Three weeks in a row! I may be able to make a go of this.

[ranuel]

Yesterday I ordered my first Smart Phone. It will get here Tuesday and even though I've resisted getting one for years I'm finding I'm really excited about playing with it. IT at work is making noises about blocking streaming audio again and if I can't listen to music on Pandora or old radio shows on YouTube I might commit work place violence.

After looking at the options it didn't make sense to get an iPod that would stream audio when I was illegible for a free phone upgrade. Plus, I've had a lot more things added to my duties in the last several months that require me to be in a given place at a given time and I can't always rely on being at my desk for Outlook to remind me.

News:

The Irish Times reports on the American Republican Party

And it ain't pretty

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2012/0526/1224316731906.html#.T8C3rfWr7a8.twitter

Art:

Naptime by Janey-Jane
Spirited Away

http://janey-jane.deviantart.com/art/Kohaku-Chihiro-naptime-303356397

Loki Picture by BBQFish

The male and female aspects of Loki gorgeously done.

http://ranuel.tumblr.com/post/23827630370/lazulisong-w-loki-by-bbqfish

Fics:

Theseus And The Minotaur - The Other Version by Random Nexus

I like this version better

http://archiveofourown.org/works/413397

City of Angels by Afrai

Good Omens/Murder Mysteries merger.

You need to have read Neil Gaiman's Murder Mysteries and Good Omens first or this probably won't make any sense. It's a short piece in which we meet Crowley before his Fall when he was a designer in the Silver City.

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/835886/1/City_of_Angels

Intermezzo by FrameofMind

A short look at Kenshin and Kaoru after Jinchuu and before the epilogue in which Kenshin figures a few important things out.

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8153347/1/

Downstairs, in Baker Street by Bethan

Mrs. Hudson coordinates the most kick ass old girls network of all time to protect Sherlock and John and her old girls include Victoria from RED, M from James Bond and many more. The Author is holding a spot the fandoms competition.

http://bethan-b-bad.livejournal.com/179609.html

Interlinked Sherlock Fics

Random Nexus wrote Sofa Discovery a cute ficlet about John taking a picture of a napping Sherlock.

http://random-nexus.livejournal.com/168457.html

Which inspired Astapez to write Someone's Got a New Desktop Wallpaper in which John goes to further and further lengths to keep Sherlock from getting into his laptop and changing his wallpaper. Which is, of course, the nap picture.

http://astapez.livejournal.com/3916.html?thread=15436&#t15436

And I left a comment asking what would happen if John got a fingerprint scanner so Astapez was inspired to write Someone's Got a New Cell Phone Ring Tone another sequel in which the password competition gets ridiculously out of hand

http://astapez.livejournal.com/9432.html?view=16088#t16088

Moving the Furniture by Copperbadge (aka Sam Storyteller)

Avengers

Steve has trouble talking to people he's attracted to and Natasha makes him totally tongue tied. Steve/Natasha first time fic.

http://archiveofourown.org/works/414889

Frankie Says Relax

Darcy gets a day job with the Avengers. Rec'd by lazulisong 

http://archiveofourown.org/works/415336