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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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Avengers v3 #77 ("Whirlwinds") is probably one of my favorite issues for the two of them -- it features Hank and Jan on vacation in Vegas, before Disassembled (so you can be 100% no one involved is a skrull) and has them using their size changing powers in bed. Seriously, there is a shot of tiny Hank walking up betwen Jan's sweaty breasts (lying on her back) that is just about the porniest thing I've seen in a comicbook.

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 him ~~with her love~~ (mostly by refusing to fix him and making him fix himself).

Thank you! I'll have to try and track them down. I have a cliche bingo prompt that might be Hank/Jan, and I don't really know them as a couple that well.

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?"