Grab bag of stuff
I really, really need to get started on a school assignment, but here's a drive-by post with a few random links:
1) Star Trek: DS9 fans, you may want to check out this awesome fanart of Kira Nerys in 1940s menswear. Gorgeous!
2) Regender flips pronouns around. Enter the URL of an English-language website (e.g., Wikipedia) and it translates it so that "she" becomes "he", "John" becomes "Jane", etc.
(I've done this myself using find-replace whenever I've played with a genderswap story. This is why I bemoan the death of TV transcript sites!)
3) Over on
fic_promptly, someone prompted Avengers/Captain America, Steve Rogers, “He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain” (Douglas Jerrold). I'm still learning the Marvel universe, but IMHO this quote is far more applicable to Tony Stark than to Steve Rogers. Tony's the one doing the whole noblesse oblige thing. Steve just wants people to want their civil liberties; he fights to protect people, sure, but he fights primarily for ideals. Tony's the one who feels driven to save the world.
4) House is ending after eight seasons. I'm haven't watched in ages, but my old uni roommate and I used to love this show--he had all the DVDs and I'd borrow from him. There's a part of me that laments what it used to be, but mostly I feel nothing. Hugh Laurie will always be a brilliant actor, but I can't even remember now why I gave a damn for any of those characters.
5) Like much of fandom, I'm awash in squee over the new Avengers and Amazing Spider-Man trailers. Funny to remember, back in 2002, how much I didn't care about the Tobey MacGuire Spider-Man trilogy. (Still don't, actually.) And now I'm obsessed with Marvel heroes! Weird.
(I still love DC! But dammit, they need to make more/better movies.)
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1) Star Trek: DS9 fans, you may want to check out this awesome fanart of Kira Nerys in 1940s menswear. Gorgeous!
2) Regender flips pronouns around. Enter the URL of an English-language website (e.g., Wikipedia) and it translates it so that "she" becomes "he", "John" becomes "Jane", etc.
(I've done this myself using find-replace whenever I've played with a genderswap story. This is why I bemoan the death of TV transcript sites!)
3) Over on
fic_promptly, someone prompted Avengers/Captain America, Steve Rogers, “He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain” (Douglas Jerrold). I'm still learning the Marvel universe, but IMHO this quote is far more applicable to Tony Stark than to Steve Rogers. Tony's the one doing the whole noblesse oblige thing. Steve just wants people to want their civil liberties; he fights to protect people, sure, but he fights primarily for ideals. Tony's the one who feels driven to save the world.
4) House is ending after eight seasons. I'm haven't watched in ages, but my old uni roommate and I used to love this show--he had all the DVDs and I'd borrow from him. There's a part of me that laments what it used to be, but mostly I feel nothing. Hugh Laurie will always be a brilliant actor, but I can't even remember now why I gave a damn for any of those characters.
5) Like much of fandom, I'm awash in squee over the new Avengers and Amazing Spider-Man trailers. Funny to remember, back in 2002, how much I didn't care about the Tobey MacGuire Spider-Man trilogy. (Still don't, actually.) And now I'm obsessed with Marvel heroes! Weird.
(I still love DC! But dammit, they need to make more/better movies.)
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