Terms (Citizen Kane, Fanfiction)

Title:  Terms

Disclaimer: Characters and situations owned by whoever holds the rights to Citizen Kane now.

Rating:  PG 13

Summary:  Charlie wants to make a point. So does Jed.

Timeline: during the period of getting kicked out of boarding schools together.

Author's note: for likeadeuce, who in return for guessing my Remix main fic wanted a Leland/Kane drabble. This is a bit too long for a drabble but not long enough for a story, so I'll call it a vignette.


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The Avengers (Film Review)

The short, unspoilery version? Woo, and also, hoo! Seriously, I loved the film. Which among other things demonstrated you can do justice to a huge ensemble, provide character scenes for all of them, progress their relationships, and deliver the genre-required amount of fighting scenes. (Mind you, it's the Marvelverse, so in-team-fighting is part of everyone's characterisation, but still. *g*) And when I say huge I mean huge: in addition to the titular superhero line up plus Loki as the main villain, we also have Nick Fury, Phil Coulson, Maria Hill, Pepper Potts and Erik Solveig, all of whom get to their share of on screen character scenes. In fact, given that Natasha and Clint are both SHIELD agents, I'd say this is as much a team SHIELD as a team Avengers film, and in a very good way, too. All that, and Joss throws in a character scene just for me, which takes palce in Stuttgart, and features an old man delivering the single best put-down to Loki or any megalomaniac ever. What makes the scene is that this isn't a superhero, or agent; he's a civilian, and in a genre that's prone to present the humanity Our Heroes are supposed to see saving as a screaming (or grateful) mass, it's a beautiful humane moment of making each of us individuals.

( This is where the review gets spoilery )