It Started with a Journal

Wow, work has been so insanely busy. It's been awhile since I talked about work crap, but that's going to be a different post.

I've realized that lately, I've been so focused on The Renner that my OTP (that isn't me/Jeremy) has been sorely neglected. So this post will be all about the Clint/Natasha (and also Rennerson, which is related) love. Mostly in the form of images, because I haven't done a whole lot of reading lately, and what I have read I've been ambivalent about, so... yeah. Very image intensive and occasionally NSFW. Ready? Let's go!

1) I want this to be true. ( Clint covers all his SHIELD reports in stickers and glitter. )

2) "Budapest Style." I know 13oct in particular will appreciate this. ( *snerk* )

3) Jeremy/Scarlett interviews always kill me. ( I hate you guys. )

4) ( Clint saves ALL THE BABIES. Never mind where they came from. )

5) There needs to be more fanart of Clint in his SHIELD jacket. ( All the sweet, sweet makeouts. )

6) "You and I remember Budapest very differently." ( Um, yeah, what Clint remembers is NSFW. YOU'VE BEEN WARNED. )

7) And finally... While, unlike the entire internets, I am NOT Loki's biggest fan, I do feel for him here. ( Tellllll meeeeeeee. )

Over the weekend I saw Les Miserables at the 5th Avenue Theatre. :D It was GREAT. The cast was much better than I'd been expecting. (I never have fears/doubts when I watch shows on Broadway, but touring companies can be so hit or miss.) God I love this musical. I found myself so moved I was weepy in several parts, which I honestly don't think has ever happened during the previous times I've seen it.

Anyway, K. and I were disappointed initially because for our performance, the understudies were playing Jean Valjean, Javert and Mr. Thénardier. PRINCIPAL ROLES. >< However, Valjean was actually very good, though he had a bit of trouble with the high notes (hard to top Colm Wilkinson; however, he had a more pleasing baritone). Javert started out kind of weak, but got better as the show went on. His rendition of "Stars" (possibly my favorite solo from the musical; link goes to YT and Philip Quast's version <3) was fabulous. I get chills just thinking about it! (One Day More is my favorite ensemble piece, just for the record.) Even Marius and Cosette were tolerable. I usually can't stand them, especially Cosette. Marius might fare better in my eyes if he didn't have the poor taste to fall in love with Cosette -- her appearance, really, since he knows shit all about her. -.- Fantine was a bit weak. Eponine was fine (but Lea Salonga will always be the 'real' Eponine for me). And we had the cutest little Gavroche. He was the youngest Gavroche I've ever seen!

ANYWAY... OK, this is all over Tumblr today. So Marvel has developed some sort of app (I don't even understand half the things that get made available these days... oh for the days when email and AIM were fabulous new inventions and I was living on the edge of progress) for the Avengers and Natasha's dossier is available, so we get some details about her movie incarnation's past that we've had to guess at previously, but for which we now have some answers. As well as more questions. But anyway. ( These are the details. )

I just don't even have the energy to fully absorb this info. I'm not sure if it totally changes my headcanon, or if I just need to make minor adjustments. Sigh.

Also this weekend I was supposed to have a massage, but it got canceled. :/ My last massage was just over a month ago, but it seems like ages. I've just been in a low-grade funk, I guess. Maybe because it's finally feeling like summer here and I'm usually stuck at work. Ugh. Those 5 minutes a day when I leave the building to go grab some lunch from the café is like, YAY SUN. And then it's back to fluorescent lights. :( Though it's apparent that I've really grown my Seattle skin. It's 77°F and I'm like, ohmygod, the sweltering HEAT! LOL. My LA badge is about to be revoked.

One of the best/funniest things I have seen on Tumblr recently: "You know how you get those posts with Americans and Brits bickering over freedom and tea and scones and spelling. And the rest of us who aren't from either country are just looking on like oh just kiss already."

Maybe my next post will be more useful, with recs and stuff. Maybe. >.>