Happy Anni-birthday, Best Bar! Thank you - old friends, friends who've left (and occasionally resurface), new friends, best friends. Thanks for holding my hand when I was new; for rolling your eyes very quietly when I committed internet bloopers; and for always being a positive and fun place to go to, especially at the end of long hard weeks. Cheers!!

Your DW / online handles / where people can find you: alphaflyer

MCU, comics, or all the things?
all the things, preferably all mashed up with all the good bits kept and the frown-inducing ones swept under the rug.

The last Marvel thing you watched or read?
I just took someone who stayed with me for 2 weeks for a crash course through the MCU. Not all 22, just the necessary and good ones. She went home and subscribed to the Disney channel so she could show her boyfriend. *blows on finger tips*

List some of your favourite Marvel characters/stories other than Clint and Natasha:
I love the minor characters that round out the universe: Luis, Maria Hill, Yondu, Pepper, Darcy, Helen Cho. (Yes, feel free to argue whether these are minor. But they sure aren't Ironman, Cap or Thor, are they ...?) When I started out in this fandom and found out there was a SECOND HAWKEYE I was appalled. I thought it was the dumbest thing ever and a failure of imagination to come up with another name. And then I fell in love with Kate, and now she is one of my favourite POV characters.

You're in charge of the timeline/titles for the next set of Marvel films and TV shows post-Endgame (or the current announced run). What do you announce? What characters/plotlines can we look forward to seeing?
The Guardians find some celestial being that isn't dead or a jerk, and explore the interior of the Soulstone to get Gamora back. Bonus: Since Natasha has been in there since 2014, they get her out too! She and Nebula have interesting talks, over rounds of Cardassian sunsets, about sisters that are trained to kill you.

Other fandoms you're currently into:
None, really. I love the Expanse and have watched the entire thing (except Season 4) three times, but apart from buying an MCRN mug for every member of my family and a "Doors and Corners" t-shirt for my hubby, I don't really do fandom things with it.

What're some of your favourite things you love to see in fic/creative works? Interesting prose, coherent narrative, proper characterization (I hate those PWPs where people just paste a character's name on a naked cardboard cutout.)

Give us 3 sentences or a teaser of something creative, fic or otherwise, that you’re working on:

“Sorry, did you say something?” he says pointing at his ear, with a widening smile that would melt the panties off a lesser woman than the Black Widow. “I wasn’t watching your mouth. Obviously, I should have. I won’t make that mistake again.”

What Marvel merchandise do you wish existed, or what's your favourite fan thing you own?
I like my 25 cm Hawkeye with the removable arrows, even though they keep falling off. But what I really want is an infinity glove for our family room, to go with the bat'leth, the Firebolt, and the One Ring.

During lockdowns there have been conventions, panels, talk shows, bitesize added content (looking at you, Doctor Who and Good Omens), museum and zoo tours, theatre shows, and all sorts of things online/made digital. If you could ask for anything online relevant to our interests, with the only limitation being that all participants must take part from their own homes, what would it be?

A series of meta discussions, with topics ranging from "Did Natasha need to die?" and "How much of a douche is Tony?" to "What's with the Arrow Necklace" and "Hawkeye's family. Discuss." No one is allowed to shout, and people need to take turns to make their point. Everyone who drops an f-bomb gets has to drink a glass of mead.


Edited 2020-05-09 12:02 am (UTC)

“Sorry, did you say something?” he says pointing at his ear, with a widening smile that would melt the panties off a lesser woman than the Black Widow. “I wasn’t watching your mouth. Obviously, I should have. I won’t make that mistake again.” MARVELOUS. XDDDD

Thanks! :) Coming up in the remix... \0/

Ohh must read up on remix fics then!

Luis, Maria Hill, Yondu, Pepper, Darcy, Helen Cho. Iconic, so glad you mentioned them!!!! Excellent characters.

I think they really anchor the 'verse. Love them all! Plus the ordinary people who turn up and do their bit - "I won't launch those ships" guy; the ones making an ill-fated stand against Hydra outside the hangar; "I need a perimeter around 39th!"; Yinsen; and so on. They make it ... real.

Edited 2020-05-10 01:11 pm (UTC)

I am so looking forward to that fic of yours! *shakes pom poms*

Doors and Corners! <3

Can't believe I forgot to mention Helen Cho in my fav characters, thanks for reminding me.

So when is that meta discussion chat and thank you for volunteering as mod! :D

"So when is that meta discussion chat and thank you for volunteering as mod! :D"

Ha ha ha. Show me the technical options, and I'm onboard!

Sign me up for that meta discussion AND your upcoming fic!!

See above! The latter may be coming sooner than the former...

I love that you own a bat'leth. Is there a mini alphaflyer on the mantle too?

No mini-flyer, alas. I did own a small Voyager that a colleague gave me, but it broke in our last trans-atlantic move. :(

awwwww... no! poor Voyager. :(