Yeah, yeah, I will get to those essays.  This is just a different meta thing that popped dramtically into my brain.  My standards for heroes and villains, and how they differ.  Namely: who I root for.  (Besides the Davidson Wildcats)

I began thinking about this when I realized how little sense it makes that my favorite Marvel character is an ( Read more... )

As always, shamelessly stolen from one of the twenty billion or so fic authors whose journals I stalk.

Take twenty pairings, (or characters, because I don't think I HAVE twenty pairings), and twenty Shuffled songs.  Compare.

( And We Begin... )

Alright, I'm gonna say this loud and clear, comics ( Read more... )

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...What?

Neither of you has a clue what this means?

Oh.

Anyway.  Take it from me:

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My maternal grandfather has a habit of collecting things.  All sorts of things- he's got arrowheads, old guns, a ton of Confederate money, gemstones- and a few months ago he got his hands on a couple of boxes of old comic books,70s-80s mostly.  I don't think there's exactly anything valuable in there, but there's a veritable treasure trove of ( Read more... )

I was never one of those people who liked villains.  I was much more interested in Cinderella than the stepmother, Snow White than the Queen, heck, even Aurora than Maleficent, and /nobody/, I have learned, prefers Aurora to Maleficent.  Actually, I think for a while there I actively disliked her.  It's probably because, at a point in the middle of ( Read more... )

I have been watching more of the old XMen cartoon, and have reached the following conclusions:

1.  Look, I have accepted (after time and good writing) that "Sinestro" and "Atrocitus" can be names for actual, decent villains even in this modern age.  Nothing as of yet can keep me from breaking out into chortles at "Mister Sinister."  You've got a ( Read more... )

There's a meme somewhere out there where you describe fandoms like romantic interests.  It makes a certain amount of sense.  Star Wars is the solid but exciting love-of-your-life, Avatar is that childhood crush who still makes you tingly inside now that you're both older and still hang out together, and comics is...  the relationship between me and ( Read more... )

True nerdity...

Is going on FFRants, and realizing that not only can you immediately guess the characters and fandom, but you read the fic last night.

Forgotten what's it's like to be part of an ongoing fandom, I mean.  To be sincerely worried about whether my favorite characters will live, and not be able to just check online to see what happened.  To have to WAIT ( Read more... )