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Finished and posted, so I can finally stop wondering if it will ever happen!

Title: Run the Mountain
Author: marcicat

Fandom: Rise (2018), Power Rangers (2017)
Rating: T (language? the crisis of American youth?)

Summary: “I don’t need superpowers, I need a steady income and a passing grade in History.”

Note: Imagine an AU where Alpha did the logical thing, and called Eltar for a pickup instead of loading Zordon’s brain into the ship and lurking around the Earth for a few thousand years. Because then Eltar’s backup team would’ve come and collected Alpha, and the ship, and the bodies, and let’s say they left the coins as a sort of combination memorial/apology for, you know, destroying the ecosystem, or whatever. (And imagine they were in Pennsylvania, because those Rise kids living in a High School Musical dystopia could stand a little mystical technology added to their lives.)

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Things have been sort of crazy on weekends for a while now — packing, moving, unpacking… So it’s been super nice to actually have this weekend feel like a weekend. No errands that couldn’t be put off, no work brought home, no massive list of chores making me feel guilty for relaxing.

I wasn’t really sure what my plan was for today. Turns out I spent an enjoyable while reading fanfic (surprise!):

Tony Stark Meets an Extremely Unimpressed Time Traveler, or, Thomas Barrow Makes a Surprisingly Good 21st Century Butler, by Alex51324

Thomas watched in alarm as the thing that was like an aeroplane, but different, landed. It made a hell of a noise, and stirred up the air—like a cyclone, in fact. He watched from a distance as the flying man had a brief conversation with the people inside. He couldn’t hear anything—not over the racket the not-aeroplane made—but there were a lot of dramatic gestures.

Well, the fellow was American.

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Officially and completely crossing over the Harold & Al ‘verse with everything else!

Title: Break the Rules
Author: marcicat

Rating: PG
Word Count: 3300

Fandom: The Amazing Spiderman, Avengers, Harold & Al ‘verse
Series: Singing in the Light, Laughing in the Dark

Summary: Flash spends April break at Nikki and Calle’s house to escape his well-meaning friends, and meets a little boy and a dragon.

On the plus side, the kid wasn’t crying, and the dragon wasn’t showing any indication that it planned to eat a) the kid; b) the cat, or c) Flash.

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I’m not sure why I rated this one T and the January one G. I wrote the rating part way back at the start of the month, though — maybe I was planning for something more interesting T-rated to happen? I don’t remember any plan like that, but it’s possible.

Anyway.

Monday All Day Long

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There had been a point in her life when someone saying ‘it’s been disconnected from the laws of science’ would have sounded crazy.

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words written:
1830

quote of the day:
“I find it helps to just assume everyone falls into one of three categories: crazy, crazy and related to you, or crazy and about to be related to you in some coincidentally synchronous and previously unexpected way.”

song pick:
Take On Me (A-Ha)

hardest part of the day:
remembering I have to go to work tomorrow

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1. First off, the cliffhanger is not so much a cliffhanger as a plot point that is not resolved. (The guy’s in the same situation he was in episode one, he just maybe has a different perspective on it?)

2. The second set of episodes can be viewed pretty much as completely separate from the first set. No plaid! No Cole melodrama! Not a single mention of secrets or uncovering departmental corruption!

3. Hawkeye Walsh *does* continue to pwn everything. (Seriously, no one finds it at all strange that he’s a cop who — in his spare time — runs a diner? That he lives in? *I* find it strange. Awesome, but strange.)

4. This is the most oddly compelling cop show I’ve ever watched, though it makes more sense (and is more interesting) if you assume Walsh is undercover.

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I know zero about vidding, or the fandom of vidding, or the vidding of fandom. But hey, I liked this!

And so, sharing time:

(Note: link goes to bironic’s lj post about the vid, which has all the info, warnings, links, codes, and incantations that might be required or of interest.)

Starships!, a vid by bironic

Because really, it’s a vid with an exclamation point! (!!!) That makes it naturally more awesome. (Plus, starships!) I was all smiles all the way through.

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*Andrea and I rewatched The Incredible Hulk (2008 version) on Wednesday, and that was fun. I still love Hulk’s expressions when he’s fighting the Abomination — he’s all ‘really? more fighting? WHY?’

Basically, the movie was still the same as ever. I ::heart:: the jogging bonus scene, because apparently I like the idea of the Avengers jogging. (Mission Impossible movies take note: 60 seconds of jogging footage through that creates character development and sets the scene is NOT the same thing as having sixty percent of your movie be shots of your characters running around after each other.)

In celebration of our rewatch, I searched out the awesome Merlin-as-the-Hulk AU fic, which was just as awesome this time around.

Never Pay The Reaper With Love Only, by little_giddy
(In which Merlin is the Hulk, Arthur is Betty, and they both get a lot of help from their friends.)

And a couple of movie!fics, both about the Bruce/Betty reunion.

Small Acts of Defiance, by icarus_chained
(The one where Tony kinda/sorta kidnaps Betty, but she’s cool with it.)

[far from here we are all right], by Feather (lalaietha)
(Natasha and Clint go recruiting; Betty is not unaware of how dysfunctional they all are.)

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1. Okay, so I didn’t totally get it, but I liked that aspect, because nothing is more boring than lots of backstory exposition. On the other hand, I can see why this movie wasn’t that popular in theaters — it’s hard to get excited about seeing it again when you know it opens with little kids getting blown up in a helicopter. Not cool.

2. Some parts of it were really funny. But a lot of the team’s so-called “plans” were super dumb. Like, did they not ever have to plan anything before?

3. So, this is where actor-crossover-movie-watching makes things much more fun. Because then it actually becomes an implausibly ridiculous movie about John Winchester, Heimdall, and Captain America, with bonus appearances by Nyota Uhura and that guy from ‘Stomp the Yard.’ (Although seriously, Nyota, Mr. Winchester is a) old and b) has a LOT of issues, not even kidding. Spock is a much better bet if you’re looking for a partner in crime.)

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