Supernatural 5x01

Yes, I know, I know, feminism!fail. Let's just remember I write a shitload of female characters and call it even.

( Spoilers and impressions for the season premiere. )

DC comics fic: One Moment Between Three People (Scott/Barda/Diana)

Trying for something a little different here. Instead of smut, a domestic-y look at how Scott/Barda/Diana would probably work in canon. Good evening for Diana = wine, sparring, and sex y/y? Written for dcx3's Ladies Choice Challenge. It's for threesomes involving at least two women, in case anyone on my f-list happens to be interested in that.

Title: One Moment Between Three People
Fandom: DC comics
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 3,206
Characters/Pairings: Scott/Barda/Diana
Summary: Diana just happened to be in Barda and Scott’s neighborhood while she was flying her invisible jet.

( She dug up a bottle of wine that a vineyard had given her for saving their fields from Despero. They’d been more excited by the photo op than saddened over the damage. She hadn’t had time to get drunk, and hadn’t had anyone to do it with, but at the back of her mind it seemed ungracious to not enjoy the wine. This seemed an elegant solution to that. )

Seriousfic rewrites the classics: One More Day

I know what you’re thinking. How could any man hope to improve on an instant classic like OMD? Well, what can I say, I’m egotistical.

So let’s start off where OMD began. Peter and MJ are on the run, Aunt May has been hospitalized from being shot. There’s a medical procedure that can save her, but it’s very expensive and very risky. Peter can’t have it done on the run. Swallowing his pride, Peter goes to Tony and (after the mandatory fight) cuts a deal. He goes to work for SHIELD if Tony sees to the operation. Tony gives his word and we’re off.

Naturally, there’s a press conference for Peter to sign his name into the SHRA. Peter is about to do it when who should show up but… Spider-Man? He calls Peter an impostor and webs him up, generally makes an (endearing) ass of himself on the pro-regs’ time, then makes his escape. The bureaucrats are incensed, but whoops, Tony’s already seen to it that Aunt May is getting the operation.

( This got a little long. )

ETA: Another nifty thing is that this Spider-Boy could serve as a gateway into the Marvel universe, asking questions about this villain or that hero and getting the 411 from Spidey (and who better to narrate 616 history?) Easy, easy, EASY audience identification character.

My super-short review of White-Out

How lame is this movie? There's a scene where the heroine, Carrie, gets her gun, complete with a Significant Flashback*. The next scene, she's attacked by the killer with much screaming and evading and running away. The scene after that, she pulls her gun on someone.

She only gets less competent from there, folks. In adapting the comic, the filmmakers give her a male love interest who does most of the heavy lifting while Carrie cries about her fee-fees. Seriously, someone should run up a tally of Carrie being badass to having hurt fee-fees. It would not flatter.

And just for the purists out there, they change her secret origin. I won't spoil how it goes in the graphic novel, but here she's escorting a federal prisoner when her partner betrays her and she has to shoot him after he goes for his gun. The partner looks kind of like Joss Whedon, so aside from being a dramatization of how I felt whenever Dollhouse came on, every change made is of the weak.

Although it goes give us the very Police Squad-ish line when Carrie wakes up to see the prisoner's empty handcuffs dangling from where he was sleeping and monologues, without a trace of irony, "I woke up with a bad feeling."


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