What I Like About You
Let’s just start off on that note.
I missed a week, I’m sorry. Life happened. I can’t promise it won’t happen again. I suppose it’s time we have the “I’m not super reliable” talk. I hope that’s not a deal-breaker in a newsletter for you. Along with life was Free Comic Book Day, which also happened, was completely nuts, and at the end of it I wanted to go live in a hole in the ground and never look at another comic book. Acceptable alternatives to holes in the ground are as follows:
I guess I’ll write this newsletter first, though.
Notable Breakfast
Pancakes and blueberries with granola. I like pancakes with butter & syrup as much as the next human raised in the US of A, but some mornings you just gotta put jam on them and eat them rolled up like a canoli with your hands, that’s just the way it is. Also that granola is Nature’s Path Organic Hemp Plus Granola, which I am only telling you because NEVER IN MY LIFE did I think I would be enthusiastic about granola, but I am enthusiastic about this granola. I tip the bowl back and scrape the remains of it into my mouth like the oats are freaking lucky charms, it’s bizarre. You can get it at Trader Joe’s.
Dog Thing
A creature of grace, even in sleep.
Mixed Media
I saw the Avengers: Age of Ultron on Friday, but then I worked FCBD and the next 4 days and suffice it to say I am tired of talking about Avengers: Age of Ultron. So tired. That said, I liked it but thought it wasn’t without its issues. I might be approaching superhero movie fatigue, mainly because there are so few women in these movie franchises, and every time we’re introduced to a new one, we’re expected to fall to our knees and praise the production gods. Meanwhile, 3 more dudes have been introduced, and dollars to donuts they’re white.
So yeah, I’m fatigued. What I am not fatigued by? Brooklyn 99.
It’s the show that has everything, for me. Incredibly (realistically, believably) diverse cast, nuanced and interesting characters who are never a stereotype, complex relationships between multiple characters, a pairing I ship like it’s the burning Spanish Armada: EVERYTHING. And it’s legit hilarious.
(The show & I. We’re married. It literally says so on my OKCupid profile.)
Also: Orphan Black’s new season has begun, and it continues to be fantastic. At prodding from friends, I started watching iZombie, and love it. Best Coast’s new album “California Nights” is great.
I Read Comics For A Living
Alex + Ada #14 This is the penultimate issue of this comic and it is not pulling punches. Alex + Ada is about a man and an android he’s given, whose intelligence he decides to “unlock,” enabling her to be a fully independent person. They fall in love, and now they’re on the run. One of the coolest things about this comic is that it’s based in the Washington D.C. area, so it feels very local to me. Another cool thing is that I’ve gotten to be friends with the writer, Sarah Vaughn, which means that I texted her immediately after reading this issue to ask, in proper all-caps, why she insists on hurting me so much.
Also good:
Secret Avengers #15 Speaking of things ending, this was the last issue of Secret Avengers, and I am properly upset. SA was a magical, ridiculous comic when everything around it was serious and dire. The build-up to Secret Wars got you confused? Here, fall in love with Vladimir, the sentient bomb who decides not to explode after being promised the possibility of gelato. I am going to miss it a whole bunch.
Silk #3 If you haven’t yet fallen in love with Cindy Moon, you need to fall in love with Cindy Moon. And you will. It won’t even take a full issue. In this Silk, we see Cindy do one of my favourite superhero things–help a villain figure out their life.
Unbeatable Squirrel Girl #5 A new one already?? you ask. Yes. Truly we are living in an enlightened age, where new issues of USQ float gently from the skies. This issue gives us the many (many) secret origins of Squirrel Girl, centered around Doreen’s roommate Nancy, who I love fully and truly.
A good book: Super Mutant Magic Academy. Jillian Tamaki’s long-running webcomic about mutant and magical teens and the school they attend. Like Harry Potter, but with more sarcasm and existential angst. Jillian is the artist of The One Summer, the best graphic novel that came out last year, and this comic is one of my faves. She added 40 new pages to sum it all up, which are well worth the price.
Anxiety Pyjamas
Fics I Shouted About (there’s a lot, it’s been 2 weeks!)
the invariant of the algorithm by orestes Teen Wolf, Sterek, Science AU. Stiles & Derek are scientists in love! Scott is a robot who wants to heal the world. This was so cute.
Respiration and Inspiration by MajorAccent Teen Wolf, Sterek, College AU. This lovely fic is full of poetry and pot and had me instagramming stanzas in the middle of the night like a pretentious insomniac.
bold; over the worst of it by buchanan Check Please!, Jack/Bitty. Check Please! is an incredible webcomic, and it inspires amazing fics. This one follows Jack and Bitty as they drunkenly make their way through their school’s spring festival and find each other at the end of it. Bitty loses a shoe.
Untitled by MadMadamM Teen Wolf, Scydia, College AU. Scott wakes up in the middle of the night to find a strange crying woman in his apartment.
Because Girls Love Girls and Boys by Netgirl_y2k Agent Carter, Cartinelli, Soulmark AU. The soulmark thing is necessarily a little ridiculous (the name, or another significant symbol, appears on you indicating who your soulmate is) but this one deals with it in a really lovely way (and manages to make it all Howard Stark’s fault). Peggy finds love again, even after she’s lost her soulmate.
the princess duck costume conundrum by kellifer_fic Teen Wolf, Sterek, Amusement Park AU. Derek is a costumed character at an amusement park, Stiles is a handler of a different costumed character. One day their assignments change. SO CUTE.
Lastly
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Now I am off to live in hermitude. Thanks for being rad, everyone!
