We're currently en route toward taking my sister--the youngest of my immediate family--to college. 

Where has the time gone? In my head she's still 10, even though she's driving right now. 

Also, South Dakota is, as always, vast and pretty empty. I kind of like it. 

New Mumford & Sons music!



(Someday I will post a life update and let you know what's going on with me besides the fact that I'm alive. Today will most likely not be that day.)

So I'm at work and don't have time to cross-post this, but Marvel has officially released a timeline of events in the cinematic movieverse that lays out the events of all the movies leading up to the Avengers. Most of the events take place within a week; surprisingly, Captain America was stretched out over three years. (I had been thinking around a year to a year and a half.) Very useful for fic writers, I think.

Feel free to cross-post this to relevant communities; otherwise, I'll do this when I get home tonight. :)

I saw this movie three times in three days, so it's about time I start writing a little fic.

Title: And I'm all alone (and the fire grows)
Fandom: Avengers (2012)
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Largely gen (mildly implied Tony/Pepper)
Spoilers: ALL THE SPOILERS. I am not kidding.
Length: Approx. 700 words.
Notes: Written for The Avengers Comment Ficathon. Summary behind cut for sake of spoilers. Title comes from The Silent Comedy's "Bartholomew," which is also my current obsession. Also available at A03.

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For your Friday afternoon humor, I present: The Avengers Assemble... on Facebook.

Highlight: the poll responses to Nick Fury's question of "Who Would Win in a Fight?"

(Warnings for language. No movie spoilers that I know of.)

May you all have a blessed Sunday! <3

"Do not be afraid. I (Christ) am the First and the Last. I am the Living One; I was dead, and behold I am alive for ever and ever! And I hold the keys of death and Hades."
-Revelation 1:17-18

"Christ, being in very nature God,
did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage;
rather, he made himself nothing
by taking the very nature of a servant,
being made in human likeness.
And being found in appearance as a man,
he humbled himself
by becoming obedient to death—
even death on a cross!

Therefore God exalted him to the highest place
and gave him the name that is above every name,
that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, 
in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord
to the glory of God the Father."
-Philippians 2:6-11

I now have an AO3. So if you like to bookmark fics there, you're welcome to bookmark mine. I've only got a couple up so far, but I'll be adding them slowly but surely.

I'll post a life update eventually. But all's well for me. :)

Just bought tickets for the midnight premiere of The Avengers. Happy (very) early birthday to me! 

Is it May yet? Now? NOW?

I'm sure most everyone will be seeing this on their F-lists about 8 times over the next day or two, but it's worth watching several times over, IMHO.

Title: Billy and the Kid
Fandom: CHAOS
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Gen, friendship, h/c, angst
Characters: Billy, Casey, Michael, Rick, OC
Spoilers/warnings: None.
Length: Approx. 8,500 words
Notes: Written for Faye Dartmouth, in (belated) honor of her birthday and as a gift for being such a wonderful friend. And because she's so wonderful, she beta'd her own present. Remaining mistakes are my own.
Disclaimer: CHAOS belongs to CBS and its affiliates. The various references throughout the fic also belong to their respective owners.

Summary: Alternatively, Four Men and a Baby. Or, the one where the ODS has to protect a two-year-old.

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