I Have A Mighty Need

I really don't care what happens in Avengers 2: The Age of Ultron. I don't care about the plot. I don't care if Thor or Loki is in it. I'll be happy to see Agent Phil Coulson, but he isn't necessary.

No.

What I really want is the Winter Soldier.

He must be in it.

I have it all planned out. This is how it goes:

The Avengers are confronting the villain. Perhaps the villain is threatening the innocent populace; perhaps he has a weapon of mass destruction on hand. Perhaps he is doing the usual evil monologue. At any rate, they can't deal with him immediately because of various circumstances. And then...

BOOM. HEADSHOT.

The first and only indication anyone gets of the Winter Soldier is a sniper bullet suddenly taking out the villain.

Cue the newest addition to the Avengers team and even more epicness.

Please. This must happen. I'm begging you, Marvel. Do it. Dooooooo it.

In Pace Christi,

Elyse

"Dispersion of light occurs when the index of refraction depends on the wavelength of light. This dispersion is responsible for rainbows and Pink Floyd album covers."

-- my physics teacher, being awesome as usual

Cue The Wailing And Flailing

I saw Captain America: The Winter Soldier.

Accurate gif is accurate. My brain literally hurt from the awesomeness. As for my feels? They've been pretty much destroyed.

Gah.

In Pace Christi,

Elyse

*Insert Keyboard Smash Here*

So I was just looking up the Fullmetal Alchemist voice actors on TVTropes.

Travis Willingham (Roy Mustang) is the voice of Mori from Ouran High School Host Club?

Vig Mignogna (Edward Elric) is the voice of Femio in Princess Tutu and Spirit Albarn in Soul Eater?

Laura Bailey (Lust) is married to Travis Willingham and is the voice of Tohru Honda from Fruits Basket and Maka Albarn from Soul Eater?

I think I need to go sit down quietly for a while and digest this.

...I REALLY need to watch Soul Eater now!!!!

In Pace Christi,

Elyse

More Of My Nerd Problems

I did a couple more:

Although today it turned out one of the people in the class didn't know Disney had bought Lucasfilms and that two more Star Wars films were on their way. Where exactly has he been for the past year?

I swear, when I saw that rock in the glass case in the science building with the placard "sillimanite", the first thing I thought was, "Silmaril." And if there's anything I've learned from The Silmarillion, it's that the Silmarils are Magnets Of Doom. Do not touch.

In Pace Christi,

Elyse

Anime Papa Frankie!

It's a very pretty illustration from Catholic Anime, which never fails in its crusade to spread Catholicism through anime. I believe this picture is supposed to depict Argentina (quite fittingly) from Axis Powers Hetalia. As I do not follow that series, I cannot say for sure.

(I'm also not sure why Argentina would be blond, but it fits in nicely with the elegant golden vestments).

And, yes, 'Papa Frankie' is a nickname for Pope Francis. If there are t-shirts and mugs labeling John Paul II the Great 'Xtreme Papa' and Pope Benedict XVI as 'Papa Ben', then we can start calling Pope Francis 'Papa Frankie'. It's very nice.

Also, if you think the Pope is going to change official church doctrine.... neener, neener, neener. Joke's on you. I saw a syndicated columnist today admitting to a grudging liking to Pope Francis, although he said he wouldn't approve fully of him until he changed his mind about priestly celibacy, ordination of women, etc. Blah, blah, blah. When will these people understand that the Pope cannot change the dogmas of the Church? I guess the concept of objective truth is so lost to them that they cannot even begin to appreciate or respect the belief in it that others have. We must all conform to their nonconformity, and they do not even see the irony.

It doesn't help that at every family get together on one side of the family the Protestant members delight in repeating the various misinterpretations by the media of the Pope's words for our 'benefit'. We keep telling them that we don't trust the media to repeat the Pope's words faithfully, but somehow they assume that those misquotes prove something. I don't know.

I keep forgetting that logic doesn't work on most people.

In Pace Christi,

Elyse

Smaug, Sherlock, & Pterosaurs

So, guess who got a DVD copy of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug yesterday.

So I decided to continue my "Nerd Problems" series in honor of Smaug.

Confession time: I did not actually think those exact words when I first saw Smaug. Actually, I thought this: "Oh my gosh! He looks like an azhdarchid pterosaur! AWESOME!!!"

The better-informed nerd paleontologist afficiandoes on TVTropes, however, have stated that Smaug's body design is more reminiscent of an ornithocheiroid pterosaur, so I will follow their lead. Nevertheless, 'azhdarchid' is an infinitely cooler word than 'ornithocheiroid'. The Persian word for 'dragon' beats the Greek for 'bird hand' any day. Also, Quetzalcoatlus northropi is an azhdarchid, which makes that genus 20% more awesome.

Also, I found this highly amusing picture while looking up large pterosaurs:

That's right. Some artist seriously took the time to compare Arambourgiania philadelphiae to Sherlock. Sherlock Holmes, of Sherlock, played by Benedict Cumberbatch. Seriously. They even drew his purple scarf! I could hardly believe my eyes when I saw it. "Surely not," I thought. "They wouldn't actually put Sherlock in a pterosaur diagram."

Nevertheless, I clicked on the image to enlarge it. Sure enough, it was Sherlock. I immediately knew I had to blog it. (Don't believe me? Go to the Wikipedia article.)

Since I've seen so many fanart of Smaug wearing Sherlock's purple scarf, it seemed only appropriate that these pictures should end up in the same post together.

Also, they are not 'pterodactyls'. That refers only to the members of one specific type of pterosaur. The name for all prehistoric flying reptiles is pterosaur - Greek for 'winged reptile'. Get your facts straight, people.

Yes, it bothers me every time I see 'pterodactyl' misused now.

In Pace Christi,

Elyse

Yes, I See The Resemblance

Someone commented: "Looks like Obi-Wan took his uniform from a priest."

Haha, you think?

And, just for good measure:

Oh, why not? I'll just post all my Catholic Star Wars funnies.

Catholic geeks have the best sense of humor. Just sayin'. XD

In Pace Christi,

Elyse

Dang You, Ed

So I bought the three-volume set of volumes 19, 20, and 21 of Fullmetal Alchemist today. Much epicness ensued. My family can testify that my reactions pretty much consisted of incoherent wailing and flailing.

Also, the words, "Dang you, Ed," were mentioned a few times. Why? Take a look:

It's not fair. It's just not fair. It was okay in the first few volumes because he was still a cute little kid. But now time has gone past (there's been a 6-month timeskip, too) and... well... Ed definitely looks older. Dang him.

I have other feels about Fullmetal right now (most of the Greed-related... weirdly enough. These three volumes really made me like Greed and Hohenheim, two characters whom I had just been meh about before), but let's just make this post Ed-centric, shall we?

Okay, so this post may also degenerate into anti-Twilight... but that is always an acceptable usage of a post and I am perfectly happy to demonstrate the manifold ways in which Edward Elric > Edward Cullen.

There is one and only Team Edward to which you should belong. Just sayin'.

Funnily enough, I actually got to this part in the manga today. He punched through a wall and choked a guy. While still standing on the other side of the wall.

WHILE STILL EATING.

In fact, some soldiers are pointing guns at him, and, "NOM NOM NOM" is written next to him to denote his nonchalant chewing.

Edward Elric, people.

Look, it's Ed being adorable for once! Quick, get the camera and record the moment for posterity!

AKA that moment in the first episode when you realized things were probably going to get epic.

AKA that moment in the first episode when you knew things were gonna get EPIC.

And things have only gotten more epic from there.

In Pace Christi,

Elyse

Oh, Look, FailBlog Again

But, see, there I am among my own kind - the geeks!

I have a lot of pity for Tuxedo Mask, who always got the short end of the stick, to tell the truth. Apparently, they're doing a new anime for Sailor Moon. Hmm....

Sounds like a new opportunity to stretch my snarking muscles. XD

In Pace Christi,

Elyse