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I've backed away from the fanlib entry for personal sanity, even if the nice peeps say it's not too wrong. X-Men isn't a mediafandom, apparently, and I was right about the bucket-loads of canon and rule-explaning being at least partially necessary.
One of the reasons I got pulled in with due South (even when it doesn't have a space empire, time travel, giant robots and alternate universes* in canon) was fangirl culture, noticeboards and flashfiction challenges were just amazing. While I met some super x-fen on livejournal, when I started out just about 4 years ago, my mission was to talk on speedsicle. It's a bit like going from seperate rooms to a room party. I still probably end up in the kitchen**, but it's where the food is.
I'll probably sneak back to fanlib when folks want footnotes. My knowledge in arcane areas of x-men canon can be a little scary, even with a two year break from my weekly infusions. British reprints caught themselves up this month, it's just a) funds and b) that I will want more, lots more and that way lies ebay (and my x-actionfigure collection, in a box somewhere now I'm home from uni. On every flat-ish surface back in the days of the Dorm of Doom. I am not kidding. I love my rocket-launching Archangel***.
*which were the things I was trying to explain. I ended up trying to explain what the cover to Days of Future Past felt like. Okay, complete with wiki markupIn itself, the cover has become a classic of the genre and has been oft-imitated. An aged [[Logan/Wolverine]] protecting an adult [[Kitty Pryde/Shadowcat]] as a Sentinel looms large, the shadow almost enveloping them. The brick wall behind them has posters of their friends. Wanted posters. Almost every one bares a pasted-over legend; dead, apprehended, like some monsterous liturgy.
The message was clear, in their adventures, their fights, their sacrifice, the X Men achieved nothing. The legacy is a world of segregation, concentration camps, failing freedom fighters, all maintained by the Sentinel robots and their masters. It could all be traced to one moment, the death of [[Senator Kelly]], a key anti-mutant lobbyist.
**today has been marked by at least four Douglas Adams pastiches and/or references and there's room for some more.
***Pretty much an example in why there is so much puzzlement to explain to the x-curious. How do you explain that the fluffy-winged playboy (Angel) is also the blue metal-winged guy with the shaky start back to being a good guy(Archangel), to blue-skinned blond playboy with feathery wings wooing an English aristo living in the body of a ninja assassin (Archangel again, the lady is Psylocke), but is not Angel, an insect-winged trailerpark princess who puked over Wolverine and laid eggs after unprotected sex with Beak.
One of the reasons I got pulled in with due South (even when it doesn't have a space empire, time travel, giant robots and alternate universes* in canon) was fangirl culture, noticeboards and flashfiction challenges were just amazing. While I met some super x-fen on livejournal, when I started out just about 4 years ago, my mission was to talk on speedsicle. It's a bit like going from seperate rooms to a room party. I still probably end up in the kitchen**, but it's where the food is.
I'll probably sneak back to fanlib when folks want footnotes. My knowledge in arcane areas of x-men canon can be a little scary, even with a two year break from my weekly infusions. British reprints caught themselves up this month, it's just a) funds and b) that I will want more, lots more and that way lies ebay (and my x-actionfigure collection, in a box somewhere now I'm home from uni. On every flat-ish surface back in the days of the Dorm of Doom. I am not kidding. I love my rocket-launching Archangel***.
*which were the things I was trying to explain. I ended up trying to explain what the cover to Days of Future Past felt like. Okay, complete with wiki markupIn itself, the cover has become a classic of the genre and has been oft-imitated. An aged [[Logan/Wolverine]] protecting an adult [[Kitty Pryde/Shadowcat]] as a Sentinel looms large, the shadow almost enveloping them. The brick wall behind them has posters of their friends. Wanted posters. Almost every one bares a pasted-over legend; dead, apprehended, like some monsterous liturgy.
The message was clear, in their adventures, their fights, their sacrifice, the X Men achieved nothing. The legacy is a world of segregation, concentration camps, failing freedom fighters, all maintained by the Sentinel robots and their masters. It could all be traced to one moment, the death of [[Senator Kelly]], a key anti-mutant lobbyist.
**today has been marked by at least four Douglas Adams pastiches and/or references and there's room for some more.
***Pretty much an example in why there is so much puzzlement to explain to the x-curious. How do you explain that the fluffy-winged playboy (Angel) is also the blue metal-winged guy with the shaky start back to being a good guy(Archangel), to blue-skinned blond playboy with feathery wings wooing an English aristo living in the body of a ninja assassin (Archangel again, the lady is Psylocke), but is not Angel, an insect-winged trailerpark princess who puked over Wolverine and laid eggs after unprotected sex with Beak.