a++ would smuggle into space again

On today's Fandom Is Ruining My Life, I sat next to the baby Winchesters today on my plane. They were already fuzzily reminding me of someone(s) because Older Kid had Jensen's hair and Younger Kid had Jared's and also there was no observable parent and they kept hitting each other, but luckily it wasn't till the plane was actually taxiing that Younger Kid, in fact, called Older Kid 'Dean.' Also, while reading the best Vanity Fair ever, in which (as the last link tells you) there was an article about Bill Clinton's wild ride, I, er, kept replacing Bill Clinton's name in my head with Tony Stark's. It kind of made a terrifying amount of sense. Really. ...Look, don't judge me, it's been a long time since I last slept.

Anyway, I'm home safe and sound; my computer is not, so I will be around intermittently while we try to get that detail sorted out. I love you all and leave you with the best ad ever, which was also in the Best Vanity Fair Ever, which is probably a sign that I need to get a life.

bravecows, pushingmetaphor, and yeloson said it first. schiarire reminded me that it probably needed to be said again.

This is somewhere between an essay a tl;dr on the nature of America in comic books and the one reason not to see Iron Man. Come for one, stay for the other?

( spoiler/length/philosophy cut )

I don't usually post these but the results of this one were kind of ... amazing. From coppertone!

List your twelve favorite characters for a fandom, in order. Then answer the questions.

This fandom is a little complicated. Movieverse!Marvel ... only not when I don't like the movie version. Then I shamelessly steal from comics canon. A tried and true method! (This is the only reason Amadeus Cho is not in here, though. As number one.)

1. Tony Stark
2. James Rhodes
3. Pepper Potts
4. Peter Parker
5. Doc Ock
6. Kurt Wagner
7. Erik Lensherr
8. Ben Grimm
9. Hank McCoy
10. Nick Fury
11. Mystique
12. Bruce Banner

( if you have to read one, read the last one )