I keep thinking of stuff I should have brought up in the 30 days of fanfic meme and forgot

[petronia]

I swear to bob if I ever write XM:FC fanfiction, it will be in two parts from Charles' and Erik's POVs and they will be respectively titled "Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis" and "Bohr-van Leeuwen Theorem". Because BOTH POINT OUT SOMETHING WRONG do you see

IDK, I keep expecting someone to write the fic where Charles is all "yes with practice you'll be able to move larger objects" while internally he's like "oh fuckballs quantum mechanics FABRIC OF REALITY, ok ok Xavier play it cool". It's sort of like in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure where the statement of the power tends to be ridiculous: like Bruno does not quote "create zippers" unquote. But it makes for a pleasing symmetry because Charles's power is also quantums. In fact they may be aspects of the same power. Math is weird.

Basically my ideas for the fandom boil down to "side-eying the science handwave, forever".

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[niqaeli]

I approve this plan. Side-eyeing the science handwave forever! Nerdery for the win!

(I turn my brain off for Marvel. It helps, some. I have yet to figure out how to turn my brain off completely though, sigh, which means periodically shrieking and clutching my head in agony.)

[petronia]

I am watching the first X-Men movie right now (I saw it once on its original run and remember nothing about the plot other than the Rogue and Wolverine bits), and Magneto appears to have figured out the quantum electrodynamics bit. Granted the only continuity in these movies consists of the Xavier mansion's bafflingly endless supply of grey flannel hoodies(!?).

I don't read the comics themselves, mostly, I have friends who do that for me. XD; Then I just ask them questions, because I'm pretty sure any idea I can come up with has been done canonically over the course of 50 years, short of the ones that are really not PG13. (eg. "Has anyone ever offered to put, like, lasers or a rocket launcher or something on Charles Xavier's wheelchair?" Ans: "Yeah, that space princess he was banging once")

[sub_divided]

I found that Next Gen X-Men bandom fic I was telling you about: the one that discusses social cliques at Xavier academy. It's kinda boring if you don't know the people, but for this one you only need to know what the dude looks like: http://iphignia939.livejournal.com/213177.html

[petronia]

(Did I close my reply before posting XD;) I do actually know who the bandom ppl are and what they look like, mostly! And yeah, there's a bit of that in the movies even. There's not one mutation, so... labingi had an essay that was not really about that, but kind of touches on it. XD