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[scrollgirl]

I really, really need to get started on a school assignment, but here's a drive-by post with a few random links:

1) Star Trek: DS9 fans, you may want to check out this awesome fanart of Kira Nerys in 1940s menswear. Gorgeous!

2) Regender flips pronouns around. Enter the URL of an English-language website (e.g., Wikipedia) and it translates it so

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The Avengers trailer looks so awesome! I had my doubts about the Spiderman movie. I mean, I only watched the previous trilogy for James Franco but I didn't get why they were rebooting so soon. However, the trailer is pretty cool. I am definitely going to be seeing both movies. :D

I still love DC! But dammit, they need to make more/better movies
So true.

[scrollgirl]

I still think it's ridiculous that they're rebooting again. I mean, it would be awesome if the Avengers and the new Spider-Man eventually crossed over (which fandom will do, I'm sure) but it's a definitely money-grab. Still, Andrew Garfield! Emma Stone! I like 'em both.

[fantasyenabler]

but IMHO this quote is far more applicable to Tony Stark than to Steve Rogers.

Longtime Marvel fan here...and I honestly don't see this applying to either one of them. It's a bit of an extreme statment, in my opinion.

Although if we did have to apply it to one of them, then yeah, I can see it being Steve more than Tony. Both want the greater good for everyone, but Tony has an easier time seeing people as abstracts than Steve. (Witness his ability to rationalize away the things he felt forced to do during the Civil War.)

So again, I think neither one of them would do this, but I think Tony would be more likely to do the cost-benefit analysis and think, "This is ridiculous," whereas Steve would think, "This is silly," but might still get guilted into doing it.

[scrollgirl]

Hmm, I was thinking of Civil War for Tony, actually. Where he makes the decision to support Registration not because he personally thinks it's a great idea, but because he weighs the costs and casualty rates and thinks, "I have to do this for the good of everyone and hopefully mitigate how bad this war is going to be." It's a very patronizing (in the old school sense of the word) attitude where he does things for (what he thinks is) other people's own good (e.g., Peter coming out as Spider-Man).

[fantasyenabler]

Okay, I think I see where you're coming from. It's the idea of someone being so set on doing something for "your own good" that they don't see the inherent foolishness of what they're doing, yes?

If the story was approached from that viewpoint, I guess I could see it. Otherwise, Tony doesn't strike me as the kind of guy who'd care about individual ducks unless it played into whatever power trip he was on at the time. (And I like Tony. I just don't see where liking a character means you don't acknowledge their inherent flaws.)