but I hadn't realized they are considered one of the best teams in the world. Of course, that makes perfect sense, once you think about it. ( Read more... )

Well, now. That was unexpected. (Although see my comments in my post about Captain America.)

I am suddenly reminded who the executive producer for this show is.

Crossposted from DW, where there are
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Many thoughts, in no particular order. Lots of niggly logistical complaints, but I am not unhappy, except for a couple of issues endemic to Hollywood film-making.

( On your left! (lots of spoilers inside) )

OK, so I have way more prompts than I have time to fill. And I have to go run an errand right now. So I'll post what I have, and hopefully I will have time later today to do some more...

( Lymond 5 things )

Inspired by Sal's question here: Not much changed after Loki won the war.

( Loki knows his way around cat macros )

Well, this is disappointing. I think I wrote less fic in 2012 than in almost any of the last ten. Or at least I finished very little.

Narnia

Turning Away from Sunrise: the Plain Speaking Remix, a remix of Further East Than Anyone Can Go by
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In response to a conversation on
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