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Keeping it fun for March with glitter stickers and a badger pic grabbed from my 2014 Badger Balm calendar!

I keep waiting for the Jupiter Ascending fic of my dreams to appear in front of me, but I’m not even really sure what that would look like? In the meantime, I greatly enjoyed this one (particularly the conversation about Alaska): The One Where Caine Meets Jupiter’s Family, by childishinquiry “So men wear eyeliner, in […]

Originally this story was meant to be titled, “Call Click or Visit,” but by the time I got to the end I realized I had utterly failed to match the content to the title in any meaningful way, so I changed it. The more you know! Title: Something Like Home Author: marcicat Fandom: Avengers MCU, […]

February has been a tough month for my gym attendance. I’ve been searching for ways to motivate me to get there at least once more before March — something strong enough to overcome the dual hurdles of 1) it’s cold; and 2) I could be sleeping. Yesterday, I was driving to work, listening to the […]

I was considering writing about how cold it is right now, but then I spent a few minutes on facebook and decided the one thing I absolutely didn’t want to write was another post about how cold it is right now. Then, as one does, I got distracted reading Inception fanfic for about an hour, […]

From Crime and Medicine, by eleveninches ACTUAL QUOTE: “I can’t stop thinking about it.” That sounded ominous. Arthur paused in his typing. “Can’t stop thinking about what?” Fischer sighed. Arthur glanced down at his phone to see Fischer looking weary. “Breaking up my father’s empire.” “Your father’s a teacher,” he said. “Don’t you think I […]

Jupiter Ascending: even more glorious in IMAX 3D. A Few Thoughts, In No Particular Order: 1. The dragon-guards totally remind me of the Makluan from Iron Man: Armored Adventures. 2. Probability that Stinger is trolling Jupiter, like, 90% of the time they’re on Earth: high. 3. Everyone recognizes her title, but no one except the […]

Oh look. A handy countdown. http://days.to/until/spring Current weather forecast: more snow on the way. Current mood: 10,000% done with snow.

fathers and sons, by M_Leigh (Post-Days of Future Past) Hank’s POV on re-starting the school, and how much he is 10,000% done with Charles and Erik’s ridiculousness. “He actually had said that, was the thing. “Look at what he’ll force you to wear if you join his cause,” he’d exhorted, shaking a newspaper at them. […]

It’s Thursday, so it must be time for a post about work! In a weird twist of accounting scheduling, this Friday marks the fiscal end of February at work. The sales teams have *repeatedly* been told that they aren’t supposed to try to push a bunch of orders through on the last day. Which means […]