i just watched a celeste TAS that showed the entire credits and i went searching for celeste fanfiction and there is still none :(
i've been in that boat for a while now and it sucks. like i could write some myself but. i just want to like. read it. ;-;
If it is an &, tag it as an &. If it is not, DO NOT. What does a girl have to do for platonic friend fic around here? Goddamn but i miss homestuck.
kind of a weird trend i'm noticing in some avengers fic written by europeans... the authors don't seem to understand that american culture just does not have the artifacts of hereditary nobility. americans who are nervous around someone important don't have an urge to bow. shield agents might awkwardly salute, civilians might try for a handshake, folks will definitely try to stand tall and look trustworthy. there is no urge to bow. it's not built in, it's learned, and americans don't learn it. that's a european and japanese thing. rich americans may be contemptuous of the poor, but they don't think of it in terms of bloodline or Our Sort or The Right Kind Of People for the most part, though there's some of that on the east coast, in sections of new england that kind of mimic old england, and have some blood ties across the pond. but in southern california? no. the Beautiful People mostly started out working or middle class, then got famous on their looks or talent. there is absolutely no culture there of judging people by whether their family has been there for generations or whatever. there's no malibu nobility. in fact, the children of the rich and famous are looked down on somewhat, because they didn't get there on their own merits. tony stark may have inherited vast wealth and power, but in the american cultural eye, he actually had an uphill battle to gain respect, because being a spoiled rich kid is something americans tend to view with contempt. you know how, in the movies, the americans are always awkward about t'challa, don't know whether to call him your majesty or not, don't know whether they're supposed to bow and all that? it's not because superheroes are humble. it's not to be cute. it's because americans just... don't... understand how that whole thing works. the idea of someone being important beyond their basic humanity simply due to being born with a title is kind of a weird novelty to us. we tend to find it a little silly. fascinating, but in a circus way. we don't really respect it.
New England does have some "our kind of people" going on, as you said. And so does the South, with a different set of rules. But nobody's bowing. We don't even know how. If you want to show respect to someone you shake their hand.
There's some bowing in Canada? But that's...pretty much limited to royalty. You bow to the Queen or her representatives and that's it. The Prime Minister gets a handshake. I don't think we have any nobility of our own? In terms of codes to make something stop happening quickly, I think you'd want something that's got as few syllables as possible? So I can see where the logic of using 'sputnik' comes from, but I agree that it's too well-known to use - it's a word that'll turn up all over the place. Go with obscure animals or fairytale names. "Baba Yaga" might turn up on tv occasionally, but Koschei? Nah. Same with Vasilii and Vasilisa.
if it was me, i'd go with a shutdown code that involved numbers. "shutdown six one nine" is unlikely to be spoken by accident.
Pretty sure Vasilii is a fairly common male name in Russia... not sure about Vasilisa, but it’s only one letter removed from Vasilia, which is the feminine form of the same name, and am also led to believe is quite common (by a high school Russian textbook that’s more than old enough to drink by now, so take that with salt grains to your personal taste.) Close enough that I wouldn’t rule out it being a variant or diminutive, anyway. ... Also, even just with the strictly fairy-tale stuff, your agent would have to avoid children’s storybook readings or risk accidental off-switching.
sometimes my dumb brain forgets that a lot of americans don't bow and we bow because i spent like 8 years going to a thai buddhist temple and you bow to like literally everyone there. it's like the wires get crossed and i perform a social act thing that isn't needed in this context. which i guess is an example of americans bowing. thai population at least in so cal bows lots. but only in like their general spaces and communities.
well yeah, and i bowed before a match when i did martial arts, it's not that americans don't bend in the middle. it's that 'nervous bobbing and half-bowing' isn't the correct reaction for a starstruck shield agent meeting captain america, and tony stark's neighbors would complain about parties and supervillains, but not about the Definitely Not The Winter Soldier guy who bought the next beach house over being too common and having a working class accent. this is fanfic gripes, not 100% true generalizations about everyone in the world. how come "yes but exception!" keeps happening? i don't understand it.
Because we are a forum full of pedants who love to nitpick and explain absolutely everything ever? :::PPP
It would amuse me a lot if the winter soldier was programmed with 'sputnik' as the shutdown code, assuming that haha yeah, we'll just use this name of this other super secret Russian program, which nobody in America/etc will ever accidentally stumble across, but which Russian officers will be able to reliably remember and a term ('fellow traveler') that's kind of tied to the winter soldier's function, this is the best plan, we are SO good at planning. Except then the secret name for the Soviet satellites program was eventually made into the public name for the satellites, and the weight of bureaucracy meant nobody was listening to the weird science department screaming about how no no NO you're going to fuck up OUR project by doing this, we can't undo our programming but you could use literally any other name-- And then they're left nervously sweating like hahahaaaa yeah I'm sure it won't be a big deal, just play it cool, nothing will go wrong, it's only a word, just play it cool--
I discovered recently that "self-insert gaining ridiculous amounts of superpowers" is apparently a fetish in itself rather than just a way to have the character do what the writer wants him to do (it's usually a him), and I really don't want to kinkshame but I see fics like that and the characters' ridiculously bloated egos irritate the crap out of me. I wouldn't care, but it's outright enraging when it's a fanfic in a 'verse where there is no reason for them to be able to do that. No, I do not buy that only one singular John in the entire HS multiverse used the juju, and I want nothing more than a fic in which the cast from a timeline where everyone used it pop in and beat the hell out of this smug bastard the writer turned him into. Not to mention I'm pretty certain the juju wouldn't work the way it's being presented.
