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Sorry this is so long. At some point I gave up trying to keep it short.
Avengers fandom things.
* If you're into Clint/Natasha, or might be into Clint/Natasha but aren't sure, or have already been or have been wanting to get into fandom, there's a promptathon going on at the C/N comm here. Meet some people, leave some prompts (which you can do this whole week). Or if you're a hermit like me, don't meet people and just leave prompts. :)) Seriously, the more prompts, the better. If you aren't sure about the ship and want to read a certain kind of story to see if you can get into it, leave a prompt. If you love the ship and want to see some GP thing, leave a prompt. Prompt filling starts at the end of this week, and it's a very casual thing. All prompts are open to any kind of fanwork, and can be used by more than one artist.
* Avengers Assemble #5. The Natasha/Bucky shippers went apeshit on Tumblr because of this and this. I made a comment that I hoped the comic would continue to go in that direction, and I got a couple of eye-roll inducing PMs from Natasha/Bucky shippers/trolls that made me temporarily turn off anonymous mail. They both said something along the lines of, "It's not going to happen, this was an OOC moment. Natasha is dating Bucky and Clint is with Jessica." Oh yes, because in fiction and in real life, there's no such thing as breaking up. Especially in comics. They're all super faithful and never get it on with other people and are involved in permanent unions. Seriously? We haven't gotten to a place yet where we can just let other people ship what they want to ship, even if we might disagree with or hate it? Is it just because Tumblr's full of teenagers? I guess I'm just too old and have been involved in fandom in general for too long (~13 years). Flame wars are stupid and pointless. Ship what you fucking want to ship and let others do the same, jesus.
* I have written two whole stories! They both need editing like crazy, then beta after that, but it is exciting just to have finished a story (much less two). Regular writing is a skill that's evaded me for so long that I thought I'd never get it back. But thanks to a little "program" Jade's helping me with, I seem to be back in the rhythm of writing. It's a good feeling, even if what I produce is crap. I'm slowly getting over the stress and pressure of feeling like I have to produce something better than anything I've written before. I need to get back in the mindset of writing for me, writing things I want to read, and to hell with everyone else. Well, you know, not really, I love everyone else. But you know what I mean.
* Ohmygod, I just love RDJ. He showed up at Comic Con to judge a kids' Iron Man costume contest. My favorite bits:
:)))))))))))))
* Captain America 2: The Winter Soldier. I am... cautiously extremely excited about this. :D For those who are even less versed in comic lore than me (which it's hard to be, but I do make it a point to learn what I can of the characters I care most about), the Winter Soldier is Bucky Barnes, Steve's friend who dies in a kind of WTF way in the first CA movie. Well, in comic book canon he's found/resurrected by Soviet scientists, has amnesia so he doesn't remember his life before, is given a bionic arm, and is Natasha's lover for a time. He's kept "on ice" when he's not in action, so he's only aged a few years since WWII.
This makes the perfect background for CA2 and the rumors that they're going to do a Hawkeye/Black Widow relationship subplot in the movie, IN THEORY. Despite the fact that Natasha has been modernized (we assume; we don't get definitive answers in IM2 or Avengers about her background, so it's not IMPOSSIBLE that they'll say she's from the 1940s and was injected by a serum that keeps her young -- an ability similar to Wolverine/Mystique -- but it does seem kind of doubtful), it still works because they could've had a thing during one of the periods when the Winter Soldier was activated, when she was in training as part of a more modern Red Room.
Anyway, so you see where this is going. Winter Soldier is obviously the big bad of CA2, which means angst for both Steve and Natasha (and thank goodness, it now means that if they want to introduce some kind of triangle, it won't be Steve/Natasha, which Jade was suggesting could happen, and I was like nononononono why would they do that when they have Bucky/actual canon to work with)... but hopefully a good kind of angst wrt C/N, because they're still the good guys and still have a great partnership and were also lovers in canon... The only dark cloud is that they could have Natasha betray the Avengers or whatever for Bucky. And here's where I have to take my own advice from above and accept that, given comic book canon, that could totally happen. I kind of think they're going somewhere else with the movies, but I could be wrong. In any case, I'm sure they'll ruin it at some point. I just hope we get as much C/N goodness as possible before that happens. :P
In non-Avengers news:
* In the past few days I have baked three loaves of bread using Cooks Illustrated's Almost No-Knead Bread recipe, and it's been a rousing success. I may never make bread any other way again.
* I've started watching Leverage. Shhh don't tell Jade. Unless she happens to see this. :)) I'm planning on telling her once I've finished S1. My problem with the show is that it's too caper-y. I don't like capers -- or at least, not enough to watch hours and hours of it (one movie, like Ocean's 11, is about my limit). All the resolutions are so convenient that the plots don't hold my interest, because none of it really seems to matter much. It'll all get fixed in the end in some easy way. Plus I'm not a Timothy Hutton fan. I do like Christian Kane (though he's so much puffier than his days on Angel, and I'm not into his long hair), and I like Eliot & Hardison, but I don't know if I like them enough to watch the show just for them (they're no Troy & Abed). I like Sophie okay, but she's Nate's love interest, and I'm meh about Parker as a character. Of course, these are all thoughts from the first half of S1 so I could change my tune.
* I'm going to start watching Psych because T. is totally into it and I want to see what the fuss is about.
* I finally finished all of House. Boy were those final three seasons torturous. They should have ended the show after S4 or S5. They should never have reduced Cameron's role. By the end I really missed Thirteen and Cuddy (though I know their roles were reduced by choice). I wasn't Thirteen's biggest fan initially, but I liked her so much better than Charlene Yi's or Odette Annable's characters, both of whom I found extremely irritating. They should've kept Amber Tamblyn on as a regular instead.
* If you're into Clint/Natasha, or might be into Clint/Natasha but aren't sure, or have already been or have been wanting to get into fandom, there's a promptathon going on at the C/N comm here. Meet some people, leave some prompts (which you can do this whole week). Or if you're a hermit like me, don't meet people and just leave prompts. :)) Seriously, the more prompts, the better. If you aren't sure about the ship and want to read a certain kind of story to see if you can get into it, leave a prompt. If you love the ship and want to see some GP thing, leave a prompt. Prompt filling starts at the end of this week, and it's a very casual thing. All prompts are open to any kind of fanwork, and can be used by more than one artist.
* Avengers Assemble #5. The Natasha/Bucky shippers went apeshit on Tumblr because of this and this. I made a comment that I hoped the comic would continue to go in that direction, and I got a couple of eye-roll inducing PMs from Natasha/Bucky shippers/trolls that made me temporarily turn off anonymous mail. They both said something along the lines of, "It's not going to happen, this was an OOC moment. Natasha is dating Bucky and Clint is with Jessica." Oh yes, because in fiction and in real life, there's no such thing as breaking up. Especially in comics. They're all super faithful and never get it on with other people and are involved in permanent unions. Seriously? We haven't gotten to a place yet where we can just let other people ship what they want to ship, even if we might disagree with or hate it? Is it just because Tumblr's full of teenagers? I guess I'm just too old and have been involved in fandom in general for too long (~13 years). Flame wars are stupid and pointless. Ship what you fucking want to ship and let others do the same, jesus.
* I have written two whole stories! They both need editing like crazy, then beta after that, but it is exciting just to have finished a story (much less two). Regular writing is a skill that's evaded me for so long that I thought I'd never get it back. But thanks to a little "program" Jade's helping me with, I seem to be back in the rhythm of writing. It's a good feeling, even if what I produce is crap. I'm slowly getting over the stress and pressure of feeling like I have to produce something better than anything I've written before. I need to get back in the mindset of writing for me, writing things I want to read, and to hell with everyone else. Well, you know, not really, I love everyone else. But you know what I mean.
* Ohmygod, I just love RDJ. He showed up at Comic Con to judge a kids' Iron Man costume contest. My favorite bits:
:)))))))))))))
* Captain America 2: The Winter Soldier. I am... cautiously extremely excited about this. :D For those who are even less versed in comic lore than me (which it's hard to be, but I do make it a point to learn what I can of the characters I care most about), the Winter Soldier is Bucky Barnes, Steve's friend who dies in a kind of WTF way in the first CA movie. Well, in comic book canon he's found/resurrected by Soviet scientists, has amnesia so he doesn't remember his life before, is given a bionic arm, and is Natasha's lover for a time. He's kept "on ice" when he's not in action, so he's only aged a few years since WWII.
This makes the perfect background for CA2 and the rumors that they're going to do a Hawkeye/Black Widow relationship subplot in the movie, IN THEORY. Despite the fact that Natasha has been modernized (we assume; we don't get definitive answers in IM2 or Avengers about her background, so it's not IMPOSSIBLE that they'll say she's from the 1940s and was injected by a serum that keeps her young -- an ability similar to Wolverine/Mystique -- but it does seem kind of doubtful), it still works because they could've had a thing during one of the periods when the Winter Soldier was activated, when she was in training as part of a more modern Red Room.
Anyway, so you see where this is going. Winter Soldier is obviously the big bad of CA2, which means angst for both Steve and Natasha (and thank goodness, it now means that if they want to introduce some kind of triangle, it won't be Steve/Natasha, which Jade was suggesting could happen, and I was like nononononono why would they do that when they have Bucky/actual canon to work with)... but hopefully a good kind of angst wrt C/N, because they're still the good guys and still have a great partnership and were also lovers in canon... The only dark cloud is that they could have Natasha betray the Avengers or whatever for Bucky. And here's where I have to take my own advice from above and accept that, given comic book canon, that could totally happen. I kind of think they're going somewhere else with the movies, but I could be wrong. In any case, I'm sure they'll ruin it at some point. I just hope we get as much C/N goodness as possible before that happens. :P
In non-Avengers news:
* In the past few days I have baked three loaves of bread using Cooks Illustrated's Almost No-Knead Bread recipe, and it's been a rousing success. I may never make bread any other way again.
* I've started watching Leverage. Shhh don't tell Jade. Unless she happens to see this. :)) I'm planning on telling her once I've finished S1. My problem with the show is that it's too caper-y. I don't like capers -- or at least, not enough to watch hours and hours of it (one movie, like Ocean's 11, is about my limit). All the resolutions are so convenient that the plots don't hold my interest, because none of it really seems to matter much. It'll all get fixed in the end in some easy way. Plus I'm not a Timothy Hutton fan. I do like Christian Kane (though he's so much puffier than his days on Angel, and I'm not into his long hair), and I like Eliot & Hardison, but I don't know if I like them enough to watch the show just for them (they're no Troy & Abed). I like Sophie okay, but she's Nate's love interest, and I'm meh about Parker as a character. Of course, these are all thoughts from the first half of S1 so I could change my tune.
* I'm going to start watching Psych because T. is totally into it and I want to see what the fuss is about.
* I finally finished all of House. Boy were those final three seasons torturous. They should have ended the show after S4 or S5. They should never have reduced Cameron's role. By the end I really missed Thirteen and Cuddy (though I know their roles were reduced by choice). I wasn't Thirteen's biggest fan initially, but I liked her so much better than Charlene Yi's or Odette Annable's characters, both of whom I found extremely irritating. They should've kept Amber Tamblyn on as a regular instead.