You've never flown with *me*.
It's been ages since I really updated this thing etc, etc, etc and deja fucking vu right? Uh huh. You've all heard it all before so this time let's just skip the excuses/apologies/promises portion of the evening. I've accepted that I am lazy and fandom moody and since you're all smart you probably realized this and accepted it long before I did anyways. I'm never going to get around to answering all the old emails taking up space in my inbox or leave all those comments and feedback for awesome things of the past 9 months the way I wanted to and I'm done feeling overwhelmed and guilty about it. Fandom isn't a pain in the ass or a chore and it ain't right that I've let it become that (my fandom engagement has been so low that I haven't even read fic of any kind for a month or more WTF? UNHEARD OF and EPIC TRAGEDY I know!). It's a damn blessing and a reprieve from life's bullshit and just FUCK IT REDO START OVER.
For those weird ones of you that seem to care, The Shit That's Been Occupying My Days in the Interim:
- Watching Doctor Who/Torchwood/jumping on the David Tennant is the most marvelous man in the universe bandwagon.
People've been trying to get me to watch Who for years and I of course didn't listen and boy was that stupid. It is joyous and brilliant and I'm in love. I've watched all of the new series episodes more than once already (is there anything on television besides Smallville more perfectly wonderful than Girl in the Fireplace or Blink? That answer would be a NO) and there's a sonic screwdriver in my purse.
Plus David Tennant.
Which look at him! He's all spazzy and skinny and sort of rodent like and there is nobody more fun to watch than Ten. Not even Rosenbaum at his most charismatic.
As for Torchwood, well. It sucks. But it's occasionally funny about it and there's John Barrowman and kisses with Ianto and I'm easy.
- Other television wasted hours have gone to Firefly (YEAH!), Extras (more YEAH!), Project Runway (Christian!), and America's Next Top Model marathons on VH1 (Mortification!).
- Let's see what else. Oh right. WORKING. I got hired by my comics shop which is basically the best thing to happen to me in the last five years. I love my boss, I love my hours, I love that I get paid to read and talk about comics, I love that I've already read Captain America #34 a week before it comes out (here's a hint - it's FUCKING AWESOME), I love everything about it and will now be working there until I die and they have to carry my cold corpse out of the store.
- For work (FOR WORK ALDJFLSKS) it was necessary that I lose my Marvel cherry and start becoming familiar with it so I've been cramming that in every spare second I have. My boss has had me read a few of the 'events' such as Avengers Disassembled, House of M, Civil War, and World War Hulk. All four of which I, for the most part, loathed.
It was looking dire and I thought my general anti-Marvel stance was going to turn out to be right but then I read Brubaker's Captain America run, discovered that Steve and Bucky are keen, and that okay so Marvel does have some awesome characters and creators. Some parts of New Avengers are amusing, X-Men First Class makes me smile, Immortal Iron Fist is Kick Ass, Ultimates kind of grates but there was that time that Cap said 'What do you think this A on my forehead stands for? France?!' and I could not stop laughing, John Byrne's Fantastic Four run (the bit I read) made me do the I LOVE COMICS shout, and Jeff Parker's Spiderman and the Fantastic Four hurts my cheeks it's so much fun.
If you are gleeful about any of those things, come talk. The Who and the Marvel have been building up for me. Actually, come talk to me about anything. I've missed you guys in my lameness hibernation ♥
Also, people that've read Marvel help me out? What should I read? What storylines/characters/writers/artists have blown/are blowing your hair back? I've got decades worth of stuff to go through and nobody but my boss to help me navigate and he likes the depressing 'realistic' crap like Civil War. Help!
Now, the real reason for this post is to offer up Hal and Kyle to my beloved glitterandlube in hopes that it will make her feel better because when you get down to it few things in life are better than Darwyn Cooke, Geoff Johns, and Green Lanterns. And in combination with each other and a dash of homoeroticism thrown in? Insta-healing!
From Green Lantern: Secret Files and Origins 2005, 'Flight' by Geoff Johns and Darwyn Cooke
This takes place soon after the end of Rebirth.
It speaks for itself but a couple of things:
1) This is obviously the catalyst for Guy dragging Kyle off to Oa because oh hell no! Guy's not gonna let that pansy Jordan steal his woman again.
2) Hal's chucks and rolled up jeans are insanely adorable.
3) They need to spread the wee flashbacks out. We've seen wee Clark and Bruce three thousand times so this is a good start. Now where are wee Guy, Ollie, Diana, and Ted?
4) Kyle's 'What bitch? You want me to walk?' is hilarious.
5) Kyle gripping the seat is also hilarious.
6) THE RINGS. Okay. This whole thing is too funny for me to add *anything*.
Hal is boffo porn, Kyle's gorgeous, Guy's jealous, I love glitterandlube, and Green Lantern continues to wipe the floor with all other comics. Fin.
For those weird ones of you that seem to care, The Shit That's Been Occupying My Days in the Interim:
- Watching Doctor Who/Torchwood/jumping on the David Tennant is the most marvelous man in the universe bandwagon.
People've been trying to get me to watch Who for years and I of course didn't listen and boy was that stupid. It is joyous and brilliant and I'm in love. I've watched all of the new series episodes more than once already (is there anything on television besides Smallville more perfectly wonderful than Girl in the Fireplace or Blink? That answer would be a NO) and there's a sonic screwdriver in my purse.
Plus David Tennant.
Which look at him! He's all spazzy and skinny and sort of rodent like and there is nobody more fun to watch than Ten. Not even Rosenbaum at his most charismatic.
As for Torchwood, well. It sucks. But it's occasionally funny about it and there's John Barrowman and kisses with Ianto and I'm easy.
- Other television wasted hours have gone to Firefly (YEAH!), Extras (more YEAH!), Project Runway (Christian!), and America's Next Top Model marathons on VH1 (Mortification!).
- Let's see what else. Oh right. WORKING. I got hired by my comics shop which is basically the best thing to happen to me in the last five years. I love my boss, I love my hours, I love that I get paid to read and talk about comics, I love that I've already read Captain America #34 a week before it comes out (here's a hint - it's FUCKING AWESOME), I love everything about it and will now be working there until I die and they have to carry my cold corpse out of the store.
- For work (FOR WORK ALDJFLSKS) it was necessary that I lose my Marvel cherry and start becoming familiar with it so I've been cramming that in every spare second I have. My boss has had me read a few of the 'events' such as Avengers Disassembled, House of M, Civil War, and World War Hulk. All four of which I, for the most part, loathed.
It was looking dire and I thought my general anti-Marvel stance was going to turn out to be right but then I read Brubaker's Captain America run, discovered that Steve and Bucky are keen, and that okay so Marvel does have some awesome characters and creators. Some parts of New Avengers are amusing, X-Men First Class makes me smile, Immortal Iron Fist is Kick Ass, Ultimates kind of grates but there was that time that Cap said 'What do you think this A on my forehead stands for? France?!' and I could not stop laughing, John Byrne's Fantastic Four run (the bit I read) made me do the I LOVE COMICS shout, and Jeff Parker's Spiderman and the Fantastic Four hurts my cheeks it's so much fun.
If you are gleeful about any of those things, come talk. The Who and the Marvel have been building up for me. Actually, come talk to me about anything. I've missed you guys in my lameness hibernation ♥
Also, people that've read Marvel help me out? What should I read? What storylines/characters/writers/artists have blown/are blowing your hair back? I've got decades worth of stuff to go through and nobody but my boss to help me navigate and he likes the depressing 'realistic' crap like Civil War. Help!
Now, the real reason for this post is to offer up Hal and Kyle to my beloved glitterandlube in hopes that it will make her feel better because when you get down to it few things in life are better than Darwyn Cooke, Geoff Johns, and Green Lanterns. And in combination with each other and a dash of homoeroticism thrown in? Insta-healing!
From Green Lantern: Secret Files and Origins 2005, 'Flight' by Geoff Johns and Darwyn Cooke
This takes place soon after the end of Rebirth.
It speaks for itself but a couple of things:
1) This is obviously the catalyst for Guy dragging Kyle off to Oa because oh hell no! Guy's not gonna let that pansy Jordan steal his woman again.
2) Hal's chucks and rolled up jeans are insanely adorable.
3) They need to spread the wee flashbacks out. We've seen wee Clark and Bruce three thousand times so this is a good start. Now where are wee Guy, Ollie, Diana, and Ted?
4) Kyle's 'What bitch? You want me to walk?' is hilarious.
5) Kyle gripping the seat is also hilarious.
6) THE RINGS. Okay. This whole thing is too funny for me to add *anything*.
Hal is boffo porn, Kyle's gorgeous, Guy's jealous, I love glitterandlube, and Green Lantern continues to wipe the floor with all other comics. Fin.