The one where Steve dogsits for basically anyone (or everyone?), please.

(See here.)

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1. Saw that movie again on Sunday night, finally with estrellada (and another friend). I realized over the weekend, after completing my re-watch of ALL THE PREQUELS WHAT--I can't imagine going back to non-Whedon superhero movies (he knows what to do with an ensemble! VERY LITTLE OF THE GROSS. Women and POC just being--around! Doing stuff!). If Marvel doesn't sign him for Avengers 2, I'm going to be upset.

Also, it would be a monumentally stupid decision for a variety of reasons besides my extraordinary upset.

2. Working my way through the recs y'all gave me last week. I am a very happy reader of things :)))

3. One of the people I follow on the tumbler, who is also an IRL friend, is annoyedly all about Tom Hiddleston right now (she calls him "Hiddles," Idk if that's a fandom thing or what, but it's adorable). Most of the tags on her entries/reblogs are, like, "#nobody likes you now go away," "#i hate your face," and "#fuck you seriously." I watched the 2011 NYCC Avengers panel--at about the point where he goes "leather and metal--that's how we like it on Asgard," I said, out loud, in a tone of mingled horror, disgust, and adoration, "Oh fuck you, seriously."

It is his superpower, obvs. He is Loki.

(Not really. I'm sure he's never killed eighty people in two days; probably.)

4. The other thing I learned from watching the NYCC panel is that I need to listen to Chris Evans's actual accent for the rest of my life. What.

5. And Clark Gregg and Cobie Smulders are the cutest things who've ever been cute. (Relatedly, Cobie has such a Canadian accent in the movie!!!!!!! I love her!!!!!!!!!)

6. And I need to start hanging out with (more) people who will either understand or just be cool with me using the word "ruffalize" in conversation. Because I'm going to be doing that now.

7. That is all. GOOD NIGHT AVENGERS.

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Last Southland one.

This one is really, really hard to put away. Partially because it feels so close to done (even moreso than "Command Presence," oddly enough), and partially because I like it so much. Oh well.

SECOND PERSON POV AGAIN. YOU LOVE IT.

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We are listening for the sirens.
Ben, Ben/Michelle (really, gen with canon pairings), R, 4350 words

Notes: Set s2-3 hiatus; not exactly Jossed by 3.03, "Discretion." I started writing this in September 2010. TPTB hacked my wip folder, obviously. I can't bloody remember what song the title is from, and internet searches are not helping. Lmk if you know it? David Gray! "Nightblindness"!!! Ish. Misheard from "here listening for the sirens." (Alternate title, "Alive Among the Alarms," from a New Pornographers song, because why not.) Thanks to verying for feedback and handholding.
Content notes: Contains a scene with explicit description of a home invasion and physical assault, and several references to violence against women and children. That's sort of what it's about.


( Sometimes you can't sleep. )

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1. I quit Supernatural at the end of s5 for many and various reasons. A good friend has badgered me (adorably) into catching up, so I'm watching "Exile on Main Street" now, and. Just. This show. It only took twenty minutes for the terrible, terrible dirtybadwrongwrongwrong incest bunnies to start again. WHY WINCHESTERS (and Campbells). WHY.

2. Trust The Tragically Hip to put out a beautiful, perfect new single (warning for gratuitous Sens/Rangers Hockey Night in Canada-ness) the very day I'm despairing ever finding an opening track for my Avengers mix. ♥

(Full version, live. I just think the HNIC promo is cute, so.)

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Oh, hey, let's put spoken word on our Avengers mix. That sounds fantastic.

Because it's a fucking amazing piece, I'm sharing ahead of actually finishing the mix. I was blessed to see Buddy Wakefield perform this at Poetry Apocalypse in Seattle in April. Almost (almost) outshone Tara Hardy's performances. Completely blew me away.



( Text of 'WE WERE EMERGENCIES' by Buddy Wakefield. )

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Check out his (really out of date) website: BuddyWakefield.com.

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1. The Avengers as a gate team or two or three, y/n/yyyy? Also, Hogwarts AU.

2. I'm really feeling surprisingly fannish about this movie. I'm consuming all the things! Except for fic, because no one's posting recs (HINT. HINT.) and the AO3 results scare me.

3. Also: the one where Natasha asks Steve out and then very calmly explains that she's into sex that starts with her losing a sparring match. And Steve is a virgin; this is very important in my head, I don't know. Let's make the kink more complicated! Why not! *confetti*

4. I think I'm feeling so surprisingly fannish at least partially because it's a wonderful distraction from all of the hard and stressful in my life right now. Which is fine, of course, that's what fandom is for--even/especially the thinkity bits.

5. Tangentially, can I just say how much I love that I don't have to see the posts/arguments about whether Black Widow is a "good" or "bad" strong female character (and whether Joss is our master now or another pretentious secretly-misogynist asshat)? I just get to see all you lovely folks saying sensible things about how Joss is a person who does some things well and some things terribly, and Black Widow is fucking awesome shut your face.

(As the person I went with last time I saw the movie said, "Um, it's not misogynist or anti-feminist for an injured woman with no fucking superpowers and no shiny high-tech toys to run away from the Unstoppable Beast of Pure Emotion and hide in a corner for a minute." SERIOUSLY.)

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Two Southland AUs.

1. ROBOTS. For verying.

Take My Badge (But My Main Action Fluid Pump Remains)
Ben, John, PG, 369 words

Summary: "Shut up. You're going to run your battery down."
Unfinished notes: This was going to be a sort of five things type thing--probably "five ways robots are fine, and one way they aren't," and the latter would've been that Russell is malfunctioning all over the place. verying thought it was the only way his character made sense in the first season, and I'm not inclined to disagree. What's actually here: robot!John gets shot oh noes!

Title paraphrased from "Tighten Up" by The Black Keys.

( Ben didn't expect it to look so--gory. )


2. TOTALITARIAN POLICE STATE AU. I don't know.

i will think of you in pieces (i will picture us found)
John, Ben, Chickie, Cesar, R, 1144 words

Summary: "Department 6 purged the 203 last night."
Unfinished notes: I need to work on not building worlds that fall over and squash me. I really like the concept for this, and I like what's here. The details and the politics got overwhelming, though.
Content notes: Police brutality--white men on a white woman and a man of colour.

Title from "Carmelina" by Matthew Good Band. The video is about professional corporate torturers?

( They detained Chickie. )

...I don't know how the whacky robot AU lives in the same brain as the terrible, terrible police state AU. I DON'T KNOW. \o?

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Time for another WIP Amnesty Festival of Fun Week. Most of these things are tiny fandoms, but whatever. POST POST POST. AWAY AWAY AWAY.

First thing: clearing out my Southland folder.

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Command Presence
Chickie/Ben, John(/Ben possibly unrequited UST), 2679 words

Summary: Making someone do something they want to do doesn't make you a cop. S2, sometime soon after 2.03, "U-Boat."
Notes: Originally started for Kink Bingo (humiliation, obedience, and voyeurism squares--I wasn't sure which one I'd use it for).
Content: Those things, plus female top/male bottom, consensually coerced oral sex, consent play in the voyeurism/exhibitionism thread, breath play, crying.

Unfinished notes: It's basically missing the sex scene, which often happens when I write this sort of story (PWP, I mean). Also, I feel weird about the title.

( Also, it's in second person. I know everybody loves that just as much as I do. )

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Watched the Iron Man movies for the first time in a while today. I like Jon Favreau, but just. Ugh. Joss is head-and-shoulders above in the "avoiding actually awful action movie tropes" department. Like--there is, perhaps, one gratuitous crotch shot/cover/near miss moment* in Avengers (but it's sort of off-plane and maybe/maybe not, so I can choose to believe that it isn't happening). Favreau gets two or three in each movie.

Also, Joss just does avoid stupid, annoying things like the scene in Iron Man 2 where Natasha is changing in the back seat of the Rolls and Happy is ogling her in the rearview. Like--Joss just doesn't do that shit, because beyond being sexist and gross, it's pointless. It's really, really nice to have things made by people who are more interested in telling a story than hitting dudes in the nads with footballs.

I also re-watched Captain America: Etc. the other night. I saw it in the theatre, and once before on DVD, and I just wanted to see if I was maybe in a bad mood when I saw it and that's why I disliked it so much. Verdict: I think I was in a bit of a bad mood, 'cause it's not as terrible as I remembered, but it's still not that great. These huge, huge chunks of story just get handwaved/skipped--like, "Oh I'm going to fight this battle! And now I am back from that important plot point! Let us get on with the awkward flirting, Peggy Carter." I don't even want to get into the CGI again, so I'll stop here. Ridiculous.

I want to like it? Because Chris Evans, he has grown on me, and I like all of the other people in the movie. Also, perhaps most importantly, I don't like the thought of people seeing Avengers and going back to get the movie canon and seeing--that delightful pile of rotting potential.

(All the Steve/Bucky where Steve didn't know Bucky liked him until after he took the serum OR EVEN LATER and there's lots of pining and missed opportunities and then sweet beffy sex and possibly size kink. Yes.)

Anyway. In case you were wondering what channel we're still watching over here at Tiny House.


*AKA: "OH MY GOD NOT MY PRECIOUS DICK."

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1. Saw that movie again this afternoon. It is so much fun and thinkity and dammit. Still can't put words together in sentences for the internet, though I've had some great conversations in person, lol. How different this is from the rest of my life!

2. LOOKIT ALL MY NEW SUPERHERO ICONS. All four of them! Haha. From here and here. I also saved a few from this post and this post, though I haven't uploaded any of those ones yet.

3. I'm really digging on Wool on Wolves and Rose Cousins right now. WoW's album, Grey Matter, is particularly full of Avengers songs (in a Bon Iver-y, Florence + the Machine-y, Edmontonian folk'n'roll way, I guess, um), and I adore it. Sadly, their CBC pages don't have many of my favourite songs of the theirs (WoW: "Bird in the Bush," "Cocaine and Bellows;" Rose Cousins: "The Shell,"****** "All the Stars," "All the Time It Takes to Wait"*** [this performance with omg Royal Wood who is not a porn star; the album version is 100% worth ninety-nine cents]), but there I've linked to some Rose Cousins Youtube videos and you can take care of yourselves.

4. ******THIS IS SUCH A JOHN/SHERLOCK SONG I JUST HAD TO SAY THAT.

5. ***Steve/Tony angstmuffinmix. I'm sayin'!

(I know this item has fewer asterixes than the previous one, which is a serious style error, and I don't care. I do what I want.)

6. I think that's all. I had a really early morning, a terrible meeting, the veryveryveryexciting!!! movie, and then a bit of a physical meltdown (oh is that post ever coming, yay, I know you're looking forward to it just as much as I am).

7. AND SO GOOD NIGHT AVENGERS.

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