Poking around metanews and month_of_meta and thinking - I have a gazillion thoughts about characters and pairings and fandoms and I almost never write them down, or save them for one-on-one conversations via IM, and I should...I'd like to write them out. Here, I mean.

I've recently discovered I've got a thing - a big thing - for identity kink. Marvel / MCU isn't conducive to this as most to all of their heroes are out and public, but I can't help but gravitate to fics that explore the AU idea of 'what if Tony hadn't outted himself in MCU' / 'is Captain America really Steve Rogers?' and so on.

There's a modern 'superheroes' AU I've been meaning to take and flesh out for months now. Captain America and the Winter Soldier, a pair of Brooklyn vigilantes keeping the place crime-free. Domino masks are awful for secret disguises, but it's a superhero AU so it runs on Clark-Kent's-glasses-work logic, and I am okay with that!

[insert 'aaa rambly' fears here; insert reminder that this is a journal, so I'm allowed to be incoherent]

Another genre I've been wanting to write more in - I always want to write more in here - is space, sci-fi, etcetera. Starships and aliens and space anomalies and I just love it, love it.

Problem is, whenever I go to write space aus I get bogged down in details, or want to go for grand plots, and it's the usual problem with huge universe-changing aus - I go for grand scale and have trouble following through.

(Fantasy AU only pulled through 'cause I didn't write out the second half of the epic, see.)

That's something I've noticed about myself in writing, well, anything - need a universe. It can't be an isolated random scene or I get frozen up quite badly. Why are Steve and Tony arguing? Need a reason before I can go to the PWP. Or if I want to write, eh, reporter AU, then I need a context.

Probably not unusual for writers but it does bog me down when I'm starting a thing.

On an entirely different topic, I saw the 2007 movie Zodiac and loved it more than I thought I would. I keep running into contemplation about Paul Avery and how loose ends can haunt you and I just. This close to writing something for it, frankly. (Or reporter / cop AU in general.)