SilentStep

silentstep — Tue, 02 Nov 2021 18:52:30 GMT

as a(n American) child I absolutely missed that Jack Skellington (the Pumpkin King) is in fact actually the crowned monarch of Halloween Town! He's only a figurehead, of course, as this is mod'ren times; legally the power belongs to the Mayor, as an official elected by the people. (Given, though, Jack's charisma and the Mayor's indecisive nature… etc. etc. whatever.)

ALSO WTF THAT'S PATRICK STEWART DOING THE NARRATION???

anyway the other thing is that in the spirit of most, like. "traditional" movie musicals, this is really operatic.

mystery SOLVED

silentstep — Wed, 06 May 2020 19:45:12 GMT

ahahahah guess who has two thumbs and was definitely trying to fry their tofu in vanilla syrup, and every time the sesame oil smelled instead of vanilla, thought "wow, my sense of smell must be worse than I thought, now back to frying tofu in sesame oil that is definitely not vanilla syrup, just weird sesame oil that for some reason I had refrigerated and foams when heated and is very sticky," the answer is THIS SHIBI! yes

no I don't know how our bloodline has survived everything it has either

silentstep — Mon, 04 May 2020 10:17:22 GMT

I found a bottle of sesame oil in the fridge, thought to myself "oh, I must have put it there by mistake when putting away groceries last time," and after letting it sit in the cupboard for a few days, I went to use it to fry my tofu in. But when I heated it up in a pan it bubbled and boiled and foamed, and when I decided that was not on and tried to wipe it out of the pan it was sticky, and then a large drop landed on the back of my hand right at the knuckle and burned me badly enough to raise blisters, which have since burst, so that's... been FUN, given the need to wash my hands approx. fifty times a day, not to mention the vastly increased risk that is going through life right now with an OPEN WOUND on my dominant hand. I think I may designate Partner to bring in the mail until it heals, which is my chief interaction with the outside world rn, because I need to go grocery shopping again next Monday (a week from tomorrow) and it definitely definitely needs to not be a problem by then.

in the meantime my dad's decided that now is the ideal time to tear down and rebuild the entire back porch of their house. hooooo

silentstep — Wed, 18 Mar 2020 08:51:25 GMT

got talked to by a man on the lightrail to the airport last week (this happens) and he asked what I did for a living, & when I said “customer service” he immediately advised me to always call the customer by their given name at least three times early in the interaction, so they will be positively disposed towards me. he very much insisted that I do this. at some length.

a.) I have heard this advice before. it is bull, at least when it comes to the work I do

b.) I had changed trains before it occured to me that what was going on there was some dude mansplaining to me how to do the job I’ve been doing for thirteen years

c.) AHA! I thought to myself. THAT WAS MANSPLAINING. THAT’S WHAT PEOPLE MEAN WHEN THEY SAY THAT. THAT’S EXACTLY WHAT THAT IS. WOW.

d.) I don’t always connect my own experiences to these sorts of things, is all

e.) but to be fair, he also said to me “ah, I bet your husband is one of those very right-brained, creative types, and you’re very left-brained and analytical, right?” based solely on my telling him that I’m married to a professor, so like… I was pretty willing to chalk the entire conversation up to NONSENSE THINGS STRANGERS HAVE SAID TO ME IN PUBLIC without any sort of larger context

silentstep — Mon, 13 Jan 2020 12:54:57 GMT

eyyyyyyyyy I'm definitely not going to actually write the Clemenza fic set in a restored 18th century manor that does tours/reenactments under a modern AU Roman empire because the research would be FUCKIN KILLER but that's actually really too bad because it would be great, tbh

am here still!

silentstep — Sat, 06 Apr 2019 23:22:29 GMT

not gone forever, promise-- give me a little while to reconfigure what's public & what's private on here, and I'll be back soon.

as promised, I liveblogged my experience of watching the animated Hobbit.

silentstep — Sat, 12 Jul 2014 06:42:10 GMT

:what the frig.

Eyal this movie is already terrible and we're 1'40'' in. GANDALF IS TERRIFYING AND UNETHICAL.

EYAL HELP THE DWARVES ARE SPEAKING IN CHORUS THIS IS TERRIBLE.

holy crap look at this animation when was this made

1977 ooookkk

now Bilbo's dreaming about being King Under the Mountain and having dwarves and Gandalf wait on him

I'm weirded out

I hate Gandalf in every incarnation, good to know

"BURGLAR DO YOUR BURGLING"

Also Bilbo is definitely Too Dumb to Live

"happy thoughts happy thoughts"

seriously Bilbo is a fucking moron

Trolls: maybe there are more where he came from
Bilbo (cupping his hands around his mouth and yelling in their direction): DWARVES! I'M DONE FOR! RUN FOR IT!
Trolls: (look around and see dwarves)

....

TrollsL *drop Bilbo to chase dwarves*

everyone is an idiot.

Bilbo just hides in the troll's cave he doesn't even help WTF
Gandalf just appears and makes the sun rise
what the hell this is so stupid

Bilbo doesn't know what runes are? excuse???? BILBO LOVES RUNES BILBO LOVES RUNES AND MAPS AND WRITING IT'S HIS THING
WHAT IS THIS WHY IS HE SO STUPID

Thorin thinks the swords were made by trolls, Gandalf is like "no there are runes," THorin asks Ganfalf if he can read the writing, Gandalf's not familiar with the alphabet, Thorin says WELL WHOEVER'S THEY WERE THEY'RE OURS NOW. THis is not.......... awesome, Eyal.

BIlbo finds Sting himself and starts waving it about yelling TAKE THAT SMAUG YOU FILTHY WYRM
EYAL
HE'S A MOROOOON

FIrst of all apparently "Lonely MOuntain" is the actualfax name of Erebor
secondly, they're packing up the stuff they find in the trollcave and then Gandalf is like HOOOLD
and Thorin's like what
and Gandalf's like IT'S TIME FOR YOU TO HAVE... THIS
and brings out the map
and says "this was given to me 100 yrs ago by your father"
THorin: What? Why did it not come to me, the rightful heir?
Gandalf: I've chosen my own time to hand it over
gandalf
gandalf that's not how property works
Bilbo: OH I DO LOVE MAPS. I have quite a collection.
Bilbo I have my doubts that you can even read.

uh
Bilbo
there is nothing there
what's wrong with you

there's supposed to be an X on the map
it's missing
Bilbo can see it anyway?????

Bilbo: How do we find the door? The map doesn't tell.
Gandalf: It does.... and it doesn't
Bilbo: Eh?
GandalfL You will understand.... in time.
wat

Rivendell is a log cabin

what
is
thios
whaaaaaat the hell;

OH MAN HE'S SO ENGLISH
Elrond is like the only one speaking in RP so far
aasjfjskjksfdkljsf the diogetic music and non-diogetic music are playing at the same time and it sounds awful stop stop stop

why the fuck is Bilbo entrusted with Thror's map?????

Bilbo stop asking "WHAT'S THIS WHAT'S THAT" like the Portal Curiosity Core

why is Bilbo alwya dreaming
it's just a flashvack to the party
were we just out of animation

Bilbo WHY ARE YOU SOOOO DUUUUMB

like he's leaning against he wall of the cave and then this door opens behind him in the rock and he just looks up and says conversationally "hello! what's this?" really slowly
like an idiot
and then a rockfall happens and then he says "look out"
then the ponies get dragged down and Bilbo's yelling DWARVES WAKE UP YOU'RE BEING ROBBED
way to identify what is apparently the quickest way to get a dwarf's attention I guess?

wow so far the goblins are my favorite part of this, their songs are less dumb than all the other seventies songs

that
uh
that was a trap
you just walked into a trap
like the stupidest idiots i have ever encountered in fiction ever
I am so sad right now Eyal

I have no idea how any of these characters expected to survive a cross-country journey they are so stupid and helpless and mornoic

ahahahaha a.) Orcrist makes ZINGY noises
b,) goblins can read the runes that stumped Thorin, Bilbo, and Gandalf just fine
the goblins all look a lot like Maleficent's goons actually

also the Great Goblin was just about to eat Thorins head
like
HOM

what
I am so
help

Glamdring is EVEN WORSE AW NOOOOOO

omg what is happen am I high

this
what

everyone just shrugs off their chains

what is this music

holy shit what the fuck

,,,coimmercial break?

is someone saying fart?

Gollum is awfully articulate

Bilbo is still chanting happy things

Sting just randomly glows

no explanation

uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh why is hte One Ring decorated>>>>>>>>

Bilbo: oh! Who are you?

you weird ass frog

Bilbo: I've lost my dwarves my wizard and my way
Bilbo: mind you, I'm armed with an elvish blade!
gollum: hisssss
Bilbo: that's better

Golum: it... likes.... RIGDFJKGFJSK?
Bilbo: Do I like riddles?
I have no idea how you got that from what he said but ok

Bilbo it just threatened to eat you why did you sheathe the sword
what kind of idiot are you
you eritf sdd gtoh drtioudlu ehjsy
Bilbo is such an offendd little englishman I can't evem
Gollum doesn't do the -es thing?
WHO IS SINGING
WHY ARE THE RIDDLES BEING SUNG BY ELVES OR SOME SHIT
IS GOLLUM HARMONISING WITH HIS OTHER PERSONALITY
I am so lost
this animation is terrible
like even just as... theatrical blocking
it's boring
oh ow
apparently gollums pupils are aleays weird indications of somethng
this is dumb
this is so weirdly amiable
Bilbo you're terrible this is terrible
Gollum you're the creepiest
like YEAH I LOST WAIT FIRST I HAVE TO SHOW YOU SOMETHING
LET ME SHOW YOU MY BIRTHDAY PRESENT
and Bilbo's like ok
and Gollum's just narrating his backstory out loud
what the eheeeellllll

Bilbo: Now what? HE'LL NEVER GUESS MY POCKET CONTAINED THIS *takes out ring, flips it around*
Gollum: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Bilbo
you're a moron

Gollum *starts yelling about a magic ring*

there's a really stupid "nyeeeooooop" sound effect whenever he puts the ring on or off
wow
this is umb

gollum is pretty logical actually "it says it doesn't know the way out but it knows the way IN!!!! it must know the way out"
nice
wrong
and kind of,,,, you know there's a giant cliff
but like
yuo tried
which is more than I can say for anyone else in this movie
il o gzkdx ovv hix rfin go xzy "HOW CONVENIENT! WELL, FOLLOW THE LEADER!"
this is soooo stuuuupidddddd
Bilbo yelling TA TAAAAA
PUPILLLLLLLS AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Bilbo explains everytihing to dwarves
Thorin is like "wow dang we had to fight our way out,
sdfs>>>>>>>dfsjkfkjldjkdflkjlafsdkjlSDGKLJNSFDKLJSDFKLGHKJLSFDKHL
Thorin: "how didn't they see you"
Bilbo: I'm an awesome burglar?
Gandalf: *winking* Your story has the ring of truth. it RINGS true. you need say no more.
????????????@?WD?GD?GS?SGDDGSSDGSFDadgkjl
Eyal
Eual helppp

Danfalf" don't uoj see? the sun is setting in the west
thanks gandalf
thanks man
thanks

wolf howl

wargs

oh dear god
I take it back about the goblin songs being ok
this is so idiotic

wow ok Gandalf's pinecones are freaking grenades

the goblin songs are nondiogetic that's
an awful decision
serouslyo god the eagles are nightmaish

man if eagles wanted to dash yoyu against rocks they didn't need to carry you all night first

uhhhhhhb apparently gandfalf saved gwaihir from an arrow and this osi him reupaying the debt>

whoop no Beorn

straight into Mirkwood

WHAT WILL WE DO WITHOUT GANFALD
gandalf: I'm already late because of bothering with you people
wahkflsjdjsfld;jbdsflsgdlkjlsfdkljsdflkjsdfjlksdfkjldsf

this is stupid
seriously stuoud
stop winking gandalf
I hate this

STOP SIGNING
STIP SINGINNNNG

uhhhhhh
Gandalf orders Bilbo to keep a strict log
"so I can study it when we meet again, and point out your missteps"
Gandalf you are not even pretending to be Not an Asshole

Bilno" I can only do my best
Gandalf: then tat will have to suffice

STOP
SINGING
now Bilbo's leading
don't let him lead he's an idiooooot

Bilbo's already titled his memoirs "there and back again: a hobbit's holiday"

I'm sad and despairing

wow uh
Bilbo seeing butterflies in Mirkwood makes him question if he even wants to see Bag End again

then they wake up in the morning wrapped in spider silk

awwww the spiders are adorable aw man

loook at their crau eyues and antenna and stupid fangs
waht was that
waht was that even
am I high again

Captains log etc ok enough already

fstih rbo; d[sofrt

commercial break

ceyoooop

,ptre d[ommy s[oder la;aodascp[e effect

the dwarves are such idiots in this

suuuuch idiots

I love the spiders

I love them best
go spiders
eat them allllll

tun yo yhr eoof rlbrd vlrstinh@ zni;sfkljsdfkjlsdfWHAT IS THIS
WHAT IS THSI
WHAT
OS
THIS
I'm so sad
so freaking sad

neyooooop
the wood elves gate is like.

wjat
whaaaat
THRANDUKL IS GERMAN
WHY IS HE GERMAN
is this the black forest????
sdfjkl

what the fuck
what the excuse me fuck
Bilbo's narration: the fortune we were after was big enough to share with the elves, and they could've been valuable allies against Smog. Instead they became enemies, and we were their prisoners.

uh

fuck off?????

oh bo more singing
stop singing stop iiiiiiitttt

G8OG9 TElling the dwarves in barrels "oph stop complaining: I never promised to burgle you first class accomodations"
the Men don't wear pants
a t all

no pants
no beards
and no pants

oh stop fucking singing
seriously stoip gugds

Bard is a guardsman now?
he still has a stupid mustache
why do they always have a stupid musiche

ok in this verision the Men get awfully short end of the stick

I am so annyoned by th
aw fuck you all

Thorin says "by thunder"

this is tupid
seriously stupid

oh look how braaaaaave he is
this is stupid and I'm saddd

STOP
SINGING
SERIOUSL;Y STOP IT'S SO STUPID THIS IS THE WORST DEVICE

why is the thrush following him
no seriously this is fumb
shut up
shut your stupid face
andf STOP
SINGIIIIIIIIIIING
wow you're the dumbest stupid to ever moron

bahahahahahahahhahahahah loook at smauuuuuug

uh

why are his eyes searchlights
tht's weifd

Smaug is extremely American

Smaug turns off his eys briefly

he looks like a fox kind of
and sounds like a deep boiced balooo

I like this Smaug
he;s cute
I like his voice

Smaug I like you
and your acidic drool

Bilbo swaring revenge?
No;bp O a, pmt sure tos is the tactic uou want to take

and the drums are accelerating
in a very

wait did he say that out loud
what
neyoooop
why did you just take oufff your rign and show yourself
and the cup you'd stolen
what's wrong with you
why are youi such a stupid idiot

like seriously why

Biulbo honey
stop dorp and roll

uh
Thorin
just

what

whaaaaat

commercial break

Blo: You! Ys, you, whoa re a mere thrush... and yet so much more!

>..>???????

Men please wear pants

there are no women in this village
just pants;less men

"stand your ground"
Bard honey they're on fire

away you fool bird away
you speak??? what' that????

ok I'm bored now

wow ok

Bard dressed like a roman soldier

thyis is stupid

seriously stupid
shit u[ Bilbo
German Thrandll
dressed lieka sSeudss charafter
Bilbo please stup declaring that there's enough for all

Balin: *kneels to Thorin and calls him king*
Bilbo: Balin, it's only Thorin.
Thorin (to Balin): Yes, General>
Bilbo: GENERAL?

like normally i'd be furious
but everyone's an idiot
so
whatever
fukk it

"now we are not outumblerd
now we have an army"
"a battle of three armies??"

this
is
so
stupid
I'm going to die

this is the stupidest of stupids ever

we're just skipping the Arkenstone
ok

no this is stupid

why are you German

this is so seriously stupid

SOOO FUCKING STUPID

oh god thanks bilbo we can fucking count

Bilbo's just sitting on a rock watchong and commentating

neuooooop

neippp?

wait now Bilbo's lying about bein g hit on the head?wait

why only seven
way only six

who else is dead?

so many people are dead?
this is weird
really wird
no this is stupiud
seriously
serioulsy
sierolulsy stupid
I'm sad

OH SHUT UP
DON'T SAY STUPID THINGS JUST DIE ALREADY

LOL THE RING
GALFAKD JUST LAUGHS ABOUT IT
what prophesies
what
what the ehlll
oh whatever
what
ever

yeah I'm with you Bilbo
prophesioes are dubm

and Ganfalf is an asshole
whatever Bulbo doesn't care

hahahahahah lol souvenir ring

fganGANDALF
STOP SAUONG THINGS
STOP
SIYNG STUPID AWFUL STUPID THINGS

THE END

As soon as I get my computer back

silentstep — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 19:28:52 GMT

(Or, as it's looking more and more like, to my unhappiness, a new computer) you know what the first thing I am going to do is?

Well, make sure I have everything back. (Oh god distracting myself from that stress so hard) And find the CD-ROM of WordPerfect, and install that, and re-download Norton, and VCL media player, and iTunes, and see if I can get my old version of IE, and if I can't, see about really familiarizing myself with Chrome for real, and putting up my Korra desktop, and downloading AIM, and RealPlayer, and setting all my preferences for what the energy-saving settings are and what closing the lid means as opposed to pressing the power button and making sure my headphones work and, hey, seeing if I can track down my old CD-ROM of Logical Journey of the Zoombinis, and Word, of course, and I'll need Excel for work, but I have to customize all my toolbars all over again and

Okay so I'm gonna stop thinking about all that now because it's just making me more unhappy and it's not my point.

My point is that once I've got everything up and running the way I want it, the first thing I am going to do once I have my word processor and my comfortable chair and can actually think straight,

I am going to write happy!Loki fic.

'Cause I've been writing tons of angsty!Loki fic, which are almost all canon-compliant except for one AU that ends up following canon events anyway and Loki is very not okay in all of them.

But I am going to write happy!Loki fic.

In which he makes lots of friends and listens to lots of awesome music and eats delicious food and discovers the company of other intellectuals and also they teach him about feminism and rejecting the gender binary and how devaluation of "feminine" traits stems from devaluation of the feminine in general, and how there's no right way to be a woman or a man or something else entirely, and maybe they can even start tackling the massive massive issues of Loki-being-an-adopted-secret-frost-giant-raised-to-hate-frost-giants-what-the-hell-Odin. But mostly it's about a bunch of kidnapped scientists being like "Shit, first contact with an alien, OK we're introducing him to Chicago-style pizza" "No we're introducing him to New York-style pizza" "What the hell is wrong with all of you we are introducing him to falafel" "No no no all of those are utterly tasteless here you will like curry much better." And Loki is standing there like "...I gave you all orders to build the portal generator, what is this" and they're like "Yeah yeah that's nice here this is Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, put these headphones on and sit your ass down for half an hour alright."

And it's going to go massively AU and there will be rainbows and kittens. Probably literally, given, you know, Bifrost and Loki being pretty canonically a cat person. Or at least having a bag of cats for a brain.

Goodbye.

My grandmother's computer does not have a word processor.

silentstep — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 08:58:44 GMT

sdgjksdfajklasdfjkl;asdfjkl; I NEED A WORD PROCESSOR, OKAY. I've been trying to just write stuff in my journal but but but word processor I would settle for Word it doesn't even have to be WordPerfect I just I need a word processor all I have is, like, Notepad and Wordpad and those are not adequate, okay, I can't listen to any of my music I can't work on any of my fics I can't look at any of my pictures or even make sure I'm giving the new ones I'm saving unique names I can't watch vids I have downloaded I cannot even sit in a comfortable chair which is probably the worst part OH EXCEPT FOR THE ONE WHERE I DON'T HAVE A WORD PROCESSOR WHAT THE HECK.

...

yeah.

Goodbye.

Have left my laptop in the hands of the repairmen at Vertex computers over in Frandor.

silentstep — Thu, 31 May 2012 23:09:37 GMT

Trying very hard to keep calm. The guy was nice and that was encouraging, so hopefully everything will be okay.

*breathes slowly*

Goodbye.

My laptop won't turn on.

silentstep — Mon, 28 May 2012 23:50:02 GMT

Well, I mean, it turns on, but it won't start up. I hate my parent's computer very passionately (and it also traps me in their room with my back to the door, which makes browsing my usual haunts... problematic), but for now it's all I've got. Trying my best not to freak out over here.

*flails quietly*

So anyway, responses may be slow for a while.

Goodbye.

Oh come on

silentstep — Fri, 11 May 2012 01:31:55 GMT

Look, the thing is, I don't even consider myself all that good at Early Modern English. Really. I like Shakespeare, but when it comes down to it, I haven't read all that many of his plays, I haven't seen more than two-thirds of them, and I've never made a study of his language. I failed out of Malory's Morte d'Arthur pretty early. I would have failed out of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales even earlier were the entire prologue-y thing not required reading. Yes I can usually conjugate verbs to agree with thou pretty smoothly, but I'm not always that confident about it.

But I really-- sometimes I just do not understand how people don't know words like these. I mean, these are not ancient obscure words that have faded from the modern lexicon, these are just words. I learned them from reading books and fanfics. I would not think it terribly strange if someone in my peer group said them in conversation. I mean, yes, my friends tend to be pretty well-read people, but. Come on. If you are surprised that I know these words, I am going to feel like you're insulting my intelligence.

Hey mainstream media: please stop insulting my intelligence.

Man, I am so bitchy in this journal lately, I'm sorry. In other news I feel less like I am getting sick now that I slept, and ate very nearly an entire medium pizza all by myself. I'm going up to Michigan tonight or tomorrow, depending on how things go (tomorrow is more likely), and am going to be there for at least a fortnight. May or may not be going to the Ancestral Home of Ely for Memorial Day Weekend, whenever that is, for Paul's Safta's birthday. Planning to see the Avengers movie with Eyal in MI, and then I will be able to surf the internet with impunity again.

I am trying not to get my expectations up too high. Movies are sometimes tough to watch when you're unabashedly on the villain's side. This is supposed to be avoidable in superhero flicks because those don't usually go for, you know, character depth, but then Kenneth Branagh came along and well. He does go for that sort of thing, actually. (Though not as much as-- well, he and I often disagree on interpretations of character, and, uh, interpretations in general, and-- well-- oh Kenneth Branagh. I heart him so.)

I need to get my hands on a copy of his Henry V and show it to Paul; Paul will adore his performance in that. Oooo speaking of Henry V, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5lhfKUFNN8. God for Harry, England, and Saint George.

Goodbye.

Hey so

silentstep — Wed, 09 May 2012 11:25:08 GMT

You know how the fic that I have no idea where it is going has just reached 23 pages? Making it officially the longest thing I have ever written in my entire life? And I still don't know where it's going?

Just thought I'd point out that the document of excised material from it is 20 pages long all on its own. *headdesk*

Goodbye.

OKAY

silentstep — Fri, 04 May 2012 00:36:59 GMT

EVERYONE

Let's have this out.

To reign is to rule. It's what kings do. They reign over a country. It's also a noun, like, they have a reign that lasted X amount of years, whatever.

To rein or rein in is to pull back on the long straps connected to a horse's bridle, the ones called reins. (Yes, it's plural, they're like pants. There's one on each side of the horse's head. The fact that they often connect by your hands is irrelevant.)

The expression is "free rein." To have free rein, to give someone free rein. If you're doing that while riding a horse, giving the horse free rein, it means you're letting the reins go slack and giving the horse his head to go as fast as he pleases without telling him to slow down.

"Free reign" is not a thing, unless you're specifically talking about a political rule somehow.

Also, the word is balk. It's another horse word. When a horse balks, it means the horse stops when you're trying to get it to go forward instead. Horses may balk at a fence that they don't want to jump over. They may balk at going through a swinging gate, or an unfamiliar door, or just if there's a noise that scares them. I don't know what "baulk" is, but it doesn't look like a word to me.

Okay I'm done. Just needed to get that out. Thanks for listening.

Goodbye.

So I'm thinking

silentstep — Thu, 03 May 2012 10:19:52 GMT

Loki, Q, and Discord should meet.

Maybe others? Suggestions?

Goodbye.

I have seen Captain America!

silentstep — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 14:11:01 GMT

I also totally cried at the end. Shut up.

Anyway, I wasn't sure if I would like Steve, because he is a darling in fic but I didn't know how much of that was fanon. Turns out, not much. Canon all the way. I adored him like mad.

But even expecting to be okay about the hero, I was wayyyy not expecting to like the actual movie, and I really did. It was fun and it was-- you know, massive suspension of disbelief, but hey. My favorite part was Steve eventually kind of getting into the acting on his War Bond-tour thing, in spite of himself; that was cute. His smile! The little wiiiiiiiings!

I was a little worried that the Red Skull had killed Elrond and skinned his face and stolen it and was wearing it like a mask. That was... a little unnerving, I'm not gonna lie. I was much easier when he turned into Shishio.

Would have liked more of the Howling Commandos. Some more dialogue from them, at least. I wanted to see them sitting around a fire while Steve is stitching up his armor with an awl. I want to know which of them were sleeping together-- I know at least two of them were, because of fic. I just don't know which and that is sad. I was also sad that we didn't make it explicit that the woman who kissed Steve is totally Howard's future wife and the mother of Tony Stark, because ahahahahaha Steve made out with Tony Stark's mom!

I have now seen all the Avengers' movies, so I can see the Avengers. On the other hand, I am totally scared to. Joss Whedon wrote and directed, you guys, I have seen people taking bets on who he's going to kill and odds favor Hawkeye and no, no, no, Hawkeye is actually my favorite, don't kill him Joss don't you dare. Don't kill anyone. And also he'll be mean to Loki, and make him evil and have him kill people, and that's terrible, don't do that either.

But mostly-- mostly I'm just like, dude, it's not going to improve on Tomorrow Belongs To Me, why should I bother? That fic is, basically, the Avengers movie for me. It just is.*

It's also the fic that got me into this fandom. thefourthvine recced it** and I read it without knowing one single thing about the universe. And guys, it is an amazing fic, but if you're going to read one fic without knowing anything about the universe? This is pretty much the worst one you could have picked.

Anyway, I'm off to reread it now, now that I finally know everything about everybody. Haha!

Also Sam's A Partial Dictionary Of The 21st Century By Captain Steve Rogers, US Army, because it is one of my favorite Steve!fics and now I know everything about Steve! Yay.

Goodbye.

*Yes I am still going to see the Avengers movie anyway, are you kidding, have you seen Loki? You think I will not endure far worse than I am sure it will be to have that man on my screen? To see him on the big screen? I'm also planning to see it fairly soon, when it'll still be crowded; the crowd energy on movies like this is always amazing and Paul will never get this but I love that sort of crowd energy so much, I feed off it like a vampire. Om nom nom.

**God, thefourthvine gets me into all the worst fandoms in this exact way. Dresden Files. Hockey RPF. And now comic books, and yes that's more shameful than the hockey.

I am six minutes into Thor.

silentstep — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 22:07:28 GMT

I am already weeping.

...send help.

Goodbye.

I am at the point in my tired where everything's funny

silentstep — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 13:57:08 GMT

Just sitting here giggling at Tumblr

I have now seen

The Incredible Hulk

Iron Man

Iron Man 2

...and I'm putting off watching Thor until I'm not sleep-deprived, because sleep deprivation makes me emotionally vulnerable and I'm already pretty sure watching Thor is going to make me cry, okay.

First person to judge me for crying at a superhero comic book movie gets chained up under a venom-dripping serpent.

Goodbye.

Oh oh and then--

silentstep — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 08:20:16 GMT

Right, so, now I'm fifteen pages in and my two protagonists decide to ruin everything, thanks guys, because I finally, finally thought I had found a couple of avenues that this story could go down, and so right when I was getting close to maybe picking one of them you guys go NOPE NOPE NOW THEY WON'T WORK WE ARE GOING PLACES YOU NEVER EVEN THOUGHT OF AS POSSIBILITIES HA HA HA.

What. What, what. What am I going to do now? Now I have, like, negative amount of idea where this story is going, what. *throws hands in air*

Seriously, people talk about outlining stories and I just look on wistfully and wonder if they have some kind of superpower.

Goodbye.

KORRA KORRA KORRA OMG KORRA

silentstep — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 07:30:20 GMT

KORRA IS AMAZING AND I LOVE HER

MAKO MAKO MAKO MAKO YOU HAVE HAD MY HEART SINCE BEFORE FOREVER

OMG BOLIN HEART

TENNZIIIIIIIIIIN

KATARA PLEASE STOP MAKING ME TEARBEND

TENZIN'S CHILDRENNNNNN

POLICE CHIEF BEI FONGGGGGGGGGG OMGGGGGGG SHE IS SO TOPH'S KID IT'S A LITTLE RIDICULOUS

ALSO IS IT BAD THAT I TOOK ONE LOOK AT THE CAR AND WENT "MOBSTERS!"

METALBENDERSSSSSSS

THIS SHOW OMG. I have to say, I still don't like the setting. but the CHARACTERS OMGOMGOMGOMG

ALSO, BRYKE, WHAT THE EFF, TEASING US ABOUT URSA LIKE THAT, THAT IS NOT EVEN FUNNY

OKAY IT'S A LITTLE FUNNY

GOODBYE.

Writing kinkmeme fills for a book series I have not read

silentstep — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 19:38:26 GMT

~~Ten~~ ~~Eleven~~ ~~Fourteen~~ ~~Eighteen~~ ~~Nineteen~~ Twenty-one pages in and I still have no idea where this story is going, Eru help me.

Goodbye.

Hey anybody who knows anything about Catholicism

silentstep — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 08:04:07 GMT

If you're using "mother of Christ!" as an interjection, and it's not at the beginning of a sentence, do you capitalize the M?

Goodbye.

hatishma koli

silentstep — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 12:31:07 GMT

Bread and water seems to be a recurring theme in Israeli music. As a positive thing, mostly-- "If I have a canteen/pitcher of water, and tasty bread, how could anything possibly be missing from my life?" "I always knew that you were as bread and I was as water, blah blah we belong together" etc.

Drove ten hours in the past twenty-four, preparing to spend the next twelve or so in the car, but at least I'll be the passenger and can just kick my feet up, so to speak.

This morning as I was preparing to go to Michigan, I went to check Schuler's website to make sure the Okemos store had Temeraire in stock, and the first thing that came up on the homepage was an announcement for a steampunky costume tea party at the Eastwood Plaza one. It was at one o'clock, so I snuck back into the room and grabbed my steampunky gear and totally made it on time. It turned out to actually be a book launch party for the sequel to a book I'd never heard of, but the authoress seemed cool and I enjoyed the live band's performance and the book sounded... interestingly macabre, so I bought a copy of the first one (on sale for $9, trade paperback) and got it signed. I think I babbled some incomprehensible nonsense at the authoress, but she was gracious and friendly anyway. To tell the truth my expectations for it are not the highest; it's a YA fantasy thing about a girl named Eden in love with a fallen angel named Az, which... well... yeah does not encourage me to have high expectations? But what the heck, for all that it's hard to find good ones, I actually really do like stories in which Some Sort of Evil Monster Falls in Love with a Human Chick and They Have to Try and Make it Work ("Him Having to Defend Her from Other Monsters" trope optional). I mean, the genre had a bad enough rap before Twilight came in and utterly decimated any of the (admittedly dubious) respect it might have gotten, but. You know. Whatever.

I dunno. I read an Aoshi/Misao story recently that has a lot of tropes that are usually my guilty-pleasure romance tropes, but I spent the entire thing being squicked and yelling at the characters that the manner in which they were behaving was not okay and no means no and give Misao back her fricking agency, dammit and stop making her feel bad for wanting some damn CHOICE in regards to her OWN LIFE and step OFF, Aoshi, GOD WHY IS EVERYONE ELSE IN THIS FIC ACTING LIKE THIS IS OKAY?

In conclusion I have no idea why sometimes skeevy things appeal to me and sometimes repulse me utterly.

I mean, I am going to read that book and then report back on how I found it.

Goodbye.

blargh.

silentstep — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 07:50:33 GMT

Eru, I should just not be allowed to talk when I'm on Vyvanse. Like, and this goes a million times for when something bad happens.

The hard part is that Vyvanse makes me want to talk, need to talk, and Vyvanse and bad things make me desperately need to talk, over nine thousand.

And then I regret it later.

Goodbye.

A heads-up

silentstep — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 10:49:29 GMT

I am leaving for Michigan tonight, and should be back probably by the first of March at the latest.

This time I will remember to empty the fridge of perishables.

Goodbye.