Things I Have Learned Recently

[melannen]

1. I am never, ever going to be the next hot mashup artist, because none of the songs I want to mash up have acapella (or karaoke) tracks available. I mean I can understand Spike Jones or the Original Broadway Soundtrack of The Sound of Music not having any, but surely They Might Be Giants acapellas are out there somewhere?

1a. For some reason all my Homestuck fic bunnies now come with bonus mashup ideas.

1b. Why don't people do fannish mashups, anyway?

2. There's a small kinkmeme I'm reading where I've sworn to feedback every story (not hard, they are all really good), and I have learned that if my feedback options are a) leave a one-sentence anon comment after reading, or b) find the link to the AO3 repost, log in to AO3, navigate back to fic, scroll down to the kudos button, leave kudos, navigte back to kinkmeme, my brain still thinks that b) is easier.

3. I really need to stop reading Homestuck fic because now when I read fic in any other fandom and a character goes all angsty about how their love interest will never reciprocate because it's just pity, I can't understand why they would be upset...

4. Something in my head is unable to understand Clint/Coulson fic, because it keeps going "why would you write about two extremely minor male characters when you could have Darcy in your story instead?"

Comments

[melannen]

Oooh, I had not seen that one! Must go read. (Yeah, the Clint/Coulson this really applies mostly to are the ones that don't have much TEAM in them, if they have TEAM in them I'll read them regardless.)

Thor is the superhero movie this summer that did right by its female characters! ...completely unlike XMFC, I can see how confusing them would give the wrong impression.

I don't actually read too deeply in this fandom, but really you could do worse than starting at the top of the Clint/Darcy by hits page on AO3 and working your way down, as long as you don't mind a lot of Clint. (If you mind a lot of Clint, you might have trouble with Darcy fic.)

Also there's The One In Which Darcy Lewis Punches Captain America's V-Card, which is widely rec'd for a reason.

[lannamichaels]

Thanks. :) I do not know what a v-card is, but I shall soon find out. ;)

Oh, and sort of an amazing thing about the TEAM thing: I get it! I get the team thing! This is amazing and awesome, because the other TEAM fandoms like SGA, I do not get it at all. Which is a shame. :( But I totally get it for the Avengers, which is yay. ♥ They are a team! They fight crime! They live together! Depending on who the writer is, different people are sleeping with each other! They get along! Together, they fight crime! I totally get it!

[melannen]

I will give you a hint: it has nothing to do with war rationing!

And I get more TEAM with some fandoms than others, but *definitely* with Avengers. I think with SGA, I *wanted* to go all TEAM with it, but the show never really showed it (even SG1 - maybe it's partly the exgencies of series television - the team were absolutely bonded and I ate team!fic with a spoon, but, at least onscreen, it wasn't really like the Avengers, a sprawling cuddly family where once you're in, you're in for life, and so are all your friends and relations too...

[lannamichaels]

I think with SGA, I *wanted* to go all TEAM with it, but the show never really showed it

Yay, not just me. I didn't watch all that much of canon -- 2.5 season? about that? -- so I'm never sure if it's not just that I missed the episode with a lot of TEAM feeling.

Also, and I wonder if this might have something to do with SG1 -- it's the issue that there's a military structure. SGA less so, but I loved Ford, so just handwave it: but TEAM, to me, seems like it might require a certain equality between the team members. It's the "we're all in this together" feeling, and that gets a little weird when you have that inside a military hierarchy where people are on different levels. Like, if they were all privates or all sergeants or all captains, that would be one thing. But you have O'Neill and Carter, and O'Neill's her commanding officer. And John Sheppard is the military commander of the entire base, and for all he's laid back, there is a certain heirarchy there. It's less of a puppy pile when you're calling someone Sir, y'know?

But this might just be me, and I haven't spent too long thinking that over. Hmm. There's the Fellowship, which certainly has hiearchies, but otoh, there is a sense of "we're all in this together to achieve that big goal", so there's that, so even with the tensions and the ring factors, they were united in the same goal and were getting there togther, with everyone's expeirence and expertise being valid and important... sort of. I used to have all the thoughts about Aragorn and Boromir's interactions and how Boromir basically chanced into being in Rivendell at the right time, he wasn't exactly invited, but even then, it's conflict that's somehow outside of it. It's not conflict about the main thing, it's conflict about something else that's occuring while they are all united. So we all have goal X, but meanwhile, we're still going ot argue about A, B, C, and Minas Tirith.