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those people are watched VERY carefully, and probably with good reason.

noooooope. these are the guys who handle imports and such from the districts to the Capitol, as well as infrastructure and so on.

Some Capitol citizens can go to the districts, but that's under very specific circumstances, usually business-related.

District 13 is Wakanda!

my impression from CF and SotR is that they kind of HAVE to go through Victors because those are the only district residents who actually interact with people from the other districts.

organizing a rebellion is presumably very difficult when every year your kids are chosen at random(ish) to fight each other to the death and that is the only time any part of your population interacts with each other...

It's not connected to Bruce, but I think it's connected to something that hasn't actually come up in text yet and which is one of the reasons I need to run up the timeline. (What is up with the rebels in this period.)

to be fair I am only ninety percent certain that I know who got Steve in the past and Howard in the near-present. Stane was trying for Tony, of course.

there are. so many mysteries. actually to be fair I did not realize that there were these many mysteries and I wrote the damn thing.

vaguely bemused that I've had one or two comments on the "ooh! now there's a mystery!" guys Steve got kidnapped and frozen in cryostasis and no one knows who did it. also Howard got murdered and no one knows who did it. also Tony almost got murdered and no one knows who was responsible for it.

Not all the angelic powers are in Heaven, y'know? There are days when God says ro one or another of them, "Hey, it's *your* day to walk with the one who flies the Bat."

This is absolutly a must read. The Dorfman has the sources, and my god what a story does he tell.

"SHIT"
"FUCK"
"NO"
"FUCK"
"SHIT"
"FUCK"

I actually got the question wrong at my defense, because I didn't realize that it was supposed to be about Syme's book -- I'm always wary of applying modern terms to historical figures. from a six years later perspective, though....

Syme did think that Caesar was a fascist because of the specific context that he (Syme) was writing in -- the book was published in 1939 and he basically wrote it by looking at Italy and Germany and then back at ancient Rome and going "yikes."

my defense included the immortal question I will never forget: "Was Julius Caesar a fascist?" which actually did have a right or wrong answer because it was based on one specific book. good luck answering that one if you haven't actually read the book. (it was Ronald Syme's Roman Revolution, iirc.)

I was one of the first people in my program to do a portfolio, so no one had ANY idea what the annotated bibliographies (I think 50-75 books each?) was supposed to look like. I basically just tried tactics to see if my advisor hated them or not. I did put the reading lists together myself.

My (Ancient History PhD) fields were

1. Roman history
2. Greek history
3. Roman frontier studies

My PhD program was in the process of switching from comps exams to comps portfolio, so these were all annotated bibliographies, about a paragraph for each entry, but I still had an oral defense.

I need an excuse to buy a pretty dress and wear it somewhere.

so it's a mystery where this lot of mystery novels is, huh. thanks tracking.

I say all of this while writing the world's most 2013/2014-coded fic, which I can say, because I was there, buddy.

also wow do I sound like a bitch here

I mean, like, I also came out of the 2012 mass hallucination, but then I inadvertently took a six year break, which apparently rewired me, but I still RECOGNIZE it. I'd be really curious if it's recognizable to fen who *weren't* in fandom then.

it's not even that! like, that *is* a part of it of it when it comes to specific details and characterization and worldbuilding, but it's a really, really specific vibe.

the 2011-2015 (a.k.a. CATFA to AoU) period of MCU fandom is *really* distinctive, but I'm not sure how distinctive it is if you weren't *there*.

(AoU knocked it off, but it goes right *up* to AoU, and then falls off, with another sharp break around CACW.)

I can always tell when someone comes out of the 2012 mass hallucination version of Avengers fandom. it's extremely distinctive but I don't know if I can specify *why*, though I will say I can recognize because I was there, Gandalf.

wait, maybe I've held a frog heart, we did do dissections in high school...

the only kind of heart I have ever held has been human!

(I did a bioengineering summer program at the University of Washington one summer in high school, which is how I figured out I did not want to do bioengineering or medicine at all.)

I have held a human heart in my hand.

>indefinitely at war with Persia

Yeah that checks out