Downside: It will probably destroy all my current plotbunnies. o.o
Yeah I was kind of worried about the same thing. On the other hand, the only bunnies I'm worried about right now are the ones related to my Epicly Long Epic and that's pretty firmly in its own AU at this point. I think the biggest danger is being distracted by NEW bunnies of the 'how to write Natasha and Clint into the plot' variety ;)
Well, I'm going to have the destroyed at some point anyway. I might as well give myself a little lead time to rebuild them before the fandom goes 'splodey.
Seeing IM3 on Friday morning sounds like a FANTASTIC plan. I wish I could do something like that. I'm actually having company over the weekend, so I'll be avoiding the internet until I can actually watch the movie, which may not be until Sunday or Monday night.
Also, I don't know if I've asked this before, but what sparked your shippage of Steve/Maria?
Truthfully, most likely the fact that Maria is my "type" when it comes to female characters. The quiet, competent kind, who does the job and usually gets overlooked by fans in favour of showier, prettier, more friendly and emotionally open female characters. Or characters with penises.
I then tend to ship that "type" with a guy who tends to be competent and emotionally open on the top, while floating deep currents beneath. He's usually military or paramilitary, fairly disciplined, and is capable of seeing her as a partner or comrade, which he does.
Steve fit the bill.
The fact that Maria gave him an up-and-down look in the movie, that he has a thing for competent brunette agents, and that Maria doesn't like superhero types helped regarding certain preferred pairing tropes: has-a-type, and attraction-in-spite-of are probably the main ones.
To be honest, this is the only type of pairing that I actually write for: het, competent female, accepting male, partners-in-arms.
All stories featuring a main-character relationship that I've written in the last twelve years (and quite a few before that) have followed that pattern.
I'll read other tropes and relationships, but this is the only type of relationship that I enjoy writing.
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...hm. Fic idea. BIAB. :D
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Yeah I was kind of worried about the same thing. On the other hand, the only bunnies I'm worried about right now are the ones related to my Epicly Long Epic and that's pretty firmly in its own AU at this point. I think the biggest danger is being distracted by NEW bunnies of the 'how to write Natasha and Clint into the plot' variety ;)
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Also, I don't know if I've asked this before, but what sparked your shippage of Steve/Maria?
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Truthfully, most likely the fact that Maria is my "type" when it comes to female characters. The quiet, competent kind, who does the job and usually gets overlooked by fans in favour of showier, prettier, more friendly and emotionally open female characters. Or characters with penises.
I then tend to ship that "type" with a guy who tends to be competent and emotionally open on the top, while floating deep currents beneath. He's usually military or paramilitary, fairly disciplined, and is capable of seeing her as a partner or comrade, which he does.
Steve fit the bill.
The fact that Maria gave him an up-and-down look in the movie, that he has a thing for competent brunette agents, and that Maria doesn't like superhero types helped regarding certain preferred pairing tropes: has-a-type, and attraction-in-spite-of are probably the main ones.
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All stories featuring a main-character relationship that I've written in the last twelve years (and quite a few before that) have followed that pattern.
I'll read other tropes and relationships, but this is the only type of relationship that I enjoy writing.
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