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I want your love and I want your revenge
In ... 2007? but mostly in 2008, I was really, really into Doctor/Master. It hit pretty much every single one of my (some of them previously undiscovered) buttons: they were best friends when they were young, who eventually had a massive falling-out due to dramatic difference in worldview; all grown up, now one of them saves the universe but mostly Earth while sometimes being suspiciously messianic, and the other concocts increasingly ridiculous schemes, ostensibly to rule/destroy the world but mostly to get his ex-boyfriend's attention; together, they don't so much fight crime as distract each other sufficiently to keep the world from ending. Oh, and they're aliens, and routinely break the laws of physics. And the best part is that I didn't find myself with just a few precious shippy episodes: no, these guys had an excess of forty freaking years of history and canon and debatable canon and general absurdity.
Perhaps you can see where I'm going with this.
I'm being good and finishing my work and packing and generally doing all those pre-travel things one must do, but I'm starting to run out of Smallville episodes with promising summaries, and it's not like all the other clips of the Bad Romance vid didn't look just as ridiculously shippy. I'm frankly bewildered. I've always been pretty good at avoiding the sucking vortex of comics, and I'm mostly conversant in Marvel anyway (although not for lack of trying; I love you, Batman friends). So I am not quite sure what the hell I am doing! All I know is that none of the other DCU continuity has Chloe, and yet this probably won't be enough to stop me from really, really ill-advised forays into the abyss in search of more good Lex material.
...Speaking of Doctor/Master, which I wasn't really, there are now a bunch of cryptic teasers for s6 Doctor Who floating around the internets. I have no particular insights, except that most of it sounds hugely awesome, and also I am, as per usual, crossing my fingers for more Master, whether he's Benedict Best-Name-Ever Cumberbatch or not.
Perhaps you can see where I'm going with this.
I'm being good and finishing my work and packing and generally doing all those pre-travel things one must do, but I'm starting to run out of Smallville episodes with promising summaries, and it's not like all the other clips of the Bad Romance vid didn't look just as ridiculously shippy. I'm frankly bewildered. I've always been pretty good at avoiding the sucking vortex of comics, and I'm mostly conversant in Marvel anyway (although not for lack of trying; I love you, Batman friends). So I am not quite sure what the hell I am doing! All I know is that none of the other DCU continuity has Chloe, and yet this probably won't be enough to stop me from really, really ill-advised forays into the abyss in search of more good Lex material.
...Speaking of Doctor/Master, which I wasn't really, there are now a bunch of cryptic teasers for s6 Doctor Who floating around the internets. I have no particular insights, except that most of it sounds hugely awesome, and also I am, as per usual, crossing my fingers for more Master, whether he's Benedict Best-Name-Ever Cumberbatch or not.
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BUT NOT LEX LUTHOR: MAN OF STEEL. THAT'S GREAT.
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I CLEARLY NEED TO GET MY HANDS ON THAT. I think I have heard that all the best bits of it are magically in the Bad Romance vid, too? (I am guessing this involves the "I have more ... I have hope" thing, which makes me kind of wail every time.) Lol basing many fandom decisions on one vid to a freaking Lady Gaga song.
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NOT ALL THE BEST BITS. In fact, there are some really amazing bits that aren't in there! Including some Lex/Bruce stuff. But yes, all the bits with the gorgeous metallic-looking art are from that. (Warn you: there is a love story for Lex in it. But it's creepy as fuck and I kind of enjoy it in parts.)
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Oh man oh man, that is great. (Also, that is not a warning! Lex should get all the love stories.)
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OKAY GOOD.
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The husband, who knows comics better than I, says 52 also has good Lex stuff.
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I-is it a farm in Soviet Russia? This is strangely awesome. I am guessing there is a bit less American Way in the Truth and Justice in that universe.
I do not necessarily require childhood friendships with Lex! I am very much at peace with the fact that There Is No Canon. :D
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UGH BUT I HATE 52. :( :( It's probably got good Lex stuff, though. I just hate that it's about the point at which the DCU began its downward spiral. You know, one of them.
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"...whether he's Benedict Best-Name-Ever Cumberbatch or not."
I actually think I might cry if they get someone else :( I've got my heart set.
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You should also check out the animated feature Superman: Doomsday, several clips of which are in "Bad Romance." It's a great story in general, and the Clex-y bits are really...um. Lex, could you TRY for a little subtlety?
Can I just say how thrilled I am that you're getting into this pairing? I'm trying not to be a creepy fandom stalker person, but I adore all your Due South and Doctor Who stuff, and watching "Bad Romance" five million times left me flailing with Smallville nostalgia, with no one to share it with.
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...Okay, and I need to find the complete version of Superman: Doomsday RIGHT NOW. YESTERDAY. Things I actually said aloud while watching it: "Oh my god Lex" and, at the end, "I can't. believe. that EXISTS." Obviously Lex has discarded subtlety as an effective strategy when it comes to Clark. Dear lord.
Do not feel like a creepy fandom stalker person! One of my favourite things about getting new fandoms is that I find myself hanging out with new people to joyfully flail with! Although I think I have seen you in various places for a while, so maybe 'new' is not quite the right word. In any case, yay for the gateway drug that is the Bad Romance vid. :D
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I think you can stream it on Netflix. I know they've got it to rent, anyway. Or I'm sure someone somewhere has it to download. But...yeah. Between that and the red roses on Superman's grave, I think Lex has just gone fuck it, subtlety is for lesser mortals.
It's always fun when creators seem to be slashing characters just as energetically as the fangirls. Back in the day, everyone in Smallville fandom seemed to find out about Lex and Clark having a canonical love child around the same time and it was the OMGWTFsquee! heard round the world.
Mind if I friend/subscribe? I figure between Clex, Doctor/Master, Fraser/Kowalski, and Kara/Leoben, that is just too many ships to share and not be friends.
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I cannot believe that Clark and Lex canonically have a freaking biological kid. It's like every day is my birthday!
I do not mind at all. :)
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Um, ok, the best superman comic ever is Red Son, which is this AU where the space ship landed in Russia instead of Kansas, in the 1930s, and Superman becomes a Great Soviet Hero. And Lex comes up with all of his elaborate schemes from the history of Superman comics... to save America from the Alien Soviet threat.
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And yay Smallville recs! SO EXCITED ABOUT THIS.
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Question: Do you have any interest in other DCU fic? Te's batfamily stuff is awesome. And there's also a lot of Lex/Clark/Bruce combos in my favorites. Also Robin/Superboy.
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I have just received a rec for Te's Batfamily stuff! And I would be lying if I said I did not have interest in other DCU fic, because I absolutely do. D'you have a delicious? Because if so, I am for sure starting there.
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But will I get through this without re-reading every story? Unclear.
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The place you should start for DC-related, rather than SV-related, fic is the DC Fic Index memories, although as far as I know it is no longer being updated. However, it does organise a lot of classics, though fair warning, most DC fic is Bats/Supes (known as "World's Finest") rather than Clex. Also, Reconcilable Differences, which I'm sure you've already read but anyway, is the Smallville-to-DCU Gateway Drug of Choice for most people (It's Tim/Kon and Clex. You know who Kon and Tim are, right? I feel like everyone knows this by osmosis but just in case, Kon is the infamous test-tube biological baby of Clark and Lex whose not-that-secret identity is Superboy, and Tim was World's Creepiest Robin when the story was written but is now Red Robin, which is a really stupid identity he borrowed off Jason Todd.)
The other thing is that it feels like to me, with the exception of Te's work, DCU fandom is pretty segregated into likes-the-adults and likes-the-teens. I am a likes-the-teens so I have nothing much to say about the adults. But soooo much identity porn, Aria. So much.
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Oooh, thank you for the jumping-off point! I fear that this is the kind of fandom that I could drown in for months without even coming close to exhausting the body of fanwork, let alone the canon. EXCITING. Also SCARY.
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