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.

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Comments

[grand-duc.livejournal.com]

How strange is it that I've only read 2 of Anne McCafrey's book but I one of them was the Alien Space Unicorn?

[ellex42.livejournal.com]

So now that I'm thinking about "what Anne McCaffrey books would I actually recommend to someone over the age of, say, 18?", has anyone else actually read "Restoree"? (yes, I've read just about everything McCaffrey wrote up until she started collaborating with her son)
How about Tony and Steve wake up on an strange planet populated by humanoids under siege by monstrous aliens after those same aliens attack Earth? ARgh, I don't know how to explain the plot of "Restoree"...

[meteorfire.livejournal.com]

I will admit, I didn't get the space unicorn reference. Then I started thinking of books she'd written that I'd read, and the first one in my mind was the Acorna series. Space unicorn mystery solved. I think an encounter with the Khleevi would be interesting--or maybe something to do with the child slaves/laborers? I remember reading the first however many books, then Aari went back in time and started being a pod-Aari in present time and that's about when I got bored with the series.

Or maybe something to do with Tony and the Brain and Brawn Ship series. Maybe he's a shell-person? Wait, no. Was that already suggested?

I'd suggest something with the Pern-verse, but I know that's been done a few times. Although, maybe Steve and Tony are the dragons rather than the riders?

[stalkerbunny.livejournal.com]

Haha, the first link kind of gave me flashbacks to... certain images of Tony and Steve (and doubtlessly they exist of other male heroes too) xD Especially Tony's certain flight/near-landing poses. And the way some of his armours are very... shapely.

(Which is not to discredit the point of the op at all, since one actually has to look for the things I mentioned and they're usually not cover images/posters, but I'm amused anyway)

[tsukinofaerii.livejournal.com]

You pry my nostalgia blinkers from me at your own peril. D:<

I just can't believe the Dragonlady is gone. Anne McCaffrey was probably the reason I started writing; I loved how she built whole worlds, and I've never stopped wanting a dragon. Writing about them is about as close as you can get to having a dragon of your own, I think. Pern is a generational thing in my house—I still have copies that originally belonged to my grandmother and got passed down. ;a; It'll always be close to my heart.

Gah, I waited to post this and I'm still getting teary. (sniff) I'll be over here clutching my copy of Dragondawn.