Er, hi?
So long time, no post. Turns out working, interning and classes eat up a lot of time. I'm tired and chatty tonight though.
I think I will have to distance myself from the MCU and Steve Rogers fandoms for the foreseeable future. I loved the new movie, absolutely adored it, but it's produced a reaction in the fandom that is entirely predictable and completely depressing for me. Because while Avengers gave the fandom some material to fabricate Steve/Tony, Winter Soldier handed them a "two white dudes fucking" ship on a platter, with a side of angsty backstory. So everything is going to be overrun with Steve/Bucky fic, and of course if that's what someone wants, that's fine, but there's still the institutional politics of this going on, that now that there's two white guys involved, it's going to skyrocket, and there's a bonus that canonically at this point there are no girlfriends (*coughPEPPERcough*) who have to be erased or fridged to get them out of the way. I would bet folding money that there will be much more Steve/Bucky fic than Steve/Sam fic even though the movie itself gives far more subtext to work with with Sam (who I loved way more than I was expecting).
Personally I am all about #SaveBucky and I can't wait to see what happens in #3. Because I want Bucky to come back. I didn't even really care about him much before (and I don't find Sebastian Stan attractive at all) but when he said "But I knew him" my heart just about shattered. I want Bucky rescued, in as much as he can be, and I want Steve to save him, and I want him and Bucky and Sam to hang out and be besties and watch ballgames and mock each other and stay up all night when one of them is having nightmares just because they get each other. Clint and Nat can hang out with them too because lord knows they would get it too.
And I swear to God if I see one more person going on about how Bucky was the only one who ever had faith in Steve, I'm stealing Peggy's gun from Cap 1 and shooting them.
I'm not following much else at the moment, fannish-wise. Loving "Arrow" this season immensely, kind of staying away from the fandom because I'm enjoying it and don't want to think too hard beyond that.
I'm just barely still watching "Agents of SHIELD." I stopped for a couple weeks entirely over the awful Lorelai episode and then got caught up after I saw Winter Soldier. I just really, really hate Skye. I can't even articulate why, I just hate every moment she's on screen. It's like all forward momentum of the story crashes to a halt. I still love Coulson, I like May and Simmons a bit, and I don't care about anyone else at all. I just think the writing and the story arc have been badly done, and, again, I HATE SKYE SO MUCH. Argh.
That's kind of it? I gave up on OUaT at mid-season. I watched all of "Almost Human" which I liked but did not really love. I wanted to love it, and I loved bits of it, but the lack of storyline for the ladies was an obstacle, as was the lack of resolution to any of the larger plot arcs. I am watching "Crisis" solely for Max Martini although I am reluctantly starting to get intrigued by the overarching plot. Loving "Cosmos" but that's not really a fannish show, it's just cool. That theme song sucks, though. Puts me right to sleep. Still mildly obsessed with Pacific Rim too. And I'm rewatching "Sleepy Hollow" because it's silly and spooky and fun and I kind of wish Ichabod was real aside from the spooky parts.
I've written about 123K of a novel and got completely stalled due to stress. I know all the remaining scenes that need to happen, just haven't written them yet. I can't vouch for the quality of the overall thing, but I will finish it and even if it is a hot mess, it will be my finished draft of a hot mess. ;)
So how're you all?
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I think I will have to distance myself from the MCU and Steve Rogers fandoms for the foreseeable future. I loved the new movie, absolutely adored it, but it's produced a reaction in the fandom that is entirely predictable and completely depressing for me. Because while Avengers gave the fandom some material to fabricate Steve/Tony, Winter Soldier handed them a "two white dudes fucking" ship on a platter, with a side of angsty backstory. So everything is going to be overrun with Steve/Bucky fic, and of course if that's what someone wants, that's fine, but there's still the institutional politics of this going on, that now that there's two white guys involved, it's going to skyrocket, and there's a bonus that canonically at this point there are no girlfriends (*coughPEPPERcough*) who have to be erased or fridged to get them out of the way. I would bet folding money that there will be much more Steve/Bucky fic than Steve/Sam fic even though the movie itself gives far more subtext to work with with Sam (who I loved way more than I was expecting).
Personally I am all about #SaveBucky and I can't wait to see what happens in #3. Because I want Bucky to come back. I didn't even really care about him much before (and I don't find Sebastian Stan attractive at all) but when he said "But I knew him" my heart just about shattered. I want Bucky rescued, in as much as he can be, and I want Steve to save him, and I want him and Bucky and Sam to hang out and be besties and watch ballgames and mock each other and stay up all night when one of them is having nightmares just because they get each other. Clint and Nat can hang out with them too because lord knows they would get it too.
And I swear to God if I see one more person going on about how Bucky was the only one who ever had faith in Steve, I'm stealing Peggy's gun from Cap 1 and shooting them.
I'm not following much else at the moment, fannish-wise. Loving "Arrow" this season immensely, kind of staying away from the fandom because I'm enjoying it and don't want to think too hard beyond that.
I'm just barely still watching "Agents of SHIELD." I stopped for a couple weeks entirely over the awful Lorelai episode and then got caught up after I saw Winter Soldier. I just really, really hate Skye. I can't even articulate why, I just hate every moment she's on screen. It's like all forward momentum of the story crashes to a halt. I still love Coulson, I like May and Simmons a bit, and I don't care about anyone else at all. I just think the writing and the story arc have been badly done, and, again, I HATE SKYE SO MUCH. Argh.
That's kind of it? I gave up on OUaT at mid-season. I watched all of "Almost Human" which I liked but did not really love. I wanted to love it, and I loved bits of it, but the lack of storyline for the ladies was an obstacle, as was the lack of resolution to any of the larger plot arcs. I am watching "Crisis" solely for Max Martini although I am reluctantly starting to get intrigued by the overarching plot. Loving "Cosmos" but that's not really a fannish show, it's just cool. That theme song sucks, though. Puts me right to sleep. Still mildly obsessed with Pacific Rim too. And I'm rewatching "Sleepy Hollow" because it's silly and spooky and fun and I kind of wish Ichabod was real aside from the spooky parts.
I've written about 123K of a novel and got completely stalled due to stress. I know all the remaining scenes that need to happen, just haven't written them yet. I can't vouch for the quality of the overall thing, but I will finish it and even if it is a hot mess, it will be my finished draft of a hot mess. ;)
So how're you all?
This entry was originally posted to http://miera-c.dreamwidth.org/723401.html: Please comment there if you are willing