Appropriate reaction to hearing Agent Carter got renewed: Hey yay what great news that was a great season and getting more Agent Carter is terrific and yay for female-helmed MCU storylines wheee!

My initial reaction to hearing Agent Carter got renewed: WHAT they told us it was going to be a self-contained miniseries and that was it I COMMITTED TO ONLY 8 EPISODES HOW DARE YOU TRICK ME LIKE THAT I WATCH TOO MUCH TELEVISION AS IT IS ALREADY

Avengers: Age of Ultron: my completely fannish selfish perspective. Overall okay with it!

( Here Be Spoilers )

Hey, any of you read Core Values, the Avengers story by AnonEhouse where Loki turns everyone into apples and they have to figure out which ones they are to break the spell (oh, just go with it, 'k? It's funny)? So the September issue of Prevention magazine has a cover article on apple varieties, and you cannot make this kind of thing up, this is word for word from the article:

Northern Spy:
Taste It: If Scarlett Johansson were an apple, she'd be a Northern Spy: tart yet honeyed, luscious yet subtle.

Cannot. Make. This. Up. PREVENTION WRITERS READ AO3.

Had phone conversation with the S.O. this morning that devolved into Avengers snubbing Loki's comic books, which led to the line, "Journey Into my PANTS, why don't you."

Unf. Woke up from a dream about an Alien/Avengers crossover in which there could not possibly have been more Clint!Whump if I'd been planning it consciously. Because I'd have been too embarrassed to plan that degree of dirty deliciousness consciously.

I think it's a sign.

IT'S BEEN MONTHS BUT THE OTHER HALF OF MY OTP IS HEEEEEERE. AT LAAAAAST.


(Yes, this time I do plan to pose them slashily and take pictures. The faces are just too fabulous.)

And here's Hawkeye hoodie #2, movie version. Again, started with basic instructions from shinykari's craft post.



Curved lines are trickier! Little tiny bits of tape, all lined up just so to form the curve. Worth it for labors of love, though.

Feelin' all kinds of badass. Seein' better from a distance. All that, ooh yeah.

Walking on the beach listening to my iPod is good for prompting ballad pastiches, it seems! First time I've done this in Avengers fandom, though.

Title: Matty Groves, or, The Extraction
Pairing: Clint/Natasha/Coulson, Natasha/OMC
Warnings: Violence, Misogyny
Summary: Angelo Marioni only thinks he's the luckiest sonovabitch in the world, and Clint Barton hates extractions like these.
A/N: Another Ballad pastiche from me. Lyrics for "Matty Groves" can be found here. Thanks to cluegirl for beta duty!

"And you will strike the very first blow, and strike it like a man.
I will strike the very next blow, and I'll kill you if I can."

Read on AO3 LJ

( Or read here, below the cut )

The Frosthawk tumblr hasn't had any new entries for four days. FOUR DAYS. *writhes* Do I have to do everything myself? I am not an artist, guys! Are you really going to make me pose my action figures in lustful embraces and take pictures? I try so hard to stay above that level.

Fifty minutes after learning that Rifftrax had done The Avengers, the S.O. and I were already 45 minutes into it. I made noises of screeching hilarity I may never have made in my life.

"Kneel before me!"
"We would, but we've got Zod pencilled in for a kneeling-before right now."

I assumed it would be difficult to make a riff of The Avengers funny, since the script self-riffs, but they actually used that as meta. And even though the Rifftrax guys fall into taking the low road sometimes--they've got a habit of irritatingly one-note-ing a character over and over, what with "We hate Ben Affleck" in Daredevil, "Robert Downey Jr.'s had a drug problem" in Iron Man, and "Hawkeye's a lame superhero" in this one--I still laughed like a loon. Check out http://gifftrax.tumblr.com for some quick gifsets of jokes, or watch the preview on the Rifftrax site.

And it gave me what I think must be a terribly embarrassing revelation: remember in the film when (trying not to spoil) one character says, "This was never going to work if they didn't have something to..." and doesn't complete that sentence?

Yeah, well...I never once finished that sentence in my head with avenge. It was always something to bring them together, or something to fight for. And when the Rifftrax guys actually went there my mouth went open at the obvious. Where I'd never once gone. *facepalms*