Caius the Bigger

So--I was intending to have my comica_obscura fic *done* by now. And it's more or less plotted out already, as plainsong_x can attest, being as I jumped her in the middle of the night round about Thursday nights ago and *told* it too her.

Unfortunately, telling Jori all about it does not make a fic finished, and I've been jumped by one bunny/obsession after another ever since.

First, there was classic Firestorm, set off by, off all things, the Superfriends, which reminded me that Firestorm originally? Involved a bodysharing pair of high school student/professor. And made it look much more...pervy than Ronnie and Prof. Stein ever did in the comics. Especially when you've spent way too much time talking to evadne_ about the Blue Beetles and various Hawk 'n' Dove AUs.

Any rate. I managed to more or less shake that one off by late Saturday night. More or less. At which point (after having given zeelee_penguin a--brief--explanation of Green Lantern continuity from, oh, the 1960s or 70s through Mosaic, and diverse other distractions) I crawled into bed around 2:30 AM and was immediately ambushed by a Hal/John (or perhaps Hal-John) plot bunny at full force. Which (in an attempt at productivity, however counterproductive) I spent another hour or so starting writing the beginning of.

And then yesterday, after spending most of the day traveling and coming out tired, achy, and generally HATING THE WORLD, I went to bed much earlier and promptly started contemplating, of all things, Al Rothstein [Nuklon, Adam-Smasher] and Todd Rice [Obsidian] swearing brotherhood and settling down as ex-heroes/ex-villains together. (Do any of you other than greenygal *care* about these two?! Or have any desire to see such a thing?) It was cute, and tragic, and occasionally hot if they actually got to the sex, and actually *didn't* result in me getting up and trying to write it, partly because it occurred to me I'd have to go reread a lot of JSA to try to fit in what happens there with the Al and Todd I know from Infinity, Inc. and JLA.

...and just now I'm reading 70s Freedom Fighters, if only to see Black Condor walk around as if what he (wasn't) wearing was perfectly normal (this is a cover from the 40s, but same general costume). And am therefore discovering a *lot* of interesting stuff that is long-since out of continuity, like the Freedom Fighters having migrated to New York after their JLA xover special. Oh dear.