April 2012
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But, god, I fucking love the way Joss Whedon writes.
Yes, yes, the way he directs too, wrangles the (super)heroes and big bads, keeps them - and us - on their toes, but mostly - I love the way he writes. It’s pure joy in language, tied to an nigh unparalleled understanding of story (of what stories - and heroes and big bads - need)
(I was going to say I love the way Joss Whedon writes X,...
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…I don’t know why I even attempt to write anything fic-ish when Joss Whedon is involved.
(and that could entirely be related to the fact that writing under the shadow of Joss Whedon’s glorious turns of phrase is utterly futile, but - spoiler! - we all know that’s not why I’m suddenly staring at 1000 words of AU, goddammit)
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Just back from the Avengers
I liked it :)
(Spoilers in tags ):
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Goddammit...
…this is not the moment to discover my (admittedly, over 10-year-old) scanner doesn’t work with my (not that new, dammit) laptop.
(The latest Empire mag has a photoshoot with Clark Gregg and Cobie Smulders, and it’s bloody glorious, but they don’t make those image available on their website…)
“Yo’ scanner’s so old, its drivers ain’t even...
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Tom Hiddleston writes about superhero movies in... →
“[S]uperhero films offer a shared, faithless, modern mythology […] In our increasingly secular society, with so many disparate gods and different faiths, superhero films present a unique canvas upon which our shared hopes, dreams and apocalyptic nightmares can be projected and played out. Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic...
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March 2012
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My parents appear to be watching sport.
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…ah, Barcelona v. Milan.
My dad is watching sport.
My mother is watching 22 athletic European men running around in shorts for 90 minutes.
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“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives...”
– George R.R. Martin (via sirmitchell)
Sure. But the reader of A Song of Ice and Fire also dies a thousand deaths. How is that fair, George? How is that good?
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but london is a glorious mess: the psychogeography reclist
first of all, because you’re probably asking this question already: what is psychogeogprahy?
guy debord defined it as “the study of the precise laws and specific effects of the geographical environment, consciously organized or not, on the emotions and behavior of individuals.” i, personally, tend more towards this...
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gingerhaze:
Okay so who here watches Primeval?
I started watching it by accident and couldn’t stop, there’s dinosaurs in shopping malls and people just take off their clothes for no reason and they use the Willhelm scream at least once an episode, they seem to find it completely hilarious
I used to watch this, and don’t really know why I stopped, it’s delightfully stupid.
My...
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