So here I am playing with lots of promptathon prompts, and thinking about one that has the Avengers as bikers, and I know very little about motorbikes so I think to myself that I will go looking for inspiration online. There is, after all, a photo of Jeremy Renner on a motorbike that stuck in my brain. I will see if there are ones of the rest of the cast too. And so this happened:

( Avengers cast and motorbikes picspam )

Just been updating the community banner for be_compromised and issuing July's challenge and I realised that in the tags, and the guide to tags and tagging, and the photobucket account I had it labelled as 'banner challenge 2012'. No time like the middle of the year to realise that it's 2013 *shakes head at self*. Now corrected. Although, how come in a community of about a thousand people no one pointed it out to me? LOL

I went to see Iron Man 3 today! It's hilarious, exciting, twisty, full of fun dialogue and banter, and all round superb. And for the love of all things, stay until the very end of the credits because the extra scene is a gem.

Fun times and hilarity with friends and geeky shopping also happened:

I need to chat about comics sometime (and the friends that I've been corrupting *grins*) because I've been diving into those. We all picked up more today, heh. Also I keep having bizare conversations with strangers in comic book shops. Not that I don't have bizare conversations with strangers anyway, but today one was about death by hamsters with two people who worked there and a bunch of people queuing up to pay.

One of my friends brought a belated birthday gift for me - an 'Barton's School of Archery' t-shirt from Redbubble, an exploding Vincent Van Gogh TARDIS travel pass case, and a key ring with The Key from The Hobbit on it!!!

I used my Waterstones points (finally lol) to get the novel Shift, which is the sequel to Wool by Hugh Howey, because I read Wool all in one sitting on Thursday. It's imaginative, rich in details, has compelling characters, twists where you don't expect it, plays with you expectations, and is un-put-downable. No, really, I couldn't put it down.

And tonight is also new Doctor Who, so I'm gonna go watch that now.

Hello today and the people in it, thank you for existing :D

Last summer myself and a bunch of friends passed around some DVDs and books, because there are some fannish things where we have an overwhelming urge to share. (We're all still working our way through stuff. Shhh, we're slow.) For my part, I'm making sure they're familiar with Firefly, Dollhouse, and Neil Gaiman amongst other wonderful. Anyway, one of my friends lent me the full seven seasons of Buffy. I've never seen them all, and not in order. (My mum thought a series about horrible things like vampires and demons would scare me to death as a kid. She was probably right. But I still told her, "But Mum it's really about feminism!")

So last night I couldn't sleep and decided to make inroads. I have now finally finished Season One and started Season Two! (Shhh, slow remember? And in my defence this was far from the only thing I was leant.)

The point of this post: the ending of Out Of Mind, Out Of Sight leapt onto my list of reasons why I love Joss Whedon. ( spoiler cut in case anyone else hasn't seen it either ) Made of win, Whedon, made of win. And since this was aired ages and ages ago SOMEONE TELL ME THERE IS FANFICTION OF THIS.

That time when you’re browsing in a bookshop and you pick up a few, because the titles sound familiar or look interesting, and read the synopsis’, only to be disappointed because they’re not what you’d hoped they were about…because, you realise, you picked them up because the titles were the same as fanfics you loved or reminded you of them.

I've been having an organisational day again - hello Monday - and I found these quotes that I must have meant to share some time back, related to sometimes in the brain of a fan things are different. I'm going to share them now, because they still amuse me greatly.

From here on tumblr: “Tinker Tailor Solider Spy: aka that awkward moment when Sherlock has to bring Sirius Black out of retirement to help the Dream Lord, the King of England, Aberforth Dumbledore, Lord Blackwood, and the Elephant Man catch a mole because Russia.”

And from here a quote from Steven Moffat when asked when season 3 of Sherlock will happen: “We’re trying to schedule everything around everything. Obviously Sherlock Holmes is off battling Captain Kirk, and Dr Watson is helping Gandalf, and I’m in the TARDIS.”

A doodle from Lufu on tumblr. Appropriate costumes are amusingly appropriate!

Current number of icons in my batch for/because of the be_compromised epic promptathon stands at 76, phew. Anyone wanting to request icons from me over there here's a link. I'm taking requests until August 8th so the can go up before the promptathon ends on the 10th.

I've been saying for ages that I need to watch The Hurt Locker. Well, I saw a shot in a fanvid using a clip that has Renner and a car and I thought that would be perfect for the grease icon request! So I really am going to have to watch this and soon, heh.

I hope you're all keeping an eye on the Master List for all the awesome and there are still new prompts being added.

At some point I need to stop playing with the pretty pictures and do some fic...

I’m working on organising my bookmarks and favourites again. This time hopefully I won't accidentally delete things *shakes head at self*. Anyway, found these that I meant to share and haven't, so sharing:

THIS Avengers thing made me laugh.

THIS from a interview with RDJ and Scarlett Johansson on the Avengers sums up a lot of what has annoyed me in the media surrounding the Avengers release, but I’m so pleased that here Scarlett doesn’t let it slide.

HERE is some feminism from 1915 that made me feel better.

And HERE is a Natasha being kick ass graphic. Makes me think of dark!fic or early years Natasha.

HERE is gorgeous Clint/Natasha artwork from lettiebobettie on tumblr.

HERE is a Renner gif set from the start of MI4 (very minor you-could-get-it-from-the-trailers spoiler) that cracks me up. HIS FACE.

HERE is a gif set of Matt Damon saying why Jeremy Renner is right for Bourne Legacy. Huge amounts of agreement from me :D

There are many great things happening at such-heights’ Avengers kissing fest over on dreamwidth and THIS with Agent Hill and Fury is one of my favourites.

And finally HERE is a fun tumblr mashing up the Avengers with other Whedon things.

I remember watching the first Mission Impossible film and thinking it was thrilling and clever with a cracking twist at the end. I’ve never rewatched it, so forgive me if I’m remembering it wrong. Regardless, the sequels have never seemed as good. Like most action films they’re okay. They have some bangs and funny lines. Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol is, thankfully, saved from being just a corny action flick with large amounts of plot ridiculousness by Simon Pegg and Jeremy Renner.

( Some rambling thoughts on Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol behind the cut with SPOILERS, okay, HUGE SPOILERS. )

And randomly. Tintin was one of the pre-film adverts and I spotted Moffat as one of the three screenwriters. I did not know this! Suddenly Tintin looks more interesting, heh.

Finally, I playing in the pit band (or orchestra) for three musicals when I was an undergrad and we always used the Mission Impossible theme tune for breaking down the set at the end of each performance. We had to turn the room back into a canteen and the only thing we were allowed to leave up was the main stage. Everything else had to be packed away. We rarely managed to get it done in the time it took for the theme to play out, but we had a damn good try and did manage it once or twice! Now I can’t hear that theme tune without wanting to leap to my feet and tidy up at super speed, which is amusing when it comes on in the middle of a film. Must. Stay. Seated. *grins*

If you have not yet watched the trailer for The Bourne Legacy go ye forth! In my head this is the Clint Barton/Hawkeye backstory or origins film that we have been asking for and we may be getting an actual Black Widow film as well, yay!

Although this is causing me a bit of trouble, such as in this twitter chat today with a friend who has finally seen the Avengers:

FRIEND: Only just started? Damn! RT"@RobDowneyJrIMDB: Robert Downey Jr. Starts Filming Iron Man 3 http://eonli.ne/JP4AI3"
ME: Alas. BUT Iron Man 3, Thor 2, Captain America 2, possibly Black Widow origins, and Bourne Legacy (= Hawkeye origins, OKAY)
FRIEND: I want them now :-(
FRIEND: p.s. Bourne Legacy is about Hawkeye #confused
ME: Bourne Legacy stars Jeremy Renner, who plays Clint Barton/Hawkeye. I swear it’s a Hawkeye origins film.
ME: It is a fan thing, okay? I want all the fan things in which Bourne Legacy is Clint's background because they will be amazing.
FRIEND: Ah, ok, so its not *actually* a Hawkeye film, just in your mind? Lol #gotmyhopesup
ME: Cowboys & Aliens=James Bond, Indiana Jones, & 13 (House) on holiday. Am not always watching the same thing as everyone else.

Thank you for all the prompts! I don’t know if what I’ve done here are short stories, flash fiction, or just random ramblings, but I had fantastic fun doing this :D


The List
1. Eleventh Doctor (Doctor Who)
2. Rory Williams (Doctor Who)
3. Hermione Granger (Harry Potter)
4. Luna Lovegood (Harry Potter)
5. Hoban Washburne (Firefly)
6. River Tam (Firefly)
7. Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock BBC)
8. Mycroft Holmes (Sherlock BBC)
9. Toshiko Sato (Torchwood)
10. Amy Pond (Doctor Who)
11. Clint Barton (Avengers)
12. Natasha Romanoff (Avengers)
13. Richard Castle (Castle)
14. Ianto Jones (Torchwood)
15. Alice (Syfy's Alice)

( xdisasterologyx asked )

( velvetmouse asked )

( Kath_ballantyne asked )

( Rattyjol asked )

I took myself to see the Avengers. It was brilliant. Joss Whedon, I missed you.

Thinky thoughts behind the cut. There are lots of them and spoilers abound; you have been warned:

( they are a promise all the worlds know )

If thinky thoughts are not your thing: I knew I would love it for the fun dialogue, the character development, the booms, and the Joss Whedon. I did not know I would love it quite this much. Watch it. You will enjoy.

The meme using this site. It statistically anaylzes word choice and writing style then tells you which famous writer you write like.

For Live In Hope, Journey To Still Water, Acceptable, Moments; Singular, and A Time For Tea I got:



So that was pretty consistent. I've never read anything by him though. For people who have, does this sound right? And if I were going to read one of his books which one should I go for?

The Trojan Duck stories, which are All Perfectly Normal, Five Minutes, and The Games Children Play, were all:



And then much to my amusement when I threw Harry Potter stories at it, namely From The Time Of Heroes, The Tealeaves Say It's Time To Stop Making Do, After The Rain, Advisory, and End of the World, I got:



That'll be going by word choice then, ha.

Why yes, I am listening to Florence and The Machine's Ceremonials, which is fantastic and I would turn cartwheels in honour of these recs. If I could actually do a cartwheel, which I can't, no, but I could do a forward roll if you like. Maybe.

HERE there is a possible TARDIS siting in Sherlock's 'Hound of the Baskervilles' which is possibly confirmed by Steven Moffat. Much amusement!

HERE is a very fun Doctor Who fanvid by lady_with_cats in which the Eleventh Doctor likes showing off. And kissing. Lots of both. And moves like Jagger. You cannot help but be cheered up.

HERE is a Star Trek XI fanvid. I can't remember if I've recommended it before or not, but if so it would deserve a second shout out. It deserves many shout outs! It's the whole crew being all kinds of amazing by jactrades.

HERE is an incredible fic called The Republic of Heaven by blind_author which is a Sherlock and His Dark Materials crossover in which Sherlock and John live in the London of Lyra's world long after the events of Philip Pullman's novels. It is a WIP, just to warn you, but the author seems good about updating and it's worth reading regardless. The summary is: Born to a witch and a human, people know Sherlock will be unusual from the start. John Watson, on the other hand, seems perfectly ordinary, except for his dæmon...

In fact, HERE, have a huge list of brilliant Sherlock recs compiled by sciosophia. Stories that'll knock your socks off.

Happy Monday all!

I spotted this as I was taking a walk around Durham this afternoon (looking for autumn leaves to crunch!) and I had to double back and walk past again because I though my eyes were playing tricks on me at first. To Priory Orchard in Durham: you are brilliant!

I knew Martin Freeman, aka Dr Watson in the BBC's Sherlock, was playing young Bilbo, but I found out today that apparently Benedict Cumberbatch, aka Sherlock himself, is playing Smaug.

Freeman: Ha, this time I have the title role. I am THE Hobbit.
Cumberbatch: Yeah, but I'm a dragon and you have hairy feet. Don't kid yourself.