Just back from the delicious combination of the cinema and KFC and my thoughts on X-Men Origins: Wolverine (which I keep typing as Wolverine: Origins) are as follows:

Good lord, Ryan Reynolds is a hot ass. I want a Deadpool movie now, please. It would be so pretty. And funny. And there would be swords. What more could you want from a movie?? EDIT: Evidently, the powers that be in the movie world agree with me. Ryan Reynolds to headline 'Wolverine' spin-off 'Deadpool'. Thanks, verycleanindeed!

( Some spoilery thoughts which are possibly unrelated to the hotness of Ryan Reynolds )

To conclude: It was completely ridiculous but I really enjoyed it.

I've just finished my Generation X fanlisting! Join me in joyous, celebratory dancing! And then check it out at So Far Past Normal. Then you should totally join, tell me it's fabulous (I mean, I know it's okay, but again, lie to me) and then make with the joyous, celebratory dancing once more.

GOOD TIMES!!

I don't know what to call my Generation X fanlisting. Any suggestions?

(Also, I want extras, but having them would be so much work *dithers*)

I fucking FINALLY finished the Iceman fanlisting *wipes brow* I've been working on it for three weeks solid, which is ridiculous. I can't even remember the last time I turned my computer off. Poor computer!

Anyway, it's done and I'm fairly happy with it. I'm hoping to keep adding stuff to the fansite bit and I want to use the fansite as a template for all my other X-fanlistings because I like what I have there, and the other X-Men need love too (especially, Chamber. Jono, baby, I haven't forgotten about you!).

So, yes, go visit and join and tell me that you love it (if you don't love it, that's okay, but lie to me anyway ;D )!

Self Doubt & Recrimation - The Iceman Fanlisting

(In other news: WILL I EVER STOP LISTENING TO JEFF BUCKLEY? THE SMART MONEY IS ON 'NO'!)

DUDE!!

NORTHSTAR IS JOINING THE X-MEN AGAIN!!!

(And he maybe has a boyfriend in the panels where he decides to rejoin the team? Which might imply that Marvel aren't scared of sexualising him. But which also means that Bobby's going to have a hard time getting in his pants. Well, not that Marvel are ever going to go down that road, and I actually don't know what title Bobby's even in at the moment. Or what Jean-Paul's been up to since he was reanimated (apart from punching Anole in the face. I caught that bit.). Fuck me, I need to catch up on my comics. Tell me what I should be reading, oh lovely comic fans on my friends' list!)

I've given up on the content for the Iceman fanlisting for now because I got to Opal and could that shit be any more depressing?

I'm now reading J2 fic, drinking beer and wondering what the fuck 'Irish Fries' are. Because to me it means nothing, though if pushed I would postulate it was a fry-up, which the fic clearly indicates it is not. Maddening.

And I am still waiting to be entertained by you lot. Pfft, some use you all are ;p

I'm working on some content for the Iceman fanlisting - Iceman! YAY! And I'm booooored. Writing about Bobby's relationships is horrible. Jesus, writers, is there any point at all at which any of you cut him a break?

I have lots of things to post about (Ireland! Drinking! Supernatural! Grey's Anatomy! Project Runway: Canada! Penny/Sheldon!) but mostly I'm just staring at Iceman-related comics and trying to condense the woe into short, snappy sentences. So entertain me people. Comment spam me! Send me links to this Supernatural wank kayim and bekkis are talking about! Or something! Anything! Whee!

EDIT: Why does my Gmail Inbox suddenly lack capitalisation of the 'i'? I DO NOT APPROVE!

X-Men Origins: Wolverine trailer.

Oh my motherfucking god.

I am having a mindblowing x-gasm right this fucking minute.

!!!

For the life of me I can't come up with a name for the Jamie Madrox fanlisting.

Any suggestions?

I basically spent the weekend drinking and watching various sporting events, which was nice, but I did end up spending more money than I should have. Good beer is sadly expensive *le sigh*

I also got my phone and wallet back which is great, but then I promptly spilled beer on the phone somehow and the display's gone all wonky. And at some point I acquired an enormous bruise on my arm. Such is the way of drinking, I suppose.

Let's see... news... Yeah, I don't really have any. I finished the Gambit fanlisting at last. You can take a looksee at Past Sins. I'm pretty happy with the end result, but now it's quietly taunting me with its lack of extras. Damn. Still working on the Jamie Madrox and LJS fanlistings.

I've been working on a layout for the Gambit fanlisting for a few hours now and I fucking hate what I've come up with. It's absolute crap. God damnit!

Does anyone have any good Gambit scans they'd like to share with me? I can't find a good resource and all my comics are either in Ireland or packed up in boxes in the corner of my room. It's at times like these that I really miss arrowisland's X-Men sites.

In summary: ARGH!

(I did finish, and am satisfied with, the Benton Fraser fanlisting though, so that's something. I also finished the Constantine fanlisting, but I'm waiting for the members list so no linkage there.)

I recently download a shitload of comics and finally got my hands on the impossible-to-track-down Millennial Visions comics. They're basically two comics (one from 2000, and one from 2001) where various artists were asked to contribute their versions of an alternative X-Men team along with descriptions. Man, there is some hot art in there. Some really weird art too, but lots of hot art.

( Cut for those who don't care )

So, Warren Ellis is taking over Astonishing X-Men when Joss Whedon finishes up...

First of all, it boggles my mind that Whedon is still writing AXM and that his story arc still hasn't finished. Good lord, man, PACING. How many issues have actually been on time, and how many actually had something happen in them?

I will be slightly sad to see John Cassaday move on, as there's something quite magnetic about his art.

Warren Ellis. I don't know what I think about Warren Ellis. He has one of those overly jovial, in your face personalities that sets off guffaws and belly laughs. He quite often comes across as a bit of a wanker, but I think that's the point. His interview with Newsarama is crap. He won't be following any of Whedon's plot points at all? He's going to start all over and insisted on a new title? The characters are gimps who are going to have monkey sex? Reading the interview, I'm sure most of it must be designed to piss people off, and it's worked on me. What the fuck, man?

As for the appearance of X-23 on the cover. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. I don't particularly like Wolverine, and I really don't like his little female clone, so do I want her to be a regular in every title? NO, I DO NOT. Grrr.

Marvel has done more and more to drive me away from reading their comics over the past few years. Ellis isn't one of those things, but there are certain points in his interview that remind me of what those things are (continuity? Pshaw!). Their scheduling is a mess, their interpretation of the House of M storyline is a disaster, they seem to enjoy gratuitously killing their own characters for shock value. In the words of Paul O'Brien:

"... this line is floundering. It needs surgery. It needs direction. And that doesn't mean doing a stupid stunt like M-Day and then letting all the writers ignore it. It doesn't mean introducing Sentinel Squad O*N*E and then doing absolutely nothing with them. It means choosing a direction and actually following it. Whatever else you say about the Initiative, at least it's a bloody direction. The X-books are heading nowhere as a collective, and most of them, from the look of it, are heading nowhere interesting as individual titles either."

I was reading through some old X-comics the other day and saw an advertisement for the upcoming Generation X series. Guess what the tagline was? "The first new X-comic for three years!" Three years. There's a new X-comic every other month now it seems, as Marvel seem to have forgotten that you should aim for QUALITY rather than QUANTITY.

It's at time like these that I really want to become a DC fangirl. They might have some of the same wanky issues, but at least I'd have the benefit of interacting with an intelligent female fandom. Where are all of the intelligent female Marvel fans? I've found lots of interesting female-orientated DC blogs (such as Neither Doormat Nor Prostitute) but I've yet to discover the Marvel equivalent. But then, Marvel would clearly prefer not to have my custom anyway, if some of their products are anything to go by *cough*Mary Jane Comiquette*cough*

To end on a less bitter note, god bless you Peter David, you are pretty much the only thing Marvel have going for them at the moment.

[12] Icons from the Wisdom miniseries, including 3 animated.

As well as comic fans, history buffs and anglophiles may also be interested ^_^

Preview:

( 'I'm Pete Wisdom. I run this show.' )

It's been absolutely ages since I posted the first part of this fic, but I've been meaning to go back to it. I actually wrote this part, part two, quite some time ago, but floundered when it came to the third part which will resolve the whole thing. Somehow. See, the thing is, I'm still not sure how to resolve the story, so maybe posting the middle part will force my brain to come up with something!

Anyway, Jean-Paul Beaubier aka Northstar and Robert 'Bobby' Drake aka Iceman of X-Men fame. You can find part one HERE.

( Rumours, Part Two of a Projected Three )

O.O

Okay, so I'm behind on X-Factor, but ehm...

"and I very much suspect that Monet would never have indulged Jamie's request if they weren't sleeping together.” - Peter David.

What? Bzuh? Who? Seriously?

In my further attempts to spam LJ like I've never spammed it before, I'm taking a leaf out of chaletian's book and looking back over some unfinished fan-fic.

I know I wrote the first one when I was drunk. I clearly remember checking my friends list and seeing a prompt on one of the newsletters I subscribe to. My drunken brain decided that I would be able to write the perfect story for that prompt. Sadly, after typing like a lunatic for ten minutes, I gave up and went to bed. The next morning I had forgotten what the prompt was or where I was going with the story. Despite the fact that Remus is mentioned nowhere, I know this was intended to be a Snupin fic.

( Harry Potter: Severus Snape gets emo in a very grown-up way )

I think we should all take a moment to admire my use of the word 'stymied', a word I am sure I've never used before. Thank you drunken brain for such a sparkling use of vocabulary.

I actually have at least two versions of the next beginning-of-a-fic and a notebook detailing plot and relevant song lyrics. Oh, yes. Remember the Damon/Rowan fic I was always going on about? This is it, baby!

( LJS: Damon Salvatore picks up chicks in a nightclub )

I do believe my future lies in romance novels.

Our next fic-in-the-making was to be written for arrowisland. Sadly, she wanted less plot and more porn so a different version was eventually finished. I like this one more though. Not that it really matters since I was writing it for her and she defriended me a while back - hmph!

( X-Men: Icarus is dumped at the Academy and takes stock of his emoful life )

I quite like the last paragraph to that one.

For quite some time, I worked on a Chalet School story that was set in modern times. There are several incarnations which fill at least two notebooks, but this is the lucky one that made it on to the computer.

( Chalet School: A Prefect drags a sulky Middle through an airport en route to the most famous boarding school of them all )

Our final entry was written shortly after I spent a month in Germany. I learned absolutely no German, was called a boy by a shopkeeper, but came away with a deep appreciation for Germany as a whole. I know there were other versions of this. Some of them much more explicit. I think I even stole some of the plot for this and put it in my Damon/Rowan fic. Yes, though he's not mentioned, Damon was to make a fanged appearance. The plan was that he would torment the girl in her dreams until she though she was going crazy and then the dreams would become reality, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera.

( LJS: Samantha has some bad dreams in Germany )

Even I am amazed at my own fabulousness!

1) In about an hour, I'm hopping on a plane and heading to York for a few days to have a gander at the place. York, now, not New York as someone at work excitedly asked me only to go 'oh' and walk away when I went 'No, York.' Maybe I should start calling it Old York. Also, I won't really be hopping, more like casually ascending the stairs to the plane.

2) I adopted the X-Men Comics fanlisting from arrowisland (who has lost her mind and is getting rid of all her websites - oh, the humanity!). You can find it at Legendary so check it out, let me know what you think and join if you haven't already!

3) I meant to mention this a while ago, but if anyone on my friends list wants to cut me (for whatever reason) then go ahead. Now is the perfect opportunity! I'm more than aware that I probably bore half of you to death and that the reasons we originally friended each other may not apply anymore. I promise I won't turn into LJ-drama-girl if you cut me ;)

4) There's no four really, I just have an urge to keep typing. Even though I still need to shower and pack. And get the sand out of my bag before I can actually put stuff in it.

5) violentviolette rocks. Oh, yes.

Honestly. I know Marvel is an organisation comprised of absolute fucktards. I know that reading about upcoming Marvel projects will just make me angry. And yet here I am, reading what Marvel are planning for the next few months. Shit basically, they're planning shit.

Talking about New X-Men, Craig Kyle said, “What we’re trying to do is really sink the kids into the X-Universe…it’s time to grow up, they can’t stay in the safety of the house any longer…we’re going to make them X-Men.” *beats head against wall* How absolutely, stunningly orginal of you Mr. Kyle. Why on earth has no one ever thought of that before?!

Asked about Chamber’s status, Marvel said it’s not going to be dealt with very soon, but that they’re certain they’re going to revisit Chamber at some point. Which is clearly code for 'Yeah, we thought the depowering storyline would be all dramatic like, but now he holds no interest for us and we are happy to leave him in a hospital, near dead and think about him no more.'

In general, Wolverine: Origins just sounds awful. As does the whole Storm/T'challa thing they've got going on. Very dull. I'm going to say nothing about Astonishing X-Men's Wolverine/Emma cover beyond 'Do I look fucking stupid to you, Marvel?'

Quesada said there is, “No chance to get their powers back again,” asked about mutants depowered in House of M. Quesada reiterated earlier explanations as to why the depowering happened. Again, 'Do I look fucking stupid to you, Marvel?' We all know how reliable Joe bloody Quesada is.

[2] Nocturne
[2] Surge
[1] Magneto
[1] Rogue
[3] Wallflower
[2] Blink

( Under Here )