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I just suddenly made this connection. Maybe heaps of people got there before me, but if not, here it is.

In The Incredible Hulk, though it’s the Army hunting Bruce, there’s a moment where SHIELD is very blatantly referenced, which in the past I thought was a bit of a ham-fisted way of reinforcing that Hulk was taking place in the same universe as Iron Man.

But I just realised, what they’re using? It’s Zola’s algorithm.

Though the Army and the FBI (whose logo is also present in that scene, potentially placing the actual computer at an FBI base) no doubt have their own monitoring stuff, Major Kathleen Sparr, Ross’s right hand, is using SHIELD’s proprietary algorithm to skim millions of emails to find the right phrasing, the right target. To find Bruce, and make the connection to Sterns. It has to be a pretty intelligent (or even, dare I say, sentient?) piece of coding to take what on the surface are fairly generic, common words and only return one hit, the correct hit, to point Ross and his team so precisely to Bruce and Betty’s rendezvous with Sterns. I mean, it’s not like the email says, “hey, I’m the Hulk, I’m on the run and the Army is looking for me.” There’s really not much for a standard search algorithm to work with, even if you’re smart about it and use things like Boolean terms.

Bruce was one of the people Sitwell listed on the roof as a Hydra target. Maybe he’s been one for a lot longer than we realised.

Recent and current knitting…
Bernat cabled jumper in Bendigo Woollen Mills Luxury, 10 ply. This commission is finished now, but this in progress shot shows the complex cable knots that are on the front and back.

Jeck socks, knit in Lincraft Lullaby baby wool.

Maeva socks, in progress, in Bella Baby Munchkin.

Chevron beret, in progress, in Lincraft Cosy Wool.

takemetothedungeons:

wnnbdarklord:

Thor, I love you to bits, but we need to talk about your definition of ‘in my youth’: 

The Jotuns must pay for what they have done. March into Jotunheim as you once did. Teach them a lesson. Break their spirits so they’ll never dare to try to cross our borders again.

#I remain intrigued by this quote#because like many of the films statements about time and asgardians it makes no goddam logical sense#but meta to the rescue:#I like the idea that this is how the aesir experience time#not as a progression#as we do#where yesterday is recent#last year a while ago#and ten years ago a long time ago#but in epochs and eras#marked by changes in themselves#they don’t age much#not like we do#whether you think they are young for the same-ish time we are and in their prime longer#or if they are still kids at 300+ years old#either way#for them time is purely relative#and nothing changes much#not technology not culture not the people around you#so you judge time by internal markers#thor judges his own maturity as beginning on the day he regained mjolnir and lost loki#so before then he was a youth for all he thought himself a man#for only a youth would court war#and now he knows himself a man#though still battle-hungry#(because it’s THOR c’mon)#but not war hungry#and there is a difference#and it’s about putting others wants and needs and safety before your own#which is what he was lacking in thor 2011 ( amberfox17 )

Can I offer a suggestion? I think that Thor’s style of formal, antiquated language here is the key to deciphering this line, and I think that what Thor is saying here isn’t referring to his youth as a long time ago, like Asgardian time is different, or that he’s lived a lifetime since, but that the phrase in my youth, I courted war is Thor talking about his own immaturity from the point of view of experience. He’s saying, I was/am immature, and fighting was something I sought. The comma is really important, it makes the sentence meaning shift. In terms of a comparison, think of the phrase, ‘in my ignorance, I made an error’.

selenay936:

iamshadow21 replied to your post:

Ah, well it’s nice to know someone besides me and my other half is reading my rec roundups. Yay for sharing the fic love!

You do rec round-ups? Why didn’t I know this? I LOVE READING RECS. It gets me reading new things, or trying fics I might have skipped past.

Yeah, they’re over on my DW/LJ accounts, because it is too damn easy to lose things over here. I do one every week or two, whenever I think I’ve got enough. It started as a way for me to send recs to my partner without constantly emailing her. They’re not sorted at all, they’re just dumped in chronologically in the order I read them.

I have a big, much older Avengers rec post here, sorted by author, but I haven’t updated it in ages. About half of the recs on that list are on my Pinboard, properly tagged, etc. The plan was to have them all up there, but life got in the way.

I love your recs too! I find a lot of fic that way.

asofteravenger:

maybe they’re all in prison

Is it reading waaaay too deeply into this that I find this really moving? I mean, yes, maybe all the people Clint looked up to over the years are in prison, but I like the idea that the reason Clint fights as hard as he does to be as good as he is is because he knows that some day, some kid is going to latch onto him. This kid isn’t going to have super powers, or money, or privilege or enhancements. They’re going to be a kid from the wrong side of the tracks who never got any of the breaks. That kid is going to look at the Avengers, and see Clint, and think to themselves, “Maybe, just maybe…” and dare to aim a little higher, and CLINT knows that, and that’s one of the reasons he never gives up and can never miss, because for all that he doesn’t value himself, he values that kid and knows how important he is to that kid.

What did Dumbledore do that makes him a bad person? It’s been a while since I’ve read the series and I’m curious.

kath-ballantyne:

marauders4evr:

apriki:

Dumbledore is literally the scum between my toes

  • LEAVES A 1YO CHILD ON A DOORSTEP IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT LIKE ‘OH NVM THEYLL FIND HIM IN THE MORNING LOL’
  • knows good and well how the dursleys are abusing and neglecting harry and just LETS THE SITUATION CONTINUE even though we see in the fifth book that he has the power to stop it (the ‘remember my last letter’). he lets harry be LOCKED UP IN A CUPBOARD and abused for ten years both because of the ””protection”’ privet dr has for harry (don’t worry, it’s only at the cost of his emotional and mental wellbeing, it’s all good) and because he WANTS harry to fall in love with the wizarding world, like voldemort did, like snape did, because it will make him easier to manipulate
  • GROOMS HARRY TO BECOME A PERSON WHO WILL WILLINGLY DIE FOR ””’THE GREATER GOOD””
  • PURPOSEFULLY WITHOLDS INFORMATION FROM HARRY AND KEEPS HIM UNINFORMED SO HE’LL DO WHAT DUMBLEDORE WANTS WHEN DUMBLEDORE WANTS HIM TO DO IT
  • tells harry in ootp that he kept the truth from him because HE ACCIDENTALLY ENDED UP CARING ABOUT HARRY. LIKE OH HERE’S THE KID I’VE BEEN PLANNING TO KILL AND HAVE LET LIVE A MISERABLE LOVELESS LIFE IN ORDER TO RIGHT THE WRONG OF THE OTHER BOY I FEEL LIKE I LET DOWN AND I ACCIDENTALLY REALISED HE’S A HUMAN BEING WELL FUCK
  • told arabella figg she couldn’t be nice to harry when he went to her house? like what the FUCK?
  • after all his lectures and ”’wisdom”’ STILL GOES AFTER THE HALLOWS HIMSELF BECAUSE HE WANTS THE POWER
  • literally told harry the only reason he didn’t make him a prefect was because he didn’t want people to think he ””plays favourites”” like he didn’t last minute give gryffindor the house cup like four fuckin years in a row because of harry
  • KNEW HE WAS GOING TO DIE AND DIDN’T TELL/PREPARE HARRY FOR THE EMOTIONAL DEVASTATION OF LOSING ANOTHER/HIS LAST FATHER FIGURE AND EVEN MADE HARRY WATCH HIM DIE
  • locked sirius up AFTER HE HAD SPENT TWELVE YEARS IN PRISON in the house where he was ABUSED AS A CHILD AND MADE TO FEEL OUTCAST AND UNLOVED and pretty much exacerbated sirius’ arrested development and feeling of worthlessness because he’s dumbledore and dumbledore knows best
  • LET SNAPE TEACH AT HOGWARTS FOR 15+ YEARS DESPITE KNOWING FULL WELL HOW HE TREATED STUDENTS JUST BECAUSE HE WANTED TO KEEP HIM CLOSE
  • HE IS IN A POSITION OF POWER – ARGUABLY THE POSITION OF POWER – AND USES IT TO MANIPULATE AND EMOTIONALLY TRAUMATISE HARRY AND BATTER HIM INTO A WEAPON TO USE AGAINST VOLDEMORT AT THE COST OF HARRY’S FUCKING CHILDHOOD

and this is NEVER ADDRESSED in the books. Dumbledore is never seen as anything but a wise and noble father figure to Harry. HARRY NAMES HIS SON AFTER THIS MAN WHO MANIPULATED HIM AND LITERALLY WALKED HIM INTO THE SLAUGHTERHOUSE. FUCK dumbledore.

One of the worst moments of my life was when I realized that Dumbledore was not a great leader on a pedestal but rather a manipulator directing a bunch of mannequins. 

When the books came out I was having a lot of trouble with dyslexia and brain fog and couldn’t read so it wasn’t until after a fair few of the movies that I started reading. Well, having them read to me really because I still couldn’t read (omg I am so glad I’m not this bad right now. I have always read lots and lots and not being able to read is awful). So I was always pretty aware of how Dumbledore was. I never saw him as the saint.

I have had feelings about how dark Dumbledore is for a very long time, and it’s one of the reasons I wrote my shortfic Machination back in the day. Dumbledore is in no way a fluffy, kind, benevolent character; he’s a ruthless general playing the long game to win a war, using any people he can to do it.

Earth’s Mightiest Heroes Seasons 1 & 2

These are now in my hot little hands! I wanted that edition of the second season, mainly because it showed a complete cast shot, including the girls and POC, and not just the four big white dudes. Then I found out it was a steelbook, which made me happy, and then I got to wondering if there’d been a steelbook season one. Turns out there had been, and I found possibly one of the last places on the internet stocking it (@thenile.com.au). Season one cost me $28.93 with free shipping, and I scored season two for super cheap off a seller on eBay for $11.99 + $3 postage (won’t bother linking to that because all of that seller’s stock is gone.) So I got the entirety of EMH, still brand new in shrink wrap, for under $45. Not bad when you consider I’d been looking seriously at the complete 1 & 2 pack that ranges from $60 – $100, depending on where you get it from.

Only complaints so far – one disc clip per box set was broken, meaning a disc floats free (but hey, that’s nothing outside the norm for buying DVDs), there’s a tiny bend in the top edge of the season one case (but it’s barely noticeable, and it still closes and opens fine) and none of the discs in both season box sets are numbered. They have the name of the episode arc on them instead. So I have to guess what disc I need, or google the episode list. I’m guessing it’s because the discs are the same discs they put in the partial season single disc issues, and there’s no need for numbers if you’re only buying one disc at a time, but it’s a bit of a pain in the arse in a box set.

All in all, I am very happy, and satisfied with my purchase, and unless there’s some super stupid menu system, I’ll probably remain that way. 🙂

kath-ballantyne:

Steve with wings.

My girl iamshadow wrote a cute fic called Chrysalid.

Summary:

You’re not ashamed of them, not really. You just wish that if the serum was going to give you super strength and health and ridiculous head wings, the government would have at least given you something less humiliating to do than parade around in fancy dress.

Notes:

Gifted to Sam, because he’s got a lot on his plate right now.

Inspired by Sam’s adorable funny post Headwings, which talks about Steve maybe having actual head wings in the comics, and what that might mean. Because I’m not really a comics person, this story is pretty strictly MCU.

http://archiveofourown.org/works/1895217

Anyway I wanted to draw Bucky stroking Steve’s wing but it was beyond me so I drew this instead. Quicky and sketchy and so not my usual style (OMG no lines *cries* how do you do edges?) but I kind of like it.

Photoshop CS2 and a touch screen stylus because my Wacom is broken

My baby made me sneaky fanart for my fic while I cooked dinner!