Kind of conflicted over here . . .

I gave up on X-Men and on Marvel as a whole long ago. Less long ago, I gave up on seeing movies in mainstream theaters (with one instance of backsliding to indulge my lingering weakness for certain wand-swishing bookworms). Yet I'm really, really tempted by X-Men: First Class. The premise sounds like it's closer to an Xavier/Magneto movie than I ever dared hope for. On the other hand, I'm very worried about how the female characters will be treated. I don't want to give any more money to Marvel because of all the many ways they have disappointed me in the past. The third X-Men movie REALLY pissed me off like only those who were there would believe. But . . . but . . . Xavier/Magneto!

Whatever I decide to do about the actual movie, I know without a doubt that it will cause an upsurge of Xavier/Magneto fanfic, and I will be reading more of that than any carbon-based lifeform should.

Forget your love triangles, give me the fuzz

So, about Fuzzy Nation, Scalzi's completely unnecessary reboot of one of my most beloved books, H. Beam Piper's Little Fuzzy . . .

( Spoilers below cut )