swim through the fires to stay in this world

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.)

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Also, this rule!63 Damian/Stephanie fanart came across my dash:


and oh my god YES.

Give me haughty, violent, half-arab assassin princess x cheerful, indefatigable college guy!

I did not know how desperately I needed this until now.

It’s like five billion of my favorite tropes! Violent girl x emotionally open guy! Older guy/younger girl! Defrosting the ice queen! *makes grabby hands at the universe*

ladymercury_10 brought this bat family christmas exchange to my attention, and I'm totally doing it, even though I always get screwed on fic exchanges. (But it's a 1,000 word minimum, which let's be real, I can bang out in an evening.)

On the subject of holiday exchanges, is there a YJ one running? I have really been missing the first season of that show lately and despite knowing better, I keep attempting to bend fandom to my wishes.

One of the het big bang offerings was a Artemis/Wally story and that re-awoke my feelings for that couple.

(IF YOU HAVE FIC RECS, PLEASE PASS THEM MY WAY.)

Still annoyed that they killed off Wally. Just in general but especially at that place in their relationship arc.

I was totally cool with Wally and Artemis taking some time off of super-heroing to go to college, especially considering HOW FUCKING MANY heroes were just loitering around Young Justice season two, but I was operating under the assumption that after this brief period of peace, Wally and Artemis would team back up and continue on fighting baddies.

Like, some brilliant YJ fan on my flist was talking about (before season two kicked into gear) that the time to build their relationship was going to allow Artemis and Wally to stay strong and weather whatever dire events season two would throw their way and I WOULD HAVE BEEN SO DOWN FOR THAT. Unfortunately, that is SO NOT what we got.

Also, apparently Wally used to be/maybe is in the 52 dating/married to someone named Laura and, I don’t mean to be that fan, BUT NO. ARTEMIS OR NO ONE, WALLY WEST. ARTEMIS OR NO ONE.

from mollivanders:

Choose 5 OTPs without looking at the questions below.

1. Artemis/Wally (Young Justice)
2. Natasha/Clint (The Avengers)
3. Lizzie/Darcy (The Lizzie Bennet Diaries)
4. Pepper/Tony (Iron Man)
5. Lydia/Stiles (Teen Wolf)

( Much Flailing About Pairings Is Found Within )

I am always pretty awful about going to bed like a reasonable person but it's been much worse lately partially due to the fact that I've been having terrible, terrible dreams pretty much every night. Or when I take a late afternoon nap. Also, I gave myself the worst manicure yesterday and had to spend, like, twenty minutes trying to get two coats of red off my nails after my manicure got chipped all to hell in less than twenty-four hours. So even though I soaked my fingers in nail polish remover, my cuticles are all hideously hang-nailed and dyed red, so it's questionable as to if there was any improvement at all. Basically, my hands look like I murdered someone and didn't do a good job covering my tracks.

Now, on to what you are interested in – TV!



[+] I always forget how much I enjoy Elementary until I'm watching Elementary. I was about three episodes behind, so I was able to charge through those, and I just really love that this Sherlock is affected by what people think of him. I love that while Gregson took Holmes back as a consultant, he didn't like it and he made it clear that Holmes had lost his trust. In "the Deductionist" I was thrilled to see that Holmes himself fears for his future and believes he might self-annihlate. His bitterness that the profile was able to predict his struggles with addiction when he didn't was aces.

I keep saying the same things each time I talk about Elementary but in my defense, a genius detective with feelings and flaws who is actually held accountable for his action is still novel.




[+] Young Justice has become the show that I watch while I tumblr. I mean, it's close enough to the end that I'm going to finish watching the show's run, but I am so done with it. I really loved the episode where Artemis and M'gann heal Kaulder, and Conner epically reads Dick the riot act about not sharing information, but the most recent episodes were epically boring. Seriously, how do the writers think we're going to care about these lame assholes? The only thing of 'interest' was how fucking much I hate Mal/Karen. Mal finally got it through his thick skull that Karen was more interested in doing hero shit than dating but no.... Karen just had to be 'oh, no, I really love you' which I call TOTAL BULLSHIT on. Regardless of what the writers imagine happen during the timeskip, the ENTIRE TIME, we've actually seen these characters interacting, Karen has been Just Not That Into Him and he's been unwilling to get it. Why can't a girl prioritize her school and her career over her FUCKING HIGH SCHOOL BOYFRIEND?






[+] Green Lantern had a solid, enjoyable episode this Saturday. Razer, once again, has the best lines: "By the way, if we do explode, you two are acceptable souls to be vaporized with." Awww, that's adorable. 

I really loved Hal and company having to deal with the rings being out of power and the issues with language, even before the rings completely died (like rhyme not translating).

Best moment, though, was Razer's epic bitch-please face when Kilowog tossed him the manhunter head. I love how Hal and Kilowog seem to be forgetting that he's not actually a green lantern. (ONE DAY, BB. Or maybe not.)

When Razer strolled back in commenting that his lantern repairing itself was convenient,  I was like, 'damn right it's convenient
 - that boy has a clockwork girlfriend to save, he doesn't have time to steal a new lantern' and by 'save,' I mean 'humbly petition for forgiveness.'

(Also, what everyone had in their pockets was hilarious. Especially Razer having more weapons than he had fingers.)




So, apparently next episode is called

"love is a battlefield" which I first thought was going to be about Aya and Razer but realized is much more likely to be about Hal and Carol.




[+] Once Upon A Time has been kind of slow, lately, and the way they handle Henry's status as an adopted kid continues to be the worst (breaking news, right?) but I keep sticking around for things like: evil!Charming's harlot of the week being Jack the Giant Killer and real!Charming and Snow running around in Storybrooke with gun and a bow and arrow. Seriously, Snow with her black tights and short skirt and archery was the most sexy!adorable thing ever.

I really do not care about anything related to Mr. Gold. Because I am a terrible person, I laughed when he tried to restore Belle memory by kissing her and then I go really upset about who let him into the hospital room of a injured woman.

MY EMOTIONS. MY EMOTIONS.


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via allisnow: a great article on Aya and Razer.

(In other new, Young Justice continues to be a half an hour each week of all the secondary characters I never cared about in the first place.)

The Avengers (and related movies)

Tell Me I'm Who Your Mouth Was Made For (Sif/Loki)
Zeros & Ones (Pepper/Tony)
Oh Baby, Baby (Darcy/Clint)
I Loved You When We Were Young And Blushed With Youth Like Bruised Fruit (Sif/Loki)
Intimacy (Natasha/Clint)
It's In My Honey, It's In My Milk (Natasha/Steve, Natasha/Clint)
Artificial Grape (Darcy/Bruce)
Send Your Past Running (While You Stand Still) (Natasha Romanoff)
Out Of Sync From The Very Beginning (Darcy/Steve)
Only (Pepper/Tony)
On The Road To Find Out (Darcy/Clint)
New Growth (Natasha, Clint, Steve)
Games Serious Girls Play (Maria Hill)
It's Not Official Until It's Facebook Official (Darcy/Clint)
I Love You As Certain Dark Things Are To Be Loved (Natasha/Clint)
Swing In A Minor Key (It's Just) (Darcy/Coulson)
If I Love You, Is That A Fact Or A Weapon? (Natasha/Bruce)

Easy A

Inappropriate (Olive/Mr. Griffith)

Game of Thrones

Winter Wolfling Girl (Arya/Gendry)
Interlude (Dany/Jorah)
We Exhale Hallelujahs (Dany/Jorah)

Gossip Girl

Narrative (Blair/Dan)

Misfits

Maybe We (Alisha/Simon)

Once Upon A Time

Fables (Regina, Regina/Emma)
Farewell Sweetness (Snow/Charming)
Swing Through The Fires To Stay In This World (Regina/Emma)
The Tender Gravity Of Kindness (Frigga, Loki, Sif/Loki)
Unclaimed Debts (Belle/Rumpelstiltskin)
Feverish (Belle/Rumpelstiltskin)
This Motionless Forgetful (Belle/Rumpelstiltskin)

Push

No Maps To Where I Want To Be (Cassie/Nick)

The Vampire Diaries

What Girl DOESN'T Have A Hello Kitty Vibrator? (Caroline Forbes)

Young Justice

Drunk!Fic (Zatanna/Dick)