Title: Farmers Hours
Fandom: Avengers MCU
Characters: Clint/Natasha, Darcy, Steve, Sam
Rating: Teen and Up
Word Count: 2637
Summary: Fury has had an endgame in mind for a long time. Just because he's never shared it with Clint doesn't mean he isn't a big part of it. Just because it involves a farm in the middle of America doesn't mean Clint can't enjoy himself.
A story I've had in my head since watching CA:TWS and seeing the necklace but no Clint.
Link to AO3
Fandom: Avengers MCU
Characters: Clint/Natasha, Darcy, Steve, Sam
Rating: Teen and Up
Word Count: 2637
Summary: Fury has had an endgame in mind for a long time. Just because he's never shared it with Clint doesn't mean he isn't a big part of it. Just because it involves a farm in the middle of America doesn't mean Clint can't enjoy himself.
A story I've had in my head since watching CA:TWS and seeing the necklace but no Clint.
Link to AO3
I am thankful for all of you that are reading this right now. You know who you are! You have eyes!
I'm thankful that I'm typing this with minimal pain. There's something going on with my wrist that I'm going back to the doctor for a follow up about in a couple of weeks. Right now, I'm wearing a brace that is driving me bonkers.
I'm thankful I have the money to pay for all these doctors visits I've had lately. Far more than the past 5 years combined, that's for sure! Ugh! Thought I had some sort of kidney problems but no. Lower back pain. The doctor manipulated me a bit and I haven't had much pain since. I think it was just hearing that it was something "okay" that gave me peace of mind.
I'm thankful for old fashioned notebooks. I wrote all of NaNo in several this year. Of course, I grossly miscalculated how much writing was on each page! I worked on a graphic novel this year and one page in screen play spacing equals 500 words so you have to write 100 pages. I thought one written page was only 200 words because I typed one up and it took up about 1/4 a page. Tonight, I typed up a new page only to discover that I'd ASSUMED that I was only taking up 1/4 a page but I was really ONE PAGE. ONE PAGE! So I'm at 67200 instead of 34250. Gah! But I'm so thankful I was bored and so decided to pull out the big computer!
I'm thankful for the Women of Marvel panel at NYCC for the push to write a graphic novel. Seriously, this thing is one of the best things I've ever written. It's a got a hook and everything! I'm working my way into the last battle but OH BOY I LOVE THIS STORY SO MUCH!
I'm thankful for a sister who's a nurse who will finally help me with ideas. I spent so many years not being able to ask her questions about medical things because "I was supposed to write what I knew" but she's moved past that and has put up with my questions lately. Seriously, any sister who doesn't laugh off, "So, do you think an iron lung could be form-fitting?" is a keeper.
I'm thankful for the month I got to spend with my other sister and my nephews. They are the light of my life. And so geeky! We bonded over Batman, happy bad guys versus sad bad guys, the few comic books I could get away sharing with them that passed my sister's muster (because they are only 3 & 4), and Legos. I pulled out my Story Cubes and we told stories to each other. We found new jokes (What did the janitor say when he came out of the closet? SUPPLIES!) and retold old ones over and over.
I'm thankful for my niece that will be born in February! And for the fact that I can afford to go visit them after her birth. And that I've been given permission to dress her up like Captain Marvel to my heart's content!
I'm thankful that both Stargate Atlantis and some of America's Next Top Model are free on Amazon Prime Streaming. Both shows make me happy for different, and wonderful, reasons.
I'm thankful for yarn and getting to have a room dedicated to it.
I'm still thankful for you. Because you made it to the end of the list.
I'm thankful that I'm typing this with minimal pain. There's something going on with my wrist that I'm going back to the doctor for a follow up about in a couple of weeks. Right now, I'm wearing a brace that is driving me bonkers.
I'm thankful I have the money to pay for all these doctors visits I've had lately. Far more than the past 5 years combined, that's for sure! Ugh! Thought I had some sort of kidney problems but no. Lower back pain. The doctor manipulated me a bit and I haven't had much pain since. I think it was just hearing that it was something "okay" that gave me peace of mind.
I'm thankful for old fashioned notebooks. I wrote all of NaNo in several this year. Of course, I grossly miscalculated how much writing was on each page! I worked on a graphic novel this year and one page in screen play spacing equals 500 words so you have to write 100 pages. I thought one written page was only 200 words because I typed one up and it took up about 1/4 a page. Tonight, I typed up a new page only to discover that I'd ASSUMED that I was only taking up 1/4 a page but I was really ONE PAGE. ONE PAGE! So I'm at 67200 instead of 34250. Gah! But I'm so thankful I was bored and so decided to pull out the big computer!
I'm thankful for the Women of Marvel panel at NYCC for the push to write a graphic novel. Seriously, this thing is one of the best things I've ever written. It's a got a hook and everything! I'm working my way into the last battle but OH BOY I LOVE THIS STORY SO MUCH!
I'm thankful for a sister who's a nurse who will finally help me with ideas. I spent so many years not being able to ask her questions about medical things because "I was supposed to write what I knew" but she's moved past that and has put up with my questions lately. Seriously, any sister who doesn't laugh off, "So, do you think an iron lung could be form-fitting?" is a keeper.
I'm thankful for the month I got to spend with my other sister and my nephews. They are the light of my life. And so geeky! We bonded over Batman, happy bad guys versus sad bad guys, the few comic books I could get away sharing with them that passed my sister's muster (because they are only 3 & 4), and Legos. I pulled out my Story Cubes and we told stories to each other. We found new jokes (What did the janitor say when he came out of the closet? SUPPLIES!) and retold old ones over and over.
I'm thankful for my niece that will be born in February! And for the fact that I can afford to go visit them after her birth. And that I've been given permission to dress her up like Captain Marvel to my heart's content!
I'm thankful that both Stargate Atlantis and some of America's Next Top Model are free on Amazon Prime Streaming. Both shows make me happy for different, and wonderful, reasons.
I'm thankful for yarn and getting to have a room dedicated to it.
I'm still thankful for you. Because you made it to the end of the list.
It was dentist day. Not the good kind of visit, either. The kind where I'm tense the entire time, waiting for the drill to bring unbearable pain. I had to be numbed once with a shot (to which my sister raised her eyebrow at my apparent nonchalance because the sister she thinks she knows doesn't talk about shots with so little drama) and a couple times with numbing cream. Fun. All in all, I'm a little more artificial and less original than I was this morning.
I've decided I want to read one banned book a year. I don't know why I decided this other than to know what all the fuss is about. I'm not a regular fiction sort of reader so I'm definitely keeping it to one a year. It's kind of amazing what books have been put on the banned book list, though. I should be okay for awhile. This year, I can read The Fault in Our Stars since that was recently banned and it's the one John Green book I haven't read.
My schedule at work has changed and I now have Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Sundays off. It makes for some long days (especially Friday which is my alone day, as well) but it's been really rewarding, so far. With my nephews and sister here from Florida, I've been able to spend some quality time with them outside of "let's hurry and do something because it's the weekend" that I normally get. I'm hoping to turn some of the time off into super productive time in November and December. Yarn Tribbles is having another fundraiser in a few weeks so I'm working on several projects for that but I hope to start writing more after that. I don't have any promised products so maybe I can make it stick this time!
I've decided I want to read one banned book a year. I don't know why I decided this other than to know what all the fuss is about. I'm not a regular fiction sort of reader so I'm definitely keeping it to one a year. It's kind of amazing what books have been put on the banned book list, though. I should be okay for awhile. This year, I can read The Fault in Our Stars since that was recently banned and it's the one John Green book I haven't read.
My schedule at work has changed and I now have Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Sundays off. It makes for some long days (especially Friday which is my alone day, as well) but it's been really rewarding, so far. With my nephews and sister here from Florida, I've been able to spend some quality time with them outside of "let's hurry and do something because it's the weekend" that I normally get. I'm hoping to turn some of the time off into super productive time in November and December. Yarn Tribbles is having another fundraiser in a few weeks so I'm working on several projects for that but I hope to start writing more after that. I don't have any promised products so maybe I can make it stick this time!
I'm going to tell you the highlights of my time at New York Comic Con.
First, the two bits of important stuff that I want to make sure my FL list sees.
1)
These are varient covers coming up in February. Take a look at the third one. That would be Clint and... Natasha wearing a Hawkeye shirt. Yeah. That's exactly the sound that I made in the packed room.
2) I thought I had a picture of the slide but I can't find it now. Marvel has announced it's going to do a MarvelYA line of books. The first is a Black Widow book by Margaret Stohl. Here's an article I found about it. This makes me sort of ridiculously happy for a lot of reasons.
Other highlights include:
-being in the same room as George Clooney and getting to see a lot of scenes from Big Hero 6 and Tomorrowland.
-being in the same room with Stephen Amell and listening to some really insightful questions from his fans on Arrow, both past and present. By far, the best fan questions of any of the panels we went to.
-getting quite a few free books, including the first reprint of the Kate Daniel book by Ilona Andrews and having it signed by both husband and wife, including a written apology for spelling my name wrong.
-meeting Gabriel Rodriguez and telling him how much I thoroughly enjoyed Locke & Key and then finding out that Aster bought the first trade book and had him sign it for me.
-eating really good convention center food! So surprising!
-hanging out in The Mary Sue lounge with some really funny and nice people. As one guy put it when I said that I was going to tell people all about making friendship bracelets at Comic Con, "Are you making friendship bracelets... or friends." That made me smile because he was right. I was making friends. We hung out there several times throughout the weekend.
-seeing so many really cool Kate Bishop and Peggy Carter cosplays! So many!
-watching a ridiculously cute Clark Greg and getting to see the newest AoS and some scenes from Agent Carter.
-being a continent away from New York City. Too big, too crowded and too many people!
First, the two bits of important stuff that I want to make sure my FL list sees.
1)
These are varient covers coming up in February. Take a look at the third one. That would be Clint and... Natasha wearing a Hawkeye shirt. Yeah. That's exactly the sound that I made in the packed room.
2) I thought I had a picture of the slide but I can't find it now. Marvel has announced it's going to do a MarvelYA line of books. The first is a Black Widow book by Margaret Stohl. Here's an article I found about it. This makes me sort of ridiculously happy for a lot of reasons.
Other highlights include:
-being in the same room as George Clooney and getting to see a lot of scenes from Big Hero 6 and Tomorrowland.
-being in the same room with Stephen Amell and listening to some really insightful questions from his fans on Arrow, both past and present. By far, the best fan questions of any of the panels we went to.
-getting quite a few free books, including the first reprint of the Kate Daniel book by Ilona Andrews and having it signed by both husband and wife, including a written apology for spelling my name wrong.
-meeting Gabriel Rodriguez and telling him how much I thoroughly enjoyed Locke & Key and then finding out that Aster bought the first trade book and had him sign it for me.
-eating really good convention center food! So surprising!
-hanging out in The Mary Sue lounge with some really funny and nice people. As one guy put it when I said that I was going to tell people all about making friendship bracelets at Comic Con, "Are you making friendship bracelets... or friends." That made me smile because he was right. I was making friends. We hung out there several times throughout the weekend.
-seeing so many really cool Kate Bishop and Peggy Carter cosplays! So many!
-watching a ridiculously cute Clark Greg and getting to see the newest AoS and some scenes from Agent Carter.
-being a continent away from New York City. Too big, too crowded and too many people!
Okay, life is almost back to normal! ALMOST! Less than a week until I'll be home and back into my routine! Hooray!
But let's talk about TV! I need someone to talk about things with!
Do you have any thoughts on Agents of SHIELD, Scorpions, TBBT or Orphan Black (I'm not completely caught up on that one yet)? Any new shows that you really like that you want to gush about? I have a DVR full to bursting with good stuff that I need to watch still!
But let's talk about TV! I need someone to talk about things with!
Do you have any thoughts on Agents of SHIELD, Scorpions, TBBT or Orphan Black (I'm not completely caught up on that one yet)? Any new shows that you really like that you want to gush about? I have a DVR full to bursting with good stuff that I need to watch still!
OH! So much happened while I wasn't on LJ that I haven't shared the best bit!
Next month, I'm headed to New York for NEW YORK COMIC CON!!!! Aster and I (and maybe her kidlet, if she can get out of school) are going to be spending four fabulous days in the Big Apple!!!
And you know who will be at NYCC????
That's right.
Matt Fraction and Kelly Sue DeConnick!!!!!
I'm going to take along one of my Hawkeye messenger bags (I really need to put up a picture here... must remember to do that) to give to MF and I'm trying to work up something Captain Marvel-ish for KSD. Stalkings allowed at Comic Con, right?
The weekend after NYCC is Idaho's very first Comic Con so I'm going to be conned out! But happy! Guess who I'll get to see there? Nicholas Brendon and Mark Sheppard! Not bad, Tree City. Not bad, at all.
Next month, I'm headed to New York for NEW YORK COMIC CON!!!! Aster and I (and maybe her kidlet, if she can get out of school) are going to be spending four fabulous days in the Big Apple!!!
And you know who will be at NYCC????
That's right.
Matt Fraction and Kelly Sue DeConnick!!!!!
I'm going to take along one of my Hawkeye messenger bags (I really need to put up a picture here... must remember to do that) to give to MF and I'm trying to work up something Captain Marvel-ish for KSD. Stalkings allowed at Comic Con, right?
The weekend after NYCC is Idaho's very first Comic Con so I'm going to be conned out! But happy! Guess who I'll get to see there? Nicholas Brendon and Mark Sheppard! Not bad, Tree City. Not bad, at all.
What a summer. It's almost over, right? I thought I'd get a lot of writing done this summer but I didn't. Not hardly any at all. Instead, I got a lot of crocheting done as I watched a lot of movies. Why, you may ask, did I not do any writing? Because I didn't have a lot of access to the internet.
BAH! I say. BAH!
I took an extended housesitting job on a farm. My sole responsibilities were to keep the cats and dogs fed and happy, feed the chickens and pick up their eggs, and make sure that the plants inside the house didn't die. I've done great with all of those (although the story of how Lar learned how to move brooding chickens is pretty funny, I'm not going to lie to you) but I'm ready for my time to be DONE so I can get back to my regular schedule. Chickens get up REALLY EARLY.
The thing that makes me the most cranky? The internet isn't that great. It's barely good enough to stream movies onto my Kindle. I never could get the TV to work. Getting my laptop to keep a good enough signal to run LJ? Never happened. I got Facebook to work on my phone but I've used A LOT of data this summer that I've never touched before!
A couple of weeks ago, my schedule at work changed (because I changed it) and now I have Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday off so I've been spending those weekdays off back at my parent's house with the nifty swift internet and a facsimile of my previous life. I also have access to my mom's iPad so I can Facetime with my nephews which makes me all kinds of happy. I miss them SOOOO much. The distance between Idaho (where I am) and Florida (where they are) is far greater than I want it to be. When Willie asks me why I'm not at his house to play with him, I just want to weep. Today's big revelation? They have "netflakes" now so they can watch Autobots. Auntie could only talk for a short time so they could get back to that goodness.
The summer of crocheting wasn't all that bad, though. Beth and I had a booth at our local county fair but mostly we've been getting ready for our Fall St. Baldricks fundraiser. We've played around with having a booth at other gatherings but haven't made that leap quite yet, mostly because it takes A LOT of product to do anything major.
I've been playing around with the idea of going back to school for coding. I read an article in Geek magazine about how there aren't enough debuggers to keep up with all the coding that gets put into the cloud on any given day and that's a problem. I've been looking into it and I think I'd be fabulous at debugging. Since I started this quest a little late to get into any classes this fall, I've been playing around with some of the tutorials online, just to get started learning all the languages. I started with Code Academy but I wasn't very happy with their teaching layout. I've been doing the Java tutorials on Khan Academy since I'm already signed up there. I think I'm learning something helpful. It's always hard to tell. Working in Java always makes me think of LJ because I've played around with the coding for the background here a bit. I thought I'd drop in today and see what sorts of things I could learn by just puttering around in the coding. Here goes nothing...
BAH! I say. BAH!
I took an extended housesitting job on a farm. My sole responsibilities were to keep the cats and dogs fed and happy, feed the chickens and pick up their eggs, and make sure that the plants inside the house didn't die. I've done great with all of those (although the story of how Lar learned how to move brooding chickens is pretty funny, I'm not going to lie to you) but I'm ready for my time to be DONE so I can get back to my regular schedule. Chickens get up REALLY EARLY.
The thing that makes me the most cranky? The internet isn't that great. It's barely good enough to stream movies onto my Kindle. I never could get the TV to work. Getting my laptop to keep a good enough signal to run LJ? Never happened. I got Facebook to work on my phone but I've used A LOT of data this summer that I've never touched before!
A couple of weeks ago, my schedule at work changed (because I changed it) and now I have Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday off so I've been spending those weekdays off back at my parent's house with the nifty swift internet and a facsimile of my previous life. I also have access to my mom's iPad so I can Facetime with my nephews which makes me all kinds of happy. I miss them SOOOO much. The distance between Idaho (where I am) and Florida (where they are) is far greater than I want it to be. When Willie asks me why I'm not at his house to play with him, I just want to weep. Today's big revelation? They have "netflakes" now so they can watch Autobots. Auntie could only talk for a short time so they could get back to that goodness.
The summer of crocheting wasn't all that bad, though. Beth and I had a booth at our local county fair but mostly we've been getting ready for our Fall St. Baldricks fundraiser. We've played around with having a booth at other gatherings but haven't made that leap quite yet, mostly because it takes A LOT of product to do anything major.
I've been playing around with the idea of going back to school for coding. I read an article in Geek magazine about how there aren't enough debuggers to keep up with all the coding that gets put into the cloud on any given day and that's a problem. I've been looking into it and I think I'd be fabulous at debugging. Since I started this quest a little late to get into any classes this fall, I've been playing around with some of the tutorials online, just to get started learning all the languages. I started with Code Academy but I wasn't very happy with their teaching layout. I've been doing the Java tutorials on Khan Academy since I'm already signed up there. I think I'm learning something helpful. It's always hard to tell. Working in Java always makes me think of LJ because I've played around with the coding for the background here a bit. I thought I'd drop in today and see what sorts of things I could learn by just puttering around in the coding. Here goes nothing...
What? Write Camp NaNo things because you're on vacation and you have TIME to be writing. And you had a decent idea and mapped it out and did work on it before hand and you still can't be bothered?
And then you finally got to go see Captain America, probably only because your sister, who is the only one who knows the way to the movie theater in this city of trees and highways, wanted to go see Divergent for the third time? And you came home at 10pm and pulled out your laptop? And now you have to go to bed because your nephews get up early and you're two hours ahead of your own schedule as it is?
And you come up with this WIP?????? AND YOU NEED TO GO BACK BECAUSE YOU KNOW YOU MISSED IMPORTANT STUFF!!?!?!!!?????
( And you heard this was going to be SPOILER-Y, right?Collapse )
And then you finally got to go see Captain America, probably only because your sister, who is the only one who knows the way to the movie theater in this city of trees and highways, wanted to go see Divergent for the third time? And you came home at 10pm and pulled out your laptop? And now you have to go to bed because your nephews get up early and you're two hours ahead of your own schedule as it is?
And you come up with this WIP?????? AND YOU NEED TO GO BACK BECAUSE YOU KNOW YOU MISSED IMPORTANT STUFF!!?!?!!!?????
( And you heard this was going to be SPOILER-Y, right?Collapse )
I'm spending Christmas Day watching the Doctor Who marathon (we've already had Christmas when my sister could be here so this isn't really the holiday day for me, just a day off!) and drabbling ideas and feelings.
Title: Exactly
Episode: 4.13 Journey's End
She remembers him. From time to time, a flicker of a memory gets through and she can remember what it felt like to travel through time and space with her best friend. It’s at the most random of moments, none of them very specific, and none of the memories are very stable. Here for a bit and then gone like mist in the wake of the sun.
They do leave behind the heaviest weight on her heart. Not even the strongest of antidepressants can take away that ache. She’s tried to explain herself to a number of different doctors and counselors but there’s nothing to explain. There are times she is completely happy and carefree and then there are the other times. Deep, dark chasms of pain that make her smile and weep, at the same time.
“Who is the person you think of in those dark moments?” they ask.
“Exactly,” she replies.
Title: Exactly
Episode: 4.13 Journey's End
She remembers him. From time to time, a flicker of a memory gets through and she can remember what it felt like to travel through time and space with her best friend. It’s at the most random of moments, none of them very specific, and none of the memories are very stable. Here for a bit and then gone like mist in the wake of the sun.
They do leave behind the heaviest weight on her heart. Not even the strongest of antidepressants can take away that ache. She’s tried to explain herself to a number of different doctors and counselors but there’s nothing to explain. There are times she is completely happy and carefree and then there are the other times. Deep, dark chasms of pain that make her smile and weep, at the same time.
“Who is the person you think of in those dark moments?” they ask.
“Exactly,” she replies.
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