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Dropbox Acquires Mailbox.

Doctor Who: New Series 7 Launch Trailer 2013.

The Doctor Who 50th Anniversary trailer has been released.

The Doctor at Comic Relief 2013.

Back to the TARDIS T-Shirt.

Geek Parents Name Child After Dark Knight Rises’ Bane. Their other children are named after Star Trek (Lore and Dacx) and Highlander (Kurgan—sadly, not a Methos to be seen) characters.

X-Men: Days of Future Past Adds Daniel Cudmore, Fan Bingbing, and Booboo Stewart. Cudmore reprises his role as Colossus, BingBing will be Blink—no word as to who Stewart is playing just yet, though.

X-Men: Days Of Future Past Will Be Azazel-less.

Secrets Behind The X-Men: Was Cable or Stryfe the clone, and who had the cure for the Legacy Virus?

10 Comic Book Characters We’ve Watched Grow Up.

Drawing Crazy Patterns – Captain America’s Unbreakable Shield Breaking

RIP, Young Justice and Green Lantern: The Animated Series.

Batman Beyond, Justice League Unlimited, and more coming to Netflix.

Own The Original Art For The Death of Robin.

Diggle, Lobdell, Pak & Snyder Celebrate Superman Part II

Iron Man Desk Lamp

Best Art Ever (This Week): March 15th.

Awesome Art Picks Shazam, Batman, Black Cat and More

A Nice Little Pile Of Preview Screenings Set For Wondercon – Doctor Who, Orphan Black, Hannibal And More

Watch the first footage from BBC America’s Orphan Black.

What Exactly Does A Firefly Crew Air Freshener Smell Like?

John Cho joins Sleepy Hollow.

Here’s The First 3 Minutes of the Grimm Fairy Tales Pilot. It doesn’t look good to me.

Comics And Classical Music? With Brian Blessed And Kickstarter, Surely It Can Work

Weekend Discussion Thread: Bad (or B) Movies That Deserve To Be Preserved.

Killer POV: Ep. 5: The Flocking of a Birdemic 2

Film Bin Commentaries: Return To Oz (1985)

Death’s Door Prods: Let’s Watch—Resident Evil: Extinction (2007).

Game of Thrones star Wilco Johnson has terminal pancreatic cancer.

Buffy vs. Edward remix unfairly removed by Lionsgate.

It’s official: 2012 was the hottest year ever in the U.S.

New Year, New You? 10 Extreme Superhero Makeovers.

What TV shows should others resolve to add in 2013?

All The Essential Science Fiction and Fantasy Books That Are Coming In 2013

The Dark Knight Trilogy In 3 Minutes.

Justice League Exclusive: Making The Animated Series, Part 1.

Every Significant Superman Logo Infographic.

Warner Bros. wins huge legal decison in Superman case—Updated

Stan Lee's Real Life Radioactive Ooze

Son of Atop The Fourth Wall Live.

A House Shaped Like a Flying Saucer, Perched Atop a Volcano

Revisiting Torchwood: James Moran interview.

Starfleet Academy Class Ring (2009)

Texas Chainsaw 3D Sequel Talk Premature, No Movement Yet

New Line Announces Y: The Last Man Director

Prometheus, ParaNorman, Frankenweenie, Hitchcock Take Oscar Nominations.

Skyfall, The Hobbit and The Avengers Nominated For Academy Awards. The latter one is for Visual Effects, and Whedonesque reacts to the news here.

The Great Stephen King Re-Read: Different Seasons.

Carrie - Official Teaser (Revised Release Date)

The Hobbit Re-Read: Chapter 8, Flies and Spiders.

Aaron Johnson has been offered the human lead in Godzilla.

Horror Etc Podcast, Episode 282: The Horror Hall of Fame

Hey Kids, Comics Podcast, Season 2, Episode 5: Knightfall, Part 3.

Saturday B Movie Reel #94—The Monster of Phantom Lake.

Mission Log #23—Episode 23—A Taste of Armageddon.

Sean Pultz Commentaries: Ghostbusters (1984) Commentary.

We’re up to Dumpster #11 for Nellie’s house. One of the workers has just been hauling everything daily, even as the others are rotated in and out in shifts...as of today, between pulling things out, he’s just staggering through the rain, looking done in. Which isn’t a surprise, since it’s looking like she had more stuff in there than could possibly fit, and the workers are still not done.

U.S. And Russia Announce Online Piracy Crackdown Agreement.

The Best of Rifftrax Live In Theaters January.

Christmas With Rifftrax: Santa’s Village of Madness (Sample).

James Marsden - With Great Power Extended Interview

Happy Holidays From Stan Lee.

The opening scene of Doctor Who’s The Snowmen.

Weekend Discussion Thread: Christmas Movies/Specials That Should Be Riffed (Round 2)

The Power List: 22 People Who Supercharged Science Fiction And Fantasy In 2012.

Sir Ian McKellen’s favorite Hobbit scene didn’t even make it in the movie.

Fan Art Fridays: Danny Hellman’s ‘Strange Santa’ Illustrations. Santa as Van Helsing—odd crossover.

Awesome Art Picks: Joker, Spider-Man, Darkseid And More.

Kristen Stewart Confirms Return For Snow White And The Huntsman Sequel.

The New Writer of Batgirl Is…Gail Simone.

ABC exorcises 666 Park Avenue from its schedule.

Leverage Cancelled, Series Finale To Air December 25th.

Addictive TV series you can mainline right now to escape the holiday blues.

I Love Ya But You’re Strange—Batman And Plastic Man Have A Buttlegging Christmas.

Geek Gear: Batman ‘Harley Country’ Shirt.

Illyana Rasputin, as drawn by Art Adams.

Oh, the world didn’t end yesterday? Nutcracker Galactus will take care of that.

Ghostbusters-Inception Mash-Up Is Why The Internet Was Created.

Christopher Lee has just released two heavy metal Christmas covers.

Bad Movie Fiends Podcast #156: Christmas Rush (2002)

Smodcast: Paul Dini: The Dini Dossiers: Part 4. They’re discussing holiday-themed episodes of Batman: The Animated Series and Justice League Unlimited.

Livejournal sent me a notice saying that the x_meggan Paid Account expires in 5 days. Even though I used those tokens to renew it. Even if it says the extra icons are renewed until sometime in 2013. We’ll see if the LJ tokens actually worked in 5 days, then. If not, I’ll just end up going through and deleting icons when I have the time.

Marie Wallace is recovering from her October injury.

Merlin officially not returning for Series 6. Whedonesque reacts to the news here.

Merlin final series: Colin Morgan, Anthony Stewart Head on show end.

What’s next for Merlin?

Merlin Spin-Off Planned—But Without The Original Creators

Webcomic Gift Ideas For People Who Don’t Read Webcomics.

J. Michael Straczynski: Moloch, Superman, & Digital Speculation

Superman on TV: November 26th-December 2nd.

This Just Happened: A Romance Is Revealed.

Man of Steel Could Be Linked To Justice League, Zack Snyder Hints.

Trailers From Hell: Brian Trenchard-Smith on The Way of the Dragon.

Amazon has the Ghostbusters Blu-Ray for $9.49 today.

Sony and Atari shut down PS3 servers for Ghostbusters: The Video Game.

Air New Zealand Shows Off Hobbit Plane.

Literal: The Hobbit Trailer.

Sherlock season 3 might not air until 2014.

The 5 Best (And 1 Worst) Films of John Carpenter.

From Cracked: 5 Insane Pop Culture Crossovers That Almost Happened.

Atop The Fourth Wall: The Incredible Hulk #1.

Alicia Keys sings the Gummi Bears theme son, and it’s beautiful.

That time Jonathan Frakes cosplayed as Captain America.

December 2012 Schedule Details For Justice League Unlimited On Vortexx.

30 Hilariously Untrue Facts About The Avengers.

Star Trek Fine Art Trio Of Spock, Kirk And McCoy From Iron Gut.

Celebrate Syfy/Sci-Fi Channel’s 20th Anniversary.

Hammer takes first steps on stage in Turn of the Screw.

Universal Horror 1930-1946—Filmography

Captain America—Bad Days—Episode 8.

Greatest Movie Ever Podcast: The Proposition (2005)

Film Sack Podcast #141: Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008)

Commentary Monthly Monday, Episode 301: Galaxy Quest (1999) Commentary

I am still in need of a beta reader for my Yuletide fanfic. If you don’t know anything about the Pushing Daisies fandom, but have the time to look over the story for spelling or punctuation errors, that’s still fine. As mentioned in another post, it’s 7689 words long.

Yuletide: Selecting Characters During Sign-Up. Meanwhile, I'm on the brink of adding Beetlejuice and Real Ghostbusters to the offer pile. I'll decide for certain later.

The upcoming schedule for the 2013 round of the Not Prime Time Ficathon.

AMC settles Dish dispute.

Six-Strikes ‘Independent Expert’ Is RIAA’s Former Lobbying Firm.

Marie Wallace injured in Connecticut stage production. Best wishes to her on a speedy recovery.

Dark Shadows: Movie Visual Companion Preview Pictures.

Horror Education of the Week: Poltergeist.

Official Artwork and Synopsis: Mockingbird Lane.

Grandpa Munster Gets Gory In One Of Two New Mockingbird Lane Photos.

Cinemassacre’s Monster Madness—80’s Rerun: Hellraiser.

Longbox of the Damned: The New Teen Titans #12.

Rare Halloween Videos: 1985: The Fall Guy—October The 32nd.

Warner Bros. Now Owns Paramount’s Friday The 13th Library.

5 Horror Movies With Amazing Endings.

13 Ghosts of Halloween: Day 3.

Top 10 Scary Places In 80’s Horror Movies.

Monster In My Pocket Trading Cards Review—Part 1.

Give A Book For All Hallow’s Read 2012.

Trailers From Hell: John Landis on Island of Lost Souls.

Good Bad Flicks Review: Night of the Comet (1984)

Sofie Liv reviews Dracula (1931).

2012 Top 100 Comic Book Runs #45-41.

2012 Top 100 Comic Book Runs #40-36.

2012 Top 100 Comic Book Runs #35-31.

The 10 Greatest Giant Movie Monsters Of All Time.

Science In Our Comics.

16 ways cartoonist Winsor McCay quietly changed the world.

Superman on TV: October 22-28.

Star Trek captains boldly go to London convention. This all apparently culminated in Barrowman leaping forward with the request that Scott Bakula sign his right buttock, quite possibly to the surprise of absolutely nobody.

Pocket Paradox’s Flux Capacitor app free until October 25th, 2012.

11 Predictions That Back To The Future II Got Right.

The Cinefiles—Batman Part 2: The Nolan Years.

Producer Eric Radomski Discusses Twenty Years Of Batman: The Animated Series.

Take A Vacation From Gotham City Crime In The Batman Hotel Room.

The AV Club reviews the Justice League episode Starcrossed.

Atop The Fourth Wall: Spider-Man: Power And Responsibility.

Excellent high-voltage warning glyph.

Saint Paul couple opens the Library of Justice.

Live The Wolverine Chat with Mangold and Jackman on October 29th.

Colbert’s Hobbit Cameo Confirmed.

Comics Alliance Reviews BloodRayne (2005), Part One.

From Tor: Ghosts In the Machines, written by Neil Gaiman.

Arrow Gets Full Season From The CW.

Beauty and the Beast gets order for more…scripts.

First Image of Iron Man 3’s New Villain, The Mandarin.

Iron Man 3 gets another trailer teaser.

Star Wars made entirely out of scarecrows wins best Halloween lawn on this Earth.

M.O.D.O.K. marionette is every bit as terrifying as you imagine.

The Avengers Earns Another $33.3 Million From Home Video Sales.

Best Cosplay Ever (This Week)—October 22nd.

Please explain Babylon 5 to us.

Blade Runner—30th Anniversary DVD Clip.

Movie Issues Podcast: The Universal Monsters.

Two True Freaks Podcast, Commentary Monthly Monday: Episode 294: Poltergeist (1982)

Film Sack Podcast, Episode 136: Children of the Corn (1984)

Tysto Commentary Podcast: They Live (1988) Commentary

Nerdist Podcast: NY Comic Con.

Leading ‘Ethical’ TV Show BitTorrent Tracker Shut Down By FACT. The site in question is UKNova.

Rapidshare Goes Down Locally.

Dropbox upgrades security with two-factor authentication.

Karl Kesel, Marvel Comics Writer, Sells Comic Book Collection For Adoption Of Baby With Heroin Exposure.

Fan Expo Canada: Marvel’s X-Men Panel In Art.

Fan Expo Canada: Darwyn Cooke vs. Amanda Conner…To The Death, But Not Really.

Fan Expo: James Marsters and Juliet Landau Look Back On Buffy.

Geoff Johns and David Finch add Stargirl, Catwoman, and more to the brand new Justice League of America.

The Abandoned An’ Forsaked—So How Many Ice Maidens Are There?

Frantic as a cardiograph scratching out the lines, Day 239: Detective Comics #610.

When We First Met—The Life Of Roy Harper.

Stephanie Brown and Cassandra Cain will return.

17 Fictional TV Towns With Personality.

David Hadju reads from The Ten-Cent Plague.

Comics in the classroom: news and resources round-up.

Hobbyist builds working S.H.I.E.L.D. helicarrier.

5 Horror Movies With Horrible Endings.

Dancing With The Stars: Sabrina Bryan wins viewers’ choice vote.

Deadpool Pie.

Probably Not What Batman Would Carry: Batarang Knives.

Mighty Axes and Beer-Soaked Beards: The Portrayal of Dwarves In Fantasy.

The first five pages of Justice League #12.

The Dark Knight Rises Box Office Update.

Superman on TV: From August 27th, to September 2nd.

Michael Dorn Talks Trek, Kickstarter, and More, Part 1. Part 2.

Doctor Who Prequel: Pond Life, Part 1.

A Warm Welcome For Doctor Who In New York.

More Pics of Carrie Before And After Her Blood Drenching.

Freddie Wong and Brandon Laatsch recreate a scene from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

Steampunk Madam Vader Cosplay.

4 Cool New Posters For American Horror Story: Asylum.

Comics Alliance Reviews X-Men: The Last Stand (2006), Part One.

Kevin Feige On Why Guardians of the Galaxy Was Greenlit; Seemingly Confirms Thanos.

Perhaps the most disturbing cereal ad ever filmed.

Watching reruns can actually help restore willpower.

Continuum renewed for second season. Now when will the U.S. get it?

Norman Bates’ mother has been cast in A&E’s Psycho tv series: Vera Farmiga.

Jo Blo Podcast Commentary: Jaws (1975)

Film Sack Podcast #128: Wild Wild West.

Weirdly, I was just nominated for the Wicked Awards for a ship_manifesto essay I wrote for Angel/Darla back in 2006. I have until September 1st to accept or reject this nomination. Looking through it now, I see almost all of the links are dead (a couple went to Geocities) and gone, several fanfic sites turned to dust, and at least one journal has been deleted and purged. I’m leaning towards rejecting this nomination due to the fact it wouldn’t be of any practical use to people these days, and is barely an overview.

Ron Palillo has passed away, at the age of 63, after suffering a heart attack in his sleep. May he rest in peace. He will perhaps best be remembered as Horshack from Welcome Back, Kotter.

SurfTheChannel Owner Sentenced To Four Years In Jail.

John Williams’ classic Superman score will not be in Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel.

Off My Mind: Jason Todd’s Relationship With The Bat-Family.

DC Comics spoils Joker reveal, irks Greg Capullo.

Flawless Victory: Pop Culture Rematches To Rival Olympic Wins.

Back to the Future Type DeLorean Hovercraft.

Who’s the coolest supporting character on genre tv right now?

Warner Shuts Down Direct-to-Video Division.

Michael J. Nelson on MST3K and the heavily anticipated return of Manos: The Hand of Fate.

Rifftrax Live: Manos: The Shorts.

Guess Which Marvel Character Is Most Popular Right Now On The Social Web.

Kelly Sue DeConnick Takes Over Avengers Assemble.

First clip from The Possession.

Interview: Brian K. Vaughn on the first Saga collection.

Just How Many Crossovers Does DC Have In November?

Jack Kirby’s granddaughter has a message for his fans.

Scotland’s influence on 2000 AD’s Judge Dredd.

Ed Asner’s 10 Geekiest Voice-Acting Roles.

Joe Carnahan’s Daredevil Idea Just ‘Went Up In Smoke’ At Fox.

The Geek Zodiac. 1981 is the Year of the Astronaut.

The Real Ghostbusters T-Shirt.

‘Those pesky kids have the phonebox’ T-shirt.

The Monster Squad Was Released 25 Years Ago Today: Fred Dekker Talks About The Film’s Reception And Anniversary.

Happy Birthday ‘The Rocky Horror Picture Show’…37 Years And Still Running.

Biggest Box Office Hits And Misses Of Summer 2012.

Someone made a Battleship cake.

8 Obscure Yet Great British Shows.

The 12 Greatest Moments From Justice League Unlimited. All the moments I could think of managed to make the list.

The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Daleks. While I’ve linked to this before, this is an edited version—there’s a different voice narrating and he sounds much more like the late Peter Jones.

From Cracked: 6 Insane True Stories Behind The Stage Names of Celebrities.

The Top 10 Doctor Who Cliffhangers. Utopia and Bad Wolf are, thankfully, mentioned.

David Tennant singing the Modern Major General.

Over at The Nerdy Bird, someone’s going to have a Back to the Future themed 30th birthday party. A stretch limo that looks like the DeLorean is part of this.

Weep for humanity--behold Tent City. I'm not interested in following Twilight, but I had to stop and stare when I saw this. Follow the link to the post at ohnotheydidnt for more pictures. I think the Twilight fans managed to beat all other fandoms for level of obsession. Mostly because I believe they were camped out far longer than people camped out for The Phantom Menace.

And if I understand right, this was only to see the stars of the movie walk by? And the signs. The horribly spelled signs. I’ve also seen the pictures of people under Twilight-themed blankets while waiting. Besides any other comment I could possibly make, isn’t it too hot outside? It’s hit 110 degrees this week where I am, but I don’t know about L.A.

Title: Yes, Virginia, There Is A Martian Manhunter
Author: calliopes_pen
Rating: PG-13
Written For: sasha_anu, for the "Revenge of the DCAU" Ficathon.
Prompt: What is the story of J'onn's relationship with that woman in China?
Word Count: 1918 words
Beta Reader: seandc
Spoilers: Mostly spoilers from Destroyer.
Notes: This is the first time I have ever tried to write seriously for the DC Universe or Justice League Unlimited. Until now, it’s mostly been Firefly and the occasional BtVS fanfic involving Willow.

( Just how did J’onn meet the lady seen in the China scene in Destroyer? )

The story is also posted in the JLA Unlimited Archive, here.