redbrunja: (once upon a time | let me be wicked)
redbrunja ([personal profile] redbrunja) wrote2012-06-22 08:47 am

A Thousand Armies Couldn't Keep Me Out

This is a great, villain-centric Once vid:



I both find it hilarious and bang-on that the vidder decided the Blue Fairy was a villain. You know you can never trust a nun.

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This Avengers-as-teachers AU snippet makes me soul weep due to awesome. Someone please write that.

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Okay, so I've been reading a lot of Natasha Romanoff + other people fics and there is one persistent piece of fanon that makes me go, "Oh, honey, no." It's the idea that Natasha is someone how more scared than other BAMF and that it gets her and edge, or something? (And it's otherwise excellent writers working with this idea, but it just DOES NOT fly for me.) This is a woman who came out of the Red Room, okay? She knows what it's like to be unmade. She is likely LESS scared than other BAMFs.

Look, as far as I'm concern there are three things that Natasha is afraid of:
  1.   The Hulk
  2. Being unmade/brainwashed (and this is debatable).
  3. FEELINGS.
That is it. End of list. Crazy alien invasion, guys with pliers, madman with an army of robot soldiers - none of that is going to get her pulse past the same level of a hard workout, okay?

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So that's my example of 'fanon that just doesn't work for me.'

Flist, what are YOUR examples of fanon (from any fandom) that just makes you go, 'Oh, honey, no.'

[identity profile] redbrunja.livejournal.com 2012-06-23 04:44 am (UTC)(link)
I'm getting a little frowny at characterizations where Natasha is so hard-assed and tough that Clint can't even air the slightest criticism without fearing for his life. Or she punches him. And conversely, that Clint has to tip-toe around her feelings at all times because he's so in love and she's so hair-trigger that he's constantly worrying about upsetting her.

Le sigh.

Relationship of equals, people, relationship of equals.

and while she tried to evade, using her words and not fists I might add, he gently insisted and she immediately sat down next to him and engaged. And I think I like that scenario much more.

Agreed. That's a much more (to my mind) interesting and functional dynamic.