If she hasn't seen it already:
Level Up, a truly splendid Pacific Rim vid by starlightandstatic. Music by Vienna Teng. Link by way of
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Inspired by Sal's question here: Not much changed after Loki won the war.

( Loki knows his way around cat macros )

But I stumbled across something this evening, and it really brightened my life. So I thought I would share it, in case any of you all need your lives brightened, too:

And At Every Corner Have Them Kiss, by Salieri, a Slings and Arrows story which happens to be the epic tale of a theatrical debacle. You don't really need to know anything about S& ( Read more... )

Because
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Noted for later reading:

The New Yorker on mass incarceration in America.

Slate on how to draw people to public transit.

The Secret History of the SOPA fight.

In the Middle Ages, some people thought there was a goose that grew from a tree. Wacky.

A NYT writer explains how she got two Ponies from MLP:FIM confused, giving rise to the best Times ( Read more... )

Several people asked, and thanks to the History function on the AO3, I was able to identify at least some of the stories I liked the most in my reading. I won't claim these are, objectively, the best stories of the exchange, just the ones I enjoyed the most, in the fandoms which I am familiar with. I'm also not done with my reading (::looks ( Read more... )

EEEEEEE!

Trailer for The Hobbit! SO EXCITE!

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Ahem. ::straightens skirt, smoothes hair into place:: Back to our ordinary linkspam.

Past Imperfect gives us the fascinating story of Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan and his brother Robert. Fascinating: people are complicated, yo ( Read more... )

Not enough face-palm in the world: Gender essentialism at Nature. And people think we're in a post-feminism universe?

Charlie Pierce, where have you been all my life? (Okay, okay, yeah, but until a few weeks ago I only knew him from WWDTM.)

Interesting breakdown at Graphjam of the demographics of OWS. I would point out that it's based on self ( Read more... )

Stop, y'all. Stop what you're doing and read The Chuck Writes Story: An Unauthorized Fandom Biography. Because if you've ever read Bad_penny, or wondered about the reality of the people inside your computer who are talking to you, or wished desperately you could get one of the BNFs to give you feedback... well, you will appreciate this ( Read more... )

I hadn't intended to do a linkspam today (I have to catch up from being out for training two days last week), but then I saw this Centaur skeleton, and realized I had no choice ( Read more... )