Sing me a story, laugh me a lullaby

Hello, all! Welcome to another edition of 'over-thinking fandom stuff'!

I'm trying to hash out exactly how Edwin and Anna Jarvis got together. I thought I had a pretty good idea, but when I checked the Marvel Cinematic wiki, which is usually pretty on top of collecting all the canon in the 'verse, it didn't jive with how I remembered things. Then I looked again, and it had been edited and now seemed closer to what I had assumed. So, now I'm a little confused, and I'm wondering if anyone else has any thoughts on the matter. It's not terribly vital, but I keep dancing around it and I'd like to be able to be a little more solid when mentioning it in fic.

I've only seen each episode once and don't have access to watch them again at the moment, so I've had to work on memory alone.

( Spoilers and Speculation. )

This month's Google searchs for fic, brought you by the 1940's:

reynolds rocket
ballpoint pen history
flying boat
1945 luxury car
heart surgery recovery
1940s USO
film serials
Hannukah 1971
major arteries
croup
famous chicago hotels
dog motorcycle carrier
French idioms 'as quick as'
long distance phone calls 1940s
mechanic creeper
tea cakes
how to climb a rope
1940s snood hairstyle
wedding signing the register USA
london school of ecomics
reform shiva
when did splitting the check become a thing
doctors in the marvel universe
first aid for impaled object in arm
butler duties
anderson shelter
how to put a shoulder back in place

-- I was not expecting Night at the Museum 3 to make me cry, let alone make me cry as hard as it did. Damn it, emotions!
-- Every so often I bump into a picture where all I can think is 'that is a human and their daemon'. This is one such picture.
-- On a similar note, if you need any sort of cheering up, I highly recommend looking at this Quokka selfies.
-- If anyone would like to convince Jarvis and Peggy to stop discussing the merits of Agatha Christie and start trying to get out of the literal hole I have put them in, I would be very appreciative. Hell, if anyone can convince them to show any semblance of nervousness about the potential death they are facing, that would be great. I did not put you in a collapsed building to have a chat, unflappable Brits!

Can daemon!chameleons change colour, or are they stuck as whichever colours they had when they first settled?

Real chameleons change colour to reflect a mood or to appeal more to the opposite sex or show that they're big and scary and shouldn't be messed with, and I thought it would be cute if a daemon!chameleon changed colours to reflect their human's mood. But as they aren't real chameleons and daemons don't tend to change (for example, a stoat daemon doesn't become an ermine daemon in the winter, like its animal counterpart would), does that mean they wouldn't have the same abilities as a real one?

I've been writing an epic story, and within that story, a lot of the dialogue is taking place in French. I'm not a person who thinks that writing something in a foreign language and then immediately translating it into English is a good way to handle foreign dialogue, nor is throwing in a few words here and there, so for the most part, I've been using the translation convention of writing everything in English with the implication that the bilingual main character is translating as he goes.

However, my original plans to indicate someone speaking in French by using Italics is now not working so well, due to the sheer amount of French being spoken in some scenes. Basically any piece of dialogue is now in Italics, and Italics are distracting to read and draw attention to themselves. So, my question is, can I get away with starting off the dialogue with a 'he said, in French' tag and hoping my readers will assume the conversation continues in French until otherwise indicated? The problem with that is that there's no visual cue for when the languages change, which makes everything sort of fuzzy. And mixing the two options has a lack of consistency which might make it even more confusing.

If it were a oneshot, I wouldn't worry about it, but if I get it done, it's going to be several chapters with an increasing amount of French as it goes along.

( Examples and options )

So, any thoughts on this matter? Which do you prefer to read? Any other suggestions on how I could format it? Would it be better if my journal style didn't render Italics in a different colour?

My brain has apparently decided that it's a good idea to write epic love stories for characters who's partners have never appeared on screen and have little to no canon information about them.

Which I suppose is better than giving unnecessary children to characters. I mean, at least the characters canonically exist.

In other news, I think, due to the twisty nature of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, I might just tag things MCU from now on, rather than trying to tag stories for all the fandoms involved in a story with Iron Man characters back when they were Captain America characters, but also with the characters that are on the TV shows, but old enough to not fit into any of those actual categories.

The MCU is getting as complicated as most of my AUs.

I wonder how long it's prudent to search for a show airing in an 8PM timeslot on a weeknight on American television in 1978 before it's time to go 'is anyone really going to care if this is accurate?' and move on?

...I'll give it another few minutes.

ETA: Success!

Me: All right, so, I'd like to get this story done before Christmas, and maybe this one and this one during the holiday season, and then these ones aren't seasonal, so I'll leave those until later unless I get something I need to write down. Okay?
Brain: Yep, sounds good.
Me: Good, so that's the plan and we'll stick to that.
Brain: Yep, totally.
Me: Excellent, so I'll just open up the the first story and we can--
Brain: You know what would be a good story?
Me: No, we're working on this story.
Brain: But, what about a story where--
Me: This story.
Brain: New AUs!
Me: No.
Brain: Children!
Me: No!
Brain: You know who we haven't given a daemon to yet...
Me: I hate you.

I'm writing an Avengers story from Thor's POV. Do I use British or American spellings? Usually I try to keep the spelling and word choice consistent with the origins of the character narrating, but Thor is actually an alien, even if he sounds British, and the rest of the cast are American or pretending to be, and the setting is in America.

I could always use Canadian spelling, which is whichever spelling occurs to you first.

Often when I get migrainey, I get aphasia and dysphasia. Which means either I can't find the right word at all or I use a wrong word. Or sometimes I make them up. Examples from this time around: "I'm going to empty the Internet." (I meant dishwasher). And "I'm hopefuling the weather will be better tomorrow".

Sometimes I like to imagine Q struggling through this while trying to order the minions around.

Q: No, I don't want the...orange. I need a flasherstick!
Minion: *tentatively hands him a thumbdrive.*
Q: Thank you.