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So this is seriously random, I know, considering that I've been pretty much non-existent on this thing for a while now. (I totally understand if anyone wants to defriend me, I know I'm super-boring.) It's been weird; this journal was primarily a writing journal for a while, but after my portion of bandom started growing dormant, I haven't really fallen into a fandom deeply enough to start writing fic for it. Or to start finishing fic for it, at least. (Which reminds me, I still have some WIP-amnesty fics that I need to post. I have 17,000 fucking words of personal assistant!Arthur bringing director!Cobb froofy coffee drinks, okay, I need to actually do something with it.)
I do have one or two bandom fics that I've been working on slowly, although progress has been pretty much infinitesimal. Still, they're creeping along.
Other than that, though... I like TSN and Inception, but I don't feel like I have much to say that hasn't already been said in those fandoms. Well, except for robot!Mark, which will probably happen at some point, but besides that. Occasionally I dabble in reading Teen Wolf fic, despite not having actually seen the show, but I've noticed something kind of odd - the main pairing for the show is the geeky-sarcastic best friend with the brooding wolf-mentor (who has a ridiculous amount of man-pain, from what I can tell, in the Batman-style "MY FAMILY IS DEAD SO I AM GOING TO DEVOTE MYSELF TO VENGEANCE" kind of way), who (again, from what I can tell) have a relationship that consists of threats, sarcasm, grudging reliance on each other when absolutely necessary, and a little bit of physical abuse.
In short, pretty much some of the main components that attract shippers in the first place. (I have this whole theory about shipping, antagonism and co-dependence that I won't actually get into right now because I'm pretty sure it's really boring.) It's interesting, though, because for a relationship with so many sharp edges, a lot of the fics I've seen like to... soften things up a little.
Which is fine, and I have nothing against soft fics - I've read a lot of them - but it kind of echoed something airgiodslv said to me a while ago about Inception fandom turning Eames and Arthur into a romantic comedy, and I was just reflecting on why we might feel compelled to draw out that aspect more than the other one. I don't know; maybe it's where I am right now, but I feel like over the past year I've been appreciating more and more fics where things are hard - complicated people having complicated feelings and connecting with each other in varying ways.
Who even knows. This is all a ridiculous amount of text, considering that I started this post with the intent of just briefly mentioning that I've been reading a fair amount of Marvel fic recently (and god, I want all the Loki/Sif in the worrrrrrrrld, okay, it's one of the few het!ships I have but remember what I was saying about about the complicated people etc. etc.? It has so much potential for that, and also Sif is AMAZING and should get her own movie or something), and I am probably going to DIE OF ANTICIPATION before the Avengers has a chance to make my brain explode by putting too many amazing people together in one movie, and also Steve and Tony are made for each other or something, and also there needs to be more alwaysagirl!Tony out there. I mean, fics where he's turned into a girl are all well and good, but think about Tony, okay, scientific genius Tony who owns his own company and drinks a lot and sleeps around and gets chastised but pretty much manages to get away with it, and now have him grow up as a girl. What does that even do? Science is a male-dominated field; business is a male-dominated field; superheroing is a male-dominated field; getting wasted and sleeping around gets you judged so much more harshly. And yet, she would have managed to make it where Tony is anyway - and obviously class privileges would help a lot, but god, I want it. I want female!Tony walking around with welders and cursing up a storm and bulldozing over everything that gets in her way and being just as much of an asshole as male!Tony.
...That turned into a much longer rant than I expected it to be. But, yeah. I've read a few alwaysagirl!Tony fics, but I feel like this should be an actual subset of fandom. (Alwaysagirl!Steve would be really interesting too, for similar reasons in a slightly different direction - we never think as much about women wanting desperately to serve their country, do we? Especially in the 40s, what would have happened to create a legendary female war hero, when women weren't even allowed to join up? And obviously there are female characters who deserve more expansion - see my mini-rant about Sif, above - but. I have kind of a soft spot for Tony, is the salient point right now.)
ETA: I've also decided that I'm in love with Hawkeye, based on the all of two minutes we saw of him in Thor. This may or may not have something to do with my weird thing for Jeremy Renner that sprang up after watching The Hurt Locker. I'm not even particularly attracted to him! I just think he's kind of wonderful!
I do have one or two bandom fics that I've been working on slowly, although progress has been pretty much infinitesimal. Still, they're creeping along.
Other than that, though... I like TSN and Inception, but I don't feel like I have much to say that hasn't already been said in those fandoms. Well, except for robot!Mark, which will probably happen at some point, but besides that. Occasionally I dabble in reading Teen Wolf fic, despite not having actually seen the show, but I've noticed something kind of odd - the main pairing for the show is the geeky-sarcastic best friend with the brooding wolf-mentor (who has a ridiculous amount of man-pain, from what I can tell, in the Batman-style "MY FAMILY IS DEAD SO I AM GOING TO DEVOTE MYSELF TO VENGEANCE" kind of way), who (again, from what I can tell) have a relationship that consists of threats, sarcasm, grudging reliance on each other when absolutely necessary, and a little bit of physical abuse.
In short, pretty much some of the main components that attract shippers in the first place. (I have this whole theory about shipping, antagonism and co-dependence that I won't actually get into right now because I'm pretty sure it's really boring.) It's interesting, though, because for a relationship with so many sharp edges, a lot of the fics I've seen like to... soften things up a little.
Which is fine, and I have nothing against soft fics - I've read a lot of them - but it kind of echoed something airgiodslv said to me a while ago about Inception fandom turning Eames and Arthur into a romantic comedy, and I was just reflecting on why we might feel compelled to draw out that aspect more than the other one. I don't know; maybe it's where I am right now, but I feel like over the past year I've been appreciating more and more fics where things are hard - complicated people having complicated feelings and connecting with each other in varying ways.
Who even knows. This is all a ridiculous amount of text, considering that I started this post with the intent of just briefly mentioning that I've been reading a fair amount of Marvel fic recently (and god, I want all the Loki/Sif in the worrrrrrrrld, okay, it's one of the few het!ships I have but remember what I was saying about about the complicated people etc. etc.? It has so much potential for that, and also Sif is AMAZING and should get her own movie or something), and I am probably going to DIE OF ANTICIPATION before the Avengers has a chance to make my brain explode by putting too many amazing people together in one movie, and also Steve and Tony are made for each other or something, and also there needs to be more alwaysagirl!Tony out there. I mean, fics where he's turned into a girl are all well and good, but think about Tony, okay, scientific genius Tony who owns his own company and drinks a lot and sleeps around and gets chastised but pretty much manages to get away with it, and now have him grow up as a girl. What does that even do? Science is a male-dominated field; business is a male-dominated field; superheroing is a male-dominated field; getting wasted and sleeping around gets you judged so much more harshly. And yet, she would have managed to make it where Tony is anyway - and obviously class privileges would help a lot, but god, I want it. I want female!Tony walking around with welders and cursing up a storm and bulldozing over everything that gets in her way and being just as much of an asshole as male!Tony.
...That turned into a much longer rant than I expected it to be. But, yeah. I've read a few alwaysagirl!Tony fics, but I feel like this should be an actual subset of fandom. (Alwaysagirl!Steve would be really interesting too, for similar reasons in a slightly different direction - we never think as much about women wanting desperately to serve their country, do we? Especially in the 40s, what would have happened to create a legendary female war hero, when women weren't even allowed to join up? And obviously there are female characters who deserve more expansion - see my mini-rant about Sif, above - but. I have kind of a soft spot for Tony, is the salient point right now.)
ETA: I've also decided that I'm in love with Hawkeye, based on the all of two minutes we saw of him in Thor. This may or may not have something to do with my weird thing for Jeremy Renner that sprang up after watching The Hurt Locker. I'm not even particularly attracted to him! I just think he's kind of wonderful!