Comments | ship_manifesto: Captain America/Iron Man (Marvel Comics)

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Captain America/Iron Man (Marvel Comics)

Jul 10, 2008 16:51

Title: A Sword, a Horse, a Shield
Author: elspethdixon
Spoilers: moderate ones for years of comics continuity, major ones for Civil War. [note: a lot of canon has transpired since I first wrote this, some decent, some good, and some inexpressibly horrible. Because trying to keep this manifesto up to date would be a study in futility, given that canon is ( Read more... )

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meicdon13 July 12 2008, 13:07:05 UTC

Capt. America/Iron Man is one of my favorite Marvel pairings ♥ I am SO happy that you took the time to write this.

BTW, I was also wondering what HTML you used for the pic captions and the blocks of text beside the pics.

elspethdixon July 13 2008, 21:43:46 UTC

Thanks! I actually started writing this over a year ago, back when Civil Warwas still going on. Its the manifesto that was seventeen months
in the making, which may explain why it's so bloody long ^_^.

I used tables. There are probably more elegant ways to get the same effect, but my knowledge of html is still stuck in 2002.

gokuma July 12 2008, 13:08:02 UTC

...You are awesome ^___^ Thank you for this text!

damalur July 12 2008, 13:16:18 UTC

Oh, wow. This is wonderful - funny and touching in the all the right places. You've dealt really well with the decades of backstory, and the fact that you dedicated an entire section to Confession endears this manifesto to me forever.

These lines both made me snort:

> Normally, this sort of things ends up turning you into Wolverine, but Steve was lucky.

> We’ll call it Vietghanistan.

Anyway, yes, lovely job! I'm definitely filing this away in my memories.

last_archangel July 12 2008, 13:18:21 UTC

Lovely job. I liked all of your points and this was well-researched.

But for some reason, "Vietghanistan" made me giggle like crazy.

lenija July 12 2008, 20:27:15 UTC

I think it must be a miracle that you posted this today. Because I shipped those two while reading Civil War (my take on the canon's pretty similar to yours), then I had a mostly comic-free phase and came back into Marvel fandom harder than ever just a few weeks ago. I've been reading and re-reading a lot of comics during the last few days and there's hardly anything on my mind besides various Marvel characters, very much including Steve and Tony, these days.

Ahem.
What I wanted to say: You did a great job writing this. I learned a lot, laughed and nearly cried, and your essay didn't read like it was 1000 words over the limit. :)
Plus, as I mentioned, the topic really pushes my buttons at the moment.
Thank you! :)