i'm walking forth, bare and blinking as the day that i was born
Itty-Bitty Orphan Black, an Orphan Black webcomic in the style of Tiny Titans. HEART.
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I forgot Almost Human was even on, and didn't realize until I'd switched from football to channel 5 for Sleepy Hollow, so I'm guessing it's not really a must-watch for me, especially since last week I fell asleep during it and didn't really feel a need to track it down to watch later. Oh well. I count on you all to tell me if I should tune back in.
As for Sleepy Hollow, I try not to get too attached to theories/speculation ahead of time, because there's always the possibility of being completely wrong, and apparently, if Katrina and her coven were telling the truth, I was completely wrong about Katrina promising the baby to Moloch and that being what got her locked up in purgatory. I still think my way would be a better story? (and note, I am far from the only person who speculated that.) But it is not the way the show ended up going, and while there were some bits I liked in this episode - all the Crane/Abbie interaction, Irving with his priest, Walter Bishop Henry Parrish, the doll becoming the protector for the boy and then the attempt to talk it down and Crane holding his hand as it died - mostly I was meh on the whole thing. I don't really care about Ichabod's son (or, tbh, his wife) - I am interested in THE MILLS SISTERS and Ichabod's relationship with them as they stop the apocalypse and the show needs to get back to Abbie being the main agent of events with Crane as her hot and helpful assistant and Jenny bringing the guns.
Though I am going to guess now that Ichabod is going to have to choose between delivering Abbie's soul to Moloch and getting his son back? Surely the son is going to rise as some kind of maybe not evil but probably evil beastie that is going to cause Ichabod more angst? Though since I've guessed wrong before on this show, I can't say for sure. But that is what it seems like they were setting up here. Also, there was way too much exposition, even on this exposition heavy show. Also also, it was completely unnecessary to explain that Crane's blood was also his son's blood and therefore could stop the golem. We've seen a tv show before! Not everything has to be explicit! As soon as they said only Jeremy's blood could stop him, we knew it would be Ichabod's, and having it be on a shard of mirror is explicit enough! (the child is a reflection of his father etc.)
Anyway, I guess we'll see what happens when the show returns.
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12/10: today's topic is Why is Steve Rogers so gr8? for latxcvi
Oh, wow, how much do I love Steve Rogers? Spoilers: A LOT. (NB: I'm going to talk about movie!Steve here, rather than 616!Steve.)
I always kind of side-eye people who claim Steve is a boring goody-goody, because he is so much more interesting and complicated than that, and they obviously weren't paying attention. I understand. It's easy to be blinded by his ASS and SHOULDERS and CHEST and ARMS and EYELASHES and MOUTH and JAW and FAAAAACE.
Ahem.
ANYWAY.
Steve is an angry guy - he's angry before the serum, and he picks fights he can't win without intervention, and I would say he does it not just because it's the right thing to do - I mean, there's no need for that fight in the movie theatre. (Though I don't think Bucky is right that he likes getting beat up. At least not like that.) That guy was a dick but you pick your battles, and that was not a necessary one, but it was for Steve Rogers. I think it's important that this fight comes after he's been rejected yet again by the Army. As Bucky says to him, 'right, and you've got nothing to prove' when Steve tells him why he continues to try to enlist. Steve wants to fight because he knows it's the right thing to do, but he also does totally want to prove that he can, especially since he's been repeatedly rejected. There's also the fact that he is clearly an adrenaline junkie. He jumps out of planes given the slightest pretext! Getting into fights is another way to find that rush, even if it's quickly followed by pain and humiliation.
And even after the serum, after he can solve his problems with punching, he STILL picks fights he can't necessarily win alone. He walks into a HYDRA base because his best friend might be a POW there. And also there are 400 other POWs to rescue, but he goes AWOL for Bucky, first and foremost. Look at his reaction after Bucky dies - he goes from "I don't want to kill anyone; I don't like bullies. I don't care where they're from," to "I'm going to wipe HYDRA off the map [and because I'm grieving, I'm going to sacrifice myself to do it]."
He's angry in Avengers, because he's lost everything and the future is nothing like he'd hoped/imagined it would be. When he says, "They said we won the war. They didn't say what we lost." he's not talking about some halcyon golden age. Steve was a sickly, malnourished orphan living in Brooklyn during the Depression. He was not living it up in the '40s, despite Bucky's best efforts. There's a lot that can be extrapolated from that set of circumstances even without going to the comics, which I did here, so I'm not going to do it again, but consider that the basis for a lot of my thoughts about his characterization.
And the thing is, a thing I love a lot, is that Steve could so easily have gone the other way; that deep well of anger could have easily curdled once he had the strength to back it up. He could have taken out years of bullying on guys like Hodge etc. But he didn't. Because he has compassion, because he understands what it means to be weak and unprotected (and I imagine he treasures the protection Bucky's offered him for years, and resents that he can't return it...until he can). Instead, Steve uses his anger to fight for the little guy, for the bullied and disenfranchised, and for what he believes is right, and luckily, he has a pretty good moral compass.
And who wouldn't be angry? SHIELD attempted to lie to him from the get-go, everything he knows is gone, and the world is still shitty. Like, I'm not saying things aren't better than they were in 1945, because a lot of things are, but not nearly as many things as could be, and certainly not as many as a man like Steve would hope/expect, given the trajectory the country was on at the time.
I always laugh in disbelief when people claim he's just a soldier who mindlessly obeys orders. He ignores Phillips' orders to go to Alamogordo and instead goes on the road with the USO. He goes AWOL to find and rescue Bucky. When Tony is all, "You're useless!" instead of waiting around to see what results the scientists find, he goes and breaks into the secret, secure weapons locker and finds the Phase 2 weapons. He explicitly says he's not dancing to Fury's tune and he commandeers a quinjet (though he had tacit permission for that) and takes Hawkeye with him merely on Natasha's okay.
And that's another thing I love about Steve. Well, a couple of things: he already trusts Natasha, and so even though he doesn't know Hawkeye from a hole in the wall, and as far as he does know him, he was the guy leading the attack on the Helicarrier, he accepts Hawkeye's assistance on Natasha's say-so and expects the best out of both of them. (I have SO MUCH LOVE for his relationship with Natasha, from her gentle teasing when they meet to the look of smitten awe on his face when he launches her off his shield, and everything I've seen/read about Captain America/Winter Soldier just makes me happier.)
I love that he both sees and expects the best of people. (Luckily, Dr. Erskine saw it in him.) He's disappointed but not surprised when they don't show it to him, and that's why he's such an effective leader. I mean, aside from the strategic brilliance. Because you don't want to disappoint him! You don't want to see the sad face or the disappointed face! It's bad and you should feel bad! Because he knows you're better than that and next time you're going to be, dammit, because you want to believe you are, too. Come on, guys, even the Hulk wants Captain America to like him! Admittedly, the orders he gave the Hulk were what the Hulk wanted to do anyway, but that's also a sign of a smart leader - knowing how best to use the tools at your disposal.
I feel like I'm only scratching the surface of his awesomeness and I've already written as many words as are in the story I posted last night, and work keeps interrupting. So I'll wrap it up here, but Steve Rogers is awesome, and I will fight you if you disagree. (obdisclaimer: except for ultimates!steve rogers. he can go DIAF.)
And speaking of the story I posted last night:
Nothing but winter in my cup (@ AO3)
Avengers; Steve/Bucky; adult; 1,030 words
There's only one way Steve can keep warm.
With that out of the way, hopefully Yuletide is next. I woke up 30 minutes before my alarm this morning and wrote 200 words of it! Twenty percent there! Woo!
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I forgot Almost Human was even on, and didn't realize until I'd switched from football to channel 5 for Sleepy Hollow, so I'm guessing it's not really a must-watch for me, especially since last week I fell asleep during it and didn't really feel a need to track it down to watch later. Oh well. I count on you all to tell me if I should tune back in.
As for Sleepy Hollow, I try not to get too attached to theories/speculation ahead of time, because there's always the possibility of being completely wrong, and apparently, if Katrina and her coven were telling the truth, I was completely wrong about Katrina promising the baby to Moloch and that being what got her locked up in purgatory. I still think my way would be a better story? (and note, I am far from the only person who speculated that.) But it is not the way the show ended up going, and while there were some bits I liked in this episode - all the Crane/Abbie interaction, Irving with his priest, Walter Bishop Henry Parrish, the doll becoming the protector for the boy and then the attempt to talk it down and Crane holding his hand as it died - mostly I was meh on the whole thing. I don't really care about Ichabod's son (or, tbh, his wife) - I am interested in THE MILLS SISTERS and Ichabod's relationship with them as they stop the apocalypse and the show needs to get back to Abbie being the main agent of events with Crane as her hot and helpful assistant and Jenny bringing the guns.
Though I am going to guess now that Ichabod is going to have to choose between delivering Abbie's soul to Moloch and getting his son back? Surely the son is going to rise as some kind of maybe not evil but probably evil beastie that is going to cause Ichabod more angst? Though since I've guessed wrong before on this show, I can't say for sure. But that is what it seems like they were setting up here. Also, there was way too much exposition, even on this exposition heavy show. Also also, it was completely unnecessary to explain that Crane's blood was also his son's blood and therefore could stop the golem. We've seen a tv show before! Not everything has to be explicit! As soon as they said only Jeremy's blood could stop him, we knew it would be Ichabod's, and having it be on a shard of mirror is explicit enough! (the child is a reflection of his father etc.)
Anyway, I guess we'll see what happens when the show returns.
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12/10: today's topic is Why is Steve Rogers so gr8? for latxcvi
Oh, wow, how much do I love Steve Rogers? Spoilers: A LOT. (NB: I'm going to talk about movie!Steve here, rather than 616!Steve.)
I always kind of side-eye people who claim Steve is a boring goody-goody, because he is so much more interesting and complicated than that, and they obviously weren't paying attention. I understand. It's easy to be blinded by his ASS and SHOULDERS and CHEST and ARMS and EYELASHES and MOUTH and JAW and FAAAAACE.
Ahem.
ANYWAY.
Steve is an angry guy - he's angry before the serum, and he picks fights he can't win without intervention, and I would say he does it not just because it's the right thing to do - I mean, there's no need for that fight in the movie theatre. (Though I don't think Bucky is right that he likes getting beat up. At least not like that.) That guy was a dick but you pick your battles, and that was not a necessary one, but it was for Steve Rogers. I think it's important that this fight comes after he's been rejected yet again by the Army. As Bucky says to him, 'right, and you've got nothing to prove' when Steve tells him why he continues to try to enlist. Steve wants to fight because he knows it's the right thing to do, but he also does totally want to prove that he can, especially since he's been repeatedly rejected. There's also the fact that he is clearly an adrenaline junkie. He jumps out of planes given the slightest pretext! Getting into fights is another way to find that rush, even if it's quickly followed by pain and humiliation.
And even after the serum, after he can solve his problems with punching, he STILL picks fights he can't necessarily win alone. He walks into a HYDRA base because his best friend might be a POW there. And also there are 400 other POWs to rescue, but he goes AWOL for Bucky, first and foremost. Look at his reaction after Bucky dies - he goes from "I don't want to kill anyone; I don't like bullies. I don't care where they're from," to "I'm going to wipe HYDRA off the map [and because I'm grieving, I'm going to sacrifice myself to do it]."
He's angry in Avengers, because he's lost everything and the future is nothing like he'd hoped/imagined it would be. When he says, "They said we won the war. They didn't say what we lost." he's not talking about some halcyon golden age. Steve was a sickly, malnourished orphan living in Brooklyn during the Depression. He was not living it up in the '40s, despite Bucky's best efforts. There's a lot that can be extrapolated from that set of circumstances even without going to the comics, which I did here, so I'm not going to do it again, but consider that the basis for a lot of my thoughts about his characterization.
And the thing is, a thing I love a lot, is that Steve could so easily have gone the other way; that deep well of anger could have easily curdled once he had the strength to back it up. He could have taken out years of bullying on guys like Hodge etc. But he didn't. Because he has compassion, because he understands what it means to be weak and unprotected (and I imagine he treasures the protection Bucky's offered him for years, and resents that he can't return it...until he can). Instead, Steve uses his anger to fight for the little guy, for the bullied and disenfranchised, and for what he believes is right, and luckily, he has a pretty good moral compass.
And who wouldn't be angry? SHIELD attempted to lie to him from the get-go, everything he knows is gone, and the world is still shitty. Like, I'm not saying things aren't better than they were in 1945, because a lot of things are, but not nearly as many things as could be, and certainly not as many as a man like Steve would hope/expect, given the trajectory the country was on at the time.
I always laugh in disbelief when people claim he's just a soldier who mindlessly obeys orders. He ignores Phillips' orders to go to Alamogordo and instead goes on the road with the USO. He goes AWOL to find and rescue Bucky. When Tony is all, "You're useless!" instead of waiting around to see what results the scientists find, he goes and breaks into the secret, secure weapons locker and finds the Phase 2 weapons. He explicitly says he's not dancing to Fury's tune and he commandeers a quinjet (though he had tacit permission for that) and takes Hawkeye with him merely on Natasha's okay.
And that's another thing I love about Steve. Well, a couple of things: he already trusts Natasha, and so even though he doesn't know Hawkeye from a hole in the wall, and as far as he does know him, he was the guy leading the attack on the Helicarrier, he accepts Hawkeye's assistance on Natasha's say-so and expects the best out of both of them. (I have SO MUCH LOVE for his relationship with Natasha, from her gentle teasing when they meet to the look of smitten awe on his face when he launches her off his shield, and everything I've seen/read about Captain America/Winter Soldier just makes me happier.)
I love that he both sees and expects the best of people. (Luckily, Dr. Erskine saw it in him.) He's disappointed but not surprised when they don't show it to him, and that's why he's such an effective leader. I mean, aside from the strategic brilliance. Because you don't want to disappoint him! You don't want to see the sad face or the disappointed face! It's bad and you should feel bad! Because he knows you're better than that and next time you're going to be, dammit, because you want to believe you are, too. Come on, guys, even the Hulk wants Captain America to like him! Admittedly, the orders he gave the Hulk were what the Hulk wanted to do anyway, but that's also a sign of a smart leader - knowing how best to use the tools at your disposal.
I feel like I'm only scratching the surface of his awesomeness and I've already written as many words as are in the story I posted last night, and work keeps interrupting. So I'll wrap it up here, but Steve Rogers is awesome, and I will fight you if you disagree. (obdisclaimer: except for ultimates!steve rogers. he can go DIAF.)
And speaking of the story I posted last night:
Nothing but winter in my cup (@ AO3)
Avengers; Steve/Bucky; adult; 1,030 words
There's only one way Steve can keep warm.
With that out of the way, hopefully Yuletide is next. I woke up 30 minutes before my alarm this morning and wrote 200 words of it! Twenty percent there! Woo!
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people have commented there.