Transfer Students

Title: Transfer Students
Fandoms: Avengers, X-Men, Batman
Rating: PG
Summary: Five times the Avengers pawned kids off on the Jean Grey School.

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SATURDAY FANFIC!

After which I am off to the movies. And maybe it will snow today! MOVIES AND SNOW.

The first fanfic is one I wrote:

Title: Transfer Students
Fandoms: Avengers, X-Men, Batman
Rating: PG
Summary: Five times the Avengers pawned kids off on the Jean Grey School.

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The second one is a spinoff of an old White Collar "fanfic" I did, Five White Collar AUs Sam Didn't Write. Shadow picked up my "superheroes" crossover from that post and ran with it. She had me look it over and give my blessing before she posted, which I did happily; I couldn't have done this story better myself (and fortunately did not have to).

Title: I've Pushed To Get Through
Fandom: White Collar
Rating: PG
Summary: Neal's gift is everything he wished for, back when he was seven years old and dirt poor. It's also the reason he's alone; why people turn on him, why people want to use him, and why people leave him.

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The Christmas show at the Music Box! Have some popcorn!
( Sorry, did not know it would be so huge... )

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So, sorry about the GIANT PHOTO I posted, didn't quite mean for it to be so large. It's behind a cut now.

But yes! I went to the Music Box Christmas Double-Header, which is sing-along White Christmas and then It's A Wonderful Life. I've done White Christmas before but never the full two-film experience.

It was neat to see It's A Wonderful Life on the big screen, but honestly I think once was enough. Some films, and man I hate to say this because I sound like a film-school douche, are genuinely better seen in a cinema. I don't think it's the size so much as the amount of focus you're forced to put on them. I have seen White Christmas approximately a billion times but until I saw it in a cinema I never realised how fucking hilarious the "Love, You Didn't Do Right By Me" number is. MEN POPPING OUT OF NOWHERE. CHOREOGRAPHY!

But It's A Wonderful Life, which is a film that I genuinely love as a classic piece of cinema, doesn't really need the big screen. Little screen is fine. I think perhaps it's because I love it for the writing, so I can listen to it and get the same effect as watching it. Visually it is not particularly a work of genius.

Part of it too is that as a sing-along, White Christmas is much more interactive. The crowd is rowdier and funnier, and there's a greater sense of community in the room when it's on. A group of people this year brought fake snow and started throwing it around during the Snow number, and someone always screams LOOK OUT when Colonel Waverly almost gets beaned in the head by a horseshoe. And I always see something new, like the fact that Waverly's unit was at Monte Cassino, which is one of the more brutal battles the US military fought during WWII.

I ended up sitting next to an extremely elderly woman for White Christmas; she was there with her granddaughter and her granddaughter's two toddlers. We got to talking before the movie, because she'd never been before, and I said it was fun, and then after the movie, during the intermission between films, I asked how she liked it.

Her: It was lovely! Everyone sang!
Me: I wish they'd put subtitles up, though. More people would sing.
Her: You knew all the words.
Me: Yeah, sorry I was off-key.
Her: ALL THE WORDS!
Me: Well, I may have seen the movie a few times.

It's true. And kind of sad. But I even know the fiddly parts of I Wish I Was Back In The Army.