Deez nuts!

1. Maybe it's just that I've not had a main fandom is a good long while, but that same ol', same ol' "What you should really do is write the story the way I want it" or "You know, I would've written it like this..." or "My opinion is so important, you don't know me, but you should do this..." as a comment to a story I've posted never fails to make me want to a) slap that person upside the head, because really? RUDE MUCH? b) ban that person and c) skunk their house.

2. How the hell do you get rid of that 'writer's block' question on my main page? Talk about inane and irritating. The question the other day was about fucking birthmarks. How is that supposed to help with my writer's block? Seriously? Has anybody ever gotten anything decent out of that?

3. How hot is Ryan Gosling? Too damn hot. Keep it up Jamie!

4. I have not had a chance to read samdonne's The Kids Aren't All Right, which is a Iron Man interactive media Vanity Fair article on the year Christine Everheart covered Tony Stark, but based on the presentation alone I am most definitely intrigued.

5. I haz no story for antheia's birthday, because I was busy writing Puppy!Tony, but come and tell me what you might like to see with Michael Westen/Sark or Neville/Theodore and maybe that will jar some thing in my head.

Iron Man Rec

Like some of my battle-scarred fellows, I've been around fandom for a few years now. Not as many as some, not as few as others, but long enough to have respectable amount of fandom activity under my belt.

I'm already at the point where I find a good amount of the contents of any major bookstore lacking in character development, plot and good old-fashioned entertainment because fandom has spoiled me. (Thanks guys!) And yet, every now and then a story comes across my path that so far surpasses my (rather high) expectations of what fandom writers can do that I'm just sort of left with my jaw hanging.

I can think of three, maybe four, times in my fandom experience where I've read a story and been so floored, so jealous, so filled with all consuming awe that I really consider tossing the towel in and going off to study turtles in the Galapagos like I should've years ago.

Today, samdonne posted The Kids Aren't All Right, which on the surface is a multi-media Iron Man project that takes the form of a Vanity Fair article. When you look deeper, however, you can see the layers of time and effort and energy and sheer learning that such a piece takes and it's really and truly mind-blowing.

I cannot recommend this... experience enough. I don't care if you don't read Iron Man fic. I don't even care if you've never even seen the film (INFIDEL!). This will transcend all of that. Read it. You can thank me later.