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Title: Wet Hot Avengers Summer (AO3)
Author: sarea_okelani
Rating: PG-13, for teenagers getting up to what teenagers get up to
Pairings: Clint/Natasha, Tony/Pepper, Thor/Jane, minor Clint/Bobbi and Phil/Cellist, Clint & Coulson, Clint & Tony

Summary: At summer camp, Clint’s met the girl of his dreams. Then he meets her four brothers.

If you missed them: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7

( Read part eight. )

Title: Chasing the Light (AO3)
Author: sarea_okelani
Rating: PG-13

Summary: A mission that goes awry tests two assassins and their partnership.

If you missed them: Part 1 | Part 2

( Read part three. )

Title: Wet Hot Avengers Summer (AO3)
Author: sarea_okelani
Rating: PG-13, for teenagers getting up to what teenagers get up to
Pairings: Clint/Natasha, Tony/Pepper, Thor/Jane, minor Clint/Bobbi and Phil/Cellist, Clint & Coulson, Clint & Tony

Summary: At summer camp, Clint’s met the girl of his dreams. Then he meets her four brothers.

If you missed them: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6

( Read part seven. )

Note: OK, so remember when I said that this story was likely going to have 8 parts? I lied, it's going to be 9. jade_okelani insisted that I had to extend the ending to make it better. It's so annoying when she's right. Soooo there will be 2 more parts after this. Hope you enjoyed this one!

Title: Wet Hot Avengers Summer (AO3)
Author: sarea_okelani
Rating: PG-13, for teenagers getting up to what teenagers get up to
Pairings: Clint/Natasha, Tony/Pepper, Thor/Jane, minor Clint/Bobbi and Phil/Cellist, Clint & Coulson, Clint & Tony

Summary: At summer camp, Clint’s met the girl of his dreams. Then he meets her four brothers.

If you missed them: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5

( Read part six. )

Title: Wet Hot Avengers Summer (AO3)
Author: sarea_okelani
Rating: PG-13, for teenagers getting up to what teenagers get up to
Pairings: Clint/Natasha, Tony/Pepper, Thor/Jane, minor Clint/Bobbi and Phil/Cellist, Clint & Coulson, Clint & Tony

Summary: At summer camp, Clint’s met the girl of his dreams. Then he meets her four brothers.

If you missed them: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3

( Read part four. )

Title: Wet Hot Avengers Summer (AO3)
Author: sarea_okelani
Rating: PG-13, for teenagers getting up to what teenagers get up to
Pairings: Clint/Natasha, Tony/Pepper, Thor/Jane, minor Clint/Bobbi and Phil/Cellist, Clint & Coulson, Clint & Tony

Other notes and stuff can found in part one.

Summary: At summer camp, Clint’s met the girl of his dreams. Then he meets her four brothers.

( Read part two. )

I'm still on my Veronica Mars rewatch kick. There are many vids out there, most of which are mediocre. Partly that's because they're from 3-5 years ago, and of course, vid quality back then was pretty poor.

The "We Are Young" vid I shared in my last post is still the best gen vid I've found. (Speaking of, the vid makers don't say whose cover it is, but I drove myself crazy trying to find out, and I think I've figured it out. I think it's a manipulated version of Glee's cover. Which blows my mind, because I didn't particularly care for their cover of that song, but this manipulated version of their cover? I might love even more than fun.'s ORIGINAL version. WEIRD.)

I've dug through the muck and found a few others that are really worth sharing. Oh how I envy you guys getting to watch these for the first time! ;) I hope you like them as much as I did.

( LoVe-focused vid that will make your heart ache, in a good way. )

( LoVe-focused vid that will tear your heart to shreds. Oh, LOGAN. )

( And now for something a little more upbeat. Veronica Mars is a badass. And CUTE. I have such a girl crush on Kristen Bell. )

In Avengers news, I have finally finished the draft of that story I've been working on! Hallelujah! I just need to majorly edit it and get it beta'ed, and then it will be ready to post, lol. Also I need to start deciding what the hell I'm going to write for the Secret Santa exchange. >.>

On my list of things I never thought I'd ever have to do, which I wish were still on my list of things I've never done: Pull dental floss out of my cat's butt. Yeah, seriously, I don't know. Why would he pull that out of the trash and eat it? What the hell is wrong with him?! It was just as disgusting as it sounds.

I have now watched The Avengers with Joss's commentary. I usually don't like watching commentary tracks, regardless of who's commenting, but in this case I felt guilty NOT to, considering so many overseas fans are missing out completely. (Empire's tweet was hilarious: "It's Shawarmageddon all over again!") Plus Joss is funny as hell. But I have to say, I kind of wish I hadn't listened to it. :/ I really, really did not like what Joss had to say about Hawkeye or Jeremy Renner. I mean, maybe I'm just inferring things more negatively than they were meant, but after listening to what Joss had to say, I am now very pessimistic about the direction they're going to take both the Hawkeye character and his relationship with Black Widow. ( *sad face* )

UK fans who want Joss's commentary are apparently being encouraged by Disney to buy the U.S. Blu-ray (linking bundle I got), because the U.S. Blu-ray is region free (the U.S. DVD, which also has the commentary, is region 1 encoded, though). According to them, Joss recorded his commentary too late for the UK release (which, seriously Joss? I know you must be super busy, but think of your fans all over the world!). Their mistake, imho, was in thinking people would rather have the movie sooner, without the commentary, than wait, and get the commentary. It seems so OBVIOUS that that would not be the case. Anyway, they currently don't have plans to reissue a version with the commentary, because they don't feel that they can ask the fans to buy the movie twice. I thought that was a fairly reasonable alternative (though not ideal by any means), until I read that apparently there was some kind of fuck up with the transfer, and the UK got some other country's censored version of the movie, which edits one of the scenes (the death of one of the characters). There were some early conspiracy rumors that they did this to retcon the scene so that said character could actually come back to life at some point -- but I have to say, not only would that be super lame (especially since it'd only be true for part of the world), but having listened to Joss's commentary, I'm as convinced as I ever was that the character is dead and isn't coming back. Anyway, since the transfer error *was* actually a mistake, I think Disney ought to reissue/replace the discs for free, and if they do that, they might as well also include the Joss commentary. Edit: Also apparently the UK also doesn't have the shawarma scene, is this true? I have read differing reports. I always figured that "Shawarmageddon" would eventually pass, because while the scene wasn't filmed til after the movie had already premiered in many countries, there wouldn't be a reason not to include it on the DVD/Blu-ray version. O.o

I have now watched the first two seasons of Teen Wolf. I know many people love it, but god, what a silly show. I really only love Stiles. And I reallllllly love him. Derek's fine, but is hampered by the utterly silly werewolf mythology. I really like Erica -- or at least, I really like her origin story -- but they haven't developed her very well (or any characters who aren't in the opening credits, really). I want to like Lydia more than I do. I fucking HATE Allison, and Scott mostly bugs me also. Did no one notice when they cast Tyler Posey that HIS FACE IS CROOKED? OMG, it's so distracting. I've always felt that werewolves were kinda lame, and been far less interested in them than in vampires, witches, and other supernatural creatures. This show does not make me change my mind about that. When they "wolf out" it looks soooooooooooo fake and lame. >< They're not frightening at all; they just make me want to laugh. Whereas the vampires on The Vampire Diaries are actually scary looking (way more so than the vampires in the Buffyverse, which Teen Wolf's wolves remind me of -- but BtVS was made YEARS ago). Anyway, much of the mythology, 'plots,' and character development so far are dull at best and nonsensical at worst (the whole thing with Peter Hale is so WTF). I read my first Sterek fanfic the other day and it was good, but mostly because it was in Stiles's POV and very in character, so it was fun.

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. )

1) Why. Why is Sunday already almost over? Why do weekends pass so quickly?? /SOB The only good thing about Sundays is that I have Breaking Bad to look forward to... except there are only two episodes left in this season cryyyyyyyy.

2) OK, I have taken a moment to pull myself together. I did so by watching this Firefly-style Avengers intro for the billionth time. If you haven't seen this yet, what are you waiting for? ( Take my love, take my land... )

3) I made cheese yesterday! Three kinds to be exact. One gallon of whole milk (well, just shy of a full gallon, I also made waffle batter and needed to take some) yielded: 11oz mozzarella, 4oz ricotta, and 2oz gjetost. (Links go to the methodology for each.) Except I messed up on the gjetost, I didn't pay enough attention at the end and the bottom of my pot is totally burned. >< Boy is that going to be a bitch to get out.

4) I did all my other dishes, though, which was a lot (and I haven't even made pesto yet, which I need to do by EoD). I told myself I could have a nice cup of coffee as a reward. Except I do not like this roast at ALL. It's some kind of Sumatra roast that I got at Whole Foods. I was picturing this idyllic time where I could browse Tumblr and drink coffee and now that dream has been shattered. </adult tantrum>

5) <consoles self with two new "Woman, this is Jeremy fucking Renner Talking" meme images> ( They just get better and better. )

6) You guys, you know I love all things Hawkeye... well, I thought I did, anyway. ( But this is just no. )

7) Remember how I was all excited about my new Blu-ray player and the fact that it could stream stuff wirelessly? I started watching Mad Men S5, and every 10 minutes, the player would say "cannot play." It doesn't have the best ffwding functionality (and besides, how annoying is it to have to ffwd to your last spot every 10 minutes?), so it was driving. me. crazy. I called Panasonic, which said that the player requires a minimum speed of 6Mbps, so I needed to call Comcast. I have pretty slow internet at home -- it's 3Mbps -- but it suffices for 99% of what I want to do. However, I have upped it to the next level (12Mbps -- that's right, there's nothing between 3 and 12 -.-) to see if it works. If not, I'll have to return the player as it's defective (and it doesn't even have resume playback functionality, which I assumed it would, like my Panasonic DVD player!). And if it does, I'll have to pay double what I currently pay for internet if I want to keep that speed. THERE'S NO WINNING.

8) Clearly, it's time to calm myself again. I think this time I will use... Jeremy in glasses. I know adrith will appreciate this. ( Glasses + arms = ded. )

9) OH OH OH I have another video rec to share. It's called "Reaching as I Fall" and it's about Hawkeye and Trickshot (as in Clint's brother Barney, not his circus mentor). It's flipping awesome because not only is it well put together, the artist used NORMAN REEDUS to play the part of Barney. OMFG at how much I'd watch a Hawkeye origins movie with that kind of casting. I know laria_gwyn would agree with me. Right? RIGHT??? ( 'Reaching as I Fall' )

10) I have nothing else to say so I will leave you with some Avengers porn. ( You heard me. )