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[aruan]

One of the UAE's two (state-owned) internet providers had an "IP outage", as the customer support agent described it, for about four hours last night, during which Brandon and I finished watching X2 (meh) then X3, about which I have thoughts. Why were the X-Men defending Worthington Labs? To keep one mutant, who was being used to exterminate the rest of them, from dying by killing a hundred others? But there was also the first scene, where Charles and Erik recruit Jean Grey, at which I flailed helplessly, nearly costing Brandon his coffee. And don't even get me started on the last scene - I was bawling as soon as the camera began panning over the chess players in the park, so much so that I didn't see the king wobble when Erik reached out to it until Brandon replayed it.

We started Origins: Wolverine but didn't make it far, because it was almost 6 a.m. You have let me down, fandom. No one mentioned that this movie also had Liev Shreiber and a telepathic Dominic Monaghan. How do those two things alone not rank it at least a C+?

I begged off work yesterday because the sore throat of the past week bloomed into a full-fledged summer cold sometime around 4 a.m. on Sunday, and coughed my way through my shift today, sneaking out an hour early. Our stock of tissues is depleted (now using toilet paper, NOT the same) and we're down to the last three mugs of Lipton mint green tea. Summer colds always feel so silly - I know that despite the name it has nothing to do with temperature, but I still feel ridiculous.

Love that Fassy had all but turned down Trance, and then they start talking to McAvoy about a different role in the movie, and now he might be back on board. Mind-altering spy caper? I am already there.

Tour de France starts July 2! I plan to pony up the $30 for Versus to stream the six-hour version, to be watched while catching up on all the First Class fic over at oldfriends. This fandom is less than a month old, and there is already drama over authors retconning Charles' injury, and multi-part mpreg fic. Not my cup of tea, but I salute the continuing effort to tick off fannish developmental milestones. Now, where is all the meta?

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[saturn92103.livejournal.com]

I love Charles/Erik, tooooooooo.

[gjstruthseeker.livejournal.com]

The love I feel for those two cannot be textually rendered, to borrow a phrase now at least a year out of date. I saw the movie with two guys so I spent the whole thing squeeing quietly to myself because oh, I haven't seen a thing so epic and gay and beautiful in, well, ever. And this fandom has worked fast, with GIFs and art and a whole mountain of fic, and all the people coming out of the woodwork saying they never shipped them in the comics or other movies baffle me because HELLO, it was all right there with McKellan and Stewart, but McAvoy and Fassbender made it sing. And then they spent the press junket telling everyone else that Charles and Erik are in love, and isn't it a shame they couldn't work it out? Nugh, so much happiness for such a tiny amount of time.

So, um, basically, they're all I've thought about for three weeks. Yeah.