Love In The Asylum

Ugh, I have totally failed at posting lately. Mostly because work has been a bit mad - our project due date was at the end of this week, so Boss and I have been trying all week to corral the engineers and make them do their share of the work. Dudeboss (aka the head of the firm) started doing his part yesterday. I am ready to strangle him, I swear. Everything else is mostly done, but because he put so much off to the last minute I have to go in tomorrow to try to finish as much as possible. Not exactly happy about losing my Saturday, even if it is more hours on my paycheck. Anyway, me complaining about the foibles of time-insensitive engineers is boring, but here's some vaguely fannish stuff that's been keeping me busy when I'm not doing that.

1. It probably says some sad things about me that while I liked Benedict Cumberbatch in Sherlock, it took listening to Cabin Pressure on Radio 4 to make me go "OMG THIS GUY." I just - MARTIN CRIEFF. CAPTAIN MARTIN CRIEFF. He's awkward and faily and pathetic, but still well-meaning and basically sweet! He has a van of parental disappointment! He has Cumberface's inexplicably charming lisp! What can I say, awkward dorky guys are basically my kryptonite. I also appreciate that the fandom is just about nothing but Martin-centric hurt/comfort, emphasis on the comfort. It's making me want to write a fic where the airdot (but mostly Martin) adopts a puppy.

2. I've been reading a lot of Final Fantasy VII fic this week. No, I really have no idea why. I think it came up in a video I was watching and that made me remember, oh, right, I used to be ridiculously into this even though I never play console games, let alone Japanese RPGs. I can't quite seem to find the fic I want - need more wacky Turk adventures - but, I don't know, I can see why I liked it so much back in high school. Under the silliness and the outdated graphics and the dreadful porn it's still a story that has hurty bits in all the right places for me. Oh Cloud.

3. Everything I have seen so far about the Captain America movie just makes me more excited about seeing it. I mean, Steve Rogers+classic pulp sci-fi war movie? I am so there.

4. When I'm being objective about it, I think Bojan Krkic going to Roma is probably a good thing for his career - he didn't get any playing time this season at all, and if Roma can make better use of him than we were and get him some decent experience, he should go for it. Mostly though, I'm just sadface that my favorite bit of jailbait is leaving us. Who will Pique grope now? Who will Thiago sit with on the sidelines? Who will I make inappropriate jokes about when he takes off his shirt in front of the coach? Man, club season really needs to start soon, transfer season is just killing me.

Things about Cable & Deadpool #25 which are awesomesauce:

1. Captain America is in it! And his, ahem, flagpole.
2. Steve's secret undercover spy name is Roger Stevens. Cap, you are a DORK.
3. Happy nostalgic Steve eating in the mess hall, playing with kids, and painting a mural. Especially the last one - it's so sweet.
4. STEVE SPEAKS IN RED WHITE AND BLUE STRIPED TEXT BOXES. OMG.
5. The whole ending bit, where Cable shows him that even in his dark bad apocalyptic future, Steve's shield is a symbol of hope and idealism and freedom. It's a really strong scene. (It also reveals Marvel's argument that Cap had to be killed off because he is too antiquated and irrelevant for the bullshit it is. >:( Damnit, Marvel, THIS IS WHY YOU CAN'T HAVE NICE THINGS.)

So, uh, guess what I just bought from eBay? *sheepish* But hey, I want to scan it for Cap_Ironman and maybe SDII, and I will feel better about that if I buy a hard copy. That, and my comics collection still needs a lot of work. Right now I've got a lot of Marvel Adventures and things with Booster Gold in them, but not much else. Still, progress is progress. Before you know it, I'll be buying books that were actually printed in the last year. (I mean, if the titles that most of my characters are in start failing less. Cause I won't touch Invincible Iron Man with a ten foot pole, everything Tim is in is an epic angstfest, GLC is about to get sucked into Backest Night and I DO NOT LIKE HAL, YA is on eternal hiatus, I've yet to see Bart's bad Flash characterization be fixed, Ted, Kon, and Steve are still dead...but Booster Gold's still good!)


Icarus by Rebecca Baggett

The story is so simple

really. Imagine

yourself gifted with wings,

every child's sleeping

and waking dream, imagine

that you could defy

that force dragging us all

to heel, imagine every sweet safe

green harbor below, laid out

for your choosing

like candies in their box.

Then imagine that one

gold coin, that fierce and pulsing

point around which worlds dance,

imagine the gentleness below

and that wildness above, imagine

that something in you echoed

to the leaping of its flames,

imagine how its one question

beat in your veins, how you saw

with perfect clarity that moment

in which each of us chooses,

forever. Imagine that voice

far below crying: Come

back      Come back