marcicat | Entries tagged with hoodies

My absolute FAVORITE thing about cooler weather is hooded sweatshirts. (Really any sweatshirt, but hoodies provide additional benefits. Like a hood!) And it's not like you can't wear a hoodie even when it's swelteringly hot, but it just lacks a certain something.

The days when all you need to do to leave the house is put on a hoodie are excellent, because you don't have to worry about what's underneath. Still in pajamas? No problem. No bra? No problem. Wearing the same shirt you had on the day before? No problem!

So versatile. So cozy. And they almost always have pockets!

So I read this post by starandrea, and then I read this accidental primer for The King's Avatar by no_detective, and THEN I read this other post by starandrea, and finally I thought 'I guess I better check this out.'

It turns out the way to get me to watch something is:

1. starandrea likes it.
2. it's described as "low stress"

Seriously, I had a blast watching 'The Untamed,' but it was not a low stress show. Everything was always GRIPPINGLY IMPORTANT and THEY MIGHT DIE or maybe just CRY A LOT FROM THE SADNESS OF EXISTENCE. Also, there was a war.

'The King's Avatar' reminds me a lot of what I liked about Power Rangers, except the fighting parts are all virtual! Even better! (Now I don't have to worry about anyone's insurance premiums, or that extremely unlucky warehouse district.)

So, my initial reactions to 'The King's Avatar' were:

1. The music is great. OF COURSE IT IS. (I laughed out loud when the opening theme started. It felt like one of those 'they didn't have to go that hard, BUT THEY DID' moments.)

2. It took me a while to realize that the Internet cafe is LITERALLY right across the street from his old job. (This also made me laugh.)

3. HOODIES. Aww.

*Had a great idea for a post last night as I was going to bed... have spent the last hour trying to remember what it was.

*In other news, woke up to a charge on my credit card and had a moment of panic where I thought it was fraud, but it was just my monthly icloud payment.

*Sometimes I remember that there are people who actually take note of what others wear, and might comment if someone happened to wear the same thing all the time -- I find this frustrating, as I can barely remember what I wore yesterday (okay, it was pajamas, but generally speaking), and tend to rotate between the same few outfits each season.

*Which is to say, my workplace is definitely not calling me in for this week's audit (yeah, they all happen around the same time, usually, it's maybe on purpose? I think?), so I'll be wearing HOODIES FOR DAYS.

*Which! Means I will not be wearing exactly what I wore last Monday (I can't remember what it was, but I remember complaining that it had no cozy hood, so as long as today's outfit DOES include a cozy hood, it must be different). That's winning, right there.

*Finding that Monday silver lining: achieved.

Time to put away the winter clothes I’m not wearing, and get out the summer clothes that I also won’t wear!

(Despite always *thinking* that I will want more options in the next season, I basically always wind up rotating between the same four pairs of jeans,* 5-10 t-shirts and long-sleeved shirts, and about six sweatshirts. Probably I should just give in to that and it would save a lot of space. On the other hand, it’s hard to shake the feeling that I *might* need some other kind of clothes someday, and it would be so much easier to pull them out of a box in the closet than to go shopping.)

(*I’ve been looking forward to the warmer temps, because there are also three pairs of capris that can be tossed into the rotation. Really mixing it up!)

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*I woke up yesterday and found that I’d managed to disassemble my fitbit while sleeping. (It’s one of those that you can swap the band, so it’s basically designed to come apart; I just had no idea I could do it asleep.) I’m kind of impressed, actually.

*I taught my boss about the incognito tab, which sure was a thing. (In the context of having issues loading a website, and using incognito mode as an alternative to clearing all the cookies on the browser.) I’m pretty sure it only worked because the issue was not, in fact, cookie-related (::cough:: user error ::cough::). But it was fun anyway.

*I realized that in the future, people will be able to “dress the decade” of the 2010s by wearing patterned leggings and a hoodie (and flip flops, for maximum authenticity), and I think that’s great.

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So. Watched the eps with the whole ‘freezing to death in the lab’ situation. I can appreciate the need to create a peril scenario (I guess; I mean, any time I write it always turns out to be a misunderstanding, but I can grasp the concept).

And I am willing to accept that *somehow* the person who can light things on fire with his hands was not helpful in this scenario. (He was injured? It’s not real fire? It is real fire, but they were worried about oxygen? IDK, it’s hand-wave-able.)

I am EVEN willing to accept that APPARENTLY the person who — back on the camping trip — ripped a hole in a mountain wasn’t able to do the same on, say, the wall. Or that fan thing. Or the floor. (He was… also injured? His powers also require a medium to work, and it’s, uh, something that wasn’t there? WHO KNOWS.)

BUT! What I CANNOT accept, and will remain baffled by for all my days, is that Guo was wearing a hoodie that entire time and NEVER put the hood up. EVER. Was it a fake hood? Is this like women’s pants with the fake pockets? Does he look funny with a hood?

In conclusion: all of them were terrible at cold-weather survival; coal star, it’s like you didn’t even try at all; PUT YOUR HOOD UP GUO.

Very Important Addendum: This is why you should always stuff snacks into your pockets any time you go somewhere!

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1. physical recovery time

Between allergies and some foot pain that can probably be pinned on over-exercising, taking a holiday weekend of inaction seemed like a good bet.

2. increased willingness to go back to work

I stayed in a lot, took three(!) naps, and read approximately a zillion words of fanfic. But it was perfect, because it didn’t *feel* boring until about 8 pm on Monday night, which is perfect timing for a return to work on Tuesday.

3. cat bonding time

If we’re taking weather cues from cat fur, it’s going to be a cold winter. On the other hand, he doesn’t even go outside, so what would he know?

4. could have come up with clever journal posts

Yeah, that didn’t happen.

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I have been having a great time ::cough:: at work ::cough:: working my way through all my pinboard tags. I mean, it’s taking a while, but having an AO3 page up on your computer is a lot less obviously non-work-related than, say, a seven and a half minute youtube video of the Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol prison break scene. (Just as an example.)

I have particularly been enjoying my “summaries,” such as they are. I’m not a very detailed pinboard tagger, and in order to get myself to do it at all, I typically just put down the first thing that comes to mind when I think of the fic. This leads to a lot of random summaries, like:

“The one where Tony does a hail mary and Wanda sends him back in time to fix everything. Skrulls!”

(For This time tomorrow (where were we?), by dorcas_gustine. Surprisingly, I’m pretty sure I actually remember this fic!)

It’s also made me especially grateful for AO3 (not just for it’s blending-in-at-work attributes), because so many of the lj links no longer work. (For instance, apparently I once read a fic in which Kurt wears Puck’s hoodie, and also one I summarized “Lucifer gets handsy with Sam, who’s not sure the best way to deal with it,” both of which definitely sound like they’d be worth a re-read.)

In conclusion, reading is fundamental.

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I think looking professional is great, but sometimes I just want to wear t-shirts to work, right? And July is great for that, since it’s all hot and has a vacation-y feel to it anyway.

So, to preserve this clever idea for my future self: promotional t-shirt month. We get a lot of free t-shirts at work (I say a lot, but over 5 years of working there I’ve collected maybe 8, so not all *that* many), but they’re not actually professional garb.

And thus promotional t-shirt month was born, as a chance to wear awesome free t-shirts any day in July! Way to go, self!

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One of my coworkers finally saw Iron Man 3 last week, and had the same reaction I did: “It’s a Christmas movie! That means we get to watch it every Christmas!” It’ll be a Die Hard, Iron Man 3 double feature. (Only the first Die Hard for me, the second one was sad.)

I’ve been thinking, though, and there are a FEW things I would have loved to see in Iron Man 3: The Christmas One

1. AIM beekeepers. Come on, those outfits are timeless! Not even a shoutout, or a joke acknowledgement? (“These guys are so weird. Did you know they keep bees?” DONE.)

2. An actual set of ten rings. Glowing in the dark and/or lighting up optional, but highly recommended. (Personal prediction: the door has purposefully been left open for an actual “Mandarin” to show up in the future.)

3. What does JARVIS get in his stocking? (That sounds like the setup to a terrible joke, but really — JARVIS had a stocking. What goes in it?)

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I almost never need to worry about spoilers, since I’m usually posting about old movies from netflix. But, uh, these are my thoughts about the movie, so they’re a little spoilery.

THINGS I LIKE ABOUT THIS MOVIE
1. It reunites my fashion OTP, Tony Stark/hoodies! Gotta love the hoodies.

2. Oddly, it takes place at Christmas. Based on the numbers tossed around in the movie, I’m assuming that’s Christmas of 2012? There seemed to be some effort made to create a timeline, and I’m interested to find out if that’s just because someone likes timelines, or if it’s going to be consistent throughout the MCU.

(2a. Which means it officially counts as a Christmas movie, just like Die Hard!)

3. Modok is not in it.

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This is not the fic I was planning to write this month, but it’s what I ended up with. (I’m torn between my immense dislike for the events that take place on Arrow, and my immense love for the show’s supporting characters.)

Title: Let Me Guess
Author: marcicat

Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 1900

Fandom: Arrow (that tv show about Green Arrow)
Characters: Felicity Smoak, Thea Queen
Warnings: mentions of drug use and addiction

Summary: Felicity’s still not sure how Laurel’s business trip led to Thea hanging out in her office.

She had news alerts set for all the Queens — side effect of working for the company — so she knew, in a peripheral sort of way, that Thea had been arrested. And she wasn’t in jail, clearly, so something had been worked out. A deal, maybe. Community service?

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Seriously? “No one can know my secret?” (Actual quote from the show!)

What secret is that? Is it the secret of how to perform dazzling acrobatics, feats of strength, and pinpoint accuracy with a bow, all while wearing a hoodie? (HOW DOES THE HOOD STAY ON? HOW CAN HE SEE *ANYTHING* WHILE WEARING A HOOD LIKE THAT?)

Anyway. Interesting pilot. Doesn’t make me want to keep watching the show, but I’m not regretting spending 43 minutes of my evening on it.

In conclusion: DEAR SUPERHEROES, PLEASE FIND SOME FRIENDS. BACKUP IS A GOOD THING, AND IT’S NOT LIKE THE PEOPLE YOU CARE ABOUT AREN’T ALREADY IN DANGER. MAYBE THINK OF IT AS GIVING THEM SOME ADVANCE NOTICE, IF THAT HELPS.

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For work! Fingers crossed for good weather and good spirits. Do I like boats? I’m not sure. I’m liking the clear scheduling of mealtimes, though.

(Note: I’m supposed to be coming up with a “team building activity.” Does trying to eat three saltines and then whistle count as team building?)

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I have no idea what to write next. So I said, “Hey, *Andrea, what should I write next? I’ll write you a birthday fic!” And then we had the idea to exchange fics — I’ll write a fic for her for her birthday, and she’ll write a fic for me, for her birthday. It makes perfect sense as long as you don’t think about it too hard.

The suggestion I got was “You might want to give a bunch of prompts,” so here are my ideas.

*Jesse and Wildfire in the Garden (where ‘Wildfire’ = any or all of the angel kids; I just thought the two of them were cute in Musica Dei).

*There must be a cheat sheet in the Musica universe, right? Useful Latin phrases, angel names, Enochian symbols, that sort of thing. Who started it? Who maintains it? Do the humans have a secret email list where they gossip about the angels?

*What would it take for Cas to say “Confetti! It’s a parade!” in a non-outtake, completely fits into the storyline, kind of way?

*The Titanic AU that explains why Sam and Dean were staying in Gabriel’s apartment while they were hunting.

*Meta!RPF (MPF?) alpaca!fic (they are the greenest animal, after all).

*”Also, I think Sam needs a puppy.” (Hey, you said it!)

*Season 6 has a lot of references to Cas being a child, or being child-like, which seems interesting, since he’s like a bajillion years old. (I have a whole theory about this, that Dean was all ready to go steady with Cas and then Balthazar spilled the beans that Cas is super-young in angel time and that all the other angels thought Dean was robbing the cradle, but that’s neither here nor there.) Still, this seems to be calling out for kid!fic of some kind. I say Dean’s the one always bringing it up in conversation, so he should be the one turned into a kid. So there! (And then Cas can be all, “Okay, this *is* pretty awkward…”)

*I like pajamas.

*And ice cream.

*Which makes me think, I can totally imagine a late-night pajama, ice cream, and fingernail painting party in the Musica verse, and Gabriel would totally paint Sam’s with stuff that changed colors like those mood rings, because it would be hilarious, and also she can’t read his mind, so she should at least be able to read his fingernails, right?

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1. I have eight million blankets, and the cats are sleeping on *all* of them. I’m on the floor with a hoodie and a fleece jacket, and my toes are cold.

2. We have power and I am so, *so* grateful. Also, shoveling snow is quite the arm workout. I’ve been looking forward to going to bed all day.

3. I have been reveling in Yuletide fics. None of them were for me, and yet they’re sort of all for everyone, right?

Yuletide ::hearts:: So Far

Party of Two (Spider-Man Ultimateverse)
“We should hang without masks,” Johnny elaborated. “Well, without you in mask. I wouldn’t be wearing a mask, obviously. I mean, I could, if it would make you feel more comfortable. Are you just really into masks?”
(Peter Parker and Johnny Storm “hang out” on Johnny’s birthday.)

Proper Villains (Oceans movies)
“Litmus configuration test? With a Number 2 pencil? Nice.”
(Basher first meets Rusty in a holding cell, then runs into him years later.)

Down the Shore Everything’s All Right (Hawaii Five-0)
Danny manfully resists giving himself any more head injuries. “See, no. I bet a nationwide survey of not-crazy individuals would conclude that telling your work partner that you’ll take care of everything does not, in fact, equal come live with me and be my love. My love without pants.”
(Danny gets hurt and Steve steps in to help.)

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