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I made these a while ago and never got around to posting the pics. I'm still not really happy with the quality of the photos but I hope the layers and three-dimensionality come through somewhat...
( pics behind the cut: 3xSGA, 1xFMA, 1xAvengers )

Preview:

Everybody who's familiar with a certain facet of fantasy art should get a kick out of this motivational poster: Pointless Armor (The breastplate is a particularly nice detail. :D)

Avengers movieverse fic rec:
Arrow by Zarannya
Gen (iirc); Hawkeye & team & a dog; friendship; rated T; 17,725 words
Summary: Clint has been having a rough time recovering from the Loki Incident. Tony Stark means well... he really does. He just doesn't always know how to show it in conventional ways.
(This is a companion fic to Hawkeye's Merry Men, which I haven't read myself yet because it's still WIP. You don't need to have read the other story to get into this one.)

fic recs:
Chess Pieces (or five times Clint and Natasha didn't sleep together and the first time they did) by hazellazer
Nat/Clint; five things/backstory; mature; 8406 words
Summary: Clint Barton trusts Natalia Romanova, even when he probably shouldn't.

Whisper Me Your Secret by eiluned
Nat/Clint; romance/ h/c; mature; 4688 words
Summary: All of her was focused on dragging Clint to cover, his hot blood on her hands, the labored sound of his breathing, and the sudden, shocking realization that she was in love with him.

fanart rec: Avengers movie poster. Love the art style.

All things being equal, I'd rather be in Philadelphia by meinterrupted
Summary: Darcy didn't sign on with SHIELD to be a hero. Too bad a group of bank robbers didn't give her a choice.
Gen; Darcy and OCs (and Steve, Tony, Phil Coulson); rated M; 8871 words

bonus rec for Hobbit fans: A whole bunch of dwarves (and a hobbit) by juliedillon

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I'm actually quite looking forward to the next episode of The Americans. I should thank that one secretmaker on fandom_secrets who dissed the show because of the immorality of having KGB protagonists. Thanks for the rec, anonymous wanker.

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Another day without a hint of sun. The only sun I saw during the last week was about 20 minutes all in all, four or five days ago. At least I was rollerblading during that narrow window so... yay. :/
Forecast promises sun in a few days but I don't believe them any more because they've been doing that for the last two weeks and turns out they were lying.
I'm so looking forward to climbing without wet shoes.
I'm looking forward to actual sunlight. $§"%# darkest winter in ages. This is the kind of record I can do without.

Linkage: a fascinating photo series of a lake that floods every spring, to create a surreally beautiful underwater world. Green Lake in Austria.

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Two snippets I created for Fandom Stocking:

For the prompt Natasha/being badass



Just another day at the office...

This was supposed to be a super-quick minimalist coloring of one of my sketches, but that pattern on the headdress took ages. (The rest really was quick though.)( Read more... )

preview:

Stained Glass Window Style Fantasy Illustrations by Jian Guo

So intricate. So COOL. You can stare at them and lose yourself in the details. He has one for The Avengers, too.

The site gave me an error message when I tried it yesterday, so check it out while the link works.

Not the Budapest pic I'm meaning to do, but I needed something for the background...







Gonna do some action scene next. :)

AVENGERS fan art! - time lapse painting

Awesome Avengers fanart, and cute as well. She even gets the likenesses. (How she does that, without even a hint of a pencil sketch underneath, is beyond me...)

fic rec: we were emergencies by gyzym
Clint/Natasha; post-movie; Rated M; 37154 words
Warnings: see trigger warnings at the end of the story. (link)
Summary: It's not about being unmade; it's about remaking, one aching step at a time.

This has been recced a lot so y'all have probably read it already...

I couldn't get into this story right away because the topic and style don't hit the right buttons for me, so I put it aside for a few weeks. But once I got reading and really drawn in, I couldn't put it down. The scenario: after the attack of New York, Clint remembers Natasha and him being in love, Natasha doesn't, and neither of them can be sure whose memory is right. There are no easy fixes... the story is complex, sad yet hopeful, and overall quite beautiful.

fanart rec: Budapest: movie poster
Black Widow & Hawkeye
Damn, that thing looks *good*. Shiny. :)