California Critters

Since arriving at my parents' house to help them with their move to Oregon, it is as if the wildlife were flocking about me to say their farewells. In the past three days, I've met (outside of the everyday wildlife sightings):

* a doe with two fawns
* the same skunk twice
* two toads
* a small, brown snake
* a large fence lizard in the dining room
* a Stellar's jay
* a flock of turkeys with two sets of babies (one half grown, one newly hatched)
* a quail
* a very small tick
* Ally the Alligator Lizard, who is rooming with me in the yurt and left me a present of his shed skin today.

X-Men Character Meta

Character thoughts sparked by X-Men: First Class...

X-Men has long been typified by excellent character development, well beyond my expectation for superhero comic fantasy. This was true in the cartoon (my first introduction) and truer in the (good) movies. But X-Men: First Class has raised the standard for me and prompted meta.

Beneath the cut, some character thoughts on Charles and Erik (respectively; I'll do relationship meta in the next installment). Spoilers for X-Men: First Class and potentially the first three movies, though I hereby decanonize the third, which I can only explain as Jean telepathically infecting everybody with a horrible, horrible dream.

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