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It's Thursday, we reached May, this week's post is huge, let's get some comics-y superhero-y goodness!
'“You mortals are truly horrendous at naming constellations.”'
This week's fanfiction is short and sweet.
I fully admit it - this be schmoopy af.
No angst as far as the eye can see. (...Which is highly unusual with me involved, obviously 😅)
It's Thursday, this is Dora Reads, let's get some comics-y superhero-y goodness!
It's Thursday, I'm very tired, but we've got lots of comics-y superhero-y goodness, so let's get to it!
Whenever someone's complaining about the attitudes of small children, and says something along the lines of:
well, you know what kids are like...
- my brain has a moment of confusion where it's like:
...Beethoven fans?
And then I realise that they don't mean that at all.
I've made no secret of the fact that I was a weird, precocious, little kid.
At the age of six, I loved fine art and classical music and reading reading reading.
My parents had only the barest knowledge of classical music, and none of fine art. So it's safe to say it was a learning experience for them 😅
'Richie, who calls Eddie up sometimes in the middle of the night to explain the entire plot of a novel he just read in two hours to him.'
This is a weird one - and not in the usual way that fanfiction is weird.
This is weird because it's so... grown-up.
I mean... grown-up fanfiction, who knew?
(And no, I don't mean in an 18+ sexy-times way - that's way more common. 😅)
It's Thursday, we're still here, this is Dora Reads, so let's get some comics-y superhero-y goodness!
'But the lies were out there, circulating, and were made into a movie, which is a really mixed blessing. Let’s pretend this narration is over the title crawl, and cut to our heroine...'
This week's fic is based on the amazing staple of Sapphic culture that is Jennifer's Body.
Jennifer's Body is a 2009 cult-classic unapologetically Queer horror film.
I love it, and, yes, I've rec'd fics on it before. Jennifer's Body fic authors write some interesting stuff!
'Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.'
- Holocaust survivor Primo Levi
I've been reading a lot of mission fics lately, so I figured I'd take the time to revisit a few of my faves
(...and take you all along for the ride, ofc 😉)
So, let's slow down and rewind so's everyone's on the same page: what is a mission fic?
A mission fic is a piece of fanfiction that's based around an episodic-style storyline - not dissimilar to a monster-of-the-week/murder-of-the-week style vibe.
They're usually (but not always) written about fandoms which involve a lot of action/adventure hijinks - especially if they contain characters who are in the military, or are military-adjacent.
It's Thursday, this is Dora Reads, so let's get some comics-y superhero-y goodness!
Just a few things for you this week - and everything is in the 'Other Stuff' category, for which we will, of course #BlameLoki
It's Thursday, it's January, by the time we remember to write 2022 it'll be 2023, let's get some comics-y superhero-y goodness!
Everything I have for you is in the 'Other Stuff' category. *shrugs* #BlameLoki
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!
'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.)
'The first time Michael saw him after it happened was on the boardwalk. Three months, two days.'
This is the last Fics Fix of October, and Halloween is just a few days away, so it seems like the perfect time for some Queer vampires!
So this week we're talking one of my faves - the film The Lost Boys. (Which, yes, is Queer af - deny it all you want, you can't change the truth.)
It's Thursday, this is still Dora Reads, let's get some comics-y, superhero-y goodness!
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'..."Uh, yup." Richie shrugged. "Just all reconnected this weekend for some good old fashioned sewer clown fighting and murder."'
I love the IT movies.
- That's the modern, 2010s, IT parts 1 & 2.
(Technically the films are IT, and IT: Chapter 2, but you all know what I mean, so expect me just to call them parts 1 & 2 throughout this post.)
I haven't seen the Tim Curry adaptation - though I might get around to it one of these days, purely because Tim Curry.
I also haven't actually read the Stephen King novel because it's one of those 1000+ page behemoths that you have to kind of psych yourself up to tackle, and I'm yet to summon the sufficient energy and desire to do so.
Again, I might get around to it at some point, since I'm a general Stephen King fan.
Since it's October, and therefore a time for all things spooky and gothic (woohoo!) I thought I'd give you all a little taste of some horror fics.
Some of these are horror in that the specific piece of fanfiction is horror-based, and some of them are actually based on horror media/fandoms. OK? OK.
Oh, and they're all Queer af.
It's Thursday, Comics Wrap-Up is back, this is Dora Reads, let's get an absolutely huge helping of comics-y superhero-y goodness!