I get really self-conscious talking about music, because for whatever reason, musical taste is one of the rare things that even we in fandom seem to have no trouble judging other people for. I don't even know what Nickleback sounds like and I am automatically defensive of Nickleback fans at this point. (You can't tell me they don't have fans, ( Read more... )

Disclaimer: I thought Doctor Strange the movie was kind of boring, and all these feelings came from his appearances in other movies (and especially Infinity War and Ragnarok) and then get applied retroactively to his solo movie ( Read more... )

One of the things I am super into in Thor: Ragnarok is how in the process of becoming King of Asgard (by way of burning his entire realm to ash), Thor actively leads people. It’s one thing for him to come up with a plan for treason in Thor: The Dark World involving a bunch of his closest friends, and it’s another to assemble the Revengers, a team ( Read more... )

Friends, I am having a Loki Situation. I rewatched Thor: Ragnarok and had several "Oh no he's hot" moments, and now everything is terrible. Mostly it's terrible because I am so excruciatingly picky about his characterization, and like half of canon and most of fic gets it wrong. 🙈🙈🙈 (Please append big "YMMV" disclaimers to every paragraph of this ( Read more... )

I am slowly coming to the conclusion that even though I'm pretty invested in both Thor and Loki at this point, I still don't ship them? Which is bewildering to me, because I have other incest ships! Even very similar ones! I ship Gamora/Nebula like burning ( Read more... )

I just got back from watching it the second time. You guys, I liked it the first time, but I LOVED it the second time. It’s so dense with character moments but also silly moments but also this goshwow cosmic stuff that is MY JAM. GotG1 and Winter Soldier used to be tied for my favorite MCU movie, but I think GotG2 just moved into first place ( Read more... )

I assume by now most of you have seen this awesome hour-long Geno documentary from last year, but since Imzy is shutting down, I'm copying over a handful of things I posted there that seemed worth copy, and this list of highlights is one.

Anyway, this documentary is SO FULL OF GOODIES.

• He talks to his sticks! If things aren't going well, he says ( Read more... )

First, an assertion of ignorance: I do not follow politics a lot generally (although I’m working on it), and in particular I have no large-scale context for US foreign policy in Latin America. What follows is based on my personal experiences in Honduras in 2009-2010 and conversations I had with people there, hazily recollected, plus some hasty ( Read more... )

Okay, when I said I was going to explain why I ragequit, I apparently meant - like, right away.

( cut for worldbuilding spoilers through issue #2 )

ICON UNUSUALLY APROPOS TODAY.

Okay, so, we acquired Phil Kessel (minus some retained salary) and some other players and picks in return for Kapanen, Spaling, and some other players and picks. What this means ( Read more... )