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Over the weekend Becky and I watched Lego Batman, which is awesome, you guys, AWESOME, super funny. It kicks off with Batman voiceover (in Christian Bale voice, of course) right over the opening - “DC. The house that Batman built,” he intones. “Yeah, what Superman? Come at me bro. I’m your kryptonite.”

Superman, as Batman informs the Joker, is his worst enemy. The Joker is horrified and terribly jealous. “Superman’s not a bad guy!” he cries. Batman can only shrug. “You mean nothing to me,” he tells the Joker, and the Joker’s plastic Lego eyes brim with tears, and it’s at once hilarious and rather sad.

In fact quite a bit of this movie is hilarious and yet rather sad, which is I guess my favorite kind of comedy.

Case in point: Batman’s Epic Brooding. There’s a great sequence near the start where he’s going through the vast and echoing Batcave, up the Batelevator to warm up his lobster thermidor in the microwave and watch a romantic comedy all by himself in his itty bitty personal movie theater, which has proper movie theater seats and everything, and he comes to his favorite line in the movie and looks around as if he wants someone to laugh with… and no one is there.

I think what makes this movie so good is that the filmmakers poke fun at Batman’s excesses, but at the same time you feel that they really do like and feel for the character. They’re making fun of the Grand Emo Trappings of his loneliness, not the loneliness itself.

And they’ve clearly watched every adaptation ever, some with love and some with loving derision. When Batman is getting particularly emo as he stares at a picture of his dead parents (standing, naturally, in front of Crime Alley), Alfred sighs and says, “Sir, I have seen you go through similar phases in 2016 and 2012 and 2008 and 2005 and 1997 and 1995 and 1992 and 1989 and that weird one in 1966,” with a montage of the aforesaid movies, ending with Adam West doing a bizarre Batman dance.

(I kind of adore the 1960s Batman. It’s just so ludicrous and endearing.)

Another highlight - this movie is full of highlights; I really recommend it - Dick Grayson, a.k.a. Robin, the orphan Batman adopts by accident because he’s not paying attention with Dick talks to him at a gala: Dick is all “Do you want to adopt me?” and Bruce Wayne, staring at Barbara Gordon, is all “Yeah yeah sure.”

Naturally Dick moves into Bruce Wayne’s house the very next day, because it’s not like there’s any paperwork or anything when you adopt an orphan. Batman wants to get rid of him, but then he is faced with a mission which would require a small gymnast (which Dick just happens to be!) who is also “110% expendable” - “I don’t know what that means, but sure!” Dick cries, so eager is he for Batman’s approval.

The film’s one flaw is that it is so, so, so heavy-handed with its message. Alfred, Barbara Gordon, and Dick Grayson all repeatedly tell Batman that he needs FAMILY and HUMAN CONNECTION. It’s like the writers confused “Show, don’t tell,” with “Show and tell,” because they show us Batman’s loneliness and then they tell us tell us tell us tell us that he needs to combat it with friendship and love. And then tell us again. Okay, we get it already. Let's get back to the Joker making meta comments on the nature of the Batverse again.

Crossposts: http://osprey-archer.livejournal.com/576812.html

I saw Captain America: Civil War! I enjoyed it very much, although I think it's less morally sophisticated than perhaps the Russos were hoping for and mostly I am on Team Talk to Each Other, Dumbasses.

Actually I saw it a few days ago, but I have been letting it percolate through my brain before writing about it. I think that everyone in the entire universe saw this movie before I did, but just in case I'm putting ( spoilers under the cut )

New Agent Carter episode!

( Read more... )

I watched the first few episodes of Supergirl in the fall, missed an episode while I was on a trip, and then never caught up because the show seemed sweet but not stunningly good.

But then I watched the rest of the first half of the season so I could start watching again in January (and then got the episode time wrong and missed it! Like an idiot!), and it's won me over.

In the first few episodes, Kara is a sweet and slightly bumbling girl who is finding her feet as a superhero. And she remains sweet and slightly bumbling and adorably awkward (I love the moment when Cat Grant is all "What planet are you from?" - rhetorically, of course - and Kara is all, "Um...this one?" OH KARA), but in the later episodes, she also gets angry.

When she was thirteen, her planet was destroyed, her whole family was killed, except for her Aunt Astra who's probably evil - except maybe her aunt was trying to save Krypton, and Kara's mother was partially responsible for its destruction - and Kara's been on earth trying to hide her powers for the past ten years and she's angry.

(Now, I strongly suspect that in the end it will turn out that Kara's mother was right and Aunt Astra is tragically misguided, but at the moment it could go either way, and kudos to the writers for making this seem genuinely uncertain.)

Female characters who are really fucking angry are my jam. Veronica Mars, Peggy Carter, Jaye Tyler from Wonderfalls... I think even Mary from Downton Abbey fits this description, which is rather odd; you would expect Sybil to be the angry sister, as she's the activist in the family.

But I think actually that makes Sybil calmer: she knows she doesn't want this to be her life and she has a plan to get out. Whereas Mary is aware that she's not content with things as they are, but her only real plan of escape is maybe marriage, and she seems uneasily aware that it's not a very good plan. She's trapped.

It makes her bitter and petty and mean, and I can see why people dislike that about her - especially because, from what I've heard, she never really grows out of it? But in the first two seasons, I did believe that eventually she would come to terms with what she wants from the world, and become less petty if not, perhaps, less furious.

I was going to include Agents of SHIELD in with the other superhero shows, but then I realized that it would utterly overwhelm that post and I’d really rather talk about Agent Carter, anyway (so excited about season 2!), so I’ve separated out my Agents of SHIELD rant here. I’ve tried to keep specific spoilers to a minimum, but it’s still kind of spoilery in general.

I have ranted about this show at length on Tumblr. This post touches on many of its problems, but as long as it is, it still doesn’t cover everything because Agents of SHIELD is a bottomless pit.

SHIELD was always shady, but AoS takes it beyond shady to actually evil. I hate this show for indirectly wrecking Nick Fury for me: he was the one in charge of this shitshow, so either he was an incompetent who didn’t notice all the shit his agents got up to or he thought all of this was perfectly fine. He thought it was all right to resurrect Coulson with a procedure that Coulson believed was so awful that he threatened to resign SHIELD if SHIELD didn’t stop using it, after all.

But this is typical of Agents of SHIELD: the writers don’t get consent at all. This is less visible than it could be because their snafus tend to take place in situations of medical experimentation and/or recruitment by kidnapping, rather than sex, and sex is the situation where most people (at least most people in fandom) generally contemplate the ins and outs of consent most often.

The one episode where the show did fuck up sexual consent is the Lorelei episode, and it’s been justly criticized for its failtasticness. Lorelei the Asgardian mind-controls Ward into having sex with her (and also leading a small army, etc. etc.) and all the characters act like the person most hurt by this is May, because she’s having sex with Ward and I guess the rest of the crew thinks that he betrayed her by having sex with someone else, even though he was, in fact, raped, and didn’t betray her on purpose.

That’s one episode. But this same failure underpins the entire show, and I can’t believe it took me two whole seasons to realize how deep that failure runs, given that season one kicks off with Skye being kidnapped by SHIELD agents, who then hold her captive and indoctrinate her. You could go through the first ten episodes or so and put post-its on all the classic cult indoctrination tactics that they use.

There’s love-bombing, there’s the sharp withdrawal of approval whenever her behavior displeases them, Coulson and May’s penchant for dangling information that she wants in front of her if only she can earn it, the refusal to let her interact with any outsiders (they put a bracelet around her wrist to make sure she can’t use the internet), all culminating in the moment where Skye utterly forsakes her old ideals, having concluded that freedom of information is a childish dream and the world needs SHIELD to protect it from the truth.

By the end of the second season, she’s A-Okay with mind-wiping. In fact, she badgers Coulson into mind-wiping someone, and it’s utterly, utterly typical that they don’t show whether the victim consented to the procedure. It doesn’t seem to occur to the writers that consent would have any bearing on whether or not that procedure was ethical.

New!SHIELD is the worst. It should be killed with fire and nothing would make me happier than having Coulson show up as the villain in a Marvel movie, just so the Avengers can recoil from the nightmare that he has become.

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Now, you may be asking, “Why the hell did you continue watching this trainwreck for so long?” Two reasons. Well, three reasons. One is that trainwrecks are fascinating in a horrible sort of way.

Another is that I thought the writers were setting new SHIELD up in order to tear it down, the way that the Hydra reveal tore down old SHIELD in season one. More fool me for not realizing that the writers thought the infestation of Hydra agents was the only thing wrong with old SHIELD, not the SHIELD culture of compartmentalization and secretiveness and locking people up without trial that made it easy for them to thrive.

The big reason, though, is Skye and Simmons and Bobbi Morse and May. The show has a large and varied and very shippable cast of female characters (I am particularly partial to Bobbi/Simmons), to whom I became very attached way back before I realized that Agents of SHIELD was careening toward a moral abyss, and I’ve kept watching for them.

And now part 2: superhero shows! I have clearly attempted a lot of superhero shows this year.

Agents of SHIELD should technically also be on this list, but the part about it grew so long that I moved it to its own separate post.

Daredevil. I watched four episodes of this and bombed out of it. In between the time that Matt tortured a Russian guy and tossed him off the roof, and the time that Fisk smashed the other Russian guy’s head in a car door, and the fact that half the cinematography is so dark that I have no idea what’s going on - no. Just not feeling it. Even though there is a scene later in the season where Matt and Foggy cry at each other, apparently.

Jessica Jones. I started watching the first episode of this, but it looks harrowing, everyone tells me it’s harrowing, and I just don’t really feel like being harrowed right now. In between Daredevil and Graceland and Agents of SHIELD, I’ve had my televised harrowing for the year.

Supergirl. I watched the first few episodes of this and then missed an episode because I was on vacation and somehow never felt the need to catch up. Maybe I’ll watch it when it comes out on DVD? I enjoyed it; it just didn’t sweep me off my feet.

(I realize this is shallow, but I think I would be more interested in Supergirl if the show didn’t lean so hard on the “They’re sisters. Sisters!” angle to Kara and Alex’s relationship. They’re not biologically related! They didn’t even meet till they were teenagers! You didn’t have to go and make this potential ship all incestuous, show.)

Agent Carter. HOLY SHIT I LOVE THIS SHOW. I mean, I have my quibbles with it (the SSR makes a habit of beating suspects with large sticks, really?), but they are as nothing in the face of my adoration of Peggy Carter, cranky BAMF with gorgeous hats who defeats her enemies through the brutal use of staplers

I love Peggy, I love Jarvis, I would love to punch Howard Stark in the face (but, like, it would be a punch of exasperated fondness), I love Dottie Underwood and I will probably cry if she does not return in season 2, ALL I WANT IS FOR HER AND PEGGY TO BE NEMESES AND HAVE EPIC FOEYAY OKAY, like seriously, I want the two of them to have to team up to fight a Greater Evil and maybe argue about the merits of communism vs. capitalism, possibly while handcuffed together for Important Plot Reasons -

Okay, that might be devolving into fanfic territory a bit, BUT ON THE OTHER HAND the show did give us Dottie kissing Peggy in order to knock her out with knockout lipstick in season one, so it’s not impossible that the writers have a direct line to my id.

poeticknowledge asked: What are the top 10 best films you have seen this year (or in the past year, either one)?

Oh, wow. I actually think that if I listed my top ten films this year, I might end up listing every film I’ve seen, because I haven’t seen that many. I tend to watch more TV than movies, probably because I’m already invested in the characters.

...Okay, I actually went and did a count, and in fact I saw seventeen movies this year, seven of which I already posted about, so this is clearly a providential opportunity to post about the other ten.

( This got long. Short reviews of Wreck-It Ralph, Guardians of the Galaxy, The Electric Horseman, Inside Daisy Clover, Rebel without a Cause, Snowpiercer, Blackfish, The Hot Rock, Antman, The Incredible Hulk, and Mosquita y Mari follow )

In short, here are my movie recs from the things I watched this year.

For something funny and light, I’d recommend Night at the Museum 3.

For something that will make you sob like a baby even as you delight in its clever world-building, Inside Out. Blackfish is also quite sad, although in a very different way.

For tense and cynical with a tough, complicated heroine, Inside Daisy Clover or Fried Green Tomatoes. (Fried Green Tomatoes also has some delightfully light-hearted and funny moments. Inside Daisy Clover is pretty much 100% intensity, all the time.)

For tense but uplifting (with great scenery), The Martian.

I don’t think I’d anti-rec anything I saw this year, but the others are all flawed in some way that means I wouldn’t rec them unreservedly.

I wrote a couple very short stories for

trickortreatex! Both MCU, because that's just how I roll right now, I guess.

First, A Worthy Foe, about Natasha and Pepper: Pepper confronts Natalie Rushman about her true identity, and the two of them come to a tentative alliance.

Second, Nightmare, which is about post-TWS Bucky watching Steve through his bedroom window like a creeper. Steve has a nightmare. Bucky is concerned.

9 – Pairings – For each of the fandoms from day two, what are your three favorite pairings to write?

Oh dear. For most of these fandoms I’ve only written one or two pairings. I guess I’ll just list the favorites that I have for each fandom, and if that ends up being one or three or five, I guess we’ll just go with that.

( The list, with occasional commentary )

7 – Have you ever had a fic change your opinion of a character?

Ha, yes! I think most recently

sineala's Tony fics have moved me from finding Tony Stark irritating to finding him...well, still a little irritating sometimes, but also sad and uncertain and concerned that he might be inadequate and generally in need of a hug.

Her fics are comicsverse, which has a fairly different Tony Stark characterization than movieverse - IIRC

sineala summed it up as "Comics Tony hates being himself. Movie Tony loves being himself" - but they still made it easier to see the vulnerability behind Tony's general facade of dickishness.

And I'm going to link the fic where Tony really won a piece of my heart: snow.txt, where Steve stumbles upon the old self-insert hurt-comfort epics Tony wrote as a teenager, wherein Tony writes himself as the indispensable stoic woobie of Captain America's team.

I've been trying to watch Daredevil - I've made it to episode 3 - but I'm having trouble getting into it. There are, IMO, two kinds of dark and gritty, and Daredevil is the kind I don't like, where the show takes place in eternal night and endless rainfall, with streetlamps that cast dramatic shadows everywhere -

Okay, actually, it's not the aesthetic itself that bothers me. It's very stylish, and classic film noir uses it to great effect - I watched Double Indemnity a few months ago and it blew me away. But in modern work I find that it tends to accompany a moral universe where, say, the hero can torture a guy on a roof and then toss him into a dumpster six stories down and somehow remain the hero. Bad guys deserve to be crippled for life without even the protection of due process, so it's okay! Or something like that.

Just once, I would like to see a show where the heroes torture the hell out of someone and then it turns out that they got the wrong guy. Their informant sent them after Joe Schmoe because a property line dispute left him with a petty grudge and he wants Mr. Schmoe out of the way. That would be gritty and realistic.

I've finally seen Age of Ultron! Now I can read everyone else's Age of Ultron posts!

That is pretty much the thing that I am most excited about with this movie.

( Spoilers for Age of Ultron under the cut )

The next three fics in my series! Chronicling Steve's slow descent toward a nervous breakdown. Oh, Steve. He has such a hard life.

Fic: Apologies
Fandom: Captain America
Rating: PG-13
Beta:

littlerhymes
Part 13 of Reciprocity
Summary: Steve's attempt to get Coulson to apologize somehow turns into a session of Everything That's Wrong with Steve. Steve is not sure how this happened.

Fic: Pep Talk
Fandom: Captain America
Rating: PG-13
Beta:

littlerhymes
Part 14 of Reciprocity
Summary: The sentence popped out of Steve like a champagne cork. “I think we should leave SHIELD.”

Bucky disagrees.

Fic: Taylor Swift
Fandom: Captain America
Rating: PG-13
Beta:

littlerhymes
Part 15 of Reciprocity
Summary: "What the fuck is so great about Taylor Swift?" Steve demanded.

"I’ve always had this thing for angry blondes," Bucky said.

This is actually a completely misleading summary for a mostly depressing story.

How much did I enjoy tonight's Agent Carter episode? The answer is A LOT.

( Spoiler cut )

Look look! Someone posted a comic inspired by Reciprocity! Natasha gives Pepper disguise tips. (I particularly like the part where Natasha is like "Tap into your inner sloth." Pepper probably has not had tapped into her inner sloth since she was about eight.)

(I should probably warn you, there are like...three sentences in Reciprocity that allude to Natasha and Pepper's espionage lessons, so if you read the fic for that it's going to be beyond disappointing. There are some fun Natasha scenes, though.)

And this reminds me, I haven't crossed-posted the two most recent fics yet.

Fic: Interrogation Techniques
Fandom: Captain America
Rating: PG-13
Beta:

littlerhymes
Part 11 of Reciprocity
Summary: Bucky kidnaps a Hydra agent for interrogation. (Very little of the fic is actually spent interrogating anyone.)

Fic: Self-Possession
Fandom: Captain America
Rating: PG-13
Beta:

littlerhymes
Part 12 of Reciprocity
Summary: “I’ve been meaning to fix out one of the rooms for Russki Business, too, but I haven’t gotten around to it. Is he with you?” The StarkPhone turned from side to side, scanning the car, then hovered over to peer at Bucky. “Hello, murdroyshka doll.”

Bucky scowled. “Little Orphant Anthony.”

Steve and Bucky visit New York.

I have been meaning to do the snowflake_challenge for years, but I also forgot until the middle of January. But this year! This year

egelantier's post reminded me, and so I am doing it.

In your own space, create a list of at least three fannish things you'd love to receive, something you've wanted but were afraid to ask for - a fannish wish-list of sorts. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your wish-list if you feel comfortable doing so. Maybe someone will grant a wish. Check out other people's posts. Maybe you will grant a wish. If any wishes are granted, we'd love it if you link them to this post.

1. Ficlets! I always like ficlets.

-Sutcliff fandom. I'm particularly fond of Lucius from Frontier Wolf, or fix-it Alexia/Jestyn/Anders from Blood Feud, or anything Bonnie Dundee.

-MCU. I am into most combinations of Steve, Bucky, Sam, and Natasha, shippy or otherwise. Actually, a fic where they all just hang out and have a pleasant afternoon might be nice. I could totally see Bucky insisting that they all watch The Matrix, and he and Natasha practically end up crawling under the couch because it hits so many of their paranoia buttons, but they refuse to turn it off because that would mean the movie wins. Okay, that's actually not a very pleasant afternoon after all...

- Agents of SHIELD. Simmons/Bobbie, Simmons/Skye, Skye/making ridiculous faces - okay, probably that would make more sense for fanart than a story. I feel like I could be into Fitz/Mack, but I'm leery about reading the fic because there are so many ways that could go wrong (chief among them bashing Simmons, who is my favorite. I probably would never get over her either if I was Fitz. Nonetheless, Fitz, you should work on that.)

2. Fic recs of any of these things! I think I've read most of the Sutcliff stories on AO3, but I know I've only skimmed the surface on MCU fics, and I'm not sure where to start with AoS fic.

3. Related works for my fics. I am especially partial to fanart or related fics (or ficlets), but podcasts and translations are glorious too.

I would also probably die of joy if someone wrote fic for my books, although I realize they are completely the wrong genre for that sort of thing. I would probably ship the characters with anyone they aren't actually related to, though. Just throwing that out there.

I have been so bad about cross-posting this. Oops! Have three stories.

Fic: Picnics
Fandom: Captain America
Rating: PG-13
Beta:

littlerhymes
Part 8 of Reciprocity
Summary: Steve and Bucky go on a series of picnics.

Fic: Christmas
Fandom: Captain America
Rating: PG-13
Beta:

littlerhymes
Part 9 of Reciprocity
Summary: “Did I ever tell you how I got my name?”

It's Christmastime, and the snow reminds Bucky of stories from Russia.

Fic: Summer Soldiers
Fandom: Captain America
Rating: PG-13
Beta:

littlerhymes
Part 10 of Reciprocity
Summary: SHIELD sends Steve on a mission before Bucky's suspension ends. Bucky is displeased.

I am so behind on the December meme, you guys. Apologies to people who asked my questions that I haven't answered yet. I'll get around to them!

December 9: Tell me about a story you've written that veered away from where you thought it would go, but one in which that veering proved to be a good thing. (for

asakiyume)

Cool story, bro, the fic series that has been eating my brain is basically this. It is this in spades. It was originally going to be one-shot metal arm porn, wherein the metal arm actually plays very little part because Bucky has taken it off, because of course the neighbors can't see it because that would totally blow his cover as a secret weapon and then he would clearly have to shoot them. Steve hears this explanation and is like "How do you even think like that, how does your brain work, I don't understand you."

And I had read a lot of stories about beautifully sad and often infantilized Bucky who is crushed under the guilt he feels for his amnesiac assassin past, and I wanted to do something different. So Bucky is this story is difficult, demanding, paranoid, and callous (he enjoys bragging about his past assassinations to Steve), and has complicated (and in the first story, mostly unexpressed) Bolshevik issues.

And Steve has been living with him for nearly a year at this point and is slowly beginning to crack up under the stress of dealing with someone who seems to relish being as difficult as possible and has no apparent intention of even trying to get better.

It turns out that this characterization (Bucky's, in particular; Steve's characterization is mostly a reaction to his) is a freaking gold mine of fic ideas. Most of the stories start out in my head as "How would Bucky react if...?" and the answer is usually BADLY, although only once so far has BADLY involved hitting someone, because he cottoned on fairly quickly that SHIELD doesn't approve of people beating up its own agents. (He would never actually say this, because SHIELD would probably take it as disloyal, but on his crankier days he recalls bitterly that Hydra let him hit pretty much whoever he wanted.)

So a lot of the fic is about Steve slowly starting to suss out the underlying logic to Bucky's behavior, and realizing that (for instance) part of the reason why Bucky isn't recovering is because Bucky doesn't believe they've actually reached the post part of his traumatic stress. As far as he's concerned, he's going to need his terrible coping mechanisms and he isn't fucking giving them up.

When I post the next story, the series is going to be 35,000 words, and I have like five more stories planned. I did not intend for this to eat my life.

I finished season one of Agents of SHIELD. As much as I liked the first half of the season, they definitely kicked it up a notch in the post-Winter Soldier episodes! Like, I had to stop watching and come back later when Skye realized that Ward was Hydra, because OH MY GOD. The scenes where Skye knows Ward is Hydra and it's not at all clear whether Ward knows she knows, all so tense.

(I also think it's pretty obvious that they're setting Ward up for a redemption arc: his hesitation before jettisoning FitzSimmons, his real love for Skye, even his obvious affection for Garrett (and Garrett's barely-concealed scorn for his softness), all these things scream I HAVE A SOFT MARSHMALLOW UNDERBELLY, REDEEM ME.

Which isn't to say that they're going to do it well - I think an effective redemption arc for Ward would require a more sophisticated grasp of morality than the SHIELD writers seem to have, frankly - but that's clearly where we're going.)

I love everyone in this bar! Except maybe Ward, because he's evil, but maybe he'll get over it, we'll see. I loved FitzSimmons from the start (and now that I've seen Fitz before the accident I am kind of destroyed about the brain damage), but Coulson and May have grown on me to; I spent the first half of the season struggling to connect with May, but then her facade got a tiny little crack for like three seconds and now I am one hundred percent all over that. Stoic badasses who have very very secret feelings (VERY) are my jam.

My take on her fight with Ward at the end is that, insofar as it is personal, it's about his betrayal of the team and not the fact that he jilted her. She clearly never cared about him very much; the only person who suggests she does is Ward, and I think it's because he wants to be loved, far more than because he sees actual evidence that she's fond of him.

It's not a nice thing for her to do, and one of the things that has really grown on me about May is that she doesn't care if people like her (except maaaaaaybe Coulson), and the writers don't care either (I think they like her, because who wouldn't enjoy writing her? But they're not too chuffed if viewers don't share their feeling). So she's good and occasionally kind, but not at all nice. I'd hate to work with her, but it makes her interesting to watch.

And I love the fact that this show is willing to rough the girls up just as much as the guys. (Although I have heard ominous rumblings that maybe Simmons is going to die in season two, and I REFUSE, that is just not allowed.)

I like Skye a lot (look at her face in this icon, she makes all the best faces. She has no sense of dignity, I love it), although a couple of times I nearly drowned in embarrassment for her writers when they decided to tell us about how she's a shining beacon of compassion. Skye has a lot of good qualities, and compassion is occasionally one of them, but Fitz and Simmons and even occasionally Coulson - even sometimes May, in her chilly distant way - often have more of it.

Often I feel like writers, especially TV writers, think that compassion is a fuzzily mystically quality that vaguely attaches itself to characters, particularly female characters, rather than being an actual trait with defined qualities that a character needs to exhibit.

(I'm looking at you, Torchwood writers who apparently believed that Gwen Cooper glowed with compassion! Gwen Cooper who gave her boyfriend retcon and then confessed to cheating on him, so she could wring forgiveness out of him without having to deal with long-term consequences. JESUS CHRIST. Skye never does anything a quarter so egregious, thank God. My choice in shows about world-saving ragtag teams of misfits has gone up over the years!)

I am so tempted to start adding Agents of SHIELD cameos to my Bucky stories, someone please restrain me, I know that MCU fandom has decidedly mixed feelings about this show. (Skye and Bucky team up to throw snowballs at Steve would still be the cutest thing, though. The cutest.)

And this reminds me! I have a new story that I haven't linked yet.

Fic: Suspension
Fandom: Captain America
Rating: PG-13
Beta:

littlerhymes
Sequel to Self-Abuse, Disconnect, Boundaries, Untangle, Give Me Your Hand, and Dominoes. Maybe I should just start linking the series page in the future.
Summary: Steve was incredulous. “Do you think this is what happy and safe feels like?”

Bucky’s gaze fell away from Steve’s, his eyebrows bunching up. Steve had thought he claimed he was happy just to get Steve off his back, but Jesus. Maybe he did.

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Entries tagged with superheroes

Lego Batman

Captain America: Civil War

Agent Carter: Smoke & Mirrors

Agent Carter: Smoke & Mirrors

Supergirl

Television Overview, Part 3: Agents of SHIELD

Television Overview, Part 2: Superhero Shows, Mostly Marvel

December Meme, Question #6

Trickortreatex stories

30 Days of Fandom Meme: Day 9

30 Days of Fandom Meme: Day 7

Daredevil

Obligatory AoU post

Fics: Apologies, Pep Talk, Taylor Swift

Agent Carter, episode 4

Reciprocity inspired comic! Also fic links: Interrogation Techniques, Self-Possession

Snowflake challenge, Day 2

Fic: Picnic, Summer Soldiers, Christmas

December 9: Tell me about a story you've written that veered away from where you thought it would go

Agents of SHIELD, season 1