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[selenay]

Yesterday my GP gave me prescription narcotics (well, OK, only Tylenol but still!) because he is awesome. He didn't even tell me to see a physio (possibly because I mentioned that I manage my back through OTC stuff and exercise) and he took the "No NSAIDs due to colits" thing in his stride.

Lovely GP.

This is so that, should my back turn into a total bitch during my flights and I can't get up and walk around due to turbulence (honestly, I've never had a trans-Atlantic flight not have turbulence for at least half the trip), I can take something that might have a hope of getting me down from "OMG, pain!!!!!" to something more reasonable and workable.

If it loops me slightly so that I don't care about "OMG pain!!!", that would probably work just as well.

Look at me, being all forward thinking and stuff.


In fannish news...

Three days with AO3 and the "The Avengers (2012)" tag have shown me that:

1) Coulson/Hawkeye may be my OTP. Just shoot me now.
2) I'm not completely averse to Tony/Steve, even though I adore the Tony/Pepper relationship in the films.
3) Thor/anyone at all does not work for me.
4) However, Thor as comic relief does work for me. I don't even...
5) I'm still at the fluff and silly stage of discovering a new fandom
6) There needs to be more fic (of all types) about Natasha and/or Maria Hill
7) I love my 3G enabled iPad because I can browse fic during my lunch break
8) I may need to load some fic up on my Kindle for the trip

Speaking of the trip, I'm starting to plan my reading and watching stuff. There is going to be a long of plain, train and automobile time. The Hugo voting packet should be out sometime within the next week, so I plan to take all of that with me (yay Kindle PDF conversion!) plus the pre-reading that I've planned. If Chicks Dig Comics ever arrives, that will be with me for reading when I have to have electronics off during the flights. I would argue about whether a Kindle could possibly take down a Boeing 747, but as I want to stay on the flight, I'll just have a dead tree book to dip into instead.

Now I'm planning out my other entertainment. I need some non-Hugo reading with me so that I can take breaks if I need it. That means I need to go through my Amazon wishlist and select a few things that I've bookmarked. Note to self: pick a mix of fun and serious. You know what happens when you pick all silly or all serious.

I have taken advantage of the Avengers sale on Comixology and grabbed a couple of things. There are also new issues of Batgirl, Nightwing, Stormwatch and Demon Knights waiting for me. I've also got the first couple of issues of a newish Wolverine book. I may conduct another Comixology raid when new stuff goes up tomorrow and get the last volume of Joss Whedon's run on Astomishing X-Men at the same time.

I'm planning to download some videos from the BBC iPlayer app because I know that won't work overseas. I'm also half-thinking about Game of Thrones.

You see, on the one hand I'm still attached to having physical DVDs of my videos just in case. On the other hand, the only DVD player in the house is attached to the only TV in my house and my mother is unlikely to want to watch GoT. As she's staying with me for six months after I get back, this could put a serious crimp in my attemps to watch GoT in a timely manner.

So I'm seriously considering purchasing from iTunes and popping some of the episodes onto my iPad. Am I talking the crazy talk?

My iPad: bought to be productive, primarily used for fic, comics and videos. Heh.

Comments

[selenay]

I have said many times that including the digital version with the DVD is one of the best anti-piracy tactics they could try. Pretty much no boxset series has that, though :-( My laptop died last year. I could utilise my desktop, but it wouldn't really be that comfy.

I just did a big dump of Avengers fic onto my Kindle. I love AO3 so much :_) It's amazing how good fic is at convincing a person to love convert to a pairing not previously considered! I pick up new comics as I go from Comixology and I have an amazing local library to raid for older stuff or things that I'm not sure about yet.

[fyrdrakken]

Digital versions are actually nearly useless for me, since the only devices I have that could play them live at home anyway, and if I'm packing up my netbook for a trip then throwing in the external CD/DVD drive and a few disks isn't much more trouble than bringing an external hard drive with vid files. I bought a few DVDs from Amazon (the ones that leap to mind being True Blood box sets) for which Amazon included online digital copies as freebies, but I think I need streaming access to view them, and for that I need to be at home on my desktop to watch, and if I'm at home watching I might as well just grab the DVDs and go watch on the big TV in the living room instead. (Big reason I didn't go for Kindle Fire -- only works with wi-fi, and I only have regular wi-fi access at home. And if I'm at home, I have better viewing options than a tiny pad.)

But I can wax full wrothful on the topic of DRM and companies so antsy at the thought of piracy that they make life harder on their actual legitimate paying customers -- earlier this week I wanted an e-book of a text that Amazon only offered in hard copy, but I had the thought to check and see if e-versions were available elsewhere and I found it. Only the site in question made it such a headache to access the book once purchased -- I'd have been all set if I had an iPad/iPhone/iTunes account, or an Android phone, or a physical Nook or Kobo e-reader, but it refused to work properly with a mere Kobo app on my Blackberry, so I'm stuck reading it on a computer -- and they made me jump through hoops installing special software to read it and creating a new account (and tried to make it so that I could only have the account and software set up on a single computer)... Anyway, the point is that I only had a few hours all week to do any reading at all on the book, but if I could have gotten it onto my Kindle or phone I'd have been finished by now, and I'm pretty much never buying an e-book from Google Play again. And if I'd have gone looking for a pirated copy of this (and could actually find one), I'd have had no trouble using Calibre to convert it to MOBI (or at least to an ePUB I could read using Mobipocket on my phone).

Seeing the trailer months ago (coupled with the explosion of interest amongst the Tumblrs I follow) led to me dipping my toes into Tony/Steve and finding that it was good. Rewatching IM and IM2 before seeing the Avengers reminded me that my biggest problem with Tony/Pepper is the dynamic they have starting out where he's a feckless irresponsible jerk running around doing what he wants and leaving it to Pepper to trail around behind him cleaning up his messes and generally being a convenience for him -- even making her a CEO rather than his assistant, there's too much of an established pattern there to make me feel comfortable with them as a romantic pairing. It seems like too much of a raw deal for her -- there's that habit of a power imbalance established for them to fall back into. I like the dynamic better with Steve, of them being too evenly matched for Tony to throw his weight around. Also, Chris Evans is very pretty. But anyway -- still need time to do a lot of catching up on comics backstory online! (Via the Marvel site, and flash, which means tethered to a computer...)