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

[tsukinofaerii.livejournal.com]

Great world-building, good characters, excellent weaving of genres... I just sort of don't look at specific parts of canon, or grab one tiny inconsistency and string it out into a long, complex piece of fanon. (Rape in mating flights? Nope nope nope, they just use doubles or stand-ins, it totally says exactly that in Dragonseye, really it does la la la.)

[valtyr]

Never mind during mating flights, Lessa and Brekke were both raped by their True Loves. :|

[elspethdixon.livejournal.com]

I remember the F'lar/Lessa stuff (where the sex apparently happens several more times post-mating flight despite Lessa's mentioned-in-text lack of enthusiasm), but where does F'nor rape Brekke? Her dragon's mating flight is never completed because tragic plot stuff involving the eeeevh0l hold with the evil greedy ruler happens.

I'm sure it happened somewhere in Dragonquest, but it probably went right over my 9/10-year-old head.

[valtyr]

Yeah, it went right over my head as a kid. When F'nor realises she's not sleeping with... T'bor? Anyway, he has sex with her, and she's described as fighting him frantically, but he's firm with her, and then she surrenders passionately. So yeah.

[elspethdixon.livejournal.com]

she's described as fighting him frantically, but he's firm with her, and then she surrenders passionately.

That scenario seems like it was A Thing in 70s romance novels. The Wolf and the Dove, (which was good, at least when I was 13, probably because there's a h/c scene with cauterization) and The Flame the Flower (which sucked) both had it.

There's a definite upper-age-limit to being able to really get into the early Pern novels. When I was 10/11/12, Dragonflight was one of my favorite books in the world. Seanchai didn't read it until high school, and was so horrified by the part where F'lar grabs Lessa and shakes her that ten years later, it's the only part of the whole book she remembers (possibly because she stopped reading at that point).