swim through the fires to stay in this world

This is a great meme that I gacked from philcoulson over on tumblr and you should all do it, too. As was pointed out when it was making the round on tumblr, one thing that's notable about this meme is that it's all general questions - nothing about OTPs or romantic relationships. (Of course, because it's me, there's a touch of pairing talk anyway, because that's how I roll.)

(Psst, qualapec, this was the meme I was talking about.)


( questions ahoy! )

Day 05 - OTP For Whom You Never Seem To Run Out Of Inspiration

Natasha/Clint

(Or at least, I haven't run out of inspiration or desire to read fic about these two yet, although I have gotten pickier about the quality of fic I'm willing to spend my time on.)

Day 06 - Crossover OTP

Steve/Darcy technically counts given that they've never been in a movie together.

Day 07 - Real People OTP

I don't do this.

Day 08 - OTP That Has Put You Through The Ringer

Katara/Zuko. There is a reason that my pairing tag for this couple is 'forever bitter.'

Okay, so this post is going around my dashboard:



but let's be real, that list is very abridged because it's missing:

Jane Foster  ♥ SCIENCE: comes with space boyfriend

Pepper Potts 1: professionally better than you

Pepper Potts 2: still professionally better than you

Pepper Potts 3: the rise of Rescue

Agent Peggy Carter & The Howling Commandos

Navel-gazing fanfic questions gacked from musesfool:

Leitmotif of the year:

"Clint/Natasha, Stephanie Brown, and ships that involve a dude pining" is one answer. I almost feel like a more accurate one would be, "this are people I want to kiss. See them kiss."

What's the story that makes you happiest?

I'm really pleased with You Only Live Twice, both because I am so happy that Jason/Stephanie fanfic exists, and because I really enjoy that story.

My favorite story this year:

Couldn't Get That Boy To Kill Me (Natasha/Clint)

I love the prompt, the section of Natasha's history I was working with, what I ended up saying about Clint and Natasha, and just.... this went through several drafts and I think it shows (in a good way).

My 5 best stories this year:

This Is The Art Of Living With A Ticking Heart (Felicity/Oliver)
End Of The World News (Darcy/Steve)
Please Believe Me When I Say The Last Thing You Need Is Fixing (Stephanie Brown/Nick Gage, Barbara Gordon/Dick Grayson)
Couldn't Get That Boy To Kill Me (Natasha/Clint)
I'm Yours (Ghosts & All) (Natasha/Clint)

( ............ )

This is a modified version of a meme linked to me by stainofmylove - I basically edited it around so the questions it asked fit answers I had:

( wow that was a fuckton of typing and linking good lord )

Also, when I was talking about favorite movies with a RL friend earlier I actually initially forgot about pacific rim so please, feel very free to comment if you think I forgot something or want further details.

gacked from portions_forfox:

I think I'm going to reprise a meme from ye ages past, because I'm bored and I like to make fandom-y lists and also, as the title would suggest, I like to ship.

(I'm going to be kind of throwing ships onto these lists, in an attempt to shake things up and maybe mention ships I don't often do. But don't worry, some of my old stand-bys are here.)

( ALL THE SHIPS. ALL OF THEM )


So, yeah, come talk to me about these ships.

(OF COURSE Logan would have a romance with a woman we'll never see again. OF COURSE it's with the demure, suicidal female character instead of the lady swordfighter with more interesting family issues)with a ton of continuity errors from 'where did she get those jeans and that cardigan?' to 'so once again, I see the writers didn't watch the other X-men movies'. Also, there was not enough Wolverine fanservice.

Also, there was a sexy villainess who I greatly enjoyed watching slink around being sexy and evil and she has a line where she goes,"I'm immune to the poison that is men" or something like that and I went, "does that mean that you're going to be defeated by sword-lady making out with you?"Sadly, the answer is no.

Hands down, the best moment was when (and this is totally spoiler free) a character stabs a six hundred year old map. A woman two seat down saw that one coming and gasped preemptively. When a friend asked her why she'd gasped, she'd said in this voice of quiet outrage, "That was a 600 year old map."

Also, after watching the Thor 2 trailer, my friend turns to me and goes, "Do you think Jane is going to die?"

qualapec, I thought of you.

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.

I went on a hike with qualapec today, during which our discussion touched on:

• how much we want to see Cabal, Horst, and Leonie (Johannes Cabal, Necromancer) rooming together. And by "rooming together" I mean she should be dating both of them.


• Our deepest fears and far-flung, futile hopes for Thor 2.


• How awesome is Kate Bishop? So awesome.


• Books we need to read.


• Amelia Earhart


• my complicated Yuletide requests/offered stratagy


• Hurt/comfort and how it's a spectrum from 'Character B gets Character A tea after a bad day' to 'Character A is horribly tortured, Character B rescues them and nurses them back to health and/or sanity.'


• other awesome things


• Darcy Lewis versus the zombie apocolypse:

a fighter by his trade
zombies vs. superheros
the sun in the end