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[ SECRET POST #2715 ]

⌈ Secret Post #2715 ⌋

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[Tales of Innocence]

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[Transamerica]

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[Final Fantasy VIII]

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[Interview with the Vampire]

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[Andrew Lloyd Webber]

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[Critical Miss]

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[Great British Menu/Emily Watkins]

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[Mike Malinin, Goo Goo Dolls]

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[Pacific Rim]

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[Star Trek TNG]

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[Homestuck]

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[The Man From Nowhere]

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Steve is dumb and can't figure out technology.

Thor is dumb and yells all the time.

Tony is the only smart man in this group of idiots, and Steve constantly bullies/bullied him.

All of these make me so sad and disappointed with fandom.

I think some of it might be getting better with regards to Steve and his tech angle after TWS came out? But as for the others...

It makes me really tempted to write a revenge fic where it turns out that Tony is actually kind of a bully, but I will resist. I will be better than that.

I will try to be, at least. |D

Especially because, well, Tony does tend to run roughshod over other people. But I hate the fact that people can't see two characters disagreeing and not make it into one character being abusive of the other.

Re: Tell us about widely-accepted fanon in your fandoms

loracarol - 2014-06-09 23:47 (UTC) - Expand

The whole Thor thing bugs me; Thor isn't my favorite character, but he hardly does that.

The others bug me, too, because while it would take Steve a while to get used to things, it doesn't make him dumb.

Right? I can buy it in some fics, but forever and always? Nahhhhhh.

For me it's that, while I can see Steve taking a while to pick up what different pieces of tech mean, I can see him picking up how different pieces of tech work pretty fast, if that makes sense? Like, I can see him figuring out a touchscreen phone, but not understanding certain apps, or even understanding why certain apps exist.

I can buy it occasionally, or maybe one "ANOTHER!" level outburst, but the way that people have Thor bumbling around and shouting things is kind of annoying.

I can see it taking awhile for Steve to put together pieces, and the whole history of tech might be hard to grasp, but a touch screen makes sense. You touch it, it moves. It should take him a little time, but he shouldn't be 100% clueless.

Re: Tell us about widely-accepted fanon in your fandoms

loracarol - 2014-06-09 23:46 (UTC) - Expand

Plus, Steve is clever. I mean, if my grandma can figure out how to navigate the internet in a single afternoon, I'm pretty sure it's not going to take Steve Rogers a couple of months.

Exactly; my grandma has figured out Facebook (for the most part). Steve can figure out technology.

These all make me sad. I admit, I RPed yelling!Thor once, but that was for a cracky mafia RP where being in character was not the goal. Dumb Thor is something I hate the most for the same reason I hate meek!Castiel. Not getting pop culture references is not the same thing as being dumb or soft.

See, in crack fics, I can deal, because usually everyone is out of character to some degree, and fuck it, that can be fun sometimes!

But when he's all yelling and everyone else isn't, I have to wonder if the other person even watched the same movies. :/

That Steve is a naive boy-scout and never swears. >.<

And I loved Darcy in the movies, but I absolutely hate at least 95% of her representations in fanfic. -_-

Sometimes I pretend that there will be an show all about Cap and the Howling Commandos, and it has a pretty high rating because Steve swears like a sailor, and in multiple languages!

And then it will be revealed that he tries not to swear around his new team because he's trying to remain professional, and he's not super comfortable with them yet.

When he finally does end up cussing, Tony's expecting something like "damn" and instead gets something like "fuck your fucking piece of cockshit fuckery".

And yeah, for Darcy. I've read a couple good fis with her in it, but...

I find the idea of Steve swearing in several languages very pleasing for some reason..

Re: Tell us about widely-accepted fanon in your fandoms

loracarol - 2014-06-10 00:19 (UTC) - Expand

Re: Tell us about widely-accepted fanon in your fandoms

kallanda_lee - 2014-06-10 00:28 (UTC) - Expand

Re: Tell us about widely-accepted fanon in your fandoms

loracarol - 2014-06-10 00:40 (UTC) - Expand

Re: Tell us about widely-accepted fanon in your fandoms

blunderbuss - 2014-06-10 03:22 (UTC) - Expand

Oh god, fanon Darcy. She's always moments away from a sexual harassment suit, but no one says a thing.

Definitive line on the subject: "With respect, ma'am, I'm from Brooklyn by way of the U.S. Army. There's not much about cursing I don't know."

https://gs1.wac.edgecastcdn.net/8019B6/data.tumblr.com/5031e7fe21599ce446ca65f36c8d2707/tumblr_mr19qrebRc1s0hnjwo8_r1_1280.jpg

Also, digging up this reference forced me to reread a bunch of American Captain, so I got all teared up. Again.

http://americancaptaincomic.tumblr.com/

I hate all of these, so much.

The dumb!Steve one is thankfully getting better, as people seem to have realised after Cap 2 that oh look this dude isn't a fucking moron. It's still hit or miss on him being written as an innocent delicate flower though.

Dumb!Thor is maddeningly prevalent, even after Thor 2 where we got to see just how much he's grown(I'd argue that we see this in the first Thor filme and Avengers too but the fact that people still write him like a meathead after his second movie genuinely baffles me). Like I swear it seems like most of the fandom hasn't seen the Thor movies, or they just can be assed writing his character properly and fall back onto insulting fanon characteristation.

I do enjoy this fandom I swear but there are just certain popular bits of fanon that wind me up.

Yeah, that's one of the (many- I like the movie, so there's a lot! |D) reasons that I appreciated CA2.

I don't know, I feel like there's a difference between dumb!Thor and out-of-his-depth-and-super-used-to-privilege!Thor, at least, to me.

But seriously, which second movie did they watch? ~~The one where they skipped all of Thor's scenes to get to Loki?~~

Same, it's nice to see him not being written as an idiot anymore(well not as often as he was). And seeing Natasha being written as a person in fic too, I've been liking that as well.

Oh of course, he's certainly thrown for a loop when he first lands in Thor 1 but he does adapt quickly imo and through into the Avengers and Thor 2 he grows so much and I love it.

He outsmarts Loki twice in the film as well, or do they just ignore that so their precious bb Loki is always the smartest one?(I love the little shit but seeing Thor get one over on him twice was brilliant and well-deserved).

Re: Tell us about widely-accepted fanon in your fandoms

loracarol - 2014-06-10 01:58 (UTC) - Expand

Re: Tell us about widely-accepted fanon in your fandoms

nightscale - 2014-06-10 02:12 (UTC) - Expand

Who the fuck says Steve Rogers is a bully

I don't think I've ever seen a piece of fanon that has actually made me IRL angry before. That idea is just so diametrically opposed to the very basic idea of who Steve Rogers is as a character and who Captain America is. What the fuck.

Certain Tony stans who took the scene from the Avengers where they're all pissed off at each other and assumed that it was all Steve being a horrible person and Tony being a poor woobie who needs love. :(

Anon, are you me? I was just about to post that comment, word for word, but you beat me to it. Down to the IRL angry part.

Steve...bullying...Tony??

What?

Didn't you know that Steve was an evil mean bully during The Avengers when he ~~had PTSD and was affected by the evil glow stick of doom~~ made fun of Tony for no reason. :(

But... the reason is that Tony was being an insufferable douchebag.

Here's how to identify bullies: they don't invite someone to put on half a billion dollars' worth of supertech weaponry before they'll take a swing.