Ooops?

So, I renewed my LJ account today, and I couldn't figure out if last time I had purchased one packet of add-on user pics or two. After awkwardly counting and trying to figure out the total amount of userpics offered at each level + loyalty user pics, I decided it must have been two. So I went with two. So now I have, like, a hundred empty icon spaces.

I am trying to decide if this is just a mistake or a wonderful mistake.

Every Sin I Don't Admit & Every Crime I'd Dearly Like To Commit & Get Away With Makes Me Realize

No one is writing the Darcy/Steve fic(s) that I want to be reading.

No one is really writing that pairing and the last couple of fics I tried all had Generic Romance Heroine Darcy a.k.a Darcy's most prevalent characteristic is that she's Nice.

Gag me. Darcy is:

• snarky


• smart


• a fan of music and her iPod


• a fan of Facebook


• a hacker (debatable, but just go with it, okay?)


• appreciative of hot, cut, blond dudes


• deeply self-interested

The reason that Darcy and Steve, when written properly, have a subtle opposites-attract vibe is that Steve is deeply selfless and optimistic and Darcy is not. I would actually argue that as a political scientist, she is probably deeply cynical.

A couple people on tumblr were lamenting Darcy's tendency to be used as a self-insert, where as I lament her characterization as a nice country girl (seriously, about six different fics have had Nice Country Girl Darcy, I don't even know) and write her as someone with more snark.

You've Gotta Be Big, To Treat A Pretty Girl Bad

There was this great post on tumblr that prompted me to have Tony/Pepper feelings, which are:

Pepper pushing the button at the climax of Iron Man is one of the least significant roles she plays in the story. Iron Man falls apart if Pepper isn't there because Tony's reaction to Pepper lets us know pretty immediately that while Tony is living this playboy life style he also has people that he cares about and ALSO, Pepper's reaction to Tony, the rooftop, the martini, show that just because you're a superhero, doesn't mean you get a pass on treating people well.