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Made it to Boston, yay! When I come back there will be cats, which I will get to live with for the whole rest of the summer! (We have decided their codenames for the summer are Adorabloodthirsty and Fruity Rumpus Asshole Cat. Because, well.)
Also it seems to have been decided that a bunch of fannish-ish people will be meeting to see Brave for the 3:30 matinee at Loews Boston Common, and then Pho. If anyone else in Boston who has fannish credentials would like to join us, you are still welcome to!
My last multishippy self-indulgent full-of-feelings Avengers fic is going to hit 10,000 views just about the same time my current multishippy self-indulgent full-of-feelings Avengers fic is going to hit 10,000 words. O tempora, o mores!
And speaking of Avengers, I have some kind requests to make of the fandom at large:
1. If you are writing or talking about Jane/Darcy, hooray I love you! More please? Only, please, please, can you always specify really clearly (outside the cut) what fandom you're talking about, or at least that it's femslash?
Because if you don't my brain immediately goes to the other obvious fandom for those names, and a) that ship is very, very wrong, and b) I start wanting to add to the fic that begins
"'It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single Asgardian in possession of a large hammer, must be in want of a wife,'" Darcy Lewis told them, because for a fact so self-evident, neither of them seemed to be aware of its veracity, or relevance to their own affairs.
She often found herself thanking Providence that she had chosen after all to take this position as lady's companion, for all that they could not afford to offer her what a larger establishment might; for Miss Jane Foster had bluestocking tendencies, and while Darcy was not averse to a touch of the lapis in her own legware, Jane was apt to forget that anything beyond her astronomic and meteorological interests existed at all, and Dr. Eric Selvig, her guardian and late father's dear friend, only encouraged her abstraction by his own studies. It was up to Darcy to remind them of the existence of a social round, limited as it was here in ____shire.
"Is that not a quotation from one of your circulating novels?" Dr. Selvig asked her dryly.
Darcy chose not to reply to this, as no possible continuance could be to her advantage; it would lead only to embarrassing protestations on her part, or embarrassing confessions on his.
"I suppose you will next suggest that I should visit him, so that you and Jane might make his acquaintance."
"It would be considerate of you, yes," she told him sweetly.
He harrumphed, and turned back to the ephemeris he was reading with his breakfast. "If these calculations regarding the moons of Saturn come out as they ought, perhaps I will have time in the next few weeks," he said.
Jane looked up from her book at the sound of someone speaking Astronomy, and then blinked in surprise. "Oh! Good morning, Darcy dear. Might you pass me one of those strawberry-filled pastries?"
Darcy sighed. This was going to be even more difficult than she had anticipated.
The only real problem it isn't femslash - Jane must end up with Thor of course, and I haven't yet figured out if I go with the original and Darcy ends up with Thor's overproud, manipulative, and rich foster-brother, or she gets the dashing and merry young sharpshooter from the ____shire regiment (who has perhaps not been as candid about his own past as would be ideal) instead.
Also, of course, that I have way too many other things to write.
So be kind, when you talk about Jane/Darcy, specify fandom.
2. Also, directed to an entirely different subset of fandom: Thor's Hammer is spelled Mjollnir. There is a certain amount of leeway allowed as it's a translation, but in no language is it spelled as if it rhymes with Kolinahr. When you spell it as if it rhymes with Kolinahr, I start thinking about the story where Jane is messing with Einstein-Rosen bridges and quantum entanglement and accidentally sends Bruce, Tony, Natasha and Darcy to the Starship Enterprise and Bruce and Spock get to talk C'thia.
And nobody wants to see that.
Nobody, right?
Especially not the part where Chekov referees Natasha and McCoy having a drinking contest.
Also it seems to have been decided that a bunch of fannish-ish people will be meeting to see Brave for the 3:30 matinee at Loews Boston Common, and then Pho. If anyone else in Boston who has fannish credentials would like to join us, you are still welcome to!
My last multishippy self-indulgent full-of-feelings Avengers fic is going to hit 10,000 views just about the same time my current multishippy self-indulgent full-of-feelings Avengers fic is going to hit 10,000 words. O tempora, o mores!
And speaking of Avengers, I have some kind requests to make of the fandom at large:
1. If you are writing or talking about Jane/Darcy, hooray I love you! More please? Only, please, please, can you always specify really clearly (outside the cut) what fandom you're talking about, or at least that it's femslash?
Because if you don't my brain immediately goes to the other obvious fandom for those names, and a) that ship is very, very wrong, and b) I start wanting to add to the fic that begins
"'It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single Asgardian in possession of a large hammer, must be in want of a wife,'" Darcy Lewis told them, because for a fact so self-evident, neither of them seemed to be aware of its veracity, or relevance to their own affairs.
She often found herself thanking Providence that she had chosen after all to take this position as lady's companion, for all that they could not afford to offer her what a larger establishment might; for Miss Jane Foster had bluestocking tendencies, and while Darcy was not averse to a touch of the lapis in her own legware, Jane was apt to forget that anything beyond her astronomic and meteorological interests existed at all, and Dr. Eric Selvig, her guardian and late father's dear friend, only encouraged her abstraction by his own studies. It was up to Darcy to remind them of the existence of a social round, limited as it was here in ____shire.
"Is that not a quotation from one of your circulating novels?" Dr. Selvig asked her dryly.
Darcy chose not to reply to this, as no possible continuance could be to her advantage; it would lead only to embarrassing protestations on her part, or embarrassing confessions on his.
"I suppose you will next suggest that I should visit him, so that you and Jane might make his acquaintance."
"It would be considerate of you, yes," she told him sweetly.
He harrumphed, and turned back to the ephemeris he was reading with his breakfast. "If these calculations regarding the moons of Saturn come out as they ought, perhaps I will have time in the next few weeks," he said.
Jane looked up from her book at the sound of someone speaking Astronomy, and then blinked in surprise. "Oh! Good morning, Darcy dear. Might you pass me one of those strawberry-filled pastries?"
Darcy sighed. This was going to be even more difficult than she had anticipated.
The only real problem it isn't femslash - Jane must end up with Thor of course, and I haven't yet figured out if I go with the original and Darcy ends up with Thor's overproud, manipulative, and rich foster-brother, or she gets the dashing and merry young sharpshooter from the ____shire regiment (who has perhaps not been as candid about his own past as would be ideal) instead.
Also, of course, that I have way too many other things to write.
So be kind, when you talk about Jane/Darcy, specify fandom.
2. Also, directed to an entirely different subset of fandom: Thor's Hammer is spelled Mjollnir. There is a certain amount of leeway allowed as it's a translation, but in no language is it spelled as if it rhymes with Kolinahr. When you spell it as if it rhymes with Kolinahr, I start thinking about the story where Jane is messing with Einstein-Rosen bridges and quantum entanglement and accidentally sends Bruce, Tony, Natasha and Darcy to the Starship Enterprise and Bruce and Spock get to talk C'thia.
And nobody wants to see that.
Nobody, right?
Especially not the part where Chekov referees Natasha and McCoy having a drinking contest.
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...Of course note. I can absolutely guarantee you I would not stay up more than an hour -- two at most! -- past my bedtime to read that. Definitely. Positively. Would.
(Did I forget a "Not" up there? I did, didn't I... I'm just not used to this level of prevarication, I guess!)
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(He makes Chapel do Darcy's.)
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Whisky Sours? :D Depends on the bartender.
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Everyone wants to see that.
Also, everyone wants to see the P&P!AU. Although when I first started reading it, I was really really hoping that Darcy is just the kind of gal who narrates everyone's life as though she's Austen. Because she thinks it's hilarious, and also because she thinks Jane/Thor is rather grotesquely fairytale-esque. It'd be particularly amusing if all of her dialogue reflected her canonically flippant modernity, but all her thoughts were in Regency. I waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaant it now.
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And yeah, even in the AU I was writing there, Darcy ends about half Jane, half Mrs. Bennett (and a little bit of Lydia). But then Clint and Loki are sort of a mix-and-match remix of Wickham and Darcy, and the Kent crowd (consisting, atm, of Lord Obadiah Stane, his neurasthenic ward and heir Lord Anthony, Mr. Coulson the outwardly comical and ineffective rector, and Miss Potts, Anthony's governess/nurse) are only in parts similar to their originals. :)
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heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee Somehow I don't think Tony/Thor was Frigga's "dearest wish".
Mr. Coulson the outwardly comical and ineffective rector
I once read this fic called S.T.U.D. in which Mr. Collins wore a fat suit and greased his hair. Something about too many ladies coming to call. And he was a spy for Her Majesty.
Loki fits the bill for Wickham, considering their upbringing.
...Now I want the Persuasion!AU in which Tony invites Bruce to be an Avenger, and Bruce says no, and eight years later Tony swoops back into his life having become an accomplished superhero, and Bruce is quietly competent.
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Tony/Bruce doing Persuasion would also be AMAZING omg.
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ARE YOU GOING TO WRITE THIS THAT IS THE OPERATIVE QUESTION.
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MAYBE IT DEPENDS ON HOW MUCH PEOPLE TALK ABOUT JANE/DARCY ON MY NETWORK.
...er, probably not, because in order to pull of regency-pastiche-voice I need to read/write/listen to NOTHING BUT AUSTEN and I have too many other fics I need to finish to do that. But you know if someone else wanted to take it up, I would give them all the support/plotting help they wanted. :)
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heeeeee. But are each of them so complying that nothing will ever be resolved on and so easy that every servant will cheat them? They will never exceed their income, anyway.
probably not
aw. That's too bad. I loved your snippet; it shall have to suffice. :o)
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*boggles* Do you happen to have a link for this? I'm desperately curious now!
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:o(
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(I wouldn't guarantee there isn't an Avengers/P&P AU being written by someone else already, but I tend not to read those, because it seems like most of the time, a) they don't bother to even try to write a Regency romance as opposed to just following the plot of P&P, and b) they tend to try to figure out a way to shoehorn five people into being the Bennett sisters, and making people blood-related who aren't is one of the few things to consistently make me fail out of crossovers.
/rant)
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Nobody, right?
Well, there is that godawful tie-in novel where the Next Generation characters meet the X-men, and other universes are canon in Marvel-verse and time-travel is canon in Star Trek verse, so it wouldn't even be that hard to do. (Steve really ought to be included in the Enterprise cross-over fun, though - finally, a future that looks like what people in his day assumed 2012 would look like! The helicarrier is amazing and all, but damn it, everything he read when he was a teenager promised him the future would have ray guns. And now it does.)
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Steve has a major role in helping Pepper and Jane deal with the Enterprise crewbeings who were transported in to replace Tony, Bruce, Darcy, and Natasha. And he gets to be the one to go to Enterprise to drag them back, once they have the device actually working properly. (I think I am just too kindhearted to accidentally strand movieverse Steve in the future again already.)
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I halfway suspect the writer wrote it entirely for the scene where someone says "Dr. McCoy" and Bones and Beast both go "Yes?"