Reaction post: X-men First Class
What a weird movie to watch in German. I wasn't with anyone, so sitting alone in the theater full of German kids and watching this American Nazi Science adventure thing - I don't know. Weird. Also, it meant that I got totally confused whenever you were supposed to notice that people were speaking German in the original, because everyone was always speaking German. Hm.
I don't actually have thoughts about the movie. It was good? I got distracted by SJ stuff (how could they get SO MUCH right in Thor, and then turn around and mess almost everything up in X-men? I am disappoint). And then there was adventure, and it was fun. Erik/Charles is so text, it's almost impossible to ignore. Which is what I really want to talk about:
Magneto/Xavier was my very very first ship, back when I was like... seven. My uncle lent me comics or possibly I just stole them from his room. So it predates my introduction to fandom by ten years, and an embarrassing number of my narrative kinks and pairing kinks come directly from this ship. Like all of them, basically. When I found fandom, I went looking for all the Magneto/Xavier fic, and it just wasn't there. There were stories, good stories, but it wasn't a big ship and there wasn't the kind of community that I eventually got with best_enemies. And now it's popular and there's a kinkmeme that is 90% Erik/Charles, and I guess I should be happy. I did like the actors and the younger versions of the characters! It's just that I gravitate towards screwed-up middle-aged men, and for some reason fandom likes hot young guys better. Also guys that are not paralyzed from the waist down, thus making the sex scenes more complicated. Also also, my take on the character dynamic is way more influenced by the comics than the movies, and thus is really different from most of the new fandom. Not that this is bad, just that it means I have trouble finding the fics I want to read.
When I got into Doctor/Master, Classic fics were hard to find but they were there, and there were more and more being written. Eventually, when I realized the specific dynamic I saw with the characters wasn't very common, I started writing. Lots and lots of words, and now I guess the dynamic I see is more common and I find lots of fic that I like to read and I'm way more invested in Doctor/Master all the time (probably more correlation than causation, but you never know). This example teaches me that I should spend a couple years writing hundreds of thousands of words of Magneto/Xavier. Which, okay, tempting, but not going to happen.
Probably not going to happen. Maybe just one fic.
ANYWAY, off to repost some Theta/Koschei, thus spectacularly missing my own point. And then I'm leaving early tomorrow for a week - I'll probably still have email in case there is some strange me-related internet emergency. I can't think of why there would be, but hey.
I don't actually have thoughts about the movie. It was good? I got distracted by SJ stuff (how could they get SO MUCH right in Thor, and then turn around and mess almost everything up in X-men? I am disappoint). And then there was adventure, and it was fun. Erik/Charles is so text, it's almost impossible to ignore. Which is what I really want to talk about:
Magneto/Xavier was my very very first ship, back when I was like... seven. My uncle lent me comics or possibly I just stole them from his room. So it predates my introduction to fandom by ten years, and an embarrassing number of my narrative kinks and pairing kinks come directly from this ship. Like all of them, basically. When I found fandom, I went looking for all the Magneto/Xavier fic, and it just wasn't there. There were stories, good stories, but it wasn't a big ship and there wasn't the kind of community that I eventually got with best_enemies. And now it's popular and there's a kinkmeme that is 90% Erik/Charles, and I guess I should be happy. I did like the actors and the younger versions of the characters! It's just that I gravitate towards screwed-up middle-aged men, and for some reason fandom likes hot young guys better. Also guys that are not paralyzed from the waist down, thus making the sex scenes more complicated. Also also, my take on the character dynamic is way more influenced by the comics than the movies, and thus is really different from most of the new fandom. Not that this is bad, just that it means I have trouble finding the fics I want to read.
When I got into Doctor/Master, Classic fics were hard to find but they were there, and there were more and more being written. Eventually, when I realized the specific dynamic I saw with the characters wasn't very common, I started writing. Lots and lots of words, and now I guess the dynamic I see is more common and I find lots of fic that I like to read and I'm way more invested in Doctor/Master all the time (probably more correlation than causation, but you never know). This example teaches me that I should spend a couple years writing hundreds of thousands of words of Magneto/Xavier. Which, okay, tempting, but not going to happen.
Probably not going to happen. Maybe just one fic.
ANYWAY, off to repost some Theta/Koschei, thus spectacularly missing my own point. And then I'm leaving early tomorrow for a week - I'll probably still have email in case there is some strange me-related internet emergency. I can't think of why there would be, but hey.