Misc

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-I didn’t pull off most of my fic writing goals, alas. I did write a bunch of stuff for the three sentences ficathon:

• Agent Carter – Dottie/Peggy + the worst dance partner; ~40 words, for @sholio.
• DCU – Diana + time. ~100 words, for @goodbyebird.
  
• Disney – Beauty and the Beast + courtship/arguments via book reviews; ~110 words, for @syrena_of_the_lake.
  
• GoT – Sansa + no queen has clean hands; ~200 words, for @rthstewart & Bronn + do not forget your place; ~90 words, for @kingstoken.
  
• Gargoyles – Elisa/Goliath + wind beneath my wings; ~50 words, for @syrena_of_the_lake.
  
• The Sarah Connor Chronicles – Jesse/Sarah + wired; 110 words, for @goodbyebird.
  
• The Good Place – Vicky + attempt 666; ~70 words, for @smallredboy & Michael + life on Earth, ~130 words, for @astrogirl.
  
• The Witcher – Geralt/Renfri + brushing Geralt's hair; ~100 words, for @nasimwrites.

I think you can still leave comments, so hey, if anyone wants to leave me something in my remaining prompts… they’re Giuletta/Tony (Marvel 616) + metaphorical armor and Alastor/Charlie (Hazbin Hotel) + deals with the devil. Wink wink, nudge nudge, etc.

-In January I wrote two ficlets too, for a prompt meme, and I remembered I forgot to post about it over here. Oops. They’re Red, a Carmilla/Laura (Carmilla, the novella) Snow White AU (~600 words, M) for @lee_bella, and The Spoils, a Cersei/Sansa (GOT) The Hunger Games AU (~900 words, E) for @kingstoken.

-I took a leap of faith and singed up for the Once Upon a Fic Exchange. Lucky for me, I’m actually excited about one of the prompts I got; I hope my recipient likes it too, but for now it’s nice to know I’ll have fun writing it. The deadline is in May, which gives me plenty of time too. And I can’t wait to see my gift! If anyone’s curious, I put in requests for Yde et Olive, The Snow Queen, Persephone & Hades, and One Thousand and One Nights.

-I’m still trying to valiantly catch up on my Wednesday comics reading. These are my thoughts on the second-to-last week, which means now I’m only one (1) week behind. I can work with that.

-Wonder Woman #752: Diana fights Valda, a medieval knight that just travelled to our time. Pretty sure I’ve seen a romance novel like that somewhere. They end up forming an alliance against the monster that travelled with her. Meanwhile, Warmaster talks about her revenge plan against Diana and the Amazons, who apparently massacred the Valkyries she descended from? Her memories about it had supposedly been repressed, and Diana watched over her her whole life while hiding it from her. There’s probably gonna be a twist somewhere. In any case, I appreciate DC’s effort of giving me more and more female villains and anti-heroes to ship with Diana.

 

-2020 Machine Man #1: at this point I’m forcing myself to go through this storyline just so I don’t end up never picking Iron Man comics up again. But damn, is it bad. I love AI storylines! Love them! There’s nothing interesting about how this one is written and I’m losing my patience; if you took the very bare concepts and put it on another pair of hands MAYBE it’d be better, but alas. It doesn’t help that IDGAF about Machine Man or Machine Man/Jocasta (Jocasta is awesome. That relationship is a bore).

-2020 Force Works #1: the whole “Tony is no longer human but Rhodey despite being resurrected by the exact same method, because we say so” thing is so, so ridiculous. Add it to the pile about this entire story. I liked this one better, because I like the team up (Rhodey! Bobbie! Quake! Hill! USAgent is also there, I guess), but there’s nothing of substance in it either. There could be a lot of angst potential of Rhodey discovering he’s fighting Tony, but I don’t have high hopes of it going anywhere.

-Avengers #31: I still have misgivings about this run, and specifically about how it writes Tony (even more specifically, his interactions with other people), but I really enjoyed this one! It might be in part because it completely ignores Slott’s run LOL. But yeah, I liked it, and it was a step up in terms of Tony’s characterization (I loved when he said “I don’t like people being inside my head. Sometimes I don’t like me being there”). Tony is trapped in a cave millions of years ago, and cavemen and women try to tempt him into drinking on behalf of Mephisto. And Howard had a cult on his honor (because of course he did) and sold Tony’s soul to him. Back in present day (which means he’ll appear in the next issues, presumably?), Tony tells Mephisto to kiss his iron ass, but Mephisto thinks his plan against Tony (possibly all Tonys across the multiverse. I’d love a storyline about that but I don’t think this writer is the right one for it. He’ll just talk about how all Tonys are assholes even when it makes no sense, and shit like that) is working. Oh, and Howard (real Howard, I think, because he doesn’t acts like Arno’s pod father) is working with Mephisto against Tony. I do love this run commitment to show Howard as the terrible father he is, I’m afraid comics have been taken to many cues of (a misrepresentation of) the MCU.

-Jessica Jones – Blind Spot #4: Jessica found not-so-dead Dia, who has super powers: anything she wishes becomes true. And when her boyfriend Jared resented that, without meaning to she passed her powers alone and now he’s killing women. MJ was his latest victim. But then it turns out there’s two Jareds, one killing and one resurrecting him, like with Jessica. And now bad Jared has Jessica and good Jared kidnapped. Eh. There’s only two issues left so I’ll finish it, but I’m not that interest in this run anymore.

-Star #1-2: this is a miniseries about Ripley Ryan, a former journalist turned Captain Marvel’s villain; maybe hero after this one? Anyway, apparently the reality stone has bonded with her and put a target on her back (especially because she’s not that good at using it). She tries to make Jessica Jones help her via mind-control, which obviously doesn’t fly well with her. Wanda appears to help her and they spend the second issue fighting monsters in a cave for mysterious reasons. Meanwhile, the Black Order is looking for Ripley. It’s an interesting run so I’m gonna follow it. I hope Carol appears in it at some point, because Ripley is clearly Obsessed with her (she's literally copying her looks) and that’s always entertaining to watch.

-Tarot #1-3: I don’t even know how to properly describe this comic. It’s an old school Avengers/Defenders miniseries (I’m pretty sure Tony’s identity is supposed to be still a secret here). There’s mind control, temporal and extra dimensional weirdness abound, they all merge together at some point… I think there’s only one issue left and I don’t know how it’s going to end. It’d be worth reading for the art alone, which is GORGEOUS, the best I’ve seen in a long time. But I’m having fun trying to make sense of it all too.