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Mar. 30th, 2010 09:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shapinglightI won something in the Forbidden Awards, which is very nice. Thanks to the judges and whoever nominated me.
This reminds me that I used to write stuff once upon a time.
More about writing etc behind cut, also some rambling about the X-Men (the comics, not the movies), which is possibly only of interest to about two other people on my flist.
It's actually not quite true that I haven't done any writing this year, though I didn't write a thing until March. Since then, I've written some short pieces of utterly horrid porn, which may turn up on my other LJ eventually, assuming they ever get anywhere interesting. I also wanted to write some more historical fic and ended up writing a short 1000 word Darla ficlet. However, because of the subject matter, I've decided it would probably be better not to post it.
Which, in a rather roundabout manner, brings me around to the X-Men. See, I'd become so fed up and disappointed with the Buffy and Angel comics that, when down the comic shop one day, I allowed myself to be sucked back in to reading Uncanny X-men. Even so, it wouldn't have happened if my favourite character hadn't featured on the cover of an issue when I was gloomily flicking through the box of new arrivals.
I'm talking about Magneto in case you were wondering. Yes, I have form for liking villains turned heroes - or in Magneto's case, villains turned heroes turned villains over and over again. I wouldn't have picked the book up, I don't think, if not for Greg Pak's Magneto: Testament, which I read as it came out two years ago. This series finally dealt once and for all with the mystery of the character's origins, and in a way that I thought was very serious and respectful, not to mention extremely upsetting. I had hope after that that if the character ever showed up in the X-Men books again (reading the Wikipedia article will show you how up and down his story has been), he would be treated differently. And so far, he is being (at least for now) - so much so that the latest issue of Uncanny X-Men (522, I think) featured one of those very rare scenes in comics that have brought tears to my eyes.
Dammit, never meant to get sucked back in, but I can see it happening. Any other X-Men (comics, not movies) fans out there?
This reminds me that I used to write stuff once upon a time.
More about writing etc behind cut, also some rambling about the X-Men (the comics, not the movies), which is possibly only of interest to about two other people on my flist.
It's actually not quite true that I haven't done any writing this year, though I didn't write a thing until March. Since then, I've written some short pieces of utterly horrid porn, which may turn up on my other LJ eventually, assuming they ever get anywhere interesting. I also wanted to write some more historical fic and ended up writing a short 1000 word Darla ficlet. However, because of the subject matter, I've decided it would probably be better not to post it.
Which, in a rather roundabout manner, brings me around to the X-Men. See, I'd become so fed up and disappointed with the Buffy and Angel comics that, when down the comic shop one day, I allowed myself to be sucked back in to reading Uncanny X-men. Even so, it wouldn't have happened if my favourite character hadn't featured on the cover of an issue when I was gloomily flicking through the box of new arrivals.
I'm talking about Magneto in case you were wondering. Yes, I have form for liking villains turned heroes - or in Magneto's case, villains turned heroes turned villains over and over again. I wouldn't have picked the book up, I don't think, if not for Greg Pak's Magneto: Testament, which I read as it came out two years ago. This series finally dealt once and for all with the mystery of the character's origins, and in a way that I thought was very serious and respectful, not to mention extremely upsetting. I had hope after that that if the character ever showed up in the X-Men books again (reading the Wikipedia article will show you how up and down his story has been), he would be treated differently. And so far, he is being (at least for now) - so much so that the latest issue of Uncanny X-Men (522, I think) featured one of those very rare scenes in comics that have brought tears to my eyes.
Dammit, never meant to get sucked back in, but I can see it happening. Any other X-Men (comics, not movies) fans out there?