Inarticulable

copperbadge replied to your post: History time!: This is now a defenestration blog, I guess

DEFENESTRATION JUNCTION OH MY GOD

Defenestration Junction: Home of all the finest Prague-based defenestrations!

Oh my god, you beautiful bastards.  Somebody made a lego diorama of the First Defenestration of Prague.

Above: Half a town council being hurled out windows by the power of Hussite rage.

(via eimearkuopio)

copperbadge replied to your post: Operation: Manageable To-Read Shelf is failing….

FWIW the way I got mine down to zero was enforced reading. You take the first book you see, and you read it or you get rid of it. No setting it aside. Read it or ditch it. It’s cruel but sometimes necessary! :D

This is actually mostly a digital to-read shelf, so it’s at least not sucking up physical space in my house…but that’s only because I’ve mostly succeeded in limiting my purchase of actual books to things I know I’ll want to keep and things I can’t get from a library for the past year.  And I only just deleted everything off it like one month ago, because it had gotten so ridiculous that it wasn’t worth just trying to prune it.  Why do you do this to me, books?

copperbadge replied to your post: Myrmecomorphy, or Oh My Fucking God That Ant Somehow Got Worse

GREAT, now I have to kill anything even vaguely ladybug-like.

If it helps, you could think of them as a weird new Spider-Man title?  Like, has Secret Spider-Man been done yet?  Peter Parker all dressed up like Ant-Man, insisting he’s Hank even as everyone points out that just because you’re wearing his suit doesn’t mean we can’t tell the difference.

He is!

I totally did make a Florida Man tumblr.  I am going to regret it most heartily, I am sure, but the exploits of Florida Man must be recognized.

copperbadge:

sumeriasmith:

Reed Richards is a dick because he knows that his universe, and all other universes save one, are fictional, and this informs his view of morality.  At least, that’s how I explain that period where he was creating pocket universes and accelerating their entropy because before everyone in them died they made awesome music that Sue enjoyed.

WELL SO THERE’S THAT.

stuckinabucket replied to your post: Reed Richards: That Stretchy Motherfucker

Tony throws great parties. Reed throws one party every couple of years, and they’re always BYOB.

Headcanon accepted. Reed seems like the kind of guy who would also call you up an hour before the party and ask you to bring food ‘cause he forgot.

whatdoyoumeanitsnotawesome replied to your post: Reed Richards: That Stretchy Motherfucker

Didn’t he also get in a fight with Sue and smack her around? Some time during the whole Namor thing.

To my knowledge he never hit Sue, but I haven’t read Fantastic Four in any detail. I did read it in reasonable detail during the Civil War arc, because I didn’t know any better, but I don’t recall him hitting her. That seems pretty far beyond the pale even for comic books.

I mean, Panther and Storm were punching each other as he annulled their marriage a couple of weeks ago, but they were in the middle of actual combat, it wasn’t like it was a personal fight that got out of hand.

spiderine replied to your post: Reed Richards: That Stretchy Motherfucker

“If you can’t tell Captain America what you’re up to, you probably shouldn’t be doing it” Thank you, Sam. This is now the moral compass of my life. Srsly.

I guess it’s not a bad one!

SAM’S TIPS ON LEADING A HEROIC LIFE.

eimearkuopio replied to your post: Reed Richards: That Stretchy Motherfucker

I dislike Hank Pym waaaaaay more than I dislike Reed Richards, but that comes down to my unnecessary amputation squick and the stuff that happened in Marvel Zombies.

I first encountered Hank as the abusive loser in Ultimates who tried to kill his wife with bug spray and then got curb-stomped by Steve Rogers, which I think permanently coloured my view of him. And it’s a shame because he’s actually kind of sweet in 616, even if he did build a robot that wants to destroy the planet and can’t seem to get his act together in re: Jan.

Nobody’s perfect.

Fact: When Reed gets invited to potlucks, he always brings one bag of off-brand potato chips.

The fight with Sue where he slapped her did happen, but I finally tracked it back to a thing where she turned evil due to mind control, kicked everybody’s asses, and the whole thing was a calculated strategy to break the psychic hold. (My money had previously been on it being an evil duplicate/mind-control plot aimed at Reed.)

Evernote Clearly and Readability are both wonderful things that make it easier not to hate people who write ten-page screeds in eensy weensy gray font on a black background and then put all sorts of shit in their sidebar so even just hitting ctrl+ twenty times does nothing of any use.

I find your lack of interest in my face profoundly consoling.

copperbadge replied to your post: Plastic Man: Continuity Bandit (aka Time Lincoln)

I have no idea what this means but I must share with you the one trivia fact I know about Abraham Lincoln, which is that he once brought legal action against a pig. roadsideamerica.com/new…

Wow.  President Lincoln v. A Pig. Is it wrong that I want a Law & Order episode on this?