Due to being elsewhere - check profile - I will be locking this journal to private/friends-only and leaving it as is. I like to preserve the history and nothing more.

So I was never good at doing backups. That is my history. I have a horrible history of doing regular backups when I have an equally horrible history of having laptops crash on me in awesomely catastrophic ways (motherboard fried twice, motherboard died, hard drive crashed twice). But ever since I took my A+ certification class I made a better ( Read more... )

So let me tell you a story ( Read more... )

Instead of sleeping I made a Steve icon. Priorities, what's that?

... actually, I don't remember what I was going to say, other than that I want to make a CATWS fanvid, on top of ALL the fanart and fanfic. I would call this a major problem, but... it's a major problem. I went on rants about tokenism and affirmational vs. transformative fandom, ( Read more... )

Had a thought. Had a lot of thoughts. And then remembered a thing. And then found the thing.

I wrote this post about characterization and Steve Rogers two years ago, expressing my joy at the movie and my rage at Avengers!Steve. At the very bottom I wrote

I hope the next Captain America movie rectifies his characterization.
and boy did it happen. ( Read more... )

No, but seriously - I need to get this out of my head and sort it out.

The only Marvel movie that ever had me fired up to write shit was Captain America: The First Avenger. Not Iron Man, not Thor, not Iron Man 2. It's CA:TFA. I was still riding that high when The Avengers rolled in a year later, and what turned me off MCU and fandom for the next ( Read more... )

I saw the movie.

I saw the movie.

I saw the movie.

I saw the movie.

And of course my first second fifth thought was, "Now I really need to go edit/revise Wishing Well and trash the Tony-centric ending and pretend The Avengers never happened and bring in the aftermath of Cap 2 ( Read more... )

Nothing like having doubts about what you're writing to give you more feels and the desire to keep plugging away on a fic ( Read more... )

Haven't seen Cap 2 yet but am all about Sam Wilson. So there's that ( Read more... )

I remembered a thing today and dug around some shelves and cases, came up with the Rolling Stone's Collector's Ed. of The Hobbit: Part 1.

Why do I buy magazines? I don't even freaking read them. There is a blueprint of Bag End and now I have to go back and comb through 15k words for whatever mistakes I might've made wrt Bag End's goddamn layout ( Read more... )