Snowflake Challenge 4: Add to Canon
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ysabetwordsmithChallenge #4
In your own space, add something to your fandom’s canon. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
If you got the opportunity to add one thing to the canon of any of your fandoms, what would that be? Maybe there’s a character who didn’t get much of a backstory/storyline and you’d like to do something with them, maybe a show was axed too soon and you had thoughts on what could happen in a subsequent season, maybe there’s a new episode you’d like to have added..
Tony Stark is a blacksmith. Now, we see part of this in movie canon: we see him banging out the Mark I Iron Man suit by hand, with a hammer (in a cave ... with a box of scraps).
What canon says nothing about is how he can actually do that. This is where I derive in, extrapolate out. Because the scene appears in the movie, Tony must be a blacksmith. Therefore, he had to learn those skills somewhere, somewhen, somehow. But blacksmithing isn't a skill you can learn solely from a book. You have to earn those muscles by hitting things really hard with a hammer, for months. And if you don't want to burn your damn hands off, it's better to have a teacher. In order for Tony to be able to do what he did in the movie, he not only had to learn that trade, he had to maintain it by doing it regularly, all those years.
What I added is that Tony apprenticed as a blacksmith one summer, to piss off his father. Because how else could a poor little rich boy learn a dirty, manual trade like that? I give you "What Little Boys Are Made Of." (This belongs to the series Love Is For Children, but it stands alone well.)
In your own space, add something to your fandom’s canon. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
If you got the opportunity to add one thing to the canon of any of your fandoms, what would that be? Maybe there’s a character who didn’t get much of a backstory/storyline and you’d like to do something with them, maybe a show was axed too soon and you had thoughts on what could happen in a subsequent season, maybe there’s a new episode you’d like to have added..
Tony Stark is a blacksmith. Now, we see part of this in movie canon: we see him banging out the Mark I Iron Man suit by hand, with a hammer (in a cave ... with a box of scraps).
What canon says nothing about is how he can actually do that. This is where I derive in, extrapolate out. Because the scene appears in the movie, Tony must be a blacksmith. Therefore, he had to learn those skills somewhere, somewhen, somehow. But blacksmithing isn't a skill you can learn solely from a book. You have to earn those muscles by hitting things really hard with a hammer, for months. And if you don't want to burn your damn hands off, it's better to have a teacher. In order for Tony to be able to do what he did in the movie, he not only had to learn that trade, he had to maintain it by doing it regularly, all those years.
What I added is that Tony apprenticed as a blacksmith one summer, to piss off his father. Because how else could a poor little rich boy learn a dirty, manual trade like that? I give you "What Little Boys Are Made Of." (This belongs to the series Love Is For Children, but it stands alone well.)
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Date: 2023-01-07 11:03 am (UTC)Thank you!
Date: 2023-01-07 11:12 am (UTC)I suggest you bookmark the guide page too, since it lists the whole series.
Re: Thank you!
Date: 2023-01-07 11:30 am (UTC)Re: Thank you!
Date: 2023-01-07 11:41 am (UTC)https://ysabetwordsmith.dreamwidth.org/9744636.html
Re: Thank you!
Date: 2023-01-07 11:43 am (UTC)Re: Thank you!
Date: 2023-01-07 11:48 am (UTC)Re: Thank you!
Date: 2023-01-07 12:02 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2023-01-07 11:08 am (UTC)You're welcome!
Date: 2023-01-07 11:14 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2023-01-07 12:53 pm (UTC)Well ...
Date: 2023-01-07 09:39 pm (UTC)Here in the Midwest, it's not uncommon to see blacksmiths at a street fair. Not far from me, there's an Amish settlement with their own blacksmiths, and there's a Civil War re-enactment that runs a ways north of us. In fact there's a woman blacksmith in a town nearby, whose neon sign has an anvil with a female symbol over it, which I think is pretty cool.
In Tony's case, he wasn't actually looking for a blacksmith, just stumbled over one and was fascinated.
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Date: 2023-01-07 01:48 pm (UTC)Thank you!
Date: 2023-01-08 02:28 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2023-01-07 11:20 pm (UTC)Thank you!
Date: 2023-01-07 11:56 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2023-01-08 05:15 am (UTC)Thank you!
Date: 2023-01-08 05:22 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2023-01-08 09:03 pm (UTC)Thoughts
Date: 2023-01-08 09:24 pm (UTC)The clues are in the movie, but you pretty much have to know about blacksmithing to work out the implications.
Re: Thoughts
Date: 2023-01-10 03:45 am (UTC)Re: Thoughts
Date: 2023-01-10 03:53 am (UTC)Still, the muscles and skills used for fitness routines or combat are not the same as for blacksmithing. You'd just have a head start in general fitness. I suppose if you did a lot with 20-pound dumbbells or kettlebells, you'd have an extra good start on swinging a hammer, but most exercises just aren't directly relevant. And you have to know something about blacksmithing to realize that. Most crafts are not that physical.
Re: Thoughts
Date: 2023-01-14 12:18 am (UTC)Re: Thoughts
Date: 2023-01-14 01:24 am (UTC)I like to look at how different members of the Avengers fit together, what their strengths are, and how they can practice so everybody gets a good workout and hopefully learns about fighting with or against people of wildly different sizes and styles.
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Date: 2023-01-11 02:21 pm (UTC)(Already had the series bookmarked to check out, hadn’t realized it was yours!)
Yay!
Date: 2023-01-12 12:18 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2023-01-11 06:40 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2023-02-05 07:59 pm (UTC)Yay!
Date: 2023-02-05 08:04 pm (UTC)