Drifting somewhere in the vast

( Folgers "Home for the Holidays" Commercial )

And to make this post not quite so much about incest pointless, have some links:

Surreal Paintings by Jacek Yerka
Very pretty paintings. (I love the one with the bed outside.)

BS Detector - What are the hottest marketing buzzwords?
A video that's so accurate it's painful, especially in my branch of work.

Fantasy/Sci-Fi-Landscapes by Jonas De Ro
Abso-fucking-lutely amazing art of fantastic and/or futuristic places.

Avengers: avenging angels concept
The Avengers as angels. Seriously, the art is gorgeous and hits all my AU/crossover buttons (and yes, I still need to read that fic that was inspired by this fanart.) PS: There is more angels!art in the artist's gallery, and also other art for the Avengers and various other fandoms. Seriously, it's amazing!

ARC-REACTOR OWLS.

Also, can we please agree on the fact that Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell is a movie that needs to be made before I get old and die of age?

Also: I still need a beta for my latest fic. It's not much, I swear, I just need someone checking on grammar and English expressions I might have messed up (if you want to do more than that, you're welcome to). Please, anyone?

So, one of the cool things about working online and doing design stuff is that you get to surf on a lot of funny designing sites with great pictures. Here are a few of the things I stumbled upon, plus some other stuff that is ~relevant~ to me.

Paintings of Russian Generals with celebrety faces.
My favourites are Sir Ian McKellen and - YIS - Robert Downey Jr.

Some very awesome Avengers illustrations.

Minimalist superhero posters.

The Many Faces Of
This is a site that composes blog entries about actors in some of their roles under a certain topic. Like, Alan Rickman playing villains. It's really great and funny and there are even awesome statistics and graphics to support their theories. XD Be sure to check out Rickman and DiCaprio, but beware spoilers if you haven't seen their movies yet.

Homosexualität im Fußball: "Wir brauchen keinen schwulen Märtyrer"
"Du schwule Sau" oder "Du Schwuchtel" wird jeder Fußball-Fan im Stadion schon einmal gehört haben. Das Wort "schwul" wird im Fußball als Verhöhnung der Gegner eingesetzt. Im Gegensatz zur Politik oder der Unterhaltungsbranche scheint der deutsche Fußball eine schwulenfreie Szene zu sein. Wir sprachen mit Mario Weiße, dem Chef des schwulen/lesbischen Fanklubs "Queerpass Bayern" über homosexuelle Fans, Outing und die Probleme in deutschen Stadien.

Yeah, I know I'm pretty much out of the footie fandom, but things like that still keep my attention and despite gmx being a horrible site, this is actually a decent article. Nothing quite new, but readable.

And last but not least: I wrote the first ~350 words of my fic for the Deutsch Big Bang. \o/ Haha, I know, it's not a lot, but considering the fact that I've been dancing around this for almost 2 months, this is huge progress. One of the reasons why I finally started writing might have been this tumblr post WHICH IS PRETTY MUCH THE START AND THE CLIMAX OF MY STORY. Asdfjlsjdlfkd. BRB, watching those gifs forever.

Avengers in Egyptian style

Hundred Acre Wood Avengers (SO ADORABLE OMG)

What are you building, Stark?

I am Captain America

Erik's first ... oh, wait.

Loki

And a collection of general Avengers art that I'm too lazy to link all seperately.

ETA: Robert Downey Jr. pinup manips because LOLWUT.

... which is entirely 3ngel's fault, I might add. *glares* And I seriously put way too much thought into this and I'm stil not happy with some of the choices. Why is it so hard to find a female version of Tony Stark/Robert Downey Jr.??? *pulls at hair*

(Also note that I tried to tinge every character pic with their respective superhero-colour. XD)

( who run the world? - girls! )

( Yes/No )

ETA: In other news, this is a really pretty cover of the magazine OUT with Neil Patrick Harris and his partner David Burtka. And here's another. I don't know much about the actor either way, but the pictures are really, very beautiful.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org
The first article title on the page is the name of your band.

2. http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
The last four words of the very last quote is the title of your album.

3. http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days/
The third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.

4. Use your graphics program of choice to throw them together, and post in your own journal.

( the result )

They arrived today and they are beautiful. *flails*

I don't know whether it has been around already, but this is incredibly adorkable and amusing: GLEE Cast: Before They Were Stars
Most of them just look adorable (Jenna! Darren! Chris!), but Puck's hair is a nightmare. XD

Also: meme time!
- Comment with "I see what you did there!"
- I'll respond by asking you five questions so I can get to know you better.
- Update your journal with the answers to the questions.
- Include this explanation in the post and offer to ask other people questions.

I got following questions from ninamalfoy :

( questions )

( answers )