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[topaz119]

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What I Just Finished
Thanks to a VP who is alll frothing at the mouth about efficiency, I haven't read much but things associated with Getting Things Done this week. Don't get me wrong--I find this system of managing tasks, projects and the inboxes of Doom to be my favorite and it has been for years, but I could have done without the "lunch and learn" discussion groups. (New VP. All energetic and stuff. Go team?)

Anyway. The only non-work-related thing I read this week was a novella I found while cleaning up my kindle library (said cleaning being a part of the great We Will Become More Efficient mandate, and quite frankly, one of the better results. I mean, who really cares if I went through 11,000 emails in my inbox and assorted folders? Nice, but doesn't hold a candle to reading material I'd forgotten I had) -- one of Deanna Raybourn's Lady Julias. The wedding one, to be exact. V. v. enjoyable, mostly because it had high crazy-family-to-Julia/Brisbane-fighting-about-how-involved-she-should-be ratios and those are always my favorites. Also, Aquinas was at Belmont Abbey to oversee the nuptials and I do love me some competent, organized butlering with a heavy side of sarcasm (cf. Jarvis.)

What I'm Reading Now
Amazon/Audible have a thing where you can get a narrated book for cheap if you have the kindle edition, and they do a free one every month. This month happened to be Little Women, the kindle edition of which is also free, so hey, Marmee and Jo and Laurie are currently living on my phone for freeeeeeee.

Next?
I've got Mary Shelley (thanks, ariadnes_string!) to fill in around where last week's free verse biography left me itching for more details.

TV
Hey, I actually have watched some! Cutting for spoilers...


Arrow
So, when Felicity expressed quiet horror that none of Oliver's stories were happy, I was right there with her. I told withdiamonds that I couldn't even figure out how to write those two, that he was too damaged. I was onboard the ship until about the point when Black Canary showed up and the nasty stuff on the (nonfandom) ship started happening and then-- wow, I can *always* work out at least a hopeful ending, but yikes, not this one, at least not yet. (BTW, I seem to be in the minority on this one, but yeah, I can absolutely see Laurel falling apart with the booze and the pills. I mean, give the girl a break: she held it together through her sister's death, Oliver's betrayal, her parent's divorce, her father's alcoholism, Oliver's return, assorted personal attacks, Tommy's death, the earthquake, etc, etc, etc, but that last bit with the serial killer-- ::shudders:: She is totally allowed to fall apart, except of course Laurel Lance doesn't fall apart, she refuses to let herself be vulnerable, so classic sublimation and PTSD, your table is ready.)

Also, I may or may not have 1000 words of Felicity/Dig that came flying out of my head during a seminar on mobile payment solutions but nobody can prove nothin'.


Agents of SHIELD
Ok, so I am in this totally for Coulson--I'm sort of handwaving the rest of it, because #CoulsonLives, dammit. Given that criteria, I am fine with it all, even before we get to Melinda May and HOW MUCH I WANT TO KNOW WHAT WENT ON BACK IN THE DAY. ::awaits:: (Also, it would be very nice of them NOT to tell me what's up with Coulson living for a bit as I have a Clint/Coulson dealing with that very subject in progress and I would dearly love to get it posted before it gets jossed.)


SPN
Okay, *somebody* has to have written Dorothy/Charlie in Oz, right? Or do I have to add that to my list of things I'm going to have to figure out how to write? Yeah, thought so.

Movies
I might keel over before we actually get to Cap 2 next spring. The boys are already preparing to point and mock when we hit Thor 2 this weekend and get the bonus Winter Soldier footage. And let's not even *talk* about Days of Future Past. The X-Men were my first comics love and I read them religiously in the 70s. I usually count Han Solo blasting Darth Vader away from Luke's X-Wing as my fannish triggering event, but Jean/Scott/Logan had me primed for that trigger.

Has anyone seen a post-Avengers timeline? IM3 happened the Christmas after the Chitauri, but have we nailed down how Thor 2 and Cap 2 fit in? I have all these ideas that need to be slotted into a timeframe.

If you got that far, please! have a virtual cookie! mwhah!

Comments

[vickita]

Okay, *somebody* has to have written Dorothy/Charlie in Oz, right?

There's gotta be. I mean, *SRSLY*.

[topaz119]

I feel like I need to crack open my omnibus kindle edition of all the LFB Oz books and see where they might end up!

[jenna_thorn]

Beadslut and I both had that reaction:

Bea: Oh! Dorothy/Charlie! All the Dorothy/ Charlie!
Jenna: I'm on it! let me dig out all of the Oz books from storage and spend the next two months reading them to ... um. How about some non canon pwp?
Bea: *facepalm*

Hoist on our own research tendencies.

[topaz119]

Revisionist history! Non-canon sex is way better than unnoted death and resurrection! Go! Write! (It's too bad yuletide noms are closed already...)

[jb_slasher]

I think I read somewhere that IM3, Thor 2 and Cap 2 are all set at the same time but this could just be speculation since it was probably around the time of The Avengers that I read it. So, no actual idea here.

[topaz119]

I'd thought I read that, too, but then the trailers and all don't quite square with the Christmas time-frame of IM3, so...

hmmm.

[musesfool]

There hasn't been an official post-Avengers timeline posted, though I've seen interviews where someone (Evans? Feige?) said Cap 2 is set real time post-Avengers, so two years after, in which Steve and Natasha apparently partner up frequently. But I also saw Cobie Smulders recently say Cap 2 is just after the Battle of New York, which doesn't seem like it's right, but she's seen the script and I haven't. *hands*

I know there was a ton of fannish spec that Cap 2 and Thor 2 had to take place around the same time as Iron Man, because apparently that's how it worked in the run up to Avengers, and otherwise, why wasn't Cap on the plane with the President? But I also think it was mostly Shane Black's thing for Christmas and Cap 2 at least will not be happening at the same time.

[topaz119]

Maybe it Cap 2 and Thor 2 will have happened right before IM3, thus negating the need for holiday scenery in those two movies. And then, if everyone is dealing with the fallout from their adventures, they maybe didn't have time to react to all the stuff happening in IM3?

And Steve and Natasha seem awfully chummy for anything set immediately post-Avengers, but yeah, like you said, what do we know?

I'm rolling my eyes at myself because I'm going through all this for what's basically a throw-away PWP, but hey, details!

[alphaflyer.livejournal.com]

Also, it would be very nice of them NOT to tell me what's up with Coulson living for a bit as I have a Clint/Coulson dealing with that very subject in progress and I would dearly love to get it posted before it gets jossed.

Yes. This. Mine isn't a Clint/Coulson but rather a Clint & Coulson (Chapter 5 of "Skies Over Manhattan" which I thought was finished but which decided, pretty much on its own, that it wasn't).

Not having seen Thor 2 my guess (and that's all it is) would be early Spring (10-12 months) after the Chitauri, and based on the stills from Cap and the length of Widow's hair, that looks like summer or about a year after.

[topaz119.livejournal.com]

oh, excellent, I would love more of Skies!

As for the timeline, I can't decide if I hallucinated someone at Marvel saying that all three post-Avengers movies happened at about the same time, the way IM2, Thor & Hulk did or if it's sequential. I just have this total PWP idea to tack onto the end of Come Near and I kinda want to know when Natasha is off with Cap in relation to the end of IM3.

Details, details...

[alphaflyer.livejournal.com]

oh excellent -- more of Come Near!!!

All I can say is, Natasha's hair needs time to grow ... that said, the whole idea that Avengers took place in May 2012 (when it was released) is probably just fanon, isn't it?

[topaz119.livejournal.com]

hmm, yeah, though, I want less of an absolute date and more of a relative time frame... kind of Avengers+x months.

I think that's how Marvel did it with the run-up to the Avengers--it was the "I am Iron Man" speech +/- time to the events of the other movies.

[ariadnes-string.livejournal.com]

Hope you enjoy the Mary Shelley bio! I have such a soft spot for her, especially perhaps in her thwarted post-Percy life--the part people don't usually read about.

[topaz119.livejournal.com]

I'm looking forward to filling in all the details -- though I have to say this will be more than I've read in the last few months combined!