chase_acow

All right, the kitten has a home with me. Her name is Bear because of the stubby tail and how she growls when she eats.

( I love all the animals equally, but some are more equal than others )

My team laid the worst goose egg today. The fan base is completely melting down on twitter and the message boards, and I am enjoying it! Posers. Back in MY day we counted first downs as a win and didn't expect to go anywhere in December, and we still loved our loser team. . . Some of that was true.

Spotify’s Gimlet studios released its latest podcast today — Case 63. An English language adaptation of creator Julio Rojas’ Caso 63, this 10-episode audio drama follows a New York psychiatrist (Julianne Moore) who begins treating a patient (Oscar Isaac) that claims to be from the year 2062. Following a format that presents itself as recorded therapy sessions, listeners are taken along for the ride as the story quickly evolves into something that threatens the boundaries of the possible and the real.

10 episodes of 10-15mins each. I'm halfway through but I'm really enjoying it. Both actors do an amazing job. It's pretty heavy into world ending pandemics, so make sure that won't make you feel worse about real life.

Halloween Charcuterie

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( one more on the cloudier next day )

a. I spent Fri/Sat nights at a cabin at Foss State Park and had a good time. The lake was real low, and sadly I did not have a good view from the cabin, but there was a great rooster across the street that crowed at any and every time of the day.
b. It was really for my little brother's wedding in a tiny town about 20 mins away. The wedding was cute and everyone in our stupid family behaved. They've got three kids altogether and they did a great job blending their families and getting all the kids involved.
c. I also spent three hours watching my football team choke away a conference championship in a game that came down to the last second and about ten inches. (We wouldn't have been in a nail biter if it hadn't been for the FOUR F-ING INTERCEPTIONS and TERRIBLE PLAY CALLING IN BACK-TO-BACK RED ZONE POSSESSIONS!!!) I'm fine.

2. I'm doing episode reaction posts over at disneyplusshows for the Hawkeye series. I'm really enjoying Kate, a disaster, Lucky, he eats pizza, and the soundtrack, holiday music!
episode 3, episode 2, and episode 1
2a. Friendly reminder that if someone is ruining a community or your network page, there is a CSS code you can use to block their posts and comments so that you don't have to see their crappy commentary. Here's the tumblr post explaining, but if you need any help, let me know!

3. I finally posted my Professional Wrestling AU Sam/Bucky fic for marvel_bang! I'm so glad to get it out of my wip folder cuz I had a lot of fun with it, but I also wanted to strangle it at several points.

The art is HERE and it is really cute! Please head over there and look at Sam's awesome jacket, and Bucky's yoga pants and how soft they are playing footsie under the table. Also, a kitten!!!!

All American Face (14632 words) by chase_acow
Fandom: Captain America (Movies)
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes/Sam Wilson
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Professional Wrestling - Freeform, the briefest mentions of pain medication addiction, the briefest mentions of racism and homophobia, ridiculous wrestling soap opera style storylines, Sam's real life is kinda ridiculous too though
Summary:

After Steve is screwed out of the championship by Rumlow and the surprise return of Bucky Barnes now playing a brainwashed goon called the Winter Soldier, Sam has to deal with his real life crush on Bucky and competing professional storylines for the camera.

When he outs them on national television during a tag-team match after Bucky gets hurt, the reaction from the world is actually positive. Sam has to decide what he really wants for a life after wrestling, but not before he wipes that stupid smirk off Rumlow's face and gets his own chance at the title.

I packed up on Sunday and in order to ignore some Bad Things(tm) I don't want to go into here, I went to the movie theater for the first time since Tenet to see, of all things . . . Jeffrey Dean Morgan phone in it as a disgraced journalist who unleashes something and then wants to cash in on the miracle maker until oops he grows a conscience. I was very amused by surprise Cary Elwes with a truly horrifying accent, put the monster to shame really. It was still fun to be back in there with like two other people and munching popcorn in my heated recliner.

Got up early on Monday and drove down to Hugo. It's so nice to have a vehicle with air-conditioning and the music I want to listen to coming through the speakers. No trouble, lot of it was pretty. They have real pine trees down there, the kind with the funny looking bare trunks that grow straight up for twenty feet before they start with the branches. I like to visit tall trees to remember they exist. I am however also happy to come home where I can see any invaders on the horizon.

The cabin I stayed in (because there was the chance of bad weather Tuesday) was a nice little two room number. One room had a window unit (it felt like cheating then I said who cares I'm on vacation and turned it on the second night), bed, fireplace, a table and three chairs. It led to a screened in porch which was awesome to have for Pepper to stay in. She was not fond of lounging in the great outdoors. I still constantly thought about monsters in the mist and aliens so solid walls vs a tent didn't really keep the paranoia at bay.

I read, I made good fires, I ate good hotdogs. I'm really glad I went.

I got back yesterday and have been taking it easy before I go to work tomorrow. The cat is loathe to let me out of her sight.

( pics! )

1. I took the holiday tree down! \0/ - unfortunately I'm not about to wade out into the bog that is my backyard to put it in the shed yet, so giant box in the living room!*

2. I took a picture of me in my new glasses to show my mom and it's a very adequate picture so I shall also leave it here for posterity: ( me! )

3. Re-listening to the Magnus Archives has finally achieved nightmares. Last night it was worms and before that a house that wasn't which had eaten my dad. I think I'll start restricting my listening to early afternoon.

4. I'm trying to lighten the load on my bookshelves, and I thought I'd see if any of you were interested.

EDIT: everything is on ebay now if anyone is interested cheap and willing to go cheaper!

Why Buffy Matters
Supervillains and Philosophy
Watchmen and Philosophy: A Rorschach test
The Science of the X-Men: From Biomechanics to Genetics From Professor X to Wolverine
Stepping Through the Stargate: Science, Archaeology and the Military in Stargate SG-1
The Supernatural Book of Monsters, Spirits, Demons, and Ghouls
Also Supernatural Season 1-5, 8, and 9 on DVD good condition. $4 ea or less if you want more than one.

5. I wrote a tiny daemons au Cable/Deadpool for the iron triangle flash exchange. The idea is that you only match on freeforms and fandom is up to you. It was scary, but I think it's a good enough little bit of domestic fluff.

*it goes so well with the giant box holding my lawn mower that lives in the kitchen.

So on thanksgiving, shift and I rescued a red tail hawk. Actually, one officer left it for dead, another had a report that it was alive, and I insisted someone go poke it with a stick so we could be sure about Schrodinger's hawk, because those are two very different phone calls. It just happened to be in a spot I could watch by cameras, so we spent forty minutes trying to figure out how to get the bird in the car to take to the vet. Vet med shows up and twenty seconds later without any protective gear, swoop in, net the hawk, and stuff it in a cat carrier.

I still like to take some of the credit.

But this week, they invited us out to watch it being released, and I sucked up to the boss until he agreed to cover for me so I could go. And wow, she was big and beautiful, and not even fully grown. The officer who initially poked her at my bequest got to name her, and he picked Lucy after his favorite Pevensie.

It's nice to see something through. She's just a little bird, we have a million of them, but y'know. . . I did that. It helped.




( a couple more pics )