There's a famous ring in...I think Nuremberg? I want to say Nuremberg?...that's on a fence in their main square. You spin it three times if you want three kids. But I'm thinking Der Ring des Nibelungen here because the other one is super obscure. (like touching the foot on the Charles Bridge or rubbing the lion nose…

Oh. Huh. It's typically used for same-sex couples in fic, though. And generally for male same-sex couples. Usually if it's a female same-sex couple, it's "femmeslash."

It's pretty much the greatest relationship on the planet. Following them both on Tumblr is awesome because Fraction will tell stories of how Kelly Sue was playing Grand Theft Auto and actually stopped at stoplights.

Well, uh, I don't think the book is slash since it seems pretty het, but then, I haven't read it, so Anastasia might secretly be a man and I wouldn't know.

So has Hawkeye, and Matt Fraction's current Hawkeye series is pretty much the best thing to hit comics right now that's not being written by his wife. Pretty much every male character has had a failed series at some point or other, and they get infinite relaunches, basically. And Natasha is the last MCU Avenger to get…

Definitely Tanya Huff. I cannot sing the woman's praises loudly enough. Funny, interesting military fiction in her Torin Kerr series, and hilarious poking fun at supernatural fiction with her Keeper series.

Holy crud, this is fantastic. THANK YOU.

This is my favorite version of that photo:

Makes sense to me. In other news, I am really excited for that movie and the return of I Will Kick Your Ass with Competence Pepper Potts.

I read that as "snackrificial virgin."

Mom genuinely thought I was going to be a doctor when I grew up. I did grow up to like Doctor Who, though. She says it's not the same.

We might be the same person, just as a fair warning.

Cowabunga dude yes.

Ooh, I haven't yet, but now I'm going to. Thanks!

They were ten years ago, for sure. I was always depressed because the future writers of America was right up my alley, but now I realize: dodged that bullet.

Holy crap, I just realized that the scholarship that was telling me to write a really long essay on The Fountainhead was trying to turn me into a Republican. And yet, still not as terrifying as L. Ron Hubbard's Future Writers of America scholarship. Thank you, Mom, for not letting me apply for that one.

I can confirm that Neil deGrasse Tyson is even more wonderful in person than he is on Youtube. Also, he has wonderful stories about all the ways the world will probably end.

But think of the Muppets. THINK OF THE MUPPETS.

This wouldn't have happened if we'd had the Muppets hosting this year. Also, I would've actually watched because Muppets.

Says a frighteningly large percent of the population, as history has already told us.