How many days did we go without an incident like this?

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If you liked the story of how Brosie the Riveter came to be, you can now buy his poster (along with his distaff counterpart) from WeLoveFine. It's up to you to decide which of your walls can actually handle him. He's a bit too much for our front page, even, so I've, uh, cropped him.

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If X-Men: Days of Future Past doesn't just have time travel elements, but full on time travel shenanigans, I'm all for it. (MTV Splash Page)

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I've said it before and I'll say it again - cosplay is more epic when set to music. Check out a wide-range of costumes from last month's WonderCon NerdReactor put together as a fun music video and see a live-action Hawkeye Initiative cosplayer busting some moves. (Click for more on The Hawkeye Initiative!) Are you following The Mary Sue on Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Pinterest, & Google +?

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If you need a reminder, the Hawkeye Initiative is what happened when artists got sick of the ridiculously sexual poses female comic characters are often drawn in and decided to draw Hawkeye in those poses instead. As for the cosplay... what is there to say, really? Just gonna leave it here. Edit: We've found his tumblr! (via: io9) Are you following The Mary Sue on Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Pinterest, & Google +?

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Fantasy author Jim C. Hines has been waging war against poorly photoshopped, exploitative fantasy and sci-fi novel covers for some time now, in the best way he can think of: by taking pictures of himself attempting to emulate the poses on them, and thus highlight and contrast the inherent sexuality that images of women are frequently imbued with against the power that images of men are. This time, however, he's pulled out all the stops: enlisting three other male science fiction and fantasy authors, and one female one to recreate a cover in its entire. If you're interested in owning a high quality signed print of the image on the right for, as Hines says: "your living room, your bathroom, or maybe on your bedroom ceiling. We won’t judge you!" two exist... and they're both being auctioned off for charity. Check here for updates on both auctions. Previously in Genderswap

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Yesterday we gave you our most commented on posts of 2012, but most commented on is not the same as most popular. And by popular we mean looked at. The number of time a specific URL was visited. And what holds true on the internet holds true here: people like galleries (as long as they're not too annoying). So without further ado, here's the ten most viewed posts we wrote this year. We would have had to go to twelve to reach a post that didn't have a gallery of some kind in it (although that post would have been the announcement of The Casual Vacany, J.K. Rowling's first post-Harry Potter novel).

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Poor Hawkeye. Those back-breaking poses can't be fun (or physically possible, but, y'know). The Mary Sue am sympathy, too. :(

(Art by Noelle Stevenson, aka Gingerhaze, via her Tumblr)

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Something special happened on Tumblr this weekend, as many of you reached out to tell us. To those of you who did, I want to say I already follow all of these people so relax we got this thank you. HoursAgo, whose fanart for Hawkeye, Sherlock, Supernatural, Community, and Good Omens you should really check out, posted this drawing (based on the cover to an All Ages Marvel comic featuring Hawkeye and Black Widow) where the two superheroes have swapped positions and poses. Which you might not think initially, since one might assume that the serious Natasha would be more likely to charge pragmatically feet first, while the more cavalier, showboating Hawkeye would be the one taking a trick shot just for the heck of it.

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