A Lightkeeper's Log

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Write a comment with "Five Words" in it, and I'll list five things I associate with you. You must then go on about them at length in your own journal.

jazzypom gave me:

Comics:( Read more... )

Steve Rogers:( Read more... )

Stargate SG-1:( Read more... )

Writing:( Read more... )

WIP (your current work in progress):( Read more... )

Why the hell did I just read like 100,000 words of Evil!Jim Doesn't Understand Poor!Blair? If I wanted to remind myself why I'm not in The Sentinel fandom anymore, I'm sure I could have found a less time consuming way to do it.

I've mentioned it before I think, but there really needs to be fic in which an evil bay guy cable cabal gets a hold of Steve and put him up for auction to the highest evil bad guy bidder. Then Tony sends in someone awesome like Deadpool as a proxy and spends like a trillion dollars on Steve. Then there's awkwardness and angst and cuddling. I don't understand why this does not exist.

Here's a Wordle of my big bang, which I hope to be able to link to any day now.


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Title: Heart of Steel (Part VII)[slash]
Author: muccamukk
Fandom: Marvel Comics (61?)/Iron Man movie/AU
Spoilers/Warnings: PG-13 for mature themes. My alternate universe is alternate.
Number of Words: 3200
Notes: The promised ball, part two. Sorry this took so long. There was loss of Internet, and needing to finish my BB, and RL. This chapter is longer? Thank you to culurien for the speedy beta.

ALSO! rum_and_cookies illustrated a scene from the last chapter. Go look at the pretty!

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AU: Steve wakes up in the mid-twenty first century, the Golden Age of America, and doesn't like what he finds. Fortunately, Tony has some ideas.

(Part I) (Part II) (Part III) (Part IV) (Part V) (Part VI) (Part VII)

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Thank god for friends who have techie boy friends, and are willing to barter for their services.

So, um... stuff, yeah.

ETA: Oh, yeah. If anyone in the world doesn't have a DreamWidth invite and still wants one, I've got a couple...

While trying to set up my roommate's wireless, I managed to delete the network password off my computer. I didn't make up the password. No one can find the piece of paper it's on.

In conclusion, I don't really have Internet access form my house until this is resolved (and I don't know when that will be). I will get my BB in on time. And I will continue to write. I just don't expect to be peesent on the 'Net for a while.

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Avengers/Invaders #12: The writing and art has disintegrated the point where I really didn't care what happened by the end. Which is too bad, as I liked it at the beginning.

New Avengers #54: ( spoilers )

Oh, yeah. The preview for Marvel Divas is out. I think it's actually worse than I thought it would be. Wow.

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If you don't know what's going on there's a summary here. And I really like this discussion of derailing and privilege here.

I usually do not comment on massive fandom issues. In most cases (as in this one), so many people have said what I want to say, and said it better, well before I even know the discussion is happening.

However, here's a few points I want to make:

When I was at a showing of the Vagina Monologues a couple of years back, there was some sort of solidarity thing wherein people who wanted to identify as assault survivors or people who know survivors could raise their hands. The point was to show how horrifically prevalent sexual violence against women is. The problem was that some people didn't put up their hands.

Everyone knows someone who has been abused or sexually assaulted or both. Everyone. Even if you don't think you do. If you know more than three women, you do. If you don't know more than three women, there's still a pretty good chance that you do.

Does everyone have triggers? Of course not, but in a community of women (which the fic-writing portion of fandom essentially is), there is a huge potential that someone you know does.

Not everyone wants to talk about them. Not everyone feels that they can. I know people who are pretty open, and people who are only talk about personal pain in severely filtered posts. I probably know people who don't talk about them at all.

I'm saying all this because, clearly, the idea that some people that hypothetically exists being hurt by lack of warnings isn't hitting home that well (if you're concerned about spoilers, marking them is super easy. Here is a great post about how to warn and preserve "artistic integrity"). That really sucks. The world is difficult enough for women without us being us glaringly inconsiderate to each other in our own space.

It just makes it that much more awful that women are doing this to each other. Women are hurting their friends. And when they're called on it, some are claiming that art is more important to them than other human beings.

I find the idea that other women might blame the victim, as has been happening, sickening.

I find the idea that other women people a trivialising trauma, as has been happening, sickening.

It's interactions like this that makes me hate people.

I'm calling an amnesty of changes regarding your circle/flist regarding this.

I'm not closing comments, but I am warning you that I may not be capable of having a rational discussion on this point.

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Nomad: Girl Without a World!

Just when I thought my pull list was going to shrivel up and disappear completely! It's all about Girl!Bucky and her adventures. She goes to school with Young Avengers, and tries to stalk Boy!Bucky. I am very, very interested in this concept. I hope they make her a dysfunctional little rat.

The Doctor Voodoo: Avenger of the Supernatural mini looks kind of cool too.

Why does the Spider-Woman series keep getting pushed back?

I kind of want to read Luke Cage Noir, but it looks they're fridging an awful lot of women in it.

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I have three more if anyone wants one.

Comments Screened.

This icon isn't actually related to anything, but I think it's cute (GIP?)

I think I'm just going to give up on meme games, as I seem incapable of actually doing them, or answering prompts, basically ever. Or, for that matter, answering comments, though I totally intend to.

I'm trying to write a fight scene, but I'm pretty much stuck and am more or less pounding through it on Write or Die 2.0. I think it will be okay in the end. I just can't seem to plot fights in advance, so I have no idea how it's going to end, or what's going to happen, other than a few vague images. I'd probably be rubbish at writing comics.

So then I did a bunch of random reading for the sake of characterisation, and found out such interesting facts as Steven Rogers doesn't have a middle name, and Paul Cornell probably likes the Roger Stern/John Byrne run of Captain America best because it has vampires in it. Oh, and Rhodey would give up his own boots to save Tony from having hurt feet. I didn't learn that Jan Van Dyne is made of awesome. I already knew that.

Other than fixing the middle name issue, I haven't touched my big bang in weeks. I really need to do that.

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Title: Heart of Steel (Part VI) [slash]
Author: muccamukk
Fandom: Marvel Comics (61?)/Iron Man movie/AU
Spoilers/Warnings: PG-13 for mature themes.
Number of Words: 2000
Notes: The promised ball, part one. This got rather out of hand, and has expanded into at least three parts. Thank you to healingmirth for the speedy beta.

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AU: Steve wakes up in the mid-twenty first century, the Golden Age of America, and doesn't like what he finds. Fortunately, Tony has some ideas.

(Part I) (Part II) (Part III) (Part IV) (Part V) (Part VI)

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Captain Britain and MI:13 #14: ( Spoilers )

Captain America #600: ( Spoilers )

Dark Reign: Young Avengers #2: ( Spoilers )

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Title: Heart of Steel (Part V) [slash]
Author: muccamukk
Fandom: Marvel Comics (61?)/Iron Man movie/AU
Spoilers/Warnings: PG-13 for mature themes.
Number of Words: 2300
Notes: The promised ball starts next chapter. Here's more Steve exploring, but this time with actual stuff happening, and a familiar face. Thank you to healingmirth for the speedy beta.

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AU: Steve wakes up in the mid-twenty first century, the Golden Age of America, and doesn't like what he finds. Unfortunately... Tony's not in this chapter.

(Part I) (Part II) (Part III) (Part IV) (Part V)

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Title: Heart of Steel (Part IV) [slash]
Author: muccamukk
Fandom: Marvel Comics (61?)/Iron Man movie/AU
Spoilers/Warnings: PG-13 for mature themes.
Number of Words: 2500
Notes: This is totally the last chapter with no action! However, instead of action, in this chapter I have Tony and Steve interacting in a dysfunctional fashion. So... yay? Thank you to culurien for the speedy beta.

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AU: Steve wakes up in the mid-twenty first century, the Golden Age of America, and doesn't like what he finds. Unfortunately, Tony has some ideas.

(Part I) (Part II) (Part III) (Part IV) (Part V)

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I just watched four hours of documentary on the history of New York City. There's like sixteen hours in total, but I only bothered with the ones that covered 1919 to 1941. I have also acquired a geographically based history of Manhattan (which I've finally learned to spell) from the library.

On the bright side, some random-ass guess I made in the first place turned out to be true and I didn't screw up anything to massively. Also, I have decided that Steve Rogers has the same accent as Mayor Alfred Smith.

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Give me a character from any fandom, TV show, movie, book you know that I know and I will tell you:

a. My favourite thing about that character.
b. My least favourite thing about that character.
c. One person I would ship them with in their own verse.
d. One crossover ship for them I think would be neat.
e. One crossover universe for them I think would be even neater.
f. Their ship from hell.
g. Their song.
h. The title of their biography or autobiography.
i. The last bad dream they had.
j. How they're going to shuffle off the mortal coil, if they haven't already.

Lifted from artemis_rain.

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Title: Heart of Steel (Part III) [slash]
Author: muccamukk
Fandom: Marvel Comics (61?)/Iron Man movie/AU
Spoilers/Warnings: PG-13 for mature themes.
Number of Words: 2000
Notes: I swear to God that this is going to have an action plot someday. For now, enjoy Steve: Reading a book. Thank you to culurien for the speedy beta.

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AU: Steve wakes up in the mid-twenty first century, the Golden Age of America, and doesn't like what he finds. Fortunately, Tony has some ideas.

(Part I) (Part II) (Part III) (Part IV) (Part V)

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So, let us now talk about my undying affection for the works of Paul Cornell and how awesome his writing is. The Captain Britain and MI:13 annual came out today, and I just read it three times through, with an extra go over of some of my favourite bits. That man writes women like... wow. I love comics. ( Spoilers )In conclusion, this may be my favourite comic in the whole world ever!

In slightly less squeeful news (because it's impossible to be in more squeeful news), the New Avengers: The Reunion mini wrapped up this week. This is essentially the story of Bobbi Morris kicking ass in numerous ways. ( Spoilers )

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Title: Heart of Steel (Part II) [slash]
Author: muccamukk
Fandom: Marvel Comics (61?)/Iron Man movie/AU
Spoilers/Warnings: PG-13 for mature themes.
Number of Words: 2100
Notes: I think this is turning into a Regency Romance novel set in a dystopic future New York (which is requiring insane amounts of research, and I apologise to all natives of that city). Thank you to culurien for the speedy beta.

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AU: Steve wakes up in the mid-twenty first century, the Golden Age of America, and doesn't like what he finds. Unfortunately, Tony has some ideas.

(Part I) (Part II) (Part III) (Part IV) (Part V)

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Well, I now know a lot more about New York City and the surrounding geography than I did a couple of hours ago. I'm gong to chalk any inaccuracies up to the dystopic future setting. I just want to come out of this fic with the ability to spell Manhattan.

Why couldn't the Avengers be based in Vancouver?

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Title: Pearls of Great Price
Author: culurien
Fandom: Star Trek (Original TV Series)
Words: 2,100
Rating: R (Sex and adult themes)
Summary: Follow-up to original series episode "The Empath," which can be summarized as Kirk, Spock, and McCoy's eternal love for each other saves the world.
Notes: This is like my favourite episode ever, and there's no fic for it, and then Culerien wrote this wonderful, wonderful h/c threesome which is sweet and perfect and exactly what I've been wanting to read for years!

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Title: Heart of Steel (Part I) [slash]
Author: muccamukk
Fandom: Marvel Comics (61?)/Iron Man movie/AU
Spoilers/Warnings: PG-13 for mature themes.
Number of Words: 2000
Notes: Back in March, kijikun had this Arranged Marriage fic challenge thing, which has been turning around in my brain ever since. This does not quite fit the prompt, but it's something close. I have planned more, and will hopefully post soon. Thank you to culurien for the speedy beta.

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AU: Steve wakes up in the mid-twenty first century, the Golden Age of America, and doesn't like what he finds. Fortunately, Tony has some ideas.

(Part I) (Part II) (Part III) (Part IV) (Part V)

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muccamukk: This is like the Harlequin Presents version of Steve/Tony
muccamukk: There's a contrived adventure plot around amnesia and misunderstandings, and no porn of any kind.
muccamukk: Not that I've at any time read Harlequin Presents
culurien: of course not
culurien: but from shelving them at the library, that sounds pretty accurate
culurien: Now just have one of them be a rake with a heart of gold
culurien: and the other a virgin
culurien: and you're good
muccamukk: Well, iron
muccamukk: and Steve, some days...
muccamukk: Rake with a Heart of Steel, and Steve, Inexperienced in the Ways of Love
culurien: yes
muccamukk: only the rolls are reversed in this one. It's usually the girl that has amnesia
culurien: except when she has to nurse him back to health and reintroduce him to the world!
muccamukk: Good point!

In my defence, I was on a lighthouse, on an island, with the nearest library really far away, and I ran out of my own books.

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Roommate: I should go outside and take the tomatoes in. But if I do the Empty Child might get me.

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Okay, I am trying to get my filters sorted out so I do not miss entries, and avoid reading too much twice (This is why I was so reluctant to have two journals at once). Could you all lend a hand by filling out the following poll.

Poll #1402742 LJ-DW
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: Friends

I post...

So the solicits for August are out and with Captain Britain and MI:13 cancelled, Avengers/Invaders and New Avengers: The Reunion minis concluded, and Captain America skipping a month, my pull list kind of disappeared there. Oh well, there's always New Avengers and Young Avengers, and whatever the hell Reborn is (probably a silly tease, but I'll probably read it anyway).

There do seem to be some interesting things, however. I'm probably still not buying Marvel Divas, but at least their getting better at cover art. This one actually looks like something I might want to read.

Invincible Iron Man, which I'm kind of waiting for the trade on promises to have Black Widow and Captain America, which is chipping away at my resolve. A lot.

And then there's this. Marvel Bromance Trade Paperback #1. I... um... am I hallucinating, or is Marvel publishing slash zines now? Wow. I believe my icon (DW only) sums this up.

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-Laughs and laughs and laughs-





This is going to be such a train wreck! I'm going to enjoy it.

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Taken unedited from classic Star Trek episode "Patterns of Force"

Kirk: ooooh, ow. Mr. Spock, the guard did a very professional job on my back, I'd appreciate it if you hurry.
Spock: Yes, of course, Captain. You realise that the aim will, of course be very crude.
Kirk: Oooow. I don't care if... ow... you hit the... ow... broad side of a barn. Just hurry please!
Spock: Captain, why should I aim at such a structure.
Kirk. Never mind, Spock, just get on with the job. Ooooh, my goodness. Beautiful! Ow! Spock! Spock!

I would now like to write fic or an essay or something about how New!Trek K/S is like Fraser/RayK. But I'm going to be a good little big bang participant and try and write or die my way out of the corner I seem to be in right now.

Title: Memories of Love's Refrain [slash]
Author: muccamukk
Fandom: Iron Man (comics)
Spoilers/Warnings: Spoils Cap/Iron Man Annual form 1998. Fluff.
Number of Words: 900
Notes: Comment fic filling kijikun's prompt Steve/Tony after Steve finds out Tony made him forget he was Iron Man again. Thank you to seascribe for the speedy beta.

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( Captain America really should attribute the fact that it took him almost a week to track Tony down to simple misfortune. Obviously, he didn't. )

Title: Push and Pull [het]
Author: muccamukk
Fandom: Ultimates (comics)
Spoilers/Warnings: No real spoilers. Rated R for profanity and sexual situations. You know, Ultimates.
Number of Words: 450
Notes: Comment fic filling kijikun's prompt Ultimates Tony/Steve where Tony is Toni and always as been. Written with only basic knowledge of this corner of canon. No beta. You have been warned.

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( Toni leaned forward, the front of her black satin dress dropping with her shoulders. )

The first TEN people to comment in this post get to request a drabble or a sketch of any pairing/character (from one of my usual fandoms). Original fic is also allowed. You can toss names, photos, descriptions of personalities at me. In return, those ten people have to post this in their journals, regardless of their ability level.

I probably won't answer until after my move, but I may.

I may forget about this, by then.

Don't feel you have to post if you don't want to. I'm happy to have the prompts.

I seem to remember that last time I did this, one person responded.

Anyone know what the east coast American 1930s-'40s slang for "boy toy" would be? I'll take the one for "male prostitute" if needs be.

( Random Steve/Tony plot of silliness )

Title: No Unwounded Soldiers
Author: pervyficgirl
Fandom: Young Avengers/Batman
Words: 2,000
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Following Civil War, Kate takes a break to re-evaluate her place in the world now that her side has lost the war. During this time, she meets Stephanie Brown, who is still in hiding with Doc Leslie.
Notes: So, someone wrote Kate Bishop/Stephanie Brown. I may have to marry this person because of the sheer awesomeness of their brain. It's beautiful and painful in all the right places, and, best of all, there's hope.

Title: Walking in these shoes
Author: redfiona99
Fandom: Iron Man (Movie)
Words: 7,400
Rating: PG
Summary: Pepper Potts is the woman she'd always wanted to be. It's probably not all Tony's fault that her well-ordered life has just been blown to pieces. But it's definitely mostly his fault. (lgbtfest Prompt: 843 - Iron Man (movie), Tony Stark/Pepper Potts, Pepper is a tall girl, regardless, she always liked high heels even when she was a little boy.)
Notes: I don't know. I'm not artuculate enough to do more than draw sparkly purple hearts around this fic. It's pretty much wonderful in every way.

Let It Rock
Vidder: mranderson71
Song: "Let It Rock" by the Kevin Rudolph feat Lil Wayne
Clips from: The whole Iron Man movie, plus deleted scenes.
Notes: And then there were explosions, and Tony's brain = porn. And a surprising amount of insight given the song. May have to watch this a few hundred more times before I decide on the best part.

In addition, all of these icons are made of utter win.

Give me a character and I will give you at least four facts about them according to my own personal canon. This can range from their birthday, favourite colour or even their earliest memory up to what they had last night for dinner.

I don't know who the woman in red in the middle is, but I kind of want to marry her.

Scarlet Johansen blogs aobut her weight and getting into shape for Iron Man 2

"Claims have been made that I've been on a strict workout routine regulated by co-stars, whipped into shape by trainers I've never met, eating sprouted grains I can't pronounce and ultimately losing 14 pounds off my 5'3" frame. Losing 14 pounds out of necessity in order to live a healthier life is a huge victory. I'm a petite person to begin with, so the idea of my losing this amount of weight is utter lunacy. If I were to lose 14 pounds, I'd have to part with both arms. And a foot. I'm frustrated with the irresponsibility of tabloid media who sell the public ideas about what we should look like and how we should get there."

I'm not 100% she's a great choice for the Black Widow, but I like her a lot right now -g-

Amazon Rank! Amazon Rank! Amazon Rank!

Never buying anything there ever again.

Also, Bastards!

I, like quite a few comic fans I expect, am rather fond of Chris's Invincible Super-Blog. We share a delight in silliness and smashing things.

Reviews like this make me even more fond.

Captain Britain and MI-13 #12: And speaking of comics that I’ve said pretty much every last thing I can say about how awesome they are, here’s another issue of Captain Britain.

It is still written by Paul Cornell with art by Leonard Kirk.

It is still about racist Dracula attacking England from his magic moon castle.

It is still suffering only slightly from a dearth of Union Jack, who is mentioned but not in this issue. I double-checked.

It is still the best comic to feature Blade. Ever.

It is still completely and utterly radical, and you should still be reading it.

Also, I need to buy Ignition City, I think.

I find this post deeply horrifying.

I really am writing right now. Really.

ETA: reading about Sharon Carter is making me waver on Steve/Tony. I'm terrible at having OTPs. Really, I tend to ship most of my favourite characters as poly. Tony/Steve/Pepper/Happy/Jim/Maria/Bethany/Carol. Steve/Tony/Sharon/Sam/Bernie/Nick/Wanda/Arnie. And so on.

Preview of Captain America #49, in which Sharon Carter wears shorts and a t-shirt to bed and wanders about the house in a large dressing gown and flip flops. Also, they haven't forgotten that Sam Wilson exists. Nice to have Sharon back in the story. I've always been very fond.

Fuck off and die,

No love,

muccamukk.

This was inspired by the interview with Marvel Comics Editor in Chief Joe Quesada found here.

I'll just post the really good bit shall I?

Ted and Lisa
What's going on with female Marvel characters? Jean Grey's been dead for several years now, Shadowcat's basically dead, Ms. Marvel & Wasp are dead, Scarlet Witch and Songbird have been written out, She-Hulk's been replaced, Storm's usage is limited... any comments? Just trying out some fresh faces?

JQ: We’ve got a lot of strong female characters in all our books right now. The X-books always have a lot of strong female characters. Domino, Wolfsbane, X-23, Siryn, Monet, Layla Miller, Mirage, Karma, Magick, Magma, Rogue, Armor, Emma Frost, Pixie, and maybe somebody else coming back into the mix… not all of those characters are household names, but honestly neither are some of the ones you mentioned.
Storm’s only really sidelined if you don’t read ASTONISHING or BLACK PANTHER (who’s also female these days…), which you should!

Also, Elektra is female and she’s got her own limited series! Namora and Venus are right up front in Agents of Atlas, while Mockingbird is kicking butt and taking names in New Avengers: The Reunion.
Then over in Guardians of the Galaxy we’ve Gamora, Martyr and Mantis; Medusa and Crystal going to war in War of Kings; and in the pages of Thunderbolts #133, Songbird will be battling it out with Black Widow II. And if that’s not enough for ya, over in War Machine, we have Cybermancer and Bethany Cabe keeping James Rhodes flying, while the magical Jennifer Kale is a star in Marvel Zombies 4.

So I’d say that the ladies of the Marvel Universe are doing pretty good!

And let’s not forget Sue Storm, Valkyrie, Zarda, Carol Danvers, Kitty Pryde & the newly minted She-Hulk (among others!) tearing it up over in the Ultimate Universe.

This also seems like the perfect time to announce our Marvel Divas limited series, beginning in July, from Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and Tonci Zonjic, featuring some of the Marvel Universe’s greatest female heroes in a way you haven’t seem them before.
I’ll let Roberto explain:

“The idea behind the series was to have some sudsy fun and lift the curtain a bit and take a peep at some of our most fabulous super heroines. In the series, they're an unlikely foursome of friends--Black Cat, Hell Cat, Firestar, and Photon--with TWO things in common: They're all leading double-lives and they're all having romantic trouble. The pitch started as "Sex and the City" in the Marvel Universe, and there's definitely that "naughty" element to it, but I also think the series is doing to a deeper place, asking question about what it means...truly means...to be a woman in an industry dominated by testosterone and guns. (And I mean both the super hero industry and the comic book industry.) But mostly it's just a lot of hot fun.”

This is accompanied by this picture. (For bonus fun, check out the cover of Black Panther #5. Clearly Strom remains as strong and inspiration as ever.)

I... really don't know where to start. I think I'll just fall back on "fuck off and die."

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Random Note: I would like to note my continuing amusement at the fact that the worst thing Cam Mitchell can think to do to his evil double from an alternate universe is take away his pants. That that is all his evil double can think to do to Cam makes it even better.

Title: That One Man, Scorned and Covered with Scars [slash]
Author: muccamukk
Fandom: Iron Man/Classic Avengers (comics)
Spoilers/Warnings: Spoilers for various and sundry Pre-Civil War Iron Man plots. NC-17 for sex (some of it rough) and profanity. A rather loose interpretation of quite a bit of canon.
Number of Words: 3,960
Notes: Written for an iron_kink prompt about Tony's scars (which I took a Pirate Code approach to). This kind of turned into a monster on me. It also ties into two previous stories, and I've put links to them where they fit in the continuity (it can be read on its own just as well, if you like). Title lifted from "The Impossible Dream" from Man of La Mancha. Thank you to the ever patient culurien for the speedy beta.

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( Or, Four Times Steve Saw Tony's Scars and Had Sex with Him Anyway )

Title: Desktop [slash]
Author: muccamukk
Fandom: Classic Avengers (comic book)
Spoilers/Warnings: No spoilers. NC-17 for sex.
Number of Words: 970
Notes: Written for iron_kink prompt Tony/anyone, trying to have sex without his partner noticing the chestplate. Thank you to the insightful seascribe for beta reading!

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( Set during the very first years of the Avengers, before Steve knew that Tony was Iron Man. )

I just watched that animated movie The Next Avengers about all the Avenger sproglets plus Tony Stark fighting evil in the future.

( What they say is true: Tony/Angst really is Marvel's OTP these days, I mean wow. (Spoilers) )

I was also looking at the previews for this next week in Marvel comics, and I got a little more pissy at them then I ever have previously. I mean, come on, guys... ( (Spoilers for previews of The Might Avengers, Sword of the Braddocks, plus the content of this month's Dark Avengers) )

Totally picking up Captain America and New Avengers though. I gave up on Invincible Iron Man a couple of months back because the writer kept contradicting his own bloody characterisation and trying to lead his readers around by the nose.

The other day, I made a list of all the plot elements I'd included so far and all the ones I still needed to wrap up. I had eight on both side of the line. I suspect this is going to be more like NaNo length by the time it's done.

Also, my guys are refusing to slash. I suspect I'm going to have to go back and weave some sort of romantic element in, which is no doubt going to come off as my slash is pastded on yay! Whatever.

Everyone at capiron_bigbang is posting drabble excerpts of their stories, mine is here.