I've been bouncing up and down all morning. Unable to stop smiling. Dancing in the shower. Acting like a genuine freakshow.

I AM JUST SO GOD DAMN HAPPY RIGHT NOW.

Know why? isilweth has written me Jesse/Grant/Rick (Liberty Belle II/Damage/Hourman II for those who don't know. You should know because they are made of the same good stuff that orgasms and chocolate and laughter are made of). As in the fucking ship that consumes my every thought lately. And it's got breakfast. Adjflajdaslk. It's the most perfect thing I've ever read in my life.

And because it is mine, I am going to share it. isilweth, if you don't like me putting it here you are going to have to come here and make me take it down because MINE and your journal is locked and the WHOLE WORLD NEEDS TO SEE IT.

Plus, MIIIIIIINE.

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Best ever ever yes? If you don't have her friended let her know here how perfect it is and how much it needs expanding because! I die.

Do it for my sake.

Look at how amazing they are:



If I had time, I would write a twenty page manifesto.

isilweth, you make my life ♥ ♥ ♥

Dear World,

I AM IN LOVE WITH THE LEGION OF SUPERHEROES.

They're sort of like the X-Men only you know, DC and therefore waaay awesomer. I CAN'T STOP READING THEM.

Just putting that out there because I can't keep it in anymore.

Eat it, Grandpa!

Ashley

Speaking of Legion, isilweth keeps poking me to do a post about the Legion episode of Smallville and well, it's been weeks since it was on. If I can manage to get myself together for more than five minutes at a time, is there anyone besides her who will want to read that shit?

Now, according to my Grant Morrison Google Alert, today (all 2 hours that's left and I mention this because it is 2 hours left for him too because HE MOVED TO LA, NATCH BECAUSE YOU KNOW WHO ELSE LIVES IN LA?? HUH?! GEOFF MOTHERFUCKING JOHNS! I will never get tired of this. Ever) is his birthday. This makes me feel like loving on him and so without any order or reason, ( a listCollapse )

I'm in a wonderful, giving mood so first 5 people to comment with one of the following -

a) thoughts on the awesomeness that is Superman
b) thoughts on the awesomeness that is life/fandom
c) GIMME PLEASE

All 12 issues of All Star Superman will be yours. It might take me a couple of weeks but *yours*. You can touch beauty! With the exception of mahaliem because she is getting them anyways ♥ ♥ ♥ (your email touched me, you're wonderful and inspire me and I still need to respond to you - I LOVE)

Finally, the soundtrack for Slumdog Millionaire is banging. Have a couple of songs - Jai Ho & Ringa Ringa.

I AM SO PENT UP/EXCITED/NERVOUS/HIDING UNDER MY BED TERRIFIED ABOUT THE LAST ISSUE OF RIP THAT COMES OUT TODAY THAT I LITERALLY COULD NOT SLEEP AND MY STOMACH FEELS LIKE IT IS GOING TO LEAVE MY BODY.

OH MY FUCKING GOD WHY AM I NOT AT WORK YET WITH IT IN MY HANDS???

*TEARING MY HAIR OUT, SHAKING, AND GENERALLY GOING BATSHIT INSANE*

ps. I *will* answer all the comments to my last entry.

pps SERIOUSLY I HAVE TO WAIT TILL I GO ON LUNCH TO READ IT BECAUSE SO MUCH CRAP CAME OUT TODAY OH MY FUCKING GOD ARE YOU KIDDING ME GRANT.

All appearances to the contrary, I haven't actually died. At least I better not have. I'd really like to think that the mystery of the afterlife holds more than lumpy armchairs, frozen feet, and munching on stale tasting truffles your mother gave you.

And I'm pretty sure that I haven't turned into one of those changeling fangirls who wake up one day and 'outgrow' their fannishness. Something tells me that the number of daily geek exhibitions would have gone down if that were the case. I might have skipped kissing the homemade heart shaped picture of Geoff Johns taped to the backroom door in the store say. Or maybe I would have found something else to do while listening to some dumbass ramble on the phone rather than doodle FLAMES using the names Clinton Francis Barton and James Buchanan Barnes, for example. (Btw, since I know you want to know the results - AFFAIR! Yeah. The magical powers of FLAMES only speak the truth)

And last time I checked, a journal less than four years old puts me a little premature for the Bitter hag sitting in the corner with a couple other hags muttering about all the know-nothing, ignorant, wrong headed young-uns over-running fandom stage.

( So what the hell has been going on with me then?Collapse )

( If you want to know what five things made me happiest in comics this week, my most embarrassing fannish obsession, my favorite flavor ice cream, why DC pwns Marvel, or what random things I'd like the universe to give me . . .Collapse )

5 Things I Liked About Comics section of this post was cross-posted to comics_squee.

A belated Happy Birthday to voldything and a great big thank you to everyone who wished me a happy birthday! Especially hackthis, talitha78, and mahaliem who hadn't heard a peep from me in months but still put gifts on my profile. I LOVE YOU ALL.

Reason #ten million, ten million and one, and ten million and two why my job is AWESOME:

- When I've had five hours to bag and board a shortbox full of old Lee and Kirby issues of Captain America and only get 1/4 done because I keep stopping to read them and gaze at Steve wistfully, my boss doesn't chastise me or encourage me to get my act together and you know, work. No, he turns and says 'Doesn't he look great? Read as many as you want.'

- At least an hour and a half of my Wednesday was spent debating whether or not Wolverine is as interesting a character as Batman. Everyone ganged up on me to say that yes, he was. PLEASE JOIN IN MY HORROR, PEOPLE.

- There are the annoying people that get on your nerves like there are at every job but there are also people every day that are genuinely excited about comics to fuel my excitement and overall contentment with life. Whether it's the guy that literally comes running into the shop swinging his wee son around, both of them laughing and saying 'It's comics time!'; or the stuffy lawyer dude who tries to hide that he's a giant comic dork from everyone else but can start in on the entire history of Peter Parker and exactly how Ben Grimm should be drawn the moment he steps in the store because he's been reading both since he was ten years old and for over thirty years; or the guy who when I asked him what he thought of Green Lantern replied with 'I LOVE GEOFF JOHNS' in all caps and practically had hearts pop up around his head and a flush on his cheeks.

It's so good to like what you do. I highly recommend it.

And speaking of Geoff Johns and ♥'s, ( a quick note on JSA #12Collapse )

A few other things of note:

1) I was bitching (by which I mean ranting and frothing at the mouth) to isilweth one day about how disheartening all the negativity towards current DCU canon in fandom is and she says 'So why don't you start up a comm for being happy about current comics?'. I thought 'Huh that's a good idea' and then proceeded to do nothing about it. Thankfully, isilweth isn't half as lazy as me and the next thing I know she's gone and done all the work and ta da - comics_squee. Come join and share the love. I put up a post about Detective #841 earlier tonight.

2) The Iron Man superbowl spot kicks ass! I know it's wrong to love Tony but I really kind of do.

3) It's going to be impossible for them to fuck up the next DCU weekly when it's the Trinity written by Busiek and drawn by Bagley right? All I got right now is a GIMME and greedy hands.

4) thete1 has finished her epic Tim porn - Sport Us While We May - and if you want to be good to yourself, you'll head over and read it. It's got the really good kind of Gotham violence, more emotional fuck ups and entanglements than you could ever ask for, the best kind of Bruce/Tim, a wonderful plot and porn. And more porn. And then a little more porn after that. Tim with everybody in the DCU and their uncle too. It's delicious.

5) glitterandlube shared this song a couple of weeks back and it's been making my life ever since - A Glass of Champagne by Sailor.

It's been ages since I really updated this thing etc, etc, etc and deja fucking vu right? Uh huh. You've all heard it all before so this time let's just skip the excuses/apologies/promises portion of the evening. I've accepted that I am lazy and fandom moody and since you're all smart you probably realized this and accepted it long before I did anyways. I'm never going to get around to answering all the old emails taking up space in my inbox or leave all those comments and feedback for awesome things of the past 9 months the way I wanted to and I'm done feeling overwhelmed and guilty about it. Fandom isn't a pain in the ass or a chore and it ain't right that I've let it become that (my fandom engagement has been so low that I haven't even read fic of any kind for a month or more WTF? UNHEARD OF and EPIC TRAGEDY I know!). It's a damn blessing and a reprieve from life's bullshit and just FUCK IT REDO START OVER.

For those weird ones of you that seem to care, ( The Shit That's Been Occupying My Days in the Interim:Collapse )

If you are gleeful about any of those things, come talk. The Who and the Marvel have been building up for me. Actually, come talk to me about anything. I've missed you guys in my lameness hibernation ♥

Also, people that've read Marvel help me out? What should I read? What storylines/characters/writers/artists have blown/are blowing your hair back? I've got decades worth of stuff to go through and nobody but my boss to help me navigate and he likes the depressing 'realistic' crap like Civil War. Help!

Now, the real reason for this post is to offer up Hal and Kyle to my beloved glitterandlube in hopes that it will make her feel better because when you get down to it few things in life are better than Darwyn Cooke, Geoff Johns, and Green Lanterns. And in combination with each other and a dash of homoeroticism thrown in? Insta-healing!

( From Green Lantern: Secret Files and Origins 2005, 'Flight' by Geoff Johns and Darwyn Cooke aka 'We all want to 'fly' with Hal'Collapse )

I'm way overdue on a real post but this isn't that post. This is a note for posterity's sake because earlier tonight I read Green Lantern Corps #20.

YEAH.

Who else has read this beauty, this masterpiece?! Ya'll better start getting your awe on and practice your groveling for in its pages lies proof of my ability to will shit into being.

What's that? You doubt that I possess such a great and mighty power? Well open those pages and be amazed for lo and behold - KYLE AND GUY HAVE RUN AWAY TOGETHER.

Now regretfully, I am lazy with the posting and it looks like I only spieled their Inescapable Meant-to-Be'ness (aka EPIC SPACE LOVE OF DOOM aka OTP that will end all OTPs aka The Beating of my Fangirl Heart) in one post. So I suppose it's conceivable that the true magnitude of this will elude you.

But. Ask glitterandlube. I've been on this for months. Guy and Kyle that. Guy and Kyle this. I made an icon. I shipped where none had dared to ship before.

And now.

TOGETHER. RUN AWAY.

After going out on a, for all intents and purposes, *date*.

EXACTLY!

Read it and try to tell me that they aren't the most wonderful thing in comics and that I don't win the universe. I DARE YOU.

The Green Lantern books are PWNING all other comics right now. Sorry other awesome books like Captain America, Brave and the Bold, and Booster Gold, but it's true. DOMINATION!

Also? Hi ♥

Other also? Go read glitterandlube's fic to get prepared for upcoming issues of Green Lantern because Kyle dancing? It's gonna happen. One way or another.

No idea who this Fabian Nicieza guy is but GOD BLESS HIM because I just finished reading Nightwing #138.

I MISSED YOU SO. DAMN. MUCH. DICKIE.

PLEASE NEVER LEAVE AGAIN.

FALJALKFDJALFJLADKJDFLKAJFLDJALDFJALJADLFJALS.

♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

ETA: Also? I found a fat stack of the Giffen and DeMatteis JLA/JLI run for cheap, and fic that involves Kyle, Guy, and bar fights. TODAY IS TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE.

Tonights's fucking fantastic yes? The stars are shining, I'm caffeine high because the coffee shops have all started selling their delicious holiday themed shit (Eggnog! Gingerbread! Cinnamon! Peppermint!), my brother and sisters are all well, we're ALIVE, I've got bouncy tunes in my ear, I still have my visit to the comics shop to look forward to (New writer on Nightwing! Will it be good? *Can* it be good?!), it's THURSDAY, and glitterandlube has finally acknowledged that Guy Gardner and Kyle Rayner should make out. (AND THEN MAKE OUT SOME MORE AFTER THAT)

You bet your butt it's fantastic.

On to business. The first order of which is to say a hearty hello to all of the new SV people that've shown up in the past week to hang out. HOLA! Welcome, nice to meet you, I'm tickled pink, make yourself comfy, feel free to chat me up about whatever, Smallville is the awesomest, etc.

Second order of business is to make all of you new people rethink you're decision to hang out by completely ignoring Smallville in favor of THE AWESOME BEYOND BELIEF Sinestro Corps War and Booster Gold.

Okay I won't completely ignore Smallville. It is sitting next to me, reading over my shoulder after all. In fact, I'm pretty sure that Hal Jordan is making it drool a little. It's kinda gross. Cute gross. And understandable because have I mentioned the AWESOME BEYOND BELIEF? Fuck yeah! I'm gonna ram that baby home.

Anywho, Wrath was a party and there's still a chance I'll squee over it a week late (depending on tonight's episode, I'll do one or the other) because pfft that's no stop to me. Please. These comics I'm going to talk about? Some are months old. I'm slooow. Yet another reason SV and I get on so well. (Aha bada bing! OHHHH SMALLVILLE ♥)

Hmm. Seems as though both of us like to tell weirdly unwitty jokes as well. *pinches it inappropriately*

Alright, let's talk Booster Gold's solo book which hopefully some of you are reading (you are aren't you?! I haven't heard a peep). People that haven't met Booster yet (or worse, those who don't - GASP!- like him) this is not your cue to leave! Guy and Jaime are also on hand. ( Spoilers for Booster Gold #2-3 and oh wait no, #1 tooCollapse )

Shifting to what I most want to talk about. Yeah I know. If all that was only wanting to talk and not most, how the hell long is this gonna be? Sizeable, bitches, it's gonna be sizeable.

SINESTRO CORPS WAR.

Feel it tingle right down your spine. Don't feel it? What in the world is wrong with you then? Seek help.

If there are any people who don't read comics/Lanterns still reading this you owe it to yourself to peek. The art is motherfucking masterful and will pleasure your eyes right to the back of your head. ( Spoilers for all of it really but specifically the Superman-Prime one shot, Green Lantern Corps #17 (barely), and Green Lantern #23-24Collapse )