I am once more back to reading a bunch of The Sentinel AUs around the idea that of what if Sentinels and Guides were a known thing. And it occurred to me that pretty much all of the stories have Sentinels as the primary powerful individual and the Guides as their support, to help them achieve all they can achieve and all that. Power dynamics and ( Read more... )

Real life has been draining enough that I've largely reverted to fandom lurking even more than previously. (which is saying something, because previous levels of activity were not setting the bar very high.) And I've been reading a lot of really self-indulgent stuff that, for me, includes a lot of fanfic of the Sentinels & Guides Are Known AUs.

Of ( Read more... )

Real life has sort of sucked recently and while that hasn’t pushed me out of fandom, it has pushed me more towards the lurking and reading side of things rather than the commenting or writing side of things. On the other hand, Star Wars fandom caught me by surprise and created an immediate craving that was answered by a set of really awesome ( Read more... )

LIfe continues to be tough going but there appears to be light at the end of the tunnel. And even if it's an approaching train, maybe I'll be able to hitch a ride, so that would work out, too. Here's hoping.

In the meantime, this article about the end of a turtle marriage makes me sad. They were together for 115 years, but have since turned violent ( Read more... )

Real life is, alas, still grinding me down. However, in the mean time, check this out.

Here is Stephen Hawking as a young man, aged 23 (two years after his diagnosis):


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I've been reading Atlas Shrugged for the first time (just 400 more pages to go!) and it is an extremely thought-provoking read. As a political treatise, it's awful, but as a piece of literature, it draws you in and makes you think.

One such thought that I had led me to an actual plot-bunny, which I'm fairly sure is not going to be Joss'd in the ( Read more... )

Real life has been wearing me down lately. It's less that I've been all that busy as that everything I do takes effort and doesn't seem to get anywhere. Urg.

But anyway, here's a crossover idea that had not occurred to me, but that I love:

"A New Fantastic Point of View"

Ha-ha-ha!

Let us consider Thor’s Hammer, a mystical-magical weapon named Mjolnir, inscribed with: “Whosoever holds this hammer, if he be worthy, shall possess the power of Thor.”

Wowza.

I’ve read various fics in which other Avengers try to pick up Thor’s Hammer and occasionally they succeed. They have been found worthy! Cool!

But then, I was ( Read more... )

So I've been reading a lot of fix-it fics for the Avengers. If you haven't watched the movie, don't know what so many of us want fixed, and don't want spoilers, then go out and watch the movie right now.

However, there's one fix-it story that I haven't been able to find, that I would really like to read, so if anyone has any recommendations, please ( Read more... )

Since I've been writing a Thor fanfic, reading a whole lot of Avengers fanfic, and have already seen Avengers in theater as many times as I'm going to, I decided it was time to rewatch Thor. I needed to recalibrate some of my characterizations and remember what is fandom and what is canon. I'd forgotten how much Thor-the-character changes over the ( Read more... )