Writing resolution 2010:

[schmevil]

My writing resolution for 2010 is: moar ladies. More LGBTQ ladies. More ladies of colour. More young ladies, old ladies, fat ladies and skinny ladies.


On a semi-related note, here are some stories that I want, but probably won't write, since my to-write list is utterly ridiculous as is:

1) Natasha Stark is a trans woman. She created Iron Man before she started transitioning.

2) Welcome to the X-Men Sookie Stackhouse, I hope you survive the experience! "I am not wearing spandex. OR a leather catsuit." "Short shorts yay, spandex nay?"

3) Severus Snape moves to Gotham. Everybody seems to think he's a supervillain. Really, he just wants to raise mandrake roots, brew potions and write scathing letters to the editor, in peace.

4) Batgirl, Wonder Girl and Supergirl trade lives for a day. Hijinks ensue.

5) Colleen and Misty join the Lady Liberators.

6) SV!Lana Lang is Kawatche. She becomes a shape-shifting superheroine.

Comments

[torachan]

I don't even know Iron Man, but I would be ALL OVER #1.

[schmevil]

Ok, so there's a canonical alternate universe where Tony Stark is Natasha Stark. She and Captain America get married, and this leads to happy-fun-times for all. Their getting married literally prevents two wars. So yeah, I would really like a story where Natahsa is not cis, but trans.

[torachan]

That would be so awesome! :D

I am planning to watch Iron Man soon (I saw the preview for 2 when I saw Sherlock Holmes, and it looked interesting + I have been feeling the RDJ love lately), so I will at least be familiar with the movieverse.

[schmevil]

Iron Man is a really fun movie. But it's... pretty much what the trailers suggest. Tony is almost gleefully misogynistic, ignorant and douchey. Not that he doesn't have good qualities... Iron Man the character is great fun to play with. He's really plugged into a side of America that a lot of people like to forget about. He's connected to the Manhattan Project, wars of imperialism, arms development, the worst of capitalism - and then he becomes a superhero. Interesting stuff.

[angelikitten]

Just saw this on my network and have to say that #3 sounds awesome! I really want it now :(

[schmevil]

I would love, love, love a running joke about all the members of the extended Batfamily harassing him.

[elspethdixon]

As one of the approximately three Clex fans in the world who actually *liked* SV Lana (at least in the first two seasons, which were all I watched), I'd be all over #6. And also #1, but that goes without saying.

[schmevil]

I liked Lana until they lost sight of who the character is. I even really liked Lex/Lana.

[elspethdixon]

I liked Lex/Lana considerably more than I liked any other het pairing on the show that didn't involve Martha Kent, in that I actually saw chemistry and the potential for a real relationship there. It couldn't compete with the epic You Are My Most Important Person thing that was Lex and Clark, but I felt like Lex and Lana in seasons 1/2 saw parts of one another that no one else did -- he treated her like something other than a Barbie Princess Homecoming Queen, and was one of the first people to take her decision to become a businesswoman and save the movie theater and turn it into a coffee shop seriously.

[schmevil]

I regret not writing Lexana way back when. I have this secret superhero-noir novel that I poke at every once in a while (someday I will finish it!) and it's strongly influenced by Smallville. The main character is a Lana analog, and tbh I think I'm just going to write her into a romance with the Lex analog and be done with it. ;)