Con.txt, Vividcon question, and a Captain America fic rec
So I am very much looking forward to Con.txt in a few weeks (who all is going??? I want to meet you!), but I have questions about Vividcon. I've signed up to attend Vividcon for the first time ever, and I'm trying to figure out long I should plan on being there.
First, should I come in early? Anyone in Chicago want to hang out a bit that week? (For those not going to VVC, it's the weekend of August 8th.) Also, what's the Sunday schedule look like, usually? Trying to figure out when I should travel back.
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In other news, I'm exhausted. I'm starting my new job on Monday - I don't think I mentioned I'd decided to take it? But I did. It's really great, and I'm excited and nervous and really sad to be leaving my old team to the point that I'm really just done with people coming up and telling me they'll miss me because I tear right the fuck up every time. *sigh* And it's a terrifically quick turnover, and thus I've spent the last week finishing what turned into a 26-page manual for my job and trying to make sure my current department has everything it needs before I flee. I've barely been on social media at all this week - about all I've been able to handle is reading a lot of fanfic on my Kindle.
Speaking of which, I spent most of yesterday reading this great post-Captain America: The Winter Soldier fic. I had a really hard time putting it down for things like, you know, work. Even though I've been super-busy at work. It is actually a series on AO3 but I decided to go to the trouble of compiling it into one for my Kindle. It is Your Blue-Eyed Boys by Feather (lalaietha); Steve/Bucky. It feels like a very true and realistic telling of how Bucky slowly put himself back together again, with Steve's help. It also has some great secondary characters including Tony, and very unexpectedly, Betty Ross, who I loved in this. So yeah, 100% recommended. ETA: I should note that the tags say "psychological trauma" and "trauma" and they should be paid attention to. People with triggers should tread carefully.
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First, should I come in early? Anyone in Chicago want to hang out a bit that week? (For those not going to VVC, it's the weekend of August 8th.) Also, what's the Sunday schedule look like, usually? Trying to figure out when I should travel back.
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In other news, I'm exhausted. I'm starting my new job on Monday - I don't think I mentioned I'd decided to take it? But I did. It's really great, and I'm excited and nervous and really sad to be leaving my old team to the point that I'm really just done with people coming up and telling me they'll miss me because I tear right the fuck up every time. *sigh* And it's a terrifically quick turnover, and thus I've spent the last week finishing what turned into a 26-page manual for my job and trying to make sure my current department has everything it needs before I flee. I've barely been on social media at all this week - about all I've been able to handle is reading a lot of fanfic on my Kindle.
Speaking of which, I spent most of yesterday reading this great post-Captain America: The Winter Soldier fic. I had a really hard time putting it down for things like, you know, work. Even though I've been super-busy at work. It is actually a series on AO3 but I decided to go to the trouble of compiling it into one for my Kindle. It is Your Blue-Eyed Boys by Feather (lalaietha); Steve/Bucky. It feels like a very true and realistic telling of how Bucky slowly put himself back together again, with Steve's help. It also has some great secondary characters including Tony, and very unexpectedly, Betty Ross, who I loved in this. So yeah, 100% recommended. ETA: I should note that the tags say "psychological trauma" and "trauma" and they should be paid attention to. People with triggers should tread carefully.
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have commented there.