Avengers Recs
Jul. 26th, 2012 05:32 amI prodded ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
sam_storyteller's journal over the weekend.
Homefront - I really liked this one. This is told movieverse, so Steve's been home from the war a few weeks or a couple of months? And even though the war was "won," Steve personally lost everyone he loved, even everyone he ever knew. Memorial Day is hard, Veterans' Day is hard. He's adjusting. And Thor has some booze that can actually get him drunk. This has a wonderful slow build and since it is told from Tony's POV, there's a lot of empathy for the people the soldier comes home to.
A Partial Dictionary of the 21st Century. I particularly laughed at the Television one. And Thor's contract with Nike.
On the topic of Ironsides, I am not personally a fan of always-a-woman AUs, though this one is very well executed. I bring it up because I have smiled several times after reading it about Tony's perfect response to the idea of having kids. I also keep wondering - Copperbadge is a guy, right? Obviously, he's a great writer, and good at keeping the characters right, but I do wonder if this idea came easier because he's a guy, or if it's just the right answer for Tony, and he saw that as a good writer?
Also, in other reading, Sex, Lies and Newsprint. On AO3 this says 5/12 chapters posted, but they all feel very free-standing, not like a WIP. I particularly enjoyed the very first chapter, with the kid's narrative on Steve and Tony's conversation.
And finally: The Proper Use of Nicknames. The writing on this one is uneven, but there's a lot to love here, including the Hulk, and Steve's mortifying use of the nickname Princess, and Tony's hilarious "word vomit" of his feeeeelings. :D
I think it is funny what an actor can get you to take away from a character. RDJ plays Tony so manically talkative in certain scenes (mainly with Pepper, really, and when he's trying to tick people off). But what it seems to me, is that he's a cold, calculating SOB. He comes out of his fight with Whiplash, and talks to the guy about the cycles per second something something on his energy weapons and how to improve them. Not to mention his conversations with Bruce, and the anaylsis he gives to Cap of Fury's likely secrets. So many writers get the manic, and run with it way too hard. Hmmmm. Unless we go with my point about him mainly doing that with Pepper, extrapolate Pepper onto Steve, and figure he becomes a babbling crazy person around Steve for the same reasons? Still. I think it's similar to the dumb!Jack problem.
sam_storyteller's journal over the weekend. Homefront - I really liked this one. This is told movieverse, so Steve's been home from the war a few weeks or a couple of months? And even though the war was "won," Steve personally lost everyone he loved, even everyone he ever knew. Memorial Day is hard, Veterans' Day is hard. He's adjusting. And Thor has some booze that can actually get him drunk. This has a wonderful slow build and since it is told from Tony's POV, there's a lot of empathy for the people the soldier comes home to.
A Partial Dictionary of the 21st Century. I particularly laughed at the Television one. And Thor's contract with Nike.
On the topic of Ironsides, I am not personally a fan of always-a-woman AUs, though this one is very well executed. I bring it up because I have smiled several times after reading it about Tony's perfect response to the idea of having kids. I also keep wondering - Copperbadge is a guy, right? Obviously, he's a great writer, and good at keeping the characters right, but I do wonder if this idea came easier because he's a guy, or if it's just the right answer for Tony, and he saw that as a good writer?
Also, in other reading, Sex, Lies and Newsprint. On AO3 this says 5/12 chapters posted, but they all feel very free-standing, not like a WIP. I particularly enjoyed the very first chapter, with the kid's narrative on Steve and Tony's conversation.
And finally: The Proper Use of Nicknames. The writing on this one is uneven, but there's a lot to love here, including the Hulk, and Steve's mortifying use of the nickname Princess, and Tony's hilarious "word vomit" of his feeeeelings. :D
I think it is funny what an actor can get you to take away from a character. RDJ plays Tony so manically talkative in certain scenes (mainly with Pepper, really, and when he's trying to tick people off). But what it seems to me, is that he's a cold, calculating SOB. He comes out of his fight with Whiplash, and talks to the guy about the cycles per second something something on his energy weapons and how to improve them. Not to mention his conversations with Bruce, and the anaylsis he gives to Cap of Fury's likely secrets. So many writers get the manic, and run with it way too hard. Hmmmm. Unless we go with my point about him mainly doing that with Pepper, extrapolate Pepper onto Steve, and figure he becomes a babbling crazy person around Steve for the same reasons? Still. I think it's similar to the dumb!Jack problem.
