Maru's Mun Journal

I am home. Cat won't let me go. More later.

I'll accept FicFriday prompts here as well as on twitter, and will go with an overall theme of 'comfort or togetherness' that ceitfianna suggested.

Also, as for emergency cute, have a Masha:



And the Nazgul's 'punk', freshly bathed.

Inspired by the pictures of RDJ in German ‘Lederhosen’, I wrote a cracky ficlet about Tony Stark wearing them to a conference, and Lady Loki being amused.

It's here on AO3 -- thanks to paceisthetrick and ladyoflorien for the beta!

+ Urquhart's PB is on yet another thing being a medieval character.

- He wears a bloody big face fungus in that one, so I get no new icons whatsoever out of it.

What really bothers me about some XM:FC 'fix-it' fanfics is, oddly enough, when they try to twist and turn as to make Charles Xavier not paraplegic after all, post-movie. That doesn't just defeat the point of the movie (which is about telling how things came to pass so they're the way they are when the first X-Men movie starts) but also ableist as hell and negating the complex intricacies of that character: being in a wheelchair is as much part of the character "Professor X" as his telepathy is. Those people writing fix-its for that essentially make Charles less than he is, not more.

I've even used him as an example in a for-pay article about accessiblity, along the lines of 'Anything is possible for people in wheelchairs if they're Professor X and can throw money and/or mutant genius inventors at the barriers of bad/inconsiderate design until it goes away; real accessibility is about taking barriers like that away for everybody in that situation'. One of the points of the X-Men (which Ian McKellen already went on about on his website back in the nineties when he was in X1) is that they're all outsiders, alienated from society, and a great example to anybody who feels alienated from society as well (he was thinking of young gays, of course): use that which sets you apart as a superpower, rather than something to be ashamed of!

So any fic that goes out of its way to 'fix' Charles that way? Gets kicked right off my Kindle app for not getting it.-

Will take #ficfriday prompts here or on Twitter: 140 characters there as usual, three sentences there! For any of my Milli!charries, anything you know me to be into, or have written about as per AO3, or even Morningstar Manor if any of those muns is still hanging around...

Have at!

The Nazgul says there was this random Loki weasel available today in Farmville (which she playd).

She thought it was a wolpertinger...

Spontaneously, an idea fell into my brain, and I picked it up and wrote it:


Ignominiously Incognito Among Ignorants

X-Men, post X-3, past Erik/Charles

After losing both his powers and Charles, Erik Lehnsherr is condemned to go on living as a nobody.

Electronic text is a great equaliser -- everything is just that, text read electronically. I have my Kindle app on my iPad and read on that. It doesn't matter if it's a great best-seller (just bought Hunger Games because the Nazgul and paceisthetrick insisted), or some fanfic off AO3. It is text, and I value it all for similar qualities. Or disvalue it.

'Tempering of Men', another book I bought electronically, left off so unexpectedly, if it had been a fanfic, I would have left a comment asking about the last chapter. 'exit wounds' is only a fanfic, but I will never not be sad that there will be no more chapters of it ever...

They are all just text on my Kindle app.

**hates Betty Draper even in the dubbed German version**