Fictional Fans

In my beloved but over fandom (popslash) I always loved the crack. I don't mean "i drank wayyytoomuch Red Bull and I wrote this fic and me and my friends can't stop laughing" crap, I mean the impossible premise dropped into canon. Guys wake up in each other's bodies, someone wakes up as a girl, or a dog, or a llama (ah, yes, the Llama), or lightning turns them telepathic, or somebody keeps shrinking, or is covered in hair, or pregnant, or, or, or, all these things that are not real but are followed through properly and usually turn out to have something to say. Popslash had *so* much of it, and SGA did pretty well on that score too, but… you know, I haven't really spotted this kind of stuff in MCU stories, though I haven't been hunting for it. I guess having such a fantastical canon means there isn't room for a lot of crack, whereas when the canon is actually Real Life, anything goes. Maybe it doesn't fit the requirements, as 'crack' ought to be recognisable, but I fear that nowadays crack is that Red Bull thing, and that is something I really, really don't want.

I also like stories in which my boys are quietly pining but *getting on with their lives*, not sitting around moping like sulky teenagers. And they are hiding the pining well, but—and this is important—they aren't mind-bogglingly stupid about recognising that the feelings are requited, when signs appear. I don't like mind-bogglingly stupid.