this secondhand living just won't do
There was fic this morning:
Dig for Fire
X-Men: First Class; Charles, Alex, Scott Summers; g; 760 words
"I have a brother."
Seriously, I don't even know. If I were going to start writing XMM fic again, couldn't it at least have been angsty Charles/Erik instead of something about Scott? I mean, really? Why do I keep choosing to write stuff that other people don't care about reading? Sigh. I guess I still have a soft spot for Scott, though, after all these years. Movieverse Scott, I mean. In the comics he's a jerk. Though I think it's weird to position him as the younger brother, because he's kind of a quintessential older brother type, isn't he?
Speaking of fic I want to write that no one will read, I sort of want to write a small thing about Kon drawing the s-shield on his arm every morning with a sharpie, and Tim just being like, "really? This is how you entertain yourself?" And Kon's just like, "Smallville is boring. You don't even know!" and Tim's like, "Okay, but you couldn't find something that wouldn't give your secret identity away?" And Kon's just like, "what's the fun in that?" But then the next time Tim sees him, he's got, like, the Dark Mark sharpied onto his forearm or something.
It amuses me, anyway.
I finished reading the second volume of 52 this afternoon, which was more slogging and less amusing than volume 1. While they did cut back on the Booster Gold, as I had hoped, there was still way too much stuff I didn't care about and way too little Renee Montoya and the Question. (I did like Lex's response to the idea that Supernova might be resurrected!Kon, though.) Hopefully there will be more Renee and less random Lobo in the next volume. (Though it is, as always, lovely to see Starfire in action, even if she's stuck with a pair of guys I can't tell apart.)
Speaking of the DCU, I think this post does a pretty good job explaining why I have such a problem with them regressing Barbara from Oracle to Batgirl. because it absolutely feels like a regression of her character growth:
Barbara's evolution to Oracle was a wonderful piece of character growth. She didn't earn the title when she was shot by the Joker, which is arguably an example of a female character being wounded to generate emotional torque for a male lead (in this case her father). Barbara grew and defined herself into the provider of information, deciding not to be defined by her disability - not to be a victim, not to be a background character, not to be a burden, not to exist as simply another shameful failure of the men around her.
That's part of what's genuinely worrying about this, at least for me. The idea that comics treat the tragedy of losing mobility and then defining yourself on your own terms as something of a minor background event, which needs or deserves to be corrected.
[...]
To wipe away her empowerment like that, in order to replace her as a legacy character doesn't sit with me. "Batgirl" is a mantle that other characters have, and passes from generation to generation like a mask handed down. "Oracle" isn't just a mask or a persona, it's a conscious decision by a character to face their disability on their own terms. You can tell Batgirl stories with anyone. You can only tell Oracle stories with Barbara.
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Dig for Fire
X-Men: First Class; Charles, Alex, Scott Summers; g; 760 words
"I have a brother."
Seriously, I don't even know. If I were going to start writing XMM fic again, couldn't it at least have been angsty Charles/Erik instead of something about Scott? I mean, really? Why do I keep choosing to write stuff that other people don't care about reading? Sigh. I guess I still have a soft spot for Scott, though, after all these years. Movieverse Scott, I mean. In the comics he's a jerk. Though I think it's weird to position him as the younger brother, because he's kind of a quintessential older brother type, isn't he?
Speaking of fic I want to write that no one will read, I sort of want to write a small thing about Kon drawing the s-shield on his arm every morning with a sharpie, and Tim just being like, "really? This is how you entertain yourself?" And Kon's just like, "Smallville is boring. You don't even know!" and Tim's like, "Okay, but you couldn't find something that wouldn't give your secret identity away?" And Kon's just like, "what's the fun in that?" But then the next time Tim sees him, he's got, like, the Dark Mark sharpied onto his forearm or something.
It amuses me, anyway.
I finished reading the second volume of 52 this afternoon, which was more slogging and less amusing than volume 1. While they did cut back on the Booster Gold, as I had hoped, there was still way too much stuff I didn't care about and way too little Renee Montoya and the Question. (I did like Lex's response to the idea that Supernova might be resurrected!Kon, though.) Hopefully there will be more Renee and less random Lobo in the next volume. (Though it is, as always, lovely to see Starfire in action, even if she's stuck with a pair of guys I can't tell apart.)
Speaking of the DCU, I think this post does a pretty good job explaining why I have such a problem with them regressing Barbara from Oracle to Batgirl. because it absolutely feels like a regression of her character growth:
Barbara's evolution to Oracle was a wonderful piece of character growth. She didn't earn the title when she was shot by the Joker, which is arguably an example of a female character being wounded to generate emotional torque for a male lead (in this case her father). Barbara grew and defined herself into the provider of information, deciding not to be defined by her disability - not to be a victim, not to be a background character, not to be a burden, not to exist as simply another shameful failure of the men around her.
That's part of what's genuinely worrying about this, at least for me. The idea that comics treat the tragedy of losing mobility and then defining yourself on your own terms as something of a minor background event, which needs or deserves to be corrected.
[...]
To wipe away her empowerment like that, in order to replace her as a legacy character doesn't sit with me. "Batgirl" is a mantle that other characters have, and passes from generation to generation like a mask handed down. "Oracle" isn't just a mask or a persona, it's a conscious decision by a character to face their disability on their own terms. You can tell Batgirl stories with anyone. You can only tell Oracle stories with Barbara.
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people have commented there.