Fic Rush 48

Oh no, almost as dangerous as TVTropes!? I can't even fathom such a place!!!

I am still watching Thor and pondering kid!fic ideas that I really shouldn't write.

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Which website!?

Still ploughing through my research, getting increasingly annoyed that a really interesting piece of writing is undermined by being self-published without any real editing. I'd love to recommend it to people, but I can't possibly.

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I am looking over the first 500 words of my new novel (which I wrote this morning) and trying to figure out where the heck it's going from here. All I really have is a mental image from the middle and some backstory worldbuilding... which is all I had for the last one, either. *g*

It wants to be a subspecies of urban fantasy, though, which I strongly doubt my ability to write. *thinky face*

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Thor is an awesome movie. ALL OF THE AWESOME. I mean, heck, I love the Captain America movie to pieces (I spent seven years waiting for that one and it was better than I ever dreamed), but Thor is objectively better. Also it passes the Bechdel test in the first five minutes - I was a little bit like "wait, am I in the right theater? this is a superhero movie, right?" *g*

Oh! And I came up with a theory the other day that I keep wanting to share with people:

Loki is so popular in Avengers fandom because he is the god of fandom. He's the god of tricky words, shapeshifting and gender-twisting (he's canonically been pregnant... by a horse O_O), and things not being what they seem; if there was ever a god of Photoshop, Loki is it. So of course fandom loves him. :D

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I'm really enjoying it so far, more so than Captain America (though I did very much enjoy around the first half of that). I am absolutely in LOVE with Lady Sif and the Warriors Three. They totally rock my socks!!! And Darcy and Jane are fantastic and I was flailing any time Coulson or Hawkeye were on screen. Loving it! And Yay! for passing the Bechdel test. I really wish there had been more women in the Avengers, but I guess that what fanfiction is for.

Also, I think that makes perfect sense regarding Loki. I think god of Photoshop is the perfect title for him. He would fit in fabulously on the internet (I think there is totally a fic in there somewhere).

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I have almost two pages of a story written!

(I hope this writing streak lasts for awhile . . . )

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Ooh yay!

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I found Thor... er... much less narratively satisfying than Captain America. Let's just say that there is an ongoing argument in our household centered around whether or not the film provided adequate reason to support Thor's ambitions over Loki's.

Someone thinks I'm heartless because I don't think that it is an immutable truth that Earth should be saved, and that I am overthinking it to be way more interested in exactly what the motivations of the ice giants were anyway.

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THE LADY SIF IS ALL OF THE WIN. I'm glad I was spoiled for her black hair, because otherwise there would have been Startled Grumpiness (there's a whole myth about Sif's golden hair, idk how familiar you are with Norse myths? I only know the kiddie versions myself yet, mostly) - but SHE WINS. She continues to win ALL THE THINGS throughout the movie, as do Jane and Darcy. It is amazing. :D

(Also Heimdall. HEIMDAAAAAAAAALL. Okay, I might be a little bit of a huge Heimdall fan since forever... *g* And I now find myself in the rather weird position of not being able to imagine anyone but Idris Elba as Heimdall. But I maintain that this is BECAUSE OF AWESOME, so it's all good. XD)

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Hmm, I could see the Ice Giants being all "revenge for what you took from us", because Thor's dad basically stole their king's kid. But yeah, the plot line is a little bit weak.

I kinda stopped paying attention in a lot of the last half of Captain America. Battle scenes on a whole bore me and I'm mostly just like "more characters talking and doing stuff please!" Yeah, I'm totally in the wrong genre here.

Sadly, I think the Earth should be saved plotline comes up in a lot of science fiction where it doesn't really make a lot of sense (Doctor Who for example), but mostly because the writers have this whole "humans are special" thing going on that I don't really believe either.

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I didn't know that about the hair of gold, but I love the one in the movie. She's gorgeous and badass and funny and awesome! Love! And Jane and Darcy are fantastic!

And Heimdall! :D

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I don't mind "The Earth should be saved!" as a base assumption if the protagonists are primarily human but yeah, otherwise, you'd better give me a darn good reason why that's got more weight than, "The Earth! I have cause to destroy it now!"

I suppose there's a general principle that it's better to save things than destroy them; but again, that may be a very human prejudice against destruction that our shiny outer-space or inter-dimensional characters just don't share.

We liked the first Iron Man a lot because it was relatively talky, and disliked the second Iron Man because it was relatively things go kaboomy, so I may be with you in the wrong genre. I may have been distracted by all the neat '40s hair styles and the halo effect of having Stanley Tucci in the first part of the film, which makes anything better.

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I haven't seen Iron Man 2 yet, that's next up on my list of these films to watch. Yeah, I loved talky Iron Man. He just makes me have all these crazy thoughts in my head and I love it!

Yeah, I kinda wonder about the saving vs destroying things. It's really hard to say what is "human morality" when we have only ideas (through our own human perceptions) of what "alien" life could think like.

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*nods* I will admit, the last half hour of the movie or so did seem to come a bit out of nowhere. I'd have been a lot more pleased without the sudden "okay, we need Loki to be The Villain now" turn in the writing. (If I hadn't been dealing with a nasty bout of memory-deleting depression in the month or so after I saw the movie, I would have written masses of analysis upon it. MASSES. There is certainly much to argue about! Possibly also a fixfic. I wish I wasn't always being too ill to write fixfic. :P)

But in terms of... idk, character development, story arc... I would have to say Thor was better than Captain America. (Also in terms of Bechdel-passing.) I really liked how Thor slowly stopped being a jerk, whereas Cap starts out awesome and doesn't change much. ;-) [Not that I would want him to be a jerk! I am more than pleased with the characterization of movie!Cap.]

(OTOH, I would totally be willing to entertain the idea that the story arc / structure of the writing in Captain America was just something I didn't notice for whatever reason. Goodness knows I was mostly paying attention to "omg I wrote that scene, and that scene, but they are ALL BETTER than the way I wrote them *squee*".)

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Yes, I didn't want Loki to be The Villain. I liked him too much. He was all sad and adorable.

Yes, I think that Thor does an excellent job with character development. It was very well done. And I love movie!Cap. He's just adorable in every way.

I liked the Captain America movie overall, I just kinda only remember the until the attack on the bad red guy towards the end.

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