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Dude, Fili from The Hobbit is Young Iolaus.

How did I not know this sooner?!

GIVE ME ALL YOUR ADDRESSES OR ELSE.

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Holiday card post! I like mailing things! Leave me a comment with your address and I'll send you a card. (You can specify if you want a generic holiday card or if you'd prefer to receive something more specific). I have also been known to randomly include presents. I'm just saying.

Comments are screened, so the addresses will be for my eyes only.

Guys. GUYS. I have like a hundred stamps. Do not fail me!

I have THREE news sites up and constantly refreshing (CNN, Huffington Post and Time.com) and haven’t moved from this spot in HOURS. Meanwhile my roommate is upstairs reading fanfic. I went up a minute ago to tell her that they were calling Obama to win and she was all “Really? That’s nice.”

Bitch either has nerves of steel or is really high right now. Not sure which.

I'm kind of excited! I work in a bank, and the bank has a bunch of safe deposit boxes that are reserved for official use. We call them lockers, though they're right next to the ones that we rent out to customers and look almost identical except that they have combination locks instead of keys. Well we just got a new manager and she was going through everything a few months ago, trying to figure out how bad a mess our previous manger had left her (in summary: huge) and she realized she didn't have the combination to one of the lockers. So she goes to all the employees and none of us have the combination - none of us even know what's in there or have ever opened it. So she got a locksmith and drilled it and there was a few thousand dollars worth of silver coin in there.

Near as anyone can figure out, the last time that money was accounted for was almost 40 years ago (1973). The bank was using the silver dollars and half dollars as petty cash. The manager at the time was fired and escorted from the building and nearly everyone else was fired or left shortly after. Fast forward 40 years, twenty managers and three mergers and the money's long since been written off.

So our regional vp agreed to let the employees buy the coin at face value and donated the money to the local public schools. And in the meantime I've got a really interesting pile of old coins to play with.

It's silly, but it's like finding buried treasure. ^_^

Has anyone ever ordered from AmiAmi before? There's a gift I want to get someone for Christmas and this is the only place I can find it for less than a hundred bucks. I did a quick search and no immediate horror stories popped up, but a first hand endorsement always makes me feel better about giving people a lot of money.

Shovel fics are so hit or miss for me. I don't seek them out and rarely read them unless I know the tone of the story. If they're written right they can be fun (I like protective friends who don't just disappear into the woodwork when the Main Character gets a Love Interest). But way too often they end up coming across as emotional abuse. Like, okay. If Pepper Potts was all "Steve you're a hell of a man and I respect you and I know you love Tony but he needs someone who's going to be patient and kind with him and if you go into this and treat him badly I will stab you with my pointy, pointy shoes" and it's written that she's not LITERALLY threatening his life and they're both friends and no one is hurt or offended by it, then it can be cute and even kind of touching. But if Pepper was all "You've hurt him before and I don't trust you not to hurt him again so you will be a good boyfriend or I'll kill you" that is not okay.

The shovel talk in real life always strikes me as pretty fucking disgusting. First of all, you're basically threatening the Love Interest into staying in the relationship. "Treat him right or I'll kill you" is a fucking threat. Also, what a shitty way to treat someone who loves your friend. Now, if the conversation was more "Steve, I have genuine concerns about your relationship with Tony and how you've been treating him" that's another thing.

(I read a surprisingly good fic where Clint's handler was abusing him and Tony recognized all the signs of physical abuse from one of his past relationship and went after Coulson, but it wasn't a shovel talk, it was straight up "Are you hurting him? No, then we need to find out who the hell IS" which is something else entirely).

Second of all, way to be a complete ass to someone your friend loves/likes a whole lot/is taking out for a test drive. If I found out any of my friends threatened to kill my SO when s/he hadn't done anything to deserve it, I'd be pissed beyond words. Way to respect my fucking judgment, not to mention show respect to someone I care about.

(There's a Clint/Tony fic where everyone gives Tony the shovel speech, some of them unintentionally, and Tony ends up in a bad head space where he decides that if he's doing such a terrible job of being Clint's boyfriend that his entire support group felt the need to call him out on it, then he must be terrible and ended up breaking up with Clint. Clint, upon finding out why his boyfriend left him, proceeds to lay out the entire team which was really fucking gratifying to read, let me tell you.)

Anyway, this rant was inspired by a shovel fic that could have been cute and ended up being kind of emotionally abusive and left me kind of shook up.

I am way too attached to books sometimes. Also, there is no good reason why I have two copies of all the Starsky and Hutch novels. There's barely a good reason why I have one of each, two is very hard to justify. But I can't bring myself to throw them away. Books are not for throwing away!

At least I found a good home for the A-Team and CI5: The Professionals books.

In other news, I am a nerd.

Are any of you guys well-read on Luke Cage and/or Danny Rand?

Question!

I'm watching season three of White Collar instead of editing the story I swore I'd work on tonight. (Yay for procrastination! Netflix streaming has made it so much easier to avoid writing!)

So - spoiler alert! I'm only on episode three, so there's not much to give away, but just in case.

Right now I'm officially not liking season three. Neal and Peter being - for all intents and purposes - enemies is not at all what I wanted from this show. Does it get better? I loved it when they were learning to trust each other and becoming friends, but this is breaking my sappy little heart. Someone tell me they end up on the same side again!

My computer died on me last weekend and took my entire itunes library, all my bookmarks and everything I've written for the last six months with it, as well as all the pictures, ebooks and miscellaneous other things I've collected. I had backups of the stories - that I haven't updated since just after Christmas - but everything else is currently a loss. To say I'm discouraged would be a serious understatement.