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I am quite tired.

This afternoon's mail brought my contributor's copy of Mythic Delirium #24, containing my poem "Wisdom." Just go and buy a copy; this one's important to me. I thought of it while visiting darthrami and strange_selkie two Aprils ago and it took until last year's Readercon to write, probably because its inspirations were a line from Avatar: The Last Airbender ("All this time, what I thought was a great metropolis was merely a city of fools. And that makes me the king fool") and the knowledge that most of the Jews of real-life Chełm did not survive World War II. There are other things in it, but mostly Yiddish literature and film. And a nice illustration by Daniel Trout.

What I was doing in the afternoon was seeing X-Men: First Class (2011), with which I have some arguments—it's a major-studio summer blockbuster—but the double act of Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen should have been impossible to follow and James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender actually pulled it off; I'd happily watch them in a second film and I approve of neither of them being saints. Somehow I had failed to realize the director was Matthew Vaughn until we got to the end credits,¹ but he styles the film like it's 1962 and he's practically canonized Charles/Erik. Also Nicholas Hoult makes an adorable Beast and it's kind of stupid that I haven't yet seen Winter's Bone (2010). Further analysis will have to wait.

I am going to stare at Lovecraft Unbound (2009) or my pillow, whichever comes first.

1. I also keep forgetting that he directed Stardust (2007), but I am very fond of his debut film, Layer Cake (2004).

Comments

[handful-ofdust.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's certainly not perfect, but at the time, I really didn't care. And I actually still don't much care.;)

There've been some pretty sweet fanfic ideas about bringing Darwin back, though--as people have pointed out, his power basically makes him impossible to kill permanently, which starts to wear on him later in life. I think my favourite was the one where someone on my flist (I'll check the name in a moment) made Alex cough really hard at one point, expelling him in gaseous form from where he'd been nesting in Alex's lungs all this time.

[handful-ofdust.livejournal.com]

(It was iphignia939, who's also been doing her best to restore Destiny--Mystique's eventual precognitive girlfriend--to the timeline, by carving off an AU where CHarles and Erik don't break up.)

[strange-selkie.livejournal.com]

James McAvoy is in my "pretty pretty men" subset, and has been since Tumnus. Have to go look at the other.

You have managed to visit us shocking regular these past few years. I approve. Although I may get you a hotel next time for "sleeping."

[ron-drummond.livejournal.com]

my poem "Wisdom."

Congratulations!

Just go and buy a copy; this one's important to me.

Okay. Will it be available at Readercon?

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

Hurrah and congratulations for the contributor's copy.

I'm glad you liked the film, despite arguments.

[sovay]

There've been some pretty sweet fanfic ideas about bringing Darwin back

I approve of that: he was way too cool for his quick exit. I do not say this only because I envy anyone who could develop gills by dunking their head in a fish tank.

(It was iphignia939, who's also been doing her best to restore Destiny--Mystique's eventual precognitive girlfriend--to the timeline, by carving off an AU where CHarles and Erik don't break up.)

Is Destiny slated to turn up in the films? I would approve of that, also.

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James McAvoy is in my "pretty pretty men" subset, and has been since Tumnus. Have to go look at the other.

Fassbender, whatever; he has interesting bones and I approve of his fluency in at least four languages, but I don't feel the need to pin him on my wall. McAvoy, in the last year or so, has developed a decided character actor's face—I wouldn't call him pretty and it suits him very well, especially for the kind of rumpled, professorial look crossbred with unexamined money that characterizes Charles Xavier in 1962. I mean, the man can pull off fingerless gloves.

Although I may get you a hotel next time for "sleeping."

If you ever have a guest room again . . .

[sovay]

Congratulations!

Thank you!

Will it be available at Readercon?

I expect so; Mythic Delirium usually sells as the SFPA table.

[sovay]

Hurrah and congratulations for the contributor's copy.

Thank you!

I'm glad you liked the film, despite arguments.

It is worth seeing, if you get the chance.

[handful-ofdust.livejournal.com]

I haven't heard anything about Destiny turning up in the films, and (of course) most people automatically assume she won't, because kyriarchy etc. mean we can't have nice things. I prefer to think maybe she will, and wonder about casting.

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I prefer to think maybe she will, and wonder about casting.

Given that Matthew Vaughn filmed Charles and Erik like a couple, I'll keep my fingers crossed.