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Movie: I fucking loved The Monkey. I did not watch any trailers, had no expectations, had to ignore obnoxious loudness by the other folks in the theater, and I was absolutely into it. I'm not entirely sure how to describe what it actually was. Not a horror movie - but a couple jump scares. A super dark family dram-com? Gory for sure. Somehow uplifting. Hilarious. Thoughtful. Surprising. I enjoyed both Adam Scott and Elijah Wood in their small roles. perfect.

TV: ( I just need to shout into the void about how much I dislike the new rookies this season on The Rookie. )

Work: Our rookie put in her two week notice when she decided she was unwilling to work any shift but day shift in a job with mandatory 24/7 operation and a three month rotation so nobody goes stir crazy while on overnights. . . . Good riddance. I was already betting against her making it through fall. Defensive and unwilling to try when she didn't get the right answer the first time she tried. Also a lot of petty personal junk I won't get into. I did not appreciate the trauma dump during the first week, and most her problems were created by herself.

Fic meme taken from calliopes_pen:
Rules: give us the links to your fics with the most hits, second most kudos, third most comments, fourth most bookmarks, fifth most words, and fic with the fewest words.

1. Most Hits: Knotting Expectations Teen Wolf filthy smut 328,300 hits
2. Second Most Kudos: The Sanctuary Teen Wolf a/b/o smut 9,565 kudos
3. Third Most Comments: Days Like This Top Gun 50 First Dates AU 76 comments
4. Fourth Most Bookmarks: Heavy Petting Teen Wolf (I'll never escape it.) 473 bookmarks
5. Fifth Sixth Most Words: Jonathan Frakes Has Questions And So Does Sam MCU 'slightly haunted curtain fic' 22,052 words
6. Fic With (second) Fewest Words: Nighttime Conversations Fried Green Tomatoes my only f/f 513 words


https://artsandculture.google.com/experiment/3d-pottery/nwHg1D0riJ1ltA?user_id=66c4c91b5d78644b3ac57d69

Who said what?

1. What kind of woman doesn't have an axe?

2. I'm never gonna fucking call you Carl.

3. Hope is like the sun. If you only believe it when you see it you'll never make it through the night.

4. I provide much needed . . . sarcasm.

5. When fortune smiles on something as violent and ugly as revenge, it seems proof like no other that, not only does God exist, you're doing His will.

is that too much to ask?

( I have three applications out now, but wow do I hate my bosses and wish them embarrassing newspaper worthy accidents. )

What's a fandom that you wish had a bigger following?

What a double edged sword. There was a very adequate amount of Bucky/Sam fic on AO3 pre Falcon and Winter Soldier, and now . . . now there's an awful lot of messy stuff to sort through before I find something good that I want to read. At this point I filter through and exclude about fifteen pairings I don't want to see and a couple of tags that inevitably point to some bad choices made somewhere.

However I do wish someone would scratch the itch that is Sebastian Stan's asshole character from The Bronze - Lance Tucker/Sam Wilson. Forget about beligerent sexual tension, that would be full on antagonistic sexual frustration and really weird sex choices.

And my other rarepair wish from Rampage. There's just something about Jeffrey Dean Morgan's swishy Other Government Agency character and the Rock's definitely not heterosexual character that I'd like to see explored. There's only one other person who ever requests the fandom though, and they are the requester of every monkey/ape/gorilla/sashquatch request you never actually wanted to read.

June Something meme:
What's changed about your fandom life in the last 365 days?

It was so hard to watch new things last summer. All the movies were cancelled. I was working 12hr night shifts. All I did was hate watch Once Upon A Time and all 40 seasons of Survivor. I finally started watching new things in December. Now since Falcon and the Winter Soldier is over I think I have more WIPs than I have in over a decade. So many files with so much porn. I'm doing two exchanges right now: heatficsummer and multifandomhorrorexchange so I'll at least finish something . . . eventually . . . hopefully. . .

fandomgiftbox is open.

The kindle editions of Sam Wilson's Captain America run collected in Vol 1 and Vol 2 are available for $10 each right now. no idea how much they are usually. I own the volumes that are just Sam's, but these include crossovers into other titles.

I really liked Bucky and his unwanted friendship with Redwing in this fic. You know I love Redwing. Both Sam and Bucky look good here and I enjoyed the bad guys. Quality time!

Learn to Stop Worrying and Love the Drone by rhombus
Bucky regretted a lot of things in his too-long lifetime, but right now, at the very top of the list, with a very bold bullet point, was keeping that damn drone in the specs for Sam's new suit. Now the little pest wouldn't leave him alone.

But, he still had one last set of amends to make, after all.

1. Your main fandom of the year?
Post Captain America: Civil War, which got me back into writing and attempting to rejoin fandom. I watched it in the theater and was disappointed by Tony’s storyline, and I didn’t really think about it much. I watched when it got thrown up on Netflix and was able to just enjoy the Team Cap members. I found people on Tumblr who were in love with Sam, and immediately went to gobble up all the Sam/Bucky AO3 could provide.

2. Your favorite film watched this year?
There were a lot of very adequate movies this year- Get Out, Moonlight, Wonder Woman, but the one that’s going to stick with me is CoCo. And I don’t know, maybe it’s emotional manipulation at its finest, but I loved it. The animation was beautiful, the soundtrack memorable, and the voice acting great. I loved the story and I thought Dante was adorable.

3. Your favorite book read this year?
I did actually read books this year. I got off to a good start, and then went back to stumbling endlessly through the internet. But I loved World War Z and it stuck with me. Human nature was definitely the star of the book, and it wasn’t all bad. There was hope and optimism, and regret and guilt. I really liked the style of writing since the individual vignettes were broken up for quick reading.

4. Your favorite TV show of the year?
Well, I’ve definitely been enjoying H5O, the new shows I watch are Designated Survivor and The Orville. I don’t know if despite my love of Kiefer Sutherland, I would have given Designated Survivor much attention if not for our current political environment. But I was desperate for a president who was a good man, who was moral and ethical, and desperate to do the right thing, the helpful thing, the kind thing. The Orville is a fun romp, it’s not a spoof, it's as good as Star Trek was for me. I like the cast, the adventures, I like the optimism and exploration. I love the nonhuman characters and how they illustrate what we consider the human condition.

5. Your favorite online fandom community of the year?
The Sam Wilson Big Bang was a lot of fun. It was my only online fandom I tried to engage in, and while I was hit or miss in their slack channel, I do hope they do another round next year.

6. Your best new fandom discovery of the year?
Ummm, IDK? A new pairing I read was from Maleficent - Maleficent/Diaval. And I’ve enjoyed that dynamic quite a bit.

7. Your biggest media disappointment of the year?
Easy - The Handmaid’s Tale. I read the book and loved it last spring, but I couldn’t get over the main actress, and I didn’t bother to finish the mini-series on HULU. It felt too drawn out, I never cared much about Luke. I really wanted to like it, and the production value and the look of it was great. Such a bummer for me.

8. Your boyfriend of the year?
Steve McGarrett. No question. He hits near every button I have. He sacrifices for what’s right, and for the people he loves, whether they reciprocate or not. He has an incredibly hard time verbalizing his feelings. There is violence there, carefully controlled. I like his sense of humor. Also, he’s very, very pretty, and his eyebrows do weird things.

9. Your girlfriend of the year?
I absolutely loved Valkyrie in Thor: Ragnarok. I loved her look, and I loved that she got to be the drunk, bad girl with a heart of gold trying to make up for her sins of the past. It totally works for a female character and I would sell off my hair for more.

10. Your biggest squee moment of the year?
Oh man, I have no idea.

11. The most missed of your old fandoms?
I went back to SGA about a month ago, prompted by all the McDanno I was reading. I miss watching an episode every week and then talking about it with others. I just don’t really have the time or patience to consume TV that way anymore. I had forgotten how much I loved John Shepard though. That weird, lanky, touch averse, pointy eared, fly-boy.

12. The fandom you haven't tried yet, but want to?
I meant to try to write more out of my comfort zone, but I honestly can’t think of any particulars.

13. Your biggest fan anticipations for the New Year?
I am so excited for the new Tomb Raider. I loved the games so much!

6. What's your current fandom love(s) and/or ship(s)?

I mostly live in The Hobbit right now, due to these terrible losers who are going to ruin my life. ->

( Thorin/Bilbo comic. )

This pairing is ripe for some of my favorite tropes/kinks: sharing body heat, courting misunderstandings, size difference, power imbalance, arranged marriage, grooming, and grumpy families of choice.


I also still read Derek/Stiles in Teen Wolf but I have not watched the most recent season, and I probably won't watch 3B either. I love the characters and the possibilities but I love the show runner and in universe direction a lot less. I am a little sad to miss out of Cora though.

There's some pairings I still dabble in reading when the right story comes across my flist: Steve/Tony (Avengers)and Sherlock/John (BBC). I wish there was more Mass Effect and Dragon Age I was interested in reading.

I'm also still loving the Doctor Who fandom but I don't ship anyone there.

PS- This is going to take me more than a month. : )

3. What was your first fandom love(s)? Your first ship(s)?

I started searching for fandom because of Buffy: The Vampire Slayer. I needed people to talk to about the severe emotional roller coaster that Joss put me through. Then I realized that people were writing extra stories about my favorite characters? Count me in! I'd been reading above my head for years, so while the sex scenes weren't new, the level of explicit hotness was new, and forbidden, and awesome. I read Buffy/Angel until I found out about slash, and I don't remember ever being put off by it, or thinking it was weird. I enjoyed it and loved it right off the bat. I read Angel/Xander and Angel/Spike, as much as I could find. Then I quickly deleted all the history in the browser with a feverish paranoia.

You know what I miss? Those warnings on personal websites making you swear you were the age of consent in your country. Not that I ever clicked on them before I was 18, because then I would feel very naughty, and the guilt would probably shape my personality in my formative years.

Day 6- a touching moment

There are several I could bring up. One thing this show does very well is craft layered relationships between characters that goes a bit beyond the easy stereotype interactions. It also acknowledges that kids really do love and need their parents who love them back -> even if they kind of baffle each other.

Scott's not really set up for success. He just moved in with his mom from a dad she says they're much better off without. She's never going to be up for mom of the year. She's young, works long, irregular hours as a nurse, and is a little overwhelmed with Scott. She tries though, you can see that she wants to make it work, but she's lonely, she doesn't know why Scott's suddenly acting out, and they obviously don't have any kind of cushion money-wise.

This is a clip from the prom episode. Scott's picked up a suit from God knows where with a jacket held together by duct tape. His mom's with him in his room, and they actually have a really nice conversation where he's talking about Alison and you can see that they do really care about each other.



The other 30 days.

Day 3- favorite episode



When the canon is only twelve episodes long, they're all fairly necessary. But if I were going to pick one to watch for the fun of it, I'd go with Wolf's Bane. Besides the hilarious Derek/Stiles nonsense, we got Allison trying figure things out, awesome Sheriff Stilinski scenes, and the Alpha reveal.



If nothing else, you should watch for the amazing Danny, Stiles, Derek scene in the middle. Derek takes his shirt off repeatedly and there's actually a good natured tease at Danny -> the gay character who is nice and everyone likes without it being a big deal that he's gay.

( gifs stolen from tumblr, I'm very sorry but y'all needed to see them )

The other 30 days

Okay, I'm just going to put this up now because the next three weeks are going to be brutal. I'm on and off helping my roommate's family put on their restaurant's Oktoberfest. It's the one in Chocktaw OK, holler if you're going to swing by. They're doing two weekends instead of one for the first time. So, instead of sitting all nice and comfy in the air conditioning writing porn, I'mma be out in the heat slinging awesomely yummy potato salad. : )

I stole this meme first off tumblr (which I still don't actually get, but that's another post), but I didn't like some of the questions, so I just replaced them with something I thought was better. I still might change some of them to suit.

Day 1- favorite male character



Stiles! No doubt. He's the best part of Xander (from BtVS obviously) with added uber-competency and physical comedy. He's sarcastic, outspoken, and he goes after what he wants -> though most people completely miss the fact that he exists. He also has that vulnerable, heart on his sleeve, possibly on too much medication vibe that pings my inner H/C radar. He has interesting relationships with most the other characters on the show from Derek to Lydia to his dad, the sheriff. Technically, he's the best friend of the main character Scott (who is in fact a Teen Wolf) but Stiles gets his own storylines, he is the planner/conniver, and basically one day I expect that he'll save the world from zombies.



( The Many Faces of Stiles )


( The rest of the stolen and/or made up day prompts )