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Very happy birthday wishes to

jade_okelani. <3

I am very happy with my Tumblr queue at the moment. :D Bwahahaha

So suddenly

adelagia and I are terrible at Pandemic. We don't know what's happened. Possibly it is just the Pandemic gods punishing us for our hubris. We got really good at it, even trying Legendary mode after 5 and 6 epidemics seemed like child's play. But the last few times we've played, we have sucked. We must have played 20 games without A SINGLE WIN. We had various role combos, some good, some bad. They all resulted in us letting the world succumb to horrible disease. We always played with purple and 6 epidemics. We refuse to go back to 5 for an 'easy' win, but 6 is totally owning us. :/ I refuse to believe that all the times we won before was a fluke!!

Last weekend T.,

slitherhither and I met up for dinner at the Cheesecake Factory, then we went to see THE AVENGERS!!!! It was B.'s first time (and my seventh >.>), so that was awesome. Later we asked which of the guys she liked most, and she totally went against type (androgynous and thin) and picked Thor! Just goes to show, Chris Hemsworth is completely irresistible.

So I read this fanfic that started out very promising, but petered out by the middle for me. It was a Sherlock xover, and had John Watson taking over for Coulson in the Avengers handling department. I freaking love Watson/Martin Freeman, but I had several issues with the story as it progressed. ( Cutting in case of spoilers for the show/fic/etc. )

Celebrity quotes that have made me laugh recently:

- When asked if older sister Maggie ever beat him up, Jake Gyllenhaal responded, "Depends on what you call beating up. She performed the musical Cats for our parents, and she made me lick milk from a bowl while she sang, which was, in a way, abuse."

- Joshua Jackson on A Song of Ice and Fire: "I've got a slightly obsessive problem in that when I get into books, particularly a series of books, I cannot put the fucking things down. Nobody told me that the story is not done yet and that he takes, like, seven years between books. Last summer I plowed through something like 9,000 pages of A Game of Thrones and I finally started saying, 'Wow, that's weird. I don’t feel like there's an end coming.' I got to the end and my friend said, 'Oh no, it'll be like ten more years.' I grabbed him by the shirt, pulled him close and said, 'What?!! I will have kids in high school by the time these things are finished!'"

:)))))))))))))))))))))))))

Current Mood: tired

OK, this is ridiculous. I've been trying for the last 10 minutes to talk about MI casting news, but every time I switch to my Tumblr window I get completely distracted by this Hawkeye art. ( There's something about it that completely mesmerizes me. )

OK, SCROLLING AWAY. Jeez.

Two big pieces of MI casting news:

Magnus Bane: Since they've cast my choice for Magnus as Simon, they have selected Godfrey Gao, who I've never heard of, but I'm fairly sure I can live with him:

*is mesmerized again*

Where was I... oh, right. OK, so now that Magnus is THIS GUY, all I have to say is that the pressure is on wrt Alec. Alec better be the hottest, most likeable guy ever, because otherwise I have to continue to not understand what the hell Magnus sees in him. Because, you see, Alec is a whiny little bitch most of the time.

Jocelyn Fray: Going to be played by QUEEN CERSEI LANNISTER! I mean, Lena Headey. WHEN FANDOMS COLLIDE. She makes a perfect Jocelyn, actually. Jocelyn is someone I see as uptight, controlling, and hypocritical, which totally describes both Cersei and Sarah Connor, the two roles I'm most familiar with Lena portraying. So woot!

Given all the casting news so far, I may have to completely change all my ship preferences, just for the movie. -.-

This is what's wrong with Tumblr: One of the artists I follow (who drew my icon, actually) just revealed that she was 23. This opened up a slew of comments about how "old" she was and one person was like, "I'm 18 and always feel soooooo old around these high schoolers and pre-teens."

SERIOUSLY? But at the same time, it explains a lot of the behavior over there. -.-

I keep waffling between excitement and total bitterness that Jade and Robbie are going to see The Bourne Legacy tonight. Right now I'm on bitterrrrrrrr.

I feel kind of loopy. I think it's party due to blood loss, and partly because I was up at 2am posting fic and then was up again 4.5 hours later for work purposes. Work is so never a good reason to lose sleep. -.- Though I guess you could say it was because of posting fic. Which, you're right, it's a better reason. Also, shut up, I don't need all this backtalk from you.

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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. >.>

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Hmm I thought it was less than a week since my last post but apparently I was wrong. >.> TUMBLR HAS EATEN MY LIFE. I can't even be sorry about it. I'm dazzled by all the pretty pictures there. I start to write, but then after a sentence or two I just go to my dash and refresh. >< And depending on what's there, I then totally get sucked in. Apparently I just need the internet taken away from me if I want to get any writing done, because I have no willpower to speak of.

I'm also running on very little sleep. I did it while Jade was here, but that's because we were packing our days with FUN things. Now I'm getting up super early because of work, even though I don't go to bed until like 1am. The other night I went to bed after *2*, because I was watching GoT S2 w/ Jade and we went off on a big random tangent afterward. I really just want to find the nearest bed and sleep for aaaaaaaaaages. But speaking of GoT, I realized that I never talked about the S2 finale. I'm sure you all have been dying to know what I thought of it... not. But I'm a completist, and one day I might want to know what I initially thought, and will be annoyed with myself if I don't do it, so here we go. ( Spoilers for GoT 2x10 'Valar Morghulis.' )

OK, and the following is for

dearnana. She wanted to know exactly what Jade and I ate at all the places we went to during Jade's visit, so heeeeeeeeeere it all is!! ( We don't overeat. Why do you ask? )

WHEW.

Yesterday I hung out with J. We took a little walk (omg at how out of shape I am, it's seriously sad), then watched Moonrise Kingdom (which I only saw because she SO wanted to see it, and also because Bruce Willis and Edward Norton were in it -- otherwise I never would have, because I generally can't stand Wes Anderson movies. I hated Rushmore and actually walked out of The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. MK was ok), then had dinner at El Camion, which I think is the Mexican food truck that

slitherhither told me about ages ago and I've been wanting to try. It was DELICIOUS. I had the pollo verde tamale, two tacos lenguas, and one taco carne asada. You guys, I've had a revelation about tamales. I've always hated them growing up, because they were always, without fail, dry and disgusting. For the first time ever, I had a tamale I enjoyed when in Chicago, at one of Rick Bayless's restaurants. It was moist and wonderful, and I realized that that's how they're supposed to be. I had another good one at a Salvadorean place near Crossroads, and now from El Camion. So now I love tamales, but they have to be done properly. Because when they're dry and wrong... ugh, they're terrible. And

adelagia, the tacos lenguas were REALLY good, the chunks of tongue were cut really big and tender. Mmmmmm. I really regretted getting the carne asada one, lol.

What a boring update. Sorry I don't have more interesting things going on. Why don't I top it all off by saying that I am still waiting for @#%@ing summer to start in Seattle. It's &#&@ing JULY already! Right now it's &#!@ing 59 @#$&ing degrees. <caps>$@*$</cap>

A few things from Tumblr that I want to share, that's not my usual Clint/Natasha squeeage:

- "Clint" flips off Loki - very well done animated .gif that totally always makes me grin

- Some pretty awesome artwork of the Avengers if they were Death Knights (from WoW). At least, according to me, not the artist. But that's what they look like!!

- This is a drawing -- that's right, DRAWING -- of Hawkeye that someone did, with some artistic "Loki blue" flowing out of his eyes. Seriously, it's so realistic it looks like a manip'ed photo.

- And a non-Avengers rec: An excellent, excellent essay titled "In defense of Sansa Stark." Sansa haters to the left. I didn't start out liking Sansa, it just gradually happened as the series went on, and I don't know if it's as easy to like her if you only watch the show, but this essay articulates much better than I could why she's just as much a kickass heroine as the other kickass heroines in the series.

Also, this is old news by now, but I would be remiss if I didn't tell you that I am SO JEALOUS OF UK SUBSCRIBERS OF EMPIRE MAGAZINE, who get this subscriber-only cover of the August issue. ( I NEED THIS. )

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Current Mood: drained

I think I'm getting the hang of Tumblr. It's, as

akscully says, a "superficial way to interact with fandom." I can't imagine building friendships or having meaningful conversations over there the way you can on LJ, but it's a great way to consume and share amusing things. ( Two GoT 'The Night Lands' examples. )

I'm such a loser that I didn't step foot outside my house all day yesterday, so I didn't even know that it had reached 70°F. !!! But I'm not going to let Seattle fool me this year, as it has every spring. There are a couple of warm days and I think, "Yay, spring is really here!" forgetting that spring does not come to Seattle until July. In ASoIaF terms, THIS IS THE TIME OF THE FALSE SPRING. It'll get us all excited then turn into winter again. -.- Mark my words.

The reason I was such a shut-in yesterday was because a) I was mainlining The Wire; and b) making delicious things to eat, like the Best Biscuits Ever and a veggie burrito that's so good, I don't even notice or care that there's no meat in it.

OK, The Wire. IT'S SO GOOD. I mean, that should come as no surprise, because every critic ever says that it's a great show, but after The Sopranos I'm a bit wary of such claims. Not that The Sopranos isn't a good show, but after watching 4+ seasons of it I didn't feel like it was the best show that's ever been on television, which is something that's commonly said. It's also said of The Wire, but while Breaking Bad still has my vote on that score, I can at least understand why people say that of The Wire. It's just so fucking real, and has heart, and tells a good damn story. It's inspirational at the same time that it successfully conveys the gray areas of life. I like the characters, even the bad ones, because I can understand where they're coming from. That is totally juxtaposed with the characters on The Sopranos, who I pretty much hated all the time. They all seemed like selfish assholes, whereas The Wire's characters are about living the life you've been given or have chosen, but it's real life and you do what you have to to survive. I guess that's supposed to be what The Sopranos is about too, but it's just different.

( Slightly spoilery thoughts from S1. )

I also watched a British movie called Exam, which had a fantastic premise but didn't actually deliver on it. I had many issues while watching it (though it was entertaining enough), and even more after talking about it with

jade_okelani. Premise: The film is set in present-time United Kingdom in an alternate history, where a disease called The Virus has made a large part of the population dependent on medication that must be taken every few hours to prevent falling into a coma followed by death. Most of the film takes place in a single room, where eight candidates take an exam for an important job as the Personal Assistant to the CEO of a mysterious bio-tech company that is said to work on a cure for The Virus.

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I can't help it, Shawn. My body craves buttery goodness.

@_@

and so it must be // and so it is written

all the feels.

I need 3-day weekends to be the rule.