Iron Man 3

May. 6th, 2013 08:18 am
sohotrightnow: ([avengers] but I'm still pretty)
Yesterday, I went with [personal profile] cyprinella to see Iron Man 3 for her birthday!

Thoughts. )

Finally, I need Pepper/Tony/Jane/Thor more than ever. Seriously, I need SO MUCH fic where more spoilers ) And, of course, I've talked about this before, but I still need SO MUCH FIC where Jane and Tony try to one-up each other with inventions ("I built most of this equipment myself!"), maybe while Thor and Pepper look on amused and do each other's hair, but not necessarily, just Jane and Tony getting annoyed with each other because they're too similar is okay too. Is there an AU where Jane Foster, profligate billionaire, is Iron Man and Tony Stark, astrophysicist, finds Thor? I feel like I heard about one, but maybe that was just wishful thinking. If it's not, someone needs to link me to it ASAP, please and thank you.
sohotrightnow: ([etc] get excited and make things)
Okay, as I've mentioned (complained about) to a couple of you (anyone who will listen), I haven't been in a particularly fiction-y mood, reading or writing, for the past few months. But this month's mini-challenge over at [community profile] kink_bingo is Tiny Bingos, which I actually feel like I am capable of doing! BUT I am a bit spoiled for choice, so I turn it over to you, Internet! Give me some pairings and I'll see if I can manage a drabble for you by the end of this month. Tall order, I know, but I feel like I might just be up to the challenge.

(Here's my card, if that gives you any ideas, although you don't have to include a kink with your prompt.)

Fandoms: Avengers (probably not good for anything with Bruce), Downton Abbey, Harry Potter, Doctor Who (2005 onwards), and of course my reliable standbys of Buffy/Giles, Buffy crossovers, and Aragorn/Boromir/Arwen. Crossovers, AUs, and threesomes welcome, multiple prompts totally welcome, and success is most likely if there's at least one female character in the mix (there are occasional exceptions, but I think Tony/Thor is pretty much the only one for any of these fandoms). Edit: Oh, also Game of Thrones!

Kinda tempted to try last year's game, of all Buffy crossovers, again, but THOR.
sohotrightnow: ([movie] no one _____ like gaston)
So as part of my Jewmas observance, I went to see Les Mis yesterday! It was fun. Two non-spoilery notes: First, I fucking love musicals. I want way more musicals where it's played totally straight, without a lot of ironic winking at the audience about how it's unrealistic. Second, this was one of the Jewishest crowds I've ever been in. Including High Holidays services. The family next to me were discussing their friends the Cohens. It was so much fun.

Other stuff! )

All in all, I enjoyed it! Also it was at the Angelika location out in Falls Church, where morning shows are $6 and no one gave me judgmental looks for having a glass of wine at a 9:30AM movie. BIG UPS. It was like brunch, except with no orange juice, and a hot dog instead of brunch food, and also red wine instead of champagne.

Then I came home and cleaned a bunch and watched some Doctor Who, which I've been doing a lot of lately. Oh, Nine.
sohotrightnow: ([etc] get excited and make things)
sohotrightnow: ([etc] get excited and make things)
Dear Yuletide Author letter will go here! \o/
sohotrightnow: ([avengers] clever girl)
Oh hey look, reveals happened on Rarepair fics! Man, this was a really difficult one to write, mostly because I have a hard time getting a grasp on either of these characters, and Darcy especially can just become a caricature so easily. But if nothing else, I really needed to finish it for the sake of her Twitter username alone, because I have to say, that was fucking genius on my part.

This Account Has Been Suspended
Avengers, PG, Darcy/Loki. With some implied Jane/Thor/Tony/Pepper, because of course there is.

The meteoric rise and, to use the metaphor a lot more appropriately and accurately, equally meteoric fall of Darcy's career as a romance novel critic. It's all Jane's fault, though. )
sohotrightnow: ([avengers] but I'm still pretty)
Whyyyyyyyyy isn't there all of the Tony/Jane. Like, set during the interval between Thor and Avengers. I mean, I could totally go for an AU where Jane has Selvig's role in the Avengers movie, but I would also completely settle for Jane/Tony sexy adventures. Possibly they build a TARDIS and challenge the Doctor to races.

And, you know, also lots of Thor/Tony, but I think I've complained to y'all about the lack of that plenty of times already. I like to keep it fresh.

(Ugh why won't this half-finished fic just write itself already???)
sohotrightnow: The Eleventh Doctor holding out an ID badge whose picture is of the First Doctor. ([dw] show some ID)
Two things, because that was amazing and you don't need yet more people telling you how amazing it was.
  1. NBC: still the absolute fucking worst. I don't even know where to start, so will spare you details, let's just say they're the worst and leave it at that. [personal profile] ishie retweeted someone saying that they'd been foolish enough to think NBC learned from how much everyone loathed their broadcast of the Beijing games, and I wish I could RT things a billion times, because yep.

  2. Let's be real, any big spectacular performance that involves a simultaneous tribute to A) children's literature, Peter Pan in particular, and B) socialized healthcare could have the entirely accurate alternate title JULES'S HEART: A MULTIMEDIA INTERPRETATION.
I have no real sportsy icons, so have the Doctor instead, because British.
sohotrightnow: ([avengers] clever girl)
doot doot doot re-watchin' Thor and drinkin' beer and workin' on my "possession/marking" square for k_b
It's not that Jane doesn't appreciate free room and board, and lab space, and millions of dollars of equipment, and everything. It's just that there's no such thing as a free lunch.

Or something along those lines.

The thing is.

The thing is --

Okay, she's not 100% sure she can explain what the thing is in words, but it definitely has something to do with the fact that half of what's around her these days has a Stark logo on it, and half of what's left is from a completely different corner of the universe.

If she's thinking of it when she leaves for the lab in the morning, she has her own coffee mug. Times she's thinking of that: maybe three out of every ten. The rest of the time, it's a Stark Industries mug, or, on one memorable occasion, a goblet Thor insisted on fetching from his room for her.

He keeps them in the cupboard with the rest, which is mostly Stark-labeled glassware.
Yep. I really got nothing else at the moment, mostly, I just have this pretty delightful outline worked out on paper, so hopefully I'll actually have it as a full fic before too long. UGHHHH THOR/JANE/TONY HOW SO GRATE.

("I made most of this equipment myself!" No seriously Internet how great would Jane and Tony yelling at each other about inventions and making out be? THINK ABOUT IT.)
sohotrightnow: ([etc] get excited and make things)
Dear [livejournal.com profile] rarepairfest Author,

Hi! I am working on my application at this very moment, and am trying not to tl;dr all over the "description" field, and kind of failing. This post is mostly a placeholder at the moment, but hopefully by the time you get your assignment there will be actual content here, or at the very least, not long after. In conclusion, watch this space!
sohotrightnow: ([etc] get excited and make things)
...it's [community profile] kink_bingo time again! Internet, oh my goodness gracious, I cannot deal with how awesome my card is.

Let's rap, Internet. )
sohotrightnow: Jane Foster, silhouetted by the setting sun. ([avengers] can't choose what stays)
[livejournal.com profile] rarepairfest is so very much up my alley it's ridiculous. I spent so long agonizing over my nominations, guys, it was absurd. It's Yuletide for people like me, who enjoy big fandoms but invariably end up not giving a fuck about the juggernaut pairings and are into very small weird little ships. ALL OF THE ARAGORN/BOROMIR/ARWEN AND THOR/TONY AND SANSA/DANY, ALL OF IT. \o/

[personal profile] such_heights is hosting an Avengers kiss prompt 'fest and [personal profile] spicedrum knows me too well and left a Thor/Pepper (with or without Tony) prompt, and I am literally going out the door in five minutes and it is tragic. I mean, not that it would break my heart if someone besides me were to write Thor/Pepper(/Tony), because all of that, too.

(Re: going out the door in five minutes, fingers crossed? It's a job interview, and a pretty rad position at a super-interesting place. They've asked for my references, which seems like a promising sign, and ugh, I could use this a lot. Fingers crossed and/or Thor/Pepper(/Tony), please.)

Ugh, I'm having so much trouble with DW lately. I suspect it's related to the modem/router issues I've been having in general and I just need to grit my teeth and call Comcast, but haaaaaaaaaate. :(
sohotrightnow: Thor with a big smile on his face. ([avengers] god of thunder and :D)
From a prompt left by [personal profile] some_stars at the prompt post. Slowly working my way through the list, hooray!

he bade the game go on
Avengers (2012)/Thor (2011). Thor/Jane Foster/Tony Stark. Title from "Casey At The Bat". ~550 words. Contains a completely gratuitous reference to Alexander Ovechkin and, as a warning, Tony Stark makes a super-tasteless joke about the Sandusky case. IDEK, you guys, IDEK.

Thor has learned something of Midgardian sport in his time here, but he has his own favorite. )
sohotrightnow: Gul Dukat leering, labeled "with club sauce" ([st] look at banner kira!)
Ughhhh I was all pumped to write some of those Avengers ficlets as requested last night, but my stomach appears to be having none of it, and I am instead going to take some Pepto and go to bed early. Tragic.

...idek why I informed you all of this, I'm just bored. Hi internet hi. Happy weekend, bbs! <3
sohotrightnow: Thor with a big smile on his face. ([avengers] god of thunder and :D)
Right, come on, someone give me prompts to work with, because apparently Thor/Jane/Tony fic won't get produced otherwise.

Here's a snippet of something, if you'd like!
Jane punches Tony in the arm because she's really sick of him having comebacks to everything, and he says "Ow," and she thinks he might be making fun of her, but maybe not; she's used to doing it to Thor, and his standards are different.

"Think of something else to do," Jane tells them both, draining her margarita and taking the pitcher from Thor.

"God, I thought you were never gonna ask." Tony gets up, and before Jane can ask him what that's supposed to mean, he's shoving in between her and Thor. "Come on, clear some space," he orders.

"What the hell? Why?" she asks, and then he's kissing her.
Come on now. I am promising...200 words. You get 200 words if you leave me a Thor/Tony/Jane prompt. Obvs foursomes with Pepper are totally welcome. Just, any combination of the four of them except for just plain Tony/Pepper, because idk, there's plenty of it already and Thor is the one that actually gets me fired up, writing-wise.

GO.
sohotrightnow: ([buffy] but you're just a girl)
In non-miserable, non-job-hunt-related news!

TV: I got the first season of Nurse Jackie at the used bookstore and ugh, Edie Falco, shut your fucking face, you are a national treasure. I am completely unable to crush on her in this role on account of how there are several moments where I can't even deal with how reminiscent Jackie is of my mother (this was not helped by the elder daughter's emerging anxiety/depression issues). As with Korra, I actually feel like this is a character I've seen a million times as a man, and if Jackie were male I would frankly probably loathe this show, but with a woman, ugh, I just can't even. So many interesting women! With so many different kinds of relationships with each other! And man oh man, as with Max on Happy Endings, I really fucking appreciate that they have in Momo a gay man who is not a stereotype. A gay man of color, even! Amazing! Also, because there is no such thing as stating this too many times, Edie Falco is a national fucking treasure. How is she so magnificent, just, how. I realize she's got three Emmys already, but that is not nearly enough.

Movies/Books/RaPS/There Is Good In The World And It's Worth Fighting For, Mr. Frodo: Apparently Dreamworks is making a True Meaning of Smekday movie, and it is going to have Rihanna and Jim Parsons, and any world where that is allowed to happen can't be a really hopeless one. If you haven't read that book, do yourself a favor and read it immediately, because it is glorious and is about a little biracial girl who goes on a road trip to find her mother and saves the world from two different alien invasions with the help of her cat. It is so funny you will cry, and it will make you cry a little with non-laughter tears, and also the aliens are a metaphor for manifest destiny. Come on now. And once you've read it, come back here and talk to me about how great it is, and I can point you in the direction of a couple of fabulous fic recs from previous Yuletides.

...I wonder if it's too late to start a letter-writing campaign for Edie Falco as Tip's mother.
sohotrightnow: ([stock] built like light)
Heard back about one of the jobs I interviewed for last week, and didn't get it, which was a bit of a bummer, but it wasn't my first choice, anyway, so who knows, maybe the universe is just making sure my schedule's clear for the other! Which is a longer commute, but also a longer contract, better-paying, and very exciting work at a really cool place. Recruiter from the first job, though, is keeping tabs on things for me, and actually called me about another job, which I was supposed to interview for today, except that half an hour after she called me to confirm the details she got a call from them that they were suspending hiring for it. SAD TROMBONE. It's still not as interesting as the other one I'm waiting to hear on, though, so here's hoping.

Caught up on Korra! Man, though, reading reaction posts elsewhere definitely has me in a "wait, am I watching the same show?" place.

More Korra thoughts. A few spoilers. )

Avengers fandom-wise, I am appalled and saddened by the lack of Tony/Thor. :( They would just be such delightful FWB. Threesomes or foursomes with Pepper and/or Jane would also be grand! Come on, fandom. I mean, I don't expect floods of it, but I'd hope that more than a handful of things on AO3 would be do-able.
sohotrightnow: the top of a swimming young woman's torso. (Default)
Man, taking a couple of Benadryl at about 9:30 last night so that I slept pretty much clear through 'till 5:30 this morning was a great decision. This is not sarcasm; my sleep schedule is still kind of fucked (six months of leaving for work at 1:30 AM will do that, apparently, who'd'a thunk it) and also somewhere along the line I seem to have become a morning person?

Yesterday I mostly just lounged around drinking homemade sparkling lemonade and occasionally mixing it with wine. I read The Girls Of No Return, which on the one hand was a little disappointing because I had somehow gotten the impression that it was a thriller/horror type thing, and it wasn't, but on the other hand it hit me where I live in a lot of ways, so I walked away very fond of it. Also it was...like, "forgiveness is a work in progress", plus the entire story of facing someone you wronged a year ago (well, in the protag's case, a little over a year), and reflection on what the thing you did says about you, and doing that at the end of summer/beginning of fall -- even then it might not have clicked for me except for the mention that the only day the girls really have off at the school is Saturday, because even Sundays they have abbreviated classes but Saturdays are all theirs. This is what I mean when I say that it hit me where I live in some subtle little ways: basically I reached the last couple of scenes and had this oh moment where I realized that even though no one's religion or religious holidays are ever mentioned, this is a Jewish book and a Yom Kippur book in particular.

Also I watched Lost In Austen, which is on Netflix streaming. That was...fun? It was a lot of fun, but it sort of felt like it was an episode short. There were a lot of loose ends still hanging, I felt like. Also man did I have some issues with Georgiana and Caroline. :\ Largely fun, though. I just had an Austen reread a year ago, but I may have to do another, because &NORTHANGER ABBEY;

Today: more job apps (haven't heard anything one way or the other about the ones I interviewed for last week, but best not to put all my eggs in one basket), and possibly catching up on Korra. I've already been spoiled for this week's episode, but I'm a few eps behind, so I'm sure there's other stuff that's happened that I will enjoy.
sohotrightnow: ([stock] built like light)
Okay, so as I've mentioned, I'm working on selling stuff to Tumblr to try and clear some clutter and get a little extra money. Books have been a massive challenge facing me, because lordy-loo does my family hoard books. But [personal profile] schmerica needed some help getting a ticket back home, and I'm not in completely dire financial straits just yet, but job-hunting is...what it is, so the long and short of it is that I would definitely breathe a little easier with a few extra dollars, besides clearing the extra space on my shelf. So here is a first attempt!

There is a used bookstore in town that I'll probably end up taking stuff to if this doesn't sell in a week, but I've got a fair amount of credit with them already, and their cash offerings will end up being a bit less than this (plus they don't take ARCs), so I'd rather do this first.

Shipping info and long-ass list of books under the cut )

I'll probably put this all up on my Selling Stuff Tumblr shortly, too, but at the moment, I wanted to start with DW. Links would be completely rad, but I am going to be putting up posts for comics, BPAL, and possibly DVDs in the next couple of days, so holding off until I get those up is cool too.

(So is not linking, too, obvs, just, you know, if you DO want to link and don't want to spam your own lists, know that there will be more. Man I'm bad at this. ANYHOO.)

Comment if you're interested in anything, and I'll let you know my PayPal email address!

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