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December 1st, 2013

redbrunja: (yj | let me be your ride out of town)
Sunday, December 1st, 2013 01:03 am
I was thinking about Artemis/Wally (as one does, when an OTP rises from the depth of your soul to torment you once again) and I feel the reasons why Artemis is into Wally are:

a.) really obvious and
b.) often talked about

(the creator himself did a damn fine of job, although I think he's underplaying how much Artemis replacing Roy, even though Roy quit first is a legit issue)

but the reasons why Wally is into Artemis are talked about less often. I know it’s tempting to go ‘of course he loves, Artemis, who wouldn’t?’ and while that’s true, don’t get me wrong, that’s not going to lead to a tl;dr shipper post, now is it?

The thing is, Artemis makes Wally better. The flip side of Wally almost giving Artemis as good as he gets is the fact that he has to try – with Artemis, Wally has to bring his A game (both with wise-cracking and with super-heroing). Additionally, Artemis’ own backstory and how that affects her actions (that she lies to the Team to protect her secrets, the fights with Chesire and Sportsmaster) tie into Wally’s arc, which is about becoming not smarter, but wiser. (E.g, how Wally’s souvenirs are about the deeper lesson of a mission, how he will consciously choose what Aesop he’s taking away from each mission. Best example of this is him choosing the cooler that held a girl’s heart over the villain’s sword.)

And now I’m getting sad, once again, that we didn’t get to see more of Wally and Artemis in a committed relationship. (Okay, basically, I buy Artemis and Wally taking a break from super-heroing to get their degrees, but I don’t buy, short of some kind of epic tragedy, them both deciding to quit on a more permanent basis, which is kind of what the dialogue strongly implied and which I am not okay with for several reasons.)
redbrunja: (leverage | lady is a thief)
Sunday, December 1st, 2013 01:08 am
I have repeatedly had the thought – especially as LJ slows down and is no longer the dominant fandom platform



that I really don’t need all the icons that I have, and that I should be more frugal with my money.

And yet every year, I keep buying add-on user pics, because goddamn, I love my LJ icons. I love uploading and curating them and thinking up keywords and being sad when I realize that there is this awesome icon haven’t used in ages.

So… share your tragic LJ icon stories/your feelings about everyone deciding tumblr is a functional text system (spoiler alert: it’s not and it’s terrible)/ask me questions or make comments about my icons.
redbrunja: (lbd | never indifferent)
Sunday, December 1st, 2013 10:18 am
WHY HAS FANDOM NOT WRITTEN A ZILLION SEXYTIME FICS FOR JANE/ROCHESTER FROM THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF JANE EYRE? AM I GOING TO HAVE TO WRITE THEM MYSELF?

I skipped ahead a bit, before committing to watching this webseries, so I saw the more recent videos where Rochester and Jane are being, you know, epically cute together, and then I went back to the beginning and last night I got to this episode:



And HOLY FUCK, HIS SHIRTSLEEVES ARE ROLLED HALF-UP AND HIS TIE IS UNDONE AND HIS TOP BUTTONS ARE UNBUTTONED AND I DIDN'T EVEN NOTICE UNTIL THE SECOND VIEWING BECAUSE I WAS TOO BUSY STARING AT HIS LEFT FOREARM AND THAT HALF-OBSCURED TATTOO.

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