Cap_Ironman Weekly News, Week Ending 27 November 2011

[valtyr]

Today I am enjoying What If The Male Avengers Posed Like The Female One? Heh.

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Hayley Atwell talks about playing Peggy, and the possibility of her appearing again.

Anne McCaffrey passed on recently. Many of us remember fondly (and with a slight tinge of WTF) her works; which of your works would you like to see as a fusion or crossover with Avengers? We've already had a Pern fusion, and I recall a very short Brainship drabble - perhaps Crystal Singers, or Tony as the Brain of a space station, or maybe something more obscure? What if the Avengers discovered Steve the alien space unicorn.

Anyway, now that your minds are blown, on to the glorious round-up.



tsukinofaerii posted Knitwear

amuly posted Ghost in the Machine

stardustcities posted this ain't no hotel room, honey

keelover posted I Block Out What Everyone Has To Say

shinysylver posted Belonging

arminaa posted Eloquent Silence

ashinan posted Metal Heart

stardustcities posted the shape of things

whizzy posted Cap and Carry

jenlynn820 posted Only Forever

elderloki posted Part 1 of The University Project

ddelline posted dreams are made in the distance

amuly posted At Least Macy's Parade Didn't Change... For the Most Part


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Comments

[valtyr]

Someone (I think elspethdixon?) did a very short fic where Tony was a ship and Steve his captain, but I forget if that was actually a Brainship. Tony would make a fantastic shell-person, though!

I couldn't believe there were ten Acorna books. Wow.

[meteorfire.livejournal.com]

I will have to look that one up.

There were ten books? Really? I thought there were only five or six! That seems like a bit much to me.

[elspethdixon.livejournal.com]

There were ten? I only remember three. Where on earth did she find enough plto for seven more, unless she switched to writing about Acorna's Mary Sue children with the other space unicorn (there was a boy one, too, eventually, right?).

The McCaffery-style brainship fic is this one (http://elspethdixon.livejournal.com/171080.html) where Steve is the captain, Hank, Jan, and Thor are crew,and Tony's the ship. There's actually a whole plotbunny that goes with it where Steve and Bucky were the cryogenically frozen only survivors of a space ship destroyed in a Great Big War fifty years ago, and Bucky was so badly mangled in the process that he's made into a brainship (the Winter Soldier, Nastasha's the captain and sole crew and they do covert ops and spying/smuggling for Space Commander Fury) so Steve put in for captaincy of a brainship - the brawn position, essentially - in hopes of rejoining him, but got assigned to Tony instead. And then finds out once they're in space for their first mission that Tony deliberately cycled his supposed-to-have-tragically-committed-suicide previous captain Bruce Banner out the airlock when he went crazy in deep space and tried to kill the rest of the crew. Which is an automatic death sentence for a brainship (The brain of the Pride of Latveria tried to do it to Captain Richards and the other three members of his crew, who survived but were exposed to cosmic radiation and mutated by it in the process, and the Dayspring's supposedly been hijacked by a mercenary but is known by space navy command to have actually gone rogue, and everyone knows the Battleship X has been a little crazy since his first captain deserted and became a terrorist space pirate, so command is a little paranoid about it's ship-people now). And it's obvious the whole rest of the crew knew about it and covered it up to protect each other, which is basically mutiny, and also Steve's fallen in love with Tony, so oh noes, what does he do?

[valtyr]

:D this sounds amazing.