Fic Rec: Leverage/Iron Man

You know what I like best about Iron Man as a fandom? All the cross-over fic. My problem with Iron Man is that there just aren't enough characters to have a story... that's why the movies are all about the special effects.

I started reading Harry Potter and the Invincible Technomage (by Clell [something] (like there's a PIN after the Clell) available on the pit of voles that is fanfiction.net)

Today I read an Iron Man/Leverage cross-over:
http://archiveofourown.org/works/95390

One of these things is not like the others. Which one doesn't belong? Me! Me! Me!

There were several blog posts today about controlling spending. I guess I'm lucky I don't have that problem. I'm definitely not an over-spender.

I don't like going out shopping with other people most of the time. There's a tremendous social pressure to buy stuff. And other people actually try to talk me out of purchases thinking that would be helpful instead of counter-productive.

I'd like to go places with people who don't see any problem with my 7 year old jeans that now fit again. I'd like to have friends who don't think it was stupid that I kept them for 5 years in which they didn't fit.

I think of shopping with other people as being equivalent to an anorexic person going to a buffet with Mrs. Claus where Mrs. Claus keeps saying, "Dearie, are you sure you should have that boiled potato? Carbs, you know." Mrs. Claus shouldn't be at the buffet at all.

Over the weekend I commented on a discussion where I said it irritates me that people take their personal preferences and present them as inherently better. And even moreso it bothers me when that information is used to inflict a choice on everyone else regardless of individual preferences. Extroverted people do this all the time when they diss text-based communications as inferior to face-to-face things. If you don't pay attention to body language or subtext, the text can actually be easier. But a lot of people say "in person is better" and then they make everyone do that.

That's my problem with metafandom discussions intruding into fandom. It doesn't matter what your opinion of something is, you shouldn't be inflicting it on my entertainment. I can make my own judgments about what entertainment I wish to consume. If you want there to be fic that supports your viewpoint, get typing and write it yourself. That's what I did. My fic is hugely unpopular, of course, because my meta viewpoints aren't socially acceptable. [This was private-locked until just now, when I got a comment on a 5 year old fic. Not everyone hates it.]

Whenever the metafandom point intrudes into the fic arenas but isn't made via creative works, I kind of assume there must be something wrong with the viewpoint. Especially when the counter-viewpoint was made via fiction writing or art.