Recs, part one

[sholio]

I have absolutely no idea what to pick as an overall tag for my shiny new Captain America fixation. Avengers? Captain America? MCU? Marvel? The trouble is that the franchise is so huge and amorphous, and there's comics stuff and movie stuff and Avengers-related stuff and stuff that isn't really Avengers-related at all. Right now I seem to be using

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[noiproksa]

Oh, vid recs! Yay! I love movie vid recs (blockbuster movies often have some seriously awesome footage that can blow you away in well edited vids

[sholio]

Thank you - I'm glad they are useful! :D I didn't remember that you had vidded that song - was it White Collar? And heh, yeah - it hasn't happened to me much, but it's happened a couple of times, and it's always a bit weird to see different visuals to a song I've made a vid to.

Fingers crossed that you might someday be moved to vid in this fandom; you're one of the most skilled vidders I've run across in any fandom, and I would love to see what you'd do with it. :D

[noiproksa]

was it White Collar?
What else? ;) (I always intend to vid other sources, but somehow it's always back to White Collar for me, especially since the ideas for White Collar vids just keep popping up in my head and then I just have to make that vid so that it's out of my head ... And that almost never happens to me with other sources, probably due to my monofannishness.)

it's always a bit weird to see different visuals to a song I've made a vid to.Exactly! It can sometimes even be weird if it's not a vid you made yourself, but a favorite vid you've watched many, many times, and the song kind of begins to equal that fandom/vid for you (although that's the exception; mostly, I don't have any problems at all watching different vids to the same song

[aelfgyfu_mead]

I recently saw someone I didn't know write that she(?) liked MCU much better than the comic books, by which she seemed to mean the movies, but surely "MCU" means "Marvel Comics Universe"? I am confused. I am very confused by the whole fandom, who seem to write entirely contradictory things. Some come out of a comic book universe, I realize, and I don't know that. But I took a step today towards reducing confusion! It's Free Comic Book Day! BH hit one store this morning while doing errands, and they were out of Captain America: The Winter Soldier. "My wife's looking for it," he said. "She ain't the only one!" the guy said. That was the store where I couldn't get it before; apparently, they can't keep it in stock. In the afternoon we both went to a different store, and they had the same problem: everyone wants it now. I put in an order and bought the next two on that list you posted, so when it comes in, I'll be ready!

I will have to watch some of these when I'm caught up on various things. Thanks for the recs!

[sholio]

MCU is actually "Marvel Cinematic Universe" - but yeah, it's terribly confusing, and I thought the "C" stood for "comics" for a really long time, hence a lot of baffled-ness until I actually got the whole thing straightened out in my head. :D

YAY FREE COMIC BOOK DAY. And hee, I'm glad that people are buying the book, although like I was complaining about in our earlier comment exchange, come on comic-store people, it's such a no-brainer that people would be looking for it! You'd think movies based on books or comics are a totally new thing, the way they're acting. In any case, I hope you like them when you get them.

It is a confusing fandom to be part of, though. Just tracking down fic is difficult, because some of it is posted under Captain America and some is under the Marvel Cinematic Universe category on AO3, some incorporates canon from the comics, some doesn't -- and I have an advantage because I read comics for a number of years, so I already have some background to work from! I can't imagine what a mess it must be to come

[aelfgyfu_mead]

"cinematic"! Dang, I never thought of that. I should have Googled for it.

come on comic-store people, it's such a no-brainer that people would be looking for it!
I'd love to know how many they're selling. I haven't bought comic books in a comic book store in . . . well, ever. BH buys some, and I've been with him to a comic book store before, but I'm not sure I ever went alone before I went a couple of weeks ago (and bought the wrong way, but hey, I'll get to that one, too).. We also got some X-Men collections over the years, but I think we got those from Amazon. And I was tempted just to get these Captain America ones from Amazon, but I'm increasingly convinced that Amazon is an evil empire and recently learned that we have multiple local, indie comic book stories fairly near us, so I went there. I think they just expected to get the same old customers, but I wonder how many other people are making decisions like I did-there's a lot of vocal support for shopping local around here. (At least among the crowd I hang with, who tend to

[sholio]

Yeah, it's been awhile since I've been in a fandom that's big enough you literally can't read all the fic! Shades of SGA. :D

It's also interesting for me to be getting back into comics, because comics were very formative for me -- I read them a lot growing up, and some of the first and most enduring friendships I made post-college were through comics fandom (not fanfic-type fandom, but talking about comics on message boards). But, with a few exceptions, I haven't really followed comics in a decade or so, certainly not mainstream superhero comics. It's both nostalgic and kind of terrifying, because the whole reason why I stopped was due to getting my heart stomped on all the time as characters were killed off or had their characterization taken in unpleasant directions. It's fun and nerve-wracking all at the same time!

[cornerofmadness]

you're making me sad I couldn't get to see the second Cap movie before it disappeared :-). Ah well there's always netflix

[sholio]

Awwww! But yeah, Netflix ... and it should be out in DVD quite soon (August, I think?).

[cornerofmadness]

probably.

I'm hoping to not miss Spiderman

[artemis_prime]

I now have a new fannish thing, thank-you, Sholio, and its name is CA2 fanart. Loving it!!!!! I'm spending more time than I care to admit looking around for new takes on my new boy, the Winter Soldier (but worry not, Rodney McKay, you will always be my boy #1).

[sholio]

I'm glad to introduce you to something new! :) It's certainly stolen my heart.