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22 May 2012 23:43A second test, this time with attempts at cut-aways and posting from a client...
* DC is apparently queering an established heretofore heterosexual character. Grant Morrison thinks it's Batman, but he seems to have forgotten that there's this tiny little indie arthouse film coming out in which Bruce Wayne has romance with at least one woman. Dan DiDio has made an incalculable number of really, really stupid decisions during his tenure, but turning Batman gay right before The Dark Knight Rises would shoot straight to the top of the list. Even beyond bringing back Barry Allen and Jason Todd.
DiDio is a big enough idiot to make it Wonder Woman, because he'd totally not understand that it would be validating the BS about every physically strong woman being a lesbian and why that's not good.
Regardless of who it actually is, my general response is that this is a Bad Idea. Not because having gay/lesbian/minority/Other major characters is bad, because it's not. And it's not like DC wasn't quietly building up their stable of interesting characters who happened to be gay (Rene Montoya, Kate Kane, Piper, etc.) But to pull a stunt like this... there's no way they don't mess it up so badly that it's going to leave them, narratively and meta-wise, in a worse position than if they hadn't tried. DC needs the attention and the money, I get that. And shafting their long-term fans in favor of a short-term blast is how they respond to any cash call. But this is just so... Kardashian.
* I tried to start Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age and had to stop; I always forget how much I dislike his cyberpunk stories. I love the Baroque Cycle and think quite highly of The Cryptonomicon, but I just don't like the rest of his present and near-future stories at all. I don't like the genre, really, and not even a good writer can overcome that.
* Avengers: Is there any actual canon on movieverse Hawkeye or can we just go with whatever combination of Ultimates and 616-verse we want to supplement our imaginations if we were at all inclined to write fic?
side note: I want Captain America 2 to be the Winter Soldier arc and I want an excuse to hoist my Bucky/Natasha 'ship flag.
second side note: thank you to everyone who has given Avengers fic recs; I am always open to more because I am greedy like that.
* Television: ( CBS finales fail )
* DC is apparently queering an established heretofore heterosexual character. Grant Morrison thinks it's Batman, but he seems to have forgotten that there's this tiny little indie arthouse film coming out in which Bruce Wayne has romance with at least one woman. Dan DiDio has made an incalculable number of really, really stupid decisions during his tenure, but turning Batman gay right before The Dark Knight Rises would shoot straight to the top of the list. Even beyond bringing back Barry Allen and Jason Todd.
DiDio is a big enough idiot to make it Wonder Woman, because he'd totally not understand that it would be validating the BS about every physically strong woman being a lesbian and why that's not good.
Regardless of who it actually is, my general response is that this is a Bad Idea. Not because having gay/lesbian/minority/Other major characters is bad, because it's not. And it's not like DC wasn't quietly building up their stable of interesting characters who happened to be gay (Rene Montoya, Kate Kane, Piper, etc.) But to pull a stunt like this... there's no way they don't mess it up so badly that it's going to leave them, narratively and meta-wise, in a worse position than if they hadn't tried. DC needs the attention and the money, I get that. And shafting their long-term fans in favor of a short-term blast is how they respond to any cash call. But this is just so... Kardashian.
* I tried to start Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age and had to stop; I always forget how much I dislike his cyberpunk stories. I love the Baroque Cycle and think quite highly of The Cryptonomicon, but I just don't like the rest of his present and near-future stories at all. I don't like the genre, really, and not even a good writer can overcome that.
* Avengers: Is there any actual canon on movieverse Hawkeye or can we just go with whatever combination of Ultimates and 616-verse we want to supplement our imaginations if we were at all inclined to write fic?
side note: I want Captain America 2 to be the Winter Soldier arc and I want an excuse to hoist my Bucky/Natasha 'ship flag.
second side note: thank you to everyone who has given Avengers fic recs; I am always open to more because I am greedy like that.
* Television: ( CBS finales fail )
