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So I made an "arc reactor" for my second Halloween costume, and per request by calzephyr, here's how.

( Instructions, ingredients, and images )

And here's a few selfies of the final product.


This was inspired by the fanfic Loki and Toni's Excellent Adventure in World Saving, which has a female Toni Stark. pprfaith (author) and reena_jenkins (podficcer and editor) write an amazing Toni - she's got so much depth to her reactions to the world and to what has happened to her. She's completely consistent with the Tony Stark in the films, but with the added complexity possible in writing, and add on top of that all the struggles of a woman in the normal world, let alone the business/engineering/superhero world that she's made her own, and on top of that she was born the wrong gender for what her father Howard Stark wanted, and you have an amazingly broken but still REAL Toni Stark. She is all bluster and bravado, and even she never knows how much of it is real and how much is a show intended to throw other people off track. And all of it is entirely believable.

Go read it.

Originally posted on Dreamwidth. comments there. Comment here or there.

Aw man, now I'm wishing I'd set my Halloween party for the 27th instead of Nov 3rd.

http://community.livejournal.com/alchemy_dc/1102701.html

My LiveJournal Trick-or-Treat Haul
zandperl goes trick-or-treating, dressed up as scientist.
amavia gives you 16 dark green banana-flavoured pieces of bubblegum.
galbinus_caeli gives you 2 dark blue apple-flavoured gummy bats.
jethereal gives you 15 white orange-flavoured gummy bats.
kelsin tricks you! You get a rotten egg.
l0stmyrel1g10n gives you 5 pink orange-flavoured pieces of chewing gum.
meredithanne42 gives you 8 dark blue coffee-flavoured jawbreakers.
oh_chris tricks you! You lose 27 pieces of candy!
q10 gives you 5 tan vanilla-flavoured gummy worms.
sammka gives you 14 yellow spearmint-flavoured gumdrops.
sarrichelle tricks you! You get a rock.
zandperl ends up with 38 pieces of candy, a rotten egg, and a rock.
Go trick-or-treating! Username:
Another fun meme brought to you by rfreebern.

oh_chris and kelsin, why do you have to be so mean? :'(

Haven't seen this one since last year, not that I can find that link. That version picked friends automatically I think.