chase_acow

I was looking at these vintage winter photos, but then I just got sad that it's never gonna snow like this in my part of the country again. My lake is so low, I'm not sure there will be enough to get it up to swim worthy by the summer.

Looking at these, I'm glad I recognized less than half. I guess this is 40 and also a life that was less terminally online than before. The 21 Most Defining Memes of 2023


Reminder of my favorite snowflake_challenge hack -> if you surf https://snowflake-challenge.dreamwidth.org/read you get all the member's entries which will get you a lot of the challenge entries and also just active people on the platform.

( my little lit up house, an infuriating cat, a sweatered dog )

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

1.
( 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.

and went to the lake!



so i clearly should not be allowed to color adjust photos, but i wish the water was actually that blue

( just a couple more )

I saw a lot of people doing this one, but I only decided to join and copy/pasted from tabaqui! So I'm going to catch up now, and not even try to pretend that I'll manage to do one a day for the rest of the month. : )

1. Nobody really likes to be the victim of cruel hoax, but how do you feel about good-natured pranks that don’t cause harm? - I enjoy making myself look foolish to get a laugh. I'm a story teller, there is often exaggeration that I usually fess up to at the end. I don't really remember many pranks happening once I got out of college. But college kids are the worst, they clearly shouldn't prank. I wouldn't mind being the victim, and then getting revenge, but there would be a really small pool of people I'd be willing to hit first.

2 It’s Peanut Butter and Jelly day! What’s your favorite flavor of jelly or jam? - Raspberry (even with the tiny seeds) or if we're talking those little single serve packets at restaurants, the mixed berry is the clear best.

3 What’s one thing that you can do better than anyone you know? - I've somehow become the answerer of dog training questions among my group. I did years in 4H and went to state contests, I watched It's Me or the Dog with Victoria Stilwell, and have always thought Cesar Millan was ridiculous. 'Wait' is the absolute best thing you can teach your dog. Wait to eat, wait to go through doors, wait to jump out of cars etc. Now Dasher, my current dog, has some issues but I take full blame. This was my first dog without anyone else being involved and I think he's a little too attached. We're getting along better now, and he hasn't eaten any more couch cushions!

4 What picture is the wallpaper on the device you’re using right now? - I do the rotating thing so there's a lot of Sam and Bucky, paintings of cats, funny things, older fandoms and random pics that make me happy. Currently it is this gem. I'm still mad at work, I still want out, but with the state of things right now, I'm glad I'm still there . . . I guess.
( godzilla rampage! )


( entire month if you need it )

He's from Broken Arrow, OK which is why I first checked him out, but I really dig the music. It's all original lyrics, kind of a bluesy which I like way more than straight jazz which I can on occasion tolerate. I really like "Socks" and "Holly, Carol, Candy, and Joy".

Knives Out was amusing and while a little slow atmospheric, I enjoyed the whole thing. I was briefly distracted from the plot by Chris Evans in this white sweater, but I got back.

Took the Dasher to the dogpark for the first time since he got neutered at the beginning of September. He's so much better at playing the chase-you-chase-me game than he was before. Just ran right out there and got in the middle of everything. I was very excited my shins didn't take a beating again, however there were a group of three girls standing around talking and Dasher evidently thought their was safety in their numbers and crashed into them several times. He wore himself out good and is now having a nap.

It's been cold and rainy off and on, so I started letting Dasher stay inside overnight without being locked in his kennel. I went through and moved things I thought might be too tempting to resist, but he did great! Didn't bother anything. Only chased the cats (in a fun way?) a little bit and settled back down when I yelled at him. So, good! Excellent. He's almost a year old now, will be on Nov 5th. That's about what I'd expect for a young dog. I'd left him in the house before while I did some running around town for maybe a little over an hour - no issues.

Yesterday I had to go to work at 4pm. It was still cold and rainy. Okay, I had some cover coming in at 8pm letting me leave to come home real quick on my lunch break to let him out and just check things out. I didn't really expect any issues. I cleaned the litter boxes, blocked his access to the one in the living room. No big deal.

( this dang dog ate my couch cushion. I mean, it's a crappy hand-me-down couch, BUT THAT'S WHERE I SIT! )

I honestly kinda thought the couch eating dog was an internet urban legend. None of my animals, and no one I actually knew has had this problem. Alas. And he peed on something. So into the kennel he went. I eventually found the cats crawling out from under my bed, so who knows just how much fun he had during his destruction.

Fine. No use yelling at him at that point. Whatever.

I cleaned everything up once I got home, reluctantly let him out of the kennel, fed everyone and then we settled down to watch Saw VI (don't judge me). I get off at midnight, but generally I need another hour or so to feel sleepy. I stayed up a little longer just because I was so irritated. So now it's 2am. Dasher goes back in his kennel. I've already decided to shut my door so I can sleep with the cats weighing me down. Brush my teeth, change my clothes, set my alarm, turn to my bed AND ONE OF THOSE DRATTED CATS AT SOME POINT AFTER I GOT HOME PEED ON MY BED.

gross.

So, I pull all the bedding off, start scrubbing, turn on my ceiling fan, and despair. Whatever happened with the dog was apparently Too Much for someone even if they all acting fine while we were hanging out.

3am, I ended up sleeping on the awful mattress in the spare room. Now I'm washing everything that was on both beds, because there was a suspicious stain on the second bed when I went to change those sheets to sleep.

Animals are the worst.

65 anticipated movies of 2019 -> I'm a movie junkie now, I may as well wallow in it.

She-Ra season two debuts April 26th


I don't actually care anything about this game, but that is one well animated kitty and the dragons aren't bad either.

ears are starting lift off!


Somehow it's like a flip switched over night. He slept well in the bed after being banished to the kennel for two nights and didn't wake me up for almost eight hours. He played like a monster outside while I sat in the sun and read until he wore himself out. No accidents in the house for a couple of days, and he's finally eating ALL the food. I am excited again. I can't wait until he actually likes taking walks and it's not me out there begging him to put one foot in front of the other for a couple of blocks.


For Yuletide, I wrote a bit of Men in Black Jay/Kay:
Schrödinger's Kay
No Archive Warnings Apply -> Time Travel, everyone lives happily ever after, Pie

Jay's double presence in 1969 has changed more than just the number of arms on Boris' corpse. Kay makes a choice with a lot of consequences.

As part of my plan to escape this year’s holiday slog in December, I drove out to Arkansas for my mom’s birthday last month. She is not really an outgoing person, she’s got some other stuff going on, and she stays up late and sleeps a whole lot. I wasn’t that interested in waking up early to let the dog out and then sitting in the kitchen by myself. So I asked her if she wanted to go on a float trip, and three days later she replied to my text with a ‘sure’.

That wasn’t enthusiastic enough consent for me, so I shrugged and packed an extra book.

On day two of my my exile into the hot land where the air conditioner never turns on, there are no comfortable seats, and no real food, mom wanders in about noon, and says - “So, when are we going on the float trip?”

facepalm

But, okay. So I find a place. Easy trip, kids and dogs welcome, 4-6 hours for an 8 mile stretch. The start point was about 40 mins away. I thought, yeah this one. Granted, I don’t think I’ve been outside for a combined 4-6 hours since I started night shift in Feb. But I went and bought two new bottles of sunscreen.

So, the good news is, I didn’t get sunburnt.

The bad news is, I’m the proud owner of a roughly used, broken rental canoe.

( We had 7/8ths of a real good time. )