So I’ve been meaning to do this for a long time now, (RL being pretty distracting for a change) but now that I haz yay news! (that is the new season 2 of Iron Man: Armored Adventures is finally going to start airing in the US come next week) and I finally have some free(-ish) time, I thought it was a good time to get this done.

( A non-spoilery pimp post aka Why This Particular teen!Tony Is Really Quite Awesome! )

Okay, so I was planning on reviewing/squeeing over The Next Avengers one of these days, but unfortunately before I could do so, I watched Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes and let me tell you... I am so besotted, it's slightly scary. It has intelligent plots! Villains with motives! Intelligent use of powers! Science! Fun! And already the promise ( Read more... )

This is the product of too much thought on the unhappy nature of endings in the Silmarillion. Eru Illuvatar is a kindly and omniscient God, very demonstrably not the jealous and vengeful god of the Old Testament. Hence, it seems inconceivable that he would make the predominant instinct in the Eldar, the need to mate in soul for all eternity and ( Read more... )