Scratching Post

You are proud your fic reached 1K and you realize the goal for the challenge is 2K.

Head? Meet Desk. I'm sure you'll be the bestest of friends!

I may have possibly decided against Yuletide this year (just not feeling it?), but impulse signed up for avengers_xchng instead.

Oops?

Title: Movement and Distance
Genre: Hurt/Comfort, Het
Pairing: Clint/Natasha
Rating: NC-17
Length: ~8,900 words
Spoilers: Slight for the movie.
Warnings: Passing mention of canon character death.
Synopsis: Sometimes separating yourself from a situation isn't enough. Sometimes you need to move to see where you've been.
Author's Notes: Written for the "mutation" square for hc_bingo. Also, HUGE thanks go out to threnodyjones for the beta. She is awesome, hear her roar.
Disclaimer: I do not own these characters and am making no profit from this.

Now also posted to Archive of Our Own.

( Movement and Distance )

Feedback is always welcomed.

Back from con. Am exhausted. Should have taken tomorrow off from work to recover. Debating calling in if I feel anywhere near this dis-coordinated and out of it in the morning.

Good things:
- Teen room took minimal prompting and, for the most part, everyone was on board with getting things done.

- Teen room got crap tons of comments from EVERYONE (con goers, con committee members, guests, etc) about how awesome it was and what a great idea it was.

- Panels were both interesting and entertaining, at least the ones I went to.

- Lyda Moorehouse is made of awesome and win and is totally a fangirl in real life. I thought this when she crashed the Slash Panel and joined in the squee. Thought it more when she literally jumped back and nearly fell out of her chair when Tamara Pierce hissed at her over the love of a specific character.

- So many fans being kind and supportive of other fans, even if they were not part of that specific fandom.

- Impromptu gender identity and gender queer panel in empty room. Interesting discussion. Also loved that the hotel people saw a large-ish group of people sitting and talking and wordlessly snuck in pitchers of water and cups like they did for the "official" groups and panels.

Less-than-good things:
- Some people had a bit of entitlement issues thinking they were special snowflakes and why weren't you paying attention to them? Oddly enough, this was absolutely none of the guests of honor and, for the most part, not any of the people who have worked their asses off for the past year planning this thing.

- Oh so very tired.

All in all, a rather good time.

Will try to play catch up on my feeds over the next few days. Mistyping and fighting with autocorrect enough right now to know to call it quits for the night.

Bullet points are like friends, they keep you in place:

- It is 90* here. It has been 90* or higher for most of the week. It will continue to be 90* or higher for most of next week.

- We have no AC at home.

- Will be at CONvergence from sometime Thursday through sometime Sunday. The theme this year is Awesome Women of Sci-Fi. Sophie Aldred is one of the guests of honor. I can't wait to see wolfie74 fangirl all over her. We're also helping Youngest, Eldest, & friends with the Teen Room as the adult contacts. It's been interesting seeing some of the behind the scenes of con.

- There is AC at the hotel.

- I have totally been writing... a little bit. Have a few ideas for hc_bingo, both mapped out and in progress, but it's been slow going due to work and not really being in a writing groove at all so far this year.

- I will totally play catch up on comments... soon? Sorry!

- I have also fallen into Avengers fandom somehow. I'd blame donutsweeper and threnodyjones, but I kinda sorta asked them for recs, so that might toss that argument out the window. That said, more recs are always welcomed. *g*

- It's after 10 am. I should probably go eat breakfast. And maybe even feed Eldest & Youngest in the process.

Saw this on sophinisba's page and, after a brief bit of hemming and hawing, decided to sign up. The worse that happens is that I don't complete anything. The best is that I break away from this writing slump of mine.

Bonus points for possible angst fodder?

( My hc_bingo card )

Get your own hc_bingo card here.

It's possible I may have fallen down a new rabbit hole. Trying out a new fandom, at least for a little while.

Title: Unaccompanied
Fandom: Avengers, Black Widow
Genre: Gen, hint of Clint/Natasha friendship
Rating: PG
Length: ~3,400 words
Spoilers: Very general for movie
Warnings: Implications of off screen non-con and abuse for an OC
Synopsis: It was hard to be a loner when you were never alone.
Author’s Notes: I kinda sorta fell in love with the Black Widow character and have gobbled up as many comics and references as I can find since first being introduced to her. Hopefully I have done her a bit of justice.
Disclaimer: I do not own these characters and am making no profit from this.

Also posted to Archive of Our Own.

( Unaccompanied )

Feedback is always welcomed.

Just finished reading Mockingjay, the last book in the Hunger Games trilogy.

I... didn't like it as much as the other two.

Hunger Games was awesome. The plot pushed you through it and the action and angst were interspersed with a constant thread of self-depreciating humor - which is exactly what I love best. Catching Fire continued this, and included backstory and fleshed out the stage even more, dropping hints here and there and then carrying through on some foreshadowing whilst using others as a distraction.

The beginning of Mockingjay worked for me but, about halfway through or so, it just... didn't. The situations and characters seemed too forced and too over-the-top. It became almost a characiture of the other books. This could be seen as furthering the statement of the world the characters found themselves in in general, but instead came across more as "let's make this bigger and better and more!" instead. There were deaths of characters that did not need to die, and they were mentioned in passing as more of an afterthought than as a moving moment, which is what you would expect after the build up. The ending was okay, but almost fell flat, like the author was trying to figure out a way to wrap things up and be done.

Yes, I am keeping this purposefully vague so as to not ruin it for anyone who has not read it yet and/or for people who may disagree.

If Hunger Games was a 10 (or 9.5), Catching Fire was about an 8.5 and Mockingjay fell down to maybe a 6, if not a 5. Better than some of the stuff out there, but a bit of a disappointment after the utter excellence of the way it began.

Again, I just finished it and desperately need to go to sleep so I can go to work in the morning, but this is how things sit in my mind as of now.

OMG, I totally and completely forgot the most awesome emeraldteal/emeraldteal's birthday last week...

Please forgive me, sweetie! And I hope it was fabulous!

Er, have a happy and almost old-school OT4 to celebrate?

Thank you, donutsweeper for the adorable dragon! Hee!