Why Am I In This Handbasket?

Hello Tumblrites and welcome. There's enough hot chocolate and shock blankets for everyone and plenty of tea for the lactose intolerant.

I have lived through the FF.Net NC17 purge and both Live Journal strikethrough and bold through. This will be my fourth fan mass migration if you count the move from Usenet to the internet so believe me when  I say one day we will all look back on this and, if not laugh, at least tell the stories of the before times in ways designed to amuse the new fans who will come. Fandom will be fine in the long run.

This may or may not be where we make a new home but it's nice to have a place to retreat to while we consider our options.

I became really terrible about blogging at Live Journal towards the end there but when I did I had it set up to mirror here so there's a lot of old content. Then I stopped blogging at LJ altogether and to be honest nearly forgot about Dreamwidth for the most part. Lately I've been vaguely wondering if this is where we'll all end up post Tumblr though and then I got a notice that kungfunurse , one of my followers on Tumblr had followed me here and figured I'd better post something.

Helloooo Nurse! Heh.

I can't promise I'll be any better about blogging. Life is being chaotic in general right now and while that should make for stuff to talk about it mostly makes for stuff I don't think people want to hear me whine about and a lack of spoons.

I tried for over an hour to get a post with a picture formated over at Tumblr. I finally came here and did it in a draft and copy/pasted the post. It formatted correctly on my blog there but not on the dashboard feed where most people will see it.

Live Journal does photo posting BETTER than Tumblr, a site originally designed for image posting.

Kryptaria and Stephrc79 wrote me fic!!

The Writing on the Wall is a short and lovely Captain America/James Bond crossover in which the tunnels that MI6 moved into after their headquarters were attacked turn out to be the tunnels that the Scientific Strategic Reserve used during WWII. Mild 00Q and mention of Steve/Peggy.

I lost to the Duck Dynasty family in the work costume contest.

Off the Record by Hella
Tony/Loki
Tony wakes up one night with a god of mischief in his bed and things go downhill from there. The Avengers end up caught in the middle of a fight between Loki and the Enchantress and at various points along the way have to decide who to trust in order to save members of their team. Tony especially must figure out if what's started between him and Loki is real or just part of the game.

This started before Avengers came out so a lot of core set up stuff has been Jossed and it's pretty much AU now even if it wasn't slash. It still captures MCU Tony so well I can hear his lines in RDJ's voice. The depiction of Nick Fury probably owes more to his sincerely nasty Ultimates incarnation than what we see of him in Avengers so be warned for that.

http://archiveofourown.org/works/315889

Great art based on the story:
http://nasyu.deviantart.com/art/OTR-chapter-12-369482100

When I picked this up at the library all I knew about it for sure was that it stared Jackie Chan and Jet Li. Being so completely unspoiled for it turned out to be a bad thing because frankly, the opening of the movie did not encourage me to want to spend the time to watch the rest.

We start with a really bad fight sequence in which a character in fantasy makeup leaps around mountain peaks while taking on a large group of opponents. The wire work is awful. There is no attempt to make it seem at all like the improbable leaps are the result of anything but a flying harness. Then it turns out to be a dream sequence and I'm willing to forgive it.

Jason Tripitikas, the kid having the dream,  is completely obsessed with kung fu movies. His room is wallpapered in posters, stills, and cut outs from magazines. He feeds his addiction by buying bootleg videos from a pawn shop in China Town for a couple of dollars each. We follow him there and meet the owner, an old man called Hop and see Jason accidentally discover that Hop has a beautiful golden staff in a back room. He explains that he is waiting for the rightful owner to return for it.

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Bombings, shootings, explosions, sink holes, earthquakes, storms, and locally the drowning of a toddler and the conviction of a home health aide for the murder of her client. This has been a defective week. I wish I had more to entertain you with this time around.
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