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A letter to myself, regarding how Avengers is making me a shitty friend.

So, like a good portion of my twitter feed, I am now enamored with Avengers. I'm not too worried about it taking over. Like my complete plethora of will-read pairings in every fandom except the X-Men trilogy, I am very capable of reading a half dozen fandoms at once.

Avengers is currently pressing hard on five of my buttons. 1) people with differences coming together to help more people. 2) superpowers! 3) bromance. 4) kick ass women who will kill everyone for looking at them wrong. 5) snark. (Tony Stark, I love you)

On the other hand it's missing a few staples of my fannish experience. Until they become bigger tropes in the Avengers, it pretty much guarantees I'll be poly-fandom. 1) teenagers. whether high school AU, or actually set during the teen years, I strongly gravitate to teenage minds. 2) kink. I haven't seen a lot yet. 3) poly. If fandom can get on any of those, that would be excellent.

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If that was tl;dr, I'll sum it up. I've been kinda bitchy, but I'm gonna try to stop. And I'm sorry to anyone whose feelings I have hurt.