Valentine's Day Countdown: My Favorite Couplings #9

9.  Joss Whedon & Nathan Fillion

 Look at that love!

Look at that worship!

Look at those two perfect specimens of fanboy!

[Look at those sweet raglan sleeves, Joss!  And, Nathan, invest in an undershirt.]

Joss Whedon is very loyal to his actors, which is awesome because he finds really dope actors and then NEVER STOPS USING THEM.  Which is fine by this girl, because he gifts us with the oh-so-crushable Nathan Fillion over and over again.  When Firefly was martyred, Joss gave his new Leading Man a role on the last few episodes of Buffy.  He used him again in Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along-Blog.

If this is the kind of bond that can form while creating a handful of cult masterpieces, then sign me up!

[My not-so-secret wish is this.  One day I will meet Joss Whedon.  He will instantly realize how brilliant and talented I am.  He will write roles specifically for me and put me in all his projects alongside Fillion.  In public, fans will speculate that I endanger their friendship and collaboration.  Like the Yoko of the Whedonverse.  But behind the scenes, the three of us smoke weed and watch bad horror movies and just have a million ideas for Amazing Things.]

Valentine's Day Countdown: My Favorite Couplings from SciFi, Fantasy & Comics #10

10.  Green Arrow & Black Canary

Perhaps this is a lingering Robin Hood thing.  I do like the swashbuckling gents, even though they often turn out to be terrible people.

Oliver Queen (known aliases: Green Arrow, MegaHottie), on the other hand, is not a terrible people.  He loves justice.  He loves it so much that he joined a whole league of justice.  But even more than justice, he totally loves Black Canary.  If there was a Black Canary League, Mr. Arrow would be President.

Like any good love story, theirs has lots of drama, enough drama to fill a whole series featuring artwork by one of my faves, Cliff Chiang.  [I mean, with the art/my heart, Cliff.  Those Star Wars propaganda images changed my life.]  Of course, all their romantic, Dawson's-level drama is exacerbated if not caused by the fact that their fighting crime and adventuring together, which I think is so romantic.

Le sigh.

I have a feeling fighting crime together will be a frequent theme on this list...

Zora Bell: Better at Video Games than You

Remember when I said that girls suck at science?  Well, I used to think we sucked at computers and video games, too.  Then I heard about Zora Bell.

Zora Bell is adorable.  She's in first grade (probably the best grade).  AND SHE PROGRAMMED A MOBILE APP VIDEO GAME.  AT SEVEN YEARS OLD.

From The Philly Tribune:
"Seven-year-old Ball has also become a master of the Bootstrap programming language, and when asked, Ball was able to reconfigure her application on the fly using Bootstrap."

Pardon me while I go weep over all my non-accomplishments.

[Jezebel via Philly Tribune]

Fashion and Justice for All

So Many Possibilities...

Pluto: New Moon

Pluto has two new moons!!

Well, not new, really, but like no one had discovered them before.  So they're new to us!

But the point is that WE GET TO PICK THEIR NAMES!

You can do your civic duty and cast your vote here.

The only problem is that the choices they give us are all like Greek god names and stuff.  Which are okay, I guess, but they seem really hard to pronounce.

So I want to propose my own names:

• Heather
• Kelly
• Taylor
• Regina
• Princess
• Bella

What names would you like to see?

Uncanny X-Men

Hey girls heyyyyy!!

Getting ready to film my first Nerd Canon video review.  This one is about the X-Men's Phoenix storyline.  It's sorta like the one that was on the cartoon back in the day (OMG remember the 90s??), except there's a lot more backstory that takes a ton of concentration and lots of flipping back to earlier pages to remember what's going on.

God, TV is so much easier than books!  Seriously, right?

I'm crossing my fingers that I can get it posted tomorrow, but it might also be Wednesday.  Computer things take a while for me to understand :(

In the meantime, enjoy this picture of a very sexy Rogue.  Potentially inspiration for a future cosplay, or at least a future dye job.

Faora, Girl Villain in Man of Steel: Where Butch Meets Spandex

Excessive armor over an American Apparel unitard?  Sounds like a supervillain to me!

But what's with her mom hair?  I somehow think that Antje Traue is probably much prettier IRL than in figure form.

Yep, she is.

...Is that doll making duck lips?

[io9 via MTV Geek]

Greensleeves

For all my history nerds out there.

I Read A Book!: Star Bright by Jonathan Luna

Yes, it's a book that's technically for children, but I need to start somewhere!

Star Bright is a fairy tale by Jonathan Luna.  He drew the pictures, too!  Yes, there are pictures!!  I know, I was excited, too.  They're really pretty.

[NOTE:  You might find it a little weird that my first review isn't something a little more...Nerd Canon.  You know, Star Wars, Star Trek, Lord of the Rings... Don't worry!  Those reviews are coming soon to a theatre computer near you!  We will build our Nerd Knowledge from the ground up!  WE'RE OUT TO DISCOVER!!  But those aren't today's review.  I wanna talk about Star Bright because it's really topical.]

The story starts when Star Bright is left in the forest as a wee babe.  She makes friends with animals--specifically, an owl, a toad, and a capybara.  Cause, like, who else is going to be your friend if you live in the woods?  [And don't say "trees" or "the colors of the wind" like you're Pocahontas or something.  She's a Disney princess and not a real person........right?]

So anyway, Star Bright grows up alongside her animal BFFs, and they run all wild and free...until one day Star Bright discovers a magical mirror in the middle of the forest.  Somehow she doesn't find this suspicious at all (more on that later), and she not only takes the mirror for herself, but becomes OBSESSED WITH IT.  You see, Star Bright is pretty--cause who wants an ugly heroine, amirite?--but she finally realizes that she's all dirty from living in the forest for what is presumably 15-20 years!

She decides to clean herself up.

And boy does she clean up nice!!  So nice, in fact, that she can't stop staring at her own [gorgeous] reflection.  GIRL, I CAN RELATE.

There's more to the story, but I don't want to spoil it.  Because you most definitely should be reading this book.

For one thing, it's so short!  Short books are easier.  The type's also big, so that makes it even easier to read.  And, duh, pictures!!

For another, it's not just about Star Bright.  It's actually about everyone who's every been a teenager.  It's like, who wasn't self-obsessed in high school, always worrying about something superficial.  Don't get me wrong--looking pretty is important--but not as important as caring about your friends or not being a dick.

Speaking of caring about your friends, the adorable animal BFFs also play a really important role.  When Star Bright can't stop staring at herself and is so rude to her friends, they stay oh-so-loyal!!  They're all, "She's probably just going through something.  We should try to help her."  And I'd of course be all, "Bitch, please!"

So, yeah, read Star Bright!  It's sweet and charming and smart.  Just like me!  Okay, maybe "smart" like "that's a smart little dress", but still!

Last thing.  I didn't know what a capybara was!  LOOK AT THEM!  THEY'RE HUGGING!