It's the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who!  I can't watch the episode because I don't have BBC America, but I'll catch up with the series eventually.

To celebrate, I'll embed one of my favorite Doctor Who fanvids:

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Doctor Who + Muppets = PURE WIN!

And now I must go do grad-student-y things.

Today's my birthday, and here's how I spent my birthday morning:


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Business Cards of the Avengers.

These are pretty spot-on. I can't choose a favorite because they're all just kind of perfect.

So I was in the copy store today and this older British gentlemen was helping me print out a reading for a class until we realized it was copywritten.  He handed me the list of files I'd given him, one which included an author named "Davidson."

Man: Is that Peter Davidson?
Me: Oh, like from Doctor Who?  I wish!  He doesn't have the second "d," ( Read more... )

Yesterday, I went to Wizard World St. Louis, my very first fan convention.  IT WAS SO AWESOME!!!  Stuff that happened ( Read more... )

I haven't done a meme in forever, so I snagged this from ericadawn16:

Choose 5 OTP's without looking at the questions first.
1. Steve/Thor
2. Nine/Rose
3. Leia Organa/Han Solo
4. Buffy/Faith
5. Oliver Queen/Slade Wilson

( Questions and answers under the cut. Also SPOILERS for the most recent episode of Arrow. )

This news is a few hours old now, but Disney bought Lucasfilm and wants to make a new Star Wars trilogy.

I'm not sure where the heck Disney will take the story, but I for one definitely support the ideas introduced in the Twitter quotes featured here and would love to see Hulk pulverized Jar Jar Binks while Tony Stark and Han Solo outsnark each ( Read more... )

The Cardinals lost 5-1 tonight---it is my personal belief that Matt Holliday's attempt to introduce Quidditch-style roughness to the game of baseball knocked us off our game.  Therefore, I shall not focus on that and instead focus on my weekend by recounting the best moments:

Best Sports Moment:  Cardinals beat the Nats 9-7!  I turned into a ( Read more... )

Christopher Eccleston will be the villain in Thor: The Dark World.

LADIES, COMMENCE SQUEEING!!!


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It's my first day off, and I'm trying to finish a fic for avengerkink, but I really want to give this a try.  Snagged from natural_blue_26:

Spell out your username with favorite fictional characters

H: Hermione Granger (Harry Potter)
E: Eowyn (Lord of the Rings)
R: Rue (The Hunger Games)
M: Micah Sanders (Heroes)
I: Ianto Jones (Torchwood)
O: Olivia Benson (Law & Order: SVU)
N: ( Read more... )