DEADPOOL & WOLVERINEdir. Shawn Levy (2024)

DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE dir. Shawn Levy (2024)

spn angst fic i started: don't write me bro i'm good

sga mission fic i started: don't write me bro i'm good

random prompts: yeah bro write me this will not be a problem i promise

spouse: are you going to write sga friendship fic?

brain: let's also get into new fandoms that'll help

Please share your take on the final fifteen--- was Aziraphale right or wrong? And the coffee theory maybe?

I don't feel that either of them were objectively right or wrong. They both made a complete mess of what they were attempting to do, because they're bad at communicating with each other. They each responded to the other's effort by doing what they felt they had to do. They hurt each other badly and both twisted the knife a little - but not as much as you might expect given the stakes. Their different exactlys were just too huge there, and they were both distracted rather than mindful going in. It was a lot of things coming to a head that need to be dealt with before they can grow much further as an 'us'.

The coffee theory... I don't think it's anything that simple, or that easily fixed. Aziraphale's backed into a corner the moment he takes that coffee—the moment he engages with Metatron and allows himself to be separated from Crowley for that crucial interview. Manipulation got the job done.

Aziraphale knows he's between a rock and hard place the moment the Metatron mentions Crowley. Is he riding the tiger from then on, hoping for an opportunity to get off safely later, or is he reluctantly but fully committing to the Heaven thing because he's unable to let go of his need to belong on the "right" side and sees an opportunity? A mixture of both? Both plus the hurt feelings? I'm not sure. I think he sees a plausible way forward in that situation (and I think he's probably mistaken but will find some other way to rise to the occasion).

this is my favourite pre movie clip, whoever got to see this in the cinema I’m jealous

Can you remember the first femmeslash fanfiction you ever read or heard about back in the day?

Yes! WIth a bit of brain-scraping, yes I can. Both must've been around 1989/1990. Sadly, I don't remember the titles or the authors.

One was Blake's 7 pairing Cally with Jenna, sort of unrequited love/very requited smut. Not quite PWP, but not deep into the plotty side of B7 either. Not particularly explicit by today's AO3 rating standards, but properly raunchy space ladies doing ladies in space.

The other was Doctor Who - Ace and Karra from Survival, with flashbacks to Ace's friend who was burned in the racially-aggravated arson attack (was her name Manisha?) as a framing device. That one was gen- or teen- rated (or would be now - all slash was treated as risque and labelled as adult back then), but had lots of intense teen feels and self-discovery going on.

What I don't remember is where I found them. In print, because everything was at that time. A B7 newsletter for the Cally/Jenna, I'd guess, but I honestly don't remember anything 'shippy at all from a Doctor Who fanzine pre-internet-era.

Very little Doctor Who fanfiction of any kind came my way until the late 90s, well into the Wilderness Years and the New Adventures/Missing Adventures/EDAs, and what little fic there was never focused on character stuff before those novels came along. Lots of Ice Warrior worldbuilding nerdery and endless political Daleks, and nearly exclusively male writers in the zines I had access to - very different from my experience of Star Trek and Blake's 7 fanfiction. So that 'shippy DW piece I remember might've been something a friend/penpal wrote and shared?? Reading room at a con?

So I encountered femmeslash young, but then it was actually quite a while before I encountered any more. Maybe Buffy the Vampire Slayer's early years, my first couple of years online? Before Willow/Tara, definitely.