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If you've seen Wonder Woman, what did you think? Did you like her more or less than when she was in Dawn of Justice?

:D Oh, man, I wish I could give you a really carefully thought-out answer to this, anon! But tbqh, even if I hadn't seen Wonder Woman I'd still be perfectly able to tell you right away that there's no piece of media on this earth that could make me like Diana less. (Basically, I have a tendency to keep characters in a separate part of my head from plot developments/story events. There's totally stuff that pieces of media about Diana could do that I wouldn't like—but the thing I wouldn't like would be those particular pieces of media, and/or the choices their authors made while creating them, not Diana.)

But! I have in fact seen Wonder Woman, and I fell VERY THOROUGHLY in love with it. :D It did all kinds of things I really really wanted it to do; and there are a few things it didn't do that I wish it had done, but that's what fandom's for! I hugely enjoyed getting the chance to see Diana's movieverse backstory, and I loved her strength and sweetness and anger, her righteous frustration and dismay and despair, her compassion and her TOTALLY KICKASS POWERS. I loved watching her learn and grow into herself and transition toward the person I saw her as in Dawn of Justice. And yes, all right, a few of my headcanons were jossed, but SUCH IS LIFE. I'll adjust. ;D

Hey there! Have you accepted our goddess and savior WONDER WOMAN into your heart?

What kind of ridiculous question is this, anon??? WHO COULD POSSIBLY ANSWER THIS WITH "NO". I have at this point seen Wonder Woman three (3) times, and as far as I'm concerned it's gotten better every time! I loved everything about it and (ofc) everything about Diana, and I am just. so. thrilled. that it exists at the same time I do and I get to enjoy it. :D (And btw, there are quite a few Wonder-Woman-specific tags that got nominated for this round of the dceu_exchange, so if you're interested in receiving and/or giving Wonder Woman fic, THERE IS STILL TECHNICALLY TIME TO SIGN UP.)

five little headcanons that you've got for any given thing that you're into- the fluffier, the better :)

Haha, oh, I'M INTO SO VERY MANY THINGS. HOW TO PICK. *taps chin*

Okay, so for Dark Matter, my most ridiculous and persistent headcanon thoughts are all about HOW THEY DO LAUNDRY. It seems so unlikely that the Raza has a washing machine tucked away somewhere, and yet Dark Matter isn't the kind of sci-fi where they've handwaved supply issues with replicators, so nobody's just making themselves new clothes all the time and vaporizing the old ones. While the real answer is probably along the lines of, IDK, sonics that blast the dirt out or something, I like to believe that once the crew had their memories wiped, nobody knew the real answer or could figure it out. :D So whatever setup the Raza ACTUALLY has for its crew's laundry, they don't know where it is/how to operate it (and nobody's been willing to ask the android). So, obviously, Five built a miniature super-low-water-use washing machine for them in a corner! And everybody can use it whenever they want ... except for Three, who has to pay her in her favorite flavor of ration bar/small gadgets/hand tools or lengths of wire or whatever else he can convince her to accept. :D

( And as for four other things ... )

do u superbat fic recs?

I'm probably the WORST person you could possibly have asked, anon, given that I've only been into this pairing for like a year! Given that caveat, and working under the assumption that anybody who cares about Bruce/Clark has already checked out mithen and FabulaRasa (and also keeping in mind that I make no promises wrt objective quality, these are just stories I myself enjoyed reading A HELL OF A LOT :D), I would say that if you haven't looked up the following, you totally should:

• Everything steals_thyme/Liodain has written OR arted! I haven’t consumed a single work of theirs that I haven't enjoyed hugely. :D


• Everything metropolisjournal/TKodami has written OR arted (why are there so many people who are geniuses in MULTIPLE WAYS in this fandom? /o\)! Read the completed works and then come sigh with me over the WIPs.


• Absolutely all of linndechir's Bruce/Clark (and the rest of their fic too, tbh, they are multi-fandom and prolific and all-around excellent)! Especially if you're looking for porn and kinky sex, but if you aren't I still highly recommend Nothing You Can't Do, which is T-rated and delightful (Bruce is good at so many things, and Clark can't help noticing). :D


• Everything architeuthis has touched is gold, and I mean that about the Diana gen and Diana/Lois just as much as I mean it about the Bruce/Clark. *_______*!


• saltedpin's Bruce/Clark, particularly Only Human (Clark loses his powers, Bruce keeps having to save him from things!) and Only Way Out Is Through, both of which I enjoyed a lot!

And there's also some stuff I haven’t read myself (*shakes fist at RL*) but hope to get to, and in the meantime you should read it for me:

• CoffioCake's The Long Hangover, which I've seen recced like five different places and is gloriously long, and one of these days I really am going to sit down and read it!


• flirtygaybrit's Kryptomyocota has been on my to-read list lo a ridiculously long time; judging by the tags it's a little more of a medical casefic with Bruce/Clark on the side than straight-up tropey shipfic, BUT IT STILL COUNTS.


• So many of the authors signed up for the SuperBat Big Bang are new to me, and in addition to looking forward to all their big bang contributions (so many Bruce/Clark words and art, anon! :D), a lot of them have piles of Bruce/Clark fic I haven't read yet. /o\ The posting schedule for the bang has links to everybody's AO3s and/or Tumblrs, which you should totally take a look at if you get a chance.

BUT this is far from exhaustive—I have by no means read everything in the tag!—and also DCEU-leaning because that's where I've spent most of my time. /o\ I'M STILL GETTING THE HANG OF *waves hands* COMICS AND STUFF. DON'T JUDGE ME.

who is the best (or most ridiculous) self-insert for Star Trek that lives in your heart? And for Star Wars?

So for starters, SORRY THIS TOOK SO LONG TO ANSWER, wow, I'm no good at all at maintaining a Tumblr. /o\ And then OH NO, anon, you will so regret asking this. :D A) It's most ridiculous, I'll tell you that for free right now, and B) SERIOUSLY, REGRETS.

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Do you think that Clark would have been any different if it had been his mother who died in that tornado rather than his father?

Ooh, man, I hate to think about this because I like Martha so much, but that's a great question, anon! I do think he would have been different—I mean, not HUGELY, he would still be Clark in a lot of ways, but having Pa Kent stick around to keep telling him to hide all the time would probably have changed how things played out and how Clark reacted to things in MoS.

... Though they'd also have had time to show us Pa Kent changing his mind about Clark using his powers, instead of retconning it with that weird "just the dream of a farmer from Kansas" line in BvS, which I wouldn't have minded. ;D

But yes, depending on the angle that was taken I think that could absolutely have changed Clark. He might not have left home to hobo around the world, since I doubt Jonathan would have liked the idea of giving that many people a chance to see Clark doing things he shouldn't—or he might have left but only after having to have an awful fight with Jonathan about it, but either way I think that would change him and the way he handled things to some degree. And then, of course, going the other direction, Jonathan changing his mind and actually talking to Clark about it could have done a lot to make the whole thing easier on Clark. (DAMMIT, PA KENT.)

do you have any shipping feelings about Star Trek TNG?

:D I totally do! I was so young while I was first watching it that that stuff went waaaaaay over my head—I think I probably picked up on the canonical Picard/Crusher stuff EVENTUALLY, haha, but that was about it at the time. And then for a while it was just in such a different category from things I was fannish about; like, I can't oversell how formative it was for me, which meant I didn't think of it as a story that could be transformed fannishly for a really long time.

AND THEN. I watched more Star Trek, and rewatched some episodes, and oh, hello there, Q appearing in Picard's bed in Tapestry! 8D

SO. I actually am still really fond of Picard/Crusher, and probably that helped give me the taste for noble understated pining that I retain to this day. :D And I also like Troi/Riker a lot, especially in the later seasons/movies—they just know each other so well, and are so fond and also a little mocking, it warms my heart. Data/Geordi is charming to me for similar reasons (I actually do have a fair number of best friend ships!), and Picard/Q falls squarely between "knowing each other really well" and "enemies to lovers" in a way that works for me really hard. :D I've also discovered that I'm kind of intrigued by Troi/Ro (Ro is so angry! Troi is so unimpressed with anger, and also so prepared to not take angry people's shit! There's a whole storyline about developing grudging respect and friendship hidden in there, seriously), and Troi/Crusher (like I said, friend ships! *grabby hands*), and ... look, Troi was my childhood fave, okay? /o\ :D Ooh, ooh, and Picard/Riker (I'm a sucker for leader + right-hand person they rely on, okay), and I loved Troi/Worf while it was happening! Though I'll admit I like Worf/Dax a little too much to ship it as an endgame ship. ;D

ANYWAY. Tl;dr: yes, I totally do! And feel free to talk to me about YOUR shipping TNG feelings any time, anon. :D