stuff about stuff
* The baseball team is near the end of its misery for 2014, Young Master deGrom's chances at Rookie of the Year notwithstanding. Thankfully, NHL training camps begin this week, leading to 82 chances for frustration and then a playoff season of inevitable heartbreak. I love sports.
* I started this and I'm afraid it looks like I'm teasing with it because it's got more than one part and I don't have immediate plans to write more, but I've put both bits of 'Preserved' (the 'Bucky goes home and was never a Howling Commando' concept) on one page over at AO3 because they are two halves of the same thought.
I'm not saying never; I may get an idea for this next week. But I also kind of suspect that this could be the MCU version of SGA's Orpheus, which (a) took me forever to complete and (b) got me hate-mail when I did because I didn't warn for the unhappy ending. And I'm honestly not sure if I want to put up with that again if I'm not really sold on the story arc.
Because I am more active on Tumblr these days, but miss the ability to actually converse:
* Two brief comments on Outlander, which I am enjoying greatly: Claire's unstigmatized drinking and 'who got marital rape in my happy Forced Marriage trope?'
I'm not confusing Outlander with great drama or great anything, but it's fun and it's gorgeously shot and that would probably be sufficient as a diversion. But it's also the story of a woman of strength instead of a strong woman, especially a strong woman idealized by male standards, and that's something I maybe didn't anticipate enjoying as much until actually confronted with it.
* Not by me, but worth the read: a technical but readable (de)construction of the Winter Soldier's metal arm.
* Archie McPhee's Endless Geyser of Awesome. Aptly titled collection of esoterica silly and beautiful and occasionally both.
Also posted at DW.
* I started this and I'm afraid it looks like I'm teasing with it because it's got more than one part and I don't have immediate plans to write more, but I've put both bits of 'Preserved' (the 'Bucky goes home and was never a Howling Commando' concept) on one page over at AO3 because they are two halves of the same thought.
I'm not saying never; I may get an idea for this next week. But I also kind of suspect that this could be the MCU version of SGA's Orpheus, which (a) took me forever to complete and (b) got me hate-mail when I did because I didn't warn for the unhappy ending. And I'm honestly not sure if I want to put up with that again if I'm not really sold on the story arc.
Because I am more active on Tumblr these days, but miss the ability to actually converse:
* Two brief comments on Outlander, which I am enjoying greatly: Claire's unstigmatized drinking and 'who got marital rape in my happy Forced Marriage trope?'
I'm not confusing Outlander with great drama or great anything, but it's fun and it's gorgeously shot and that would probably be sufficient as a diversion. But it's also the story of a woman of strength instead of a strong woman, especially a strong woman idealized by male standards, and that's something I maybe didn't anticipate enjoying as much until actually confronted with it.
* Not by me, but worth the read: a technical but readable (de)construction of the Winter Soldier's metal arm.
* Archie McPhee's Endless Geyser of Awesome. Aptly titled collection of esoterica silly and beautiful and occasionally both.
Also posted at DW.