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selenakSo where in your various fandoms would you want to spend Christmas, if you could? Let's see:
Farscape: Are you kidding? The Unchartered Territories? No way. I don't care how intriguing the characters are or how much I love them, John can have the UTs all for himself. (This being said,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kixxa wrote an adorable Farscape christmas story, which greatly appeals to the John/Rygel 'shipper in me. Read it here.
Buffy: Offers the Angsty Christmas (TM) of Amends and the fun Christmas flashback (which only in context becomes heartbreaking) from The Body. Now that Body flashback Christmas looks like it would have been great to participate in, but otoh, it's a family affair. I'd feel like a hopeless outsider.
Angel: Not counting Angel himself (see: Amends), we don' t know how the characters handle this. I bet Lorne organizes something, and is good at it, but given Wesley's recent encounter in Lineage and given Angels ongoing depression, I don't think it would be fun to join. Hm. Maybe Christmas in season 1, just with Angel, Cordy and Wesley. But then we'd have the fourth wheel problem. (What, do you think they'd have enjoyed it if David Nabbit or Kate Lochley (pre-Prodigal) had shown up?)
Babylon 5: Their New Years parties tend to look good (if prone to bloody events), so presumably some festivities are due on Christmas as well. However, the risk of me being a bystander shot/knifed/otherwise disposed off is rather large. Besides, I did my bit for a Christmas-time B5 when writing the recent story.
DS9: My best bet. You just know that Christmas, given all the merchandise, is the first human festival Quark learned to exploit. Hence there'd also be a party at his bar. If it's during the show's run, a second quiet gathering chez Sisko might also be going on, with great food, and I guess people like Jadzia switch between both parties (but stay longer at Quark's.) Garak probably thinks it' s all very silly but offers delightful opportunities to tease Julian about mistletoes.
X-Men, Movieverse: I bet Kurt does his best to organize something, but with everybody and their dog depressed and angsty due to Recent Events, what chance does he have? Meanwhile, at the Brotherhood, Erik probably wouldn't even celebrate Chanuka, let alone Christmas.
Speaking of the X-Men, since I felt bad about having read only one of the comics (God loves, Man kills, and fabulous it was), I tried to read some more. The local comic store had one collection about Magneto which was called Dark Seduction or something like this and didn't do anything for me (can his kids be any more Upstanding And Virtuous?), and two about Cyclops, one of which, Odysee, I did enjoy. (Another minority I belong to would be the one finding Scott more interesting than Logan, Hugh Jackman notwithstanding.) Still, the fanfic the movieverse preduced read better than all three of these collections. For a recent example, go and readpenknife's take on Christmas in the X-Man-universe, here.
Lastly, probably everyone has read this already, but just in case anyone hasn't:melymbrosia talks about depression as presented in BTVS, AtS and Farscape, here.
Farscape: Are you kidding? The Unchartered Territories? No way. I don't care how intriguing the characters are or how much I love them, John can have the UTs all for himself. (This being said,
kixxa wrote an adorable Farscape christmas story, which greatly appeals to the John/Rygel 'shipper in me. Read it here. Buffy: Offers the Angsty Christmas (TM) of Amends and the fun Christmas flashback (which only in context becomes heartbreaking) from The Body. Now that Body flashback Christmas looks like it would have been great to participate in, but otoh, it's a family affair. I'd feel like a hopeless outsider.
Angel: Not counting Angel himself (see: Amends), we don' t know how the characters handle this. I bet Lorne organizes something, and is good at it, but given Wesley's recent encounter in Lineage and given Angels ongoing depression, I don't think it would be fun to join. Hm. Maybe Christmas in season 1, just with Angel, Cordy and Wesley. But then we'd have the fourth wheel problem. (What, do you think they'd have enjoyed it if David Nabbit or Kate Lochley (pre-Prodigal) had shown up?)
Babylon 5: Their New Years parties tend to look good (if prone to bloody events), so presumably some festivities are due on Christmas as well. However, the risk of me being a bystander shot/knifed/otherwise disposed off is rather large. Besides, I did my bit for a Christmas-time B5 when writing the recent story.
DS9: My best bet. You just know that Christmas, given all the merchandise, is the first human festival Quark learned to exploit. Hence there'd also be a party at his bar. If it's during the show's run, a second quiet gathering chez Sisko might also be going on, with great food, and I guess people like Jadzia switch between both parties (but stay longer at Quark's.) Garak probably thinks it' s all very silly but offers delightful opportunities to tease Julian about mistletoes.
X-Men, Movieverse: I bet Kurt does his best to organize something, but with everybody and their dog depressed and angsty due to Recent Events, what chance does he have? Meanwhile, at the Brotherhood, Erik probably wouldn't even celebrate Chanuka, let alone Christmas.
Speaking of the X-Men, since I felt bad about having read only one of the comics (God loves, Man kills, and fabulous it was), I tried to read some more. The local comic store had one collection about Magneto which was called Dark Seduction or something like this and didn't do anything for me (can his kids be any more Upstanding And Virtuous?), and two about Cyclops, one of which, Odysee, I did enjoy. (Another minority I belong to would be the one finding Scott more interesting than Logan, Hugh Jackman notwithstanding.) Still, the fanfic the movieverse preduced read better than all three of these collections. For a recent example, go and read
penknife's take on Christmas in the X-Man-universe, here.Lastly, probably everyone has read this already, but just in case anyone hasn't:
melymbrosia talks about depression as presented in BTVS, AtS and Farscape, here. 
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Date: 2003-12-22 08:52 am (UTC)Speaking of the X-Men, since I felt bad about having read only one of the comics (God loves, Man kills, and fabulous it was), I tried to read some more. The local comic store had one collection about Magneto which was called Dark Seduction or something like this and didn't do anything for me (can his kids be any more Upstanding And Virtuous?), and two about Cyclops, one of which, Odysee, I did enjoy. (Another minority I belong to would be the one finding Scott more interesting than Logan, Hugh Jackman notwithstanding.) Still, the fanfic the movieverse preduced read better than all three of these collections. For a recent example, go and read penknife's take on Christmas in the X-Man-universe, here.
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Oh I agree with you about Cyclops. He's much much more interesting than Logan, once you dare to look through the straight arrow front he likes to put up.
I do think that you have to read more about Quicksilver and the Red Witch though. Pietro most definitely is NOT an upstanding citizen. He likes to play the part of it, or not. But he's pretty much anything but an upstanding citizen.;-)
There was one X-factor comic, back when X-factor worked for the government, led by Scott's little brother Alex...
Anyway, in that comic all the X-factor members, including Pietro had to undergo a psychological review. The interesting part was what it revealed on the way Pietro saw the world.
Imagine having to stand in a long row at the trainstation, and having the person right in front of you who needs to take a long trip and seems to take an endless amount of time before he's finished. Now imagine your entire life being like that. Having everyone be incredibly slow, all... the ... time...
That's what life is like for him. His thinking parttern is as fast as his speed, so everything seems to go incredbly slow for him, which is incredibly irritating. Making him annoyed, the entire time.
That and learning that your father only took you in to use you, having a daughter who's a regular human, having an ex-wife who sees you as the bad guy...
Sorry, I just really really love Pietro.
And Wanda... well she was willing to love and marry a robot, how straight arrow is that?
can you recommend...
Date: 2003-12-22 09:13 am (UTC)(The tidbit we get of the family situation in 1602 appeared to be more interesting than the entire thing in Dark Seduction, and 1602 is an AU as far as I know.)
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Date: 2003-12-22 10:55 am (UTC)Great choice, though...
Date: 2003-12-22 01:15 pm (UTC)B5 Christmases
Date: 2003-12-22 01:17 pm (UTC)It's an unfortunate effect of choosing to have seasons run from January to December that B5 Christmases tend to be even less festive and more violent than Summers family birthdays.
As Susan might misquote Shane McGowan,
"I've been four long years in this madhouse and one thing I can say,
All Hell's gonna break loose on Christmas day"
Re: B5 Christmases
Date: 2003-12-22 11:26 pm (UTC)Re: can you recommend...
Date: 2003-12-23 04:15 am (UTC)Will see what I can do on that later, most of what I saw of Pietro came from X-factor, the first X-men comics reprinted (where Pietro and Wanda are members of the Brotherhood, without either them or Magneto knowing they're related) and some issues surrounding the Genosha deals.
I've gone through some Avengers as well, but only the ones with Pietro, since I stopped reading the Avengers years ago.
There was one cool issue though, were Wanda and Vision had left the Avengers to attempt to live in a normal community and had to deal with racisme and activists going against the marriage between a mutant and a robot.
Then there's some Fantastic four issues, dealing with Crystal, Pietro's ex-wife, who was also an ex of Johnny Storm (the Torch). And Pietro's life with the inhumans. (a race living on the moon)
Anyway, there's lots of it.
I haven't read 1602 though, or the Magneto paperback you mentioned. What's it about?