talkin' about my girl
Dec. 2nd, 2011 09:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kaydeefalls
Interesting blog post linked on my f-list today: Is Thor a feminist movie? (Yes). I thought Thor was an okay movie -- it kept me entertained, but I don't feel particularly fannish about it -- but the one thing that really did strike me was how good it was with the women. (Like the post mentioned, a superhero movie that passes the Bechdel test in the first five minutes? How often does that happen?) My biggest gripe with the Avengers movieverse as a whole is the overwhelming maleness of it -- kickass ladies like Pepper Potts, Jane Foster, or Peggy Carter aren't even going to show up in the Avengers movie, I guess because they're "just" the love interests and that would detract from all the manly bonding of Avengers Assemble! or some shit. (On the other hand, Joss Whedon tends to be pretty good with women -- not perfect by any means, but he tries -- so clearly I should withhold judgment until the movie is actually released. Maybe Black Widow will get an awesomely empowering storyline.) But Thor gives us Jane -- an incredibly smart, career-oriented, passionate woman who absolutely does not compromise her work or her desires for the hero; DARCY, whom I adore beyond all measure and is the sort of sarcastic sidekick who in ANY OTHER MOVIE would've been cast as male; and of course the Lady Sif, who kicks ass and takes names and refuses to allow any dude to take credit for her own awesomeness. And that's pretty fantastic.
I mean, I think it's fairly obvious where my own Marvelverse allegiances lie, but if anyone wants to rec me any good Darcy/ANYONE fics... (musesfool has written a couple of excellent ones, by the by -- Darcy/Steve and Darcy/Clint.)
...and now I kind of want to write Darcy/Sif. Shit.
I mean, I think it's fairly obvious where my own Marvelverse allegiances lie, but if anyone wants to rec me any good Darcy/ANYONE fics... (
musesfool has written a couple of excellent ones, by the by -- Darcy/Steve and Darcy/Clint.)...and now I kind of want to write Darcy/Sif. Shit.
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Date: 2011-12-05 09:47 pm (UTC)(I feel like Pepper/Natasha is a default background pairing in a lot of Steve/Tony fic -- or, like, in all of the two Steve/Tony fics I've bothered reading because I'm not a fan of the pairing -- but I've yet to see it as a main pairing. Then again, I very rarely seek out any sort of Avengers fic at all, so possibly there is a bounty of femslash that I'm just missing.)