you dream of crests and configure tides
Things! Also, stuff!
= I really enjoyed last night's Arrow despite some obvious plot twists. Diggle killing a guy with a defibrillator! And the completely cheesy and yet necessary "Clear!" afterwards. Also, "A person of color has successfully purchased your drugs." Diggle is the BEST. I OT3 him and Felicity and Oliver so hard! Because it would mostly consist of Diggle and Felicity mocking Ollie while they tie him up and have their way with him. I AM JUST SAYING.
Otoh, Tommy is just annoying. I didn't think Ollie ever came across like he thought Tommy was dealing drugs, and Tommy did do something illegal (though it was to protect Ollie) and he clearly did it poorly if it took Detective Lance only five minutes to figure it out. Also, possibly the best comment ever on Det. Lance, from the AV Club comment section: In every person is a struggle, between good and evil. In Paul Blackthorne, there is a second struggle: between his native English accent, and a James Cagney impression.
I don't know which side I want to win. All I know is I enjoy watching them fight *dies* It's funny 'cause it' true.
Anyway, I guess this is as good a reason as any for Tommy to end up working for dear old dad and possibly becoming a bad guy, but I find I really don't care about him at all.
I like that Ollie basically killed that guy to keep his identity a secret (though it would have been funny if the guy had been like, 'I don't know who that is' if only for the JLU callback). Also, Seth Gabel gives good crazy. I didn't see it before, but now I can see why people were tossing his name around when there was talk of recasting Jefferson on OUaT, though who knows if that's actually going to happen, given the direction the spinoff is apparently going.
Also, I'm so glad they're making Slade a regular next season. Even if he does end up a bad guy - or at least an antagonist - he's such a spark for the show. The flashback island scenes are far less boring when he's around being shirtless and snarky. (I am now imagining him sneaking into Matt Bomer's shower to leave messages written in the steam on the mirror. I never had any interest in that as a pairing before despite how weird Slade is about Dick in nearly everything I've seen, but this version of Slade and Dick as played by Bomer? OH YES.
Also, also, after seeing Kerry Washington in this sparkly gown, I've decided she can totally be the Donna in my fantasy Nightwing movie. My fantasy Nightwing movie is AWESOME. Maybe this weekend I will put together a picspam. Ha.)
= Republic of Thieves, the third Gentlemen Bastards book, is actually coming out this October. Or so they say anyway. Though this date actually looks solid, and there is an excerpt from the book at that link. (hat tip to
ignipes for the news.)
laurificus and I had basically given up on ever seeing this book in print, so I am cautiously excited.
= My NYPL library card finally came and is validated, so now I can borrow books online yay!
= I knew I was forgetting something in yesterday's reading post - last weekend I also read Punisher: War Zone by Greg Rucka (♥) and Marco Checchetto. The story was okay - I didn't love it, mostly because I have no emotional investment in Frank Castle (I guess Jason's iteration of the Red Hood is kind of like the DCU's version of the Punisher? That is what I gathered, anyway.), but I didn't hate it, which I was braced for, despite Rucka probably being my favorite comics writer (at least he doesn't say gross things in public anyway). I acquired it mostly because the art is gorgeous (and there was only one really awful spine-bendy pose for Natasha, and she's fully clothed and zipped up through the whole thing). Her parts and Thor's were the best, though I also enjoyed Peter's indignation at his webbing being used for bad things, and Steve's weariness at what war does to soldiers.
= Speaking of Peter, I normally don't rec things outside of my monthly recs posts, but this is basically THE TINY SPIDER-MAN STORY OF MY HEART:
They Also Serve... by
DaisyNinjaGirl. It's tiny - only 490 words - but it made me cry like the movie did. Because it takes the idea of the cranes and it expands it, because YES. I mean, whatever you might think of the Maguire Spidey movies - and I liked the first two just fine (didn't see the third and am just fine with that decision, too) - that scene of him being carried through the train car never fails to give me chills and tears, because THAT is the essence of Spider-man, and that is why I loved the cranes, despite what some might call the manipulative sentimentality of the scene. Sure he's an Avenger or whatever, and I wish there were a way to get him into those movies, but Spider-man is best as a street-level crimefighting kind of guy and he's not beloved by the press (or the cops, at least officially) but regular New Yorkers know that Spidey's their guy, and I LOVE stories that explore that man-on-the-street support for him.
One of the things I really like about how USM has handled Peter's death is that he's celebrated as a hero (and let's face it, this is a universe where J. Jonah Jameson is a better man, with a better arc, than Captain America, so there's not a lot to love about the Ultimate verse outside of Peter and now Miles and their supporting casts), though the validation comes too late for him to appreciate. *sob*
And speaking of, I hear we are going to get more Spider-men at some point? Hopefully when Peter is back in control of his own body? All I want, all I've wanted since I started reading comics regularly, is a monthly Spider-man book featuring Peter Parker that I can enjoy every month; they were almost there with Avenging Spider-man, but then they had to go and ruin even that. So I console myself with other books - and I love Miles and wouldn't trade him for the world and I love seeing Peter mentor him - but in my heart of hearts, I also want a current book about Peter Parker to love.
= And speaking of those other books, there was new Winter Soldier yesterday, which was still more set up and backstory, but did contain a character basically calling Bucky and Fury idiots who have no sense or planning skills, and, well, he's not wrong. Bucky's terrible planning skills endear him to me endlessly. Also, it's how you can tell it's Bucky, because I'm pretty sure the Winter Soldier was rarely so cavalier about things. At least not while his programming was in effect (with his affair with Natasha, and also that one time he went off the grid in NYC, as the exceptions, for obvious reasons).
= Wow this post got long. Here is today's poem to wrap things up:
You Start With Lassoing the Ocean
What follows her is a fist
of cold air. You craved
the ocean & she proved
its most approximate proxy.
In the morning, you dream
of crests and configure
tides: a.m. let roll back
p.m. roll in sand. Let
the moon be exhausted -
let it contribute overtime.
Tell it to put a call in
to Saturn or Jupiter's entourage
to form union. You've got
your hands full - one
girl, one cosmos, and chill
enough to rodeo the sun.
~Purvi Shah
***
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people have commented there.
= I really enjoyed last night's Arrow despite some obvious plot twists. Diggle killing a guy with a defibrillator! And the completely cheesy and yet necessary "Clear!" afterwards. Also, "A person of color has successfully purchased your drugs." Diggle is the BEST. I OT3 him and Felicity and Oliver so hard! Because it would mostly consist of Diggle and Felicity mocking Ollie while they tie him up and have their way with him. I AM JUST SAYING.
Otoh, Tommy is just annoying. I didn't think Ollie ever came across like he thought Tommy was dealing drugs, and Tommy did do something illegal (though it was to protect Ollie) and he clearly did it poorly if it took Detective Lance only five minutes to figure it out. Also, possibly the best comment ever on Det. Lance, from the AV Club comment section: In every person is a struggle, between good and evil. In Paul Blackthorne, there is a second struggle: between his native English accent, and a James Cagney impression.
I don't know which side I want to win. All I know is I enjoy watching them fight *dies* It's funny 'cause it' true.
Anyway, I guess this is as good a reason as any for Tommy to end up working for dear old dad and possibly becoming a bad guy, but I find I really don't care about him at all.
I like that Ollie basically killed that guy to keep his identity a secret (though it would have been funny if the guy had been like, 'I don't know who that is' if only for the JLU callback). Also, Seth Gabel gives good crazy. I didn't see it before, but now I can see why people were tossing his name around when there was talk of recasting Jefferson on OUaT, though who knows if that's actually going to happen, given the direction the spinoff is apparently going.
Also, I'm so glad they're making Slade a regular next season. Even if he does end up a bad guy - or at least an antagonist - he's such a spark for the show. The flashback island scenes are far less boring when he's around being shirtless and snarky. (I am now imagining him sneaking into Matt Bomer's shower to leave messages written in the steam on the mirror. I never had any interest in that as a pairing before despite how weird Slade is about Dick in nearly everything I've seen, but this version of Slade and Dick as played by Bomer? OH YES.
Also, also, after seeing Kerry Washington in this sparkly gown, I've decided she can totally be the Donna in my fantasy Nightwing movie. My fantasy Nightwing movie is AWESOME. Maybe this weekend I will put together a picspam. Ha.)
= Republic of Thieves, the third Gentlemen Bastards book, is actually coming out this October. Or so they say anyway. Though this date actually looks solid, and there is an excerpt from the book at that link. (hat tip to
ignipes for the news.)
laurificus and I had basically given up on ever seeing this book in print, so I am cautiously excited.
= My NYPL library card finally came and is validated, so now I can borrow books online yay!
= I knew I was forgetting something in yesterday's reading post - last weekend I also read Punisher: War Zone by Greg Rucka (♥) and Marco Checchetto. The story was okay - I didn't love it, mostly because I have no emotional investment in Frank Castle (I guess Jason's iteration of the Red Hood is kind of like the DCU's version of the Punisher? That is what I gathered, anyway.), but I didn't hate it, which I was braced for, despite Rucka probably being my favorite comics writer (at least he doesn't say gross things in public anyway). I acquired it mostly because the art is gorgeous (and there was only one really awful spine-bendy pose for Natasha, and she's fully clothed and zipped up through the whole thing). Her parts and Thor's were the best, though I also enjoyed Peter's indignation at his webbing being used for bad things, and Steve's weariness at what war does to soldiers.
= Speaking of Peter, I normally don't rec things outside of my monthly recs posts, but this is basically THE TINY SPIDER-MAN STORY OF MY HEART:
They Also Serve... by
DaisyNinjaGirl. It's tiny - only 490 words - but it made me cry like the movie did. Because it takes the idea of the cranes and it expands it, because YES. I mean, whatever you might think of the Maguire Spidey movies - and I liked the first two just fine (didn't see the third and am just fine with that decision, too) - that scene of him being carried through the train car never fails to give me chills and tears, because THAT is the essence of Spider-man, and that is why I loved the cranes, despite what some might call the manipulative sentimentality of the scene. Sure he's an Avenger or whatever, and I wish there were a way to get him into those movies, but Spider-man is best as a street-level crimefighting kind of guy and he's not beloved by the press (or the cops, at least officially) but regular New Yorkers know that Spidey's their guy, and I LOVE stories that explore that man-on-the-street support for him.
One of the things I really like about how USM has handled Peter's death is that he's celebrated as a hero (and let's face it, this is a universe where J. Jonah Jameson is a better man, with a better arc, than Captain America, so there's not a lot to love about the Ultimate verse outside of Peter and now Miles and their supporting casts), though the validation comes too late for him to appreciate. *sob*
And speaking of, I hear we are going to get more Spider-men at some point? Hopefully when Peter is back in control of his own body? All I want, all I've wanted since I started reading comics regularly, is a monthly Spider-man book featuring Peter Parker that I can enjoy every month; they were almost there with Avenging Spider-man, but then they had to go and ruin even that. So I console myself with other books - and I love Miles and wouldn't trade him for the world and I love seeing Peter mentor him - but in my heart of hearts, I also want a current book about Peter Parker to love.
= And speaking of those other books, there was new Winter Soldier yesterday, which was still more set up and backstory, but did contain a character basically calling Bucky and Fury idiots who have no sense or planning skills, and, well, he's not wrong. Bucky's terrible planning skills endear him to me endlessly. Also, it's how you can tell it's Bucky, because I'm pretty sure the Winter Soldier was rarely so cavalier about things. At least not while his programming was in effect (with his affair with Natasha, and also that one time he went off the grid in NYC, as the exceptions, for obvious reasons).
= Wow this post got long. Here is today's poem to wrap things up:
You Start With Lassoing the Ocean
What follows her is a fist
of cold air. You craved
the ocean & she proved
its most approximate proxy.
In the morning, you dream
of crests and configure
tides: a.m. let roll back
p.m. roll in sand. Let
the moon be exhausted -
let it contribute overtime.
Tell it to put a call in
to Saturn or Jupiter's entourage
to form union. You've got
your hands full - one
girl, one cosmos, and chill
enough to rodeo the sun.
~Purvi Shah
***
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people have commented there.