a conspiracy of cartographers

So the other day, Amiel posited to me that, if there's one thing Loki and all the Avengers can actually agree on, it's that Lady Gaga is awesome. HAHA YES OBVIOUSLY, I said in great delight, and we left it at that, until last night when Amiel sent me possibly the greatest ever series of text messages:

Amiel: Re: the Lady Gaga headcanon I said earlier -- Fury doesn't get it. Until someone shows him one of the music videos. Then he decides okay, I kinda like that.
Amiel: I'M FIGURING OUT EVERYONE'S FAVORITE SONG NOW.
Aria: TELL ME.
Amiel: Emma had the genius suggestion that Bruce loves "Born This Way" and no one makes the obvious comment that he, uh, wasn't. Might be about the Hulk, to Bruce.
Amiel: And Steve works out to "Just Dance" (and takes a Tonyish sort of motivation from it if he overthinks it).
Amiel: I can't decide if Clint or Coulson has "You and I" as their favorite. But if it's Coulson, Clint likes "Alejandro" but will belt "Teeth" with no shame.
Amiel: Tony's favorite is "Beautiful, Dirty, Rich" because *sigh*, Tony.
Amiel: Natasha likes "Paparazzi," mostly because of the music video.
Aria: THESE ARE FUCKING PERFECT. Asgard bros?
Amiel: Thor's I don't know! Help me with it. I know he likes a lot of her songs. I think he loves "Born This Way" and "Edge of Glory."
Aria: I think "Edge of Glory" sounds right!
Amiel: Loki -- no one knows his favorite because he tells different people different ones. He tells Tony "Bad Romance" because that's what Tony expects. Because Thor is subtle about NOTHING, including hickeys etc, Loki quietly tells Steve his favorite is "I Like It Rough" because it makes Steve make a worried face. He tells Thor "Poker Face" or "Monster," depending on what upsets him more. I'll let you guess his actual favorite, though I know what it is.
Aria: Ok, I'll be a bit silly & guess "Marry the Night."
Amiel: Good god, you got it right.
Aria: IT MADE SENSE! But I am still hilariously pleased.

Today has been kind of hideous, but I bought lots of tea, and watched a fairly glorious stretch of Babylon 5 with K, and have been successfully channeling my Avengers feelings. Guys, I have SO MANY Avengers feelings and I can't even see the movie until Saturday. But I am channeling them! I am flailing lots on tumblr, because that's what tumblr's for; I am deeply enjoying the blue drawing of Loki that K made on our dining room whiteboard; and I'm having ridiculous conversations with Amiel, because ... probably a good 5% of my life is ridiculous Loki conversations with Amiel.

Aria: Perhaps new footage of Loki's face this weekend will help cure you
Amiel: It will be like one of those faith-healing things. Then I'll go around proselytizing about the miracle of the Lawd (of Midgard). Tumblr will be my cult.
Amiel: Then I will go to holy war against Misha's Minions.
Aria: Help help wheezing with laughter. Have you accepted Loki as your lord & savior?
Amiel: After the movie comes out, I think we should canvass in theaters. Wear ties like Jehovah's Witnesses and pass out little pamphlets.
Amiel: Better yet, let's get other people to do it! We can just design a printable pamphlet and post it to Tumblr.
Aria: BRILLIANT. Those out canvassing should maybe wear little horned helmet pins or something.

THIS IS A THING WE SHOULD GET ON, INTERNET. Also, someone should talk me out of crafting a horned helmet out of tinfoil and wearing it to the film on Saturday. :D?

Good morning, internet!

Presented without additional commentary, the latest edition of Reasons I'm Looking Forward to Dragon*Con:

srevans: do i want to be fem!lock or irene adler, they'd pretty much involve the same coat and maybe just different hair
srevans: how do i make either/both happen
srevans: i guess i probably couldn't go as nude!irene that's a bad idea at a con
srevans: aria do you want to be my fem!john or my lupin or something
aria: PLEASE BE FEM!LOCK SO I CAN BE FEM!JOHN WITH YOU
aria: oh god do I have any jumpers that are awful enough, probably not. TO THE THRIFT STORE.
srevans: IT'S DECIDED I have to look at all the fem!lock fanart of all time to find a suitable look :D
srevans: we are going to be the sexiest Holmes and Watson in the place.
aria: we will be the sexiest. I will rock the horrible jumpers!
aria: I should find a fake gun in order to sharpshoot any evil cabbies who try to murder you in adjacent buildings or whatever.
srevans: And there are just so many evil cabbies. just everywhere.
srevans: you're a bro, Jane Watson.

songofsongs: we are seeing loki tomorrow
aria: hahaha
aria: LOKI
aria: that is the actual name of the film
songofsongs: IT'S TRUE
songofsongs: we have a plan. it involves several different ways this is gonna play out
songofsongs: on the one hand, no one will be in the theatre because it is a tues and late in the running of the movie
songofsongs: in which case CONSTANT SCREEN-CALLING
aria: do you have anything planned?
songofsongs: not yet! but I want to!
aria: omg obvs you have to yell CONVENIENT ODINSLEEP
songofsongs: wanna yell something at convenient odin!sleep
songofsongs: ...
aria: slkfsjdfsjsdfjdfs
songofsongs: OH GOD
aria: WHAT ARE WE
songofsongs: EVERYTHING AWESOME

Two pieces of related, absurd conversation:

Aria: OH MY GOD DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY WIPS I HAVE
Aria: IT IS FUCKING UNREAL
Amelia: HEE HEE HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Aria: I have nefarious plots to make you watch bits of Highlander
Aria: PURELY SO THAT YOU WILL BE EXCITED ABOUT MY HIGHLANDER WIPS
Amelia: I would not be averse to this!
Amelia: I mean dude, cheesy eighties immortal Celts with swords
Amelia: That's pretty much my secret soul, I think
Aria: Yesssss. :D
Aria: Although technically the TV show is 90s cheese instead
Aria: It wants to hang out with due South and be earnest!
Amelia: AWESOMESAUCE
Amelia: Fraser would be the most hilarious immortal
Aria: Oh my god, don't even. I AM TRYING NOT TO WRITE THAT FUSION.

Aria: do you have a halloween costume yet?
Aria: if not, BE CKR.
Amelia: I don't yet!
Amelia: dude, you bring the mountie suit and I'm there
Aria: well, I think I was going to be a vulcan, although I would be quite happy to mountie it up instead!
Amelia: I think you would be an awesome vulcan!
Aria: I could be VULCAN FRASER.
Amelia: HA
Aria: IMMORTAL VULCAN FRASER
Aria: that is so not a stretch
Amelia: YOU ARE SILLY

A conversation with schiarire, re: my Why Due South Is Important To Me post:

Ji: I think everyone should do posts like that about EVERYTHING.
Me: Oh god do not encourage me! I COULD DO MORE.
Me: what should I do another one about!
Ji: hmmm, either Hard Core Logo or Young Wizards!
Ji: or their bastard children the Hard Core Wizards
Me: your addendum made me CACKLE LIKE A FIEND in the quiet house at midnight.
Ji: I encourage cackling!
Ji: The thing to wonder now is what on earth Hard Core Wizards would be.
Ji: Dairine is a Hard Core Wizard and YOU KNOW IT

There was more after that, but none of it actually deserves mentioning because s;lfsdkfd Dairine is a Hard Core Wizard. Also I think I would genuinely like to make posts about Why Hard Core Logo & Young Wizards Are (separately!) Important To Me, although the YW post would be long and involved and have confessions about how I still take the Oath sometimes and then sit around hopefully, and the HCL post could probably just be the words "DYSFUNCTIONAL BOYFRIENDS <333" in size billion font or something.

Apparently there is a meme going around wherein one goes to Translation Party and puts in the first lines of their last few fics until the translator reaches equilibrium or gives up. Since I suspect that if I started it would eat up my afternoon, I just, ah, typed in one sentence from memory to see what it would come up with. Lo:

In Canada, the remains attached to the consulate on the trail of the murderer of my father in Chicago, first, whether, at this point must be considered as no reason to contact me.

Don't contact him about those remains attached to the consulate, okay?! That was only about the ... third permutation down. It dissolved into things like In Canada, my father in Chicago, whether by way of murder, the first is attached to the consulate, at this point, why should not I contact, which, indeed, why should he not contact his father in Chicago? And then it got pretty incoherent. It will apparently never reach equilibrium, but isn't that just the story of Fraser's life.

I am also becoming sliiiightly panicked about the F/K/V AU. I am almost done with Part I out of six; it is roughly 15,000 words right now, which when reasonably multiplied comes out to 90,000, which is a figure very much like the one I came up with earlier. This implies it might actually be an accurate figure, which kind of terrifies me, because it means I have to basically do a NaNo and a half in the next month and change. I know I can do that, but in the days of yore when I wrote Doctor Who seasons in two weeks, I was doing nothing else. Whereas right now I'm returning to college in just over a week. I know that only the draft is due in mid-September, and that I have another month to actually get it done, but it is still mildly nervewracking. On the other hand: I work well under deadline?

Anyway, hey, have a bit from Juliet is Bleeding, because what I have so far I've been prodding nervously through rewrites and I am by now kind of fond of it. ( I'm a neutral zone. )

I have this horrible tendency to actually want to talk about the ridiculous sci-fi rubbish I watch sometimes. Sorry.

I enjoyed Tin Man! I enjoyed it in a ropey-effects-and-uneven-acting way, but I unironically like Doctor Who so this is totally normal. It also gets points for making me want to rewatch The Wizard of Oz despite the fact that I don't even like that film.

aria: I watched the ridiculous tin man thing!
aria: I KIND OF LOVED IT despite the fact that it was horrible
anekdot: THIS IS TOTALLY FAIR, MAN
anekdot: is it super dystopia-y???
anekdot: because if so I DO NOT JUDGE AT ALL
aria: YES although in the hilarious way
aria: where a hot chick who looks suspiciously like kristen bell without actually being kristen bell wears ... lots of weirdass corsets
aria: and tells ckr to go and terrorize the peasants
anekdot: ... HAHAHAA

( A little more re: Tin Man, this time with complete capitalized sentences and a little coherence. )