It occured to me that yesterday was my nine years on livejournal anniversary. Those were the days, my friends. You needed invite codes for lj then (mine came from raincitygirl). And reading through the first awkward entries, I, err, don't seem to have changed much. Back then, lj was what tumblr is now, but I don't think I'll do more than check out the occasional tumblr related to very selected interests of mine. Why? I really don't like getting spoiled. After a decade or more in onlne fandom, I can't say I ever not regretted being spoiled, and there was a time (ca. Buffy season 6, original broadcast) when I did read spoilers. So until tv show, movies and book related tumblrs come up with the equivalent of a spoiler cut, I'll stick to those indulging my penchant for 60s musicians, more or less.

The first genuinenly movie based Avengers fanfics start to show up, and they're Tony & Bruce and Natasha/Bruce, both of which pleases yours truly. But really, any combination of Avenger & Avenger, Avenger & SHIELD Agent, SHIELD Agent & SHIELD & Agent, or for that matter Loki & Anyone just works with the Whedonian hat trick of making/keeping everyone intriguing and compelling to watch/read about. The downside of this is that now I don't want Iron Man 3, Thor 2 or Captain America 2, I want more Avengers. Go team! The exception is that I also desperately want the Black Widow origin movie which we didn't get so far but might now given how well she does in The Avengers. Having caught something of a bug in the form of a slight fever, I wasn't able to go to the cinema again (but will try to night), but I did rewatch Iron Man. For some reason, what struck me in particular this time around was the sheer creepiness of Obediah Stane. I can see where the child abuse fanfic speculation comes from. Leaving fanfic aside, it also reminds me of one of my annoyances of Iron Man 2, to wit, the entire Howard Stark issues graft-on in combination with the arc reactor retcon, because seriously, if you want Tony dealing with daddy issues in addition to blood poisoning as the movie equvalent of the Demon in a Bottle comicverse storyline, the fallout of finding out about Obediah would have done the trick.