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Jan 01, 2014 13:05

Reveals are up! I wrote four fics this year:
Running to Arrive

Iron Man: Armored Adventures (gen)


Agent Hill looked her up and down, lips pursed, one eyebrow raised.

“Come with me,” she started, and breathlessly Pepper cut in with, “If you want to live?”

The corner of Agent Hill’s eye did this little twitchy thing, which looked incredibly smooth and ( Read more... )

myfic, yuletide

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ladymercury_10 January 1 2014, 19:13:02 UTC
I really liked your stories, esp. the Avengers Assemble one.

It's probably an understatement to say I have issues with the tone of the new run
Can I ask about your Young Avengers feelings? I've mostly read the older comics, so I would be interested to hear your vol.1 vs. vol.2 thoughts.

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traincat January 1 2014, 22:25:37 UTC
Thank you! I loved your Hawkeye fic, and I have the FF one open somewhere in the tab jungle that is my Yuletide experience! I'm looking forward to reading it.

I dither a lot on my Young Avengers feelings, especially since the first volume was my first proper superhero comic and I have a lot of feelings about it. My opinions are probably at least partly nostalgia-colored. (Volume 1 has its own problems, of course.) For me, at least, there's a sort of sincerity and earnestness to volume 1 that I found very appealing, and the found family aspect of the whole comic was basically like candy to me. Whereas with volume 2 is very -- brusque and stylized and imo occasionally reads a little like it's trying to hard to be exactly what all these crazy tumblr kids wants. (NO MORE GAME OF THRONES REFERENCES. PLEASE.) I did like parts of it, especially issue 6 with Tommy and David, and I really like America Chavez. The comic itself just grates on me the wrong way. It's like mood whiplash. I've recently read some posts by fans who started with ( ... )

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ladymercury_10 January 1 2014, 22:32:40 UTC
Aww thanks!

That makes sense. From what little I've read of vol. 2 it does seem very fast-paced and a little bit like it's winking at itself the whole time, which is very different tonally from the older comics.

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traincat January 1 2014, 22:12:12 UTC
Thank you!! I hope you enjoys the others, too. :3

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