Okay, so this didn’t literally break Tumblr. The site didn’t go down, but… Well, we’ll talk more about that later. I’m prepared to enjoy this teaser with one reservation. Thor is still an affable lunkhead who’ll just zip his girlfriend off to another dimension without much warning; Sif is still a badass; and the opening image of the trailer, which, while minor, I don’t want to spoil, is conceptually fascinating. I do wish this teaser didn’t make such a damsel out of Jane Foster as it appears to. For now, in the absence of more evidence, I’ll trust that her character’s role has been necessarily diminished by the contraints of making a snappy trailer, especially considering Natalie Portman‘s efforts to shake up the behind the scenes gender imbalance in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which Marvel has apparently made “concessions” towards.

Also, I may have been distracted by Loki. You’ll understand what I mean when you watch it.

There’s a chapel in France where the gargoyles are super-geeky. No, I’m not talking about this kind of geeky gargoyle. I mean that some architectural spirit animal of mine made gargoyles inspired by geeky movies and TV.

If you like Alien and Gremlins and are somewhat macabre and inclined to matrimony, I think I’ve found the perfect place for you to get hitched.

Tracy Widdess designed the fantastical creatures you’re about to see from Brutal Knitting. Perfect for Halloween of course but perhaps also something to have fun with walking down a busy city street in the winter? That’s for you to decide. Widdess is available for commissions and exhibitions. Take a look at the monsters of Brutal Knitting.

(Brutal Knitting via GeekTyrant)

Cassandra Clare‘s The Mortal Instruments is the latest young adult fantasy series with a female protagonist to make it to the big screen. What do we think?

Me? I’ve played a lot of D&D in my day, so I’m going to think of them as Aasimar.

(via io9.)

Iridis Elba, veteran of many, many amazing television roles, this summer’s Prometheus and next summer’s Pacific Rim, talked to the Examiner about returning to the role of Heimdall in Thor 2, otherwise known as Thor: The Dark World. The actor delicately skipped around talking about the substance of the movie:

In the new film we’re going to get to know Heimdall the Asgardian a bit better, and we’re going to get to know Asgard a bit better,” Elba said. “I can’t say too much, but the expansion of Thor in his world is going to be huge.

We’ve already seen a few hints of the huge in T:TDW, in leaked set photos that I initially took to be the most boring photos of a rainy graveyard I’d ever seen and wondered why anyone had even bothered posting them. Then I noticed that there was a blue van in the photo, and what I’d mistaken for tombstones were actually huge obelisks.

The Day Britain Stopped, the 2003 BBC pseudo-documentary, a fictional disaster telefilm in which “a train strike is the first in a chain of events that led to a meltdown of the country’s transport system,” doesn’t seem like the most thrilling of source materials. But then again, we are clearly not located inside the brain of Ridley Scott, who, along with fellow filmmaker Steve Zaillian, have signed on to produce a projects inspired by it. 

Kathleen Hankel, a 68-year-old grandmother from New Jersey, set a new world record this week in gaming. Hankel, who played in Manhattan while a simultaneous effort was spearheaded by Laura Rich in London, set the record for “Longest Video Games Marathon Playing a Card Game.” So what game was she playing? Solitaire Blitz.

Michael Scott’s got nothing on the Witch-king of Angmar. From Greenstorm Film, the folks who brought us the delightful grown-up Dora the Explorer spoof, comes this hilarious take on office life for Ringwraiths. I bet you never thought you’d hear a Black Rider say, “I’m trying to use The Google.”

(via OMFGeek!)

WHUA? After seeing Thor, I can’t really imagine anyone else playing the title character besides Chris Hemsworth, least of all the treacherous Loki. Well it turns out that very well could have been the case. In this interview with MTV, actor Tom Hiddleston explains that there was a chance he could have had the starring role in the Marvel film because of some peculiarly worded small print in his contract. We’re glad things worked out the way they did though because Hiddleston made a delicious Loki and we can’t wait to see him reprise the role in The Avengers and Thor 2.

(via MTV Splash Page)

Good news for everybody out there who loves musical work of Matt Parker and Trey Stone and have already watched the South Park movie like a billion times.

Also those who know they’ll probably never get to see Book of Mormon, because even if they lived within reasonable distance of New York City, the show is sold out until doomsday and the national tour is a year away and will be just as difficult to get tickets for.

Also, everybody who grabbed the Book of Mormon soundtrack as quickly as possible, knowing the above fact.

They’re going to make a Book of Mormon movie.