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beatrice_otter) wrote2014-03-10 12:34 am
beatrice_otter) wrote2014-03-10 12:34 am
It's that time of year again. I love Remix!
It is always interesting to get ready for the main Remix by looking at what fandoms I could sign up to be remixed in. My problem is that my fandoms tend to be ... eclectic and filled with crossovers. So there are a lot that either a) they're not big enough to be a Remix fandom or b) I don't have enough non-crossovers in the fandom. For example, I've apparently only ever written Doctor Who in crossover. And I qualify in Deep Space Nine, but I'd have to write several drabbles between now and sign up for TNG. And it would be simple to qualify for "DCU Animated" but the only thing I've written in is Batman Beyond and what if whoever gets me isn't a BB fan?
Also, this rant is brought to you by a fic I just read (and the several others like it I've seen recently): yes, we all get that Nick Fury and SHIELD have secrets and are manipulative. But that doesn't mean that everything that SHIELD picks up is Avengers business. I've seen several where they throw a hissy fit about Fury hiding things that ... they genuinely, honestly don't need to know, stuff that doesn't even remotely touch on what they're doing as Avengers. The fic I just read, SHIELD did everything right: they got a bit of intelligence, followed up on it, gathered more intelligence, passed things off to local law enforcement and intelligence agencies as appropriate, and when it became clear that it was something that could/should be turned over to the Avengers, they called the Avengers in and briefed them on the things related to the mission that didn't include the kind of identifying data that could be dangerous to the agents-on-the-ground if it got found out. The Avengers' response was to throw a hissy fit that Fury was hiding things from them! I could have rolled my eyes and skipped over that, were it not that Natasha was acting way out of character.
Also, this rant is brought to you by a fic I just read (and the several others like it I've seen recently): yes, we all get that Nick Fury and SHIELD have secrets and are manipulative. But that doesn't mean that everything that SHIELD picks up is Avengers business. I've seen several where they throw a hissy fit about Fury hiding things that ... they genuinely, honestly don't need to know, stuff that doesn't even remotely touch on what they're doing as Avengers. The fic I just read, SHIELD did everything right: they got a bit of intelligence, followed up on it, gathered more intelligence, passed things off to local law enforcement and intelligence agencies as appropriate, and when it became clear that it was something that could/should be turned over to the Avengers, they called the Avengers in and briefed them on the things related to the mission that didn't include the kind of identifying data that could be dangerous to the agents-on-the-ground if it got found out. The Avengers' response was to throw a hissy fit that Fury was hiding things from them! I could have rolled my eyes and skipped over that, were it not that Natasha was acting way out of character.