Things We Saw Today: The Superhero Formerly Known as Batgirl

Prince‘s Purple Rain album cover with less Prince, more Batgirl. By Cliff Chiang, via ScreenRant.

• You’ve almost made it through the work week, so reward yourself with an adorable picture of Otter Pup sleeping in the embrace of Otter Mom. (The Frisky)
• Marvel Unlimited, an app that charges $10 a month for unlimited digital access to 13,000 back issues, is live today. Find out more at io9.

Mary, Cora, and Violet have a hot dog eating contest in the latest installment of Iris Ophelia‘s Downton Abbey Meets The Sims 3. Don’t you want to know who wins?

• Courtesy of Styleite, here are 7 Incredible Female Photographers You Need To Know Now.
• The two finalists on reality show King of the Nerds, which had its finale last night, were both ladies. There’s a rundown of the ep—and a critique of how nerdy its criteria for picking the winner actually is—at ScreenRant.

Today is International Women’s Day; here’s the doodle Google unveiled for the occasion.

• Disney XD has set premiere dates for two shows in its Marvel Universe block: Marvel’s Avengers Assemble on Sunday, July 7th, and Marvel’s Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H. (featuring the voices of Eliza Dushku and Seth Green!) on Sunday, August 11th. (The Hollywood Reporter)
• Joss Whedon‘s favorite Buffy the Vampire Slayer episodes are “Once More, With Feeling” (a.k.a. the fun, happy, musical episode, albeit with some angst) and “The Body” (a.k.a. the one where Buffy’s mom dies, just rip my heart out why don’t you?). That sounds about right. (Digital Spy)

Yup. (Shortpacked, via Nerd Approved)

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