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etherati's Watchmen fics make me so very happy (and also afraid of posting my one sad little h/c fic when it's back from beta, because OMG, hers are gorgeous). The characterization, the prose, the mood... the zombies ^_^ Seriously, her zombie AU is probably my favorite Watchmen fic of all time, even more than spy's AU or theonlytwin's threesome fics.Things that do not make me happy? LotR authors who like to throw around phrases like "the golden-haired elf" (Which one? That's, like, every elf in the movies and half the elves in the books) and "the young [noun]" instead of using the character's bloody name. Especially "the young [noun]" in close third. Teenagers? Do not think of themselves as young. 400-year-old elves? Definately don't think of themselves that way, even if 400 *is* young in eleven terms.
The Fluffle is filled with bliss when the Stevelet licks his face, but seems to be confused and distressed when I lick him. This clearly falls under the same "things I thought the cat would like, but which inexplicably distress him" category that putting butter on his nose did.
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Yes, Superman/Batman pairings seem to attract that
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Going back and forth between "Bruce" and "Batman" for no apparent reason is a minor but perpetual source of irritation for me in DCU fics. "Bruce" and "Batman" aren't just two different names for the same guy; they're two distinct personnas. It's annoying with superheroes in general, but especially with Batman. He even has a different *voice* depending on whether he's in "Bruce" mode or "Bat" mode!
However, Watchmen fic has given me a new, even more *argyourprosemustdiearg* example. Rorschach and Walter Kovac are not interchangeable names, especially not from Rorschach's pov (also, I don't care if one half of a pairing is literally six inches shorter and sixty pounds lighter than the other, canonically giving you the size differential most fandoms have to exaggerate and make up, I still don't want to see "the smaller man/"the larger man" or any other size comparisons more than about once a fic. Maybe once a chapter if it's a really long fic and the chapters are substantial).
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UGH MY EEEEEEEEEYES
Seriously, how hard is it to take three seconds to consider whose POV you're writing from and call characters what that person would call them? I MEAN REALLY.
(Using my Duo icon in honour of you mentioning Gundam Wing. ♥)
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I greatly enjoyed this paragraph, and I'm not entirely sure why.
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The storyline that shows the infamous "hitting Jan" moment is Avengers volume 1 #212-220-something (this stretch of issues also includes the Red Thong issue where Tony's identity is revealed).
There's also a deeply cracky but fun storyline in early volume 3 where Hank gets split into two Hanks
and there's Hank/Jan/Hank doppleganger pr0n(sadly, not actually) and Jan and Triathlon have to reintegrate Hank back into one person in order to stop him from disintegrating. The resolution, confusingly, is in an Avengers Annual issue and not a regular issue, so if you're reading through volume 3 Hank kind of magically goes from being slit into a manic and a depressive half to being all fixed between one issue and the next, and you miss the scene where Jan goes inside his psyche to fix himwith her love(mostly by refusing to fix him and making him fix himself).From:
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I think I've seen that Vegas one... It was very Attack of the Fifty-Foot Woman. "What do you want me to do, get a wetsuit and a flashlight?"