This Year's Model of Humanity

Series Title: Lessons of Icarus
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Natasha/Tony (primary)
Author's Note: Thanks to scrollgirl and chosenfire28 for encouragement and support. Additional thanks to scrollgirl for helping me when I was stuck.



Title: Enyo's Daughter
Summary: Natasha's always fallen in love with weapons.
Status: Complete

Location: AO3



Title: Fires of Hephaestus
Summary: In all honesty, Tony is beginning to wonder about his taste in women.
Status: 1/6

Location: AO3

Title: Enyo's Daughter
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Natasha/Tony (primary)
Summary: Natasha's always fallen in love with weapons.
Author's Note: Thanks to scrollgirl and chosenfire28 for encouragement and support. Additional thanks to scrollgirl for helping me when I was stuck.

Location: AO3

Title: Enyo's Daughter
Rating: PG for this chapter; will be higher later on.
Pairing: Natasha/Tony (primary)
Summary: Natasha's always fallen in love with weapons.
Author's Note: Thanks to scrollgirl and chosenfire28 for encouragement and support. Additional thanks to scrollgirl for helping me when I was stuck.

Location: http://archiveofourown.org/works/674890

Went with my dad & step-mom as part of my birthday gift.

It was, like all James Bond movies, fun but problematic.

( spoilers )

I also saw the Iron Man 3 trailer (I saw other trailers as well, all of them forgettable) and ( trailer spoilers )

One of the things that was so fun about Doctor/Rose was how into it the whole cast and crew were. It was a joyous tumble of "wow, they really love it as much as I do!" with hearts and flowers all over the place.

I also found that there's also a guilty thrill attached to finding out that one of the actors involved in a pairing that you dislike also dislikes the pairing (*waves at Paul Wesley and his boredom with Stefan/Elena*).

Of course, then there's also the not-so-fun feeling that comes when the cast and crew are really into a pairing and you aren't. See: RDJ's love for Tony/Pepper. He loves the pairing the way that the cast and crew of Doctor Who loved the Doctor and Rose but, for me, Pepper/Tony variously: does nothing for me as a romantic pairing but lots as a platonic one (Iron Man); is something that came as an unpleasant shock at the end (Iron Man 2); or is tolerable because Joss is writing it (Avengers).

So, various feelings. With shows/movies that I watch casually but don't get super into the fandom of, I generally never even know what the creators think. I just watch and it's fun (or, sometimes, it's not fun and I stop watching). But once I get invested in a show, it seems like I inevitably do find out what the cast/crew think about these various things and it does give me feelings. Even more so because I'm already emotionally invested.

Which brings me to Teen Wolf. And while Stiles and Derek are not a canon pairing at this point, they've been getting a lot of love and support from the cast and crew. The showrunner has said that the enthusiasm over Sterek has made him think about the possibility of putting it in the show (and, when someone asked, confirmed that he wasn't joking). This makes me get squishy Doctor/Rose feelings inside at the idea that a pairing that I like might have a chance at becoming not just canon but enthusiastically canon. Because there is a difference -- a big one -- between the general "Of course, I support the couples that I write/act/etc" behavior and the kind of support that leads to actors/whoever actively championing and pushing a specific pairing. It would be kinda neat if that happened with Teen Wolf and I do think that it's got a shot.

Do other people find themselves thinking about stuff this way too or is it just me?


* ETA: This is why one shouldn't post and then go to sleep. Misleading title/question! I wasn't trying to ask if it mattered in terms of whether or not something will be canon, just that if other people also had the same kinds of emotional reactions to enthusiastic support of ships that are canon from the creators/crew/cast, etc. Sorry about that!

The deleted scenes gave me so many feelings. I get why they were cut but, oh! feelings.

( details on feelings )

My Natasha/Tony fic now has the beginnings of an actual plot and is almost 5000 words. I think this story is actually happening. Whoa.

...also, my brain is writing a porny role-play one-shot with them, too. I don't think this one is in danger of acquiring a plot.

In other writing news, I will be getting to post my Kradam Big Bang sometime in August. Yay! It's about 19,200 words, give or take.

I've basically been writing this for half a week now. It keeps getting longer. I think I'm just going to go ahead and post, because it's already over 10K, which just seems hilariously excessive for a movie not even two and a half hours long (lies; I could write another 20K on this movie, easy. but sometimes you have to say 'no'. Plus, my first class of my last quarter is tomorrow, so I should probably concentrate on that).

I'm going to start with the Bruce-based interaction. Mostly because Bruce comes first alphabetically. I'm sorta gonna go in alphabetical order. Except when I go in chronological order.

Bruce, of course, comes along with his rage-based alter-ego, the Hulk, and how the different characters react to the Hulk and the possibility of the Hulk is one of the most fascinating parts of a movie filled with interesting things.

Going in order of when he met each person:
( Bruce and Natasha )

( Bruce and Steve )

( Bruce and Tony )

( Bruce and Thor )

( Bruce as an Avenger )

( Clint and People Who Aren't Natasha )

( Clint and Natasha )

( Clint as an Avenger )

( Natasha and Tony )

( Natasha and Steve )

( Natasha and Thor )

( Natasha as an Avenger )

( Thor and Tony )

( Thor and Steve )

( Thor as an Avenger )

( Steve and Tony )

( Steve as an Avenger )

( Tony as an Avenger )

( The Avengers in groups )

( Other thoughts re: movie elements )

You know, I think part of the reason that The Avengers is making me so happy is because it's filling that cheerful little superhero place in my heart. I was thinking about the shows that I'm watching right now and... not so much with the superheroes. The Vampire Diaries, Revenge, The Borgias... all about flawed people who are making unheroic decisions. They're often very understandable decisions, but they are not generally heroic.

I am amused that ( somewhat general spoilers for Avengers )