Ninjas STILL can't catch you if you're on fire

Twenty-two! I am inching closer and closer to what seems to be legit adulthood, though obviously there remains a long and winding road ahead of me and the fact that I in all seriousness have no real idea of what I will be doing beyond the following two weeks (besides apparently get a driver's license, come hell or high water. AAAUGH do not want). I would've thought that the idea of having time to chill, go to the gym and maybe brush up on my written Thai, my French or maybe learn Japanese/Mandarin would be the Best Thing Ever, but in actually I am wracked with occasional fits of anxiety about my future and not having anything fix in terms of internships or job prospects. Everyone I know keeps telling me to get the fuck over myself, and I am trying to do so. Today I thankfully had the healing power of TONY MOTHERFUCKING STARK and Iron Man 2, made even better then usual by being viewed in the SFX Cinema's cushy First Class seating (Ma doesn't care about the extra price because she can sleep more comfortably in these XD). They're giant reclining "velvet" La-Z-boys and you get a blanket and your popcorn + choice of drink brought to you by the staff. And when you have the apparent bladder of a pea (either the movie was hella long or I drank way too much today), the staff even run to hold the doors open for you when you try to subtly sneak back into the cinema ahh awkward. The movie itself was tremendously fun with oodles of little shout-outs and details (PEOPLE WHO HAVE SEEN IT COME SQUEE WITH ME IN THE COMMENTS), though woweee do enormous amounts of shit blow up in spectacular ways in this one. Also, I need to see it again for the sole reason so that I can find out what happened in the bits I missed on my bazillion toilet breaks lol.

SINGAPORE:
GENERALLY AWESOME, WITH SPRINKLES OF FUCK YEAH but also a dash of "FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU--" though that was mostly due to Mindshare leading me on, the fuckers. Moar on a post to come soon! OH AND hemlocke is a darling and "so cuuuuuuuuuuuuute~~" as Ma and our two neighbors kept informing me ♥

Thai politics:
Watching the local news and reading the newspapers keeps making me angrier and angrier. This has quickly left the realm of "protesting" and is flirting with domestic terrorism-- the reds are clearly starting to lose their collective shit and are acting even more erratic than usual. I mean, as if the home-made sharpened bamboo street barricades and unauthorized car and bag checks that they'd force on random people weren't enough (of course, people who said no were either beaten up or had their cars smashed or otherwise fucked up until they agreed), they have now twice barged into Chulalongkorn hospital and interrupted medical proceedings and obstructed ambulances carrying actual sick people because "the vehicles/the hospital could have been used to harbor soldiers" who would be readying themselves for a strike against the reds. Or the time they forced the BTS Skytrain into a standstill by throwing tires up the stations because the trains could also have been used to transport soldiers into town. Or one of my favorite bits of idiocy-- handing out multi-colored shirts for the reds to wear in Ratchaprasong intersection to "confuse" the soldiers if they were to come and make them disperse. HMMMM PEOPLE NOT WEARING RED WHO ARE SOMEONE STILL IN THE TOTAL AND UTTERLY RED ZONE THAT IS GUARDED AND CLOSED OFF? HMMM WHO COULD THESE PEOPLE BE HMMM :| AND OF COURSE, tonight's expanded news that some of them tried to lob RPGs at fucking WAT PHRA KAEW? Thank the higher powers the fuckers missed the temple itself, but this is just a further example of how low these people have sunk. You just plain don't pull shit like that, you don't. Ma and I met with some of her ex-colleges today and of course the topic veered to this, and it was very amusing and awesome to also hear the latest rumors about our fugitive criminal Squareface, who apparently has some really fucked up prostate cancer at the moment and might be dead or dying soon?? Cue fantastically frank comments like "I'll believe the fucker is dead when I see his body", "well given the number of people who must be cursing him daily, it couldn't have happened sooner" and "I saw this famous mystic say on TV that she had a vision of the gods of death coming for him!". Bwaaah! I just ~can't wait to see what happens next here ughhhh and of course our police men are hugely incompetent because the majority are "watermelons" themselves (green on the outside, RED on the inside). And we're flying back to Chiang Mai tomorrow which of course is another bastion of red (Squareface's hometown), ahhhhhh .___.;; /RANT

But I am stubborn and refusing to capitulate, or something. Today has so far been a day of trying to minimize all the tabs I have open and using the power of my brain to make certain people come online. So far I have failed to get a hold of Clemens (that dick, first he doesn't answer my calls, then smses me for lunch on Monday AND THEN doesn't reply to my calls/messages about uh, when to actually meet on Monday. WHY IS HE SO TEDIOUS SOMETIMES) but succeeded in talking to Ma. Which is yay, she's feeling better and all that and has new and shiny advice for me when for when I come back to BKK. Which basically amounts to "if you don't get a job at an ad agency, maybe you could become an English teacher for shits and giggles! I hear there are two week courses you can do to get a certificate that only cost 10'000 baht!" lolll man I'd feel like such a cliche if I were to actually go down that route, the fact that I am probably wholly unsuited to teaching aside. But speaking of home, I have been poking about the news sites a bit and AUGH the news about the Red-shirts' latest fuckwittery is just rage-inducing. Disgusting, foolish AND *headdesks*. Assholes. Also, I keep forgetting not to read the comments section of the articles, mooooooooar idiocy only lies in wait there.

The past few days have been awesome Viennese fun though, had drinks&snacks&drinks&POOL with Wido on Friday (a surprise turn of events if you know both of us and alcohol and my normal thoughts on pool) and spent Saturday going grocery-shopping with Miss Olga and camping out on her lovely sofa broadening my education in the finer points of Austrian Films of Note. Though I still can't remember where I saw bits of Komm, süßer Tod before, watching it and Silentium were great fun. Looking forward to Knochenmann (the third in the loosely-connected trilogy) soon!

Am still in the middle of uploading pictures for the first of a few image-posts, so until that gets down have some Links of ♥:
__ Casting the Greek Gods in a modern dramedy by zombres. I am basically a sucker for all thing Greek god-related, and this was just catnip, delicious delicious catnip to me. And even better, there is a Part Two and Part Three! Kyaaa, some of the casting choices *_*b
__ Ke$ha's Tik Tok rewritten a la Tony Stark also by zombres. I WISH THIS WERE THE ACTUAL SONG NOW. So excellent!
__ I am behind on my SPN news, but this is just a further sign that Misha Collins is unbelievable <33. SERIOUSLY THIS DUDE. THIS DUDE
__ Harmony Drawing Tool ...not news that this thing is intensely cool. AHH *goes and doodles some more*
__ THE DOGGIE GAGA PROJECT ...yessssssss. I now intensely desire to put Ace and Nero in similar get-ups *_*

WHAT SUCKS: Having an allergic fit when you're all out of antihistamines. Since the last half hour,  I have been full of snot, my eyes are red, itching and burning like hell, my throat feels congested and I have to sneeze my lungs out every three seconds. DAMN YOU NERO AND YOUR OMNIPRESCENT DUSTY FUR. 

WHAT DOESN'T SUCK: Having awesome, awesome fic to read. And the thought of so many season premieres (SPN! DEXTER!) up soon, 99.8% of which I will not be able to actually watch, but I look forward to enthusiastically spoiling myself on the internets for them anyways :Db

...I FORGOT WHAT ELSE I WANTED TO SAY, SO HAVE SOME FIC RECS INSTEAD:
(SPN) Revelations, by marinarusalka. Summary: AU. Veteran FBI agent Victor Henriksen isn't at all happy when a rookie ATF agent horns in on his investigation of a possible serial arsonist. Still, Agent Winchester's forensics expertise does come in useful. But as the clues and the bodies pile up, Victor begins to suspect that his new partner knows more than he's telling about the case. 
Such a fun, gen romp! Loved the Henriksen perspective, and the differences and similarities in this Dean Winchester :D

(SPN) Steam, by bellatemple. Summary: Dean was supposed to get a year, and then go to Hell. Instead, as far as he was concerned, he got most of a year, and then Hell came to him.
SPN STEAMPUNK AU! Very nicely written, the sense of mystery about Sammy and the tension in the first few parts was superb. And Dean as a tinkering mechanical genius, what's not to love about that?? The graphics that go with the story were also ace.

(SPN) Captured by the Game, by rivkat. Summary: AU. Azazel has given his favorite son a task: worm his way into the confidence of a hunter. It sounds simple, but Dean Winchester just might be more than Sam can handle
SO. DAMN. GOOD. I mean, I loved her SV stuff loads too, back in the day and this was just fantastic. Seeing all the little differences this AU makes in canon storyline and the characters and akjhkfj I must admit, it features a confession scene that will probably be right up there in my most favorite love confessions/admissions of all time. *clutches hands to chest and SIGHS*

(IM) Accountable, by quigonejinn. Excerpt: Here is the point of departure: Tony does not wait until after he has had the press conference to ask Rhodey to help him.
Basically, everything quigonejinn and co. write about  Iron Man is fucking gold, and this recent fic is no different. AU, as seems to be the theme of this post, and utterly heartbreaking in a way that slowly creeps up to you when reading. THAT LAST LINE. I just. Ahjksdfh oh, Tony  *SOBS* ;___;

(HP) Quality of Mercy Chapter 30 (END), by mistful 
IT'S FINALLY COMPLETED!! Holy shit, yesss. And what an end that I see is already causing some kerfluffle on the HP fen side of things? I dunno, but I really liked it nonetheless, maybe even for the reasons that some people are raising such a fuss about. Basically, KAT GO READ IT AND COME TALK TO ME ABOUT EET.

IN CONCLUSION: Heyyy, my allergy fit seems to have died down in the half hour it now took me to write this entry. SCORE *sniffles*

Man, this Dexter vid is seriously cool. And earwormy. Frontier Psychiatrist is one helluva fun song!. THIS is another very awesome vid, too. Very appropriate song call!

Speaking of other things that have been filling my life with awesome, and helping me forget about the myriad of deadline approaching (damn june is about to be over WAAAAY too quickly ://), here be a listing of them:

IRON MAN:
My love for Tony Stark in all in incarnations continues to burn strong. (15€ Iron Man bobblehead doll I failed to buy in Stockholm, your ass will be mine sooooon~~)
What is so great about the new Iron Man (movie) fandom is that there is also an evergrowing amount of awesome fic that is begging to be read and keysmashed about. Most of the ones I have been reading can be found under this LJer's handily tagged memories.
So much brilliance to be found, it makes me positively FLAILY-HANDED with joy! Some of my personal favorites are
__'8 Things That Could Happen After Pepper and Tony Have Sex With Each Other' by quigonejinn and her other works 'For A Long Time' (THE CONCEPT BEHIND THIS WAAARGHjafhjfah *SHIVERS*), its sequels 'Hearing' and [mark 2 and 3], AND ESPECIALLY THIS vid jahfjkfah gaah I already kind of adore Kanye West's song "Stronger" and to have it set to an Iron Man vid?? Fricken sweet. And made from camvid footagem, even!

__Here be also two very interesting ficlets by amonitrate. I can totally see the first one having happened before and the 'seperate orbits around Planet Stark' bit is just so cute and so accurate ♥. 'Sentinel I' and its subsequent parts are also really worth checking out! She also has interesting meta about Pepper by her here.

__lakfhjalkj AIEE GO/Iron Man crossover drabble. I uh, couldn't really wrap my head around how this would work out and then I read this and lo, the lightbulb switched on. Great idea XDD. liviapenn has another detailed Iron Man rec list post here.

__'Posthuman' by gabby_silang is now my personal headcanon until the next movie to what happens after the press conference at the end of Iron Man. *_* The author's other story 'Proof' is pretty damn adorable, too. Tony builds Pepper a robot! Eee :D

__hackthis is also writing Iron Man fic. And it is just as fab as one would expect. akjsfh kj

__And for a touch of comicverse!Iron Man, this space opera AU scenario starring Cap' and Tony and the rest of the Avengers by elspethdixon is pretty great :D. The ending is especially A+


HOO BOY this was a lot of html! Off to bed for me nowww

IRON MAN IS SO DAMN AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!

♥ ♥ ♥

Thank you, internets, for changing my opinion about this movie! Instead of the kinda eh, ANOTHER superhero movie I expected and was ready to ignore, I found myself raptly staring at the screen in fascination and excitement and SQUEEE-- here is a movie that was a great superhero film, the action was exhilarating, the characters fantastic and the dialogue snappy and witty (THAT LAST LINE jkafhkjasfh DYING OF AWESOME XD), the special effects!! and THE MUSIC, fuck yeaaaah! "AJKahaskjfhjkfhkfhakh!!1 *FLAIL*" just about sums up my reaction after the credits rolled.


...and holy hell, Robert Downey Jr. is A HOTASS. I actually missed half of the 'product placement' with Stark scenes that Michi was discussing with Carmen afterwards, because I presume that I was at the time otherwise occupied by staring at his BICEPS, and like entire upper torso, GOD.



PS The bonus scene after the credits was cool indeed, but what really made it for me was the reaction of the dude in the row in front of me when faced with [SPOILER]-- "--I SCHEIß MI AN!!!" ...such awesome and pure fanboy shock and joy jkakjfh heee