#posting here to save because of Skyes Family stuff.

[marshallfan99]

Happy 10th Anniversary, PAW Patrol!!!

Wow, I can't believe it's already been 10 years...it feels like it was just recently that I was sitting there in the living room of my family's vacation rental home in front of the TV and watching the premiere episode with my brothers...and then spending the rest of the week in front of the TV watching new episodes every day because I couldn't do anything else with a giant cast on my dominant arm. Marshall and the other pups kept me occupied during that otherwise painful vacation, and I've stuck with PAW Patrol ever since.

(That's only ONE of the MANY Marshall moments that cheered me up and made me laugh during that week.)

(And here's another one...also relatable since I'm always falling down stairs and stuff 😅)

This show has helped me through so many tough times in my life, like depression, anxiety, etc. It acts as a great escape from reality, an amazing source of comfort, something that's easy to just turn on and watch when I need to unwind or want something I can have lighthearted fun with, it's easy to just turn it on after meltdowns or when my brain is fried and veg out to it since it's harmless fun that doesn't cause intense emotional responses from me, and I even binge it during nights where I have insomnia! It's so important to me, and it even saved my life a couple times...yep, that's right, the pups have saved me too, that's how much of an impact they've had on me. They've taught me so many things as well, from the importance of teamwork, to never giving up when things get "ruff" (hehe, sorry I had to, that's my inner Marshall at work 😅), to always looking out for your friends and helping them whenever you can, to "Do my best, and forget the rest!", to the very important message of you don't have to have superpowers to be a hero (this one was WAY before Mighty Pups was a thing).

(Seriously this is one of my mottos, thanks for that lesson, Marshall!)

(Had to put a Mighty Pups GIF in here after ending the paragraph by mentioning it lol)

I never stopped liking PAW Patrol even during the time I had to take a break from it for my mental health reasons, and I actually missed it so much during my time away from it. Eventually I decided I couldn't stay away any longer and came back to it with the goal of using it to help me overcome my severe PTSD siren phobia, which is why I had to step away in the first place...and it's working! I can actually watch it now without freaking out and going into panic mode which is great because now I can watch my favorite show with no problems, just like I used to!

When PAW Patrol premiered back in 2013, it VERY quickly became a special interest for me even though I was NEVER in the target age range for it, being in my early teens when it premiered, and I'm also actually afraid of dogs in real life...cartoon dogs like the PAW Patrol pups are cool though, and Marshall is my favorite cartoon dog of all time, and he's actually tied with a Pokemon (another special interest of mine) character for my number one favorite fictional character of all time! He's so relatable, adorable, funny, and has a truly PAWsome personality! Also the fact that he is TWO THIRDS of 911, BY HIMSELF is pretty amazing too in my opinion. Unfortunately his skills aren't needed much anymore in the newer seasons, which makes me kinda sad. I wish he got more screentime in the newer seasons...but instead it's always Chase and Skye now. I am still hoping for him to get his own focus movie though. I'm holding myself back from going on and on about Marshall this time, I've done that enough in my Marshall appreciation post and this whole account already and this is supposed to be about PAW Patrol as a whole anyway, not just him 😅

(The most PAWsome team ever!)

My parents don't really approve of me getting and playing with the toys and merch, but I can still get it thanks to my grandma who knows how important PAW Patrol is to me...in fact, I just got a couple of Mighty Pups t-shirts (because of the upcoming Mighty Movie) thanks to her, one of them featuring a huge image of Mighty Marshall (of course, that one is my favorite), the other one featuring an image of Mighty Chase, Marshall, Rubble, and Skye with the text, "Mighty Pup Power!" I was so thrilled to learn that there are officially licensed PAW Patrol shirts in adult sizes and had to get some! If anyone else wants to get some PAW Patrol shirts in your size, Amazon has plenty of adult-sized PAW Patrol shirts to choose from, with some PAWsome designs too! I'm so happy that the creators know that this show has a strong teen/adult fanbase, and acknowledge us by making shirts that fit us! And I'm so happy that this show exists!

(This is my favorite part of the opening theme!)

(Cute dancing pups from the movie!)

This has been a long rambly post, but I really wanted to post something for PAW Patrol's 10th anniversary, and talk about how much it means to me. Growing up autistic and with no friends, just bullies for the majority of my life because of it, made me turn to the TV for comfort, and I often saw the characters on TV shows I watched as my friends. I had a very lonely life and when PAW Patrol premiered, I found seven new friends in the pups and Ryder (with Marshall being my best friend), and I tuned in for every new episode when I could, to watch their latest adventures. Starting with Everest, each time a new pup (or cat) has been added to the team has felt to me like I also gained a new friend as well, even though I do have actual friends now, the PAW Patrol still feel like friends to me. It wasn't a "phase" like my parents had always said, it still isn't a "phase"...it's a HUGE part of my life and I'm extremely grateful that PAW Patrol is still going strong even after 10 years and 10 seasons.

Happy 10th, PAW Patrol! And here's to many more years and adventures to come in the future!

#paw patrol #paw patrol 10th anniversary #happy 10th paw patrol! #seriously i can't believe it's already been 10 years! #special interest #long post #plenty of gifs to break it up though #paw patrol appreciation post #i love this show so much #this franchise means a lot to me #marshall talks #marshall rambles...a lot 😅

[shinigami-queen]

OC Playlist game

I was tagged by @dotr-rose-love and I just thought, why not.

I have never talked about my OCs on this blog before, so feel free to just skip this post if you are not interested.

For the past 6 or 7 years I have had this idea of a book that I want to write. I'm not doing great on the writing aspect, but the story and its characters haven't left my head so I'm guessing that's a good sign.

In this game, I will put down some songs that I have associated with one of my main characters, Noah Ridley. Now, in order for you to understand the reason I picked these songs, I'll have to tell you a few things about him.

My book is inspired a lot by Avatar, so there are people who can yield elements (fire, water, air, earth-which is divided into two categories, material and nature-and storm). Noah is an "Airbender", or as I call them, a Windborne. He is also the Spirit-blessed, a Windborne that has been chosen by the Wind deity and thus has some more special powers (I'm not going to put more details about this here, but if you are interested I might make more posts about it).

Long story short, Noah had to kill his own parents because they were turned into dark shells of themselves (Shadowtamers) by the main villain of my book and there were no means to make them normal again (yet). After this he hated himself, blamed his weakness for their deaths and let himself get caught by the villain, who has him tortured in order to turn him into a Shadowtamer too. Confined in a dark cell with no light, that fills with water every once in a while and empties just before his drowning point, Noah only thinks of his family, and how he deserves this punishment that could never wash the blood from his hands. Happy stuff.

And without further ado, here are some songs that remind me of him and inspire me!

Destroyer - Of Monsters and Men

"You better run boy, run, but be afraid Cry boy, cry Don't play the game Gravity holds me down

And it's taking over I call everywhere, oh I cry out

You are my destroyer I call everywhere, oh I cry out"

Well, this song is self-explanatory I think. It gives me the impression of someone who is suffering from something they did or something that happened to them. The lyric "Gravity holds me down" fits really well also because of his powers, since in my book Windborne defy gravity and are free-spirited, so to be held down by gravity for them is the same as dying. The memories of his family, both the happy ones and their deaths, are constantly taking over him and they are his "destroyer".

2. Everything I wanted - Billie Eilish

"I had a dream I got everything I wanted Not what you'd think And if I'm being honest It might've been a nightmare To anyone who might care

Thought I could fly So I stepped off the Golden Nobody cried Nobody even noticed I saw them standing right there Kinda thought they might care"

Now this is interesting. This song makes me think so much of Noah it hurts. Every time I listen to it I have this thought that he dreams he is on the top of a building, and his family is looking up at him from below, beckoning him down. They are just "standing right there", and "they might care" if this wasn't a dream and if he didn't actually feel like he wanted to die. But all he wants is to step off and join them in the afterlife, because he feels that that's what he deserves.

"I had a dream I got everything I wanted But when I wake up, I see You with me"

Now this person is my main character, Skye, who is also the love interest of Noah. The first book, which is mostly about her searching for him to rescue him, explores their connection through dreams and their blossoming romance.

Now I'll add some honorable mentions, songs that vaguely remind me of him, but not as specifically as the first two.

3. Drown - Bring me the Horizon

4. Numb - Tom Odell

5. Saved my Life - Sia

And... that's it! Sorry for the spam! If you are interested in stuff like this, let me know and I can post in more detail about my world and my children. See ya!

#ocplaylist #ocgame #oc

[daydreaming-jessi]

Do you have any good plantonic lydia and BJ fic recs 😳

OH BOY DO I. I am very picky when it comes to fanfics, but this fandom DELIVERS.

Ok first recommendation is Crystals Speak to Me, a fic where Delia basically finds Beej has returned and disguised himself so they don’t catch him and she decides to let him stay, and Lydia gets her bfffffff back. It’s adorable and I love it because d also acts like a mom to BJ 😌

This Creepy-Looking House is a shortie but a goodie, where the breathers and ghosts of the house get ready to watch a movie together as a family. A cute lil slice of life moment of their new lives together

scout’s honor and take me where my soul can run are both VERY good, scouts honor is a lil sequel to the other about Lydia and Beej babysitting a younger Skye and apologizing to her. Take me where my soul can run is a VERY good Beetlejuice returns fic and inspired my own story

Back to My Roots is an adorable one where Beej does a dumb and forgets that Lydia just dyes her hair black. Then there’s the also adorable sequel I Would Dye for You where they dye Lydia’s hair. This author also has a really good one called It’s All Fun and Games Until Someone (Beetlejuice) Starts Crying where one stormy night Beej and Lyds watch movies, and Beej has a case of sad feelings, but Lyds cheers him up.

The series adventures of Lydia Deetz and the b-man have some real good bangers going on it, real good sad feels, good sibling love, and some beetlelands stuff which is a bonus for me but if it’s not your cup of tea, there’s still just some Lyds and Beej tales.

Oh this one is fucking HILARIOUS it’s called No Rules, Just Ghouls where Lydia sends a question to the MBMBAM podcast about her ghost brother flirting with her ghost parents. I Love. It.

Another funny shortie is Forbidden Fruit Snack where Beej eats a tide pod for Lydia, there’s also The Fuck is a Gender where Beej wears a dress, gets told about gender, and hates it. Oh a good sad by this author is I Feel Like I’m Drowning where Lydia deals with the fact that she killed Beej and turns to him for comfort and he reminds her that he’ll always be her best friend.

Into the Beetleverse is a fun movie-musical crossover where Moviejuice switches places with Musicaljuice and things go to shit, but not before Beej goes ahead and makes movie Lydia his other bfffff because apparently his friendship with Lydia is inevitable

OH THIS GOOD ASS ONE CALLED Stop Helping Me! In which Lydia is a useless lesbian, Beej and the ghost parents help her, and she helps them right back. It’s so fucking great like oh my lord

Oh Lavender is a FEELS fest where Beej and Lyds work their shit out post musical. So good

OH ANOTHER FEELS FEST is what I left behind ( @upperstories is queen and you can fight me on that)where Beej gets exorcised and saved by his family

Thievin’ Demon has Beej and Lydia both loving snug clothes and so Lyds gives Beej a gift

Oh and fuck this feels inducing motherfucker Evicted written when we first learned the terrible truth about our fav musical. Has great Lyds and Beej sibling feels.

His (After)Life is a Musical is super good, got some good shit in there. ( @fablegate is a goddamn gem and I hope they do more stuff for the fandom someday)

wake me when I’m twenty one is a real good one where Beej is actually more of an uncle, and Lydia falls asleep on him and the Maitlands gush about it while he pretends to hate it all.

And finally if you haven’t found them, i wrote one I think is kind of okay called Dreams of Death, which takes place in my Shoggoth au where Lydia has a bad dream, Beej wakes her up and comforts her. There’s also my current ongoing fic I’m a Bunch of Broken Pieces, but you probably noticed it with all the updates I put up here.

This might’ve gotten out of hand... BUT FUCK IT MAN I LOVE THESE SIBLINGS, OK?? THEY’RE SO GOOD. And I love supporting this fandom :3

#asks #anon #anonymous #beetlejuice #beetlejuice the broadway musical #beetlejuice the musical #beetlejuice broadway #lawrence beetlejuice shoggoth #lydia deetz #space noises #fanfic rec

[howtotrainyouragents]

Agent H’s AOS Rewatch

Season 3 Pro’s and Con’s 

We’re done with the season 4 rewatch, and I’m over here still trying to process season 3. First time watching, it was my least favorite season and I nearly stopped watching the show because of it. Second time watching…it’s still probably my least favorite just by comparison, but I have infinite more respect for it. Anyway, I needed to sort out my thoughts on this, so it’s all under “keep reading” and don’t get mad at me.

Cons (because let’s get the bad stuff out of the way)

-I really dislike revenge stories, so all the revenge stuff with Hunter and Coulson and Ward and all did not sit well with me and felt even OOC. 

-Speaking of, from the S2 finale through most of this season, there’s this theme of the men protecting and revenging their wounded or fridged girlfriends. It’s not super fun because this is a show where the women are clearly just as, if not more, competent than the men, but they’re not given the same opportunity to protect/revenge the men, much less given the same importance even in their own stories. I’m blanking on what MCU movies were going on around the time of this season, but I remember seeing this even in the movies. If I remember correctly there was a head of MCU who was later removed, but was apparently responsible. 

-The use of Ward is muddled. I’m cool with his takeover of HYDRA, that seemed natural. But you expect it to lead to a huge standoff with SHIELD because he, their worst enemy, is now head of their worst enemy organization. Instead, he gets converted to the HYDRA religion and literally becomes a vessel. Which is fine, but the transition was really hurriedly and poorly done. This is a man who has complex views of loyalty (Garrett not HYDRA. Skye and Coulson but not SHIELD), so I’m gonna need a lot more convincing that he’d believe Gideon’s HYDRA.

-This will be on both lists: I’m disappointed about how after three seasons HYDRA is taken out so quietly and quickly.

-I don’t know where to put this, but: I didn’t actually hate the space boyfriend arc as much the second time around, but the potential overall got squandered and I dislike that. 

-Rosalind’s death and possibly her whole arc was pointless. She was literally created and killed to serve Coulson’s character. Gross. And it’s a shame because it would have been really cool to use her as an actual foe-turned-friend for SHIELD throughout the season; she could have easily taken Mace’s place in S4 and that way at least would have been important for two seasons

-Okay, this is ABC’s fault not AOS’s. But like I remember how hard they advertised for Secret Warriors. Like that was the name of the arc. And. Then. They were a team FOR AN EPISODE.  Imagine my disappointment. Also, there really weren’t enough Inhumans this season to suit me.

-Bobbi and Hunter leave for a failed spinoff and I will never forgive Marvel for doing that.

-I mean…I appreciate that they give Andrew a noble death, but like…was it really necessary to have him turn and later die? Really? It gives Ming Na Wen and Blair Underwood opportunities to do extraordinary acting and they nail it, but like maybe don’t kill a guy to solve your inevitable ship? Don’t kill off your second black actor?

-The time jump in the season finale is too sudden. Like we barely get to grieve over Lincoln and they hit us with a time jump and Daisy on the run and new director in charge. Uncool. 

-This was the season I started to dislike Fitzsimmons. Don’t hate me. To me there’s an undercurrent in the writing that seems to favor Fitz over Simmons. FS’s subject to the same sexism that I mentioned in the first bullet. Like the story post-Simmons’ return focuses a lot more on Fitz’s feelings than on hers. He’s the one who has to stop her from getting tortured. He’s the one who saves Will, when it makes way more sense for her to go. He’s the one they all turn to for answers, when it should be both of them combined. And Simmons just gets a little pushed aside in her own story arc, but she just goes along with it anyway. 

-I had to write this last because this is the thing that hurts the season the most for me: Lincoln’s treatment. Okay, first, he’s a great character who got a major personality change between seasons. I don’t like the personality change, but I’d be okay with it if they didn’t do worse. For starters, we barely know him. His life and backstory are so vague, the guy he visits in 3x03 is just “a friend”, and like we get zero information on how they know each other. They spend the entire season having everyone in SHIELD (except Daisy) be against him, dislike him, belittle him, and mistrust him WHEN HE DESERVED NONE OF IT. Like they make it really obvious that Coulson dislikes him father-style because of his relationship with Daisy. They make him petulant and act out to prove that Mack and May are right to mistrust him when really given the fact that he was an Inhuman guide and a medical doctor and a recovered addict, he’d be a lot more under control. They make Fitzsimmons talk down to him just because no one can be smart except Fitzsimmons, when clearly he would know more about Inhuman biology and medicine in general THAN THE BIOCHEM PHD (sorry that one will always bug me). Like they make some work on him with Coulson and May, and that’s good, but overall he is not allowed to have a solid relationship with anyone but Daisy. I think the writers 1) knew he was gonna die and decided not to invest in him or his relationships. 2) were trying to get a moody bad boy in the cast, and decided to cast him as it when it didn’t really make sense. Also, while talking about Lincoln, I really wish they did some more interesting things with his powers than lightning blasts. He has electric powers!! There’s so much you can do!!

-Okay, this one is just real personal. LINCOLN IS A MEDICAL DOCTOR. Or at least a medical student or resident or fellow (I mean, he’s in the hospital doing rounds). TREAT HIM AS SUCH. HE WANTED TO HELP PEOPLE, LET HIM HELP PEOPLE. LET HIM DO THE SURGERIES AND KNOW THE STUFF ABOUT BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE. LET HIM RETURN TO HIS OLD LIFE AS A DOCTOR. You had such a good character who turned himself around from addiction, dedicated his life to saving lives, got thrown multiple curve balls, and now has to decide how will he continue to serve others. Yes, he’s a hero in the end. But all that in between time, he could have been saving lives too.

Pros (because there is good stuff, I promise) 

-Someone mentioned that this is the first season to have a unified storyline throughout, and that’s so true and it’s so well done! 

-There’s a good natural continuation of the HYDRA and Inhuman storylines from S1 and S2. I think we can look at AOS as two large arcs: S1-S3 is about powered people and HYDRA. S4-S7 is about bending the limits of reality with Ghost Rider, LMDs, Framework, Space, and Time Travel,. S1 was about introducing us to powered people and HYDRA, S2 was about developing the history and politics of them respectively and how they relate to SHIELD. S3 is when Inhumans get involved with SHIELD and with the world directly and the fallout from that. For HYDRA it’s when we get the history and reasoning of the group, and even if it’s a retcon, I appreciate that it introduces the background of HYDRA as a way to end this arc

-Overall, I really do appreciate how this season fills out a lot of worldbuilding. We get a complete history on HYDRA, and we get way more info on Inhumans, but we also get to see how the human world is reacting to and divided on Inhumans, which carries over into the net season

-On both lists: It’s good that they take HYDRA out so quickly and quietly. That plotline had run its course, and it was so bittersweet because they finally had defeated their biggest enemy, but now they had even bigger problems to deal with it. That scene of Coulson and May watching HYDRA fall is one of my favorites because it mirrors that S1 scene of watching HYDRA takeover, but it’s so quiet and not celebratory like it should be.

-Like I said, I hate revenge arcs, but I do appreciate how it came full circle at the end with Coulson admitting his mistake and regret in seeking revenge. That’s much more on brand with Coulson and MCU even I had to sit through a painful arc just to get to that point. 

-Episode 1, Daisy’s entrance and, for that matter, Fitz’s entrance. HOT DAMN.

-One of my favorite things about AOS is the way that they mix up pairings and everyone feels like friends and family. This season did a fantastic job on that with like Fitz/Bobbi, Mack/Daisy, Hunter/May, and way more.

-I complain that there wasn’t enough Inhumans to suit me, but also I really enjoyed the ones we got. I expected them to do Inhumans with basic powers like water, fire, plants, shrinking. But AoS writers were like nah, how about a guy who melts metal?? How about Medusa eyes?? How about a guy who can predict deaths? Like they just went straight to the extremes and I respect that. And yes, we have our typical speedster and fire guy, but the sheer joy that comes from those characters makes up for the predictability of their powers.

-We get Joey and Yoyo who are the effin’ best and deserve the world. And with Lincoln and Daisy we got SECRET WARRIORS!!!!

-First time, we get introduced to Charles and Robin and manipulating time, which obviously becomes important later, so I like that they introduce it so early in the show.

-I also love the way things come full circle with Lash. I wish he didn’t die, but the reveal of his true purpose was amazing 

-THE FITZSIMMONS KISS. THE FITZSIMMONS SEX SCENE. Do I really need to say more?

-THAT FITZ vs MONOLITH SCENE. That is top like five moments of the show for me, and I’m gonna need the Emmys to give Iain de Castecker his belated Best Actor award any day now.

-4722 Hours was a work of art, and Elizabeth Henstridge, I will be getting you that Best Actress Emmy one way or another. 

-Brett Dalton’s acting. This rewatch served to highlight how brilliantly he developed Ward’s evilness over the course of the three seasons and then the way he flipped the switch and played a completely different character as Hydra. You can feel it in his voice and mannerisms, it’s a totally different person even if it’s still technically Ward’s body. And to top it off, that finale where he pulls of a brilliant two-minute psychotic breakdown and a kickass fight scene. Standing ovation, good sir. I miss you.

-After S2 fridged three women of color, I do appreciate how this season chooses to take out four of its white characters even if I’m sad that they had to go.

-The Star Wars references were so effin’ funny

-Spy’s Goodbye. I will never be okay about this.

#idk if should tag this #but i want it in my tags #hope no one hates me #aos #aos s3 #aos rewatch #agent aos rewatch #aos s3 rewatch #aos season 3 rewatch #agent h #agent report

[ilosttrackofthings]

you are about to be spammed with sunday six posts and I won't apologize because you have BROUGHT THIS ON YOURSELF. ha! ilosttrackofthings. tumblr. com /post /111132151964 /sunday-six and ilosttrackofthings. tumblr. com /post /123892691057 /sunday-six (the jemlincoln one) and ilosttrackofthings. tumblr. com /post /126830291441 /sunday-six (the clairvoyant one)

ask me anything (fic edition)

turn turn turn AU

This was a pretty simple AU where Grant and Jemma are married and she assumes Hydra wants her to use her as an incentive against Grant but in reality there’s the horrible turn (heh) where they want her because they have orders to keep her safe or Grant will murder them all.

clairvoyant

Oh, man, I loved this idea so much I tried to write it twice but it never went anywhere. (You actually managed to write a fic with a pretty similar premise that somehow always makes me feel better about never getting it done while also making me wish I had.) During a standoff with Centipede, one of the enemy gets a phone call that they claim is for Grant. After taking the call, he betrays SHIELD and kidnaps Jemma to work on the serum. And I could never figure out how to get from there to the shippiness.

jemlincoln

I actually managed to write a lot of this one (5k) but a lot of it isn’t too good and even my notes don’t know how it gets to an ending so here is a ridiculously detailed play-by-play of what happens with snippets of bits I liked mixed in:

Lincoln and Skye are hanging out at Afterlife before she found out Jiaying was her mom. He has some fun with cluing her in to the fact that while everyone else gets their soulmate’s name on their skin before they reach adulthood, Inhumans don’t get them until they become “truly themselves” via transition. Skye’s shocked/confused/excited because she was always really sad she didn’t have a soulmate. Turns out it’s Fitz and he just never knew because his mark is her real name. [I think I might’ve actually made that into a fic at some point…] Skye starts teasing Lincoln about his own, as yet unmet soulmate, claiming it’s not fair he knows her name but she doesn’t know his.

“Youknow mine,” Skye says carelessly. “And don’t think I’veforgotten that that’s because you people strippedme while I was unconscious.”

Lincolnrolls his eyes and lets the gesture carry him back down the path.

“Iwill find out!” she yells after him.

Heknows she means it, she’s just the sort who won’t ever stop. (Hecan already picture her tackling him to the ground and pulling at hisclothes to find the name.) His hip, where the elegant scrawl isburned into his skin, itches just thinking about the exposure. So,without turning, he calls back to her, “Jemma Simmons,” and hopesthat’ll be the end of it.

Itis, surprisingly. Skye never says another word about his soulmate.

Heshould probably have been worried about that.

When Lincoln wakes up at the Playground after being rescued by SHIELD, he is NOT HAPPY.  She tries to get him to see that SHIELD are the good guys, they rescued him from Hydra, but he’s got this weird feeling in the back of his head - like he’s forgetting something or there’s somewhere else he needs to be - that’s making him extra snappy. When Lincoln’s doctor comes in, he gets mad at himself for thinking she’s pretty (she’s SHIELD, she’s the enemy). They get in a mini-argument about how Skye’s powers were treated. Skye breaks it up and quickly introduces Jemma to Lincoln before slipping out.

There are some attempts at warming up to each other and some backslides. Lincoln realizes the strange feeling he has is the bond settling into place, which can only happen if Jemma physically touched him. He understands she was providing medical care when there were no other doctors available but it’s still a major consent issue. He’s also spent a lot of the last few years looking forward to sharing his powers with his soulmate, so he’s hurt when Jemma quickly side-steps his offer to show them off and even passes on the task of indexing him to Weaver.

Lincoln has a really bad reaction to jumping to the other side of the planet all of a sudden after only just meeting his soulmate. Jiaying is super concerned about him. Here and throughout the fic there were lots of details about his history with Jiaying, how she helped him come to terms with his powers, and how the arrival of his soulmark in the midst of that helped. [Honestly my favorite thing about this fic was Jiaying mothering Lincoln lots and all the details I had about their history, not the shippy stuff.] She helps Lincoln deal with his distrust of Jemma as a SHIELD agent, reminding him about the SHIELD vs SHIELD dynamic that was going on and that likely the same people who hunted Skye weren’t willing to allow Jemma to index her own soulmate. 

“She’safraid of my powers,” he says softly.

“Oh,Lincoln.” She runs a hand through his hair and pulls him to hershoulder, holding him like she thinks he’ll cry. He might. “She’llcome to understand. Even we fear ourselves when we first transition.”She pushes him away far enough that she can cup his face in herhands. “If Jemma is as kind as you say - as kind as she mustbe, to be yours - then I’m sure she’ll learn to trust you.”

Hetwists away to hide his embarrassed smile - and his fear that she’swrong.

She also tells him that she’s using the meeting with SHIELD to bring Jemma to safety. Either she’ll come with them or Gordon can whisk her away from the Playground while everyone’s eyes are on Afterlife. Lincoln accepts this plan without question, considering it a rescue/protection rather than a kidnapping.

Everyone in Afterlife finds out about Jemma approximately two seconds after Lincoln arrives thanks in part to Raina mass texting everyone that photo from when Jemma was undercover. When Lincoln finds out about those circumstances, his natural inclination to consider Inhumans different people than they were pre-transition means he overlooks Raina’s role in matters and focuses solely on SHIELD sending Jemma undercover and then letting her be exposed.

Jiaying’s meeting with Gonzales goes the same as canon save for Jemma winding up at Afterlife when it’s over. Jiaying uses a shape-shifting Inhuman to make it appear that the guards with Jemma attacked her when things went sideways. That way Jemma will hopefully be turned against SHIELD and Jiaying will be able to keep Lincoln by her side and having her friend will hopefully keep Skye with them as well and all Jiaying’s little family can be united against SHIELD.

And then I literally have no idea where it goes from there. My final note on the fic is simply this:

SomehowJemma and Lincoln both end up on SHIELD’s side and happy and safe.

So that happens, I guess.

#shineyma #ask me anything fic edition

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AoS rewatch: 1x06 F.Z.Z.T (1/3)

I’m probably gonna make few post for this episode because it’s one of my favorite, not only in season 1, but in whole series. Every time I watch it I’m really emotional. Even now when I can quote some scenes from head - I’m still afraid when I watch it, I’m worrying about Jemma and I’m moved because of how this team became something more than people working together. And I’m really big Fitzsimmons shipper so this episode was big step for me. When I watched this for the first time - I knew Jemma is gonna make it, I knew there will be some feelings between Fitzsimmons - gifs with them made me want to check this tv show. And I loved them from beginning but this episode made me love them even more, made me realize that this OTP is gonna be death of me, I don’t think I ever loved any fictional couple as much I love them...so yeah, this episode is really important to me.

I was trying to think about my thoughts when I first watched this episode, but tbh - I don’t think I could recreate it completely ;) but I tried so here’s what I remember from my first watch ;)

This reminds me of “Are you afraid of the dark?”

Look, I don’t watch horror movies for a reason lol.

“A man your age” - oh Jemma. :D Coulson is not so old :D

An ounce? Really, Ward?

Fitz making Ward’s impression, Skye laughing - they are so cute <3

Skye compering Miles and Ward - girl, I see what’s going on.

Of course they are psychically link - they are soulmates ;).

Nice one, Jemma. Where is your ounce now, Ward?

Happy bus kids = happy Zuza ;)

Omg Skye shadowing Ward, this is so funny!

I love how Jemma is exciting about weird stuff. Fitzsimmons talking science when no one understands <3. The way Jemma said “freaky” lol

Ward’s and Coulson’s faces when Skye quoted “Big Lebowski” lol. Also you can’t call Captain America “the dude” when Coulson is around ;)

Omg May with cookies - priceless :D

Fitzsimmons bickering <3

You don’t need a truck when you have Melinda May

That’s...creepy. Who’s doing that?!

That thing looks like it belongs to alien.

Exit wounds? That doesn’t sound good.

I knew this helmet belonged to alien!

Oh no - alien virus? :(

Coulson’s speech made me really emotional :( He really knows how to talk to people, and the way he talks about what happened to him, and May’s face when she heard that - I’m a mess.

Okay..they know what caused it, but there is still half of episode left...suspicious.

Coulson is lying about physicals, doesn’t he?

Who’s gonna tell them those are not brain cells? More like red blood cells?

Oh no!!!! Jemma, she has to be okay! ;(

God, Fitzsimmons sitting on opposite side of doors, Fitz’s face - my poor heart!

I know it’s not important right now - but did they keep lab rats on the plane just in case?!

Ohhh no. It’s not working. And Fitz trying to ignore what’s going on, using humor as coping mechanism...

Ohhhh Ward and Skye are feeling helpless :( Poor Jemma, they want to save her but she’s the only one who can do this.

Ready for what?!

Dump it?! What the hell? Cargo? Are you kidding me? It’s Jemma!!! Also - Coulson you’re the best.

“You’ve been beside me the whole damn time” - okay I’m crying. Their faces when he said that...they were always together - she can’t leave him.

They’re going to fix it together!!! My precious science babies <3

They work together so well, everyone is there to support them and because they care about Jemma...I’m not crying - you are.

They did it!!! Oh no...they didn’t...no no no noooo

Coulson is not gonna give up on her!

I’m not gonna survive if she’s gonna tell him goodbye...he’s not gonna give up on her either.

What the hell? Jemma what are you doing?!

It worked! Jemma don’t do this! Oh god I feel Fitz’s scream in my bones. Her face when she jumped killed me. It’s too much for me - I’m gonna cry.

I’m glad that team have their own James Bond - he catch her.

She’s safe <3 and you can tell Jemma was never in principle office to be yelled at :D

Hahaha that was hilarious ;)

Awww this hug <3. Jemma reaction at first reminds me of my reaction to hugs lol. I love Jemma’s and Skye’s friendship.

Hahaha iron man. Okay Coulson :D. And I knew that no one requested those test!

Poor Coulson, after what happened to him I’m not surprised he feels different.

This scene between Coulson and May - this episode really wants me to get emotional.

Fitz was there for her, giving her hope - of course he’s the hero.

Ohhh his face after she gave him cheek kiss - he just realize he has feelings for his best friend, doesn’t he?

Sorry Blake, new Coulson is too cool for you.

More about this episode under the cut!

My thoughts now:

I feel like most about this episode was already said. I love it, it gave me so many feels - I watched it many times. It’s the moment when Fitzsimmons stop being comic relief characters...I wonder if JedMo where planning this from beginning- to use Iain’s and Liz’s chemistry and amazing acting to make me cry for next 6 seasons? Did they knew that this episode is gonna be so important for many fans? Because it’s not only amazing episode for FS shippers - we also have wonderful Philinda scenes! You can see trust and respect between those two, and there is more for them than we see. Once again we can see why Coulson is their leader. For people like me - who have soft spot for team becoming family - this episode is also excellent. We can see all of them bonding, supporting Jemma, not giving up. SkyWard shippers had also scenes for themselves (now I’m not happy about it, but when I watch it for the first time I thought that this is going in direction I thought it will. Ward warning up to the idea of working with others, caring about them and clearly some feelings between him and Skye start building up.... once again writers made me feel stupid now because I really believed he’s a good one!)

This episode have my heart. I love it, and I’m really crying thinking about this - how it was the moment when Fitz realized he’s in love with Jemma. And I know a lot of people would disagree with me but I think Jemma was in love with him too back then, she just didn’t know what this feeling was. Those two were beside each other for so long, and they were so young, so I think they don’t really know what this is, those feelings they share, connection they have.

This episode makes me emotional but also happy because we have team bonding, Fitzsimmons, Philinda and bus kids friendship. All things I love.

Also - I have to make confession. Few days ago there was discussion how to prenouce episode title “F.Z.Z.T” and I didn’t mention it because I’m afraid you’re gonna think there is something wrong with me - but because I never knew how I should prenouce it - I always referred to this episode in my head as “Fitzzzz” 😂😂😂. It was just easier for me that other option and this episode focus a lot on Fitzsimmons so it was my name for it lol. It still is :D. And I know this title have nothing to do with Fitz but this just stuck with me :D.

I’m gonna make another posts with pictures and quotes ;)!

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A Song of Ice and Fire #1 Story Title: Pairings, Characters: Ned Stark/Cersei Lannister Rating: Explicit | E Warnings: No Warnings apply Summary: Ned Stark and Cersei Lannister are made to marry after the Rebellion ends Afterlife with Archie/Riverdale/The Trailsman #2 Story Title: (Blank Space was the working title but I believe I'm going to change it.) Pairings, Characters: Skye Fargo/Hoby Cotton, a little bit of Betty Cooper/Veronica Lodge and Cheryl Blossom/Sabrina Spellman. (Also includes characters from Riverdale: Archie Andrews, Jughead Jones, Josie McCoy, Valerie Brown, Kevin Keller, Reggie Mantle.) Rating: Mature | M Warnings: Graphic Violence, Graphic Violence just to be careful because as a zombie and vampire story there's lots of blood and such. Summary: After a long history of life on the run, vampires Hoby Cotton and Skye Fargo decide to settle down in Riverdale. Fargo takes a position as a high school history teacher at Riverdale HIgh, which is fortunate because his survival skills prove invaluable for the students when a zombie outbreak takes place at a high school dance. Arrow #3 Story Title: No Regrets: A Love Unexpected Pairings, Characters: Oliver Queen/Roy Harper Rating: Explicit | E Warnings: No Warnings apply Summary: An A/B/O love story. Roy learns that he’s not a beta like he always thought and has to cope with starting to have omega heats. Due to circumstances, and latent affection, alpha Oliver agrees to help Roy through his first. They unexpectedly bond during that first time, and the successive chapters each explore another aspect of the couple coping with their relationship: a heat coming on suddenly while Oliver is out of town, and Oliver going into rut while they’re in public, finishing up with a softer chapter of some romance and switching, ending on a hopeful note. Lots of feels and smut. Batman #4 Story Title: Scenes From a Gotham Romance Pairings, Characters: Bruce Wayne/Selina Kyle Rating: Explicit | E Warnings: No Warnings apply Summary: Bruce finally pops the question to Selina and she accepts. Slowly, they begin building a family together. #5 Story Title: The Purrfect Crime Pairings, Characters: Batman/Catwoman, Bruce Wayne/Selina Kyle Rating: General | G Warnings: No Warnings apply Summary: All kinds of cats in Gotham are disappearing! When several expensive animals are stolen, Batman's top suspect is Catwoman. But is there more to these thefts than meets the eye? BBC Sherlock #6 Story Title: ...And All The Men And Women Merely Players Pairings, Characters: Sherlock Holmes/Molly Hooper, Mycroft Holmes/Greg Lestrade, Mary Morstan/John Watson, Eurus Holmes/Jim Moriarty; Sherlock Holmes, Mycroft Holmes, Molly Hooper, Greg Lestrade, John Watson, Mary Morstan, Anthea, Janine, Eurus Holmes, Jim Moriarty, Original Child Character(s), Mummy Holmes, Siger Holmes Rating: Mature | M Warnings: No Warnings apply Summary: Mycroft Holmes is not-so-subtly trying to make sure there's a reconciliation between his youngest sibling Sherlock and his ex-wife, Molly Hooper, by forcing them to work together on a theatre project. But it isn't all smooth sailing when his and Sherlock's sister comes back from the States with a boyfriend who is the devil incarnate...and all hell is about to break loose. #7 Story Title: A Boon For You, A Boon For Me Pairings, Characters: Mycroft Holmes/Molly Hooper; Molly Hooper, Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock Holmes, Eurus Holmes, James Moriarty, Siger Holmes, Mummy Holmes Rating: General | G Warnings: No Warnings apply Summary: When Molly saves the life of a fairy prince, she’s given the chance to ask for whatever her heart most desires, and since what she wants to do most is help others, she’s given the ability to grant boons by the prince’s eldest brother. Little does she imagine such a simple and generous wish will change her life forever... #8 Story Title: A Merry Christmas After All Pairings, Characters: Mycroft Holmes/Sally Donovan; Sally Donovan, Mycroft Holmes, Anthea, brief appearance by Sherlock Holmes and Molly Hooper Rating: Teen | T Warnings: No Warnings apply Summary: Sally and Mycroft make an arrangement to have a pretend relationship together, culminating in a spectacular break-up at a destination wedding in Hawaii. But what they intend to have happen doesn't go according to plan when pesky feelings decide to get involved. #9 Story Title: A Study In Pink Pairings, Characters: Eventual Sherlock Holmes/Mary Morstan (though not in this story), fake!“John Watson”/Mary Morstan and Sherlock Holmes/Molly Hooper one-sided infatuation; Mary Morstan, Mike Stamford, Molly Hooper, Sherlock Holmes, Greg Lestrade, the cabbie, OCs Rating: Teen | T Warnings: No Warnings apply Summary: Rosamund Mary Watson had never expected to set foot in London again, but she finds herself in need of employment and a better flat. Enter her old professor Mike Stamford, who tells her about the man who will change her life forever... #10 Story Title: All The Little Signs Pairings, Characters: Eventual Sherlock Holmes/Molly Hooper, John Watson/Mary Morstan, past Tom/Molly Hooper, one-sided Greg Lestrade/Molly Hooper; Sherlock Holmes, Molly Hooper, John Watson, Mary Morstan, Greg Lestrade, Mrs. Hudson, others TBD Rating: General | G Warnings: No Warnings apply Summary: The repercussions from Sherlock’s faked death did more than just affect his relationships with his friends, Sherlock realizes when Molly loses her position at St. Bart’s for falsifying medical documents and loses her fiancé in the process. While Molly gets her life sorted out and decides what she wants Sherlock does the same, but is it too late when he decides what he wants in his life is Molly? #11 Story Title: As Long As You Love Me Truly Pairings, Characters: Sherlock Holmes/Molly Hooper; Molly Hooper, Mrs. Hudson, Greg Lestrade, Philip Anderson, Sherlock Holmes, John Watson, Sally Donovan, Henry Knight, Irene Adler Rating: General | G Warnings: No Warnings apply Summary: All Molly Hooper wants to do is get her big break on the London stage. She might have a chance when she's asked to be the lead in one of the most anticipated productions on the West End, and by the star himself, Sherlock Holmes. But things don't exactly go according to the plan she had in her head of how she would become a well known actress, and as time goes on she needs to figure out whether she wants fame or whether she wants something more fulfilling. #12 Story Title: Desperate Times Call For Desperate Measures Pairings, Characters: Sherlock Holmes/Molly Hooper, Mycroft Holmes/Anthea, Mr. & Mrs. Holmes, OC pairings; Sherlock Holmes, Molly Hooper, Mycroft HOlmes, Anthea, Mummy HOlmes, Siger Holmes, OC Holmes Brother, assorted OFCs and OMCs Rating: Teen | T Warnings: No Warnings apply Summary: It all begins with an invitation to Mycroft's wedding to his PA and seven days at a resort in Jamaica, with the assumption that Molly pretends to be his girlfriend that his mother might be under the impression that he's going to propose to sooner rather than later. It ends up being so much more than that... #13 Story Title: Ever Changing, Ever Growing Pairings, Characters: Sherlock Holmes/Molly Hooper, background Mycroft Holmes/OC and John Watson/Mary Morstan Rating: Explicit | E Warnings: Major Character Death Summary: They make the arrangement to present what society wants from them to the world as husband and wife, but childhood friends Sherlock Holmes and Margaret Hooper agree that their lives are their own. But with the death of Sherlock's brother and an unexpected scandal, their marriage of convenience is shaken. Will their friendship remain intact as their marriage falls apart, or will they decide that it is in their best interest to make this a true marriage between partners instead? #14 Story Title: It Can Be As Real As You Or I Pairings, Characters: Sherlock Holmes/Molly Hooper with background John Watson/Mary Morstan and Janine Hawkins/OMC; Sherlock Holmes, Molly Hooper, Mary Morstan, Janine Hawkins, Kitty Reilly, OCs Rating: Teen | T Warnings: No Warnings apply Summary: At the very beginning of a case to help Janine, it comes out that the very eligible and spectacular stud in the bedroom Sherlock Holmes has married local specialist registrar, Dr. Molly Hooper. Which would be fine and all, except it's a fake marriage...that Sherlock wants to make real by the end of the case. But Kitty Riley's constant hounding of him throughout the case, turning every tidbit she hears (always out of context) into tabloid fodder, is going to make that virtually impossible, he fears...though he might very well be surprised himself. #15 Story Title: It Takes The Whole Of London Pairings, Characters: Background John Watson/Mary Morstan and mentioned fake!Sherlock Holmes/Janine, but generally no pairings; Molly Hooper, Mary Morstan, John Watson, Tom, Meena, Greg Lestrade, Sally Donovan, Mike Stamford, Sherlock Holmes, OCs Rating: Teen | T Warnings: Original character death offscreen Summary: When one of Molly's best friends and her husband die in a car accident, Molly finds herself the guardian of their six-month-old daughter, and in an instant her entire life changes, and she comes to find solace in the fact that there is truth in the old adage"it takes a village"when she finds herself raising Maya on her own. #16 Story Title: Jam Session Pairings, Characters: Sherlock Holmes/Molly Hooper with background Mycroft Holmes/Sally Donovan and John Watson/Mary Morstan; Molly Hooper, Mary Morstan, Sally Donovan, Sherlock Holmes, Mycroft Holmes. Jim Moriarty, John Watson Rating: Teen | T Warnings: No Warnings apply Summary: Molly Hooper is known for making some of the best baked goods in all of England, and no one knows what her secret is. Her most popular dish is her Jam Tartlets, and it’s a recipe she shares with absolutely no one, not even those who work in her shop. When a new resident arrives in the village, an apiarist named Sherlock Holmes, they begin an exchange: some of her special jams in exchange for his honey. But what starts as a simple trade of sweet foodstuffs becomes so much more when Molly’s shop is broken into and ransacked by someone looking for the secret recipe. #17 Story Title: Like Night And Day Pairings, Characters: Sherlock Holmes/Molly Hooper, background John Watson/Mary Morstan; Molly Hooper, Sally Donovan, Sherlock Holmes, John Watson, Mary Morstan, Meena, Mike Stamford Rating: Mature | M Warnings: Illegal drug use, drug overdose and withdrawal symptoms Summary: Molly loves Sherlock, she does, but one night when Sherlock makes a decision that nearly costs him his life, she knows she can't be his caretaker anymore without dragging herself down too. Trying to make a clean break of things, she leaves the university they attend together and goes to the States to finish medical school and put it all behind her. But after graduation, Fate has other ideas... #18 Story Title: My Chosen Queen, To Rule By My Side Pairings, Characters: Sherlock Holmes/Molly Hooper; Molly Hooper, Hooper OCs, Sherlock Holmes, James Moriarty, other OCs Rating: Teen | T Warnings: No Warnings apply Summary: Ten years ago, Molly Hooper got lost in the forest near her brother's cottage trying to find her niece. She found the girl as well as an injured man who was more than he seemed. Now, Molly's niece is missing again and so Molly ventures into the forest once more to find her, with decidedly different results this time. #19 Story Title: Neither Living Dead Nor Fully Living Pairings, Characters: Sebastian Moran/Molly Hooper, past Sebastian Moran/James Moriarty and James Moriarty/Molly Hooper; Sebastian Moran, Molly Hooper, Sherlock Holmes, OCs Rating: Explicit | E Warnings: Major Character Death, Character death is temporary, as character is turned into a vampire Summary: When Sebastian Moran inherits a building, a business and a servant from James Moriarty, he tries to live as normal a life as he can. But when Molly Hooper does the unthinkable and falls in love with him, he finds himself fighting a battle he'd never imagined he'd be in. #21 Story Title: Nothing's Changed That Matters Pairings, Characters: Sherlock Holmes/Molly Hooper, past Mycroft Holmes/Anthea; Sherlock Holmes. Molly Hooper, John Watson, Eurus Holmes, Greg Lestrade Rating: Teen | T Warnings: Major Character Death Summary: When Sherlock comes to Molly in Oxford ten years after their divorce with a favour to ask, she agrees to help. While a lot has changed some things remain very much the same...including the love that Sherlock and Molly once shared. #22 Story Title: Old Books & New Flames Pairings, Characters: Sebastian Moran/Molly Hooper, Greg Lestrade/Sally Donovan, John Watson/Mary Morstan; Molly Hooper, Sebastian Moran, Mary Morstan, Sally Donovan, Greg Lestrade, John Watson, Jim Moriarty Rating: Explicit | E Warnings: No Warnings apply Summary: When Sebastian Moran asks local bookstore owner Molly Hooper for a job, all he wants is a second chance to live the life he should have been living before prison. What Molly gets is more than a loyal employee and good friend. What she ends up with is what she had always wanted her entire life: happiness. #23 Story Title: Pawns On The Board, Flies On The Web Pairings, Characters: Mycroft Holmes/Anthea, Sherlock Holmes/Molly Hooper; Anthea, Sherlock Holmes, Molly Hooper, Mycroft Holmes, Elizabeth Smallwood, Greg Lestrade, Sebastian Moran Rating: Teen | T Warnings: Violence, OC character death Summary: When an American politician is murdered and deposited in Mycroft’s office, it’s Sebastian Moran’s sign that he is done allowing Mycroft and Sherlock their little game at dismantling Moriarty’s organization. But with Sherlock having returned to London, albeit not in time to stop the plot from being put into motion, Moran’s ploy may not be as effective as he hopes it to be, not with Mycroft, Sherlock, Anthea, Molly and others working hard to stop him in his tracks. #24 Story Title: Rectifying Past Mistakes Pairings, Characters: Sherlock Holmes/Mary Morstan; Sherlock Holmes, Mycroft Holmes, Anthea, Mary Morstan, John Watson, Mrs. Hudson, Molly Hooper, Greg Lestrade, Sebastian Moran Rating: Teen | T Warnings: No Warnings apply Summary: When Mycroft gets Sherlock out of Serbia, he drops a bombshell on him he isn't quite prepared for: after years of being gone out of his life, Sherlock's ex-wife Elizabeth has reappeared, under the name Mary Morstan. While he was off taking care of Moriarty's mess she was protecting those he cared about and helping his brother, for reasons, he finds, that she is keeping close to the vest. But when they're forced to stay in close quarters at Baker Street both secrets and old wounds come to light and, perhaps, things might turn out for the best after all. #25 Story Title: The Babe On The Doorstep Pairings, Characters: Mycroft Holmes/Anthea; Mycroft Holmes, Anthea, Greg Lestrade, OCs Rating: General | G Warnings: Child Abandonment Summary: One morning an infant is left on Mycroft’s doorstep with a note, signed by a woman named Laura. As Mycroft tries to find out who would entrust a child into his care he slowly opens his heart to the infant and lets the other people in his life that he’s kept at arms length in more, bit by bit. #26 Story Title: The Cursed Dragon Pairings, Characters: Sebastian Moran/Molly Hooper, forced engagement between Charles Augustus Magnussen/Mrs. Hooper; Margaret Hooper, Mrs. Hooper, Charles Augustus Magnussen, Mary Morstan, Sally Donovan, Irene Adler, Meena, OCs Rating: Teen | T Warnings: Major Character Death Summary: On the eve of Princess Molly's twenty-fifth birthday, a dragon comes to lay waste to her kingdom. Eventually, a lottery is set up to give the dragon a virgin sacrifice, but when Molly stumbles onto a wicked scheme by the royal advisor Magnussen, she finds herself picked as the next sacrifice and kept from telling the truth to her mother. Prepared to fight the dragon on her own if need be, she is taken to a remote part of her kingdom by the dragon...who is not quite what he seems. #28 Story Title: The Head Knows What The Heart Wants Pairings, Characters: Sebastian Moran/Molly Hooper, background John Watson/Mary Morstan; Sebastian Moran, Molly Hooper, Sherlock Holmes, Mary Morstan, Mycroft Holmes, Eurus Holmes, OCs Rating: Explicit | E Warnings: Mild violence Summary: After the revelation that there had been some plotting between Moriarty and Eurus before his death, Sebastian Moran had decided to do whatever it took to keep Molly safe...even if that meant ruining whatever the results of his ex-lover's collusion with the Holmes sister were. But after enough time had gone by, things changed, and that was when Eurus decided to strike. That was when Sebastian couldn't deny the truth any longer: Molly Hooper had become the most important person in his life...and he would do whatever it took to make sure she was safe. #29 Story Title: The Pesky Virginity Issue Pairings, Characters: Sherlock Holmes/Molly Hooper, John Watson/Mary Morstan, past Tom/Molly Hooper; Molly Hooper, Mary Morstan, John Watson, Sherlock Holmes, Tom, OCs Rating: Explicit | E Warnings: No Warnings apply Summary: After Molly's engagement ends she decides she wants to rid herself of her virginity since that was a major cause of the dissolution of her relationship with her ex. When her friend Mary suggests she knows the perfect person, things don't go quite according to any sort of plan she may have had in her head...but it has a pleasantly surprising result nonetheless. #30 Story Title: To Live Again Pairings, Characters: Pre-Mycroft Holmes/Mary Morstan, background Sherlock Holmes/Molly Hooper, past John Watson/Mary Morstan;Mary Morstan, Mycroft Holmes, Molly Hooper Rating: General | G Warnings: No Warnings apply Summary: After the events at the aquarium which leaves most of the world thinking Mary Watson is dead, Mary deals with conflicting feelings and moving on in the wake of knowing her marriage is, for all intents and purposes, over. #31 Story Title: What Could Have Been, What Will Be In Its Stead Pairings, Characters: Mycroft Holmes/Molly Hooper, past Sherlock Holmes/Molly Hooper, mentioned Anthea/Kate and Mr & Mrs. Holmes; Mycroft Holmes, Molly Hooper, Siger Holmes, Mummy Holmes, Greg Lestrade, Anthea, OCs Rating: Teen | T Warnings: Major Character Death Summary: When Sherlock dies, he leaves behind a woman he planned to marry and a child he did not know about. Mycroft is determined to take care of them both in his brother's stead, but nothing is ever as easy as one plans. That is the true Holmes legacy. BBC Sherlock/Doctor Who #32 Story Title: The Detective And The Hound Pairings, Characters: Sherlock Holmes/Amy Pond, background John Watson/Lorna Bucket; Sherlock Holmes, John Watson, Amy Pond, Henry Knight; other Sherlock characters in"The Hounds of Baskerville" Rating: Teen | T Warnings: Unconcensual drug use Summary: Sherlock and John get given a case from Henry Knight, who believes his father was killed years prior by a hound in the moors. But what starts as a much needed break from the tedium that Sherlock is experiencing turns into a case that has him questioning many things and feeling something he has not felt in a long time: the type of fear that leaves you with a chill in your bones. #33 Story Title: When In University Pairings, Characters: Sherlock Holmes/Amy Pond; Amy Po/nd, Sherlock Holmes, Aunt Sharon, Mummy Holmes, Mycroft Holmes, Mrs. Hudson, Rory Williams Rating: Explicit | E Warnings: No Warnings apply Summary: Sherlock Holmes was a jerk the first time she met him. She had no idea how much he was going to grow on her as time went on... BBC Sherlock/Marvel Cinematic Universe #34 Story Title: A Potential Loophole To Exploit Pairings, Characters: Thor Odinson/Jane Foster, Sherlock Holmes/Molly Hooper, implied Loki Laufeyson/Darcy Lewis, Phil Coulson/Melinda May, Antoine Triplett/Daisy Johnson, Jemma Simmons/Leo Fitz and Clint Barton/Natasha Romanoff; Thor Odinson, Loki Laufeyson, Frigga, Phil Coulson, Molly Hooper, Sherlock Holmes, Mycroft Holmes, Tony Stark, Clint Barton, Jane Foster, Melinda May, Jemma Simmons, Leo Fitz, Antoine Triplett, Daisy Johnson, Darcy Lewis, Sif, Heimdall, OCs Rating: General | G Warnings: No Warnings apply Summary: After Thor and Loki leave a meeting with their mother, they start to talk about what can be done to stave off the foretold arrival of their sister, Hela, and begin to make plans. #35 Story Title: Playing The Game: Act II – Knights & Knowledge, Romance & Regret Pairings, Characters: Sherlock Holmes/Molly Hooper, implied Clint Barton/Natasha Romanoff and pre Phil Coulson/Melinda May, Leo Fitz/Jemma Simmons and Antoine Triplett/Skye | Daisy Johnson; Molly Hooper, Sherlock Holmes, Phil Coulson, Mary Morstan, Natasha Romanoff, Clint Barton, Melinda May, Skye | Daisy Johnson, Leo Fitz, Jemma Simmons, Antoine Triplett Rating: Teen | T Warnings: No Warnings apply Summary: After tracking down Phil Coulson and his team, Molly and the others join him on their hunt for Grant Ward so that Molly can get retribution for Victoria’s death and Nat and Clint can further Fury’s assignment to help deal with all of the escapees from the Fridge. But as things get more complicated with the appearance of the Diviner and all the entails, Molly begins to wonder if she will ever get her end goal of Ward disappearing in a deep dark hole where no one can find him. #36 Story Title: The Forgotten Wife Pairings, Characters: Stephen/Molly, past Stephen/Christine, eventual past Tom/Molly; Stephen Strange, Molly Hooper, Wong, Christine Palmer, Baron Mordo, Tom Rating: General | G Warnings: No Warnings apply Summary: Fifteen years ago, to fulfill the dying wish of someone who inspired him, Stephen Strange married Molly Hooper on a whim. And then life happened. A life full of many different things for both of them. But when Molly turns up at the Sanctum Santorum demanding an annulment so she can marry her fiancee, it presents an entire situation where neither of them have any idea how to approach a marriage that they aren't sure they want to end as they get to know each other better. BBC Sherlock/Midsomer Murders #37 Story Title: Every English Village Has Its Secrets Pairings, Characters: Past/Unrequited Mycroft Holmes/Gregory Lestrade, Tom Barnaby/Joyce Barnaby, Sally Donovan/OMC; Greg Lestrade, Sally Donovan, Mycroft Holmes, Tom Barnaby, Gavin Troy, OCs Rating: Teen | T Warnings: Summary: When Greg and Sally get called to Midsomer County for a case, right from the start Greg knows it will be a headache when Mycroft offers him lodging (so long as he's alright with his former lover being his housemate for his time there), and it doesn't get much better when he meets DCI Tom Barnaby and immediately their Detective Sergeants take an instant dislike to each other when Sally arrives the next evening. And that isn't even getting into the actual case itself and all the secrets hidden in the village of Elverton-cum-Latterley... BBC Sherlock/Star Trek: AOS #38 Story Title: Serendipity & Coincidence Pairings, Characters: Leonard McCoy/Molly Hooper, background Jim Kirk/Carol Marcus and Spock/Nyota Uhura; Leonard McCoy, Molly Hooper, Jim Kirk, Carol Marcus, Spock, Nyota Uhura, Joanna McCoy, OCs Rating: Explicit | E Warnings: No Warnings apply Summary: Bones knows one thing: he likes Dr. Molly Hooper and doesn't want his friendship with her to change...even if the voice in the back of his head says he'd like more than just a friendship with the female Starfleet officer. But a dare from Jim leads to more than he had expected and certainly more than he wanted...or could ever have hoped for. Black Sails #39 Story Title: a tide of hope Pairings, Characters: Abigail Ashe/Billy Bones Rating: Mature | M Warnings: mild violence Summary: "My point being, unless my crew decides that they don’t want to give me up for dead, and if what you say is true and no one will come looking for you, then we are very much stranded on this island.” Abigail Ashe awakens to find herself shipwrecked on an island. However, she is not alone. Abigail Ashe/Billy Bones, post season 3. Boku No Hero Academia/Star Vs the Forces of Evil #40 Story Title: Princess' guide (title may be subject to change) Pairings, Characters: Star Butterfly/Tenya Iida Rating: General | G Warnings: No Warnings apply Summary: A Sequel to 'An Earthling's Guide to Dealing with Mewberty' Star was serious when she offered to take Iida on a multidimensional adventure as a thank you for helping her get through Mewberty, and after hearing about the Hero Killer's capture, and Iida's own encounter with Stain, Star is more sure than anything else, that her friend could use some uncomplicated fun. Buffy the Vampire Slayer #41 Story Title: Like Stone Pairings, Characters: Connor, Dawn Summers, Buffy Summers, Angel, Wesley Wyndham-Pryce (and pretty much the complete cast), not shippy fic but there is Angel/Buffy and Connor/Dawn) Rating: Mature | M Warnings: Graphic Violence Summary: Twenty years after the battle with the First and the aftermath of Jasmine’s reign, life still isn’t easy for Buffy and Angel and their friends and family. Connor has been on the outside of his father’s life for years and isn’t particularly happy to be brought back in when Dawn shows up in L.A. with a case that requires his attention. But that is just the beginning of the badness threatening to swallow them all whole. Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Hellblazer #42 Story Title: Insert Hell Pun Here Pairings, Characters: Rupert Giles & John Constantine, Willow Rosenburg/Tara Maclay, Xander Harris/Anya Jenkins, implied John Constantine/Spike Rating: Teen | T Warnings: No Warnings apply Summary: Giles thought he'd never see John Constantine again. But when John turns up at the Magic Box looking for help, it brings back some memories Giles would much rather forget. Some sins you don't get absolution for. Code Geass #43 Story Title: World Enough and Time Pairings, Characters: Suzaku/Lelouch and Gino/Kallen (both minor) Rating: Teen | T Warnings: Graphic Violence Summary: Six months after Ragnarok, all Kallen wants to do is protect the people she loves, even if it means betraying everything in her heart to serve a Britannian prince. Suzaku wants to reverse a mistake he made but would never take back. Euphemia is willing to risk everything of herself in order to be a better person and find a cure. And Lelouch... Lelouch wants to make the world safe for his little sister, even if it means destroying everything in his path. (The AU where the royal family controls the elements through music instead of Geass, and the Ragnarok Connection united the living and dead... by bringing back the dead.) Critical Role Campaign One/Dragon Age Origins (Awakening) #44 Story Title: TBA Pairings, Characters: Vax'ildan/Keyleth; Vax'ildan, Percy, Vex'alia, Scanlan, Keyleth, M!Mahariel, probably others from both canons, Grey Wardens from Awakening Rating: No Rating Warnings: Chooses not to use Warnings Summary: Merging of the two canons, but mainly in the Dragon Age setting with some Critical Role characters. Vox Machina finds the ancient thaig containing the tomb of the Raven Queen's champion, but in the process Vax'ildan is infected with the Blight. Only Loral Mahariel, hero of Ferelden, can save Vax's life -- but will he be willing to pay the price? Crossing Lines/Grey's Anatomy/Hawaii Five-0/Marvel Cinematic Universe/The Sentinel/S.W.A.T. #45 Story Title: This is our sanctuary Pairings, Characters: Steve Rogers/Bucky Barnes/Tony Stark, Clint Barton/James Street, Natasha Romanov/Sam Wilson, Ellie Defont-Bogard/Sebastian Berger Rating: Mature | M Warnings: Graphic Violence Summary: Clint Barton and Jim Street have been together for about a month as Guide and Sentinel when Jimmy's mom is released from prison. Clint wants Jimmy to have nothing to do with his emotionally abusive, Hydra mother. But Jimmy feels he owes Karen Street too much to abandon her, and Clint loves Jimmy too much to break his Sentinel's heart. So despite Clint's misgivings, they go to Los Angeles to visit her. The idea is to spend a couple hours with Karen and then hopefully never see her again. But what not even Jimmy realizes is how much Karen hates Clint for being Jimmy's Guide instead of her. Or how far she'll go to get her son back. Because Karen Street will do anything to get her son back. The problem is, Clint and Jimmy might not survive it. CSI: NY #46 Story Title: Twist Of Fate Pairings, Characters: Don Flack, Jr./Jessica Angell; Don Flack, Jr., Jessica Angell, Mac Taylor, Stella Bonasera, Lindsay Monroe, Danny Messer, Samantha Flack, Don Flack Sr., Sheldon Hawkes, Adam Ross Rating: General | G Warnings: No Warnings apply Summary: What if Jessica had a very good reason for not escorting Connor Dunbrook's kid to trial? What might have been? CSI: NY/Law & Order #47 Story Title: Theraputic Pairings, Characters: Eventual Danny Messer/Lindsay Monroe; Danny Messer, Mac Taylor, Emil Skoda, Don Flack Jr., Lindsay Monroe, Lennie Briscoe Rating: Teen | T Warnings: Major Character Death, Character deaths are in the past, but they were characters from CSI: NY Danny knew Summary: In Danny's eyes, the hits just keep on coming...though this particular hit may turn out all right in the end. Daredevil #48 Story Title: Pairings, Characters: Brett Maloney Rating: Teen | T Warnings: No Warnings apply Summary: Brett Maloney has no magic. He is not magic and he likes it that way because it means that magic is not his proble- Oh who is he kidding. It's totally his problem. Especially since this latest serial killer case he's sticking his nose into has magic written all over it and he's the best cop to investigate. Now to catch this guy before he targets another Hell's Kitchen witch like Foggy... DC Extended Universe #49 Story Title: Pairings, Characters: Dick Grayson Rating: Mature | M Warnings: Graphic Violence Summary: After Superman dies, Dick Grayson reconnects with his father Doctor Who/Marvel Cinematic Universe #50 Story Title: All Screwed To Hell And Eternity And Space And Back Pairings, Characters: Bucky Barnes/Clara Oswald, Steve Rogers/Natasha Romanoff, Thor Odinson/Brunhilde, Loki Laufeyson/Ashildr; mentioned Carol Danvers/Maria Rambeau; Bucky Barnes, Shuri, Clara Oswald, Ashildr, Steve Rogers, Natasha Romanoff, Tony Stark, Thor Odisnson, Brunhilde, Loki Laufeyson, Carol Danvers, Stephen Strange, Wong, mentions of Marvel comics characters Rating: Teen | T Warnings: No Warnings apply Summary: Everyone has a countdown on their wrist to when they will find their soulmate. If they don't, they die. Even Steve Rogers's ran in one direction, though it took him ninety years to meet his. But Bucky's has never run normally, not in the 40s, not when he was the Winter Soldier, and not now that the whole mess with the Infinity Gauntlet has been fixed. But now it's stuck and he has no idea why. Meanwhile, Clara's is still running despite being taken out of the timeline, though never in any way that makes sense or has ever made sense. Not to her, not to the Doctor, not to Ashildr. She'd expected it to disappear. But it's simply counting down to her inevitable demise. And yet? Fate has it ways to make these two meet...even if it takes a TARDIS and the Avengers to make it happen. Doctor Who/St. Trinian's #51 Story Title: Adventures In Unexpected Places Pairings, Characters: Rory Williams/Amy Pond; Amy Pond, Camilla Fritton, Kelly Jones, Eleventh Doctor, Rory Williams, Mels Zucker Rating: General | G Warnings: No Warnings apply Summary: After being sent to the worst school in the whole of England, Amy meets up with the man whose fault it is that she’s there, and things go vastly more differently than anyone expected. Dragon Age #52 Story Title: loves to learn, love to burn Pairings, Characters: fenris/f!hawke, carver hawke & f!hawke, Rating: Mature | M Warnings: Graphic Violence, there's an implication that a character might consider suicide (from a different character's perspective): there are no mentions of suicidal ideation expressed as such. haven't decided if i'll keep that in or not but it is currently in one of the snippets. Summary: pictures at an exhibition sort of thing about what we don't see from a fenris rivalmance from playing da2. if you're not a total music nerd then I guess i'd describe it as scenes loosely arranged around a central plot of a rocky romance, and of finding family- broadly following the chronology of the game. also explores how carver and marianne hawke deal with the changes to their family (losing bethany and their mom, etc). #53 Story Title: The Path Not Taken Pairings, Characters: Ser Barris/Female Trevalyen Rating: General | G Warnings: Chooses not to use Warnings Summary: After the events at Val Royeaux, Barris and several other Templars decide to leave the Order. Football RPF #54 Story Title: It's A Long Way Up When You Hit the Ground Pairings, Characters: Christian Eriksen/Vincent Janssen Rating: Mature | M Warnings: No Warnings Apply Summary: Vincent's future is still uncertain, but rather than dwell on it, all he wants to do is welcome Christian home from the World Cup and find a few moments of bliss in each other's company before the world comes along and sweeps them away again. Christian, however, isn't making things at all easy, and Vincent starts wondering if maybe he has other ideas. A story about moving in, uncertainty, finding true friendships, and questioning everything about your past, present, and future. Gilmore Girls #55 Story Title: The Thing He Carried Pairings, Characters: Rory Gilmore/Jess Mariano and Luke Danes/Lorelai Gilmore Rating: Teen | T Warnings: No Warnings apply, Minor violence Summary: This story is based on a post on Tumblr pertaining to what if Jess did not go to California. It is also based on 'The Things That He Carried' by Tim O'Brien, who also wrote an episode of 'This Is Us'. It's about growth and acceptance. it's about love and relationships. It's about rising above adversity. Glee #56 Story Title: Merry and Bright Pairings, Characters: Blaine Anderson/Kurt Hummel Rating: Teen | T Warnings: No Warnings apply Summary: Kurt's built his life to cut out all feelings. The cute singer that comes into the Lima Bean every Thursday night breaks that idea. Guardian #57 Story Title: As Winter Fades Pairings, Characters: Zhao Yunlan/Shen Wei Rating: Explicit | E Warnings: dub-con Summary: Zhao Yunlan is a proud omega, but when he gets thrust back into Old Haixing, his life depends on impersonating alpha Kunlun. Then he meets Shen Wei and it all goes to hell. #58 Story Title: TBD Pairings, Characters: Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan Rating: Explicit | E Warnings: canon typical violence Summary: Dixing is one of the last States standing against Emperor Zhao Xinci’s attempt to conquer and unite all the lands. The Crown Prince, Zhao Yunlan, has been fighting at the front lines of the war against Dixing for years when his mother gifts him with a concubine. Shen Wei is beautiful and magnetic and Zhao Yunlan falls in love with him instantly. But Shen Wei isn’t just a concubine; he’s a Dixing operative who’s being embedded in Zhao Yunlan’s household to gather intel and potentially assassinate the prince. He never expected to fall in love. [A wuxia-inspired AU in an ancient China-inspired setting.] Hannibal #59 Story Title: The Art of Her Mind Pairings, Characters: Hannibal Lecter/Will Graham, Aralie/Travis Rating: Explicit | E Warnings: Graphic Violence, Depiction of drug use Summary: A young girl was accused of murdering her entire family, but one clever psychologist got her to serve a five year sentence at a mental institution. The day she is released from the hospital, Aralie has to adjust to life beyond her past. Aralie finds that when her anxiety becomes to much she occupies her mind with sketching the world around her and losing herself in ballet. Harry Potter #60 Story Title: All The King's Men Pairings, Characters: Hermione Granger/Draco Malfoy Rating: Teen | T Warnings: No Warnings apply Summary: Hermione makes a deal with the Malfoys, trading her newfound status as war heroine against what remains of their power and fortune. The Statute of Secrecy is only two generations old, and the Muggles still remember burning witches. Marrying Draco is Hermione's lever to change the Wizarding world – fortunately he doesn't realise the extent of her ambitions... 18th century AU #61 Story Title: Lionhearted Girl Pairings, Characters: Regulus Black/Severus Snape (minor), no other pairings at this time, but future Female!Harry Potter/Neville Longbottom Rating: Teen | T Warnings: No Warnings apply, Forced Amnesia Summary: Roswitha Artemis Black had gone from orphan to heiress to daughter in remarkably short time frame, like a dream come true. Now starting her first year of Hogwarts, she faces challenges she is certain regular first years don't have to deal with -- like the castle talking to her and demanding she find and evict an artifact deep beneath the stone floors. Or how whispers of another girl, nameed Heather Potter, stir some strange dream within her. #62 Story Title: Pairings, Characters: OMC/Pansy Parkinson, Harry Potter/Draco Malfoy Rating: Warnings: Summary: Evan Potter grew up knowing two things were true: that he was the Boy Who Lived, and that because of that, it wasn't safe for his squib brother Harry to live in the magical world. He'd be an easy target for any angry Death Eater who wanted revenge. No matter how badly he wants to be an ordinary kid with an ordinary brother, his life is never going to work that way. Then it turns out that Harry isn't a squib after all. And when Evan follows him into Slytherin to protect him... well, maybe his life isn't as set in stone as he'd always thought it would be. Hetalia #63 Story Title: From Spacious Skies, To Perilous Fight Pairings, Characters: America (Hetalia); Canada (Hetalia); Germany (Hetalia); North Italy (Hetalia); England (Hetalia); France (Hetalia); Molossia (Hetalia); Additional micronations Rating: Mature | M Warnings: Graphic Violence, Invasive Medical Procedures Summary: America’s explosive appearance on the national stage sent ripples of shock throughout the world. As he grapples to find his place as the Personification of the United State of America, dark forces begin to stir once more. Sequel to"In Need of Representation". James Bond #64 Story Title: GoldenEye Interrupted Pairings, Characters: James Bond/Alec Trevelyan Rating: General | G Warnings: No Warnings apply, Canon-Typical Violence Summary: James Bond meets up with his partner, Alec Trevelyan, to complete a mission — destroy a chemical weapons facility. When he finds Alec, he quickly discovers there’s something else going on. Following his instincts, he talks to Alec, leading the pair to realize they have two different sets of orders. The two partners know that if they had followed their separate orders, they might both have been killed. Now, they will carry out James’ orders to destroy the facility, and then they will go hunting. There’s a mole in MI6, and they’re just the Double O’s to catch him. #65 Story Title: My Partner the Car Pairings, Characters: James Bond/Alec Trevelyan/Q Rating: General | G Warnings: No Warnings apply, Canon-Typical Violence Summary: James Bond's partner, Alec Trevelyan, recently died. When he goes to pick up Alec's old car, he discovers there's more to the Jaguar than he realized, and that Alec wasn't as dead as everyone thought. With the assistance of MI6's Quartermaster, James has to find Alec's body, and somehow return Alec's spirit to his body. It might be an impossible task for some, but not for MI6's best Double O's. Law & Order #66 Story Title: a moment of transition Pairings, Characters: Mike Logan/Elizabeth Olivet; Mike Logan (Chris Noth), Elizabeth Olivet (Carolyn McCormick), Caroline Olivet (I'm picturing Madeline Zima), Lucas de Motigny (OC, I'm picturing Tom Sturridge) Rating: Mature | M Warnings: No Warnings apply Summary: Caroline Olivet starts her first semester at Yale. Les Miserables #67 Story Title: We’ll take a cup of kindness, yet Pairings, Characters: Minor/Background relationships. Grantaire, Enjolras, Courfeyrac, Combeferre, Joly, Musichetta, Bossuet, Bahorel, Bahorel’s laughing mistress, Feuilly, Jean"Jehan"Pouvoir, Eponine Thenardier, Marius Pontmercy; Cosette; Gavroche Rating: Teen | T Warnings: No Warnings apply, Alcohol, mentions of marijuana, Summary: They’re having some sort of winter holiday… thing. She’s never quite sure what to call these gatherings. They're not religious, and they’re not meetings; they have regular meetings and this is not one. But, it’s not quite a party, either. It could be if they decided on a theme or reason, beyond"its cold and we’re all busy and everyone else is getting together, so let’s eat food and enjoy each other."So, it’s a thing. That works right? They’re having a December Thing. In which R discovers Enjolras can cook, Cosette tricks Gavroche into eating vegetables, Bossuet both forgets and wins at White Elephant, and having close friends is just generally awesome. Lucifer #68 Story Title: Put a Net There to Catch My Fall Pairings, Characters: Chloe Decker/Lucifer Morningstar Rating: Teen | T Warnings: passive suicidal ideation Summary: One of the benefits of having a partner who was, for all intents and purposes, unable to be killed was that you didn't have to worry. Bullets, fire, axe-weilding mad-men, none of it mattered when you could send your devil of a partner in first. And he'd always come out unscathed. ...Right? #69 Story Title: Pairings, Characters: Chloe Decker/Lucifer Morningstar Rating: Teen | T Warnings: Mentions of abuse Summary: After Lucifer's bad day, the next one is even worse. It's a good thing that Detective Decker is there for him. Marvel Cinematic Universe #70 Story Title: it's in the past we can make this leap Pairings, Characters: Characters: Clint Barton, Steve Rogers, Peggy Carter, a few OCs, some Howard Stark, Colonel Phillips, Daniel Sousa, and Angie Martinelli. Pairings: Mostly gen, with minor Steve/Peggy, minor Clint/Natasha Rating: Teen | T Warnings: No Warnings apply Summary: After a mission goes horribly wrong, the Avengers end up separated and scattered in time. Clint joins forces with someone unexpected while Steve meets a kid who’s in way over his head. They both try not to completely screw up history. #71 Story Title: till human voices wake us Pairings, Characters: Steve Rogers/Tony Stark, Clint Barton, James"Bucky"Barnes, James"Rhodey"Rhodes, Rating: Mature | M Warnings: Chooses not to use Warnings Summary: Tony is called out on a rescue mission. Things deteriorate from there. [post-Civil War sort-of fix-it reconciliation fic, de-aging (kid!Steve), action/adventure, ensemble, eventual Steve/Tony] #72 Story Title: Untitled at the moment Pairings, Characters: Steve Rogers/Natasha Romanov Rating: Explicit | E Warnings: Major Character Death, It's set after Infinity War so the deaths are canon (no other ones) Summary: After Thanos fulfills his promise to erase half the universe, the ones left behind need to find a way to move on. But just when Steve Rogers and Natasha Romanov are finding a way to do just that — together — Natasha's past comes back to haunt them in a way they never expected. (Will probably include spoilers for Endgame.) #73 Story Title: Whoops, I slipped Pairings, Characters: Tony Stark, Steve Rogers, Clint Barton, and the rest of the Avengers in more of a supporting role Rating: General | G Warnings: No Warnings apply Summary: There's an explosion in the labs and Tony Stark finds himself in the body of a 3 or 4 year old. Unfortunately, his adult brain is calibrated for an adult body and all of the connections are scrambled, so he's in a bit a pickle. It's hard to let your teammates know that you're capable of rational thought when you can't even figure out how to operate the controls that enable you to walk and talk. #74 Story Title: Pairings, Characters: Matt Murdock & Peter Parker; Peter Parker & Tony Stark Rating: Teen | T Warnings: No Warnings apply Summary: Matt never liked Tony Stark until he met Peter Parker. Now... now he HATES him. But he's not going to be the one to start a fight. End it yes, but there's no way he'll risk Peter's anger by starting it. And what does Stark mean, Peter's missing? Marvel Cinematic Universe/Torchwood #75 Story Title: The Stars Lead Me to You Pairings, Characters: James 'Bucky' Barnes/Ianto Jones, Natasha Romanoff/Toshiko Sato, Steve Rogers/Tony Stark, Thor/Loki, Clint Barton/Phil Coulson Rating: Teen | T Warnings: MPREG, Miscarriage, a/o/b Summary: A person can only take so much being someone's second or in Ianto Jones case third or even fourth choice but still he stays with Jack because he loves him until the case with the Space Whale cost him the child he didn't know he was carrying, unable to watch Jack fawn over Gwen anymore Ianto decides to leave. Seeking out his father Phil Coulson advice Ianto ends up becoming the second handler to the Avengers and finds himself growing closer to the former Winter Soldier Bucky, who seems to know him from another time and many just find happiness with him. Merlin #76 Story Title: A Midwinter Prince Pairings, Characters: Merlin/Arthur Pendragon Rating: Mature | M Warnings: No Warnings apply Summary: A modern AU remix of Netflix's A CHRISTMAS PRINCE and Merlin (TV show). All Merlin wants is the chance to prove his merits as a journalist. His opportunity comes when he's sent to Camelot to cover the upcoming coronation -- or abdication. The tabloids have turned Camelot's"Playboy Prince"into a scandal, photographing him at nightclubs throughout Europe, and the whole world is asking the question: Will Prince Arthur settle down and take his place as the King of Camelot on his twenty-fifth birthday or will he abdicate in favour of a lifestyle of partying? Sent to find answers, Merlin ends up sneaking into Camelot Castle, where a strange old man by the name of"Mr Kilgharrah"mistakes him for Princess Morgana's tutor, Emrys. Between Morgana's powerful visions, the possibility Queen Ygraine once had a secret lover, and a growing attraction to Arthur, Merlin has his hands full trying to balance his job as a reporter and his growing sense of guilt over his false identity. And when the truth behind Arthur's birth comes crashing down in the middle of the coronation, Merlin has to betray Arthur's trust to give him a chance at happiness. Once Upon A Time #77 Story Title: The Stowaways Pairings, Characters: Ruby/Belle, Killian/Emma Rating: Teen | T Warnings: No Warnings apply Summary: On a much needed vacation, Emma and Killian find that they are not alone on the Jolly Roger. Original Works #78 Story Title: Taking Over Pairings, Characters: Original Male Character/Orc, Original Male Character/Original Male Character Rating: Explicit | E Warnings: Graphic Violence, Major Character Death, Chooses not to use Warnings, Past abusive relationship, PWP that grew plot, Summary: The King is dead, long live the King... As king's consort, Teyrin had never expected any strife. Then the orcs attacked. Now Teyrin has found himself torn between two world: rebellion against the new King of Athary is brewing in Neith. However, stuck at the castle, Teyrin finds himself falling in love not just with the Orckish culture, but with their king as well. As the consequences get more dire, Teyrin finds the stakes increasing. It's no longer just his life that hangs in the balance. #79 Story Title: The Naked Legion Pairings, Characters: Original Male Character/Original Male Character Rating: Explicit | E Warnings: Graphic Violence, Tentacle sex, ovipositioning, inflation, symbiotes Summary: Rio's husband Shen has joined the Bio-Armor Division of the Stellar Marines, those who bond with a symbiote to gain living armor in order to fight powerful extraterrestrial threats. Six months after Shen, Rio is now ready to go through the intense bonding process with his own symbiote and join his husband in the Naked Legion so they can make a difference in the fight against the cruel and uncaring Krellians... Peaky Blinders #80 Story Title: A Battle Joined Pairings, Characters: Esme Shelby/Tommy Shelby Rating: No Rating Warnings: Chooses not to use Warnings Summary: "Your wife is gone, Tommy. Does it matter how?" A sprawling tale of family and deceit, love and regret, anchored by Esme and Tommy's complicated arranged marriage. Primeval (BBC) #81 Story Title: untitled role reversal fic Pairings, Characters: Nick/Stephen, Ensemble Rating: Explicit | E Warnings: No Warnings apply Summary: Nick emerges from an anomaly into a world where Stephen is still alive . . . and Nick is the person who betrayed the team by siding with Helen. Nick doesn't know if he could return to his own 'verse even if he wanted to, but finds that Stephen is reason enough to make him want to stay in this one. At first Nick is distrusted, especially by Claudia. Nick helps the ARC by pointing out the differences between his world and this one and helping them try to figure out what Helen's up to. Eventually he is allowed back on the team; this time with Stephen as the team leader. Connor and Abby welcome Nick back with open arms (even if he isn't ~their Nick) and the four of them hang out together as a team and as friends. Nick and Stephen rekindle their friendship and grow even closer until they admit that the relationship they want is far different from the one they had before. (If you're familiar with Primeval, this fic was started for the role reversal square for trope_bingo.) Star Trek: AOS #82 Story Title: The Paths We Take, Glittering And Entwined Pairings, Characters: James Kirk/Spock, Leonard McCoy/Christine Chapel, may be other ships; Spock, James Kirk, Leonard McCoy, Christine Chapel, Nyota Uhura, other characters TBD Rating: Teen | T Warnings: Drug use; drug withdrawals Summary: When Captain Spock is assigned captainship of the USS Enterprise, he thinks it will be nothing more than a chance to improve upon his last post...until he finds himself in the same room with Ensign James T. Kirk. They find themselves both on the receiving end of a mental link that they now share, which brings complications for them both: for Spock, it is how to remain unattached in the face of a crisis and for Kirk it is how to keep the secret he is keeping from both his captain and his best friend. But in the face of a threat that could bring about the end of the Federation as they know it, perhaps this link is the best thing for both of them in the end. Star Trek: DS9 #83 Story Title: Shared Burden Pairings, Characters: Keiko O'Brien/Kira Nerys, Keiko O'Brien/Miles O'Brien Rating: Explicit | E Warnings: Pregnancy, description of injuries, infidelity Summary: After Keiko is injured, her unborn child is transferred to Major Kira to finish its gestation. The O’Briens invite Kira to stay with them while she is pregnant with their child, but she and Keiko share more than one burden. The attraction that existed previously now blooms to something far more serious and complicated. Star Trek: TOS #84 Story Title: Day Of The Cypok Pairings, Characters: Pavel Chekov/Irina Galliulin Rating: Mature | M Warnings: No Warnings apply Summary: Pavel Chekov experiences his own version of Groundhog Day--aboard his new command, USS Integer. Star Wars #85 Story Title: a million lightyears away (from you) Pairings, Characters: Kylo Ren/Armitage Hux Rating: Explicit | E Warnings: Chooses not to use Warnings, canon typical violence, injury recovery, developing relationships Summary: Following Crait, Hux takes a medical leave, to recover from his injuries. Supreme Leader Kylo Ren does not approve. #86 Story Title: Cinnamon Sugar Pairings, Characters: Finn/Rey Rating: Teen | T Warnings: No Warnings apply Summary: Rey is a pretzel stand worker hoping to go to Republic University right across the way when she meets a handsome student, Finn... #87 Story Title: Out to Sea Pairings, Characters: Kylo Ren/Hux Rating: Teen | T Warnings: No Warnings apply Summary: A hundred years ago, a lord's son was lured to the sea by a mermaid and was never seen again. Now a mermaid has appeared once more, and she seems to have her sights set on Kylo. As the mermaid promises Kylo a better life under the sea but can he trust her? If what she is saying is true, then Kylo needs to decide between paradise and his family. Based off the book"Forbidden Sea." #88 Story Title: Pivotal moments (working title) Pairings, Characters: Luke Skywalker/Han Solo Rating: Teen | T Warnings: No Warnings apply Summary: Han wasn't used to looking at life through its pivotal moments #89 Story Title: Still un-named Pairings, Characters: Armitage Hux/Kylo Ren Rating: Explicit | E Warnings: No Warnings apply Summary: Kylo Amidala is the drag queen who keeps getting arrested by Hux nearly every week. #90 Story Title: Strike True Pairings, Characters: Kylo Ren/Armitage hux Rating: Explicit | E Warnings: Chooses not to use Warnings Summary: Seducing the new Supreme Leader is the best course of action, Hux decides, both for the order and for his own personal safety. #91 Story Title: Pairings, Characters: Anakin Skywalker/Padme Naberrie, Obi-Wan Kenobi Rating: Warnings: Summary: There haven't been any more major changes in Obi-Wan's life in the months since Anakin and Padme's not-so-secret marriage (and pregnancy) became public. He's almost let himself become optimistic since Dooku's death: all they have to do is stop Grievous and the war will be over for good - and, after this amount of time, the Council can't possibly change their minds about allowing Anakin to be a married Jedi. Everything's going to work out the way he wants it. Life, of course, is never that simple. Star Wars Legends, X-Wing series #92 Story Title: Just Like That, Everything Changes Pairings, Characters: Wes Janson/Derek"Hobbie"Klivian, Wedge Antilles, Tycho Celchu, minor characters Rating: General | G Warnings: No Warnings apply Summary: After years of being"just friends", an imminent separation forces Wes and Hobbie to finally accept their feelings for the other, and in time, they may even admit this to each other. Supernatural #93 Story Title: Angel of the Morning Pairings, Characters: Gabriel/Christa(OFC) Rating: Explicit | E Warnings: Chooses not to use Warnings Summary: slightly inspired by the Juice Newton song of the same name. sequel to Invisible Touch (OC Edition). Things don't go as planned for our golden-eyed Archangel (do they ever?) Not every human has an Angel as a soulmate, but every Angel has a human as a theirs. Will Christa be able to accept the truth when she finds out just how deep the bond between her and Gabriel goes? Or will she reject him forever? Can true love really conquer all? #94 Story Title: Minus One Pairings, Characters: Jody Mills Rating: Teen | T Warnings: No Warnings apply Summary: When Dean turns up on Jody's doorstep, injured and minus Sam, she and Bobby have to work out what happened in order to save both Winchesters. #96 Story Title: surrender feels safe Pairings, Characters: Gabriel/Sam Winchester Rating: Explicit | E Warnings: No Warnings apply Summary: Sam just lost his job. And no, it wasn’t his fault or his employer’s. This isn’t the best of times for small enterprises in Detroit. He is also a week away from being evicted from his apartment and nobody seems to want to employ him. But let’s take a step back and think about the mysterious job offer he receives on the night he becomes unemployed. With no options left, he gives it a try. He doesn’t expect to throw his new employer’s world off-kilter, forge an unexpected friendship with the oldest being in creation and be swept off his feet along with all of it (not necessarily in that order). Things just happen, right? Right. Supernatural RPF #95 Story Title: My Empire of Blood Pairings, Characters: Jensen Ackles/Jared Padalecki Rating: Explicit | E Warnings: Graphic Violence, Non-con/Rape Summary: Jared Padalecki was the hottest thing to grace a courtroom since Matlock. He won every case he worked with hard work and a clever mind - and maybe a little luck. But what happens when a new job in the Big Apple uncovers things he never could have imagined and advantages he never thought he had? #97 Story Title: Spies, Suits and Alpha's Pairings, Characters: Jensen Ackles/Jared Padalecki Rating: Mature | M Warnings: Minor original character death, a/o/b, attempted rape (not by either J's), alpha!Jensen, omega!Jared Summary: J2 version of Kingsman. Jensen Ackles made it his mission to look after his fallen partner's family, especially his omega son Jared, promising Jared he would always be there for him. When Jared's step father attempts to claim him Jared runs and calls Jensen for help as a Kingsman Legacy Jared's world is changed as he proves that just because he is an omega he is as good as any alpha and deserves his spot. Transformers Generation One #98 Story Title: Pairings, Characters: Prowl & Barricade, Prowl & Bluestreak, Prowl & Bluestreak & Barricade, Prowl/Starscream, Prowl/Jazz, Codicil, First Aid, Lifeline, Nightstalker, Accord, Trailbreaker, Crosscut, Pulse, Incidental OCs Rating: Teen | T Warnings: No Warnings apply, Chooses not to use Warnings Summary: Prowl, a young single parent, manages raising his creation, the demands of his own neglectful former guardian, and seeks to enter into a relationship. TVXQ #99 Story Title: Digital Stockholm Pairings, Characters: Jung Yunho/Shim Changmin Rating: Explicit | E Warnings: mentions of suicide, stress induced anxiety, depression symptoms Summary: Yunho has no idea why there are concerning videos of Changmin on his laptop, but it might just unhinge the volatile and complicated relationship he’s maintained with Changmin for the last decade. Set at the end of 2014, a psycho-dramatic get-together fic. Vampire Hunter D #100 Story Title: Delivery Pairings, Characters: D, Left Hand, Necessary OCs Rating: Teen | T Warnings: Chooses not to use Warnings Summary: Vampire Hunter D has his most difficult bounty yet...taking care of a six month old child across the Frontier! Voltron: Legendary Defender #101 Story Title: An Inconvenient Attachment Pairings, Characters: Keith/Pidge | Katie Holt, Ryan Kinkade/James Griffin (mentioned), past Pidge | Katie Holt/Original Male character, Pidge | Katie Holt Shiro (Voltron) Keith (Voltron) Iverson (Voltron) James Griffin (Voltron) Ryan Kinkade Rating: Explicit | E Warnings: No Warnings apply, Trans Female Pidge | Katie Holt, Accidental Voyeurism, Summary: In the aftermath of the failed Kerberos mission, Katie Holt descended into despair. No amount of skill would give her the information she wanted, especially after being banned from Garrison property by Commander Iverson. Thus there was only one solution in her mind. She had to infiltrate the Galaxy Garrison, to be close to the source and enable her to find what she needed to find to know the fate of her father and brother. Getting in was the easy part. Being able to stay? That was a little harder. Remaining unattached so she could focus entirely on finding her family? That was the hardest part, harder than she ever could expect after years of being brushed aside. #102 Story Title: Fear no Man nor Galra. Pairings, Characters: Takashi Shirogane/Lance McClain Rating: Mature | M Warnings: Graphic Violence Summary: During a mission, Lance and Shiro are captured by a sadistic Galra commander by the name of Ventra who is hellbent on extracting information about the coalition by any means necessary. Meanwhile the other paladins are in a race against the clock to rescue Shiro and Lance before they are put out of their reach forever. #103 Story Title: home is just another word Pairings, Characters: Keith Kogane/Lance McClain Rating: Teen | T Warnings: No Warnings apply Summary: When Lance and Allura break up, it’s quiet. Keith doesn’t understand why that bothers him so much. OR: after a kinder, gentler season eight, Keith and Lance go on a road trip, and Keith doesn't have any reference points for the ways he's starting to feel. #104 Story Title: show me what you're made of Pairings, Characters: Pidge | Katie Holt/Original Male Character, Pidge | Katie Holt/Ryou Shirogane, Pidge| Katie Holt, Ryou Shirogane Rating: Explicit | E Warnings: Underage Drinking, Dubcon, Implied/Referenced Self-Harm, Ryou is Shiro's twin brother, Trans female Pidge, Transphobia, trans slurs Summary: Katie Holt, graduate student at the Taylor-Keaton Institute of Technology, was proud of the work that her father and brother did at the Galaxy Garrison. Even knowing they were going to be gone for several months at the least going the furthest any manned mission had gone, filled her more with pride than with dread. Months passed, and then days passed without word from Matt. And then she saw the news. And her world crumbled apart. (A story in five parts about mourning, denial, and coming into adulthood by throwing oneself in the deep end and struggling to stay afloat.) Watch Dogs (Video Games) #105 Story Title: Hurricane Pairings, Characters: Aiden Pearce/Jordi Chin, Marcus Holloway/Wrench (Watch Dogs) Rating: Mature | M Warnings: Graphic Violence Summary: People keep going missing in downtown San Francisco, including a member of DedSec. When Marcus and the rest of the gang start to investigate, their mission runs face first into one that Aiden Pearce is involved in too—but this time, close and personal instead of from behind the safety of a camera and a drone. When all of that piles on top of a job Jordi Chin's on, Marcus begins to wonder if he's pissed off any unloving gods recently.

#WIP Big Bang #WIPBigBang #2019 #mod post #art claims #artist sign ups

[chriscoleman]

Covid Lockdown

March 2020 to May 2021

The COVID quarantine is slowly lifting. Here is a quick review of our last year in limbo.

The first COVID death in Seattle was in a nursing home on February 29th, 2020. We discussed the serious threat at Ultimate that day. Then Julia and I went to a Umphrey’s McGee concert at Showbox SODO that evening. I remember questioning if we should be taking this virus seriously, but brushing off the idea.

March 2nd our life was turned around in another way - the rental apartment we lived in for the past 8 years was being sold. Time to decide if buying a house is a smart decision…

March 11th the CDC officially declared COVID a pandemic. Things get serious fast. We begin watching the news constantly.

March 14th was our last day skiing for the 2019/2020 season. There was still significant snow on the mountain - but state restrictions closed down the resort. Then we jumped into a backcountry ski/camp trip. Shortly after that - even backcountry skiing was forbidden. That’s when the lockdown got serious.

The rest of March and April were uneventful. I thought I had COVID at 1 point, but tests were hard to get. The at-home test I did get returned a negative result. Julia had a small accident that took the Subaru out of commission for a little bit. No big deal.

Sadly the white cat, Lucy, had to be put down. The process with COVID restrictions at the vet made the experience extra hard. Sad to see my favorite cat gone after 12 years together.

May 27th we got the keys to our new house in Beacon Hill, Seattle! Huge day for us. One I didn’t think would ever come. Home prices in Seattle are pure insanity. Buying at the beginning of the pandemic gave us a little advantage - no bidding war at all. In retrospect it was an amazing decision.

We ate momo’s (Himalayan dumplings) the first night on cardboard boxes. Then got to work on improvements right away. I made the terrible decision to do ‘exploratory drilling’ in our walls at 2am that night to route some ethernet cables for the cable company coming the next day. Luckily it worked out - but I don’t recommend putting holes in your new home on day #1.

A train of professionals came out for the big jobs:

* Plumbers - pressure reducer and expansion tank

* Electricians - new panel and service

* Insulation - replace attic insulation

* Flooring - LVP in the mud room

Julia and I got our hands dirty a bunch too:

* Closet shelving/rods

* Toilet replacement

* TV mount install

* Hanging blinds (after 1 month with none!)

* Siding repair

* Install dog door

* Light/Fan upgrades

* Fence repair

* Bench and table builds

* Chicken coop converted to raised beds

* Yard work of all kinds

* More yard work of different kinds

* Plus a bunch of small stuff that continually keep us busy

Bamboo and Blackberries were the big task. Our house is directly next to a city ‘right of way’. Basically a big plot of land the city owns where no one can build. Kinda like a park or play field directly to our south. We call it the “side yard”. Opposite our fence that separates us from the side yard was a 6 foot tall 6 foot wide 60 foot long thicket of blackberries. Then it turned into 30 foot tall bamboo beyond that.

Julia and I took 1 weekend to clear the bamboo from inside our backyard. Then another 2 weekends to clear the bamboo from the side yard. Luckily a city mower came and tore down most of the blackberries with a tractor after I reported it as a nuisance. It was a beast of a job - but the neighbors came out to help (at least to take away the bamboo poles for their gardens). Then we sheet mulched the entire area to prevent regrowth. Huge project - which we are still fighting currently - but a massive improvement the whole neighborhood enjoys.

Discovering new local restaurants was hard during COVID. Many places still offered delivery or take-out, but no inside dining. Bahn Mi sandwiches and Bubble Tea has been a staple for us. Too many cheesesteaks and taco truck burritos also. Plus a bunch of other Viatemese, Chinese, and Asian restaurants that are popular here in south Beacon Hill.

Throwing the frisbee with my teammate, Patrick, was my only activity with someone other than Julia or the Grubhub driver. We got together about once a week with masks at Judkins Park to toss. A fun way to get some sun, exercise, and social interaction.

July 11th my grandmother died in upstate NY with my mother and family close by. Not COVID related, just her time to go. The best grandma anyone could have asked for. Always an open house and supportive of all my life adventures.

September 3-6 we got permits to hike in the Cascades, Alpine Lakes Wilderness, Enchantments. It’s a protected area with very limited daily permits for backcountry camping. I tried for 8 years to get these permits - so no chance we were gonna miss the opportunity. Unfortunately I got a small hernia on our birthday in July - but again - not gonna stop me! The prep-hikes in July/August went great. Another fun way to get outdoors safely.

The trip ended up amazing all around. A true life-list adventure filled with lakes, goats, vistas, and leg burning trails.

October, November, and December were totally uneventful.

January 2021 we began a bathroom remodel with Premier Contractors. Toby and his family/team worked with us to design a totally custom dream bathroom. Ferguson supplied the materials, the discount I’ve been waiting to use for 16 years of employment. Jackpot!

End of January came with great bathroom progress. They ended up replacing the majority of the house plumbing - as our old galvanized pipes were badly corroded. The electricians also came back to install new circuits for the heated flooring, jetted tub, mirror, and heater/fan/lights. We also got new circuits in the garage and my office to expand the power downstairs.

Because we are crazy - we decided to begin a 2nd project at the same time - a deck rebuild. The construction crew we got to design our back deck randomly had availability earlier than expected, which we jumped on. Why not knock out both at once?!? Demo began February 16th.

End of February the bathroom was tiled and the deck had cedar floorboards installed. Floyd, Hank, Jeff, Brian, Robert, and the whole Blue Oak Builders crew were amazing. Unfortunately the bathroom project stalled for a variety of supply/time reasons. They slowly made progress through March.

March 31st Julia and I got our first COVID vaccine shot. We jumped at the first opportunity, one of the first in our age group to get an appointment. We drove down south to the minor league hockey rink where they had the process down solid after a month of giving shots to more vulnerable people. Relief that the end was in sight! We celebrated by buying strawberry plants on the way home. :)

Then our 2nd Pfizer shot on April 20th. May 5th we were considered fully vaccinated. I celebrated with a game of pickup the first chance possible. I ended up going 441 days without ultimate - my longest streak in 24 years. Before this I had never gone 14 days without some sort of pickup, practice, league, or tournament game of ultimate. It felt amazing to be back in action - even if I’m fatter + slower than ever.

That brings us to today - May 23, 2021. Ski season is nearly over, flowers are blooming, concerts are announcing, Sounders are playing, friends are calling, and mask mandates are lifting. My schedule is already starting to fill up with fun. There really does feel like a light at the end of this tunnel. Finally!

Overall - I consider us lucky. Julia and I were able to work from home without interruption. Our companies had hiccups, but are more profitable than ever. Julia has been extremely busy with work - but that’s the life in a startup I guess.

We had no clue what buying a home at the start of a pandemic would mean. It ended up being ideal for us. Canceled vacations gave us extra time and money to invest in this 62 year old raised ranch style house. Room for Skye to enjoy, as she is getting old fast, is a treat. Not to mention offices on separate floors might have saved our relationship (seriously - who talks that loud on conference calls? just kidding my lover). We even got lucky with great neighbors who really look out for each other.

I realize that so many other people in Seattle / WA / USA / World were not so lucky during this pandemic. It sucks. I hope as these restrictions are lifted that everyone can begin to prosper again - both socially and financially. 2020 will go down as a monumental time in our lives. I look forward to post-pandemic-2021!

[badrowboats]

Hi, sorry to bother you, but I have a question. You know quite a lot about MCU and its fans, so I need your help with something. I don't get why the fandom loves Darcy Lewis so much, yes she is a good character, but she isn't what people make her out to be. Did I miss something when I watched the movies? I just don't get that level of, lets say fanaticism. I mean I adore Daisy, but I have reasons for that (she is perfect, we had 4 season to see that), what are reasons for loving Darcy so much?

I mean, you know why. 

There was a post a while back that I wish I could find where I think the takehome is that Darcy is punky, spunky, and white? (Pretty much?) And I had answered this and then saved it as a draft like a million years ago, but recent events have reminded me of the “never trust anyone who loves Darcy too much” truism, so…

tbh, there’s stuff to unpack here (that I’m not sure I can really unpack that well because it really doesn’t really apply to me?) about the way fandom supposedly loves “blank slate” characters with minimal characterization so we can write onto them and/or self-insert. It definitely seems to me that this idea of “we love blank slate characters” is really only applied in a heavily gendered and racialized way (ie, it seems to me like this usually applies mostly to white dudes, hi movies Coulson, you’re nothing). I almost want to say I’m surprised that so many people love Darcy as much as they do, given the way other supporting white female characters with low onscreen character time get screwed by fandom (see: Sharon Carter and Laura Barton), but unlike them, Darcy doesn’t get in the way of any big ships. And unlike someone like Jane, she’s not tied to a specific romantic relationship.

So I’m gonna say it’s because she’s a punky, spunky, white female character who doesn’t get in the way of fandom fave ships and who doesn’t have a strong romantic arc herself, so she can travel around the MCU and be shipped with anyone.

As for why Darcy gets so much love while actual perfect (In)human Daisy Johnson doesn’t get enough? (Like, Darcy appears in more fics than Daisy on Ao3, and never forget that at least a quarter of Daisy’s fics are Skyeward fics, and another healthy chunk are Daisy showing up in the background of the other shitty Big 3 Bus Family ships, including as a literal child and lots of variations of a non-morally flawless superhero.)

I think we have enough evidence from past fandom stuff to know that even if Daisy were a blank slate character, she – like many characters of color before her – would still not get the love given to someone like Darcy. Just think back to season one, when people were pretending that Skye/Daisy was basically a blank slate Mary Sue too-perfect character; she just got a lot of hate for the way people failed to understand her complexity and centrality to the narrative. And then she got shipped with the Hydra agent who threatened to rape her and turned into a redemption tool instead of a protagonist, while most of fandom just sort of shrugged and didn’t see that as a real problem. The way that huge parts of fandom have risen up with anti-gross-ship blogs and protection squads for white female characters like Jessica Jones and Rey tells me that the way Daisy was treated was very specifically racialized misogyny.

Then we have the ‘blank slate’ stuff. Because Daisy Johnson is also distinctly not a blank-slate/self-insert character. We have backstory, a lot of emotional context for her past and present, and we see her take actions that are explained in subtext and not so much embarrassingly telegraphed in info-dump conversations. Chloe does a lot (so much) with her beautifully expressive face, which makes it possible to write thousands of words of meta about Daisy’s thoughts in any particular scene. That makes her a perfect subject of fic, imo – there’s a ton to explore, but it’s all grounded in hours and hours and hours of her story. And, honestly, I try to take the “blank slate” stuff as something real people in fandom really feel even if I don’t get it at all, but there’s so much that could be written about Daisy, so much more than self-inserts and using her as a shipping tool or a redemption tool, and I fully believe that – again – racialized misogyny has kept fandom from seeing that.

Because, just like Darcy, Daisy is someone who could absolutely be shipped around the MCU? She’s gorgeous and nuanced and vulnerable and awkward and dorky and powerful and kind (in addition to being flawless). She just spent six months traveling across the country on her own. Her canon romantic arcs on the show have been…non-existent and lackluster, respectively – nothing that remotely ties her down. She and Sam Wilson would adore each other, Steve Rogers would line up behind her, Nick Fury would see himself in her, Natasha Romanoff would want to hang out with her and talk hacking, Lady Sif already thinks she’s a total morally flawless badass, she’s an autodidact who could talk about all Luke Cage’s favorite books with him, she’d have civilized discussions about governmentality and colonialism and Fanon with T’challa, she and Matt Murdock were literally in the same orphanage at ages when they must have overlapped, she would love Trish’s show and politics (plus, I bet Trish has some connections to the Rising Tide in the digging she’s done?), she and Misty could have flirty banter about law vs morality, she and Claire Temple could take care of each other and eat junk food…

And, honestly, I completely believe that if a white character had gotten something like Daisy’s arc (from morally flawless homeless hacker to morally flawless superhero) and Daisy’s character development, that character would be the most popular character in the MCU. (Especially if they were a white dude, yeah.) And I think if white fandom actually saw Daisy as white (instead of mostly using ‘white passing’ as a way of excusing the fact that her most popular ship is with a dude who willingly joined a Nazi-affiliated group), she would be more popular than Darcy.

tl;dr: I think racism that manifests as a fandom-wide tendency to identify primarily with white characters (something I know I have been very guilty of in my past, and something I still work on today – something I think all white fans need to work on) plays the biggest role in why fandom loves Darcy and why fandom had such a hard time connecting with Daisy (though I think there have been some big shifts there?). There’s a layer of misogyny, too, that applies to white women and women of color both (but that is more applicable to woc I think), where fandom always has problems with female characters who are actually well-developed and complex and interesting in their own right – not just shipping tools or self-inserts, basically. And Daisy gets the worst of all of this mess, while Darcy – thanks to her whiteness and relative blankness – is seen as more shipable.

Which is all to say…you know why. 

#fandom fuckery #mcu fandom problems #this fucking fandom i fucking swear #daisy johnson is better than your fave #:) #standwithquake #like idk #there's stuff here i'm sure i'm missing because i don't get it at all #and i've never read darcy fic or read a lot of darcy meta #but like #you know why #:))) #i'm white disclaimer #i've been sitting on this answer for months? #but like it feels newly relevant #i'm just mad this week okay #lol #myquake

[nuttyrabbit]

Miles Tails Prower In… High School! The return of Julian Robotnik!

Chapter One

*Shows the planet Mobius*

-Mobius Prime Zero (Future Version)-

*Slowly zooms in on Mobius And the scene switches to a big house at night with the city of Knothole, far away in the background.*

Sally is seen sleeping in her bed. She was now the mayor of Knothole City. It wasn’t easy being a mayor of a large bustling city. She just got off her shift and her husband, Tails, just left for work. Her hair all messy and bags under her eyes from all the stress of taking care of Skye and Sonia.

Sonia, who is six and Skye, who is two years old was sleeping peacefully in twin beds, snoring quietly and gently kicking their feet.

-Somewhere in the ruins of Robotropolis in a underground lab…-

“Yessss..! YESSSS!! It issss complete!! I’ve brought back Julian and Tailssss!!!!” The naked bodies of Julian Robotnik and Miles Tails Prower could be seen inside a tube full of liquid with the two of them wearing a oxygen tube.

Narrator: “After their fight in the Prime 0/1 Zone. Tails and Robotnik were both killed in the Ultimate Annihilator. But, Walter Naugus decided to visit different zones, to get more powerful but were foiled by different incarnations of Sonic and friends until… he visited a universe similar to his’. The Prime 0/1 Zone, the universe where Tails and Robotnik died. He learned their history and it was identical to his universe’s history. After Tails’ death, all of the bad guys plans succeeded. Eggman took over Mobius, Mogul altered history and took over the multiverse, and the Xorda destroyed half of Mobius, and many other villains had their fun too! That is until, Knuckles had became Enerjak and wiped out all the villians. The world was then rewritten back to the way it was all thanks to Enerjak Knuckles. Somehow, Naugus managed to get Tails and Robotnik’s molecules and went back to his zone to revive them. He succeeded… whew! That was one long backstory I just did. Now if you excuse me, I’m going to catch my breath, carry on with the story.”

(To see the fight between Tails and Robotnik read Operation:Endgame (Altered)! http://bladeque.tumblr.com/post/155935860689/mtpihs-operation-endgame-altered-issue )

“Noooowww…. I’ll awake them!!” He pushed a button. The liquid from the tubes drained and the tube opened. Both, Julian and Tails fell, but they slowly got back up.

“*Groan* Ugh. What happened?! One minute I was in hell and now I’m back… here?” Julian was looking around confused and he looked down. “EEEK!!!” He screamed like a girl and covered his private area. “ WHERE ARE MY CLOTHES?! ” He was looking around.

Tails was looking around the lab. He saw Naugus and Robotnik and began to have his guard up. ‘What’s going on here? I was in the virtual zone with Aurora having a cup of tea with her and now I’m back… here?’ Tails was looking around then a thought hit him. “Sally!” Tails was running around, looking for a way out.

“You foooooool…! Get back here! You’re in another universe!” This stopped Tails and he slowly looked back confused.

“I’m in another universe?”

“ Yessss…. I saw your girlfriend Sally was devastated ever since your death back in 1993 and I wanted to help her. So I’ve brought you back so that you and her can spend the rest of your lives together, in peassssssseeeee… ”

“How can I trust you? You overthrowed Sally’s dad and took his place as mayor until I stepped in!”

“ Oooooh… yesssss… I had a shady past but I have changed… I am goooooood now…. Ever since Eggman put me in the Egg Grapes Chamber I am a changed man… yesssss….. ” Naugus was rubbing his hands.

“Bah! My cousin Ivo surpassed me?! This is madness!” Robotnik in frustration tore up some stuff.

“ Relaxxxxx you foooool…. Enerjak Knuckles killed him… now he'sssss goooooneee…. ” Naugus started to walk around with his hands (and claw) behind his back. “I’ve revived you two because I wanted to help Sssally and you needed to stop your nephew Sssssssnively….”

“ Wha?! My nephew is taking my place?! First Ivo! Now him?! ”

“Anyway….. without you two in your universe, your universe will collapse and explode.”

Both Tails and Robotnik gasped.

“But… in order to save your universe and go home…”

“ We’re listening. ” Said Tails.

“…. You have to destroy another incarnation of yourself, Milesssssss…”

“ What?! ” Miles asked in shock. “Now I know you’re lying! That’s not how universes works and now you want me to destroy another incarnation of myself so that you can find a way to rule that universe!”

“ Yooooooouuuuuu!!!!!!! ” Naugus was getting angry, his veins were popping and blood was bursting out. Then. He popped. Tails and Robotnik shielded themselves from all the blood.

“That… was weird.” Then a voice was heard in Tails’ head.

“ Nooooowwww… I can control yooooooouuuu… I am now in your mind and am about to take control of yooooooouuuu…… ”

Then, a purple aura formed around Tails and he was grunting and screaming in pain.

“Um… hedgehog’s best friend… are you… alright?” Asked Robotnik.

“GGGRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAUUUUUGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!” Tails was now engulfed in the purple aura and his eyes were red. “ I… I feel grrrreeeeaat!!!!! ” He then opened a portal and went in, the portal closed behind him.

“That… was weird. Ah well. Time for me to get my revenge.” Robotnik was grabbing robotic parts.

-Days later-

Tails and his family were sitting in the park enjoying a picnic.

Skye and Sonia were running around playing tag.

“Tag you it!” Tagged Skye. “Hee-Hee! I’m faster than you Sonia.”

“ Nuh-Uh! ” Sonia was chasing Skye smiling. “I’m the fastest thing alive. One day I’m going to be faster than uncle Sonic!”

“ Nobody is faster than uncle Sonic or daddy! ” Said Skye as he was looking back. “I’m going to be the best inventor– OOF!” Skye ran into his grandfather, former mayor Maxamillian Acorn. Skye began to cry.

Maxamillian picked up the crying toddler. “Oh there there. Don’t cry, you’re tough just like your parents.” He placed him on his lap. “You should be careful where you’re going little fella.”

“ Ooh ooh! Grandpa! I wanna sit on your lap too! ” She hopped on his lap and it made a crunch sound.

“Mmmnph!” Maxamillian was holding in his tears. “ Ow. You should be careful Sonia. ” He sighed, smiling at her. “You look just like your mother.” He looked over to Sally who was seen eating with Tails at the park’s table.

Then. A lightning bolt appeared in front of Tails and Sally. It was Robotnik, who now was covered in dark metal.

“ROBOTNIK?!?!?!” Tails and Sally said in unison.

“H-how are you still alive?! Me and Sonic defeated you!!!”

“Oh! It seemed that you defeated me, but I was revived by Walter!”

“ And we’re going to defeat him again! Then take care of butt-ugly Naugus!” Sonic performed a homing attack aiming at Robotnik.

'Oh-ho-ho-ho! Yes!’ Robotnik looked back and dodged Sonic’s homing attack and punched him in the gut.

“Toof!” Sonic was launched back into a tree, knocked out.

“Uncle Sonic!” Screamed Sonia.

Tails sprung into action and performed a tail swipe at Robotnik but his armor was too hard. Robotnik then punched Tails in the jaw and knocked him into the sky with a gleam.

“DADDY!!!!” Screamed Skye and Sonia who were now crying.

“MILES!!!!” Sally started crying.

-In another universe-

*Shows the outskirts of Central City*

Narrator: “In the Chaos Diamonds 3 universe. We see Shadow resting under a tree, using his brown scarf as a blanket.”

'It’s been peaceful ever since we defeated Deathwish. Tails and Amy are settling down, Eggman is doing good for the world, and Deathwish is becoming a better president. It’s too peaceful, so peaceful that it’s boring.’

See the awesome Chaos Diamonds 3 fan comic for more information! http://www.sonicverseteam.net/comics/fan/chaosdiamonds3/

He was dozing off until a portal opened up near him.

'Huh?’ He opened his eyes and saw a being surrounded by purple aura coming out of it. The being grabbed Shadow and threw him in the portal. “What?!” That was all Shadow could say. It happened too fast for him, he was now tumbling in the portal.

-Back to the fight!-

Maxamillian was shielding his grandchildren as the evil Robotnik was standing proud.

“BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! Looks like that two-tailed freak wasn’t as strong as he used to be!” He looked over to Maxamillian and his grandchildren. “Now then… I think I should bomb Mobius…” A large spark was above Robotnik’s head. “Say goodbye everyone! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!!!!”

Then Shadow came out of the portal and fell face down in at the ground. He got up and dusted himself off.

“That was some weird trip. Now I just have to use Chaos Contr–” He looked up at what was going on. “Eggman? Why do you have black metal, and… what the hell is wrong with your head shape? It looks like a–PFFT P-P-PENIS!!! AH HA HA HA!!!” Shadow was rolling around the ground laughing.

'Shadow?’ Sally blinked a couple of times. 'What is he doing here? And what is with that brown scarf?’

“SILENCE!!!!!” Boomed Robotnik’s voice. He charged towards Shadow but Shadow jumped and kicked him in the back of the neck.

'Tch! That’s some hard armor.’ Shadow closed his left eye in pain and landed on his right knee and help his left leg in pain. 'Dammit! What is this guy made out of? Wurtzite boron nitride?! I almost broke my leg with that kick.’ He looked up and saw that Robotnik was about to slam his hand at him. 'Damn, not here!’ Shadow braced himself and closed his eyes.

Then, a gleam from the sky came and fell on Robotnik’s head. It was Tails’ leg on top of Robotnik’s head.

“Tails?” Shadow looked in shock. “Did I went in a time portal? Like… Samurai Jack?!” Shadow began to squeal. ’ No! Stop! There’s no time to get all giddy up over a cartoon. I have to stop this Eggman-thing.’

“Um… Shadow?” Tails blinked in confusion then Tails’ face changed from confusion to pain. “AAAAH!!! MY LEG!!!” Tails was rolling on the ground.

“Daddy!” The twins were happy to see that their father was okay.

“*Sighs in relief* …Miles…” Sally gave a nervous chuckle.

Shadow looked at Sally and the twins in confusion. 'Wait, so Tails has ended up with a different lady? Or am I in a completely different universe? Either way I got to help them and get back home.’

“YOU IMBECILE!!!!!” Robotnik rapidly punched Tails in the gut and slammed him deep into the ground. Tails is now unconscious.

“DADDY!!!” A gold aura surrounded the twins and they charged at Robotnik, flailing their arms at him crying with their eyes closed.

“LEAVE HIM ALONE!!!” Cried Sonia.

“ YOU BIG BULLY!!! ” Cried Skye.

“Oh dear, time for me to fend off for my kids.” Sally jumped over the table and activated her ring blades and started to slice at Robotnik. They had no effect on him. 'Impossible! It has no effect on him!’

Robotnik looked back and attempted to elbow Sally but she grabbed his elbow and flipped him over and smashed him on the ground.

Sonic regained consciousness and ran back to the scene. He saw Shadow.

“Hey Shadow! Long time no see!”

“ Um… hello Sonic, how’s it going? I assume that you’re in a troubling situation. ”

“Yeah. Ro-Butt-Nik is trying to ruin our picnic.”

“ I have to ask. What year is this? ” Shadow asked.

“Why it’s 2001. Something’s wrong?”

“ Um… no. I just, came from a different universe where it was the year of 2003. ”

“Ah! You’re from a different universe. We used to deal with different incarnations of ourselves all the time back at high school. Uh-oh! Buttnik got back up!” Sonic spin dashed at Robotnik and knocked him back into a tree. Sonic dashed back to Shadow. “Aaand I’m back!”

“ Um, so… I assume that this planet is Earth like mines back home? ”

“Eh, it used to until some aliens bombed it.–”

“ THE BLACK ARMS?!?! ” Shadow blurted out.

“ Nah, it was some squid looking things called the Xorda. They were kinda petty, and ugly. ”

“Okay, so, what else happened?”

“ The planet got bombed, humans left, humans who stayed died and their dna was merged with animals, new species came from mud and voila! We Mobians were made. ”

“Mobians?” Shadow asked confused.

Sonic did another spin dash at Eggman and dashed back to Shadow. “Yeah. Aren’t you called that back at your universe?”

“ No… ” Shadow looked over towards Robotnik and saw that he punched Sally and knocked her unconscious.

“ Hold on Sal-gal! I’m coming! ” Sonic was running towards Sally but was punched by Robotnik, instantly knocking him out.

Robotnik looked over at Skye and Sonia. “Now. I’ll deal with you!” He was running towards them until Maxamillian got up out his wheelchair and kicked him in the face… sadly. It had no effect on Robotnik.

'Ogh. Dammit! ’ Maxamillian looked at Robotnik in terror and was flicked away by him.

“Now. It’s time for the fireworks kiddies!” A bright light was once again above Robotnik’s head. “ Say goodbye! ”

Shadow took out a green Chaos Emerald from his scarf and ran towards the kids. He grabbed them and looked at the Chaos Emerald. 'Please. Take me somewhere where these kids can be safe.’ He raised the Chaos Emerald. “Chaos… CONTROL!”

*FWISH!!!* They were gone with a gleam.

“No! No! That black hedgehog foiled my plans!” The light was getting brighter.

Sally raised her head and gave a weak smile at Robotnik. “Ha, looks like you lose Julian.”

“ I HATE THAT BLACK HEDGEHOG!!!!!! ” Then, the white light has gotten brighter.

*BOOOOOOOM!!!!!!!!*

Mobius was no more. It was gone. Everyone who was on the planet are now dead.

Narrator: “Whew! I finally caught my breath! And whoa! Did I missed a lot! Robotnik is back, and everyone is dead?! And where did the Chaos Emerald took Shadow and the kids? Find out next time!”

To be continued…

*Why the hell did I wrote this?! I can tell this movie isn’t going to end well…*

#submission #Bladeque

[skyefiscienceguy]

Skye-Fi(ve) steps to enter the stock market

Enough about me, let’s get down to business. Today I want to talk about how to even begin with the stock market. This beast called the stock market can be very intimidating and I fully understand if you really don’t think you’re cut out for it. I get it, it takes time and maybe tools like Fidelity’s ActiveTrader Pro that you may not have access to. But please let me assure you, this is the purpose of this blog! Just humor me for the next 2 minutes of your life by reading the 5 steps to enter the stock market intelligently, quickly and easily.

I’ve been waiting for you to make the jump into the world of the stock market. Whether it be so you know more about your 401K or you want to dip your toes in the water and trade some yourself, you’ve come to the right place. Here’s the simple way to enter the stock market today in five easy steps. This will not be recommendations on specific stocks, ETFs or Index funds and I am not a professional of any financial institution. I also know there are other more comprehensive articles on this subject and that is not necessarily the goal. If it were me I would not want to spend a long time reading so hopefully I can succeed at that. Let’s get this bread family and while we get this bread, feel free to press play on the Spotify playlist at the bottom of the page. I always prefer a little music when I’m reading posts like this; enjoy!

This is science, not fiction 👽

So here you are trying to get rich in the real world and you have some money saved up in a retirement account or mutual fund. Cool story bro, but it’s time to get serious. These are the five steps to get started trading stocks quickly, easily and intelligently.

Asses your current financial situation

Create an account at a low cost broker/dealer

Look into the type of company you like the most (i.e tech, natural gas, medical, etc)

Found a company that tickles your pickle floats your boat? Good, keep searching. Compare it to similar stocks and read the bio. No need for calculations you don’t understand right now.  

This is what we call “Due Diligence” and it’s worth it every time. I promise.

Step 1: Do you even have money?

Lesbionest, it takes money to trade stocks or there wouldn’t be a stock market. But it doesn’t take as much as most people might think. These days there are several ways to trade without even having $100 in your checking account. So for all aspiring writers, musicians or freelancers I got you. But you do need to be smart about it, and please don’t actually invest unless you can still pay your monthly bills, but that’s a whole other can of worms and it frankly is not why i’m here. So...on to the next as they say!

Step 2: Create your first broker account

Honestly, this could have been step 1, but I had to make sure the reader is not financially unstable before they start trading. Trust me, every decision i’ve ever made certainly hasn’t been smart in the stock market and I’m sure I’ll make more absolutely ignorant decisions, but the point remains don’t break yourself financially.

Disclaimer; skip this paragraph if you don’t care how a broker makes money from you. There are several ways to invest with new apps coming out constantly giving you the ability to trade low-cost or even commission free. I mean...someones gotta make the money right? The fact is a broker gets paid when you have un-traded cash in their account simply because of accrued interest on your cash. The other form of revenue for these companies is by fractions of pennies being paid to them by the actual market for trading in the first place. So let’s say you go check out Square (SQ) and it rocks your socks. When you buy a share of Square from the NYSE the electronic trading platform that your broker uses (like Citadel Securities LLC) pays your broker. And this is where we get off the boring bus and back on the ca$h money train.

{insert choo choo here}

So the choice really is up to you. I just wanted you to know that some companies may seem to good to be true, but in fact, they’re legit. The obvious broker that comes to mind is Robinhood. Just search online for trading platforms and you’ll be swarmed with different places like TD Ameritrade, ETrade, Fidelity, Motifinvesting, and more. I personally use Robinhood, Fidelity and Motifinvesting. I do not make money by telling you that. Actually I don’t really make money from any of this so if you feel like throwing a dog a bone, i’m the dog and the bone should be money.

Now that you created an account and signed your life away and entered your bank information into your account you can deposit funds into it in order to start trading. This is where Robinhood is winning; there is not a minimum deposit in order to open an account, in fact, you can have your account up and running without a single penny. The reason this is a good thing for new investors is because it allows you to get familiar with the layout and build your “watch list” of different stocks before you ever even have money in it. You’ll be doing some research, so this makes it a lot easier to do that before you pull the trigger on a beautiful stock. Think of this as window shopping.

Step 3: Who do you think you are?

This is where most investors get left behind. It’s where the leaders and the follows take separate paths. Don’t be a follower, be a do-er. (see “Pain and Gain” for more A+ inspiration). You remember being a freshman in college or even high school and walking in on your first day without knowing a single person and being the small fish in a big pond? Well that’s you right now. But if you can block out all the teenager drama and wannabe activists and really focus, you’ll make a decent grade I promise. Just don’t get too caught up in your celebrations and always....always wear protection.

What kind of companies are you interested in? And if you’re not interested than i’m not really sure how you got this far in my article because clearly it isn’t the most entertaining thing in the world. Are you interested in the big boys like Apple, Google, Microsoft and Facebook? Or are you more of a blue-collar guy that likes the oil industry and companies that actually work for a living? This is completely up to you, because the way I see it, there is always a great stock waiting for someone like you to come along and invest.

Once you’ve chosen your sector (the category that your stocks will fall into) then you can begin to get a little deeper. What are the share prices of the stocks you want? They may have quite a big range like in the technology sector due to the shear amount of companies that exist there. If it were me, I’d stay away from stocks under $5 due to the volatility (ability to move up/down quickly). Next is what do you want to accomplish with this stock purchase? Are you looking to make as much of a return as possible with high risk? Or is it ok if you just simply beat the stock market by a few percent? Create three bullet points for the reason you want to buy a stock in the first place. 

Step 4: You chose...poorly

Are you one of those people that walks into the first dealership and buys a car right then and there? While that may work for you (wait no it doesn’t) it will not work here. Don’t be that guy...please. Before you decide to buy it, let’s keep looking. Look at similar stocks to the one you’ve found. By that I mean similar in price, because let’s face it, at this point you may not actually know what a market cap or EPS even means. Don’t worry, as you gain knowledge you will learn these things, but I firmly believe you can trade without a bachelors in accounting or earnings estimates. What are the similarities in the stocks you’ve found? Since we’ve discovered you have no idea what you’re looking at, let’s look at something you will know. Go to the company profile and read it...like actually read it. What do they do? How do they make money doing it? Or do they even make money? I encourage you to read about the company as much as possible, but I also encourage you to be diligent in your time. There are a lot of people that are excited to get into the stock market only to get burnt out when they spend too much time researching companies. This is half the reason the average American doesn’t know what their 401K is invested in and don’t care to trade their own stocks. And tbh if I could make this article shorter I would have...but holy stuff, there’s a lot to cover.

So now you have an opinion about the stock based on facts instead of sex appeal...I mean the stock quote page. So the very last thing I want you to do is find the “earnings call transcript” produced by the company you’re interested in. Normally every company has one and this is the last piece of information you need to make an informed decision. Like this one from ZenDesk. If the company doesn’t make it easy to find, try a Google search for their latest earnings call transcript.

Step 5: You have arrived

Bless your heart, you’ve grown up so fast. I really am proud of you. Now let’s create your presentation. You knew what this was. 

Why is this a winner; is there a new product out? do you believe their earnings are going to be good? Are they currently designing the next spaceship for Mars?

How long will you own it; Your entrance and exit strats matter. Just this quarter? Or more long term like..”foreva eva” Whatever you do follow this guide line exactly. The company does not control the market when trade wars come out of no where, but that doesn’t mean the company has changed their ideas and future. It’s still the same company.

What is this stock worth to you; this falls in line with your entrance strat, but more specifically waiting to buy a stock in order to get a better price on it.

The last thing I’ll say is expanding on the second bullet point. You need to understand that even when China and the USA are having trade wars and the stock market as a whole is going down, you still have a chance. By following the fundamentals of a company you’re following their core values, not their charts or the politics surrounding the market. See the downturn as a buying opportunity, not a selling one. Leave your emotions out of it. Hope you enjoyed my post, if you didn’t then why’d ya read it. This is the Science of Investing and my name is Skye-Fi

[inpeaks]

The Clutter Needs Taming

Who knew? Having all that stuff is actually costing us more money. We tell ourselves that we are frugal, that we prefer to hang on to our own things because “they still work”, “we may need them one day”, or “throwing away something perfectly good is wasteful.”

And then, as the years go by, our garages and basements pile up with all those “useful” things. I mean, we keep seriously useful things like a portable camping toilet (still in the box and never used), a dismantled baby crib and mattress even though the “babies” are now in college or married, or ski sets from the 1960’s (because you just never know, right?)

It’s Here Somewhere

Hoarding on to all those things can cost us serious money. Have you ever misplaced your bills and had to pay overdue fees or, are you constantly paying late fees on overdue library books (that was me)?

Maybe some of your checks never get cashed because they are lost in all the paper clutter. Or maybe, (me again), you lose receipts for items that need to be returned to the store. In all these cases and others, money is wasted and lost. When we have too much clutter (paper clutter or other), we end up not being able to find those important papers or things we need, and spending or losing out on the money we could have.

We Have to Give It Room and Board

Who owns your space – you or your stuff? Sometimes we have so much stuff in our space that we have to find a home for it. This can translate into having to pay monthly fees to put it into storage or having to upscale into a bigger house to make room for all the things we have collected. Our stuff also needs proper care and feeding.

We need to give it a comfy space, clean it, fix it, protect it and put it to bed. If we can,t take care of it properly (because we don’t have enough space (or time), we either send it off to “boarding school“(storage) or move it into a bigger home. Both options can end up costing us a lot of money and often much more than what our stuff is actually worth.

More Keeps Coming in

Hands up if you have ever been looking for something you thought you had, but couldn’t find it and then, off you go to the store. Yep, we have all been there, done that, especially at Christmas (that table decoration or special tablecloth?). and then, what happens?

Well, we end up spending more money (and time we don’t have) trotting off to the busy mall to find another one to replace what we can’t find. Then, of course, we find it later, don’t we? Yep, in the middle of July -“Oh there’s that tablecloth I was looking for – fancy that! Now I have two!” So. in all the clutter, we misplace items we need and spend more money replacing them.

The Struggle Is Real

Sometimes the clutter takes over our lives. We get up, we see it, we stare at it and we wonder how on earth it ever got there and when it is going to go away. And the clutter stares right back at us defiantly as we try to enjoy our coffee. The struggle is real.

We think to ourselves “One day I am going to tackle this when I have time.” But, we never have time, do we? All this clutter is stressing us out as we try to think of when we can get down to kicking it out once and for all.

So, while we are in a battle of the wills with our stuff, we can’t focus on other more productive endeavors (like our work, our personal finances, finding ways to bring in revenue and ways to save money). What’s more, all the time we send decluttering takes us away from what we really want to do.

But, It Was a Good Price

As we look at all that clutter, maybe we remember all the times we bought things because they were “on sale“. We thought we were saving money, didn’t we? Maybe we did, but not always. Wholesale stores come to mind. We love to buy in bulk everything.

Then we can store away the items (the huge toilet paper packages, the 50 foil pans, the 12-pack of toothbrushes). We store them and forget about them. Yes, we did save money in the beginning, but then we forget to use them. And all these bulk items take up so much space. buying on sale can be a good thing if we actually need, and are going to use, the items we buy on sale. Otherwise, it would be good to think twice about the sales.

It’s Taking Over My Mind

And then there are all the associated health costs. Yes, having clutter can actually impact our health in a negative way. It affects our moods and can provoke anxiety, stress and even depression in some cases.

When clutter dominates our space, it can also dominate our mind when it weighs heavily on us. In some cases, we can become prone to viruses (cold and flu) and end up missing work days or slacking back in our business.

There are medical costs: consultation and treatment, that can dip into our pocket and extract more money. clutter is a beast that needs taming. We need to tell it who is boss.

My dear friends, I know it is hard. I know the struggle. We have so much on our plate already.

My sincere wishes go to all those who can not bear to part with their stuff. I know you have worked hard to at being frugal. My condolences, also, go to those who are always trying to find what they have lost under clutter. The struggle is real, folks. It is a battle of the wills.

Author,

Diana Lynne is passionate about living and living fully. She enjoys pursuing health, debt freedom, and travel. She enjoys hanging out with friends, family, and her dog Skye. Diana Lynne is a fun-loving Quebec City girl (Quebec, Canada).

Connect with her through her site: https://livingandstuff.ca

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[inpeaks]

The Money Is in the Clutter

The Clutter Needs Taming

Who knew? Having all that stuff is actually costing us more money. We tell ourselves that we are frugal, that we prefer to hang on to our own things because “they still work”, “we may need them one day”, or “throwing away something perfectly good is wasteful.”

And then, as the years go by, our garages and basements pile up with all those “useful” things. I mean, we keep seriously useful things like a portable camping toilet (still in the box and never used), a dismantled baby crib and mattress even though the “babies” are now in college or married, or ski sets from the 1960’s (because you just never know, right?)

It’s Here Somewhere

Hoarding on to all those things can cost us serious money. Have you ever misplaced your bills and had to pay overdue fees or, are you constantly paying late fees on overdue library books (that was me)?

Maybe some of your checks never get cashed because they are lost in all the paper clutter. Or maybe, (me again), you lose receipts for items that need to be returned to the store. In all these cases and others, money is wasted and lost. When we have too much clutter (paper clutter or other), we end up not being able to find those important papers or things we need, and spending or losing out on the money we could have.

We Have to Give It Room and Board

Who owns your space – you or your stuff? Sometimes we have so much stuff in our space that we have to find a home for it. This can translate into having to pay monthly fees to put it into storage or having to upscale into a bigger house to make room for all the things we have collected. Our stuff also needs proper care and feeding.

We need to give it a comfy space, clean it, fix it, protect it and put it to bed. If we can,t take care of it properly (because we don’t have enough space (or time), we either send it off to “boarding school“(storage) or move it into a bigger home. Both options can end up costing us a lot of money and often much more than what our stuff is actually worth.

More Keeps Coming in

Hands up if you have ever been looking for something you thought you had, but couldn’t find it and then, off you go to the store. Yep, we have all been there, done that, especially at Christmas (that table decoration or special tablecloth?). and then, what happens?

Well, we end up spending more money (and time we don’t have) trotting off to the busy mall to find another one to replace what we can’t find. Then, of course, we find it later, don’t we? Yep, in the middle of July -“Oh there’s that tablecloth I was looking for – fancy that! Now I have two!” So. in all the clutter, we misplace items we need and spend more money replacing them.

The Struggle Is Real

Sometimes the clutter takes over our lives. We get up, we see it, we stare at it and we wonder how on earth it ever got there and when it is going to go away. And the clutter stares right back at us defiantly as we try to enjoy our coffee. The struggle is real.

We think to ourselves “One day I am going to tackle this when I have time.” But, we never have time, do we? All this clutter is stressing us out as we try to think of when we can get down to kicking it out once and for all.

So, while we are in a battle of the wills with our stuff, we can’t focus on other more productive endeavors (like our work, our personal finances, finding ways to bring in revenue and ways to save money). What’s more, all the time we send decluttering takes us away from what we really want to do.

But, It Was a Good Price

As we look at all that clutter, maybe we remember all the times we bought things because they were “on sale“. We thought we were saving money, didn’t we? Maybe we did, but not always. Wholesale stores come to mind. We love to buy in bulk everything.

Then we can store away the items (the huge toilet paper packages, the 50 foil pans, the 12-pack of toothbrushes). We store them and forget about them. Yes, we did save money in the beginning, but then we forget to use them. And all these bulk items take up so much space. buying on sale can be a good thing if we actually need, and are going to use, the items we buy on sale. Otherwise, it would be good to think twice about the sales.

It’s Taking Over My Mind

And then there are all the associated health costs. Yes, having clutter can actually impact our health in a negative way. It affects our moods and can provoke anxiety, stress and even depression in some cases.

When clutter dominates our space, it can also dominate our mind when it weighs heavily on us. In some cases, we can become prone to viruses (cold and flu) and end up missing work days or slacking back in our business.

There are medical costs: consultation and treatment, that can dip into our pocket and extract more money. clutter is a beast that needs taming. We need to tell it who is boss.

My dear friends, I know it is hard. I know the struggle. We have so much on our plate already.

My sincere wishes go to all those who can not bear to part with their stuff. I know you have worked hard to at being frugal. My condolences, also, go to those who are always trying to find what they have lost under clutter. The struggle is real, folks. It is a battle of the wills.

Author,

Diana Lynne is passionate about living and living fully. She enjoys pursuing health, debt freedom, and travel. She enjoys hanging out with friends, family, and her dog Skye. Diana Lynne is a fun-loving Quebec City girl (Quebec, Canada).

Connect with her through her site: https://livingandstuff.ca

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source https://www.inpeaks.com/2018/10/12/the-money-is-in-the-clutter/

[petr3pan]

Jen reads w/out PANTS on (About the comics character who shoots his author and the math #blerd who might stop him) Episode 2!

Jen reads w/out PANTS on (About the comics character who shoots his author and the math #blerd who might stop him) Episode 2!

Read below to read the text of the story, or listen above, or pre-order Becoming Hero here:With comics: https://www.amazon.com/Becoming-Hero-…Without comics: https://www.amazon.com/Becoming-Hero-… Elsewhere: http://becominghero.ninja*Solve Skye’s math puzzle for a chance to win $100, in every book.* Skye is the storm-tossed comic character out for revenge on the author who murdered his family. Jace is the math-loving#blerd trying to escape his father’s deadly legacy. When their worlds collide, Jace must choose between the real world he’s always hated, and the comic book world he’s always loved–and Skye must decide if killing his author will save his world, or damn his soul. Jace, cont. New guy stood over me hand outstretched, reeking of banana peels and park benches. “Hey,” he said, yanking me to my feet. “I’m Caleb.” “Hey Caleb. I’m Jace.” “Jace, like Jason?” “Yeah, but spelled like the son in the Expanded StarWars Universe, not like the second Robin.” He was the first person I’d met outside of the comics shop who got the reference. “The son of a rogue, instead of the rogue son.” His wicked grin softened. “You okay?” He glanced down at my forearm. I looked, and regretted it. I didn’t think I was frightened by blood. It wasn’t much—just a scratch, just—just—dizziness swept my forehead and my whole body felt weak because holy crap they almost flayed me because of Dad they almost—! I opened my mouth to say nothing. “Is that a no?” he asked. I swallowed. I. Wouldn’t. Make. It. Fun. For. Them. If I wasn’t scared, they couldn’t scare my dad, and they lost. But I wanted them to scare Dad! I wanted to get out of here! Of this stupid neighborhood, and this stupid high school where my stupid teacher who I trusted let slip in class that I even had a dad, and stupid Jerome, and stupid everyone who said I wasn’t “Black enough” because I was a nerd, as if the math in my brain somehow released neurotoxins that killed my melanocytes because that made sense—oh wait, no, it didn’t! It really didn’t! “I’m fine. It’s just a scratch.” I broke my gaze away from it to look Caleb in the face, noticing now the industrial bar piercing his right ear. “Are you hungry? Because after that I could eat a bookshelf.” “Yeah—uh, yeah, I haven’t eaten in a while.” His face colored a little: he meant a very long while. He wasn’t from around here, and he wasn’t dressed well enough to be a lost tourist—not that we got tourists around here on the regs, but hey—so I pegged him as a runaway right away. From where, I wondered? “Why a bookshelf?” he asked. “I like books.” I shrugged, and pulled my hoodie up against his inquiring stare and against the frigid wind tickling my hot cheeks. “Come on. I’ll—I have stuff at home.” And that’s how I chose to bring a violent stranger into my house. 2 JACE My breathing slowed, and the chill began to evaporate my sweat as we passed dingy brush littered with trash, and dead bushes crowded against the alleyway walls, and the yellowing grass that clung to the cracks in the whitish half-paved gravel…we turned onto another street, past the big abandoned red brick building on the corner, and for a second I didn’t hate West Baltimore. I always don’t hate West Baltimore when I pass red brick. There’s a lot of that here: the big factory-looking thing, with its lone chimney jutting into the grey sky like a bold unmoving middle finger thrown up against all the struggle and change and turmoil; the rows of brick apartments huddled side by side like tall, thin soldiers, shoulder to shoulder against the cold, some of them rounded with feminine bulges, towers and buttresses, powerful women in a protest line holding together their neighborhood…all old, old buildings. Sometimes a new mural will go up, or street art that actually means something. That day a black phoenix rose against one of the grey-walled buildings, framed in purple fire. We’d almost reached my dad’s apartment when we passed a different strain of graffiti. This tag was about cops, and my shoulders sagged. I caught Caleb watching my reactions. “What?” he and I asked at the same time. He laughed. I sighed. “You got opinions about that,” he nodded back towards the angry wall-scars. “Mind if I ask what they are?” “Man, I don’t even know,” I said. “My first day out in driving class I got a DWB, with my teacher in the car, withthe car marked Student, and they still made us get out while they patted us down and yelled at me and searched the seats because I ‘fit a description.’ That guy you just whupped, Jerome? His older brother was shot by police who broke into the wrong apartment for a bust.” I paused, wondering if I should really tell Caleb why Jerome hated me. Caleb waited, listening so intently, so openly, I kinda had to: “My dad’s a police officer,” I said. “Ah. So you’re caught in the crossfire.” “There’s no crossfire. I’m minding my own business.” I sealed my lips, and he minded his own, too. Click to Post

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