Perfects and Innocents

Title: Perfects and Innocents
Fandom: Young Avengers
Characters: Cassie Lang, Kate Bishop, Tommy Shepherd, assorted Young Avengers (all of them) and various Marvel comics characters
Warnings: Chose not to use
Spoilers: Not really
Word Count: 8 257
Summary: A Children's Crusade AU. By which I mean: The year is 1212 and they're all headed for the Holy Land.
Author's Note:I wrote this way back when the end of Young Avengers: Children's Crusade was coming out in single issues, so late 2011 to 2012. I've never posted it before and actually kind of forgotten I'd written it until schneefink reminded me. It pretty much started so I could make the joke in the summary and I haven't done much more than run spellcheck on it before posting it here.

( Did you know the Children's Crusade happened at the same time as the Albigensian Crusade? )

On Wednedsay, we write about books

There was an outdoor theater today at DCU and the film they showed was Mean Girls. I'd never seen it before, it's fun. there was one guy dressed all in pink (where did he get pink shorts? Also, wow he must have been pretty cool) and everyone turned to him and chorused "YOU GO GLEN COCO" at him at that point of the movie. Also, but to a lesser extent, on "On Wednesdays we wear pink".

What did you finish reading

Undead to the World, by D D Barant: I have a feeling I would have liked this book a lot more if it hadn't been the last one in the series (as in, there will be no more Bloodhound Files books ever). As it stands, we spend a lot of time in Jace-who-believes-she's-not-Jace's head, which is somewhat disappointing. The series' main antagonist is killed off-screen, but I did love who killed him and why. I loved that pretty much every single character in the entire series was given a cameo as an AU version of themselves in this book. I did love the fight scenes and that Azura came back, but saying I wasn't a fan of the implication that Charlie (Aleph) had feelings for Jace would be an understatement. THAT NEVER HAPPENED. PLATONIC BFFS TO THE END OF THE WORLD(S) AND MORE. Still not a fan of the romance with that dude she got together with. I did like the insight into Charlie's past and I hope he goes back to being a golem (POWERED BY A T-REX). I am also firmly convinced that Jace decided to stay on Thropirelem at the end there, because Jace and Charlie having adventure and investigating shit and putting bad guys behind bars and snarking at each other and taking on gods and Elder Gods is my idea of a happy ending for them.

"[...] Who is Charlie supposed to be?"

"My partner," I say as I stand. "Come hell, high water, or the apocalypse."

Look at those two! I love those Jace and Charlie and Jace&Charlie so goddamn much and I am going to miss them something fierce.


The Bloodhound Files, a series by D D Barant: Overall, I really enjoyed the series. I think it's the kind of series that is great if T-REX POWERED GOLEM and TALKING SHIT TO ELDER GODS are the kind of things that sounds good to you. I'm not saying it's bad otherwise, because it's not, but that's clearly the main target audience. I wish more books had that target audience. I think my favourite book in the series was the third one, Killing Rocks and the order of how much I like them goes something like: 3, 2, 5, 1, 4, 6.


What are you reading now

The HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams: I should probably mention here that I saw the movie in cinemas way back when it first came out. Man, it is so weird that the mice and Deep thought are referred to by male pronouns as I remembered them being female. On the whole I like it, but I have a feeling I'm not liking it as much as I thought I would and I don't like that the only female character is pretty much completely sidelined so far. It sticks pretty close to what I remember from the movie so far, so it loses the element of surprise.


What are you reading next

So the DCU Book Society had another Book Sale, at which it turned out they had a book quota (that got lifted when everyone had bought their allotted two books). As it turns out, my little shopping spree is the reason they now have a book quota. I feel weirdly proud of that. What mark did I leave on the world? I made a book club fear my love of books, that's something.*

Here's what I bought this time (on a shelf, for schneefink ): Days of the Dead, The Once and Future King, Great North Road, The Ring of Salomon, Death and the Penguin ("In modern Ukraine, all that stands between one man and murder by the mafia is a penguin"), The Football Men and Second Book of General ignorance. The only one of these I've read is Days of the Dead. I'd like to point out that they made me chose and I couldn't pick two out of the extra five I still had, so they shuffled the book and made me point at two of them at random, which is how I ended up with Death and the Penguin and The Football Men. I love it when people do things like that: they saw I had a problem, and they helped me with it.

So what am I reading next? THE RING OF SALOMON OMG HOW IS THAT EVEN A QUESTION? There's a new Bartimeus trilogy book, of course I'm reading that.

In total, I have bought 26 books from the DCU Book Society.

Also! The crowd-funding campaign for Darkness Over Cannae is currently running (and already funded, btw). I'll be contributing as soon as my bank stops being a jerk, which might take a while, given that I am not in the same country.

*Plus, you know, I am also the reason my teacher from when I was seven now has a "if you feel sick and need to go to the bathroom, just go, don't ask" rule. Strangely, I am less proud of that.