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WandaVision fic woes, and other Marvel musings
Rewatched WandaVision for the 3rd or 4th time a couple months ago, and I’ve been grinding through the fic section on AO3 ever since.
(My To Read section was down to a single-digit number of pages when I started! Not gonna get back there for a while, I think.)
Ended up with some pretty aggressive filtering. If it’s incomplete and hasn’t updated for 6+ months, I’m mostly not even touching it…same with no-powers AUs, fics that focus heavily on the X-Men, and a couple specific pairings…and I’m filtering on the Wanda Maximoff tag, because it turns out I basically don’t care about fic with any of the other characters if she’s not in it.
“Other MCU characters get sucked into the Hex and live with magical versions of their lost loved ones” is a recurring trope. In theory, it should be a really cool one! In practice, I feel like they keep pulling their punches? Playing out like generic ship fics, not leaning into the specific weirdness of the Hex’s sitcom world as much as I want them to.
Also disappointed in the range of “sexy PWP times with Wanda and Vision” fics. There’s plenty to go around, but the way most of them play out, Vision might as well be a standard fully-human cis man. “Vision phases one or both of them out of their clothes” is a staple, but that’s the only magic/synthezoid trait that regularly comes up.
Wanda is off-the-charts psychic — where are all the sexy-mind-meld fics? Vision is made of vibranium — how come I’ve only seen two offhand mentions of “putting his tongue in vibrate mode”? (And only the tongue!) He can phase through anything, why can’t we have more inventive uses for that? Both of them can fly, why don’t they…
You get the idea.
Here’s the WandaVision series tag in my recs, and it’s getting populated, but sloooowly. (Anyone who has favorite “Wanda and Vision have weird creative SF/F sex” fics I might’ve missed, please comment with the links.)
Bonus: I have another “Wanda and the Moon Knights” WIP in the queue for the Cover of Knight universe. Started noodling on it back in, no kidding, October 2022. Churned out a bunch of full-on chapters in December! But the whole thing doesn’t start until some other Character Development Moments have happened, and those aren’t even all written yet, much less posted…
Long story short, it wouldn’t be a surprise if I end up having to sit on this thing all the way into October 2023. (…Which would line up neatly with the latest pushed-back release date for Monica Rambeau’s big MCU return, at least.)
Really hope the energy for both these MCU sub-fandoms is still going by then! It’s weird and mysterious and funny and emotional, and the people who stick around long enough to read it are gonna like it, I swear.
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I'm delighted you're still feeling inspired to write MK and associated MCU stuff! I really enjoy your take on them. I'm still fairly obsessed with MK a year on, and since I tend to be serially monogamous with fandoms, I imagine I'll be around for quite a while yet. I might even try to write a bit more fic this year. :-)
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Bonus, after watching the series, I went back and rewatched Infinity War/Endgame...and was kinda blown away by how hard their scenes hit. Not just because I was invested in the characters now, but because their dynamic and their chemistry was so emotionally-consistent with the season-long expanded version that they hadn't even gotten to play yet. I mean, we knew they were good actors, but this was next-level.
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I am now disappointed too. Come on fandom, where's the weird stuff?!