Captain America trailer

I've always been a bit meh about the Avengers. I never saw either Iron Man, or either Hulk, and only saw Thor because a) it was getting good reviews and b) it had made Stormfront shit their collective pants. So my only thoughts about Captain America were along the lines of 'lol, his costume's going to look so daft with those little wings growing out of his head'.

I am familiar with Cap, as anyone who wanders into the marvelverse will inevitably become. A weedy bloke who became part of a supersoldier program during WW2, was trapped in ice and reawoken in the present day (whenever that might be). I was never much taken by him, as he was too geekboy fantasy for me to really believe in him (I believe Magneto, so it's not as though my reality threshold is high or anything).

Anywho, long story short, I saw the trailer today and went 'you know, I kinda want to see this now.' That's a first for any Marvel movie that wasn't in the X-men francise, Basically, I though it would be set in the modern day, and have the whole WW2 thing set as flashback, probably with the emergance of his old foe the Red Skull into the modern world too. Instead, the whole things appears to be WW2, leaving the whole freeze-drying and revival for the Avengers sequel.

And you know? That is a pretty cool idea. I can rock WW2 (duh), and while postsurgery!Captain has bigger breasts than I have, he looks pretty cool. The costume is cool, it looks interesting, I can see myself enjoying this as much as Thor, and I liked Thor a lot.

And you knew this was coming.

It's got Nazi!campness up the wazoo.

You know Nazi!camp, it's the crazy shit style people use for Nazis in movies like this, the leather coats, the gas masks, the jackboots, the weird occult crap, the crazy machines. Indiana Jones had it (the good movies did anyway), Hellboy had it, I'm pretty sure you can pick ten thousand other movies who did it. As you know, I fucking love Nazi!camp and this looks like it's going to be the crowning jewel of Nazi!camp movies. For that alone, I'm going to watch it. Even if the Red Skull looks like he's wearing a rubber mask.

Also, shout out for another movie I was meh about but after seeing the trailer want to go see: Rise of the Planet of the Apes. I watched the first Planet of the Apes movie, liked it, guessed the twist the moment the guys got out of the shuttle, heard the others were pretty miss and didn't see them. This though looks good. It's weird because it's got something that in Avatar put me off it at once (no, not the face recognition thing with the CGI, that was good) the trailer basically told the whole story, and anyone who knows the first movie can guess the end. In Avatar, I didn't want to see it because I knew how it was going to go. in this, I still know, but there are enough empty spots that I want to see how they fill it.

So yeah, monkeys and Nazi!campness, bring it on.

Captain America trailer

I've always been a bit meh about the Avengers. I never saw either Iron Man, or either Hulk, and only saw Thor because a) it was getting good reviews and b) it had made Stormfront shit their collective pants. So my only thoughts about Captain America were along the lines of 'lol, his costume's going to look so daft with those little wings growing out of his head'.

I am familiar with Cap, as anyone who wanders into the marvelverse will inevitably become. A weedy bloke who became part of a supersoldier program during WW2, was trapped in ice and reawoken in the present day (whenever that might be). I was never much taken by him, as he was too geekboy fantasy for me to really believe in him (I believe Magneto, so it's not as though my reality threshold is high or anything).

Anywho, long story short, I saw the trailer today and went 'you know, I kinda want to see this now.' That's a first for any Marvel movie that wasn't in the X-men francise, Basically, I though it would be set in the modern day, and have the whole WW2 thing set as flashback, probably with the emergance of his old foe the Red Skull into the modern world too. Instead, the whole things appears to be WW2, leaving the whole freeze-drying and revival for the Avengers sequel.

And you know? That is a pretty cool idea. I can rock WW2 (duh), and while postsurgery!Captain has bigger breasts than I have, he looks pretty cool. The costume is cool, it looks interesting, I can see myself enjoying this as much as Thor, and I liked Thor a lot.

And you knew this was coming.

It's got Nazi!campness up the wazoo.

You know Nazi!camp, it's the crazy shit style people use for Nazis in movies like this, the leather coats, the gas masks, the jackboots, the weird occult crap, the crazy machines. Indiana Jones had it (the good movies did anyway), Hellboy had it, I'm pretty sure you can pick ten thousand other movies who did it. As you know, I fucking love Nazi!camp and this looks like it's going to be the crowning jewel of Nazi!camp movies. For that alone, I'm going to watch it. Even if the Red Skull looks like he's wearing a rubber mask.

Also, shout out for another movie I was meh about but after seeing the trailer want to go see: Rise of the Planet of the Apes. I watched the first Planet of the Apes movie, liked it, guessed the twist the moment the guys got out of the shuttle, heard the others were pretty miss and didn't see them. This though looks good. It's weird because it's got something that in Avatar put me off it at once (no, not the face recognition thing with the CGI, that was good) the trailer basically told the whole story, and anyone who knows the first movie can guess the end. In Avatar, I didn't want to see it because I knew how it was going to go. in this, I still know, but there are enough empty spots that I want to see how they fill it.

So yeah, monkeys and Nazi!campness, bring it on.

30 days of fanfiction 8/30

8 – Do you write OCs? And if so, what do you do to make certain they're not Mary Sues, and if not, explain your thoughts on OCs.

Mary-sue is an odd term, I've seen authors write them in their stories (paging Ms Rowling), and I've seen fanficcers pull them off brilliantly. The things that kills OCs for me is when we're being made to like them. I can read author inserts without too much issue, as long as they're balanced and funny (humor can cover a myriad of flaws), but when I sense an author screaming in my ear that I have to like this person because they're so cool and noble and bleh, I click the back button/destroy the book.

Mary-Sue is such a subjective term, and one than has been misused a great deal, that I feel leery using it much. Anyway, back to the questions.

I do write OCs, in fact, something I've noticed is that my OC stable has been growing by magnitudes recently. Daispora is a prime example, since it has a big cast, all but one of whom are either OCs or canon characters who have so little screentime they might as well be.

I suppose the things about OCs in fanfiction is how well they mesh into the story as a whole. With Diaspora I took a lot of the traits seen in movie and comic Erik and deconstructed them to see what might have triggered them. It was obvious he had a loving family, he respects women, he has a temper, he was clearly closer to his mother than his father. I took that and tried to work out what that past would have been like, and I got what you saw in Daispora, a mother who was very much the strong one in the family, siblings Erik felt close to (his sister and Moshe), and a place were rows were not an unheard of occurance ;)

So to wrap up, i have no problem with OCs, as long as they fit and it doesn't seem as though a writer is trying to prove a point.

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30 days of fanfiction 8/30

8 – Do you write OCs? And if so, what do you do to make certain they're not Mary Sues, and if not, explain your thoughts on OCs.

Mary-sue is an odd term, I've seen authors write them in their stories (paging Ms Rowling), and I've seen fanficcers pull them off brilliantly. The things that kills OCs for me is when we're being made to like them. I can read author inserts without too much issue, as long as they're balanced and funny (humor can cover a myriad of flaws), but when I sense an author screaming in my ear that I have to like this person because they're so cool and noble and bleh, I click the back button/destroy the book.

Mary-Sue is such a subjective term, and one than has been misused a great deal, that I feel leery using it much. Anyway, back to the questions.

I do write OCs, in fact, something I've noticed is that my OC stable has been growing by magnitudes recently. Daispora is a prime example, since it has a big cast, all but one of whom are either OCs or canon characters who have so little screentime they might as well be.

I suppose the things about OCs in fanfiction is how well they mesh into the story as a whole. With Diaspora I took a lot of the traits seen in movie and comic Erik and deconstructed them to see what might have triggered them. It was obvious he had a loving family, he respects women, he has a temper, he was clearly closer to his mother than his father. I took that and tried to work out what that past would have been like, and I got what you saw in Daispora, a mother who was very much the strong one in the family, siblings Erik felt close to (his sister and Moshe), and a place were rows were not an unheard of occurance ;)

So to wrap up, i have no problem with OCs, as long as they fit and it doesn't seem as though a writer is trying to prove a point.

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