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 | October 29th, 2021 10:36 pm - 100 days of enemy recs: 75. Captain Marvel
The Captain Marvel enemyship is Carol Danvers/Yon-Rogg. It's a really good enemies dynamic, post-canon: when Yon-Rogg had power over Carol, as part of an authoritarian system, he used it to control and diminish her. But then Carol frees herself and defeats him utterly on every level and just leaves him in the dirt in the knowledge that she doesn't even consider him an enemy worth bothering to fight anymore. And he has nothing, not his power over her, not his place in the system, not the sense of self he'd built around those things. Watching them build really any sort of relationship at all out of that is fascinating. The problem with me doing a recs set for this, though, is: why would you read about Yon-Rogg when the other options include Nick Fury, Goose, and Monica Rambeau? So here is a fic rec for a story about Yon-Rogg and Monica Rambeau. It's tagged "slow-burn, enemies-to-friends" and earns it.
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| October 22nd, 2021 08:53 pm - 100 days of enemy recs: 70. Black Panther
There are a lot of possible enemyships in Black Panther! It is a really good movie that does complicated relationships that blend the personal and political very well. And the ships are all very good! T'Challa is the young king, facing a difficult transition of power, but compassionate and smart and determined to do what is best for his people, whatever the sacrifice. In the course of the movie he faces two formal challenges to his throne: the wins the one with M'Baku, and loses the one with N'jadaka. M'baku is the leader of the Jabari people, technically under T'challa's rule, but in practice the Jabari do what they want, and M'baku is happy to make sure anybody from T'Challa's city knows that. And then laugh at them. And then give them a hot meal and a hand up. N'jadaka is T'challa's brother's son, cheated out of his rights to his throne and his home, bitter and angry and making sure you know that, and why, and wanting to destroy what he can't have. He and M'Baku are nearly opposites, personality-wise. I ship it. - A Rare Bloom (6662 words) by Gileonnen
Fandom: Black Panther (2018)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: M'Baku/T'Challa (Marvel), Implied Nakia/T'Challa
Additional Tags: Life-Changing Field Trips with M'Baku, Camping, Hot Springs, Musings on Sovereignty, Fluffy Coats, Amateur Archaeology, banter and teasing, implied open relationship, Mutual Masturbation, Mountains
Series: Part 1 of Bridge, Bloom, and Barrier
When Shuri finds evidence that the heart-shaped herb might still be growing wild in Jabariland, T'Challa and M'Baku embark on a quest to find it. As the journey takes them deep into the mountains, though, their newfound trust—and growing attraction—is tested.
- isizathu (8294 words) by black_nata
Fandom: Black Panther (2018)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Erik Killmonger/T'Challa
Additional Tags: Bottom T'Challa (Marvel), Slow Burn
"What do you want?" T'Challa whispers. Almost like he's pleading. All Erik wants to do is wrap his fist around that smooth throat and make him beg some more.
- this life (all I know) (6006 words) by jjjat3am
Fandom: Black Panther (2018)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: M'Baku/Erik Killmonger
Additional Tags: Fix-It, M'Baku's dad jokes
Erik tries to put his life together after surviving his fight with T'Challa. M'Baku helps. In his way.
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| October 16th, 2021 09:47 pm - 100 days of enemy recs: 66. Xavier/Magneto
I went and looked up the old ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif) ship_manifesto for this pairing and it said something about how there were FOUR WHOLE CONTINUITIES to keep track of, and they knew it was confusing. Ah, we were such sweet summer children back then. (,,,meanwhile, xmfc was ten years ago? please join me in feeling old for a moment.) The main - but definitely not the only - continuities that really matter fannishly for these two are the original comics, the various cartoons, the Stewart/McKellan movieverse, and the XMFC movieverse. Since Disney are probably going to screw with it again now that they own the rights, it's probably a good time to go through this. I can't really summarize the comics for you. Partly because for huge swaths of X-Men comics, I just can't parse the art even when the art isn't objectively bad. I'm still listening along to the Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men podcast in an attempt to figure it out, and while it has helped a lot to figure out Summerses and Apocalypse and Wolverine and many other things, I still haven't really come up with a Unified Theory of Xavier and Magneto. Probably because there isn't one. Just remember that Xavier and Magneto have definitely been lovers, and have also spent a lot of time as enemies, and as allies, and also a lot of time when one or the other of them was evil and/or dead and/or pretending to be dead, and have probably at least once been retconned into never having met and then retconned back? It is even more of a mess than most comics continuities because basically a generation grows up with Magneto as an evil villain, and then a writer goes "but wouldn't it be cool if he reforms!" and then that lasts until the next generation takes over and makes him a cardboard villain again like when they were kids, and then the *next* generation comes in and makes him a good guy like when they were kids, and then... well, you get the idea. There are several cartoon verses, several of which had their own thriving fic fandoms in the early days of online fandom, but they are scarce and hard to find these days. X-Men Evolution was basically a high school AU where Xavier was the principle, and ends with Magneto implied to be redeemed. The earlier X-Men cartoon basically followed the comics storylines, only a tiny bit more cohesively. Then there's the movies. The first X-Men movie with Sir Patrick Stewart and Sir Ian McKellan was just. Really good. It's basically the movie that convinced the world that superhero movies could actually be legitimately good movies and worth making, so I guess we kind of have it to blame for what has happened to Hollywood since. But one of the main things it got right was focusing in on the Xavier/Magneto history as the foundation of the whole story. Another thing they got right was being willing to start in the middle of the story and let people catch up. Magneto starts the movie already in jail, having been previously captured by the X-men, being visited by his old friend/foe/lover Charles Xavier, and it just keeps that relationship tuned perfectly the whole way through. They agree on ends and disagree on means and you get the distinct impression is that all they want is to be able to sit together and keep their philosophical argument going for the rest of their lives, but both of them are too much men of action to be able to do it. It's so great. Later there were more movie in the series and unfortunately they kind of went off the rails, but the first one is still very good. I should re-watch it. Then they rebooted with X-Men First Class, which tries to do what the original movie realized it didn't need to do, and fill in the Xavier/Magneto backstory. It, too, understood that their love story was the key to the whole thing, so understandably, the vast majority of the Xavier/Magneto you will find on the web these days is XMFC continuity. I never really bonded with XMFC, though, for a couple of reasons. One is that everything *other* than the Xavier/Magneto in that movie was just a mess. One is that the vast majority of the fic in that fandom AUs out Xavier's disability, and I'm interested in a character who has basically always canonically used a wheelchair. And the last one is that, look, if you have the option of a Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellan version of anything, why would you ever look anywhere else???? "We'll meet in secret to play chess in the park when we're old" is still my ideal of a love story. So here is some classic original XMMV Xavier/Magneto fic for you.
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| October 9th, 2021 10:33 pm - 100 days of enemy recs: 60. Cable/Deadpool
(which includes the movieverse, and the comics actually titled Cable/Deadpool, because of course Deadpool gets a canon slash.) I have watched the movies! They are fun. I may rewatch them! I have "Once Upon A Deadpool" checked out from the library right now, I may even watch it before I run out of renewals! Stranger things have happened. In comics continuity, Deadpool (Wade Wilson) and Cable (one of the Nathan Summerses) were actually introduced right at the same time - the height of the Leifeld Era, where everything was based on Rule of Cool; large, poorly drawn muscles; pouches; and BFGs. Neither of them really had a backstory at first, as far as I know? They were assassin/mercenary types because every character introduced in that era was an assassin/mercenary type. They ended up on opposite sides in that first appearance, but didn't really interact much, and that was basically how it stood until they got their co-lead comic, in which, because comics reasons! they can both teleport but they always teleport together, and thus, forced proximity! Love! There was only one bodyslide! In between they both sort of grew backstories. Nate's is legendarily one of the most batshit in comics. I tried to outline it here but, you know what, nope. Basically, he is related to Scott Summers and Jean Grey, and they raised him, partly in the present and partly in an alternate dystopian future, and then as an adult, for reasons that don't need exploring at this juncture, he came back to the Present of Marvel Time main continuity and set himself up as a mercenary without revealing who he was. By the time of their comics series, he has used some of his future technology (which is actually the sentient alien spaceship that went forward in time with him when he was a baby) to set himself up as a sort of broker for world peace operating out of his private island. Also he has vast psychic powers which he can't do much with because he has to use them to keep an alien robot virus from turning him the rest of the way into a cyborg. (That's the simple version, I didn't even use the word "clone"!) In movieverse things are much simpler because he's still at the "Came back in time, being a mercenary, not telling anybody who he really is" point in his personal timeline. However, he's much more involved with movie Deadpool. Deadpool has basically three superpowers: he's Canadian, he has an incredibly overpowered healing ability that makes him absolutely unkillable, and he can see through the fourth wall. This is offset by the fact that the healing factor thinks the end-stage cancer and/or horrible burns he had when the power activated are how his body is supposed to be, and the fact that everybody thinks he's delusional. (The Canadianess has no downsides.) There are minor differences between movie and comics Deadpool, mostly offset by the fact that comics Deadpool was never very consistent anyway. They have actually very complimentary powersets and methods, but they are opposites in that Cable takes everything far too seriously except when he doesn't, and Deadpool takes nothing seriously except when he does. They have spend the entire movie first as enemies and then sniping at each other through a reluctant teamup, but at the end of the film Cable has given up everything he has to save Wade's life, and Wade basically has nothing other than that. - Beer and Sympathy (4200 words) by rallamajoop
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Cable and Deadpool, Deadpool (Comics)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Cable/Deadpool
Characters: Nathan Summers, Wade Wilson
Additional Tags: Pre-Series, Chapter Related, Drunken hate sex
Series: Part 1 of Blame it on the booze
Summary: Pre-Cable & Deadpool. In the aftermath of their meeting of Deadpool Classic #22, Cable and Deadpool make an attempt to drown their sorrows, and one thing leads to another. (Or, the one about that time Cable and Deadpool had drunken hate-sex, way back before they became friends.)
- Calling Heaven on a Payphone (19471 words) by Largishcat
Chapters: 2/2
Fandom: Deadpool (Movieverse)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Nathan Summers/Wade Wilson, Vanessa Carlysle/Wade Wilson
Characters: Wade Wilson, Vanessa Carlysle, Nathan Summers, Neena Thurman | Domino, Weasel (Deadpool)
Additional Tags: Fluff and Angst, Lots of Angst, Fix-It of Sorts, Vanessa is Mistress Death, Smut, Open Relationships, Self-Harm, Canon-Typical Violence, Gratuitous Fourth Wall Breakage, Non-Linear Narrative, Pre-Poly, do not copy to another site
Series: Part 2 of Cable & Deadpool Kinkmeme Fills
Summary: Cable settles into the 21st century, Vanessa develops posthumous superpowers, Wade breaks into his friends’ homes.
- Living In a Powder Keg and Giving Off Sparks (33200 words) by Polaris
Chapters: 6/6
Fandom: Deadpool (Movieverse)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Vanessa Carlysle/Wade Wilson, Nathan Summers/Wade Wilson, Vanessa Carlysle/Nathan Summers/Wade Wilson, Vanessa Carlysle/Nathan Summers
Characters: Vanessa Carlysle, Nathan Summers, Wade Wilson, Russell Collins, Blind Al, Neena Thurman, Piotr Rasputin, Dopinder (Marvel), Hope Summers
Additional Tags: Unconventional Families, Polyamory, Telepathic Sex, IKEA, Kink Negotiation, questionable parenting, Daddy Kink, Past Sexual Abuse, Consent Play, Pop Culture, Infidelity, Nate’s Still Married
Series: Part 1 of New Favorite F-Word
Summary: What do you get when you take a not-dead hooker with a heart of gold, a time-sliding telepath on a mission to save the world, a pyrokinetic teenager with trust issues, and the obnoxious fucker who brought them together? Answer: a family.
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| September 16th, 2021 07:57 pm - 100 days of enemy recs: 44. Ant-Man
Okay this one is slightly less epoch-defining than the last two. But Scott Lang/Jimmy Woo is just so good? It's got the Clint/Coulson dynamic except they have more on-screen flirting interaction and there's also less canon you have to to ignore and they're more interesting. The disaster superhero trying to earn down the red in his ledger x the straight-laced federal agent with hidden depths who is supposed to be keeping an eye on him! (but possibly slightly less of an eye on his ass.) (nice ass though) Unlike Clint/Coulson, Scott is not being run by the feds, he's serving a house arrest sentence for unlicensed superheroing and then once he finishes the house arrest still completely banned from any superheroing indefinitely, so there is a lot of Scott trying to sneak around Jimmy and Jimmy trying to get away with letting him get away with stuff while still not letting him get away with the stuff he really shouldn't be getting away with, but without having to put him back under arrest. It is very fun! And has a high proportion of very good fic. That's mostly because there's only a few dozen fics total, but there should be more, and anyway I needed a break after the last couple of days! And this is a tag I go to when I just want good comfortfic.
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| September 10th, 2021 10:41 pm - 100 days of enemy recs: 39. DOOM
Do you not already know of DOOM? Surely there is no need to explain DOOM to you! But if I must, I shall, ignorant personage. Victor Von Doom is one of the classic Marvel villains. Doom is associated mostly with the Fantastic Four (And thus, due to how the rights were split up, has not yet appeared in a live-action movie. nope, no movies for Doom. This will probably change now that Disney has the FF back though.) Doom is definitely a bad guy, generally, but if you had to pick a Marvel character to rule Earth with an autocratic and megalomaniac iron fist, Doom would probably be your best choice. Doom's experienced, Doom is actually fairly good at it, and Doom does truly care about the people under Doom's protection and their well-being. Also Doom has the power of science AND magic, which means Doom can do pretty much whatever needs doing. (These are also good reasons to date Doom.) Doom's personal pronouns are Doom/Doom. (Ditto). Doom also has a tendency to be inappropriately close with heroes. Mostly Reed Richards, who Doom went to school with (at least in some continuities) and has been best mad science nemeses with ever since, with occasional forays into allies and/or being godfather to his daughter. Reed/Doom is another one of those obvious long-standing enemyships that doesn't have as much fanfic as you'd think. But there was also a phase awhile back in the comics where Doom made a turn toward the reformed and got super flirty with Tony Stark, so there's a fair amount of fic for them too. Also I wanted to throw in a Sue/Namor rec here, because if you're going to mention Doom/Reed you gotta mention Sue/Namor too. But for some reason nearly all the Sue/Namor fic on AO3 has the share button turned off. But pretend there's a Sue/Namor rec here anyway!
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| August 14th, 2021 05:35 pm - 100 Days of Enemy Recs: 18. Loki
Loki! There are so many great enemyships with Loki. MCU gave us Loki/Tony and Loki/Thor and many others; the Loki TV show has just given us a new surge of Loki fandom. But the big Loki ships lost their shine for me after I met the best Loki (and I have not seen the TV show; I seem to be interested in it mostly to see how well it knows the real Loki). The current comics Loki, the Loki of Young Avengers Vol 3, and of Loki: Agent of Asgard; the sharp-tongued, genderqueer, self-created chaotic good(?) trickster, the Sin That Cannot Be Forgiven, Moon-Queen and Wanderer, Tamer of Monsters, Mother of Gods, They Who Created A Terrible Slash Upon The Internet, Agent of the Allmother, Odinschild-who-is-both-son-and-daughter, a little bit One Direction-a little bit Daft Punk, Who Can Change Into Anything As Long As It's Them, Cat Thor's #1 Fan, the Deity of Stories Stolen and Remade. I missed posting yesterday because I spent my posting/rec'cing time re-reading all of Agent of Asgard and I don't regret it a bit - those comics are so good, they are even better than I remembered! If you have any interest in Loki and haven't read them, you should - there are only three trades (if you have access to Hoopla through your local library they're probably on there) and they work hard to stand alone even if you don't know Marvel comics or Loki's earlier continuity, even the inevitable intrusive crossover events are worked into the ongoing story smoothly enough so that you don't feel like you've been interrupted, but do feel like you're visiting a larger world. (Okay, the Agents of AXIS interlude was annoying as fuck but at least you got the distinct impression that both the writers and the characters agreed with you there - and it's made up for by the fact that one of Loki's new powers at the end is explicitly the ability to just skip any crossover event they find boring.) (If I have a pantheon of patron deities it includes, in no particular order, the Lone Power as the Hesper as K't'l'k; Anoia, Goddess of Things Left In Drawers; and Loki, deity of Transformative Works. And the White Rat.) So here are some recs for AoA Loki, Loki of the Stories: - Bedroom Hymns (18651 words) by ginger_mosaic
Fandom: Loki: Agent of Asgard, Marvel 616, Marvel (Comics)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Loki (Agent of Asgard)/Sigurd, Loki (Agent of Asgard) & Verity Willis, Loki (Agent of Asgard)/Lorelei/Sigurd
Characters: Loki (Agent of Asgard), Sigurd (Marvel), Verity Willis, Lorelei (Marvel)
Additional Tags: dubcon, Hate Sex, Rough Sex, Bad Romance, Genderfluid Loki, Bisexual Character, Self-Love, Self-Acceptance, journey to self-love, Mostly Canon Compliant, some canon divergence, hella the princess bride references, rated T for Tears before bedtime and all times in between, but actually rated M for maturity or at least attempts to reach it, spoilers for all of Agent of Asgard
Look man, Loki/Sigurd is a bad, bad idea, and they know as well as anyone, but it's still always compelling as hell.
- Operation: Stop My Mom From Asking About My Love Life Ever Again (21693 words) by carrionkid
Chapters: 6/6
Fandom: Loki: Agent of Asgard, Marvel (Comics)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Loki (Agent of Asgard)/Verity Willis
Characters: Loki (Agent of Asgard), Verity Willis, Eloise Willis, Lorelei (Marvel)
Additional Tags: Fake/Pretend Relationship, Genderfluid Character, Genderfluid Loki (Marvel), Hijinks & Shenanigans, Emotionally Stunted Losers Play Affection Chicken, Fluff and Humor, Slow Burn, (probably not actually slow burn i'm just bad at romantic shit), Sharing a Bed, Angst and Feels
How better to convince your mom to stop the matchmaking than to introduce the former God of Evil as your new romantic partner?
- Be Careful Making Wishes in the Dark (25241 words) by Norickayer
Chapters: 11/11
Fandom: Young Avengers, Loki: Agent of Asgard
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Major Character Death
Relationships: Teddy Altman/Billy Kaplan, Billy Kaplan/Loki, Teddy Altman/Loki, Teddy Altman/Billy Kaplan/Loki
Characters: Teddy Altman, Billy Kaplan, Loki (Agent of Asgard)
Additional Tags: Temporary Character Death, Suicidal Thoughts, Time Loop, Slow Build, Polyamory, Genderqueer Character, Loki is sometimes a girl and never ever a guy, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, stealth crossover with MCU but not enough to tag, David and Tommy don't appear sorry guys, Billy gets panic attacks, and no one can blame him, Circa- volume 2, Loki Redemption
Series: Part 1 of The One with BLT
Timeloop AU! (This one draws heavily on Young Avengers canon, but if you trust the timeloop you can probably get through. But also you should read Young Avengers Vol 3, which is also really really good and almost entirely standalone.)
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| August 5th, 2021 08:00 pm - 100 days of enemy recs: 11. Matt Murderdock/D. A. Foggy Nelson
If you are somewhat aware of Marvel comics, you might be thinking, "Matt Murdock/Foggy Nelson? They aren't enemies! They've been best friends since college and then they became adorable partners in a law firm where they defend the downtrodden!" Sure, sometimes they have differences of opinion or even fights, but at their worst you wouldn't call them enemies! And that is true, most of the time. But a few universes over, Earth-65, the world where Gwen Stacy is the only spiderperson there has ever been, and Samantha Wilson is the only Captain America there has ever been, Foggy Nelson is a career D.A. - and Matt Murdock is the Kingpin. (In the other Spider-Gwen verse - the one from the Into the Spiderverse movie - we don't know anything about Matt and Foggy, but it's otherwise so similar to Earth-65 that people write Murderock and his Foggy in and for the purpose of this pairing I am folding them both together.) Earth-65 is the world with sharper contrast and higher saturation in the colors - and more shades of gray in the characters - which makes the Foggy of that world particularly interesting: Earth-65 lets you acknowledge that the DA isn't necessarily the good guy, or the bad guy either, and that Foggy starts already a few steps down the ladder of corruption, for all he is trying to stay clean - and you get to watch to see how far down he will go before Matt Murderdock meets him in the middle on his way up. - The Lawyer All the Wickedness (11611 words) by poisonivoryFandom: Daredevil (Comics), Spider-Gwen (Comics), Marvel (Comics)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Matt Murdock/Franklin "Foggy" Nelson
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon
Series: Part 1 of The Lawyer All the Wickedness
The story about how D. A. Foggy Nelson failed to stay away from the Kingpin despite his best intentions. Part one of a series, you should read the whole thing.
- Gently Wipe the Blood from Your Hands (2187 words) by 94BottlesOfSnapple
Fandom: Spider-Gwen (Comics)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Major Character Death
Relationships: Matt Murdock & Franklin "Foggy" Nelson
Additional Tags: Matt Murderdock - Freeform, DA Foggy Nelson, Blood and Violence, Murder, Self-Defense, Foggy Nelson Kills Bullseye and Has a Crisis About It, Hints of Murderdock Caring
One of my favorite subsets of enemies-to-something-else fic is "I need someone to help me hide a body, and I can't ask my friends so I'm asking you" and this is an excellent example of that too-rare genre.
- learning to live with ya (21729 words) by deniigiq
Chapters: 4/4
Fandom: Daredevil (TV), Daredevil (Comics), Spider-Man - All Media Types, Spider-Gwen (Comics), Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Rape/Non-Con
Relationships: Matt Murdock/Franklin "Foggy" Nelson, Franklin "Foggy" Nelson & Gwen Stacy, Miles Morales & Gwen Stacy, Gwen Stacy & Matt Murdock
Additional Tags: this is the DAFoggy and Murderdock verse, Earth-65, come in Earth-65 we have made a bad fucking decision, and by we I mean me, Eventual Romance, Drama, Dubious Consent, questionable morality, Crimes & Criminals, Pets, Emotional Constipation, Fruit, Team Dynamics, hideous violence you know the kind which murderdock cultivates with glee, foggy doing his best
Series: Part 5 of Into the Multiverse
Spiderwoman thinks that if they throw Nelson and Murdock in each others' way, she can use them against each other. She has no idea what she is meddling with. (This is part of a very long and very good series of connected fics about the entire Spiderverse, but you should be able to read it on its own.
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| July 29th, 2021 10:32 pm - 100 days of enemy recs: 4. Avengers
The random number gave me this one for three days in a row. I kept going "no, we don't need more superheroes already, try something else" and then it gave me Avengers again. So I guess it's Avengers! I swear this list isn't half superheroes (it's 15% AT MOST.) So Avengers + enemyship. I actually split this up so most of the separate Marvel throughlines have their own entries (it's a large part of that 15% I'm afraid) so some other MCU ships will turn up later. But just limiting to the original movie Avengers I could talk about how the first comics Civil War storyline, which turned Steve & Tony's long, deep relationship into a deeply conflicted enemyship, managed to build the original, wonderful Steve/Tony fandom, which was a large part of what got me seriously into American comics again in the first place. And how early MCU fandom picked that dynamic up, probably from the existing fanfic, and ran with it, but sort of in reverse, because the movies didn't have that deep history between them. And then the movies tried to rerun the comics Civil War storyline and flubbed it because they'd never bothered to build a strong foundation for the relationship, and that almost killed the ship entirely, while the comics were doing all sorts of other interesting things with Cap and Tony on different sides. I could talk about the difference in Bucky's story in comics and MCU. I could do an entire volume just on Loki (and probably will at some point) or Natasha and Clint. But, like. Nobody here needs Avengers fandom explained to them at this point, do you? Either you know all about it or you're tired of hearing about it. So here's some recs for my favorite Avengers-adjacent goofy hero/villain AUs where the villain is someone who's not usually a villain. - Engaging the Enemy (22823 words) by tsukinofaerii
Fandom: Marvel Adventures: Avengers
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Steve Rogers/Tony Stark
Characters: Steve Rogers, Tony Stark
Additional Tags: Crack, Fluff, Villains, Alternate Universe
Captain America keeps getting captured by the notorious supervillain Iron Man. Not on purpose! Mostly! And kissed by him. Also not on purpose! Mostly. Look, as supervillains go, Iron Man's not so bad, he just steals from and sabotages defense contractors, the worst thing he's been accused of is kidnapping and disappearing the mysteriously missing billionaire Tony Stark...
- Secrets of a Successful Marriage (24118 words) by valtyr
Fandom: Marvel 616
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Steve Rogers/Tony Stark
Part-time CEO, part-time supervillain Tony had no idea his loving husband Steve the firefighter was secretly the superhero Captain America... until he had to save him from death at the hands of one of Tony's allies. No wonder he never seemed to mind when Tony had to cancel date nights to fight the Avengers! Now that their secrets are slowly coming out, will their marriage hold together? (ans: yes. obvs. it will.)
- Life of Crime (35399 words) by neveralarch
Chapters: 8/8
Fandom: Marvel 616, Hawkeye (Comics)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Relationships: Clint Barton/Natasha Romanov, James "Bucky" Barnes/Clint Barton/Natasha Romanov, James "Bucky" Barnes/Clint Barton, Clint Barton/Carol Danvers, Clint Barton & Kate Bishop, Kate Bishop/America Chavez, Barney Barton & Clint Barton
Additional Tags: Deaf Clint Barton, Edgeplay, Consensual Kink, Polyamory, Supervillain AU, also lots of other characters and implied pairings but these tags were starting to get out of hand
AU, but heavy on the Fraction Hawkeye comics: Clint and Natasha and Kate are freelance contractors with supervillain security, and often work with Bucky, who's in the same job. Clint keeps running into Carol aka Captain Marvel on the job, and in between head injuries and pissing off a variety of people, Clint accidently gets into, like, a thing with her? But it's okay because it's not like he's the only one who has a thing with a hero! This is just so goofy and funny and sweet and fun.
- No, Mr. Bond, I Expect You to Pine (16465 words) by galwednesday
Fandom: Captain America (Movies), The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes/Steve Rogers
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Spies & Secret Agents, SHIELD Agent Steve Rogers, Freelance Agent Bucky Barnes, Competence Kink, Enemies to Lovers, sort of - more like professional adversaries to lovers, Accidental Honeypot, Humor, Slow Burn
AU where they are spies, not superheroes (but still supersoldiers.) Steve leads a SHIELD team. Bucky's a freelancer. They keep running into each other, and by that we mean Bucky keeps saving Steve's life/mission and then disappearing. SHIELD can't decide whether they want to recruit Bucky or terminate him, but both Steve and Bucky have a pretty firm preference there.
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| May 22nd, 2018 05:09 pm - five things, fmk update
1. Last week's FMK winner was Lumberjanes! It was a close-fought battle between it and Code Name Verity, but Verity siphoned off a lot more M votes, so Lumberjanes took it. None of the frontrunners for K had a majority of K votes, but a couple of the overall-low-scoring ones did, and they were books I was planning to read and dump anyway, so they may just go. I haven't finished any more this week because - 2. I got my ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png) intoabar fic posted, just under deadline! I say "posted" not "finished", because it's supposed to have 2.5 more scenes, but between not getting the new canon until the middle of the week it was due, and a beach emergency (beach emergency here defined as "it was the last weekend before nonresident use fees go into effect for season and also the first sunny day after a week straight of rain"), I was writing right up against the deadline, and apparently I am now too old to keep writing up until 3 AM when I have to be at work the next morning. I haven't put it on AO3 yet, but the community post is Lacunae: Highlander/Murderbot Diaries. Hopefully I will get another couple thousand words written, and then post a version I am happier about to AO3, but it may be a little while because - 3. I went with a bunch of friends went to see Deadpool 2 last weekend. I never saw Deadpool 1, because ultraviolence is not my thing, and Deadpool is a character who in theory I enjoy, but in practice would immediately dump me into needing to read a pile of comics that I actively dislike. But the movie does seem to have managed to pull out all the reasons I want to like Deadpool and change all the reasons I don't, and it was really well done, so now I am reading Deadpool fanfic? I am glad there's a nice backlog of Deadpool/Cable still out there from before they got divorced, though, because all the recent stuff seems to be Deadpool/Peter Parker and I'm not really feeling that right now. I've been hanging out mostly with the Avengers lately, though, and I'd forgotten how... X-Men X-Men fandom gets. So anyway-- 4. I am apparently writing movieverse Deadpool mpreg now. Hold Me Closer, Tiny Dancer (4318 words) by melannenRelationships: Vanessa Carlysle/Wade Wilson Additional Tags: Mpreg, Fluff, Grief/Mourning, Found Family, Team, not post-credits-scene compliant, not reality compliant, content warning: deadpool, but all the really bad stuff is just referenced, except the vomit so much, Vomiting, I'm pretty sure Wade is reading these tags so I'm not going into detail in them Summary: "That's stage four, depression," Al said, sitting on his ankles and chewing very loudly on her sandwich. "But I don't know how the hell you'd tell the difference with you. Besides, vomiting isn't any stage of grief." She thought that over, then added, "Except for the stage that comes after the drinking stage, but you already did that one."Possibly there will be more chapters - I have another 3000 words already written, and it will take at least another 4000 to get to the part where Wade and Yukio go shopping for cute maternity dresses - but on the other hand, the chances of me hanging onto character voice for a movie I've seen once long enough to write multiple chapters is... low, and that came to a good stopping point, so I posted it complete and guess I will see how getting fanfic posted on the first week of a new movie feels. Anyway, I shouldn't be doing that because - 5. I'm going on vacation next week! A week in the country with probably minimal internet access. Hopefully I will get many books read and much writing done. But in the meantime I have SO MUCH TO DO before I leave, I don't need Wade Wilson suddenly in my head all the time >:|
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| January 8th, 2018 03:00 pm - Purimgifts Letter
Hello, Purim gifter! Sorry this is a little bit late; I made up my mind to sign up at the very last minute and didn't have a chance to write until now. I would love anything about any female character, or Jewish character, or person being persecuted by evil viziers, in any of the fandoms I requested. I don't have any particular DNWs for any of these, and I love the kind of silly and/or fluffy fic that Purimgifts is good for, but I would also be okay with something that went dark (as long as it's appropriate for Purimgifts in general, of course - nothing along the lines of the bad fandom example in the faq.) I listed my top rating as mature because I didn't want you to feel pressured but anything at any rating is fine if that's what calls to you. I'm okay with basically any ships in any of these fandoms, but please don't break up any ongoing canon ships to get there (turning canon ships poly is ok though.) I requested a bunch of SF/Fantasy-ish fandoms that have very little canon Jewish content, but for any of them, I would love any AU or OC or worldbuilding-based stuff that looks at what it's like to be Jewish in that universe, and I also love everybody-is-Jewish AUS. (Or anything expanding on the Judaism canon there is, for the ones that have some.) I have some ideas (that I have been saving up every year I considered doing Purimgifts) below, but I am not Jewish, so some of them are probably Wrong, and feel free to ignore them and write me something else entirely. I only requested fandoms where I could think of things I wanted for women OR evil viziers OR Jewish characters, so there's a lot under here, but feel free to ignore it all if that helps. ( Discworld )( Good Omens )( Highlander )( Imperial Radch )( Rivers of London )( Star Trek:TOS )( Star Wars )( Thor movies )( Wonder Woman )
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| December 31st, 2017 12:54 pm
Also I came back from watching the movie and, to continue the tradition from TFA, wrote a post-movie ficlet about Rey's parentage. Because I do REALLY REALLY love that ( spoilers ) But ( spoilers ) So I made this. Also it's a Thor:Ragnarok crossover. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ( 'Oh, really?' the person on the other ship said brightly. 'We're with the Rebels too! That's awesome, how did you find us, I should have known you were out of Sakaar, in that hunk of junk you're flying--' )
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| November 28th, 2017 10:59 pm - FMK Hiatus
Sorry, all! I think I am going to declare a hiatus on FMK polls at least until the YT deadline - I am super behind on writing reviews and reading as it is, and I really need to not get distracted from [redacted] until then. We are exactly 2/3 of the way through! And I promise I will bring it back once my YT fic is posted! Meanwhile I will try to catch up on FMK reviews and maybe even post some non-FMK stuff???? First up: Thor: Ragnarok: super fun, there has not been nearly enough Valkyrie/Bruce/Hulk fic being posted yet. And I keep kind of going *headtilt* at ( all the commentary about it being anticolonialist )Also I can't make the demographics of Asgard make ANY SENSE. Is the entire on-planet population of Asgard supposed to be on that ship with Thor? Because there were AT MOST 2000 people crossing the Bridge. Which is pretty much in line with the population size we see in the comics, but that says really specific things about how Asgard's culture and its empire work; "King over less people than went to my high school and some vassals in other lands" frankly sets him well below Tony Stark in real power even before Ragnarok. Or were there still people in the city at the end and Thor and Loki just killed them all? That actually makes more sense in terms of the movie's timeline - because there were still a lot of people there when Hela discovered the location of the hideaway, and the time-gap between that and when everyone was on the bridge was at most an hour or so, which was not enough to finish a larger evacuation. But the emotional note of the ending was really, really not "we just killed a bunch of our own people." Fanfic seems to be split on whether they saved most of the civilians or killed most of them. What do y'all think? I mean, the real answer is probably "they didn't want computer-generated crowd scenes and you can only handle so many extras". And I did think the way they seem to have used computer animation only for the stuff that really needed it was pretty cool - the fact that I looked at the crowd scenes and though "oh, they ran out of extras" somehow made the amazing floating space city they were in *more* real, because my mind was reading it as an on-location shoot. Which was pretty cool.
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| February 17th, 2015 12:45 pm - Snow-Shoveling Thoughts
So I have somehow found myself reading Völsungakviða en nýja which has primarily resulted in the following three thoughts:
1. I can now tell people I'm a fan of Tolkien's Ring Cycle and confuse the crap out of them;
2. I wonder if it was Kid Loki or Sigurd himself who stole the missing quire of the Codex Regius (look there's some stories about yourself you just don't want out there);
3. Oh man, Marvel!Sigurd and Kid Loki constantly make Lord of the Rings jokes about themselves when they're hanging out with each other, don't they, and nobody else thinks it's funny.
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| February 4th, 2015 06:10 pm - books
I thought I was doing so good on my "finish all the books you've started and then gotten distracted from" goal - I finished twenty-eight books in the month of January! Eleven of them were even ones that were on my list of things I needed to finish! And I made serious progress on several more! And I haven't started any new books that were left lingering for weeks! I got the list below 30 and have kept it there! But then Librarything (finally!) instituted tag autocomplete, so I started trying to clean up the tags on my books, and discovered I had a "started to read" tag with. uh. Sixty-five books in it. Granted, some of them are ones I am NEVER going to finish because I have better things to do with my time, because literally anything would be better (DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS, most awful book I have ever attempted to read, omg) and ten of them are duplicates from the list I'm currently working through, but. um. yeah. And then there's the "early review" books which I got in exchange for agreeing to read and review and then punted when I had a really bad year. There's six of them I haven't read. I went ahead and added those. So much for keeping the list under thirty. I have another one coming too because I lack willpower. (One of 'em's by the same dude as Day of the Triffids though. I may just ignore that one.) ...also of course "A Companion to Wolves" which I still have out from the library. Anyway this whole LibraryThing recheck has me thinking out how badly I need to reshelve my books in a more orderly way. What do you folks thing of reorganizing my nonfiction collection along these main sections: ( Read more... )Good idea? Bad idea? Best idea? (It's not quite as silly as it sounds: about half my nonfiction is on topics that would not be out of place in the Hogwarts library: I have about forty books tagged "divination" already.) --Anyway I feel like my DW has been higher on boring life stuff than fandom content lately. My fandom life lately has been a) les mis chat, which is very rarely about les mis anymore; b) re-reading old JVJ longfic; and c) obsessing over a Winter Soldier AU where the Soldier is sent to honeytrap Captain America rather than kill him. SERIOUSLY. If that already exists I have failed to find it. Somebody tell me I just haven't looked hard enough. I don't even ship the damn pairing
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| December 20th, 2014 03:02 pm - So-called 'continuity'
1. Greetings on this shortest, darkest, most miserable day of the year (by which I mean yuletide due date, of course.) I unexpectedly got mine in shape to post yesterday, so I'm way less panicked than I was planning to be this morning, and thus feel like I'm flapping around at loose ends (I know, cry moar). Now I just have to decide if I want to do more Yuletide or if I want to just lay back and read comics until after Christmas. ..and if I want to hang with family on Christmas Eve after all or if I want to spend the day in my pajamas watching the rest of AtLA. 2. WXPN, my current favorite radio station, did its morning show as a non-Christmasy winter music set to celebrate the solstice. I approve (and will probably be looking up a bunch of them when I get home.) 3. ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png) chordatesrock asked about how the MCU compares to comic universe. There are many ways to compare them! The super-basic answer is the comic universe is so vast and complicated and ever-changing that it's frankly impossible to compare it to anything other than itself. And the MCU isn't (yet.) But I'm going to pull out one small part of it, and talk about ( serial storytelling as it pertains to Marvel. )Does that, uh. Does that answer your question?
Current Mood:: ![[mood icon]](https://melannen.dreamwidth.org/file/129367.png) cranky
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| December 17th, 2014 05:00 pm - bears. possibly platypus bears.
1. BEARS 2. So I have now read Avengers: The Children's Crusade (which was very very omg good, all my YA feels are now reignited after being slightly meh about the Secret Invasion and Dark Reign trades). Also I really need all the fic about Billy and Teddy and their grandfather and all the different things that family means. (There are only a couple - Trust Me by dangerouscommiesubversive is really really good - but there need to be more.) (btw I wrote up an outline of the first issue of the YA-set-in-billy-and-teddy's-apartment series. *innocent whistle*) 3. I keep meaning to catch up on replies to everyone else's posts but at this point I am SO FAR BEHIND. I am reading and enjoying them all though! 4. umadoshi asked: Is there a book/show/movie you've been fully intending to get to this year but find yourself putting off for some reason? (Fear of disappointment, not wanting it to be over--whatever!) Oh gosh, there are SO MANY of these. I am totally the person who will listen to your recommendations and nod along sagely, but even if it's something that sounds perfect for me, I can never start reading/watching/listening until the time is right. Sometimes that time is ten years later. ( Today I am going to talk about Avatar: The Last Airbender )Anyway just this week I bought a couple of the missing S3 discs at a flea market so maybe I will get back to watching it soon. I could do it over the holiday when I have the TV to myself again except I was planning to spend the holiday watching both series of Cosmos back-to-back (something else I keep trying and failing to watch through.) So I guess we shall see. SOMEDAY. And then I can start putting off watching Korra. 5. Bears.
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| December 12th, 2014 01:17 pm - I lost the USB drive that had my notes for three days. :(
aoifes_isle asked for: Most oddball piece of research done this year - whether it be for work, wrangling, fic or because the brain-weasels attacked ...So, uh, is there anyone reading this who has some Russian and would be willing to look over a first-pass translation of some Vysotsky lyrics I'm trying to put into English? I think I've got a rough literal version via Google and two other not-great English translations, but given that I know, like, three words of Russian, it would be nice to have someone to confirm it's all basically right, and stuff like "Does 'в настроеньи питейном' mean 'feeling drunk' or 'wanting a drink'?" schneefink asked: what would be your ideal next canon YA series? SO I actually wrote up a version of this right after I got the topic, because, well, Young Avengers! I had a whole twelve-issue storyline that was both something I really wanted to see, and that centered around the Young Avengers' ongoing themes of time travel/AUs, meta and reality shifts, and questions of identity. Unfortunately the main plot hook was "trying to bring Cassie Lang back from dead". Oops. Anyway the short version: if I was proposing a YA series to Marvel right now, I would want it to center around Loki experimenting with reality-alteration using the power of storytelling (specifically: fanfic! :P) with the help of Billy Kaplan and America Chavez and, if I'm shooting for the moon anyway, maybe Kamala Khan? And whatever assortment of other current, former, and future young superheroes I can get my hands on. ( Actually... )If I could have ANY YA series I wanted, though, and not just one there's a slim possibility Marvel would actually make, what I want is basically the Young Avengers version of Fraction's Hawkeye - 'what they do when they aren't saving the world.' ( It starts with Billy and Teddy's housewarming for their first apartment together. )The chances that Marvel would actually make that are, like, 0%, though, if only because it's clearly aimed at a slightly older audience than Young Avengers is meant for. ...Maybe somebody will fanfic it someday. Actually though if I could pick any one Young Avengers series to get it would be a movie trilogy. :P You didn't specify comics series, so that counts! Because if they keep doing comics eventually they will fuck it up completely, because comics always do, but if they do a reasonably good movie, there will be enough movie fanfic for me to dine out on for years. Also, I would love to see some of these characters get a substantial incarnation with simplified/re-imagined backstories. Set the first movie after whatever MCU does with Civil War, with a similar origin, i.e, the grown-up superheroes have fucked up big, so it's up to us kids come together to try to fix at least the small things. ( The first movie is called 'Young Avengers: Red, White, and Black.' )Call me, Marvel Studios, I'll throw together some spec scripts.
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| December 2nd, 2014 07:09 pm - What are my feelings on Agent of Asgard
..ugh I forgot that the problem with the December Meme is that suddenly there's SO MUCH good content on my DW reading list that I am so busy reading I don't have time to write posts. BUT! I will persevere. And by persevere I mean "tl;dr on command." dhampyresa asked "What are your feelings on Agent of Asgard?" I'm afraid I won't have anything very deep for you, alas. My current thoughts on Agent of Asgard sort of go like this: 1. SO MANY things I want to talk about and/or want stories about, except there's so much canon out that I haven't read, and I know it's a comics fandom so I should just ignore that, but with a recent series it's hard, okay, augh, THIS IS WHY I TRY TO AVOID OPEN CANONS, by the time I figure out how I feel about something it's already out of date. 2. I NEED TO GET MY HANDS ON MORE BB!LOKI CANON LIKE YESTERDAY 3. The thing is, I have a TYPE. And that type is Really Old People (like, age measured in centuries old) who try very hard to stay young despite all their tangled history and memories, and as a result are usually the only Old One, living semi-incognito among mortals, who have really complicated relationships with morality and guilt and the concepts of good and evil (partly because you can't live that long without your morality going at least a bit blue and orange) and with their own identity (ditto the way that outliving worlds screws with sense of identity) and with their own mythology; but who are sustained by endless and unkillable - no matter how hard they sometimes try - reservoirs of love. Love for family, love for students and friends, all-encompassing love for that-which-lives, love for sunlight and cats and stars and breakfast meats. Oh and preferably they have a semi-adversarial, semi-flirtatious relationship with a peer who uses slightly different shades of blue and orange, but that's optional. I think my first character who fit that archetype was Deth, the High One's harpist. (I feel like there must have been someone before him but I can't think of any offhand. Perhaps that is why Deth hit me so hard when I met him.) And, of course, Methos. And ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ. And the Doctor and the Master. And Crowley and Aziraphale. And certain of the more ambiguous avatars of the Lone Power. and Don Simon Ysidro, the Oldest Vampire in Europe. And I could probably go on into progressively more obscure stuff, but you get the gist. Basically, I should have known better, even leaving aside that it's Loki and I definitely know better than to mix it up with trickster gods. 4. Srsly why no Loki/Sigurd slash???? 4a. Dammit if I have to write it myself does that mean that I have to start caring about the Volsungasaga? But I've worked very hard at not caring about the Volsungasaga for thirty years now. 5. LOOOOKI 5a. Oh hey it's Advent, that means I can put Lokes Rapsody and Gudesang back in the MP3 rotation! Anyway for the under-the-cut rambling I'm going to choose to focus on #2, which sadly has less to to with Loki, and more to do with ( how I go about acquiring comics )
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| November 17th, 2014 05:35 pm
1. I have been doing a terrible job with the writing lately. Since last update, I have written a few hundred more words of the ANitLO crossover, some more Montparnasse fic, some more Booby!Marius story, and a tiny tiny bit of the one where Cap and Tony are both fail at coming out. 2. Part of the reason for this is that I keep coming home at night and not wanting to do anything but SLEEP. So yesterday I read rydra_wong's post on winter light and realized that the fact that f.lux is set to make me sleepy at sunset probably isn't helping. I didn't want to turn it off because I still don't need to be staring bright-eyed at Tumblr until 2 AM, so I decided to try reversing the latitude on my f.lux location - it may be getting dark under the daystar, but my laptop's brightness now thinks I live off the coast of South America and it's late spring with the days still getting longer. We'll see if it helps. 3. Also possibly more relevantly to the lack of writing I read the Loki: Agent of Asgard trade and then read all of the Boyband!Loki fic on AO3. I knew better than to start reading Loki:AoA, because getting mixed up with trickster gods is ALWAYS a bad idea, and besides I've read enough Marvel Now trades to know that it'll inevitably get mixed up in a massive crossover event and start to suck. But you know. As of the first trade it is basically flawless and also 100% made of fandom catnip and I can't. Come talk to me about AoA. Comics!Loki, for those who don't know, has in the past few years gone through a complicated series of disincorporations/autocides/reiterations, more-or-less intentionally, and is currently in a body that frequently gets him mistaken for Harry Styles and/or Justin Beiber, trying to figure out how to stop being the villain of the story and develop a working conscience, despite everything - from his destiny to his Queens - working against him. If boyband!Loki gleefully out-scheming everybody in the Marvel Universe, swashbuckling with hot dudes, going on crime capers as a hot chick, having vaguely-platonic coffee with a cute hipster girl he met while speed-dating, being blatantly objectified by the narrative, being canonically pansexual and genderfluid, and being tragic yet determined about stuff like the nature of free will and stories and truth and good and evil and guilt and redemption sound like your kind of thing - well, run very fast in the other direction from Agent of Asgard, okay, because Loki is always bad news. (If you've seen the panels where Loki confesses to having created a most terrible slash on the internet, okay, so, on the one hand yay, on the other hand given all the meta stuff about how Loki is defined by the stories written about him, and his newly canonically fluid gender/sexuality, I really want to talk about why Loki is creating slash on the internet, and what stories he's telling.) ( he's writing about Sigurd fucking him in their trash dumpster.) 4. ( Here are some boyband!Loki fic recs )You will notice there is no Sigurd in those recs. That is because there is no Sigurd fic on AO3. At all. ...fandom, write me some Loki/Sigurd fic like, yesterday. HOW CAN YOU RESIST THAT FACE5. I shall put in for the DW friending meme that ladyscribe is running, but it totally expects you to be doing the December posting meme. I have too much stuff going on to commit to posting on certain days, but I will borrow isis's weekly variation. So here is your chance to make me talk about a thing, any thing at all. as long as it's AoA LokiGive me a topic and pick a week and I will try to talk about that topic on my journal at some point during that week. (disclaimers: topics for a given week are cut off after 5; several topics may be combined into one post.) Week 1: Dec 1-7 : a book you loved that you didn't expect to and why ( the_rck); what are your feelings on Agent of Asgard? ( dhampyresa) Week 2: Dec 8-14 : what would be your ideal next canon YA series? ( schneefink); Young Wizards crossovers! Why are they awesome? Can everything be a YW crossover? Discuss. ( sineala); Most oddball piece of research done this year - whether it be for work, wrangling, fic or because the brain-weasels attacked ... ( aoifes_isle) Week 3: Dec 15-21 : how the MCU compares to comic universe ( chordatesrock); Tell me something (or somethings, if you like) you would like to see more of in the fantasy genre. ( alasse_irena); Is there a book/show/movie you've been fully intending to get to this year but find yourself putting off for some reason? (Fear of disappointment, not wanting it to be over--whatever!) ( umadoshi) Week 4: Dec 22-28 : could you talk a bit about Their Majesties' Bucketeers? I reread it not too long ago and I'd love to hear about what kind of fic you wish there was, or some meta if you've got it in you. ( fenellaevangela); talk about your writing process ( espresso_addict).; perhaps you could talk about The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage ( redsnake05) 6. If you're curious about why I sometimes go a long time between DW posts, my process here was literally: a) I can't post the friend meme comment until I've made the DW post to link to; b) I can't make the DW post until I've made the Tumblr post to link to; c) I can't make the Tumblr post until I have scanned the comics; d) I can't scan the comics until I have dug the scanner out of the pile behind the couch; e) I will deal with the pile behind the couch sometime after hell freezes over.
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