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I got around to watching the last two episodes of Game of Thrones, which felt weirdly relaxing, because I'm not emotionally invested at all, yet (pilot and sexposition scenes excepted) find it entertaining. (That goes both for the book Song of Ice and Fire series and the tv show.) So there is no fannish angst, none of the usual books-versus film emotions (i.e. "this is ruining my favourite character"/ "why doesn't my favourite character have more screentime?" "zomg that cut won't work at all, what about the backstory") etc., and no hiatus sitting-on-tenterhooks. (Given the years between invididual books, angsting about a tv hiatus feels slightly hilarious in this particular fandom anyway. Also, I'm reminded again of Neil Gaiman's entertaining "G.R.R. Martin is not your bitch" post - does anyone still have a link to that?) Whereas with the fandoms I actually am invested in the price for the joy of love and the thrill of debate is the anxiety of caring, being overly protective of entirely fictional people, headdesking, you know, the usual. Not that I would give that up for the world, but is like a breeze to feel absolutely nothing when people are debating whether morally ambigous character A was justly represented/maligned/glorified, or where the canon might go, or any of these things.

(Especially with the upcoming new Torchwood, because if there is one thing our man Rusty is really good at, it's getting people invested. He might get them furious and writing rants, of course, but he and his creations have that trick of accessing emotions like no one's business. I already know where I won't look for meta when the series is broadcast.)

With my rekindled X-Men movieverse love (this reminds me: must catch up on the comics), I have the counter experience daily, so I treasure that there's something I'm able to be zen about without being bored by it. And then I hunt for some more X-Men fanfiction and meta, of course. :)

Today's results:

More Charles Xavier meta by

labingi, this one on why Charles didn't become a little psycho mind-controlling evil overlord before even reaching puberty. (If you do think Charles is a l.p. m-c. e. o., check out the meta anyway, it's so my fanon now.)

Raven and Charles meta, focusing on the second kitchen scene. Which I interpreted as the writer of this essay did, but that doesn't seem the majority interpretation. Well, we all see different films, etc.

Great mixture of meta and fanfiction, about Emma Frost, Charles and Erik post-movie.

In conclusion, sign up for the X-Men movieverse ficathon! (Includes all the other Marvel movies to draw from.) I know I will. It's groovy. :)