I had genuine intentions to do stuff honestly but I’m fortunate that the stuff isn’t vital so I can sit and boil instead.
33 with very little breeze, high humidity and no AC. It’s like being smothered in a thick hot duvet and there is no escaping it.
/end whining
Thought of the day: Natasha could lift “the hammer of Thor” if she tried.
Why do I think this?
Because she’s a reformed villain.
My theory on the “worthiness test” is basically – “can this person be corrupted?”
With what we now know about Hela Odin must have been terrified when Thor ran off to Jotunheim and “father, we can finish them together!” because Thor had so easily fallen into the slippery slope, road to hell is paved with good intentions trap. Maybe that’s how Odin’s conquest of the nine realms started, he was always talking about “bringing peace to the nine realms” and haven’t we all heard the “but it’s for their own good” argument?
There’s that line in Age of Ultron, Wanda said re: Tony “he will do anything to make it right” and when push comes to shove, what would good people NOT do in order to protect those they care about? Good people have more to lose. They can get corrupted by the shifting sands, and the compromises, but those who have already been tempted, who have stared into the abyss and walked away? Those are worthy because what is left to corrupt them?
That’s what Thor learned and why he became worthy. When I first watched the movie I couldn’t see a difference between him at the start and at the end. I was like “all he did was sacrifice himself/fight a monster, what was different?” but it wasn’t the physical, it was the mental. He’d essentially learned consequences if you like. Man I’m explaining this badly.
I just mean that reformed villains have been tested. They walked away from the dark side. They can fight corruption because they know it and that makes them worthy aka more trustworthy to stay good, than good people who could go dark to save those they love.
I am so so so relieved that Agents of Shield got a season six. There were a lot of callbacks and everything was wrapped up so the season five finale would have been a fitting end but …
I’M CRYING
Like actual tears running down my face, chin trembling, lump in my throat, the whole nine yards.
TOO SAD
I knew it was coming, I was thoroughly spoiled, and it still hit me like a freight train. I can’t handle these feels.
Now I know why the hiatus is so long. They had to give us a year to try and get over it. Who am I kidding? #NeverGettingOverIt
Right time to step up and accept my public humiliation.
*bows head in resignation*
I said failure wasn’t an option and there’s a week left in the month and yeaaah not going to happen. I’m talking of course about the long neglected Painting Layers of Love. I must have been having an optimistic moment BUT I might be having one again *braces self*
It’s energy-sapping hot so I must be crazy but I just time blocked my calendar. I’ve done this before (to no avail). This time I’m following the “Rule of 3 system” that I watched a video on last night. Nothing has done the trick so far in getting me productive but I live in hope.
It was a very good video actually. I felt like it was talking to me when it said things like – “don’t try and do too much at once” because yeaaah. When I decide I want to ‘do better’ I tend to go all-in 0-lightspeed (forget 0-60) and so predictably it falls apart.
This time I’m just going to try and build 1 habit at a time. The first one I picked to instil in myself is “review a fic at least 3x a week” because I’ve been so rubbish at reading and I feel terrible about it.
I’m also only going to look at one fanfic this week. I’m going to go over the edits the always-wonderful Marie sent me for this oneshot I wrote. I may even *gasp* post the thing. It’s not Painting Layers of Love but hey any forward motion at this point is welcome and knocking something small off the list seems sensible.
Next Monday I’ll review what I managed this week and then plan the upcoming week. We’ll see what happens. *fingers crossed*
9pm! 9! And it’s still 30 degrees. 30!
Yeah I’m not getting any sleep tonight.
What’s the phrase? Go home summer you’re drunk!
England is not setup for this 🙁
I am mega excited about this guys!
It’s no secret that I’ve been the absolute worst when it comes to reading fics. #excuses #excuses *hides in box of shame* I tried downloading them to my kindle but that didn’t work and there were three reasons for that. 1) was #excuse but
2) it was an extra device to remember to charge, put in my bag etc.
3) it was a multi-step process to side-load them onto the paperwhite
Now neither of these should have had an impact but it’s the little things right? It doesn’t take much to roadblock us – or, well, me anyway *rolls eyes at self*
BUT BUT HERE’S THE TIP
It’s called Pocket – a free app, that SAVES FICS OFFLINE with ONE BUTTON
ONE BUTTON SAVING
Just click share and boom it’s there.
It works with Tumblr and AO3 straight out the box. Far more importantly though is the REFRESH command. With multi-chaptered fics on AO3 simply add the “entire work” link to Pocket and then when they update, you update – no mess, no fuss, chapter is ready to go.
Honestly having to redownload, then side-load, new chapters was the biggest stumbling block to me putting fics on my kindle.
Now you all might be reading this going “wow! She’s late to the party!” Because you all know about this already but I didn’t so I’m sharing in case anyone else is in that boat.
Especially with all the bounty of fics that RCIJ just brought!
It’s much too hot 🙁
Honestly over 30 in England with no AC, the air as still as a … very still thing and high humidity, it’s just too much.
I know it’s much hotter other places but I can moan if I want. It’s going to be like this and worse all week apparently.
🙁
I’m having to unfollow the Killjoys blogs I found 🙁
I won’t be able to get hold of season 4 to watch it probably until next March/April time and I don’t want to be completely spoiled.
Honestly for the millionth time – in the days of the internet why is there such a time lag in distributing media around the world?!?! It’s not like they have to load reels of film onto steam ships or anything.
Everything in the world should be on netflix, they put things up just a couple of days later, now that’s a time lag I can accept!
WTF Tumblr. I often like posts and add them to my drafts, then tag them on the PC and add them to the queue. Today I’m getting the message:
“This post was created in the tumblr app and can’t be edited on the web at this time. Please use the official tumblr app.”
Erm how about no?
Please don’t let this be a thing!
In light of SDCC just a reminder of where I stand
They can try and bait me all they like but I’m not returning until it is on screen and confirmed. They tore my trust to shreds in season one. Once bitten, twice shy and all that.
I will go down with this ship.