Alchemy Alice

Fandom: Marvel movies, Nolan!Batman, Avengers, Justice League-ish
Rating: PG for language
Word Count: 5,424
Pairing: Steve Rogers/Tony Stark, barely
Summary: In which Tony Stark went to boarding school with Bruce Wayne, and the road to becoming a superhero is not smooth.

Notes: This plays extremely fast and loose with chronology, canon, whatever. There are elements of Batman Begins, Dark Knight, and the Iron Man movies, but also has stuff from the comics and then randomly converges at some amalgam of the Avengers movie and the Justice League I-have-no-idea-what. There is a real sequence of events that makes sense—I made a timeline!—but it’s pretty extravagantly not accurate to any particular canon, and time between major events is dilated/contracted as needed to get said events to line up in a meaningful and fairly reasonable way. I claim artistic license?

Read it at AO3.

On the flip side, I just need to turn everyone's attention for one moment to Texts from Xavier Academy. 

I think I'm actually crying from laughing so hard.

Sample: 


...anyway. I'ma go work on my thesis now.

Awarded Merit on my dissertation! I AM THE MASTER OF LITERATURE.

...or, you know, parts of it.

And 'a' master, not 'the' master.

MY POINT STANDS.


In celebration, I will commit fic for great justice! Prompt me, and I will try and write something. It will be small, and may or may not be coherent, but it will hopefully entertain. (I probably won't be able to sustain this for very long either, but we'll see. It will be an experiment!)



And why yes, I am still avoiding my long fics, why do you ask? They are giving me so much trouble and I'm pretty sure I had an epiphany about my big bang last night but it was wrapped in the middle of a seriously tripped-out nightmare I actually screamed my way out of for the first time in my life and now I can't remember it. WHY SO DIFFICULT, BRAIN???

To be honest, Inception really didn't sell me on Tom Hardy all that much. I liked him fine, and fandom did bring him to my attention quite a bit, but I remained fairly neutral.

RocknRolla, on the other hand, makes me want to hug him. It isn't even that good a movie, but still. Awwwww. You hit on Gerard Butler and made him slow dance with you! You're ADORABLE. COME HERE, I WILL PUT YOU IN A SNOWGLOBE AND SHAKE YOU.

Um. Carry on.