I feel like doing some memes! Because classes are done (mostly; one more lecture tomorrow that I don't have to pay attention to totally doesn't count), and I don't feel like starting final papers tonight
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1.) Over the course of the several years he's spent in his metal body, Al has found ways to cope with the long nights he spends awake while everyone else is sleeping. His favorite way to pass the time is with books, and he's always happier when he and Ed are staying with people instead of in a hotel room or hospital, where books are harder to come by. He'll read whatever he can get his hands on, so in addition to fiction and, of course, books about alchemy, he's also read and become really educated through books on subjects ranging from history to gardening to knitting. Every book he reads leads him to add more items to the list he has in his head of the things he'd like to do when he has his body again. He also finds he learns a lot about the people who own the books from the books they read, and it complements his inborn skill at understanding people
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I like thinking about Al as an adult. My headcanon is kind of going 'splodey. The first phrase that comes to mind is, "an absolute darling," and the second is, "really fucking formidable."
1.) Mitchell Hundred, a comics fan for decades, knows that the endless nature of superhero comics doesn't mean that there's always another chance for a happy ending. In fact, more often than not, he knows it means the opposite -- that any seemingly-happy ending will ultimately lead to more tragedy to fuel the next story. But in the depths of his despair, after everything that happens, he prefers to think that the fiction he loves is overly optimistic and that game-ending tragedy rules all. To think otherwise would be to admit that his own life could have been happier if he'd made better decisions.
2.) Hundred isn't asexual, but his sex drive is pretty low and it's always seemed easier to not date anyone than to deal with the headache of being openly gay (to anyone). It seems like a great plan until he finds himself falling in love with Bradbury, who he assumes is straight, and by the time he realizes they could have had something it's too late. The country is more important than his sex life or human relationships3.) Sometimes,
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1.) Gamma rays are supposed to emphasize what's repressed in you. Jen always thought it was simple: Bruce repressed anger, so he became angry. She repressed confidence and sexual openness, so she became loud, proud, and unabashedly sexual. But she also becomes ANGRY as She-Hulk, and it took her a long time to realize that was relevant, too. She never thought of herself as a particularly angry person -- it just wasn't an emotion she understood. But she's read enough about psychology to realize that social forces make women repress anger as unladylike and inappropriate. She always liked to think of herself as beyond subconscious socialization, but she's since realized that no one really is, and the anger is as much a part of her as the confidence and the sexiness
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Joanne first, kiss laterharmonyangelMay 6 2011, 03:41:03 UTC
1.) Joanne came out to her parents when she was 15. They were liberal, educated people who didn't want to admit how uncomfortable it made them, so they told her with a tone of intellectual distance that they were fine with it as long as she went to Harvard and didn't do crazy, uncouth things like refusing to shave her legs or wear a bra. Joanne fully intended to go to Harvard, but she resented their other demands and defied them as much as a proper diplomat's daughter could. Years later, she'd understand their real fears: they were of a generation where African-Americans, and African-American women in particular, couldn't possibly rise to such dizzying career heights as the judicial bench if they didn't play by the rules of rich, white, heterosexual society. Seeing Joanne defy those very rules made them nervous for her future -- and resentful when she made it work
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Joanne and MaureenharmonyangelMay 22 2011, 07:00:18 UTC
Joanne sat in the coffee shop with her cup clutched in both hands. Maureen was already ten minutes late. Joanne tried not to be surprised. In the few weeks she'd known her, Maureen had never been on time for anything. But it didn't make her any less anxious.
She wished she had a cigarette. That would give her something to do with her hands. But she'd quit six months earlier, and she wasn't about to give up that accomplishment over a flighty straight girl.
"I want to go out with you," Maureen had said, when Joanne had successfully bargained down the judge on her public indecency fine. "You're not my lawyer anymore, right? That's allowed."
"Don't you have a boyfriend?" Joanne had pointed out.
"Oh, him. Whatever. You're way hotter than he is. Why do you think I wrote down your number from that flier? Great picture, by the way
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Re: Ed first, kiss laterlikeadeuceMay 6 2011, 19:51:41 UTC
Re: 3 -- I'm now imagining that Roy takes Ed out for a drink soon before Ed & Winry's wedding (they TOTALLY get hitched before Roy & Riza do) and Roy is all, "Watch out about having KIDS because you and I both know what shitty parents ALCHEMISTS are," and it's sort of a joke but also serious and Ed listens to him for a while and then is like, "Yeah she's pregnant, dumbass, but your timing is as good as it ever was." But Ed & Win have worked through stuff by that point. Roy, well. . .
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2. Middleman & Lacey
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And that COMPLETELY makes sense that the lack of need for sleep would complement his natural introspectiveness/studiousness.
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I like thinking about Al as an adult. My headcanon is kind of going 'splodey. The first phrase that comes to mind is, "an absolute darling," and the second is, "really fucking formidable."
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2.) Hundred isn't asexual, but his sex drive is pretty low and it's always seemed easier to not date anyone than to deal with the headache of being openly gay (to anyone). It seems like a great plan until he finds himself falling in love with Bradbury, who he assumes is straight, and by the time he realizes they could have had something it's too late. The country is more important than his sex life or human relationships3.) Sometimes, ( ... )
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2. Steve Rogers & Sam Wilson
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or alternatively Joanne & Maureen's first kiss
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She wished she had a cigarette. That would give her something to do with her hands. But she'd quit six months earlier, and she wasn't about to give up that accomplishment over a flighty straight girl.
"I want to go out with you," Maureen had said, when Joanne had successfully bargained down the judge on her public indecency fine. "You're not my lawyer anymore, right? That's allowed."
"Don't you have a boyfriend?" Joanne had pointed out.
"Oh, him. Whatever. You're way hotter than he is. Why do you think I wrote down your number from that flier? Great picture, by the way ( ... )
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Joanne/Maureen FTW!
I particularly liked the line about "The incredibly sexy, confident, persuasive gallows." So hilarious!
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"Parents" being an abstract concept for Roy probably doesn't help, either. How do he and Riza eventually decide to have a kid?
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