Update (apartment, Thor, big bang plot bunnies)

So, in the past month, we've moved almost completely into the new apartment (there are still some boxes that need to be put away) and continued to fail at keeping up with fandom or, you know, answering reviews or posting fic in anything remotely like a schedule. We'll see if we manage to complete the big bang without defaulting. At the moment, it's a toss up between whether we'll even manage to start on "dieselpunk Avengers WWII AU fic where they fight Nazi zombies/mummies/cave trolls/something appropriately Golden-Age-y and teenage!Bucky crushes on Natasha" fic by the deadline, or will just give up and go with the Living Armor fic we already have outlined but will still probably not finish in time. WWII AU plotbunny currently has a whole backstory where Jan is half Chinese and she and Hank are hanging out in Shanghai with Clint The Former River-rine who was kicked out of the marines over something embarrassing that he won't discuss and Natasha the supposed White Russian exile who is actually a Soviet intelligence agent in Shanghai to spy on the Japanese that will require far too much research and that currently has no real connection with the Steve and Bucky and Tony side of the story other than "wouldn't it be awesome if..."

If we kick this idea around much longer, Rhodey is going to end up a Flying Tiger, and Gene!Mandarin from Armored Adventures will also show up somehow. And then we'll run smack into the problem of "WWII on the Pacific front is pretty much the complete opposite of pulpy Dieselpunk fun where Steve and Tony fight Nazi trolls. And these two story halves still have nothing to do with one another."

We saw Thor with grey_bard, onlybythenight, et al. I really liked what they did with the sci-fi-ish version of Asgard and Birfrost, and the Warriors Three + Sif were perfect (the moment where Thor, Jan, and co. turn to see them standing outside the window waving was possibly my favorite in the whole movie). The final battle at the end, with the electricity/ice combo looking like a gigantic tree, was really nicely done, and... okay, really my impression of the whole thing is mostly Warriors Three & Sif squee, plus the fact that Thor was adorkable and Darcy is awesome, and now I'm thrown every time Heimdall shows up in Earth's Mightiest Heroes and isn't Idris Elba. Also, Cosmic Cube!

RL family stuff will follow in a separate post, to spare those of y'all who don't want to look at pictures of military aircraft or read squee about the same.