A Fan's Playground

So here's the post I was ACTUALLY planning on posting today!

I'm gonna do that Snowflake challenge, extremely late, BECAUSE I CAN and because it is super awesome.

( DAY ONE: post a rec for at least three fanworks that you have created. )

( DAY TWO: post a rec for at least three fanworks that you did not create. (with focus on fanworks less likely to be praised) )

DAYS THREE AND FOUR: Accomplished!

Because sentientcitizen has an unfathomable idea that one should actually watch the complete canon of a given fandom, and because I've been watching X-Men under her aegis, tonight she and I watched X3 together. Even though she does not actually like it, and it's generally accepted to be a bad movie. Even though I feel no such compulsion. But who am I to say no?

And, okay, here are the redeeming features of the movie:
1. Listening to Essie snark at the screen a ridiculous amount
2. Watching Kitty be awesome
3. Seeing how devastated Magneto looked when ( spoiler )

I'm not even going to try to catalogue all the problems I had with the movie, though, because they are innumerable.

Essie does say though, that despite her thing for completeness, she does not feel the need to make me watch Wolverine: Origins, or whatever the heck that one was called. Although apparently it would be even more fun for merciless mocking! So, who knows. I may or may not see that one at some point. She doesn't own it on DVD though, so it's less likely.

ETA: Apparently upon further consideration, the importance of completeness nags at Essie enough that we have to watch the Wolverine movie. *laughs* So I guess that's going to happen at some point!

Oh look, a post that's not about bandom! By which I mean, X-MEN TIME.

Today I saw the first X-Men movie for the first time since I was 13 and Essie just had to make me watch this amazing film, no really Sophia it's awesome!

At the time I...was not properly appreciative. By which I mean, I enjoyed the film, more or less, but had no particular need to call it anything even approaching "awesome". It was, in fact, a resounding "meh".

SO YOU CAN GUESS HOW HARD SHE IS LAUGHING AT ME NOW. She's all, "notice how I'm not saying anything," and then grinning at me, and I have no leg to stand on because HEY she was right, it's an awesome movie and it only took me 9 years to realize it.

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Just saw the new X-Men movie. ( FEEEEEEELINGS involving spoilers )