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So, the part where I said I don't feel fannish about The Avengers?
I take that back.
Here's an interesting blog article metaing about The costumes and characters of The Avengers. So far they've covered SHIELD, Tony, Pepper & Bruce, Captain America, and Loki. With the rest coming up. /snagged from madripoor_rose

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Any Way I Do by MissJeeves (Avengers)
Team with Natasha/Clint; PG-13; humor; 4394 words
Summary: Tony discovers Clint and Natasha got married, reacts typically.

Hilarious, cute & teamy. I'm normally not into marriage tropes of any kind but this fic is all kinds of fun.

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Two avengers movie tags. Totally love Siria's take on the characters.

intermission by siria
Gen; PG; Nick Fury & Maria Hill; movie tag; 389 words
Summary: Nick and Maria, after.

bare by siria
Gen; PG; Natasha & Clint; movie tag; 816 words

She'll never work undercover again. The footage of the battle loops on the news networks for weeks; each demolition of a building made unsafe by the fighting, or visit by dignitaries to inspect the damage, revives flagging media interest. None of it is high resolution, but in the shaky cell phone footage and black-and-white security camera video, Natasha sees the end of her life as she knows it.

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omg, I'm gorging on fic. Gorging! Boy I've missed that feeling.
uh, just wanted to share. :O)
also, while not a fan of smooshed pairing names I rather like 'pepperony'...

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[to see you there] by Feather/lalaietha (Avengers)
The fic is posted as a series but it's practically one story; part 2 starts right where part 1 leaves off.

Part 1: [got fourteen angels]
Natasha/Clint; PG-13; movie tag; 1624 words
Summary: They know each other too well.

Natalia wants to sigh. She'd sigh, she thinks, if that kind of thing were natural anymore - if she had any involuntary reactions. But by the time the feeling gets all the way through filters and out where she could act on it, it's too deliberate, too false, too much like acting.

Part 2: [far from here we are all right]
Natasha/Clint (main), Bruce/Betty Ross, Pepper/Tony; PG-13; 10639 words
summary: "Yes," Natasha says. "It's Dr Ross."
"And now you want to go find her and recruit her," Clint says, just to get it out in the air. You have to admire Natasha, really. No matter what or who she runs into, she will obsessively hunt until she finds a way to neutralize them. And she's good at thinking outside the box and knowing that "neutralize" doesn't necessarily mean "kill, concuss or capture."

Now, I think Joss did amazing things with Black Widow - so much so that she somehow almost single-handedly manages to make up for the general lack of X-chromosome in the movie. (That's what I call a superpower, yo.) Anyway, in this story I immensely enjoyed watching Natasha set out to recruit Betty Ross. Who I didn't know but whose character clicked for me quickly and feels like a great addition to the ensemble (chemistry wise, and not just because it evens out the gender balance a bit more).

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today's cakewrecks post has a Star Trek theme.
The roommate asked from next door why I was giggling so much...

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Grimm seems to be shaping up into an interesting show. Huh. Though still... interesting for German speakers. frogspace writes: (spoiler/German, for once grammatically correct but still spectacularly inappropriate) "Absoluter Höhepunkt für mich ist ja der Moment, wo Monroe über den sterblichen Überresten eines Freundes folgenden traditionellen deutschen Segen spricht: Alles hat ein Ende, nur die Wurst hat zwei. "

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I really want to go running today but yesterday I was rollerblading along the same route and couldn't help but notice that it goes right past half a dozen rye fields. Rye and I, we're not on good terms in May/June. I suppose I should go to the gym instead and work out indoors in a pollen-free environment. Just, the weather is so wonderful it seems like a waste not to make use of it.

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See Yourself As Part of the World by Spatz (Avengers)
Gen; Clint/Natasha friendship; commentfic, 973 words
Summary: For some reason, it was always robots in Amsterdam.

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tell of a lesson that failed by summerstorm (Leverage)
Maggie/Nate pre-canon; PG-13; 7314 words
Summary: There's no need for her to be out of bed yet. Not for another hour. She runs a hand through her hair, rubs her fingers over her eyes. They feel like craters, the skin underneath soft and inconsistent and sunken. She sips her coffee, which is still scalding hot, and takes a look around the room. It looks the way it's always looked. She's doing what she's always done.
Maybe that's the problem.

I love this story for the subtle and sensitive way it deals with the painful breakup of their marriage from Maggie's POV; one can entirely emphasize with her, and yet the the story isn't about taking sides... there are no bad guys here. The story feels very real.

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still officially lost by pollyrepeat (Avengers)
Gen; Characters: Hawkeye, Coulson; Genre: AU, origin story; 11913 words
Summary: “Barton has clearly imprinted on you,” Fury starts, and keeps talking right over Phil’s knee-jerk, horrified, “He has not,” to seal Phil’s doom by saying, “so I’ve decided that you’re going to take primary responsibility for him from now on.”
“Oh, god,” Phil says, faintly, before he can stop himself.

I liked the fic I rec'd yesterday so much that I checked out what else the authors have written, and found this great origin fic: Coulson finds it his assignment to socialize a cagey teenager with people after his head. Loved both the plot and the characteriztion, the way the two slowly get used to each other.

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well, let the drum beat drop by jonesandashes, pollyrepeat (Avengers)
Gen; team bonding; 4357 words
Summary: Pepper leaves, and there’s no more pizza, and Thor’s already talked about Jane, and Tony suspects all of them realize, abruptly and simultaneously, that they actually have no idea what to do now. He is, in fact, pretty certain that they’re just a few minutes away from someone deciding to say something about the weather. It’s probably going to be him.

This fic is really hilarious, the Tony voice delightfully snarky with a dry humor.

note 1: AO3 seems to be having server issues right now... if it doesn't load right away try refreshing, that worked.
note 2: After browsing and reading for a bit I find my story kink in this fandom is funny teamy gen. If anyone has more recs for just that, I'm all ears. (Doesn't need to feature the complete team each time.)

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I finally watched Avengers last night. I'm really not big on superheroes, nor on gadgets and explosions, and the movie came so highly praised that I feared there was no way but down - but this movie absolutely worked for me. It was entertaining, it was funny, it had lovely character interaction and the kind of ensemble I love, and the dialog rocked. ( Read more... )

Well, I might check out some fic. Maybe something with Bruce or Natasha, or some ensembl-y gen... mmh.

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A tip I got from my parents to modify the traditional German (Westphalian?) asparagus recipe of boiled white asparagus and potatoes with melted butter or sauce hollandaise on top: The potatoes and asparagus taste at least as good if instead of the butter or sauce you sprinkle some olive oil on top and add a generous amount of freshly ground parmesan cheese.

(An especially good alternative if one happens to have forgotten to buy boilded ham and it happens to be a public holiday and all the shops are closed - the parmesan adds so much aroma that we didn't even miss the ham.)

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fanart medley: 'Calvin and Hobbes' Mashups with Everything from 'Watchmen' to 'Walking Dead'

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snagging from rydra_wong: The New York Times has done an article about Ashima Shiraishi, the 11-year old climber from NYC. The article itself is really interesting and there's a video right at the top with some great footage, among other things one of her first climbs on a rock in Central Park, and then her recent climb up Crown of Aragorn which is so hellishly difficult only few grownups have managed it.

... I could watch that kid climb all day!

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The federal state I live in (North-Rhine Westphalia) has voted yesterday. Huge losses for the conservative CDU. Their partners-in-crime FDP did surprisingly well but without the CDU to power them they can't do that much damage with their antisocial attitudes.

The Pirates did really well and I'm actually pleased about that. I wouldn't have voted for them because they're nowhere near getting their act together, but I'm glad they will be a small presence in parliament, adding their POV.

Look at this picture of Ministerpräsidentin Hannelore Kraft of the Social Democrats and Sylvia Löhrmann of the Green party. A happy pic, is what that is. :)

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You know the recurring wank that flares up once-yearly about how fanfic isn't *real* writing? Right now there's the fanart equivalent going on tumblr: "I also don’t think you can really be an artists and be immersed in Fandom at the same time, because (for me) in order to make art you have to view the world critically."

The OP's post manages to be in equal parts pretentious and naive and the person right behind him seems to have a contest going on how often they can stuff their foot in their mouth: "Fanartists can do incredible work too, but as a consumer of art it’s as significant as the difference between eating a meal and eating someone else’s vomit." -- (What, you find that insulting? Alex saiz: "Last, if you’re reading some kind of personal insult into it, then that might be your own guilt speaking.")

Lots of nicely argued rebuttals, of course. (I finally figured out how to follow a discussion on that site... that took only a year.)

ETA: OP has posted a clarification with apologies. I still don't agree with some of his points but he's phrasing everything a lot better now.

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found on facebook...
Politician's Election Campaign: BEFORE / AFTER

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Buildering - A Climbing Story
A human interest piece on the sport of buildering.

A pretty good intro video for those interested in the sport of buildering (aka urban climbing). Most of the vids I link here are by advanced climbers and many of the routes in them are really pretty freaking scary and not necessarily something that would've made me think "I gotta try that!" But the sport itself is no more dangerous than you want it to be, and it's great fun to experience an urban environment in an entirely new way.

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