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Things I love about each of my fandoms, by list of movies/books because it makes it easier.

Star Wars
Phantom Menace- the goshdarn visuals. Even Jar Jar's kind of pretty.
...Not like that.
Attack of the Clones- Padme's outfits. I need them.
Revenge of the Sith- the fact that I cry at the end. The lightsaber battles. Anakin's eyes when he turns evil.
A New Hope- Luke as a farmkid. The Death Star run. Leia and Han snarking at each other. The twelve million AUs every second of it spawns in my head.
Empire Strikes Back- Everything. Han and Leia falling in love. "I know." Luke flailing around during the lightsaber battle, and Vader testing him. Yoda. Artoo suffering through Dagobah.
Return of the Jedi- the giant space battle. Threepio as a god (shut up, I like the Ewoks). Vader and Luke spending some quality father-son bonding time. Han and Leia kissing, every time.
The EU- Tag and Bink. More powerful than you can possibly imagine.

Avatar: the Last Airbender
Book One- Iroh, from episode one. The crazy little plotty towns. The crazy little plotless towns. The Northern Water Tribe.
Book Two- Zuko. Zuko, Zuko, Zuko, Zuko. Toph. Foggy swamp. The ancient Asian hippies. The way the plot grabbed me and did not let me go.
Book Three- Omnomnom, shirtless scenes. The goshdarn finale. Katara's fire nation outfit (so pretty!) and the hair.

DC Comics
Batfamily- The way Nightwing is the sane one. Bruce and Selina chasing each other around. Cassandra freaking Cain.
JLI & co- Booster and Ted's bromance/romance. Ice and why she puts up with Guy. Guy in general. Barda in general. (also Scott Free). The laughs. The painful laughs.
Blue Beetle- The Reyes family. Guy posthumously respecting Ted. A forehead full of justice! Theological implications!
Other- Lois and Clark in love. The Green Lantern Corps. RUFFLES THE RAGE KITTY.

Marvel Comics
Young Avengers- The giant messed up family reunion in progress. Teddy and Billy being adorkable. Kate and Eli snarking.
X- people- X-Factor's giant old soap opera. Ric and 'Star. Magneto being all morally ambiguous, and him and Xavier continuing to really have no idea how normal people define "friendship." Mohawk!Storm.
Other- Captain America, who understands why I love my country.

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I feel better now.

Current Mood: bouncy

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4. My attempt at one of those cliched Zuko and Katara arranged marriage fics- but featuring no Zutara!
5. The semi sort of sequel to Wrong Number.
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Current Mood: cheerful
Current Location: Charlotte, NC
Current Music: Piano Concerto in D Major, Haydn

(PleaseforgivemefortakingaBiblequoteinvain)

Anyway.

Failiness of world, in a few notes.

1. The Last Airbender was cast in a racist manner. Yes it was. Katara is not /whiter than I am/. That is kind of fail on a special level. I'm sorry if you do not want to face this being a problem. It kind of is. That's kind of common sense.

2. Unrelated: The fact that I am religious and Southern doesn't make me an ignorant bigot.

3. Other religious, Southern people: please to stop perpretrating this stereotype.

4. People in fourth block: insulting my best friend is not the new, highest form of entertainment. He was the first person in years to show overt friendship to me without getting something in return. Stuff that up your pieholes.

And good things lately?

1. I got to go to a Bobcats basketball playoff game (we got swept) and sit on the same row as Stephen Curry. During halftime, my father went over to introduce himself. I'd put in a bit here about hating to do that to celebrities, but, honestly, that's kind of how my dad reacts to anyone who went to his college, whether they starred in basketball there or not. Also I got a picture with him, and apologized profusely. (My dad is also obsessed with his new cell phone camera. Hey, I love you Dad.)

2. I've read several excellent books lately, and reread many more.

3. GENERATION LOST IN LIKE TWO WEEKS! YAY! There shall be Booster, and Jaime!Beetle, and Ice, and Fire, and unfortunatelyevil!Max and YAY!

Current Mood: sleepy

I'm really, genuinely angry. I mean, really, genuinely angry. And - I cannot believe I'm saying this in a public post- I'm actually also angry at my dad. Legitimately and morally. I don't think that's something I'm supposed to admit, particuarly about something I doubt he remembers saying.

But, screw it. I'm mad.

Still mad. The operative dang word is still mad.

Everybody on the internet went through the brouhaha over the Avatar- sorry, "Last Airbender," thank you, J Cameron - casting. I was angry then, but it coalesced into a sort of seething rage that's only recently broiled up to the surface.

Race is a touchy subject, and it's a damned touchy subject around here. Polite people polite company just don't bring it up. We really, really don't want to remember that two generations ago my best friend and I couldn't have hung out together in public- not that we'd have ever met. People really want to have a sense of "oh, that's over and done with." About the only place it's mentioned is the opinion portion of the local newspaper, and while that would seem big, the opinion page of the local newspaper is generally devoted to arguing whether said newspaper is a puppet of the conservative warmongering fascits, or of the America-destroying liberal communists. Godwin's Law gets broken like the place is an internet forum.

But I digress.

I'm mad about theAvatar casting. I'm mad that only the villains and possibly one sacrificial love interest are Asian. I'm mad that Sokka and Katara lost about twelve skin tones. I was never naiive enough to think they wouldn't cast Aang white, but EVERYBODY just makes me want to splat things even after all this time. And you know what else still bites me, after months? The assumption made by the man who taught me that all people are created equal that white audiences are going to relate more to white characters. "Who's going to be watching and paying for the thing?" indeed. The Asian style didn't stop me from falling in love with the show. It didn't stop anyone from falling in love with the show.

And then there's that argument I keep seeing, "Would you complain if they cast Harry Potter (or some random chara, doesn't matter) black?" Guess what? They didn't.

That's not damn relevant, because they didn't.

And I- you know what, LJ? I feel personally insulted that someone thinks I need people of my own skin tone to relate to. Frak that. Society wants to move on, you know. And I give this message both to the the Move I Won't Be Seeing, and, unrelatedly enough, to the man in charge of the Company Whose Comics I Don't Buy: When you let people move on, they will. And when you don't, they won't.

Nothing about this fiasco, or about the promo pics, or about the reviews or the fandom has convinced ME to move on.

I'll tell you that, right now.

Current Mood: infuriated

Dad says Luke's doing better!

Also:

( Fun With Memes! )
Edited for HTML fail.

Current Mood: pensive
Current Location: Charlotte, NC

Name your 10 absolutely favorite couples (het/slash/canon/fanon) and ask people to see what trends they notice about your couples. Try to pick different fandoms:

Okay.

Han/Leia, Star Wars. My OTP beyond all other OTPs, and the only thing I will admit to shipping around casual aquaintances.

Toph/Sokka, Avatar. This starts the chain of Ships I Got Into Because of Other People. In this case, I never considered the ship until I started lurking around Avatar message boards, and after that it grabbed me. Toph is tough and cool and Sokka is oblivious, and it is just close enough to canon that I retain my dignity.

Batman/Catwoman, DC Comics. Because the fanfic for it is beautiful beyond all reason. Not so much the stuff in the comics, but I can live with that.

Elizabeth I/Robert Dudley, real life. Looking back, I think this might be the first thing I ever shipped, because I was a seven year old who felt everything needed True Love. And, now, because it's incredibly layered and interesting and tragic and a great reflection of just what life and love were like in the 1500s (namely, they sort of sucked.).

Booster Gold/(Ted Kord)Blue Beetle, DC Comics. The only slash pairing on the list. But, dang it, there's maybe three gen fics about them for every fifty slash, and they're absolutely adorable together in any format.

And now we get to the Pairings I Like But Aren't Binding, because there have to be ten...

Zuko/Mai, Avatar. Theirloveissoscowly!

Firestar/Sandstorm, Warrior Cats. I think this relationship singlehandedly kept Firestar's Gary Stu tendencies from swallowing the story whole.

Trixie/Jim, the Trixie Belden books. Another early ship. It's like Nancy Drew and Ned Nickerson, but with personality!

Bambi/Feline or however you spell it, Disney. Because that movie dominated my childhood.

Anakin/Padme, Star Wars. That or Anakin/Padme/Angst. I'm flexible.

Anne/Gilbert, Anne of Green Gables. I can reread the approximately three paragraphs where they don't hate each other over and over again.

Current Mood: chipper

Today's topic shall be: The Top Ten Reasons Why ~~I Really Hate Alliteration~~ You Must Watch Avatar.

1. I am going to get this one out of the way. Zuko. Zuko starts his legacy of shirtless!episodes in the third episode, and this all leads up to the truly beautiful episode in the third season where he is at the beach and thus constantly clothed only in shorts and a vest. Also he is a deeply, deeply interesting character with fascinating motivations and incredible character growth. And in season two he pours water on his chest while shirtless. I was seriously not aware I could be actracted to animated guys before these things started happening.
2. And on to the logical reasons. The settings. You've basically got the Water Tribe, the Earth Kindom, the Fire Nation, and the abandoned temples of the Air Nomads, and all of these have detailed and consistent fashion styles, architecture styles, and really, really beautiful backgrounds.
3. Which brings me to point three: the animation. The animation is awesome. Full stop. It's a bit shaky sometimes first season, but only compared to the stuff that follows.
4. This, in turn, brings me to the fight scenes. These are incredible. You've got people controlling the elements, mixed with cool weaponry, mixed with people doing both- it is awesome.
5. Reason five: Actual Character Development. Yes. Really. In an American cartoon.
6. Toph. She does not appear until Season Two, however, so until then you must content yourself with
7. Iroh. Which should not be difficult. Cool Old Guy to the extreme.
8. The MUSIC. There are actual leitmotifs in this show. It's like a movie score, and it, like the animation and the fight scenes, starts off strong in Season One and then blossoms into Utter Awesome.
~~9. The Mary Sues in the fandom are fun and easily mockable.~~
What, that wasn't a good reason? Fine.
9. If you do not like Zuko, there is always Sokka.
10. The Epic!ness and twistiness of the plot. Yes, twistiness. Not only do the good guys not always win, the show's good enough that even when they do, you aren't always expecting it. Also people die. Like, actual teenage characters die. I still cannot believe this actually got shown on Nickelodeon, which is, like, the Channel of the Stupid.

Anyway. Good show. Fun show. Must watch.

Current Mood: energetic
Current Location: Charlotte, NC

A very long time ago, I joined a fandom. It was called Avatar, and it was good.
I began to wite fanfic. It contained Mary Sues, and it was not as good.
I did not share it.

Over a year ago now, I joined another fandom. It was called Star Wars, and it, too, was good.
I began to read fanfiction. Most of it was good.

Some of it was great. Really great. Some of it was time travel- and lo, did come the plot bunnies.

And I began to write. And it became a hundred pages long, and it took over my mind and my life, and I wondered whether or not to do it again.

And lo, did the plot bunnies stampede, until the ground was darkened as in Night of the Lepus.

And in both of these fandoms, I had a 'ship, and they were good, though I could not write them.

And then...

Alright, pretentious prose aside, I've mentioned earlier that I am beginning to be drawn into DC Comics fandom. Like most of my fandoms, this was not my idea. It just sort of happened.

And, well... And lo, did come the plot bunnies.

And the ships. Good heavens, and lo, did come the ships. It started with BatCat, which I could deal with only by completely ignoring everything besides fanfictions because you do not get attached to relationships in comics. This was quite easy, as comics cost quite a bit anyway and the store is located across the Intersection of Doom.

Now, one thing I try to do to preserve my sanity is ship canon. It started with Han/Leia, a very safe ship in which all the loose ends were cleared up ten years or so before my birth and which has the added benefit of very few people disliking it. These people are clearly insane and are very easy to ignore.

Then came Tokka. This is Toph/Sokka, for those not familiar with Avatar (Aunt Mary, stop reading this, or you will get spoilers and you do not want those, do you?)

Is Aunt Mary gone?

Alright, then, Toph has a fairly blatant crush on Sokka, but Sokka is fairly clearly involved with, well, most other females in the show it seems like. He finally ends up with one, and it is not Toph. But I could easily convince myself that I just liked the canon crush, and so spare myself from useless heartache.

BatCat is kept strictly to fanfiction in order to save on money and sanity.

Now, the thing about these ships is they all either are canon, were canon, are partially canon, or are canon about 50% of the time depending on the writer.

But now I have stepped into dangerous waters.

I have become attached to a noncanon pairing. I have become attached to a noncanon pairing that is slash and will never, ever, happen.

Why do I keep doing this to myself?

Current Location: my room, being ill

Good news: Beach! Yay! It's gorgeous down here, if a bit too cold to swim.

Bad news: I, yet again, have suffered The Return Of The Mysterious Coughing/Headache/Sore Throat. This is the third time now that it has come back. I am not amused.

Pre-illness, the drive down on Thursday was nice. We listened to country music most of the way, and I was forced to admit that over the top patriotic songs about how "This Is America" and such are now a guilty pleasure of mine. Not as much as "I Wanna Check You For Ticks," however. That song (whatever it's actually called) is a class all by itself. It revolves around a country boy using that sentiment as a pick up line in a bar. Deeply romantic.

My aunt (the Zutara shipper) and I should be able to resume watching Avatar soon. I'm looking forward to showing her the second season. It remains one of the best things I've ever watched on TV, and has a lovely Shirtless Zuko Quotient.

Which brings me to another rambling point- why do I fangirl? And, more specifically, why do I seem to fangirl only animated/drawn characters? I mean, it started with me insisting that I just liked Zuko for his character, but Season Three and the Beach Episode of Doom put a bit of an end to that. Now one of my major online hobbies is watching other people fangirl Nightwing. I am growing concerned.

Anyway, world, Happy Almost-Easter!

Current Mood: drained
Current Location: holden beach, nc
Current Music: "American Pie" is stuck in my head

I yelled at my little brother. I know I shouldn't. He's really an awesome little guy, and we always get along, and I was being very immature.

But I yelled at my little brother and I don't completely feel that I was in the wrong and I'm still angry- so I shall do something formulaic to calm myself down. In this instance, that fun thing where you take a sentence from each of your WIPS. So here are sentences from all of my fanfic WIPS (minus Searching, which is spread out over too many flash drives for me to hunt down right now).

It was methodical. I am calmer. Next, I shall make internet dolls.

WIP bits

But Dick was the well adjusted optimist of the Bat Family.
Let’s just get this out of the way with a simple statement: I am not a very tactful person.
So true Bad Things- they couldn’t really exist.
Darth Vader recognized little of what was going on until he landed painfully.
The Rebellion had found her mangled body in a in a bacta tank, just another piece of waste from a destroyed station.
Like most of his sentences, it concerned money.
You didn’t walk around in this village with the name of the Fire Nation’s little force of destruction.
Last night she’d dreamed almost exclusively of scalloped shadows and broken ropes, and while it beat slightly the recurring dream of Beast Boy with Cyborg’s head singing show tunes, it was not a pleasant dream.
“We shall test this device on Calrissian.”
“You spice-addled fool, he’s still on the Death Star.”
“It’s a long story. Listen, I’m trapped in the middle of a swamp, so could you please-”

Hm. All of them from the end of the alphabet were dialogue. Some of them desperately need editing. Some of them are from fics that will never, never, never see the light of day. And a couple of my favorites are trapped behind severe writer's block.

But I am calming down.

Current Mood: gloomy
Current Location: charlotte, nc

This seriously concerns me.

I spent at least a year- a year!- watching Avatar- Avatar!- without giving much more of a thought to who'd get together than "oh, yeah, Aang likes Katara, I guess." Even once I'd heard of shipping- nadda. I didn't care. Just liked to watch the fandom. (I sort of ship Tokka now. But that came later.)

And, in my young, foolish days, back when I read Twilight in all seriousness, Bella and Edward made me squee. ~~In all honesty, they still do. I CANNOT HELP IT. I HAVE TRIED. DO NOT JUDGE ME.~~

I finally acknoledged that maybe, maybe, I might ship just the tiniest bit when I started scouring the internet for Han/Leia. But that's not shipping-shipping! It was resolved ten years before I was born! That's just liking the dynamic between a canon pair!

Still, I admitted that they were my OTP. My only OTP. That was as far as shipping went with me.

It took me months further to realize that I now watched and read things with one eye who "who got together" instead of on the action. That occasionally, I even was disapointed when the main character chose someone else.

I try to get into comics, and what am I reading? No, not action stuff. Batman/Catwoman fluff. Because that's my favorite type of fanfiction. PG to PG-13 fluff.

Lord help me, now I'm trying to write it.

I can't write romance. I cut my teeth on Twilight- I cannot write normal romance. I spent a several month period killing off almost every love interest any of my non fanfic characters had. Seriously. One survived intact, and he barely did. Now I've got to de-Wangst them!

And I'm a shipper.

For the last five months or so, I've been introducing Avatar to my Aunt Mary. She's really liking it, much more than she expected.

And within four episodes she was a Zutara shipper.

I really do not understand how this works.

Current Mood: confused
Current Location: charlotte, nc
Current Music: The theme from "Werewolf" is stuck in my head.

For a while, now, I've been trying to figure out what makes a fandom stick with me. Avatar stuck, and so did Star Wars, and then last spring I began conciously looking for a third fandom. And I ran into problems. I'd enjoy something (Star Trek, MST3K), and it would stick with me, but it wouldn't inspire "squee-I-must-watch-other-people-debate-this-ad-nauseum-and-write-fanfic". And meanwhile Avatar finished up and I never had time for the Clone Wars, and I still found no third fandom.

(Also just as I was really getting into MST3K I got hit by a car walking to the video rental place, which really put a damper on that relationship.)

And then I was surfing TV Tropes, and came across an interesting link, and began reading the scans_daily archives.

A week later LJ shut it down. Maybe four days later, actually.

I barely knew ye! *Sobs*

On the Monday afterwards, we here in Charlotte experienced the wonder of a Southern snow day, in which there is one inch of an icy substance on the ground and everyone breaks down into panic. I am informed that people in other parts of the country find this humorous, but seriously, we know it's ridiculous. And, because I had no quasi-legal stockpile of scans on my computer to turn to anymore, I was bored.

Bored, and with Christmas money burning a hole in my pocket.

Now, I'd been reading some comics fanfic, and I'd liked it, so I sort of knew what I was looking for as I headed across the Intersection of Doom and to the little comics store on the corner. I knew I wanted to read Batman, but that there was nothing going on in Batman that I wanted to read. I knew that the work of pretty much every artist or writer out there Should Not Be Touched With A Ten Foot Pole No You Idiot It's The Greatest Ever.

Anyway, yeah, I bought some comics, and then more, and I read more fanfic, ~~and I moved Nightwing to the spot behind Prince Zuko in my list of Hot Fictional Guys,~~ and I began really enjoying the world of comics.

And Batman stuck. And I had absolutely no clue why. The canon stuff was as variable in quality as the fanfics. Most of the ships squicked me to no end.

I began to consider this confusing turn of events, and finally I came to a conclusion.

I like reading about dysfunctional families. No, I have no idea why. I just do. Heaven knows my family's pretty normal, with me as the only even slightly dysfunctional unit. (Also my cat).

But seriously. I think that's what it is. You've got the Fire Nation royals, the Skywalkers, and the BatFamily or whatever I'm supposed to call it now that I can't extricate myself from it.

Crabcakes, now I've got plot bunnies from three universes, only one of which I currently have any real initiave in writing for, bouncing around my head. I don't need this! I'm still working on Searching! It's in the other window right now!

Sigh.

Current Mood: geeky
Current Location: charlotte, nc
Current Music: Show Me What I'm Looking For, Carolina Liar

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Here We Go Again...
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Entries tagged with atla

A Happy Post For Happy

Five Little AUs

Thou Shalt Not Let The Sun Set On Thine Anger. So Thou Shall Vent.

Racefail, Lou, and Philosophy on the New South

Meme Time!

Meme shamelessly stolen from Sammie.

My First Fandom

Here We Go Again...

Beaches and Ailments (Also Fangirling)

Angst and Meme Thing

Why Must I Ship?

Ramblings on Fandom