I'm gonna rise right out of the ground
You guys, you guys, with everything I read, I only love Bucky Barnes more. I do not know how this is possible, but it's what happening. I wish I could articulate better why, but he's just... awesome. Angsty and rash and a little hilarious and did I mention the ROBOT ARM? Which is just going to make it worse when they kill him off again. WTF, Marvel? WHY? *shakes fist at them* How is he so awesome? Also, I am retroactively even more annoyed with Iron Man 2 for not making Natalia Romanova as awesome as she is in the comics. I really like her and her relationship with Bucky and her general competent badassery.
What makes it even better, though, is that I read Nomad: Girl Without a World, which features Rikki Barnes, who is the modern-day Bucky in a canonical AU, and who ends up in the main continuity somehow, and she is AMAZING. Plus, she teams up with Araña, another teen girl superhero, who is also great. I admit, at the end of Nomad, I wanted Bucky to reveal himself (when he was all, "Barnes. That's a good name." I was like, TELL HER WHO YOU ARE! SHE IS YOUR GRANDDAUGHTER FROM AN ALTERNATE UNIVERSE AND SHE NEEDS SOME FAMILY! but I guess that would have been overkill, especially since they do have her meet Steve eventually and he takes a fatherly interest in her.) So I enjoyed that a lot, and also the backup issues of Nomad in Captain America, and I will be tracking down Young Allies when I get the chance.
TEENAGE GIRL SUPERHERO TEAM UP FTW. IT'S AS IF THEY KNOW ME. (On that note, I am holding off on reading Batgirl 24 because it makes me sad that it's the last issue of Steph as Batgirl. This interview with Bryan Q. Miller about it didn't help. *sadhair*)
I totally need icons.
Also, I was highly amused to see that basically both Steve Rogers and Bruce Wayne were unstuck in time around the same time (in the non-fictional world). Do you think they ran into each other at all? Teamed up to fight Nazis again? (Seriously, Batman and Captain America teaming up to fight Nazis will NEVER get old.)
I guess that's just another example to add to the list when I want to write something and someone says, "But X has already written that!" I find it so funny sometimes in fandom, where there will be 80 million first times or h/c stories, that someone will actually say, "But X has already written a story like that!" and no one else is supposed to use the trope or idea again. I mean, okay, nobody likes to be hiveminded - when I was writing the SPN Wild Hunt story and someone posted an SPN Wild Hunt story in the midst of my writing, I was like, "NOOOOOOOOO!" and I made
laurificus read it to see if we were covering the same territory (spoiler: we weren't) - but generally speaking, a lot of fandom is about the same but different - it's why remix is interesting to me, and why I enjoy seeing what different people will make of the same prompt. No two people will write the same story (unless they are plagiarizing, which is wrong), which is kind of cool, don't you think? So as daunting as it is to discover that someone has already written X when I would like to write X, unless their version does what I wanted mine to, I don't let that stop me, and I don't think other people should, either.
(Of course I would like people to write the stories I want in the way I want them, because I'm lazy and want to READ ALL THE THINGS. But often, the reason I write things is because other people aren't, or aren't in the way that scratches my particular itch.)
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What makes it even better, though, is that I read Nomad: Girl Without a World, which features Rikki Barnes, who is the modern-day Bucky in a canonical AU, and who ends up in the main continuity somehow, and she is AMAZING. Plus, she teams up with Araña, another teen girl superhero, who is also great. I admit, at the end of Nomad, I wanted Bucky to reveal himself (when he was all, "Barnes. That's a good name." I was like, TELL HER WHO YOU ARE! SHE IS YOUR GRANDDAUGHTER FROM AN ALTERNATE UNIVERSE AND SHE NEEDS SOME FAMILY! but I guess that would have been overkill, especially since they do have her meet Steve eventually and he takes a fatherly interest in her.) So I enjoyed that a lot, and also the backup issues of Nomad in Captain America, and I will be tracking down Young Allies when I get the chance.
TEENAGE GIRL SUPERHERO TEAM UP FTW. IT'S AS IF THEY KNOW ME. (On that note, I am holding off on reading Batgirl 24 because it makes me sad that it's the last issue of Steph as Batgirl. This interview with Bryan Q. Miller about it didn't help. *sadhair*)
I totally need icons.
Also, I was highly amused to see that basically both Steve Rogers and Bruce Wayne were unstuck in time around the same time (in the non-fictional world). Do you think they ran into each other at all? Teamed up to fight Nazis again? (Seriously, Batman and Captain America teaming up to fight Nazis will NEVER get old.)
I guess that's just another example to add to the list when I want to write something and someone says, "But X has already written that!" I find it so funny sometimes in fandom, where there will be 80 million first times or h/c stories, that someone will actually say, "But X has already written a story like that!" and no one else is supposed to use the trope or idea again. I mean, okay, nobody likes to be hiveminded - when I was writing the SPN Wild Hunt story and someone posted an SPN Wild Hunt story in the midst of my writing, I was like, "NOOOOOOOOO!" and I made
laurificus read it to see if we were covering the same territory (spoiler: we weren't) - but generally speaking, a lot of fandom is about the same but different - it's why remix is interesting to me, and why I enjoy seeing what different people will make of the same prompt. No two people will write the same story (unless they are plagiarizing, which is wrong), which is kind of cool, don't you think? So as daunting as it is to discover that someone has already written X when I would like to write X, unless their version does what I wanted mine to, I don't let that stop me, and I don't think other people should, either.
(Of course I would like people to write the stories I want in the way I want them, because I'm lazy and want to READ ALL THE THINGS. But often, the reason I write things is because other people aren't, or aren't in the way that scratches my particular itch.)
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