Assorted stuff
Lucky Pennies hit 1000 kudos last night, the first of my stories to do so! Still really pleasantly surprised about its popularity.
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In not-so-surprising news, thanfiction is still around and up to his old tricks of building a cult around himself and ripping people off. Sounds like he's in Supernatural fandom these days, so if you're in Supernatural fandom, particularly over on Tumblr, take care of yourself and your friends, and do not engage. This guy has been around for over a decade, and previous fandoms he's operated in include Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter. He is master manipulator, a narcissist and a predator without any true remorse for anything he's done or respect for anyone except himself, for all that one of his favourite sob stories to win sympathy is about how he's changed and how people are persecuting him. For more information, check out
protectyourfanmily, which a Supernatural fan has set up specifically to inform the fandom about thanfiction's history and modus operandi.
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Finally watched Wretches and Jabberers yesterday, after wanting to see it for years, and really enjoyed it. Highly recommended for people with an interest in autism, self-advocacy and alternate/augmentative communication. It's a great portrait of six autists around the globe from America, Sri Lanka, Japan and Finland who all use typing to communicate. It's something you really have to watch, you can't just listen to it, because of the way the typed dialogue is shown on the screen, but it's very engaging and a fun journey. It's essentially an autism-flavoured road trip buddy movie, and, most importantly, while the facilitators, translators and sometimes the parents of the autists are THERE, in the background or in the frame of the shot, the story isn't about them, it's about what the autistic people have to say, and about their journey. It's something that's often missing in documentaries and depictions of autistic people - the camera focusses on the hardships or the journeys of the people AROUND the autistic person, but not on the autistic person themselves. Wretches and Jabberers doesn't make that mistake, and it's refreshing to see.
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Mum, Taua and my uncle Jeff are apparently coming to visit next weekend, bringing with them a refurbished tumble dryer, which should be good since our old one stopped working last year. Fortunately the house isn't too bad right now, and I've got a week to do bits and pieces on it before they arrive, so it should be in pretty good shape by the time they get here. There's nothing I can do about the clutter, but I can vacuum the floors and wash down the surfaces in the kitchen, etc. The back lawn needs mowing, but I've asked if they can bring their whipper snipper with them so that we can cut it that way rather than trying to use the electric mower when it's as long as it is. They don't plan on staying the night, which is good, because while we can fit two people in this house, we've got nowhere to put a third.
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I'm working away at my commissions. I finished the Dalek, two pairs of mittens and a hat (and another hat, for the market), and I'm knitting a pair of gloves, right now. I still have a hat, two scarves, two lace shawls and a jumper to go, and a blanket to block. Blocking's harder now that it's gotten so close to winter - I may just have to leave it outside on the mats until it's dry, even if it takes a few days.
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Throwing round ideas for the marvel_bang and the
autisticexchange, to see how I like the feel of them. I'm doing the big bang with Emma, we signed up as a team, so there isn't the stress of being paired with a stranger and maintaining communication, since we live together. We don't have to worry about letting the other person down, either. If we bomb out, we bomb out, and that's fine. And the autistic exchange is only a thousand word minimum, and since my fics that I'm writing these days tend to be longer than that, I'm not worried that I won't be able to make he minimum. The nominations for characters has closed, and the variety is really interesting. I nominated characters for a couple of small fandoms - Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, and Nameless (Sam/
copperbadge's first novel), and I don't know if anyone will be interested in them, but I'd like the opportunity to play with them.
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And we are remade by
biggrstaffbunch
Steve's got a list. Bucky's got a past. They figure it all out, together.
His finger taps a line in the book, lips tipping into a half-smile. "Plus. For all that there’s an awful lot left to experience, there are a few things I never got around to trying even in the forties, you know?"
yourself (or someone like you) by
biggrstaffbunch
"Here is the root of the truth, the crawling dark thing that lives under the earth, hidden from eye: Bucky does remember. He just wishes he didn't."
It's not the Winter Soldier's memories that Bucky fears the most.
brooklyn, brooklyn (take me in) by
biggrstaffbunch
They say you're a ghost, but the ghost is this city. | A slice of time in Bucky's search for who he was.
The Shape I'm In by
radialarch
[AU where Bucky never fell.] They win the war. Steve and Bucky come home and deal with their feelings.
your body remembers by
radialarch
[Cold War AU] HYDRA finds the frozen body of Captain America and turns him into an asset. He soon finds himself fighting a Soviet assassin called the Winter Soldier.
baby baby baby come back by
gyzym
You and me? We’re not the war.
Say Yes by
nerdwegian
"There's, there's something I should probably tell you," Phil gets out.
(Tumblr prompt: Secretly a virgin.)
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In not-so-surprising news, thanfiction is still around and up to his old tricks of building a cult around himself and ripping people off. Sounds like he's in Supernatural fandom these days, so if you're in Supernatural fandom, particularly over on Tumblr, take care of yourself and your friends, and do not engage. This guy has been around for over a decade, and previous fandoms he's operated in include Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter. He is master manipulator, a narcissist and a predator without any true remorse for anything he's done or respect for anyone except himself, for all that one of his favourite sob stories to win sympathy is about how he's changed and how people are persecuting him. For more information, check out
protectyourfanmily, which a Supernatural fan has set up specifically to inform the fandom about thanfiction's history and modus operandi.
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Finally watched Wretches and Jabberers yesterday, after wanting to see it for years, and really enjoyed it. Highly recommended for people with an interest in autism, self-advocacy and alternate/augmentative communication. It's a great portrait of six autists around the globe from America, Sri Lanka, Japan and Finland who all use typing to communicate. It's something you really have to watch, you can't just listen to it, because of the way the typed dialogue is shown on the screen, but it's very engaging and a fun journey. It's essentially an autism-flavoured road trip buddy movie, and, most importantly, while the facilitators, translators and sometimes the parents of the autists are THERE, in the background or in the frame of the shot, the story isn't about them, it's about what the autistic people have to say, and about their journey. It's something that's often missing in documentaries and depictions of autistic people - the camera focusses on the hardships or the journeys of the people AROUND the autistic person, but not on the autistic person themselves. Wretches and Jabberers doesn't make that mistake, and it's refreshing to see.
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Mum, Taua and my uncle Jeff are apparently coming to visit next weekend, bringing with them a refurbished tumble dryer, which should be good since our old one stopped working last year. Fortunately the house isn't too bad right now, and I've got a week to do bits and pieces on it before they arrive, so it should be in pretty good shape by the time they get here. There's nothing I can do about the clutter, but I can vacuum the floors and wash down the surfaces in the kitchen, etc. The back lawn needs mowing, but I've asked if they can bring their whipper snipper with them so that we can cut it that way rather than trying to use the electric mower when it's as long as it is. They don't plan on staying the night, which is good, because while we can fit two people in this house, we've got nowhere to put a third.
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I'm working away at my commissions. I finished the Dalek, two pairs of mittens and a hat (and another hat, for the market), and I'm knitting a pair of gloves, right now. I still have a hat, two scarves, two lace shawls and a jumper to go, and a blanket to block. Blocking's harder now that it's gotten so close to winter - I may just have to leave it outside on the mats until it's dry, even if it takes a few days.
*
Throwing round ideas for the marvel_bang and the
autisticexchange, to see how I like the feel of them. I'm doing the big bang with Emma, we signed up as a team, so there isn't the stress of being paired with a stranger and maintaining communication, since we live together. We don't have to worry about letting the other person down, either. If we bomb out, we bomb out, and that's fine. And the autistic exchange is only a thousand word minimum, and since my fics that I'm writing these days tend to be longer than that, I'm not worried that I won't be able to make he minimum. The nominations for characters has closed, and the variety is really interesting. I nominated characters for a couple of small fandoms - Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, and Nameless (Sam/
copperbadge's first novel), and I don't know if anyone will be interested in them, but I'd like the opportunity to play with them.
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And we are remade by
biggrstaffbunch
Steve's got a list. Bucky's got a past. They figure it all out, together.
His finger taps a line in the book, lips tipping into a half-smile. "Plus. For all that there’s an awful lot left to experience, there are a few things I never got around to trying even in the forties, you know?"
yourself (or someone like you) by
biggrstaffbunch
"Here is the root of the truth, the crawling dark thing that lives under the earth, hidden from eye: Bucky does remember. He just wishes he didn't."
It's not the Winter Soldier's memories that Bucky fears the most.
brooklyn, brooklyn (take me in) by
biggrstaffbunch
They say you're a ghost, but the ghost is this city. | A slice of time in Bucky's search for who he was.
The Shape I'm In by
radialarch
[AU where Bucky never fell.] They win the war. Steve and Bucky come home and deal with their feelings.
your body remembers by
radialarch
[Cold War AU] HYDRA finds the frozen body of Captain America and turns him into an asset. He soon finds himself fighting a Soviet assassin called the Winter Soldier.
baby baby baby come back by
gyzym
You and me? We’re not the war.
Say Yes by
nerdwegian
"There's, there's something I should probably tell you," Phil gets out.
(Tumblr prompt: Secretly a virgin.)
This entry was originally posted at http://iamshadow.dreamwidth.org/407353.html. Please comment there using OpenID.