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[kate_nepveu]

I was busy! But now I get to wander around mentally singing "I'm freeeee!" a la Elsa. And also, err, start our household taxes and do a lot of laundry. Minor details!

A kid anecdote I told elsewhere on social media when it happened:

Me: time to get up!
The Pip: tell me something I don't know.
Me: The square root of 81 is 9.
The Pip: I knew THAT.
Me: New York does not impose franchise tax on certain 501(c)(3) corporations.
The Pip: I have no idea what you just said.
Me: Something you didn't know! So get up!

And here's a video of a marble run the kids and I improvised last night out of a pretty lousy kit. Design mostly by SteelyKid, because she has spatial abilities and engineering instincts and I do not.

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Have a bunch of links:

• I saw this cover and I suddenly had a burning ambition to learn to write fiction, sell a novel, and have my publisher get Kevin Wada to do a cover. Since that will literally never happen, enjoy his Steve/Peggy/Bucky art.

• Look at this dog's face!

• Also look at this couple's faces. I would like a million stories about them, please, and also to be the one on the left.

• I don't understand some of eShakti's design choices, I really don't.

• This is old but timely again: imagine what we could have had for the Good Omens adaptation.

• Commentary track by the Spider-man: Into the Spider-Verse animators!

• Stashing this Ken Liu post on trying to learn about China by reading translated Chinese SF for future reference.

• Slate provides Everything You Wanted to Know About the Two-Wombed Woman Who Gave Birth Twice in 26 Days.

• I really like this picture of Charlie leading two puppies.

• Congratulations to all the Hugo nominees I know! File 770 has links to the works.

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Two Avengers: Endgame thoughts based on teasers

There's a new TV spot in which Steve tells Tony he trusts him and they shake hands and it made me disproportionately angry because it's so unearned. Bleh. (I mean, it's theoretically possible that we could spend an hour or two with the characters actually coming to grips with all the past movies! But given the MCU's track record to date, I think it less likely than Squirrel Girl showing up.)

Also bleh: this extremely-accurate observation about the difference in Carol's physical appearance.

I can't believe I'm going to watch this fucker.

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Finally, io9 has a big piece on Farscape which reminds me that I watched a few episodes several years ago and just never kept going. That was long ago enough that I'd probably have to start over; so is there a spot in S1 that people would recommend I start at, or episodes in S1 that I should skip? (Admittedly I may just need to not watch in the middle of the night while up with a very small child, which I'd forgotten was my previous mode until I checked the tag, but still.)

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[minoanmiss]

I believe Mr. Wada does accept commissions... and oh his art is awesome.

[kate_nepveu]

oh sure, but I don't know what I would commission other than "the theoretical novel that I would write in a universe where I could write fiction!"

[minoanmiss]

Maybe if you see him at a con and buy him a drink you can tell him about it? She said hopefully.

Also, after some deliberation, I read the Endgame spoiler and sighed in relief at finding at least one other person in the universe who had the reaction I did (and a sensible person, no less). SO #%$%&#$# UNEARNED TONY PUT THEM THROUGH HELL AND SHOT SAM IN THE FACE BUT NOW STEVE TRUSTS HIM AGAIN LA LA LA UGH. And I can't talk about it anywhere else because I don't want to harsh my Stony shipping friends' squee.

[kate_nepveu]

Oh yeah, I hear you.

(I also think that Steve/Tony in the MCU is itself pretty unearned, mostly running off comics--where absolutely it is a thing!--and the hatesex vibe people got off, like, the _Avengers_ trailer? But there's so little connection between them in the MCU, especially in comparison to the other members of the Barbershop Quartet.)

edit: also heh, if I win the lottery I will commission a Kevin Wada Sam/Steve piece.

[minoanmiss]

Yeah, that's how I feel about MCU Steve/Tony as well, after excitedly hoping to see it due to the comics, no less. (But then they gave me beautiful Steve/Sam that might even be more glorious than the comics.)

also heh, if I win the lottery I will commission a Kevin Wada Sam/Steve piece.

I'm going to add to my bedtime prayers that you win the lottery.

[kate_nepveu]

Saaaaaaam! Who deserved so much better than being dusted with no one to witness, damn it.

[kore]

Many, many things about that movie pissed me off, but that made me furious.

[kore]

SO #%$%&#$# UNEARNED TONY PUT THEM THROUGH HELL AND SHOT SAM IN THE FACE BUT NOW STEVE TRUSTS HIM AGAIN LA LA LA UGH

FREAKING PREACH IT

[minoanmiss]

blushes I am small and full of opinion! and the Skinny Steve inside my head called bullshit!

[kore]

Aww, always listen to Inner Skinny Steve.

[rmc28]

He shot Sam in the face, who is a PARAMEDIC who was THE MOST QUALIFIED PERSON PRESENT to help his injured friend, FFS.

[kate_nepveu]

Honestly I admit that most of the time I personally pretend _CA:CW_ didn't happen because it was so nonsensical, but at least commit to your nonsense, you know? Otherwise it's as infuriating as the snap we all know you're going to completely undo.

[minoanmiss]

And then 3/4 of the fandom told me Sam deserved it.

I'm still so mad.

[kore]

WHAT

HOW

oh fandom.

[kore]

....it was sort of a horribly realistic depiction of how a lot of fandom treated Sam!

[mikeda]

On the other hand, if the assorted Avengers etc. don't trust each other, they're all pretty much doomed so...

[minoanmiss]

This is true Watsonially but Doylistically I find it unconvincing and unsatisfying.