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Oh, it is a Monday. The very Monday-est of Mondays.
Ignoring the workday world, which is doing its best to give me a migraine already, I signed up for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
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mini_wrimo for another year. I actually can't remember how many years I've done this, but it's been a lot (""). I've come to the conclusion that it works best for me to only commit to 100 words/day (I usually end up writing two or three times that, but if I commit to anything higher it becomes a stress point and nothing gets done) so that's all done.
Also, I know several of you wanted to know what I thought of Black Widow: Forever Red and I do have a few things to say. I'll put it behind a cut (no spoilers, just cutting because sometimes I want to go into a story w/o dealing with someone else's reactions, so if that's you, look away, look away!)
Right, so I said in my readathon round-up that I liked it, and that still holds. In some ways, I like it better after a bit of processing time, partially because I went back and read the first 6 issues of the most recent Black Widow comic run, and I really like the novel's characterization of Natasha much more than the comic arc. I *like* her--she's badass (like, really, really badass, yay), but she's not an emotionless drone.
That being said, there are other characters in the novel that take up a fair amount of real estate and that seems to piss off a lot of reveiwers. I would *like* more Natasha in my Black Widow novel, but I found the Natasha who was there to be interesting. I like that Stohl reached out and took various pieces of the comics-verse and the MCU and used them to craft her own universe. I like that Natasha is not so hollowed out by guilt and remorse, like she is in the current BW run, but with a little more insight to the glib, snarky character of CA:TWS. She is snappy and snarky (her testimony to the DOD, a transcript of which is interspersed throughout the novel, reads like an extension of the MCU character), but there's enough from her POV to fill in behind that front. (Possibly this is just that I can take the tiniest bit of something I want from my media and run like hell with it, so this feels like a lot. Hi, slasher, here. YMMV, obvs.)
Also! (especially for my flist/circle) there is no Hawkeye at all. NONE. My shipper/partner heart wept; my brain decided it fit into the Dead/Ronin timeslot. It wasn't a deal-breaker, but OF COURSE I thought it would have been better with a little Hawkeye. On the other hand, Stohl gives good Stark.
As I said in my goodreads review, it's not like I'm drowning in options for a well-written Black Widow (especially for options that signal the money people at Disney that there is an audience for this character so please get to filling it.) This isn't perfect, but my god, have any of you read the most recent Wonder Woman run? The only reason I didn't throw it across the room was because I was reading on my ipad, but I was still tempted. It's not going to replace The Name of the Rose for my favorite, but it is going to factor into any characterization of Natasha I write as I go forward.
Ignoring the workday world, which is doing its best to give me a migraine already, I signed up for
mini_wrimo/mini_wrimo for another year. I actually can't remember how many years I've done this, but it's been a lot (""). I've come to the conclusion that it works best for me to only commit to 100 words/day (I usually end up writing two or three times that, but if I commit to anything higher it becomes a stress point and nothing gets done) so that's all done.Also, I know several of you wanted to know what I thought of Black Widow: Forever Red and I do have a few things to say. I'll put it behind a cut (no spoilers, just cutting because sometimes I want to go into a story w/o dealing with someone else's reactions, so if that's you, look away, look away!)
Right, so I said in my readathon round-up that I liked it, and that still holds. In some ways, I like it better after a bit of processing time, partially because I went back and read the first 6 issues of the most recent Black Widow comic run, and I really like the novel's characterization of Natasha much more than the comic arc. I *like* her--she's badass (like, really, really badass, yay), but she's not an emotionless drone.
That being said, there are other characters in the novel that take up a fair amount of real estate and that seems to piss off a lot of reveiwers. I would *like* more Natasha in my Black Widow novel, but I found the Natasha who was there to be interesting. I like that Stohl reached out and took various pieces of the comics-verse and the MCU and used them to craft her own universe. I like that Natasha is not so hollowed out by guilt and remorse, like she is in the current BW run, but with a little more insight to the glib, snarky character of CA:TWS. She is snappy and snarky (her testimony to the DOD, a transcript of which is interspersed throughout the novel, reads like an extension of the MCU character), but there's enough from her POV to fill in behind that front. (Possibly this is just that I can take the tiniest bit of something I want from my media and run like hell with it, so this feels like a lot. Hi, slasher, here. YMMV, obvs.)
Also! (especially for my flist/circle) there is no Hawkeye at all. NONE. My shipper/partner heart wept; my brain decided it fit into the Dead/Ronin timeslot. It wasn't a deal-breaker, but OF COURSE I thought it would have been better with a little Hawkeye. On the other hand, Stohl gives good Stark.
As I said in my goodreads review, it's not like I'm drowning in options for a well-written Black Widow (especially for options that signal the money people at Disney that there is an audience for this character so please get to filling it.) This isn't perfect, but my god, have any of you read the most recent Wonder Woman run? The only reason I didn't throw it across the room was because I was reading on my ipad, but I was still tempted. It's not going to replace The Name of the Rose for my favorite, but it is going to factor into any characterization of Natasha I write as I go forward.
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No Hawkeye is tragic!!
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God of they did anything BW/Hawkeye (not even shippy, just being a team) they would make millions. From me alone.
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The Azzarello/Chiang run or the Meredith & David Finch one that started last year?
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Did you get to any of the stuff with Donna Troy?
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