Why they work

I've been thinking on a bunch of / pairings today, the characteristic issues they face in fic, and why the canon frequently loses me, when it don't see their issues the same way. ... also when I can't find the source issues to read, and just lose track. But. For all the wide and wild range of fanfic, in many ways each pairing circles around a set of relationship issues, drawn from why they work.

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The whole how do we fit now at least one of us retires thing is a theme across multiple pairings. Or just the thing where they get together in one specific high pressure high achievement set of circumstances, and what do they do after? Or the part where one is more often in need of rescue than the other, and really, how do you do a relationship where you're vulnerable like that?


There's all this interesting stuff to work through, and yet while they're in canon getting in fights with things, they're not so much working on this.


And I want to see what happens next.

There's a lot of stories about young people finding their callings and starting to be a hero. But not so many about After. And I'm interested.



So this mostly ended up as me rambling about Blue Beetle and Booster Gold, and they get changed every time canon hiccups, but I haven't followed it for years.

But I still have a lot of feelings about who I think I remember they used to be.

And are in fanfic, sometimes.

nsfg at the ribs

I went to science fiction group and talked for 2.5 hours.
many topics covered. including 'plug in now tv box and watch new things' as a suggestion. which was clearly the plan but oops.

they had no lemonade from the handle so I got an appletise instead. I am adaptable and mighty. ... I may have prepared this plan much earlier and practiced it in my head a lot. ordering things at the bar is Difficult every time, having to go off script unexpectedly would not work. but today worked and I am pleased.

We can have topics for the rest of the year so now I can think of like convention panel topics and suggest things. This year there will be Frankenstein and Blakes 7 evenings at some point but the rest of the year is empty, so anything I can think of is likely to be taken up. Of course it is also likely to just be the two of us and my support worker, but you never know. So I shall think of good talky things.

pretty good day.