Eliyes

Today I was reading an Avengers fanfic -- as in, set during the movie -- with switching POVs and encountered an author's note that said for Steve's POV they weren't going to use contractions "because they probably didn't have those in the 40s".

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WHAT THE FUCK.

Like, do the tiniest bit of research! Watch a movie from the 40s! Hello, listen to some music! Louis Jordan recorded Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby? in 1943. The song Isn't It Romantic? was in at least 5 movies between 1932 and Steve shipping out!

PICK UP ANY PLAY BY SHAKESPEARE, YOU WILL FIND CONTRACTIONS IN IT, THEY PREDATE THE 1940S BY A LOT!!!

Or, if you can't be bothered with even the tiniest bit of research or thought, fucking watch the Avengers movie. Steve uses contractions. Or did you somehow miss the infamous, "Son, just don't."?????

*flails around in aggravation*

eliyes: okay, so, I basically downloaded the soundtrack for The Chipmunk Adventure because I wanted the song Gettin' Lucky
eliyes: I don't know if it's a cover or what
eliyes: but now
eliyes: I am picturing various non-chipmunk fictional people singing it
kiffie: *cackling*
eliyes: and possibly dancing with cartoon snakes the same way
kiffie: XD
eliyes: I AM PICTURING SHARON AND STEVE STANDING IN A ROOM FULL OF DEFEATED HYDRA AGENTS SINGING IT BACK AND FORTH
kiffie: See, my childhood association with the Chipmunks was Bat-Munk, so... uh... that's having an interesting time in my mind, at the moment.
kiffie: Oh, come now... Serpent Society, surely. Timelines be damned.
eliyes: OH HONEY HONEY GIVE ME *punch* A CLUE *kick, elbow* WONTCHA TELL ME WHAT I NEED TO DO *flying tackle*
eliyes: sure, serpent society also works
kiffie: The little BONG as someone hits the shield
eliyes: although Steve seems to have actua hahaha
eliyes: actual emotional ties to some of them, or vice versa
eliyes: bong hahaha
eliyes: it's hard to be taken seriously as a supervillain when Captain America has done a pseudo Elvis impression while singing into your tail
eliyes: if you don't have any clue what I mean I can find a video on youtube for you
kiffie: ...I am picturing this.
kiffie: This is making my head hurt.
eliyes: can you imagine? in the costume, swivelling his hips and knees, flinging an arm into the air with his head down to the mic/tail -- and catches the shield XD
eliyes: Sharon & Natasha: *clap*
eliyes: Natasha: *pauses to tranq dart a thug, goes back to clapping, face polite*
kiffie: oh god. *laughing*

If you'd like some context for that post I made with all the pictures of Captain America in corsets, now you can have some! GayLeague has posted the relevant pages, as well as given some info on where to look for reprints and also some context for the story itself.

For example, it's a rare example of an American superhero fighting Nazis printed before the USA got involved in the war -- the issue came out April of 1941, more than half a year before Pearl Harbor was bombed. (Remember, the Mayor of New York wound up giving the guys working on the Cap comic a police protection detail because they were being sent hate mail and death threats, menacing people were loitering by their building, and people were following them around -- all because they were angry at the anti-Nazi message in the Captain America comics.)

Can I just say how amazed I am that Steve and Bucky travelled from the States to Portugal by air, then by train from there through France to Germany, then to England (I presume a boat or another plane was involved at some point there) -- all in these disguises?! That's a pretty extensive undercover gig as a old bag in a corset, Steve!

Namore the Sub-Mariner, daughter of Atlantean princess Len and human ship-captain Ferdinand McKenzie
Bertrand "Bertie" Dean, NYPD cop
The Human Torch, aka Jane Hammond, NYPD cop
Zina the Flaming Girl, aka Thomasina Raymond
Bucky, aka Jemima "Jemmy" Barnes (people think Bucky's a boy)
Captain America, aka Stephanie Rogers (people know Cap's a woman)
Union Jack (II), aka Jonathan "Jack" Falsworth (his sister calls him Jackie-boy)
Destroyer, aka Brianna Falsworth
Dyna-Mite, aka Rachel Aubrey

Okay, so Namore was a typo of Namora, but you know, I kinda like it? Can we keep it?

artist here

*laughs behind hands*

(eta: I've changed the title from "nanny" to "granny" to decrease confusion. I call my grandmother "Nanny"...)

Title: In the faces of our children
Fandom: Captain America: The First Avenger (movie), Avengers (movie)
Author's Notes: Okay, so, in the Cap movie one of the Howling Commandos is Montgomery Falsworth. (He seems to fill in Pinky's spot.) In the comics, Monty was a costumed hero in WWI, and it was his son Brian who fought at Cap's side -- along with Brian's lover Roger, and younger sister Jackie. This story is an exercise in incorporating the family's movie-adjusted timeline into things. (The title is from the song We Rise Again by The Rankin Family.)
A/N 2: This is unbetaed, and unBrit-picked, so if you spot any errors, feel free to point them out to me!


( Featuring opinions I figure movie Cap probably has )
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Actually a pretty good film! If the trailers I saw when it was in theatres had had more of "Bruce Banner runs from the Army and seeks a cure" and less "BLARRR ABOMINATION BLARRR" I might have watched it sooner.

Seriously, it made me like Bruce Banner and Betty Ross, something the comics have never entirely succeeded with. And like them together, as friends and partners and a couple. They were so caring of each other, gentle but strong in their convictions and love. I liked it. The special effects and pre-Abomination fight scenes were pretty good.

I'm glad "Mr. Blue" didn't turn out to be Reed Richards, gotta say.

Need to track down the short that expands on that scene at the end with Ross and Stark, and the other one, "A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To Thor's Hammer". Coulson! :D

I'll probably rewatch the Cap movie tonight or tomorrow. Planning to go see The Avengers Thursday (please no spoilers!), so I gotta prep! Probably skim a synopsis of the second Iron man movie while I'm at it.

Title: Visiting With Vikings
Fandom: Marvel (Avengers? Captain America and Thor, at least)
Summary: Sif meets Thor's friend Steve.
A/N: Applying stuff about Viking culture to Marvel's Asgardians produces plotbunnies. Thanks to kiffie for the beta read!


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Dreamt Bucky (as Bucky, but with the longer Winter Soldier style hair, only healthier) and Bones (2009 AOS version) were interacting hilariously.

(For obvious reasons, they didn't get along. If you think Bones disapproves of Jim's enthusiastic shenanigans...)

WTH, brain.

Bought a Commander Rogers action figure, put the Luke and Danny figure set on hold in my file, also bought the Callahan book I'd accidentally skipped (damn wikipedia entry listed them in the wrong order), ate a piece of chocolate cake, and watched Connie and Carla which was better than I expected and heartwarming and fun and shiny.

Title: Do you know that courage can wash away your tears?
A/N 1: Title is a line from "Stand Up" by Susan Aglukark.
A/N 2: Near the beginning of the Captain America movie, I leaned over to the friend sitting beside me and said, "They've combined Bucky with Arnie Roth!" She thinks they aged up Bucky to Steve's equal to avoid killing a "kid"; I just figure they wanted to reduce the number of characters to something manageable. Whatever the reason, it made me write this: a tribute to Arnie Roth.


( Steve Rogers sat in a hard plastic chair by a hospital bed. )
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A/N 3: I forgot! Thank you, kiffie, for beta reading this, and lizblackdog, for a timely spot of good advice!

Sooo... I picked up Essential Marvel Captain America volume 3 (vol. 2 is all sold out) aaaand...

Cap and Falcon are really in a relationship, huh?

I mean, when Doom's Bucky-bot is revealed as "Bucky Barnes back from the dead!" on TV (and just... don't even get me started on Baron von Strucker trolling the gyms of San Francisco looking for the perfect young man with which to lure in Captain America, seriously), Falcon's watching at home and gets all emo because he'd really been hoping he and Cap could be partners... they'd seemed to really hit it off 'n all... And then when Falcon gets a girlfriend, Cap's all like "if he's with her then he can't be with me! *choke sob*" and I just stare at the page.

Also, I would like to know what Cap's tone of voice was when he told Fury he wanted him to meet someone, since it caused Fury to throw an arm around Cap's shoulders and say, "You know my type, pal -- cute 'n' cuddly, with big blue eyes." (*cough* You mean like, oh, Steve Rogers, Nick?) To which Cap replied by describing Falcon's "bulging biceps".

Regardless, it's interesting to see Falcon in these early stories, and to see the two of them dealing with having an interracial partnership. Falcon gets a lot of flak from his community for working with a white dude -- especially one as iconic as Captain America. He really feels a need to prove himself, and his frustration with Cap's seeming innocence about modern race relations is both clear and understandable. But they try to work through it. (And really, compared to the America Steve Rogers grew up in, I wonder how much progress things seemed to have had, to his eyes?)


P.S. Cap's boycrush on Clark Gable is adorable.