Friday: Rec a fic day!

Take a Chance, Take a Chance, by Perpetual Motion (perpetfic)

It’s Tony, Pepper, Bruce, and Hulk — all becoming family. The Fantastic Four cameo with some pants-providing action, Hulk gets a job and reads books, and they’re all adorable and work hard at communicating.

“You and Pepper,” he says to Tony.

“I have a note,” Tony says. He reaches into the pocket of his jeans and pulls out a folded piece of paper. He unfolds it and holds it up so Bruce can read it.

This is Tony’s permission form to make out with you. Have fun!
—PP

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nook news: PANIC PROBABLY WON’T HELP

But I totally panicked anyway. I had this little announcement thing pop up this week about my nook being updated. Okay, whatever, it’s not like I can stop it. But I was going to sort some files today and I was all, “Wait — this looks different!” In that horrible sinking way where “different” means, “Why is the My Downloads folder empty, instead of overflowing with files of awesome?”

Things were still listed in their “shelves,” but every time I tried to open one, I got a message saying “Sorry, that content can no longer be viewed.”

(I THINK OMINOUS MUSIC MAY HAVE BEEN PLAYING AT THIS POINT.)

So I went to google and typed in WHY HAS MY NOOK DELETED ALL MY DOWNLOADS? Somewhat reassuringly, this did not pop up as a frequently searched string of words. According to the tech support questions that were being asked, it looked like it would be worth it to connect the nook to my computer and see what was what.

This is what I did:

1. Awkwardly plug connector cord into computer and nook. Nothing happens.

2. Unplug cord from nook and plug back in. Remember that you’re not supposed to do that.

3. Turn nook off. Nook turns itself back on, magically connected to computer.

4. Search through folders; open My Downloads. Look with huge relief upon all my beautiful files.

5. Select all files. Copy to folder on desktop. Also copy to folder on SD card chip thing in nook.

6. Hold up nook so it can see computer screen. Tell it, “They’re right there! There! See!”

7. Eject nook and SD card chip thing from computer, cross fingers.

8. Successfully locate intact and open-able files on nook!

9. Shake fist at nook software updaters. (But only where nook can’t see.)

Mirrored from The Marci Rating System.