I'm so inconsistent
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marmolitaMan sorry I cannot seem to keep up with so many social media sites. I've all but abandoned facebook thanks to their shitty-ass android app which makes the experience TERRIBLE compared to how solid it used to be, and also because I am tired as fuck of all the WASP yuppie suburbanite BS from my local community. Tumblr's still the only place that lets me organize and pull back up anything at all useful, so it's still going strong (and honestly, I'm just laughing my ass off about pornhub maybe buying it). Twitter is impossible to keep up with, entirely useless for anything archival, and has a pretty shitty interface, but at least it keeps track of where I left off and it's good for shitposting or random complaining. Dreamwidth is long-form enough that I keep forgetting to look at it. Like if it doesn't update that often, I don't need to look that often, and then I forget?
BUT ANYWAY
Here's some stuff I've been up to.
Smutswap happened!! I wrote two things and received three!! It was fun!
My assignments:
My gifts:
Next exchange coming up: nonconathon! It's in nominations right now and I've already nominated a bunch of stuff.
Let's see, what else has been going on....I'm a little behind on my CW shows, but I gotta say, Legends of Tomorrow is so delightfully ridiculous, I love it. The most recent one I watched was Seance and Sensibility, and just . . . the entire plot is so bizarre, and ridiculous, and like, there was a Bollywood-style musical number set in Jane Austen's England featuring the Hindu god of love and it made me cry?! Also, LoT is the gayest superhero show around. Or, the most bisexual. Anyway I always forget how much I enjoy it because there are a couple characters I could entirely do without (*cough* Nate *cough*) but man, MONA IS THE BEST, what a great add to the cast, and Ray and Nora are hilarious together, and while I hate that they forgot that Mick was Chronos and that whole thing, I love that he writes romance novels and that although they're crazy they repeatedly have people saying how good they are.
Supergirl this season is like the exact opposite. Where Legends has basically said "fuck it we'll just pretend everything is in a perfect universe where racism and homophobia don't exist", Supergirl is like "LET ME SMASH YOU IN THE FACE WITH CURRENT EVENTS" and honestly it's kind of exhausting. It's so heavy handed that I'm like okay, I agree with your position, but I'm watching this show for escapism. I don't need to watch a bunch of xenophobic racists take over the world on TV and in real life. BRAINY AND NIA though, man, Brainy and Nia. Especially Brainy, who somehow??? became the hottie of this show????
Flash is just weird this season, idek man. It has its moments though. Why the fuck does Eobard Thawne look like Harrison Wells? The world may never know.
We watched the season premiere of The 100, to which most of what I have to say is: why the fuck would you take Murphy anywhere, guys. You know how he is. Why did you do it? I kind of feel like this show is reaching its logical emotional conclusion for me, like, at this point everyone has been so terrible so much of the time that I don't care anymore. Also Bellamy's beard is awful and has been awful since he grew it. If it was like, the Octavia and Raven show, I'd be more into it I think?
Mr. Lita and I have also been watching Doom Patrol on DC Universe, which is GREAT. DC Universe has definitely been my best investment in a streaming service lately. Titans is great, YJ s3 is great, Doom Patrol is great, and my kids love Superfriends.
I also went to see Avengers Endgame! I was going to write up my thoughts, but then I remembered I already wrote them up here so I won't repeat myself. I did thoroughly enjoy the Talk From Superheroes podcast's take on it, though I disagreed on a couple points with the hosts.
Actually wait you know what, in the interest of fandom archiving, yeah, I'm going to repeat myself. By which I mean I'm going to copy/paste that tumblr post here, so SPOILERS AHEAD!!!! warning.
***ENDGAME SPOILERS***
Avengers (2012) was the movie that got me out of a decade-long fandom hiatus and back into fandom and fanfic, and today I went to see Avengers: Endgame, so I feel like I need to make some kind of comment on the Avengers era coming to a close, though clearly the MCU era isn’t done. My thoughts on the movie (WITH SPOILERS) behind the cut. But, in spoiler-free summary, I laughed some, cried a lot, and enjoyed the action. The best movies of the MCU thus far though? Thor: Ragnarok, Spiderman: Homecoming, Iron Man (1), and Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Shout out to Ant Man too, and I haven’t seen Ant Man and Wasp yet. Also I will preface this with: I have not read any other fandom discourse on this movie at all yet.
Okay so first off. The actual plot? Made NO FUCKING SENSE WHATSOEVER GODDAMN IT WHOSE IDEA WAS THIS GARBAGE??!?!
Like okay time travel is always terrible, always, no matter what, because the cases where someone manages to make a time travel closed loop are so rare that they barely exist (shout-out to Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure for that though). My problem really is when shows and movies that SHOULD have logical rules DON’T. I can suspend disbelief for fantasy universes that don’t even attempt to make a scientific explanation, but when they TRY to make it scientific and then they make it garbage, it just really pisses me off.
NAMELY: they didn’t develop the theory of parallel bifurcating timelines enough to actually explain anything, they said they had to return the infinity stones to the moment they were taken from to avoid changing the past because they wanted to preserve the past five years….AND THEN THANOS CAME FROM THE PAST TO THE FUTURE AND NEVER WENT BACK AGAIN, THEREFORE ERASING THE ENTIRE HISTORY OF THIS TIMELINE. Like this is the same level of complete nonsense as why freaking Eobard Thawne looks like Harrison Wells and is also still alive in the Flashpoint future on CW’s Flash.
What about Gamora?? She didn’t go back to the past. She didn’t get dusted (I presume). What the actual fuck happened to her?
The infinity stones can CREATE ENTIRE UNIVERSES FULL OF LIFE but they can’t bring back Natasha and Vision? Why the fuck not? Why are the people who came back after five years via the gauntlet not five years older? Unless all of Peter’s friends were also dusted, why the hell are they still in high school five years later?
If STEVE went back and STAYED in the past then HOW DID HE END UP IN THE SAME FUTURE. He disappeared and then oops there’s an old dude who must have walked there and been wandering around this whole time attending this goddamn funeral and nobody fucking noticed. What the actual fuck.
Like if they hadn’t tried to explain it at all, maybe I could suspend disbelief and be like “okay superhero magic whatever,” but they tried and that makes it worse.
ANYWAY
Let me try to think of what I liked about this. Valkyrie, of course, who was badass as hell and I LOVE that Thor was like “nah I’m not gonna be king, you’re already the king,” and did you notice nobody said the word “queen” in there? She’s fucking awesome and I love her.
I liked Tony’s kid, who was adorable, and also my kids have literally said to me “I love you three thousand” so like, that’s very believable. I liked that Tony didn’t want to erase the past five years because that would erase his own daughter out of existence.
I liked the joking about Steve’s ass, because yes, I appreciate a healthy objectification of men to match the objectification of women, and he does have an amazing ass.
I liked that Steve got to have his happy ending and dance with Peggy on one level, but I also didn’t like the way it happened at all, because the time travel made no fucking sense and also: WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED TO SHARON CARTER. I get that I guess it wasn’t playing well with audiences, and I can only imagine they did the same thing with Bruce/Natasha because hello that romance storyline got NO kind of closure whatsoever in this entire series, but the fact that they just left the thread hanging is really what drives me nuts.
Oh, but I did love the “on your left” callback, so good job there guys.
I liked the story with Nebula a lot, though it also didn’t make much sense at all. I liked Thor’s buddies, though I didn’t like the kind of fat-shaming “Thor’s let himself go” thing? And not just because I was disappointed at not having a shot of Chris Hemsworth looking sexy, but like, I don’t like that Thor was kind of reduced to comic relief.
idk there are so many characters in this and there was so much stuff that I can’t even remember what I liked anymore.
As for Natasha, man, I don’t even know. I liked that Clint went on a murder spree after his family got killed. I like that Natasha wanted him to get back with his family. I didn’t like that she had to die for it to happen, or that she didn’t get any real action at all, or that we never fucking found out ANY OF HER BACKSTORY. Remember how great she was in Avengers 1? What happened to that?
Who fucking knows what happened with Loki, nobody ever explained any of that. Did Steve ever find out that it was Red Skull guarding the Soul Stone?
..........was Thanos right to remove half of the universe’s population? Like, there’s that line about the pod of whales, and I definitely had times in the first infinity war movie where I thought about it, but like … yeah there are other solutions besides random killing half of life but randomly bringing them back also doesn’t solve the problem.
Anyway Captain Marvel was awesome and badass and I appreciated the scene with all the ladies teaming up, even though it felt kind of like it was forced in and Extra, just like the huge clash of the armies scene which was basically like “HERE IS A MOVIE POSTER ISN’T THIS DRAMATIC.”
Honestly also though: why didn’t they let Thor wear the gauntlet? He’s Asgardian, he’s not human. If he could handle that ~power of an entire sun~ thing in Ragnarok he can probably handle some infinity stones.
Okay, maybe I will have more to say later but that’s what I’ve got for now. Mostly I think I’m just disappointed that for a movie that made me cry so much, it was largely unsatisfying because of the gaping plot holes?
***END SPOILERS***
BUT ANYWAY
Here's some stuff I've been up to.
Smutswap happened!! I wrote two things and received three!! It was fun!
My assignments:
- limit break, FFVIII, Squall/Seifer training-turns-to-not-hatesex pwp
- Bountiful Harvest, original, High Priest/Kidnapped Prince, noncon, written with help from my bestie beta misswonderheart
My gifts:
- King's Knight by spacehopper, FFXV, Noctis/Prompto, cute first time pwp
- Sword Intent by VSSAKJ, FFVIII, Squall jerking off with his gunblade (gunbladeplay?)
- Early Riser (anonymous author), FFVIII, Laguna having some quality time alone with his hand
Next exchange coming up: nonconathon! It's in nominations right now and I've already nominated a bunch of stuff.
Let's see, what else has been going on....I'm a little behind on my CW shows, but I gotta say, Legends of Tomorrow is so delightfully ridiculous, I love it. The most recent one I watched was Seance and Sensibility, and just . . . the entire plot is so bizarre, and ridiculous, and like, there was a Bollywood-style musical number set in Jane Austen's England featuring the Hindu god of love and it made me cry?! Also, LoT is the gayest superhero show around. Or, the most bisexual. Anyway I always forget how much I enjoy it because there are a couple characters I could entirely do without (*cough* Nate *cough*) but man, MONA IS THE BEST, what a great add to the cast, and Ray and Nora are hilarious together, and while I hate that they forgot that Mick was Chronos and that whole thing, I love that he writes romance novels and that although they're crazy they repeatedly have people saying how good they are.
Supergirl this season is like the exact opposite. Where Legends has basically said "fuck it we'll just pretend everything is in a perfect universe where racism and homophobia don't exist", Supergirl is like "LET ME SMASH YOU IN THE FACE WITH CURRENT EVENTS" and honestly it's kind of exhausting. It's so heavy handed that I'm like okay, I agree with your position, but I'm watching this show for escapism. I don't need to watch a bunch of xenophobic racists take over the world on TV and in real life. BRAINY AND NIA though, man, Brainy and Nia. Especially Brainy, who somehow??? became the hottie of this show????
Flash is just weird this season, idek man. It has its moments though. Why the fuck does Eobard Thawne look like Harrison Wells? The world may never know.
We watched the season premiere of The 100, to which most of what I have to say is: why the fuck would you take Murphy anywhere, guys. You know how he is. Why did you do it? I kind of feel like this show is reaching its logical emotional conclusion for me, like, at this point everyone has been so terrible so much of the time that I don't care anymore. Also Bellamy's beard is awful and has been awful since he grew it. If it was like, the Octavia and Raven show, I'd be more into it I think?
Mr. Lita and I have also been watching Doom Patrol on DC Universe, which is GREAT. DC Universe has definitely been my best investment in a streaming service lately. Titans is great, YJ s3 is great, Doom Patrol is great, and my kids love Superfriends.
I also went to see Avengers Endgame! I was going to write up my thoughts, but then I remembered I already wrote them up here so I won't repeat myself. I did thoroughly enjoy the Talk From Superheroes podcast's take on it, though I disagreed on a couple points with the hosts.
Actually wait you know what, in the interest of fandom archiving, yeah, I'm going to repeat myself. By which I mean I'm going to copy/paste that tumblr post here, so SPOILERS AHEAD!!!! warning.
***ENDGAME SPOILERS***
Avengers (2012) was the movie that got me out of a decade-long fandom hiatus and back into fandom and fanfic, and today I went to see Avengers: Endgame, so I feel like I need to make some kind of comment on the Avengers era coming to a close, though clearly the MCU era isn’t done. My thoughts on the movie (WITH SPOILERS) behind the cut. But, in spoiler-free summary, I laughed some, cried a lot, and enjoyed the action. The best movies of the MCU thus far though? Thor: Ragnarok, Spiderman: Homecoming, Iron Man (1), and Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Shout out to Ant Man too, and I haven’t seen Ant Man and Wasp yet. Also I will preface this with: I have not read any other fandom discourse on this movie at all yet.
Okay so first off. The actual plot? Made NO FUCKING SENSE WHATSOEVER GODDAMN IT WHOSE IDEA WAS THIS GARBAGE??!?!
Like okay time travel is always terrible, always, no matter what, because the cases where someone manages to make a time travel closed loop are so rare that they barely exist (shout-out to Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure for that though). My problem really is when shows and movies that SHOULD have logical rules DON’T. I can suspend disbelief for fantasy universes that don’t even attempt to make a scientific explanation, but when they TRY to make it scientific and then they make it garbage, it just really pisses me off.
NAMELY: they didn’t develop the theory of parallel bifurcating timelines enough to actually explain anything, they said they had to return the infinity stones to the moment they were taken from to avoid changing the past because they wanted to preserve the past five years….AND THEN THANOS CAME FROM THE PAST TO THE FUTURE AND NEVER WENT BACK AGAIN, THEREFORE ERASING THE ENTIRE HISTORY OF THIS TIMELINE. Like this is the same level of complete nonsense as why freaking Eobard Thawne looks like Harrison Wells and is also still alive in the Flashpoint future on CW’s Flash.
What about Gamora?? She didn’t go back to the past. She didn’t get dusted (I presume). What the actual fuck happened to her?
The infinity stones can CREATE ENTIRE UNIVERSES FULL OF LIFE but they can’t bring back Natasha and Vision? Why the fuck not? Why are the people who came back after five years via the gauntlet not five years older? Unless all of Peter’s friends were also dusted, why the hell are they still in high school five years later?
If STEVE went back and STAYED in the past then HOW DID HE END UP IN THE SAME FUTURE. He disappeared and then oops there’s an old dude who must have walked there and been wandering around this whole time attending this goddamn funeral and nobody fucking noticed. What the actual fuck.
Like if they hadn’t tried to explain it at all, maybe I could suspend disbelief and be like “okay superhero magic whatever,” but they tried and that makes it worse.
ANYWAY
Let me try to think of what I liked about this. Valkyrie, of course, who was badass as hell and I LOVE that Thor was like “nah I’m not gonna be king, you’re already the king,” and did you notice nobody said the word “queen” in there? She’s fucking awesome and I love her.
I liked Tony’s kid, who was adorable, and also my kids have literally said to me “I love you three thousand” so like, that’s very believable. I liked that Tony didn’t want to erase the past five years because that would erase his own daughter out of existence.
I liked the joking about Steve’s ass, because yes, I appreciate a healthy objectification of men to match the objectification of women, and he does have an amazing ass.
I liked that Steve got to have his happy ending and dance with Peggy on one level, but I also didn’t like the way it happened at all, because the time travel made no fucking sense and also: WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED TO SHARON CARTER. I get that I guess it wasn’t playing well with audiences, and I can only imagine they did the same thing with Bruce/Natasha because hello that romance storyline got NO kind of closure whatsoever in this entire series, but the fact that they just left the thread hanging is really what drives me nuts.
Oh, but I did love the “on your left” callback, so good job there guys.
I liked the story with Nebula a lot, though it also didn’t make much sense at all. I liked Thor’s buddies, though I didn’t like the kind of fat-shaming “Thor’s let himself go” thing? And not just because I was disappointed at not having a shot of Chris Hemsworth looking sexy, but like, I don’t like that Thor was kind of reduced to comic relief.
idk there are so many characters in this and there was so much stuff that I can’t even remember what I liked anymore.
As for Natasha, man, I don’t even know. I liked that Clint went on a murder spree after his family got killed. I like that Natasha wanted him to get back with his family. I didn’t like that she had to die for it to happen, or that she didn’t get any real action at all, or that we never fucking found out ANY OF HER BACKSTORY. Remember how great she was in Avengers 1? What happened to that?
Who fucking knows what happened with Loki, nobody ever explained any of that. Did Steve ever find out that it was Red Skull guarding the Soul Stone?
..........was Thanos right to remove half of the universe’s population? Like, there’s that line about the pod of whales, and I definitely had times in the first infinity war movie where I thought about it, but like … yeah there are other solutions besides random killing half of life but randomly bringing them back also doesn’t solve the problem.
Anyway Captain Marvel was awesome and badass and I appreciated the scene with all the ladies teaming up, even though it felt kind of like it was forced in and Extra, just like the huge clash of the armies scene which was basically like “HERE IS A MOVIE POSTER ISN’T THIS DRAMATIC.”
Honestly also though: why didn’t they let Thor wear the gauntlet? He’s Asgardian, he’s not human. If he could handle that ~power of an entire sun~ thing in Ragnarok he can probably handle some infinity stones.
Okay, maybe I will have more to say later but that’s what I’ve got for now. Mostly I think I’m just disappointed that for a movie that made me cry so much, it was largely unsatisfying because of the gaping plot holes?
***END SPOILERS***
