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I saw Captain America last night! I also saw hilarious previews for some bewildering version of Three Musketeers where Orlando Bloom is evil, everything is steampunk, and D'Artagnan has an American accent, and for the new Spiderman, which has a weirdly Twilight aesthetic. But never mind that, Cap was more interesting.

( Spoilers! This is a weird patchwork reaction post made of IM conversations, paragraphing, getting sidetracked by Thor shoutouts, my general feelings of AWW STEVE, and a drinking game. )

And then there was the AVENGERS TRAILER. I ... didn't actually realize how excited I was about this (or maybe how Loki-deprived, idk) until the trailer started playing, and I started shaking. Seriously, I was sitting there in the theatre VIBRATING WITH JOY and slowly chewing through my lip so I didn't start making obnoxious or obscene noises. I don't really have anything spoilery to say, I'm just really fucking excited. WHEN IS MAY 2012.

In conclusion, though, know what I would absolutely watch? A film in which Sif decides, screw this boys' club, I'm going to Midgard and being useful, and when she gets there she runs into Natasha, and they train together and teach each other tricks, and Sif can't quite get a read on Natasha but is pretty delighted regardless. Meanwhile, Pepper notices this and uses her CEO powers to get them a nice place to do all this, and coordinates the effort to intercept intelligence about where their skills might be useful. Jane can be there for SCIENCE, of, y'know, the handwavey Marvel variety, and Darcy does all their tech stuff. Also, Peggy was frozen or something, handwaaave, and now she's around to do the intel when Pepper's too busy with her million other responsibilities, and when Pepper's free, Peggy goes on missions with Sif and Natasha. They can still fight Loki, I guess; maybe in this universe Loki is Doom's evil girlfriend, and they're the big bads, although if we're going outside the Marvel Studios' properties with Doom, I move that Emma and Mystique are also around, either fighting or causing crime. THAT IS THE FILM I WANT TO SEE.

I'm still pretty excited about Avengers, though.

the hero who conquered the dark lord!

I may need to take my laptop into the computer doctor. Laptop, just because I named you Methos, you should not take it as encouragement to repeatedly die and resurrect. Whatever, I am still running my own diagnostics at this stage, and I have successfully saved everything to my externals, so nothing should be lost as it was in The Great Hard Drive Death of Spring '11.

It is also a very convenient time for my laptop to be ill! I mean, there is no convenient time, I will pine if I don't get White Collar on time, and I had nefarious plans to write things this week, but even so. See, I have decided that it is high time to reread Harry Potter! These books have been a part of my life for about thirteen years, goddamn, and since it seems to be HARRY POTTER FEELINGS O'CLOCK right now I am taking advantage of it!

I'm only at the beginning of Philosopher's Stone right now, but oh my gosh, I want to go school shopping with wee Harry, and feed him birthday cake, and explain to him the difference between stalagmites and stalactites, and maybe PROTECT HIM FROM DUMBLEDORE, I swear to god, McGonagall deserves an award for restraint and adult behavior for not breaking Dumbledore's nose yet again when he left Harry on the Dursleys' doorstep. (Also, re: the conversation they have in the first chapter, and McGonagall being completely shattered that the Potters are dead -- I really wish we knew anything about them besides [a] Lily was an angel, James was kind of a dick as a teenager; [b] they were in the Order; [c] ...everyone who is not Snape seems to unconditionally love them both? I want to know what toweringly awesome things they did prior to dying for everyone to be such big fans. #Marauders girl at heart and FOREVER)

I am looking forward to EVERYTHING on this reread, by which I mean overanalyzing the worldbuilding, and caring about Slytherins, and shipping everything, and and and. HARRY POTTER FEELINGS O'CLOCK.