October 29 ~ 'tis the season for spookiness and spectres

First up in things to do with self-promotion:

My most recent 4YE recap of Supernatural
Season 10 / Episode 4 "Paper Moon"

And here I thought I was being original by referring to 'the family business'. Nope.

Music! I love that George Ezra song "Budapest" - under the category of Something completely different, he and Sir Ian McKellen got together for musical hijinks. Thank you, YouTube!

Oh, jeepers, I almost forgot: Paddington has a trailer now! And Ben Whishaw sounds every bit as perfect as I imagined he would.
Hugh Bonneville, Sally Hawkins, Julie Walters, and that Peter Capaldi guy do alright as well. ;p
StudioCanal - you're awesome!  November 28, people! The film's Twitter handle is @paddingtonbear for all the latest.

Interested in etymology? Who isn't?
Mental Floss with seasonal words with spooky origins. 

I cannot hope to catch you up on all things Marvel-tastic. Sam Maggs (@SamMaggs) from The Mary Sue, on the other hand, can, and does. Props to her for finding the gif as well. I have so much to learn!

Marvel's Phase 3 plans and what they mean



Speaking of Marvel-tasticness: AGENT CARTER!!!!! Did you see the first teaser trailer? Did you? If not or you just want to see it again and again (see above gif for appropriate yet thoroughly unsafe reaction), even if it is only 15 seconds long - but you've been really REALLY great to the fans, Marvel, especially this week, so no grumblings here. Nope, nope, nope.

Something else for the brain cells - given only 3 letters, figure out the name of the European country. I found this a real challenge - some are more obvious than others.

Mental Floss & Sporcle quiz co-production.



I leave you with more Marvel. It was high time I liked this FB page. "Texts from Superheroes" never fails to make me chuckle. This one's even got my theme du jour. It's kismet, I'm sure.

Happy Hallowe'en / All Hallows Eve - whatever you call it, stay safe out there and look out for one another.

Online notables from the last week

Things that tickled my fancy over the course of the last week - perhaps they'll tickle yours as well.

A reader comment passed on by @GreyLondon on Twitter. Fair point, I say.

Wizards, Witches, Squibs, Muggle-borns, and Muggles rejoice!
Empire Magazine's "Wild Speculation Based On Fact" regarding the cinematic adaptation of JK Rowling / Newt Scamander's Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them book.

(c) Empire Magazine

Okay, this isn't a normal for me, but can I help it if there are great Tom Mison as Sleepy Hollow's Ichabod Crane pics out there? Where I can easily come across them without employing the use of a search engine? Not quite as 'up there' as the latte-stache, but, how about tree pose? I genuinely applaud the balance. That's one end of the can-do spectrum. Then there's me: I can hold that pose - with one foot right above my ankle, for approx. four seconds, on a really good day.

Thank you, The Mary Sue, for sharing!

I also felt the urge to write about it for 4 Y E. I hope you feel the urge to read about it.
Yoga and Travel Mugs on Sleepy Hollow



The nerdiness is strong in this one - and I love it. Thank you, "Everything Nerdy and Anything in Between" Facebook group for this!

I wrote another Supernatural episode recap - complete with philosophical musings - which didn't get edited out! I love 4 Y E - and not just for that!
Supernatural Season 10 / Ep 03 Recap: Soul Survivor



This could happen, right? Thank you,"One more miracle, Sherlock, for me. Don't. Be. Dead. - Watson" Facebook group.

I also wrote about Dean Stockwell being cast in a November sweeps episode of NCIS: New Orleans. You know, that show that has Scott Bakula as the sage of the investigative team. Quantum Leap, you were an amazing show.
Sam and Al: Reunited and it feels so good!

 

Courtesy of: http://atchuup.com/how-to-understand-introverted-people/

Take care of each other, people!

Changing the lens

So, the deep and meaningfuls are few in number - and when I do have something to share, I tend to not bother. In an effort to combat this self-publishing malaise, I'm switching gears to whatever's on the internet that is leaving an impression on me - for whatever reason. Feels, inspiration, motivation, joy of sharing a nifty find, and good ole self-promotion. If it needs a name, The Daily Scroll? Things that cannot be unseen?

Here's what caught my attention today (or earlier): Wednesday, October 15, 2014

 My mantra, if ever I had one. Thank you, Sam Maggs (@sammaggs), for verbalising it so very well.  I look forward to more of her verbalising WHEN HER BOOK COMES OUT IN 2015!

In related news,

A film made 25 years ago that set me on the path to 'it's okay to be me'.
Dead Poets Society, I owe you.
15 facts about Dead Poets Society

 

Ben Whishaw as Richard II - a study in vedantic thought This is Richard's final monologue in the play (just under 3 minutes in length). Whishaw's delivery is incredibly moving (forget the Judeo-Christian imagery that you are being assaulted by if you can) and just think about those thoughts he is expressing. 

Buzzfeed did a little bit of an 'ode to Kirk' from Gilmore Girls. Some of this I can actually relate to. Most of it is just, "Oh. Kirk." If you can think of more, please feel free to share.
20 times Kirk from Gilmore Girls was incredibly awesome

This hatred for equal representation in gaming has to stop. I'm not a gamer and I don't pretend to be (although there is this one Portal T-shirt I REALLY want), but threatening to KILL someone?
Other than the criminality of it, when did gaming stop being, you know, a game?? As in fun?
It's not a treehouse for nine-year-old boys to nail a sign to the door saying "NO GIRLS ALLOWED" - it's an industry, a multi-BILLION dollar industry, and guess what, girls have money too:
to develop games, to own studios, to purchase games, to purchase merch, to purchase all the toys needed/wanted in order to play, to have intelligent (and utterly superfan) conversations about their likes and dislikes, to attend cons. Who'd have thunk it? It's like, girls are PEOPLE!
Sarkeesian cancels talk at US university after massacre threat

 

And now for something lighter:

(c) Fox / From the Season 2 Sleepy Hollow ep "Go Where I Send Thee"

 Without actually saying so in this post, I think the Mary Sue might be campaigning for Charlize Theron to be Ms Marvel/Carol Danvers. Hmmmm.

A The Mary Sue Tumblr collection 

 

Me want. Me (and you) can order it from the
ConsultingFanGeeks Etsy store 

 

A little music - why not hear Lorde's Royals a capella.
Thanks, Eric Alper, for the link. 

Something closer to home: "Perth built highways. Vancouver did not." Guess which one has insane traffic congestion, compounded by the fact that everything goes through water-influenced bottlenecks: tunnels and bridges. Hard to get anywhere - irrespective of destination.
https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/24846192/a-tale-of-two-cities/

An argument against MCU Civil War from Twitter's @nevesytrof:

Do you need more proof of Neil Gaiman's amazing human-ness?
The Mary Sue: Neil Gaiman has no truck with any of that fake geek nonsense

 I'm the official Supernatural recapper for 4YE now!
Season 10 - episode 2 (Reichenbach) recap here

In case you missed it, Season 10 - episode 1 (Black) recap here

Like Tim Roth? Who doesn't? Want news?
He's going to be in the upcoming rom-com Mr Right!

As they said in the Mary Sue tweet "It's the time of year when a lot of Hocus Pocus pops up on Tumblr"