A Thousand Armies Couldn't Keep Me Out

[redbrunja]

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.'

Comments

[bellonablack.livejournal.com]

" It's the idea that Natasha is someone how more scared than other BAMF and that it gets her and edge, or something?

Oh shit, this is what I've noticed. And I've been so turned off by. I don't mind fear but it's the much much more scarreddd and dammaggede and ruinnned, but I'm like...oh. :/

I hate it.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Oh shit, this is what I've noticed. And I've been so turned off by. I don't mind fear but it's the much much more scarreddd and dammaggede and ruinnned, but I'm like...oh. :/

I hate it.

Same here. I think she went through things that Tony and Bruce and Steve and Thor CANNOT IMAGINE and I can accept more scarred and damaged... in the context that it's that much more fucking amazing that she remake herself into the epic BAMF she currently is.

[bellonablack.livejournal.com]

I agree, it's just sadly not in that context. :/ It's....in a whole nother context and I don't quite get the why of that. It's more in the context that she cracks or whatnot or will allow things--in fic. And soooooooo.

Like you said, damage is fine, but not in a kind of....I think the word I'm looking for here is fetish? It doesn't quite fit but it's as close as I can get.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

That fits perfectly, actually. Like the writers are getting off on the idea of breaking Natasha down.