Month: July 2014

The Real World: Avengers Tower

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unpretty:

Interviewer: So what’s it like living with Tony?

Bruce: When I moved in, he insisted on funding all of my research. Except, you know, ever since The Incident, all my work’s been theoretical. It’s not actually that expensive. I’ve started just spending all the extra on fruit pies, just to see if he was keeping track. He isn’t. There are a lot of unused rooms in this building, and at least three of them are stacked floor to ceiling with fruit pies. He hasn’t said a word.

Natasha: It turned out Pepper and I both speak French. Tony doesn’t. Now, whenever he walks in, we just start whispering in French and giggling. Half the time we’re just exchanging recipes. He pretends not to be eavesdropping, but the other day I caught him asking JARVIS what ‘des oeufs’ meant.

Clint: I bought this big bag of little plastic flies, right? And whenever he’s not paying attention, I throw them into his drink. Half the time he doesn’t even notice and just drinks the damn things, but the other half? He starts checking all the house filtration systems, the exterminators, the works. He can’t figure out where all these flies are coming from. He’s fumigated three times in the last month.

Thor: I attempted to provide assistance with a project, but Stark assured me that it was ‘very technical’, and that I would not understand the intricacies. I can see why he would think so, as I am a mere Prince of Asgard, taught such basic engineering when I was a child and his ancestors could not yet walk. It has been five weeks, and he still has not corrected the misaligned condenser coil causing the problem.

Steve: I don’t know what Howard taught that kid, but he seems to be under the impression that homosexuality was invented in 2000. He keeps leaving magazines and pictures lying around like the sight of two men holding hands is going to give me a heart attack. I don’t have the heart to tell him about the Greeks.

Interviewer: So how are things in Avengers Tower?

Tony: How are things? I have no idea. I really don’t. There’s some kind of insect infestation in the vents and I think a spy is trying to seduce my girlfriend into moving to France. I tried to prank Captain America with gay porn, but him and Thor just started trying to reverse-engineer workout routines. The other day I went into one of the spare rooms, and I found some kind of one-armed sex hobo sitting on a throne of empty fruit pie boxes. I just walked out and closed the door. I don’t even wanna know.

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#Avengers #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog

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alexiorsay:

ppl are always like “no game is perfect you can’t please EVERYbody” but when was the last time you heard a motherfucker complain about portal

I’m only complaining about it because Steam claims it will now run Portal under Linux, but I’ve been trying to get it to work for three or four days now and it still won’t run. The game’s good (I got maybe two-thirds of the way through it back on Windows, Land of Things Just Working), if you can get it to start.

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#Portal #gaming #damn you glgeterror #on the bright side I found out during this that I was supposed to have upgraded my Ubuntu version three months ago #(on the dull side it was supposed to *notify* me three months ago) #I think I have now officially tried every fix (for 32-bit machines) I could find #nothing’s worked

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thelandofmaps:

[OC] The US grouped by first two ZIP code digits [1920×828]
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In case you were wondering, Hawaii is part of 96, Alaska is part of 99, and Puerto Rico is part of 00.

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#why don’t I have an America tag #I’m certain I’ve reblogged stuff about America before #oh well I can start now #maybe retroactively tag stuff later #should probably be something to go with my Canada tag #I guess that would make it #home of the brave #(which sounds a little less complimentary when you consider what a total coward I am) #(and how I often wonder why people don’t show a little more self-preservation) #anyway I always kind of wondered about this when I was a kid living in 08 #the more you know #tag rambles

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composethesilence:

Rarely do we give praise to the writers, directors, composers, design team, make-up team, stage handlers, house managers, stage managers, ushers, volunteers, choreographers, agents, script consultant, lighting,  , musicians and arrangers.

We tend focus a lot on the actors (well deserved), but we forget to thank those behind the scenes.

So, a huge thank you to all!

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#Star Trek #DS9 #I’m tagging it that because I frequently *do* express admiration for the DS9 makeup team #have you seen how many Random Background Characters with four seconds of screen time have extensive makeup jobs? #such dedication

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epsilongrif:

my entire life i have been under the impression that picking bluebonnets in texas is illegal and i just found out that’s only a myth. who the fuck lies to a six year old about picking flowers

and did you know that new york’s state flower is the rose? that’s bullshit. that is bullshit. blatant new york favoritism. roses don’t even grow in new york. nothing grows in new york except buildings and pizza. new york’s state flower should be a fucking taxi. i’m trying to give you a hint that i’m about to draw york covered in roses is it working

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#Red vs Blue #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #there’s more to New York than the city #most of the state was only good enough to name once #I’m sure there must be roses in there somewhere #still hilarious though #(Red vs Blue progress: have finished 6×08) #(everyone (mostly Rose several times over) who told me that S6 was much better than S1-5 has thus far been totally right) #(apparently the big yelling-at-the-screen moment is near or possibly at the *end* of S6) #(I’m…looking forward? to it?) #fanart

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pervocracy:

netlfix:

imagine bumping into 2007 you at the mall

“it’s all going to work out okay!  here is a list of people not to date!  you are a guy!  buy Apple stock!  you are allergic to Levaquin!  okay, gotta go!”

“…?”

Past!me: *no reaction beyond that of bumping into a stranger; has not put in the necessary time spent staring into mirrors to feel sense of recognition at own face*

Present!me: Huh, never met a face-clone who also wore big glasses before. Weird. *shrugs, moves on*

(I mean really, what’s more likely: that she’s me from another part of the space-time continuum, or she’s just someone who looks enough like me to fool prosopagnosic visual processors?)

P.S. …although, come to think of it, if I bumped into a face-clone with big glasses wearing a yellow-on-black Hogwarts-crest baseball cap, a belly bag with a red “First Aid Kit” pouch attached to it, and/or a T-shirt I remember owning/still own, I probably would get suspicious enough to overcome the no-talking-to-strangers taboo and strike up a conversation. She might, too, depending on what I was wearing.

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#imagine posts #prosopagnosia #sometimes I think about all the moments of serendipity I must have missed due to my faceblindness and I get very sad #and then I think about all the moments of serendipity I must have missed for all the various reasons and get even sadder #and then I think about how now I know why there’s an exclamation point in past!me and I cheer up a bit