Up: I can has employment!

Down: I have been feeling deeply emotastic this week. Feh.

Up: NEW CAPTAIN AMERICA TRAILER OMGYES!I am increasingly looking forward to this movie, because every time another trailer comes out it looks more and more like they Get It. The It in question being that, of all the superheroes we have ever thought up, Captain ( Read more... )

So, for a day that started off with me not getting enough sleep (my own fault and no one else's), today turned out to be pretty damn awesome.

First really quite nice thing: Thursday my Latin teacher says she's going to have us listen to Ursula K. LeGuin being interviewed about her recent book Lavinia, which is just piles of awesome because LeGuin ( Read more... )

So, Disney's buying Marvel.

This does not worry me much, as no matter how evil Disney is, they'd have to try really damn hard to screw up worse than Marvel already is. If we're very lucky, the comics' downward spiral to GRIMDARK and the Disney fluffotron will cancel each other out. Hopefully.

But you know what's really important about this? ( Read more... )

The long ones, in particular, which I have the most trouble finishing. These are the stories I am happy to babble about.

( Assorted fandoms, assorted genres )

( Or, in which Cygna contemplates her current project and shares these contemplations with you For Your Edification )

Best AU that ever was canon.

So, apparently it is now Marvelverse canon that a)in an alternate universe where Tony Stark was female, she and Cap got married, and b)as a result of their relationship giving them more motivation to not break upresort to violence, Civil War never happened. Which leads me to the logical conclusion that if 616!Cap and ( Read more... )

So, it's been announced that sales are so low, Blue Beetle is being canceled. This, for those of you just joining us, is a BAD BAD THING ( Read more... )

So. We went shoe and sock shopping (new sneakers, yay! new Mary Jane-type shoes, yay! new fun and silly socks, yay!), and then we went to the bookstore, and I got a copy of Watchmen. And then I sat down and I read it. And then I staggered around making vague noises as my brain tried to process everything ( Read more... )

1. Charming Local Festival on Saturday--i.e. wander down Main Street, which is closed off and lined with booths selling things, play games, eat unhealthy but delicious food (mmmm funnel cake). Also, the adopt-a-pet booth had a six-week-old kitten who, when I picked her up, clambered up to my shoulder and fell asleep. It was the most adorable thing ( Read more... )

Why college is awesome: today I got to go listen to a classics BNF (specializing in Virgil) give a talk about his analysis of the Aeneid as related to the early Augustan Age, and what Virgil was saying about both--was he using Aeneas purely to show the good bits, or to highlight the bad? It was most excellent. He was a very interesting speaker, and ( Read more... )