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Re: RaceFail, I've been following this with an increasing level of wondering appalled how much worse it could get, and of course, it seems people find a way to fail harder every morning one checks the 'net. ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ryda_wrong's journal has the best collection of links on the subject; this morning, however, I saw that lizbee has come up with a practical way to do something in one's every day life, which was cheering.
Meanwhile, on a certain island:
( Lost 5.08 Le Fleur )
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My fanfic rec of the day is set in the Iron Man movieverse and manages to accomplish several things I treasure:
1) Use of comicverse tropes and characters in a way that makes sense as a future of the movieverse. In this case, Tony's descent into complete alcoholism (I don't think the movies will do a complete Demon in the Bottle storyline, but there is enough set-up in the first film to indicate they'll do at least part of it), and his relationship with Steve Rogers/Captain America. (Who has his own movie scheduled, so we don't know yet exactly what he'll be like in the movieverse, which in turn means using comicverse characterisation is a sensible option.)
2) a slash story that avoids an "all you need is love" conclusion; Tony Stark, in either 'verse, is screwed up emotionally for many reasons, and being in love isn't going to fix that
3) bad sex. Err, let me explain. What I mean is this: all too often, whether it's het or slash, a first time story presents said first time as The Best Sex They Ever Had, utterly mind-blowing, etc. Which is why when I finally came across a Blake's 7 story - with Blake/Avon as the pairing in question - where said first time sex wasn't actually that great because Avon, being Avon, had lied when Blake had asked him whether he had had sex with a man before, plus they were on a cold planet, and it was really uncomfortable - I was stunned about how refreshing that felt, and how it made me believe in the characters even more. Stories like this are still rare, though. Well, here's another, where the sex, when it finally happens, is what you can expect when one party is drunk and the other a man wo's not that experienced. I loved it.
In conclusion: go, read:
What a piece of work is man?
ryda_wrong's journal has the best collection of links on the subject; this morning, however, I saw that lizbee has come up with a practical way to do something in one's every day life, which was cheering. Meanwhile, on a certain island:
( Lost 5.08 Le Fleur )
***
My fanfic rec of the day is set in the Iron Man movieverse and manages to accomplish several things I treasure:
1) Use of comicverse tropes and characters in a way that makes sense as a future of the movieverse. In this case, Tony's descent into complete alcoholism (I don't think the movies will do a complete Demon in the Bottle storyline, but there is enough set-up in the first film to indicate they'll do at least part of it), and his relationship with Steve Rogers/Captain America. (Who has his own movie scheduled, so we don't know yet exactly what he'll be like in the movieverse, which in turn means using comicverse characterisation is a sensible option.)
2) a slash story that avoids an "all you need is love" conclusion; Tony Stark, in either 'verse, is screwed up emotionally for many reasons, and being in love isn't going to fix that
3) bad sex. Err, let me explain. What I mean is this: all too often, whether it's het or slash, a first time story presents said first time as The Best Sex They Ever Had, utterly mind-blowing, etc. Which is why when I finally came across a Blake's 7 story - with Blake/Avon as the pairing in question - where said first time sex wasn't actually that great because Avon, being Avon, had lied when Blake had asked him whether he had had sex with a man before, plus they were on a cold planet, and it was really uncomfortable - I was stunned about how refreshing that felt, and how it made me believe in the characters even more. Stories like this are still rare, though. Well, here's another, where the sex, when it finally happens, is what you can expect when one party is drunk and the other a man wo's not that experienced. I loved it.
In conclusion: go, read:
What a piece of work is man?
