X-Men ahhhh

[sophinisba]

I wasn't going to get into this fandom you guys I don't even know. I was just going to read some critiques but then last night I started reading fics, and tonight I read some more fics and then I went out and watched the movie again.

The best Charles/Erik fic I have read is You Told Me Again You Preferred Handsome Men, But For Me You Would Make an Exception by feverbeats, especially recommended if you were bothered by Charles' arrogance in the movie (which I wasn't especially but still, good fic).

Here are two lovely ensemble pieces also with Charles/Erik, more appealing if like me you were crushing on Charles:

Five Minds Charles Never Read (And One He Did) by Leyenn

Five Lessons Charles Taught (and One He Learned) by kaydeefalls

I may be running out of things I want to read on the AO3 and will have to start venturing into the kink memes soon. /o\ What I really want to read is all the hurt/comfort in the world, so if you have those recs I will take them.

I do not have any ideas for fics I want to write. That's pretty normal for me - I need to spend a lot of time reading in a fandom before I start writing, and in this case I probably won't, and that's okay. I was thinking I could do some podfic but pretty much every fic does this telepathy business where Charles hears Erik's thoughts and speaks in Erik's mind and, although several friends on Twitter suggested I could handle that in a podfic with filters (reverb etc.), I fear that would end up sounding really cheesy and I just don't want to do it. So for now I'm just reading okay!

You guys, I can't remember the last time I saw a movie that blatantly sexist, let alone watched it twice. /o\ What is this, fandom, what is going on? It is 2011, and even if your movie is set in the '60s this is not okay! While I was watching it the first time I was trying to tell myself maybe it's not that bad, that I am just prudish about short skirts and cleavage or whatever, maybe it's a comics culture thing that I don't get. (I mean, other women I respect liked Sucker Punch so maybe I am just horribly out of touch with everything.) But I also heard that in the comics Angel is not a stripper and Emma Frost is a badass and there is no Moira Moira is a brilliant scientist. So really it's just the people who made this movie who decided they would have four female characters and none of them would get to keep their clothes on. What the fuck?

I was amused at how slowly the characters spoke German, French, and especially Russian. As gamerchick pointed out about Maya and Alejandro's scenes speaking Spanish on Heroes, they really wanted to make sure the audience had time to read those subtitles! :)

But oh man the THEMES! I love the themes in this movie so much! How happy they are to find each other but how Erik doesn't trust the government to find them and Charles doesn't even think before outing Hank in front of his boss etc etc so much!!! Charles and Erik have a love for the ages, and also the second viewing gave me a lot more appreciation for Raven and her story. That was really awesome! I love that they actually talk about how Charles just doesn't get it in all kinds of ways. I love the way he can't quite look at Raven in that second scene in the kitchen even though he really loves her. Ahhhhhhhh I don't know what to do about this movie ahhhhhhh.

In other news, I watched the movie Hanna and thought parts of it were really neat, and liked that there was no rape or threatened rape and that she got to keep her clothes on, but was not really satisfied by the story.

Today I bought Photoshop Elements and then realized that I should get the trial version before I opened the box and since then have spent many, many hours waiting for the trial version to finish downloading. At the moment it says it'll take another thirteen hours. :(

For the past month or so the trackpad on my Macbook hasn't been working properly. Sometimes it lets me select text (for copying and pasting, for instance) but often it doesn't. Same thing with trying to drag and drop anything, for instance regions when editing podfic. Argh.

Last week I friended summerpornathon and teamgreed but forgot to add them to the not-Dreamwidth filter, so I totally missed the challenge announcement on Sunday and get-to-know-you stuff for my team. :( However once I finally noticed on Tuesday I managed to write a ficlet without too much trouble. If I think about it in terms of competition or strategy I start to freak out, but if I think in terms of "First porn I have written since February!" I feel pretty good!