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Feb. 25th, 2022 07:47 pm
jamie: bitter panda saying not quite zen (Default)
I love and miss you all so very much. <3

hiya

Apr. 14th, 2020 06:24 am
jamie: bitter panda saying not quite zen (jamie)
What you'll see here: rants, joys, the occasional posts about my cats, fear, politics, the social networking thing of the hour.

Consistent Interests:
Bucky Barnes, MCU, Calligraphy, politics, knitting, tarot, nature, pagan stuff, Due South, Stargate: Atlantis, Sentinel AUs

Inconsistent interests:
Sentinel, Trek, the Star War, B5, Neverwinter, RPGs, Fantasy and Sci Fi movies, Neil Gaiman, Musicals, Washi tape, chocolate, geekery

Subscribing & Access:
Me: I add and drop people and feeds and communities for lots of reasons.
You: Add/drop/fold/spindle/mutilate your reading page or access levels at your comfort. No need to notify or get permission from me about it.

Commenting:
Me: Not as much as I want, but I do read a lot more than I comment.
You: Comment on any public post you like.
jamie: chibi obi-wan kenobi (jedi)
The m_a archive (www.masterapprentice.com and www.masterapprentice.org) has been handed off to Squidgie for long term holding and caring. I took over the archive in May 2001 from sockii who had moved on in her interests and kept the creaky thing going for 18 years. I opened a collection on AO3 in 2014 and migrated over a double handful of stories (42 to be exact) before I got frustrated with what Open Doors was insisting on having done to show it was an import. I threw my hands in the air, opened the collection up to anyone and now it as 1098 stories in it. I have no idea what the overlap is between the collection and the classic archive and it honestly doesn't matter that much.

What matters is that it's up. Squidgie aka Walter has been in fandom at least as long as I have, dating back to the 80s and has hosted m_a for the last three years. I know he's got a will in place and succession plans on file with folks so I have no doubt that long after we are both gone there will still be something left of the old girl, along with the dozens of other sites that Walter hosts.

In honor of the occasion, I bring back the icon I used at the time on LJ.

--Note: I do NOT give permission for this entry to be added to or directly quoted on fanlore in whole or part. It can be linked to, for historical purposes.
jamie: closeup of male body from thigh to shoulders, actor chris evans in cpt america costume (*dorito steve)
Day 5

In your own space, promote three communities, challenges, blogs, pages, Twitters, Tumblrs or platforms and explain why you love them. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.


Continuing my theme of MCU:

Steve Rogers' New York - A look into the decades and the city that shaped Captain Steven Grant Rogers. The history and the culture of New York in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. A useful resource for fanfiction and just general independent interest. Because Steve Rogers.

Winterhawk kisses One of my niche pairings - Clint Barton and Bucky Barnes being the soft trashfire that they are. Nearly daily short fics that may or may not include a first kiss.

And a sharp veer to the left into the woods of Chagford:
Terri Windling on twitter and her website Myth and Moor. She's a wonderful writer and artist and regularly does longform posts with amazing art, songs and book quotes. If you enjoy fantasy and folklore and aren't following her already, please do. DW feed here: https://terriwindling-feed.dreamwidth.org/profile
jamie: Disney's stitch with Ohana means family, family means we eat the weak. (family)
Day 4

Comment to someone you haven't ever interacted with before or introduce yourself to someone you've interacted with and friend/follow them. Afterwards, leave a comment in this post with the equivalent of "I did it!"

Yup! I followed stoveandbucket a few days ago and they had taken on the elevator scene from TWS. I felt the silent solidarity fistbump from my own post yesterday and commented.

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jamie: closeup of male body from thigh to shoulders, actor chris evans in cpt america costume (*dorito steve)
Day 3

In your own space, share a favorite piece of original canon (a TV episode, a song, a favorite interview, a book, a scene from a movie, etc) and explain why you love it so much. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

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So many come to mind. Little Drummer Boy from The West Wing, The Titanic video meta that someone did about the end of tumblr, press tour clips, the tag scenes in Stargate:Atlantis about the gate team in Seasons 3, 4, 5. All of them have some element of family and us against the world, that in-group thing that resonates with me. I'll even go old school and go with the patient POV episode of M*A*S*H. It came out in 1978 and is literally called Point of View. Sadly I couldn't find much about it online so instead, I'll fall back on MCU.

Captain America: The Winter Soldier - since we're supposed to pick a scene I'll go with the freeway fight.
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jamie: unshaven human male looking off to his left with hair hanging in his face, actor sebastian stan in catws (*bucky)
Day 2

Rec at least three fanworks that you didn’t create.

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I got stuck on this one for a while, debating going fancy but instead I'm going to stop overthinking it and give you three from my bookmark list on AO3.

the five unmistakable marks (9071 words) by magdaliny
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Captain America (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes/Steve Rogers, OMC/OMC
Characters: James "Bucky" Barnes, Steve Rogers, Original Characters
Additional Tags: World War II, POV Outsider, Psychologists & Psychiatrists, Queer Friendship
Summary:

Dr. Herbert Rush didn't much like the look of the sergeant.



Outside POV that rings so very true.

Bait and Switch (2650 words) by galwednesday
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Captain America (Movies)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes/Steve Rogers
Characters: Sam Wilson (Marvel), James "Bucky" Barnes, Steve Rogers, Clint Barton, Tony Stark, Natasha Romanov (Marvel), Phil Coulson
Additional Tags: Non-Serum Steve Rogers/Winter Soldier Bucky Barnes | Shrinkyclinks, Artist Steve Rogers, Chimeras, all the chimeras are fine, I can't put an animal into a fic and NOT have it be happily adopted, mad scientist origin or no mad scientist origin, anyway who wants tacos, Fluff, Humor
Series: Part 1 of Bait and Switch 'verse, Part 1 of Tumblr ficlets 2018
Summary:

"Post-action tacos?” Tony suggested. “I’m thinking that place by Fordham. BattleBot, you in?”

“Can’t,” the Soldier said, typing something into his phone. “I have a date.”

Tony stopped talking for an entire three seconds. “You. Have a date.”

The Soldier looked up and blinked, clearly nonplussed to find Sam and Tony both staring at him. “Yes.”

“With who?”

“My boyfriend.”

“You have a boyfriend. You have a boyfriend?” Tony looked like he’d just walked into a lamppost, and then the lamppost had handed him a birthday present.



Sweet little sassy bon mot of a story.

The Murder Ballads (78503 words) by BetteNoire
Chapters: 22/22
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Captain America (Movies), The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes/Steve Rogers
Characters: James "Bucky" Barnes, Steve Rogers, Natasha Romanova, Natasha Romanov, Sam Wilson (Marvel), Tony Stark, Bruce Banner, Clint Barton, Timothy "Dum Dum" Dugan, Jim Morita, Howling Commandos
Additional Tags: Unrepentant Bucky, Angst, Murder, Tony Hates Feelings, Natasha Romanov Knows Everything, Post-Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Lust, Torches Carried, Eventual Smut, Rogue Bucky, Post-Trauma, Revenge, Competence Kink, Weapons Kink, Blood and Violence, Guest Stars, BAMF!Bucky, Ballet!Bucky
Series: Part 1 of The Murder Ballads
Summary:

Something wicked is coming for Steve Rogers. Luckily for him, something even more wicked stands in its way: the unrepentant, unbroken Bucky Barnes.

A murder-mystery/action thriller with violence, magic, and several big MCU guest stars.

 Translation into Pусский available here!

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Murder Ballads is amazing. The last story is in progress but the first two can totally stand without them - and the second one has Dazzler, a criminally underused character.
jamie: wheat covered hill in the foreground with a bright starry sky behind it (starry sky)
Day 1

In your own space, talk about your Happy Place—the things that give you joy, calms you or keeps you sane. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.


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Learning does all of those things. Hobbies. Community. Fandom/fanfiction.Read more... )
jamie: manip of John Sheppard with an elf cap on (john - christmas)
So, another year comes to a close. It was a really hard one for me personally. I started it living in Phoenix in a job that while I was brilliant at, the situation was untenable. I came back to California and very quickly had a job that's the best paid I've been, ever, and with a brilliant boss. I've been there since the end of July and I still like it. I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop.

We close between Dec 23 and Jan 2 so I took the time to deep clean my place, in slow motion. IE, 15-30 minute spurts of cleaning, multiple times a day when I found a new thing to clean. Sometimes it was organizing, sometimes it was the vacuum, and two days ago I spent 7 hours cleaning up the disaster that was my file system on my computer. I saw something elsewhere on social media that said they needed a 4-week vacation - two weeks to deep clean their home (twice), a week to cook, and a week to relax. When I've had jobs where we are closed over the winter holiday, I've always ended up using the time to clean, etc.

I also, in a thing that is so not me usually, also hung out in person with friends. Multiple times. Different people! It was lovely - and perfect because I spaced them a few days apart so it wasn't ever too much.

I had a to-do list for the holidays, none of which I did -HA. But I got a lot of other things done so I'm okay with it.

2018's word of the year was gratitude. With the death of an age peer in July, it brought back into focus and scale how very much I have to be grateful for. It was an excellent thing to keep bringing to mind in a year with all of the political unrest and crap and no end in sight.

2019's word is going to be self-respect. Hanne Blank, who I follow on fb, was answering questions and someone asked her what self-care looked like and she responded with the following: "Respect means you pay attention to what's going on. That you provide the right kinds of support, that you don't belittle, that you take needs seriously, that you take boundaries seriously."

That? Is an excellent mindfulness to carry with me.
jamie: Neil Gaiman quote 'you get what everyone gets: you get a lifetime' (*lifetime)
I'm off work this week (and so blessed that I get this week off and I'm salaried) so I've been catching up on my to-do list around the apartment. Today I've been cleaning the kitchen. Thanks to a bad back, and knee, and hip, I've been doing 15-20 minutes cleaning and then come back to the desk to read stuff in my 'to be read' bookmark list. I've now done most things except the stove, oven, and microwave. Yes, I suspect I should have done those first but the floor got me, which led to the fridge, then the counters and toaster oven and sink. Even if I stop now it's so much better. I am pleased.

It doesn't hurt that the cats follow me in there and look pathetic until I give them a tiny bit of snack. Rewards all around!

I seem to have found at least some of Bucky fandom - on twitter. Gah. Though it does make for a nice mental whiplash amongst the photographers, activists, and political pundits.

I'm pretty sure I've found my word of the year for this year. I'm going to ruminate on it a bit more but this feels like the right one.
jamie: bitter panda saying not quite zen (Default)
I've been trying to escape from facebook for a while and because of a volunteer org (as well as a massive friends network) didn't feel I could. I've quit that volunteer position after 12 years so that bit is gone. I removed the fb app as well as Friendly (fb app that lets you have more than 1 account on your phone) and deactivated my accounts. I haven't deleted yet but I'm taking a social media break to see if I can keep track of the folks I really care about without fb.

I removed instagram as well, given that they are owned by fb. I go and visit the site via Safari in phone mode. Instagram is going to be harder for me to get rid of. I've curated it to a lot of the things I love and it lets me feel like I'm still a photographer.

Tumblr is down to once a day. My dash is super slow now. I need to figure out how to do lists or filters on twitter so I can keep up with politics on one set and everything else (authors, fandom, friends) on the other.

I'm trying to stay active on dreamwidth and post regularly and I'm remembering how much I love this style of interacting with the 'net. The bit I miss is hitting a tag on tumblr really let you see anyone posting on that tag. It broke the social media bubble really well and I learned so much and saw so much that I wouldn't see otherwise. The network feature on dw is kind of like that but obviously doesn't have the massive userbase that tumblr did.

I'm on Discord but haven't gotten an invite to the Stucky one which I suspect is far more active than the writer one that I did get an invite to. I'm also on the Distributed Fandom discord as well and I'm watching and reading to see where I might fit into that effort besides throwing money at it. (I also really want to link them to the doc that was created for pinboard guy because that answers so much of what fandom is looking for that they are noodling on.)

And I got into twitch two months ago (I'm slower and slower to adopt new things, yo) and have half a dozen people I follow and exactly one subscription.

It's inevitable that some, honestly most, of these will fall away. I don't have time to keep up with this many info streams but I'm enjoying it for now and seeing what I like for what.

How about you?
jamie: unshaven human male looking off to his left with hair hanging in his face, actor sebastian stan in catws (*bucky)
Made apple cider caramels for the holiday party and they were a hit. Woot! People liked them so that was really nice dopamine hit for the brain.

In fandom news I'm trying to figure out where MCU Bucky fandom went. Bah.
jamie: grumpy cat wearing raindeer ears for winter holidays (holiday)
1) So, even though I appealed to tumblr when I was marked explicit two weeks ago and got that removed guess who got shadowbanned? Yup, and I wasn't this morning either so that's a thing. And they already fixed the element hack that went around. Eh. It just means my dash will die very slowly. Time to dig around in the comms here on dw and see if any of them are actually active.

2) Sent in my resignation to the con I've worked on for 12 years now. Yay! Less toxic in my life. Now to figure out what I want to do president's day weekend instead.

3) Made caramel tonight from smitten kitchen (apple cider). I will not win the office 'winter treat' contest but by goodness I have at least done a thing.

4) Current job is closed from Dec 22 to Jan 2 so I get a long holiday break again. I'm so looking forward to it.
jamie: bitter panda saying not quite zen (Default)
1) I'm walking away from a volunteer gig that I've done for a decade. The toxicity from the leader at the top is more than I can swallow anymore and it's time to go. I'm tired and my resignation letter was epic and what I got back was a 'why didn't you talk to me'. Bleh.

2)One good thing about the tumblr effery is that I've seen some ancient memes scroll by so it's some version of a greatest hits - and the new memery like the Titanic one? Awesome. I've backed up a bunch of tumblrs and I'm trying to figure out a good way to link to that stuff here from my webhost (for the 3 gigs of images and movies) that isn't 1000% tedious.
jamie: bitter panda saying not quite zen (Default)
I am slowly working my way through drawing my own tarot deck. So far I am just committing to doing the majors and I have 5 of them done. Yay.

(so scary, my peeps, you have no idea)
jamie: (untilsuchtimeas)
If you need a copy of your tumblr, comment with your tumblr name or send me a message and I'll grab it as a zip file and stash it somewhere you can download it. It'll be an html file as the index that you can open in your browser that will have everything you posted (including the images and video) and a tiny blue paragraph proofing mark that will take you to the original post on tumblr, assuming it still exists.
jamie: grumpy cat wearing raindeer ears for winter holidays (holiday)
Have a good Sunday, everyone. Less than 3 you....
jamie: bitter panda saying not quite zen (Default)
Cross-posting. I've gotten my wordpress blog up and running at my old fanfiction domain and I'm trying to figure out if that's the best origin point to send to here or the other way around. Since there isn't a good way back out of dreamwidth to other places that I'm aware of (and feel free to correct me on that), it feels like it might be.

Edit: And I just double checked and the wordpress 'import' that I did links back to tumblr for all the images. And the video doesn't come over. So that was larely useless. Awesome. Not. Dang it.

In other news, I've downloaded a ton of tumblrs that I know are dead (haven't been updated in two or more years) because in addition to be a magpie I'm also a digital hoarder/librarian/archivist.

Trailer speculation for Avengers:Endgame behind the cut because I'm not sure folks know how to blacklist tags

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jamie: bitter panda saying not quite zen (Default)
Yay. Got the tool working for tumblr backup. Halleluia.

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