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[fuckyeahstevetonyfics]

I think it was a steve tony fic. I know it was on AO3. I liked that instead of all the angst and pining the story had one person just kiss the other without thinking and the other respond as if it was the most natural thing in the world even though they weren't together yet. I tried looking but that archive is vast. It's not the one based on friends where they're secretly dating and steve then kisses everyone because i found that while looking for it.

That sounds really lovely, but it’s also really vague. Especially if you’re not even sure it was a Steve/Tony fic. I haven’t the foggiest clue what it might be.

If anyone has any idea what fic this might be, give us a shout.

[copperbadge]

superactionfan replied to your post:Hi Sam! Do you happen to know whether Magneto can move Mjolnir?

magneto joins x-men? when and does it last? How long?

Oh, the saga of Magneto.

It's in flux, a lot of the time, and I'm not sure if he ever officially joined. You also have to bear in mind that "The X-Men" is kind of in flux as well. Like, at the moment, Magneto is technically some kind of trustee of the Xavier School, which is currently being run by Cyclops out of an abandoned bunker. But the Cyclops-oriented X-Men aren't necessarily the good guys.

I think the thing to remember about Magneto is that he inhabits a grey area. In the early comics he was a villain, no question, but the early comics tended to have bad guys be bad guys for the sake of it. As comics developed more nuance, so did he, to the point where he is now not conventionally aligned with good or evil, but with what gets the job done. He is for mutants more than he is for anything else, including law, justice, or society. So if the X-Men will best serve his purpose (and if they'll have him) that's where he'll go. If they won't do what he thinks needs doing, he'll break off and do his own thing. It makes for a rather unstable existence in terms of where he belongs, but then Marvel's superhero teams are fairly fluid at any rate, especially the X-Men.

[copperbadge]

superactionfan replied to your photo:The hilarity of Cap and the Comics Code Authority...

I… is comicsverse a totalitarian cap led verse now? Because that is absolutely how it seems. Be good and you won’t get into trouble? What? And they need to plaster this places? I don’t even know. What is this madness? Is it just out of context?

It's a little out of context, but mostly it's just a joke :) It's in Deadpool, a satire comic that often involves unlikely background imagery (this is the same comic that had Coulson drinking from a flask as Deadpool blows up Helicarriers, and SHIELD agent Adsit entering HQ through a lingerie shop). 

For historical context: The Comics Code Authority for many years dictated what could and could not go into comic books before it would stamp them, and it was hard to get your book sold without a CCA stamp. The CCA banned things like "terror" or "horror" in the title of comics, portrayal of "illicit" sexual relations (mostly, I think, referring to homosexuality, possibly also interracial romances), and other things that would destroy the youth of America. :P

Eventually, I believe sometime in the eighties, comic book publishers realised they no longer needed the stamp to get sold. They simply started putting their books on the shelves without it, and eventually the CCA went defunct. The logo is now owned by the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. So the billboard is basically just poking fun at the "wholesome" censorship of yesteryear.