LJ presents: Homecoming, part two

[dragontail]

I don't think she does it deliberately, and that's part of the reason she astounds me.

A friend once described LJ's personal canon as "falling out of the genre tree and hitting every branch on the way down". It was a compliment but also an accurate summation; there's a lot of moving parts in LJ's world. She's always stitched those pieces together

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[raisedbymoogles]

*applauds wildly*

[dragontail]

Your applause will mean the world to LJ. She was so thrilled when you praised the grown-up, mature way she broke the heroes up, and I know she'd hoped her way of bringing them back together would elicit the same reaction. Yay!

[raisedbymoogles]

Well, it ought to! I love how she comes to grips with the idea that good people don't always get along sometimes, or make mistakes with good intentions, and most importantly that they can come back from those mistakes. I'm always thoroughly impressed by that.

[dragontail]

*beams* Me, too. Not only does it make for great stories but it speaks well, I feel, of the personality she's developing and the person into whom she's growing.

[librarian_bot]

Ah, I love it when a denouement comes together . . .

I loved this too, obviously. The palpable hit the Skull scored on Batman, the triumphant return of the exiled heroes (because of course they would come back to save the world), the reason they couldn't strike before now -- and that they did not take the torch back at the end. Too many 'triumphal returns' end with the old taking the place of the new for no other reason than nostalgia. LJ, of course, is far too canny to fall into that trap.

And so the adventure continues - in the right direction: forward.

[dragontail]

... and that they did not take the torch back at the end. Too many 'triumphal returns' end with the old taking the place of the new for no other reason than nostalgia. LJ, of course, is far too canny to fall into that trap.

I loved that as well. Not only because I'm a real sucker for her New Avengers line-up (I would, quite honestly, pay good money to read about that team each and every month in a published comic... I adore the various dynamics and interplay between them) but because it shows the growth Tony, in particular, has experienced through this arc (and all the way back, throughout all of LJ's stories). Growth is the first stage in forward motion, rather than "illusion of change" and, as you say, forward is the only way an adventure should go.

[bc_scrubs]

So much goodness in the one story!!!!!
AUTHOR! AUTHOR! AUTHOR!

[dragontail]

Her awesome knows no bounds!