a conspiracy of cartographers

While a lot of my flist is excitedly posting about going to WisCon, I ... went to see Thor again.

It's actually really hard to watch when one is watching for the express purpose of following Loki's arc and motivations. I spent a lot of the film wide-eyed and clutching my face. (I really need to stop falling in love with the villains. They always come back, which is great, but they never catch a break either.) Now I have more than enough in my head to Write A Fic! I hope that by announcing this, I will either do that thing where I feel accomplished enough for just announcing it that I leave it be, or that I write it quickly and move on.

Also, what the hell, RECS TIME.

+ Myth and Legend by bagheera_san: Lex/Loki. It would seem ironic, the trickster wanting revenge for a lie, but Lex understands perfectly. Some crimes are unforgivable between father and son. And some beings offend merely by existing. I don't know about you guys but I want a billion Lex/Loki fics now. No one is surprised that I love this one.

+ The Incestuous Elephant in the Room by quiddative: Thor/Loki. "While Thor and I respect the customs here on Earth, you have to understand that we have been raised under completely different social conducts." Five times Thor and Loki horrified the other Avengers, and one time the Avengers shrugged and dealt with it. This is hilarious.

+ The Later Edda: Lokisaga by bluestalking: Loki gen. Loki’s reaction to this was bad, as he never liked a lie he did not contrive himself. Thor retold as Loki's story in Old Norse prose in translation. This understands Loki so well, and also fixes the ending, and I love it a lot.

It's that time again: five new Softer World comics, Doctor Who remixed!

( Spoilers through Day of the Moon; actually, three out of five are from Day of the Moon! There is CANTON EVERETT DELAWARE III UNDER THIS CUT, PEOPLE. )

Ooh Mr. Loki: A Fan Fiction! Spoilers: not actually a fanfic, just a parody of Kate Beaton's Mr. Darcy comic.

In other news I am fairly sure I don't have a new fandom, despite the fact that, um, I have a Loki icon and a Thor tag and have been trawling tumblr and reaction posts and the kinkmeme. I shouldn't have a Thor tag anyway, I should have a Loki tag. I think Loki lights up the same areas of delight in my brain that Methos does, actually. Obviously Methos and Loki need to hang out, viciously scheming and turning on a dime and sounding entirely reasonable and deep down just wanting to be loved. But I won't write it because it's too ridiculous for words.

GUYS OMG

http://isamypregnant.com/

LAUGHING SO HARD

Mildly more coherent thoughts on 6x04: ( spoilers for still everything I want from Doctor Who. )

Perhaps relatedly, I've had the Marian Call song Good Old Girl stuck in my head. My default assumption is that it's about Kara Thrace (see the "nothing but the rain" line) but oh could it be about the TARDIS instead. Someone needs to vid the hell out of that now we have all this glorious new footage.

Link du jour: Day of the Moon meta, with some lovely insights into River and a few particularly good beginning theories.

Pirate episode was a bit rubbish; still intrigued by the arc plot; very much looking forward to Gaiman's episode. Mostly I am not worrying overmuch about Who, and am instead having fun gallivanting about before my friends graduate.

This is not a spoiler, so I am not putting it behind a cut.

Dear fandom,

River is not Amy's daughter. Just -- just stop that.

Sincerely,
Aria

My entire contribution to talking about the royal wedding is, a day late, a link to two photos of the Doctor at the wedding. I'm sure they're photoshopped, but they really charmed me.

And since I missed yesterday's, two meme questions today.

5. [What do you do] when you're not on the computer?

Since I'm interning at a literary agency and write a lot generally, even a lot of my offline time, as it were, is still spent on the computer. I read lots of books (outside, lately, now the weather's turned nice) and go on walks if it's not too humid. I go out with friends on the weekend, usually for drinks (I have not yet been coerced into dancing, even though some of my friends contra dance, because I have zero coordination); sometimes I stay in with friends and we marathon Doctor Who or decide it's spontaneous cosplay time or just snugglepile-for-hours time. My offline life is not staggeringly exciting, but it is quite nice.

6. What do you wish people who read your journal knew about you?

I ... don't really know how to answer this one, actually. I've very likely already covered the things I want people to know, either in my 'about' stickpost or in entries generally. So instead let's just throw out some random factoids that probably don't come up often.

I love fruit but dislike fruit-flavored candy. I am very much a cat person. If I had a superpower, I would want to be able to teleport. I often think it would be fun to have a pet dragon. I like werewolves better than vampires. Without making any particular effort, and sometimes accidentally when I'm tired, I imitate the writing styles of CS Lewis, Diana Wynne Jones, or Susan Cooper. I'm afraid of heights, which doesn't stop me hiking steep places but does stop me climbing trees. And when I played the "Which Doctor would you be suited to travel with?" game, I always had the sneaking suspicion that I'd drive Five up the wall and make Ten very uncomfortable, so I'd better just go with Seven -- I think I love Eleven so much because he's my new answer and we'd probably get on very well.

( The rest of the days. )

There is Community tonight! It cannot possibly top last week's. Last week's was golden.

4. What do you do online when you're not on DW?

The majority of my online activity is fannish, and the majority of my fannish interaction takes place on DW and LJ. But there are also a handful of tumblrs, and blogs on blogspot, that I check every few days. I YouTube things, obviously, trailers and vids and songs I don't own and Steve's cushion rant from Coupling. Of course there is fairly constant googling and wiki-ing of various topics in order to fact-check, make sure I'm not inventing words wholesale, &c. But mostly I follow webcomics. (Dinosaur Comics, Hark! A Vagrant, Oglaf, Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, Sinfest, Questionable Content, Wondermark, and xkcd are the usual suspects.) I lead, as you see, an intensely exciting online life!

( The rest of the days. )