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We Will Find Out If Agent Carter Gets a 2nd Season in 3 Weeks!

Hayley Atwell attended an autographing panel at C2E2 this weekend and said that  “We will know in 3 weeks if Agent Carter is renewed for another season. But it looks good given the fan response.”

tells her grandma to shut up

sasses her grandma

steps on chris pine’s feet

hides in a closet with a man who is not her betrothed

comes out of a fountain dripping wet with the same man who is not her betrothed

loses it when she’s supposed to find it

make all the boy moose go

“Do you have that book?” a patron asks. You reply, “I’m sorry, could you be more specific?” “The book,” is the only answer you get. This happens with three more patrons today. “I’m sorry,” you say to them all, “I don’t know what book you’re talking about.” The book. The book. The Book. Should you know The Book? Should you have The Book?

An elderly couple comes in every morning for the newspaper. Nobody remembers a time that they didn’t. They have always been elderly. There’s a faint foul smell in the library when they’re in.

There is a branch on the system map that you’ve never heard anyone talk about. You’ve never seen books with their branch sticker come in and you’ve never sent books to them. You asked a co-worker about it once, but they just smiled and asked how much shelf reading you got done that day. You tried to find it once, but kept finding yourself in the same grocery store parking lot over and over.

You weed for hours. There are no fewer books on the shelves. You weed for days. There is still no room for the new books that have come in. You weed for months. You feel like you’ve withdrawn a lot of these books already. You know you threw this stained, tattered, moldy copy of Bleak House in recycling a while ago. You weed for years. You weed forever.

(You never weed books on witchcraft. In fact, you put ten brand new ones on the shelf yesterday. They have already disappeared.)

One day the elderly couple doesn’t come in. The library has a much fouler smell that usual during the time they’re regularly in.

You go through a box of donations and at the very bottom you find a copy of Ramona Quimby, Age 8. You loved that book as a child, and it looks like the same edition. You open it to check the publishing date and there is your name and childhood phone number written in purple crayola marker in your 8-year-old self’s handwriting. You did not grow up around here. Your family is not close.

You go through a box of donations and at the very bottom you find a book with a photo used as a bookmark. You take it out to let the patron know they left it in there next time they come in. The photo is of a child at the beach and you would swear that it was a picture of you, but you have no memory of that swimsuit and no memory of that beach. The patron does not return.

You go through a box of donations and at the very bottom you find a book written in a language you can’t identify. You pass it around to your coworkers, and none of them know either. You upload a picture of the cover to reverse google image search and there are no matches. You open the book to double check for copyright information and you don’t know how you missed it until now but there is your your name and childhood phone number written in purple crayola marker in your 8-year-old self’s handwriting.

First Unofficial Look At Jubilee From ‘X-Men: Apocalypse’

Absolutely Perfect!!

This is not how it ends.

I will not be a footnote to history. I will not be the woman who was thor for five days and then fell.

They’re just rumors at this point, but apparently that new Marvel show John Ridley is writing is gonna be about Kamala Khan.

The series will focus more on her fascination with superheroes in general, while balancing issues of religion, racism and Islamaphobia along with her crime fighting.

The title of smallest bird of prey is actually a tie.

The genus Microhierax is a whole group of falconets - teeny tiny falcons.  The smallest two of those are the Black-Thighed Falconet and the White-Fronted Falconet.  Both are Indomalaysian species with a wingspan of 11.5 inches (27-32cm) and a body length of 6 inches (14-17cm). That’s right - they are only a bit larger than a sparrow!  Though their big, powerful little talons and hooked beak certainly sets them apart.

A black-thighed falconet:

White-fronted falconets

The New Avengers Assembled.

if i recall correctly, hamlet spoke the ghost’s lines aloud to the audience (you can see his mouth moving in the 3rd gif there). the other time the ghost appears, the closet scene, hamlet didn’t translate but the ghost’s message was conveyed through emotion just as well. there was also a nice moment in the same scene where hamlet tried to speak to his mother through signing — the private language of their family unit — and she refused to recognize it.

the actor playing hamlet’s father is deaf, and has been working with the oregon shakespeare festival for several years now, signing in all his roles. obviously i haven’t seen everything he’s been in, but from what i have seen i can tell you that through a combination of body language and actors translating, the meaning is clear even without spoken language.

Elizabeth Bird (librarian, author, blogger) asked me to contribute to her upcoming anthology FUNNY GIRL. For the announcement, she wanted me to write a sentence or two about being funny and being a girl and a writer or whatever, and yeah, I got carried away. Here’s the stuff I sent her that was obv too long for her announcement article.

While there are moments of humor in my first two books (Goose Girl & Enna Burning), no one would rightly call these comedies. When I was writing Princess Academy, I remember going to NYC for something and having a meeting with my editor and publicist. They’d read an early draft of Princess Academy. They both said, “We’ve been talking about how funny you are in person but how that doesn’t come out in your books. Is there room for humor in this book? Is Miri funny?” And I thought, well, yeah, she is. She would totally use humor to defuse tension. So why hadn’t I written that? The truth is I think I’d bought into the idea that “girls aren’t funny.” I heard that hundreds of times growing up. And again as adults, with regards to movies especially: “women aren’t funny.” I’d swallowed the party line without realizing it. But I was beginning to question it. Are we really not funny? Not as funny as the guys? Or do people assume we’re not so don’t notice when we are? The answer is clearly yes since I’m hysterical.

Ten of my twenty published books could be considered comedies, and yet I’ve never heard myself referred to as a comedic writer. TEN BOOKS. Never been invited on a humor book panel (those are for man writers). And the books that I co-write with my husband (Rapunzel’s Revenge, Princess in Black) people always assume the funny parts are his. Hundreds of times people have pointed out parts that made them laugh and then asked, “Did Dean write that?” And most of the time, I had. Make no mistake, he is very funny and witty and clever. Too.

Here’s a little story. Fifteen years ago when Dean and I were getting married, we made a wedding website. One night at a get together with our old group of friends:

Mike: “Dean, I loved your wedding website. It was really funny. I kept laughing out loud.” Me: “Well, you know, he built the site but I wrote the content.” Mike: nods “You typed it?” Me: “I wrote it.” Mike: “You typed it up for him?” Me: “No. I wrote it.” Mike: “You helped him write it?” Me: “No, I came up with the words and put them together in sentences and wrote them down.” He was still so stumped. It took several more exchanges for him to get it. Later he returned. Mike: “I guess I’ve just always thought of Dean as the writer.” Me: “I just received my MFA in Creative Writing.” He returned later yet again. Mike: “I guess with couples, we’re used to just thinking that one of them is the funny one.” Me: “You and I were in an improv comedy troupe together.”

Mike is a wonderful human being and open-minded and a feminist and we’re still very close. And believe me, he’s been teased about this mercilessly by all of us for over a decade. But this is how deep the “girls aren’t funny” idea runs. Even when presented with direct evidence, so many people can’t see it! They keep seeing what they’ve been taught to believe.

favorite star wars things - [7/∞]