It's Thursday, 2021 is - to paraphrase my countryman Dylan Thomas - going gentle into that good night, so let's get some comics-y superhero-y goodness!
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Thursday 30 December 2021
Thursday 23 December 2021
Comics Wrap-Up - Though It Never Really Snows, It's More Like Horizontal Sleet
It's Thursday, Christmas is so close, let's get some comics-y superhero-y goodness right here on Dora Reads!
Thursday 16 December 2021
Comics Wrap-Up - Oh, Santa, It's Been A Real Hard Year
It's Thursday, Christmas is rapidly approaching, let's get some comics-y superhero-y goodness!
Thursday 9 December 2021
Thursday 2 December 2021
Comics Wrap-Up - I Told This Kid I'm Ready For A Fight
It's Thursday, it is December somehow, this is Dora Reads, so let's get some comics-y superhero-y goodness!
Friday 26 November 2021
Friday Fics Fix - Loki Angst Time! (Woo!)
'Thor was… strangely prone to crying lately, which Loki didn’t appreciate but had to endure nonetheless.'
Angst time! Angst time! Time to have an angst fest! 😅
...I'm random, but ya love it 😜
Thursday 25 November 2021
Comics Wrap-Up - And He'll Brace For Battle in the Night
It's Thursday, this is Dora Reads, I'm still Cee and still here, let's get some comics-y superhero-y goodness!
Thursday 18 November 2021
Comics Wrap-Up - A Fortune For Your Disaster
It's Thursday, I'm tired, let's get some superhero-y comics-y goodness!
Thursday 11 November 2021
Comics Wrap-Up - I Forget All About The Storm Outside
It's Thursday, it's still 2021, let's get some comics-y superhero-y goodness!
Friday 5 November 2021
Friday Fics Fix - Frosted Fears
'The flicker catches, spreads, a surge of certainty that this, all of this, is wrong, that there’s something missing, as though he’s been looking at everything through a blur, like the heat-haze above an open fire, ever shifting and obscuring the truth.
Tony grabs Loki by the collar, shoves him, not nearly as hard as he’s capable of, but hard enough.'
It's been a surprisingly long time since I rec'd FrostIron.
It's time to rectify that 😉
(Fandom notes: FrostIron is a sexual and/or romantic relationship between Tony Stark and Loki from the Marvel movies. After the initial 'WTF?' you will realise that it actually makes a lot of sense.)
Thursday 4 November 2021
Comics Wrap-Up - Taking A Ride To My Old Haunts
It's Thursday, it's November, let's get some comics-y superhero-y goodness, right here on Dora Reads!
Thursday 28 October 2021
Comics Wrap-Up - I Burned All The Place Down 'Cause I'm Too F**king Hot
It's Thursday, we're still standing, and this is Dora Reads - so let's get some superhero-y, comics-y goodness!
Friday 22 October 2021
Friday Fics Fix - What If Zemo Was In the Zombie Apocalypse (With Bucky)?
'...he smiled, apparently amused. “The apocalypse seems to make for strange bedfellows. A Sokovian Baron and a Winter Soldier walk into a bar.”'
Due to the current vastness of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU - the Marvel movies) sometimes it can be difficult to explain where, within the sprawling fandom and its sub-fandoms, fan-created content fits in.
This week's fic is mostly based on the Marvel's What If..? zombies episode, but also reaches into the main continuity, and hoiks out Zemo, dropping him into the zombie-ness so that he can play too.
While Zemo was present in Captain America: Civil War, he really came into his
own in The Falcon and The Winter Soldier (TFATWS.) Civil War
has happened in this universe (or at least, the fic author presumes,)
but TFATWS hasn't.
Thursday 21 October 2021
Comics Wrap-Up - They Treat Me Like If I Did Something Criminal
It's Thursday, this is still Dora Reads, let's get some comics-y, superhero-y goodness!
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Thursday 14 October 2021
Comics Wrap-Up - Risk Something, Take Back What's Yours
It's Thursday, this is Dora Reads, let's get some superhero-y, comics-y goodness!
Thursday 7 October 2021
Comics Wrap-Up - What You Build, You Lay To Waste
It's Thursday, it's October, this is Dora Reads, let's get some superhero-y comics-y goodness!
Friday 1 October 2021
Friday Fics Fix - Trope Stew With SamBucky (You Know You Love It!)
'Bucky’s knife skills are like a well-choreographed dance, smooth and dangerous and beautiful. He moves like water, the knife a true extension of his arm, and it’s all Sam can do not to let his mouth drop open like a goddamn cartoon character.'
To the surprise of probably no-one by this point, I'm here to rec you some more The Falcon and The Winter Soldier (TFATWS) - specifically, more SamBucky.
(Look, the inside of my head is essentially a big ball of tangled spaghetti, the confusion of which is relieved by the presence of various fictional characters, who have taken their spots rent-free, and who fight each other for dominance.
Right now, Sam and Bucky are winning. 😅)
(Fandom Notes:
SamBucky is a romantic and/or sexual relationship between Sam and Bucky. Hence the name, lol.)
Thursday 30 September 2021
Comics Wrap-Up - Woke Up Today, In A Van
It's Thursday, the UK has entered the 'fuel shortage' stage of whatever apocalyptic media it is that we're currently inhabiting, let's get some superhero-y comics-y goodness!
Thursday 23 September 2021
Comics Wrap-Up - Too Good To Be True, What Chance Did You Stand?
It's Thursday, this is Dora Reads, so let's get some comics-y, superhero-y goodness!
Friday 17 September 2021
Friday Fics Fix - Sh** Goes Down At The Mall
'...he’s able to slink into a shadowed Pottery Barn. He makes it past the faint light cast from the skylights in the atrium, then the pain crashes over him.'
I love a good mission fic.
Especially when it's a The Falcon and The Winter Soldier (TFATWS) mission fic.
Especially when it's a TFATWS mission fic with much Bucky whump and lots of hurt/comfort.
And it was my birthday on Wednesday, so I get exactly what I want 😜😘