5 Things Repost - Part 1
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second_batgirl: 5 times Lois Lane interviewed the Justice League
1. It was right after the Starro Invasion debacle, that was making (as the older reporters grumbled) the Plant sound more like a tabloid every day. Clark had landed an interview through some of his mysterious "connections" (Superman, probably), but he'd (of course) gone down with the flu at the last minute, and Perry had called Lois off the Luthor Corruption investigation and sent her again.
She wasn't very happy about it.
Still--they had a certain undeniable charm, even if Green Lantern kept trying to hit on her. And it *was* news.
It just wasn't Superman, and she was quite glad to get back to Metropolis.
2. Wonder Woman had been, of all the original Leaguers, the most enthusiastic about talking to the press, and to Lois in particular. When they first met, Lois handed her her business card and Wonder Woman smiled graciously, looked at it carefully and tucked it into her costume. Somewhere. "I am afraid I do not have a card for you. But I will certainly be in touch."
Their subsequent interview series was legendary and hotly debated in feminist circles.
3. Lois' scorn and anger at being assigned to profile JLA Detroit, could only have come from a true Metropolitan. Clark laughed and then threatened not to share any more of Ma Kent's cookies. She glared and set out to interview these new so-called Leaguers.
A month later, she helped write obituaries for two of them.
Another reporter--Clark, for example--might have regretted the harshness of her initial write-up of these kids in way over their heads. Lois mourned them, too, but she knew that she had been right.
4. The new League was only a marginal improvement over the last, but at least it was closer by, for what good *that* did. Lois didn't interview Justice League International more than once--she was neither an international politics specialist nor a humor columnist.
The profile, once she subtracted out all attempts to ask her for a date or debate whether or not certain superheros might be able to take down Superman--and Lois was very good at diverting such conversations--was brief and to the point.
5. Interviewing the JLA on the moon was all very well, but she liked Metropolis better. Moreover, interviewing her husband and his friends about things she mostly already knew anyway wasn't very interesting after the first twenty times. She suggested Perry send Jimmy instead.
Forresolute: Five people who do NOT want to have sex with Nightwing OR Robin.
1. Oliver Queen. He failed to notice the more salacious rumors swirling around teenage sidekicks until just *after* he took on Roy; once he did notice, the reaction was very nearly violent, and may or may not have contributed to his drifting apart from his sidekick.
Nowadays, while he'll acknowledge, if anyone asks, that both young Bats are attractive young men, it's not something he's particularly inclined to notice, except insofar as his children are Definitely Not Allowed To Date anyone from Gotham.
2. Carter Hall. The part where they're both too young for him, and male, isn't a problem in itself; but neither of them is the reincarnation of Chay-Ara, so they're not even under consideration.
3. Barry Allen. If anyone writes this, I might have to go kill them.
4. Alfred Pennyworth. He raised them, as much as he could.
5. Donna Troy. She's occasionally *thought* about wanting to have sex with Dick, but he's way too much of a brother to her for it to actually work. And even less with either of his successors, who are *little* brothers.
second_batgirl: 5 times Lois Lane interviewed the Justice League1. It was right after the Starro Invasion debacle, that was making (as the older reporters grumbled) the Plant sound more like a tabloid every day. Clark had landed an interview through some of his mysterious "connections" (Superman, probably), but he'd (of course) gone down with the flu at the last minute, and Perry had called Lois off the Luthor Corruption investigation and sent her again.
She wasn't very happy about it.
Still--they had a certain undeniable charm, even if Green Lantern kept trying to hit on her. And it *was* news.
It just wasn't Superman, and she was quite glad to get back to Metropolis.
2. Wonder Woman had been, of all the original Leaguers, the most enthusiastic about talking to the press, and to Lois in particular. When they first met, Lois handed her her business card and Wonder Woman smiled graciously, looked at it carefully and tucked it into her costume. Somewhere. "I am afraid I do not have a card for you. But I will certainly be in touch."
Their subsequent interview series was legendary and hotly debated in feminist circles.
3. Lois' scorn and anger at being assigned to profile JLA Detroit, could only have come from a true Metropolitan. Clark laughed and then threatened not to share any more of Ma Kent's cookies. She glared and set out to interview these new so-called Leaguers.
A month later, she helped write obituaries for two of them.
Another reporter--Clark, for example--might have regretted the harshness of her initial write-up of these kids in way over their heads. Lois mourned them, too, but she knew that she had been right.
4. The new League was only a marginal improvement over the last, but at least it was closer by, for what good *that* did. Lois didn't interview Justice League International more than once--she was neither an international politics specialist nor a humor columnist.
The profile, once she subtracted out all attempts to ask her for a date or debate whether or not certain superheros might be able to take down Superman--and Lois was very good at diverting such conversations--was brief and to the point.
5. Interviewing the JLA on the moon was all very well, but she liked Metropolis better. Moreover, interviewing her husband and his friends about things she mostly already knew anyway wasn't very interesting after the first twenty times. She suggested Perry send Jimmy instead.
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resolute: Five people who do NOT want to have sex with Nightwing OR Robin.1. Oliver Queen. He failed to notice the more salacious rumors swirling around teenage sidekicks until just *after* he took on Roy; once he did notice, the reaction was very nearly violent, and may or may not have contributed to his drifting apart from his sidekick.
Nowadays, while he'll acknowledge, if anyone asks, that both young Bats are attractive young men, it's not something he's particularly inclined to notice, except insofar as his children are Definitely Not Allowed To Date anyone from Gotham.
2. Carter Hall. The part where they're both too young for him, and male, isn't a problem in itself; but neither of them is the reincarnation of Chay-Ara, so they're not even under consideration.
3. Barry Allen. If anyone writes this, I might have to go kill them.
4. Alfred Pennyworth. He raised them, as much as he could.
5. Donna Troy. She's occasionally *thought* about wanting to have sex with Dick, but he's way too much of a brother to her for it to actually work. And even less with either of his successors, who are *little* brothers.
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Date: 2008-04-12 06:32 am (UTC)Can I make a request for a Five Things fic? It's a 'Five Reactions of certain JSA members to the fact of a Jim/Ted pairing. (Extra points if one of the people is Charles McNider.) If you don't want to do it, it's okay.
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Date: 2008-04-12 09:22 pm (UTC)I am v. protective of Barry's sexual innocence.
And, sure, you can def. request! I can't promise you anything, though; I got more requests on the original posts than I'm likely to get through any time soon.
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Date: 2008-04-13 09:29 pm (UTC)Barry is awesome and pure and would not sleep with someone's sidekick. And Dick and Donna = platonic for real.
*loves*
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Date: 2008-04-17 06:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-04-16 11:08 pm (UTC)Also, you really have a talent for making me want to kick Ollie in the shins. And I would read the Lois|Diana interview series straight through, making notes, and argue the main points vehemently online. (Where, exactly, did Wonder Woman stow that business card?)
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Date: 2008-04-17 06:16 pm (UTC)I am sorry you want to kick Ollie in the shins, because I do really love the man. Even if he does frequently deserve to be so kicked.
The Lois-Diana interviews would be SO AWESOME and are totally a part of my personal canon now.
I am sure Wonder Woman put the business card *somewhere*, but I'm not going to ask. ;)
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Date: 2008-04-17 08:38 pm (UTC)No sex whatsoever. Innocent flirting that neither of them realizes they're doing, maybe. Nineteen-year-old Barry can tell Dick about his childhood ambition to be a real super-hero like Jay Garrick (of course he's put all that behind him now, pay no attention to the costume designs doodled on the edge of his physics notes) and Dick... huh, I have no idea if he's post-crisis or not, but either way he is overcome with awww. Bittersweet awww in the first case, I guess.