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Guys, I have a problem.
It's called The Avengers.
I've fallen and I can't get up.
[note: mild spoilers]
And honestly, I'm just legitimately baffled. The last summer movie I saw and fell in love with was Inception, but fandom never catered to my pairing whim and I never got any fic posted (well, that one kink meme fill, that I still plan on expanding... one day...), and while my love for it has been rekindled (it's almost embarrassing how much I love Arthur/Cobb), the movie and fandom were never the apple of my eye.
Before that, I was pretty into Merlin, though that fizzled out, and afterwards, I went through a dry spell before really getting into Doctor Who and then Supernatural. While I got some nerdy things for them (two Doctor Who t-shirts and Eleven's sonic screwdriver, and a Supernatural t-shirt), they both had sixth seasons I despised and fell out of love with them a little bit.
Avengers... Avengers is honestly destroying my soul a bit, in a good way?
I mean... fuck. I don't know how to describe it. I'm a bit in love! Which is really unexpected, since my BFF was the one who was all "HEY SO AVENGERS IS GOING TO BE THE GREATEST" and I was like "eh, sure, I've seen and enjoyed Iron Man and Thor, I'll probably enjoy it" and then I watched it and before the credits were over and I called my BFF and was like "SO HEY AVENGERS WAS THE GREATEST" and then I cracked up because I was not expecting the shawarma scene and then we fangirl/fanboyed at each other and it was basically amazing.
And then I expected my love to slowly fizzle out, but it's been steadily growing.
And the strangest thing? I don't have an OTP*. I usually have an OTP, and it's usually a slash OTP, and the fact I'm lacking one baffles me. I went in expecting to come out shipping Steve/Tony, but they just didn't have enough time together for me to be like "yes they are in love" but I am okay with that. I appreciate a slow-burn Steve/Tony, I like Clint+Natasha as the greatest bros in the world, Tony+Bruce are ~science bros~, I shipped Thor/Loki initially but that interested has faded, but I am okay with that! BECAUSE THE TEAM GEN DYNAMICS ARE THE GREATEST. I cannot think of one combination of them that does not make me glee.
It's basically the entire point of my (first) big bang, actually. Inspired by the shawarma post-credit scene, it's just various Avengers going out to various eating establishments. There's an overreaching plot, and it's about them slowly coming together and being a team, but mostly it's just my love for gen team dynamics and food coming together. I don't know that it's going to get a lot of traffic, but as long as the people who read it enjoy it, I'll be happy. Hell, I'm happy enough writing it -- I'm 11.5k in, which is past the minimum word count, my beta is awesome, and I'm mostly sure I'm actually going to end up finishing this. \o/!
[*Okay, full disclosure -- I do have ships. That I ship a lot. Almost to the OTP level. But they are Clint Barton/Ethan Hunt [I shipped William/Ethan a lot in MI4, and have a few fic planned for them, but Clint/Ethan is just... my favorite, why does no one write it?], Tony Stark/Bruce Wayne [it started out as genius billionaire playboy philanthropists in love! but then I started thinking about it more, and it just really works for me], and Natasha/Other/Clint [I went on a ridiculous tangent about how Clint+Natasha just work together too well for them to fit together sexually, but then they came up with a system where Clint would point out somebody he was interested in, Natasha would seduce them, and then a threesome would ensue. So far, conquests include Steve, Tony, Derek Morgan, Martha Jones, possibly Robert Fischer...]
Speaking of, my second big bang! I love the premise (Budapest-centric, where the Budapest incident Natasha remembers is when Martha came through in the Year That Never Was, and then plot and Natasha-Clint-Martha gloriousness happens), and for a while I was struggling with it, but then a plot point made itself known [and by plot point, I mean I realized that I should have Natasha buy a Minsk], and I'm getting some writing done. I'm about 50/50 on finishing it -- I've got a lot of research to do on Budapest, since I've never been there and I don't want to do it wrong, and I also need to rewatch s3 of Who, because my default Martha is her being a complete boss at everything, but at this point she's more coming into her badassery. But I'm going to keep working at it; if I finish it, awesome, if I don't, I'm not going to beat myself up.
I seriously cannot remember the last time I felt so enthused about a fandom.
I've fallen in love.
And I can't get up.
ETA: Sorry for the LJ-borkage!
It's called The Avengers.
I've fallen and I can't get up.
[note: mild spoilers]
And honestly, I'm just legitimately baffled. The last summer movie I saw and fell in love with was Inception, but fandom never catered to my pairing whim and I never got any fic posted (well, that one kink meme fill, that I still plan on expanding... one day...), and while my love for it has been rekindled (it's almost embarrassing how much I love Arthur/Cobb), the movie and fandom were never the apple of my eye.
Before that, I was pretty into Merlin, though that fizzled out, and afterwards, I went through a dry spell before really getting into Doctor Who and then Supernatural. While I got some nerdy things for them (two Doctor Who t-shirts and Eleven's sonic screwdriver, and a Supernatural t-shirt), they both had sixth seasons I despised and fell out of love with them a little bit.
Avengers... Avengers is honestly destroying my soul a bit, in a good way?
I mean... fuck. I don't know how to describe it. I'm a bit in love! Which is really unexpected, since my BFF was the one who was all "HEY SO AVENGERS IS GOING TO BE THE GREATEST" and I was like "eh, sure, I've seen and enjoyed Iron Man and Thor, I'll probably enjoy it" and then I watched it and before the credits were over and I called my BFF and was like "SO HEY AVENGERS WAS THE GREATEST" and then I cracked up because I was not expecting the shawarma scene and then we fangirl/fanboyed at each other and it was basically amazing.
And then I expected my love to slowly fizzle out, but it's been steadily growing.
And the strangest thing? I don't have an OTP*. I usually have an OTP, and it's usually a slash OTP, and the fact I'm lacking one baffles me. I went in expecting to come out shipping Steve/Tony, but they just didn't have enough time together for me to be like "yes they are in love" but I am okay with that. I appreciate a slow-burn Steve/Tony, I like Clint+Natasha as the greatest bros in the world, Tony+Bruce are ~science bros~, I shipped Thor/Loki initially but that interested has faded, but I am okay with that! BECAUSE THE TEAM GEN DYNAMICS ARE THE GREATEST. I cannot think of one combination of them that does not make me glee.
It's basically the entire point of my (first) big bang, actually. Inspired by the shawarma post-credit scene, it's just various Avengers going out to various eating establishments. There's an overreaching plot, and it's about them slowly coming together and being a team, but mostly it's just my love for gen team dynamics and food coming together. I don't know that it's going to get a lot of traffic, but as long as the people who read it enjoy it, I'll be happy. Hell, I'm happy enough writing it -- I'm 11.5k in, which is past the minimum word count, my beta is awesome, and I'm mostly sure I'm actually going to end up finishing this. \o/!
[*Okay, full disclosure -- I do have ships. That I ship a lot. Almost to the OTP level. But they are Clint Barton/Ethan Hunt [I shipped William/Ethan a lot in MI4, and have a few fic planned for them, but Clint/Ethan is just... my favorite, why does no one write it?], Tony Stark/Bruce Wayne [it started out as genius billionaire playboy philanthropists in love! but then I started thinking about it more, and it just really works for me], and Natasha/Other/Clint [I went on a ridiculous tangent about how Clint+Natasha just work together too well for them to fit together sexually, but then they came up with a system where Clint would point out somebody he was interested in, Natasha would seduce them, and then a threesome would ensue. So far, conquests include Steve, Tony, Derek Morgan, Martha Jones, possibly Robert Fischer...]
Speaking of, my second big bang! I love the premise (Budapest-centric, where the Budapest incident Natasha remembers is when Martha came through in the Year That Never Was, and then plot and Natasha-Clint-Martha gloriousness happens), and for a while I was struggling with it, but then a plot point made itself known [and by plot point, I mean I realized that I should have Natasha buy a Minsk], and I'm getting some writing done. I'm about 50/50 on finishing it -- I've got a lot of research to do on Budapest, since I've never been there and I don't want to do it wrong, and I also need to rewatch s3 of Who, because my default Martha is her being a complete boss at everything, but at this point she's more coming into her badassery. But I'm going to keep working at it; if I finish it, awesome, if I don't, I'm not going to beat myself up.
I seriously cannot remember the last time I felt so enthused about a fandom.
I've fallen in love.
And I can't get up.
ETA: Sorry for the LJ-borkage!