A is for Avengers
Jul. 10th, 2012 04:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenakBecause it's been too long since I posted some Avengers links:
Give a girl a moment and she'll take you for all you've got: fantastic Maria Hill pov, which fleshes her out as a character and teams her up with Natasha, Pepper, Jane Foster and Darcy for a suspenseful, Bechdel-Test-passing story post movie. Extra bonus for working in the problem of neither falling into the "only superheroes do something, population is passive" trap nor go to the other extreme of declaring said heroes superfluos psychos.
Avengers meta , on basically everyone's relationships with everyone else. Oh well handled ensemble, how I love thee, let me count the ways.
Avengers fandom meta: or, some plausible assumptions why The Avengers became this summer's juggernaut fandom. To the irritation of some. I feel for you, people, because I remember how I felt last summer when everyone was crazy about Inception and I just couldn't follow suit, least of all in the shipper department ("which one is Arthur and which one is Eames again?" being a typical question from yours truly). Whereas this year I'm lucky to be in love with something a lot of other people are also in love with and hence creative in. Just the luck of the draw, I guess.
And finally, something Neil Gaiman posted the other day, of interest to both fans of Sanctuary and people interested in the historic Nikola Tesla: a song about Nikola Tesla he wrote the lyrics to, performed to the spectacle of Tesla coils. As I was curious about said lyrics, I looked them up, and they work amazingly well for both history!Tesla and Sanctuary!Tesla, so I hope someone will vid them for both and add Bowie!Tesla from Prestige for good measure.
Give a girl a moment and she'll take you for all you've got: fantastic Maria Hill pov, which fleshes her out as a character and teams her up with Natasha, Pepper, Jane Foster and Darcy for a suspenseful, Bechdel-Test-passing story post movie. Extra bonus for working in the problem of neither falling into the "only superheroes do something, population is passive" trap nor go to the other extreme of declaring said heroes superfluos psychos.
Avengers meta , on basically everyone's relationships with everyone else. Oh well handled ensemble, how I love thee, let me count the ways.
Avengers fandom meta: or, some plausible assumptions why The Avengers became this summer's juggernaut fandom. To the irritation of some. I feel for you, people, because I remember how I felt last summer when everyone was crazy about Inception and I just couldn't follow suit, least of all in the shipper department ("which one is Arthur and which one is Eames again?" being a typical question from yours truly). Whereas this year I'm lucky to be in love with something a lot of other people are also in love with and hence creative in. Just the luck of the draw, I guess.
And finally, something Neil Gaiman posted the other day, of interest to both fans of Sanctuary and people interested in the historic Nikola Tesla: a song about Nikola Tesla he wrote the lyrics to, performed to the spectacle of Tesla coils. As I was curious about said lyrics, I looked them up, and they work amazingly well for both history!Tesla and Sanctuary!Tesla, so I hope someone will vid them for both and add Bowie!Tesla from Prestige for good measure.
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Date: 2012-07-10 07:55 pm (UTC)Isn't it the best? A tiny part of me feels sorry for those not into Avengers (well, I'd been convinced I'd be among their ranks, until I actually watched the movie) but mostly I'm just happy.
I didn't know who Eames was after watching Inception.
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Date: 2012-07-10 08:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-12 06:43 am (UTC)To the irritation of some. I feel for you, people, because I remember how I felt last summer when everyone was crazy about Inception and I just couldn't follow suit, least of all in the shipper department ("which one is Arthur and which one is Eames again?" being a typical question from yours truly). Whereas this year I'm lucky to be in love with something a lot of other people are also in love with and hence creative in. Just the luck of the draw, I guess.
It's always interesting to see which fandoms break out and which ones don't. I never even got around to seeing Inception, so all the fandom activity for it went right over my head.