Julie Frost, writer

http://whedonesque.com/comments/28953

http://herocomplex.latimes.com/2012/05/07/avengers-cobie-smulders-gung-ho-for-stunts-up-for-sequel-duty/#/0

From L.A. Times Hero Complex (also run in print edition on May 25). Interview also features quotes from Joss Whedon and Samuel L. Jackson. Spoilers if you haven't seen the movie ...

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Come on guys. He didn’t even throw the ball.

teh goggies r startin 2 suspekt u.

Cyoot puppehs and funneh goggies: I Has a Hotdog has ‘em all!

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I is ovr 21 in chpmunk yearz

It’s not just kittehs that love captions! ALL THE ANIMALS DO! Check out Animal Capshunz for MOAR!

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Is this a psychedelic dream, or the most beautiful beetle in the world? Either way it leaves me wondering, what is it?

Life’s too short to avoid the *SPLORT*! Visit Daily Squee for your daily cuteness!

Remember the fallen, thank those that lived. Be safe this Memorial Day.

This is set after White As Snow, Red As Blood, and after its sequel, which I haven't even started writing yet! But this scene was burning a hole in my brain, and Tony is miffed he isn't even in White As Snow, so I decided to get it out of my system. Hope you enjoy it!

Fandoms: The Avengers/Highlander
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings/Notes: Complete, Spoilers for The Avengers, Friendship fic, Tony Stark & OC, Tony/Pepper, Non-Canonical Immortal.
Character(s): Tony Stark, Charlotte Sparrow, a bit of Thor.
Summary: Tony processes the events of the day before, trying to get a handle on this new reality -- but that's what friends are for.

St. Crispin's Day With a Side of Shawarma

"Is this what it's always like?" Tony asked, ( sitting down next to Charlotte on the edge of the roof. )

⌈ Secret Post #1972 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

01.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 05 pages, 112 secrets from Secret Submission Post #282.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ], [ 1 - titc ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Top Two Things I Don't Want to Deal with Today but Have to Anyway:

1) I NEED LAYOUT HELP! Uh... Does anyone know of something stupid LJ might have done that's messing up my LJ layout? Suddenly, all the formerly-transparent background GIFs/corners of windows/etc. are showing up white instead of showing the blue underneath. I have no fucking clue how to fix this. It's a standard S2 layout, not even customized. o.O

2) There's a motherfucking mouse in my apartment. Blargh! It's kind of cute, but I don't want 1) poop, 2) random things running across the floor out of the corners of my eyes, 3) holy sanitary conditions, Batman!, and 4) rabies. I told the custodian and have mousetraps, but mice are such fucking assholes about not being caught. I wish I could just relocate the little guy somewhere far away without killing him, but have you tried communicating this to a mouse lately? Hopeless! *sigh*

And, just because, things that are awesome:

1) Avengers.

2) People who draw adorable fanart of baby Sleipnir.

3) Sleipnir.

4) Horse-fucking mpreg is CANON, baby!

5) Loki's wifehusband? A horse. :P

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Hi!

What have you been up to?

Me? I'm helping science!

Well... When I'm not writing.

Anyway, back to the science.

So... Portal 2 came out with their Perpetual Testing Initiative. Basically, they gave players the ability to create they're own test chambers.

We design them, an alternate Earth builds them, we run through them to test them. Science happens! So does death. Mostly by falling into acid or being bullet-ridden by turrets. But, they're cute, so it's okay if they kill me.

There are, as of now, 17,300 experiments I could try!

Wow... that's a lot of maps.

But, some, I can actually solve just by looking at the picture on the map page. That isn't good.

Even my first, dead simple, map had to make people think. Granted, you thought for about twenty seconds... But still!

Oh! I just had an idea on how to make that map harder.

Now I'm thinking with portals!

I also created a harder map, and a maze map... But, since there are so many maps to play, people just aren't getting many visitors.

It won't make me stop making them though.

This near nonsense ramble brought to you by Aperture Science. We don't kill people, science kills people.

(Eh, I think that logo needs work)

http://whatever.scalzi.com/2012/05/27/graduation-song/

http://whatever.scalzi.com/?p=18708

Away from the Internets for most of the day because my niece Cecilia is having her high school graduation ceremony. See you all tomorrow. In the meantime, here’s “The Paper Chase,” one of my favorite graduation-themed songs, from the (now defunct) The Academy Is… (the ellipsis is part of their name).

I wrote about Fast Times at Barrington High, the album this song is on, here.

Have a good Sunday.

You can thank and/or blame my boy Jackson for this one. As many of you are aware, The Great Gatsby was one of the major inspirations for my novel Hollowstone. The first half of the novel especially serves as a modern retelling/homage to the Fitzgerald classic.

So imagine my surprise when I learned of this:

http://greatgatsbygame.com/

Jackson said it best: "It captures perfectly that moment in the book when Nick starts smacking butlers with his boomerang porkchop, doesn't it?"

And I also learned yesterday that there's going to be a new Great Gatsby film:



I think this film can go either way. On the one hand it has DiCaprio and Maguire whch is awesome but on the other, they're trying to glam it up and make it too slick. I'll check it out just to see how they handle the material.

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Cyoot puppehs and funneh goggies: I Has a Hotdog has ‘em all!

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If addiction is a disease
why don’t they let us have our medication?

Don’t be mean; BE MEME! Animal Memes is just a click away!

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*Sigh* Ders neber nuffin to play wif.

Ai doan’t trusst annee ob dese tings.

Love LOLcats? Who doesn’t?! There are so many more over here!

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That came out this month...

Is not physically available at the local B&N. ANY of them.

So frustrating. I don't want to order it. I don't have an ereader yet--because the one I want has been constantly out of stock. Grrrrrrrrrrrr.

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http://www.cracked.com/photoplasty_376_when-hollywood-runs-out-books-to-turn-into-movies/

By CRACKED Readers  Published: May 27th, 2012 
Since Hollywood got her mitts on the Facebook story, we've seen non-fiction books adapted to the screen with a reckless abandon that surely foretells bad things for the movie-going public. We asked you to predict the non-fiction books that will be ma

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http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-12-best-moments-from-mexicos-least-subtle-monster-movie/

By Luke McKinney  Published: May 27th, 2012 
Lucha libre is for people bored of the WWE's plodding realism. American wrestling is to lucha libre as American football is to real football: It has far bigger but wimpier men who need to stop every 30 seconds for a bit of a rest. North America split

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http://www.cracked.com/article_19849_5-infuriating-things-nobody-tells-you-about-college.html

By Lillian Marx  Published: May 27th, 2012 
The most underrated part of college is what you learn outside of the classroom. And no, we're not talking about the stuff your parents worry about ("Mom! I learned how to make a bong out of a dildo!"). We're talking about the bitter, cruel disappoint

Hullo all!

Submissions Guidelines for Issue Three of Cabinet des Fees's Demeter's Spicebox are now up!

We have chosen the Aarne-​​Thompson type 2031C, The Mouse Who Was To Marry The Sun for Issue Three, do refer to the guidelines for the additional prompts!


Reading Period: 5 APRIL 2012 onwards (until we get the perfect two stories for the next issue).

Do bear in mind that you will need to read the stories from Issue One and Issue Two, as this is a storytelling project and the prompts reflect this. DS runs in Volumes of four issues each, and each Volume will start with a fresh set of prompts.

If you have any questions or doubts, feel free to email us at demeterspice (gmail) in April!

Best,

Nin Harris

A steampunk anthology.

http://whedonesque.com/comments/28949

http://mulberryandbliss.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/blog-post.html

A new comic strip.

http://smartbitchestrashybooks.com/blog/sbtb-da-bestsellers-list-15-22-may-2012

This week's SBTB/DA bestsellers list is brought to you by the letter A (for Awesome), the letter B (for Books) and by the number 12 (just because). 

1. Untraceable by Laura Griffin | Amazon | BN | Sony | Kobo |  ARE
2. Bared to You: A Crossfire Novel by Sylvia Day | Amazon | BN | Sony | Kobo |  ARE
3. Her Best Worst Mistake by Sarah Mayberry | Amazon | BN | Sony | Kobo | ARE
4. One Reckless Summer by Toni Blake | Amazon | BN | Sony | Kobo |  ARE
5. Hot Island Nights by Sarah Mayberry | Amazon | BN | Sony | Kobo | HQN | ARE
6. The Governess Affair by Courtney Milan | Amazon | BN | Sony | Kobo |  ARE
7. A Different Kind of Forever by Dee Ernst | Amazon | BN | Sony | Kobo | 
8. Natural Law by Joey W. Hill | Amazon | BN | Sony | Kobo | ARE
9. The Heart of Devin MacKade by Nora Roberts | Amazon | BN | Sony | Kobo | HQN | ARE
10. Raised by Wolves by Jennifer Lynn Barnes | Amazon | BN | Sony | Kobo | ARE

Hope what you're enjoying this long weekend (if it is a long weekend for you like it is here in the US) is excellent! 

Categories: General Bitching, SBTB/DA Bestsellers

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