enamoured | "He's adopted!"

I survived the paper, and I survived yesterday, and I have to say that after the near panic attack I had over that paper, this has been an awesome week.

For starters: I did a quick sneak into the restroom on Sunday at work to check Twitter, and nearly dropped my phone and shrieked in joy because this was one of the first tweets I saw. It was even more surprising/strange to me that I'd just been thinking the day before, Wouldn't it be awesome if Kevin showed up at one of the London dates of the tour, like he did in LA last summer? And then this happens, and [insert gif of Abed from Community silently screaming]. It makes me feel a little bit ridiculous that it took one concert last year to kind of fall back into loving this one pop group that I loved when I was much younger, but I'm past the shame portion of it, you know? I like what I like, and that's it.

But yeah, AHH KEVIN IS BACK WITH BSB. THE EYEBROWS ARE BACK!

Anyway.

Then there were two things on the fandom front, in terms of me making stuff. First, I signed up for my first ever big bang. The details of this are sketchy as of present, but, oh my God, people really like my completely crack pairing idea a lot, and I'm genuinely surprised and kind of going, "I could easily make this into 25k instead of 10!", while also going, "...the longest fan fiction I've ever written was just under 5k help." And secondly, my mix won First Place for art at

waywardmixes! As someone who is pretty much always a little insecure about her fanart Photoshop skills, this was pretty cool news.

And now, the Avengers portion of the entry!

I did the marathon at Studio Movie Grill, because the AMC one was sold out by the time I went to get tickets. Out of the pre-Avengers movies, they didn't show The Incredible Hulk, and on top of that, they didn't show the movies in chronological order! First was Iron Man (I realized halfway through it that counting that viewing, I've officially seen that movie in a theater five times), then Thor, Captain America (third time in theater), and Iron Man 2. The marathon at SMG was definitely not as promoed as AMC's, as I'm pretty sure there were about five people total who watched all the movies and then stayed for the midnight show. Like, for IM there were maybe seven of us total in the theater, and the number only slightly increased with every movie that lead up to The Avengers. I think it peaked around the time that CA and IM2 came on.

There was about a 30 to 45 minute break in between movies, so I went out and Did Stuff while I waited. I went to the bank in between IM and Thor. In between Thor and CA, I walked to Old Navy (the theater's in this shopping center, and Old Navy is a parking lot and a half away) to look for superhero shirts, and I ended up buying the last women's Avengers shirt in XL for $6. (And then I tried on some ridiculously high heels at Famous Footwear, but whatever.) In between Cap and IM2, I sat in my car and played Angry Birds.

Iron Man 2 ended around 10:50, and I was going to be in the same theater I'd been in all day for Avengers, since I wasn't seeing it in 3D. Well, I made the mistake of stepping out of the theater, and then got told I had to go get in line with the rest of the people. Which I didn't mind too much, honestly, and besides, it meant I got to get free stuff from Lone Star Comics, and see people in costume! I took a horribly blurry photo of a woman dressed up as Peggy Carter, and then there was this group that contained all the Avengers, plus Loki and Nick Fury. Honestly, waiting in line for the actual movie felt way longer than anything else during the course of the day.

OH, AND THEN WE HAD MOVIE! I know that LJ has spoiler tags now, but I'm cross-posting from Dreamwidth, which does NOT, so everything goes behind a cut. If you are a spoilerphobe, DO NOT PASS THIS LINE, HERE BE DRAGONS.

1. By and large I was ridiculously pleased with it all. It felt like everyone had a turn in the spotlight, and got to shine accordingly.

2. Like a lot of people, I was pleasantly surprised by Mark Ruffalo's Bruce (The line about Loki being crazy like a bag of cats? Hee.), and he and Tony geeking out over SCIENCE! was awesome.

3. I really loved Natasha and Clint in this (and an aside--I liked Iron Man 2 more this time around--I thought it was just okay when I first saw it, and while it's still not one of my favorites out of the movies, it's all right).

4. I had almost the same reaction to Tony's attempted call to Pepper near the end that I had to Steve opening his compass in Captain America, and that expression was D: ;_;

5. Even though I'm still not swimfanning over Loki, I have grown to appreciate him as a villain. Just, damn, Loki. Damn.

6. The part that got the most laughs in my theater was when Hulk whupped the crap out of Loki. We were all laughing/cheering so loud that I didn't even hear the line after. The part that came closest to that was from Thor: "He's adopted!"

7. When Coulson died, some dude yelled out, "THAT'S SOME BULLSHIT!"

8. There was one annoying guy in the row of tables ahead of me. They closed the bar around 12:30, so right before the previews started one of the managers came in and was all SO IF YOU WANT TO GET YOUR DRINK ON, ORDER NOW SO THAT YOU MAY GET REFILLS! So right around the time that the trailers first started, this random guy in a white button-down shirt stands at the end of the aisle, holding a glass of something, and yells out, "SHAWN!" and waves. My whole row SHHHed at him. Then later on, near the end of the movie, the same guy does the exact same thing, and someone goes, "SHUT UP!", and I thought there was going to be a beatdown for all of five seconds.

9. The post-credits scene was met with much giggling.

I was going to go see it again after I got out of class today (I ended up wearing my new shirt to school, and a girl in a Hulk shirt saw me walking to my car and yelled, "Your shirt is cute!" at me), but various familial entanglements and the weather prevented that.

To close, this post. The tag was my exact thought as soon as I saw the picture. I like superheroes and boy bands, and I neither know nor care what this says about me. If you want to discuss the movie, go ahead; I have all weekend ahead of me and plenty to talk/possibly gush about.