st_aurafina | AAAAAAAH RUNNING AROUND PANICKING FOR NO REASON

Still haven't moved. Send help and reinforcements. The real estate agent has a tenant lined up for our old place; she keeps knocking on the door to ask when we'll be vacating so we can lease the house. IDEK. At least it won't be sitting empty. At least it's rentable without major renovations (and at least this tenant is willing to move in while the not so major renovations are done.)

I survived my major dental appointment by having a panic attack on the Sunday beforehand that was so intense and so horrifying that two hours of crown work was nothing to fear in comparison. The panic attack wasn't even to do with the the dental appointment - it was my mother's birthday on Sunday, and when I went to text her, I had to scroll and scroll to find our last communication, which was in January - hence panic attack and waves of self-loathing that far outweighed my fear of dentistry. I do not recommend this as a method of dealing with dental phobia. I feel like a piece of fruit leather at the bottom of a schoolbag. But the temporary crown is in and the next appointment is not so arduous. OR SO THEY TELL ME. /dire looks

Tinee media review:

- Doctor Who: tentatively enjoying it on the proviso that I read no negative reviews and allow myself to soak in a syrupy non-critical solution of self-care while watching it. A new Doctor is always a treat, in that assorted chocolates way. I don't really know what Twelve is like yet, but I'm pretty sure he's not a soft-centre. (OMG where is this analogy going? I release my grip on sanity! Let it go!)

- Reign: Watched the first two episodes and really, really enjoyed them. It's like, history on crack with fancy dresses and ooooh, boys, and lots of girls hugging.

Tinee linkspam:

- Seriously adorable crochet pattern: Crochet a baby Groot (warning for animated gif)

- Somewhat underbaked science that nonetheless rang true for me and my many hearing problems: Middle ear may hold answers for autism treatment (Warning for discussion of familial abuse)

- H/T to

cofax7 for this one: The Most Amazing Lie in History (I feel like I want some kind of Peggy Carter encounter with this guy. Maybe Judy Dench's M can be in it, too. She must have been pretty deadly in WWII.

- Misty Copeland will be performing Swan Lake in Australia - this photo from her instagram is just beautiful. I love the strength and compassion on her face - I usually find Odette a bit mimsy, but this is amazing. (Eeeeeh, using facebook to embed from Instagram to my journal - this is a little too close to crossing the streams, if you ask me.)

Misty Copeland and Alexandre Hammoudi, Swan Lake

Misty Copeland and Alexandre Hammoudi, Swan Lake

- I wish this scene had been in the Winter Soldier: This Is What Hawkeye Was Going To Do In Captain America: The Winter Soldier

- Speaking of Winter Soldier,

famira has made a trillion textless icons from the movie: all under their Captain America tag. Go snaffle them up!

Since my last post, I've mostly been reading comics: re-reading Captain America's Winter Soldier arc, also Young Avengers (omg Miss America! Amerikate foreva!), Ms Marvel (omg the latest team-up killed me with the adorability).

Also made a bunch of icons suddenly and out of the blue: some Doctor Who, some Young Avengers which are, admittedly, 90% America Chavez.

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1-5: Doctor Who: Into the Dalek (and one image from the preview next week's episode)
6-26: America Chavez, Young Avengers
24: Tommy/Speed
25: Anya Corazon/Spider-Girl
26: Billy Kaplan/Wiccan
27: Young Avengers Kate Bishop
28: Billy and Teddy being dear
29: Hawkeye Kate Bishop
30: Tommy's awesome dancing
Happy to share these, if they take your fancy.

And that's all there is. There isn't any more.

Crossposts: http://st-aurafina.livejournal.com/219704.html

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From:

senmut

Gorgeous icons.

Many, many hugs.

From:

st_aurafina

*hugs you* Thanks, bb.

From:

lonelywalker

*hugs*

Groooot!

I too am quite enjoying Capaldi!Doc (okay, Twelve) and his irascible self, and find that I'm also quite enjoying Clara as a result. But now I'm just thinking about chocolate boxes.

From:

st_aurafina

*hugs* We are Groot! I haven't even seen the movie yet - it had better be 90% good feelings about Groot or tumblr will have lied to me. And that would never happen, right?

Twelve is growing on me! I really liked this week's episode.

From:

newredshoes

Those are great icons! Also, <3333333

From:

st_aurafina

Yay icons!! <333

From:

kass

I am adoring the new Doctor. And I should be spending more time hanging out in the blanketfort of squee instead of trawling the broad internet for stuff, because people on the internet can be jerks, and I should stay here where people will be happy with me. *grin*

From:

st_aurafina

Yay for the blanketfort of squee! I'm not saying there aren't things I don't like, just that I'd rather have the experience of clutching my pillow in glee at the overall experience. Because new Doctor! Because getting to know more about Clara! Because eeeee!

From:

kass

Because new Doctor! Because getting to know more about Clara! Because eeeee!

Yes -- this exactly. I mean, of course there are things I don't like. (In the most recent ep, for instance, I got deeply annoyed at all of the snide comments Robin Hood was making about the Doctor's age. Because the actor is only 56, which is, good God, NOT old, wtf.) But I come to this show for squee, by and large, and I want to hang out with other people who are finding the joy in it, you know?

From:

retsuko

Oh, ugh on the panic attacks and the dental crap. That's the worst. And I hope the real estate mess gets sorted ASAP!

In the meantime, though, great icons. :D

*hugs*

From:

st_aurafina

Real estate mess is getting sorted! It could all happen in the next fortnight! AAAAAAH MOVING IS ALMOST AS BAD! I had forgotten that.

*hugs* Hope you guys are going okay.

From:

vass

Moving hell is one of the worst hells. D: And so are family hell and dentistry hell.

What sort of help and reinforcements would you like? Picspam? Distracting links?

*offers hugs*

From:

st_aurafina

*hugs hugs hugs* omg

Nah, I'm good, thanks. Reassuring comments such as these are the best help I could ask for.

(We think maybe we'll be moving in a fortnight now. OMG, I cannot wait to be settling in there.)

From:

selenak

*coughs* If M is Judi Dench's age, she was a toddler during WWII and not into the service until the 1960s.

From:

lilacsigil

The Vichy Regime would never see her coming!

From:

st_aurafina

But what a ferocious toddler she'd be!

From:

lurkingcat

Oh house moving: why so stressful? Have some Internet HUGS.

Miss America is great. (All of the Young Avengers are really but Stamping Through Dimension is an awesome power and she comes with the best attitude.)

From:

st_aurafina

I love how every scan I had of America Chavez was basically her with her fists up. She's just awesome.

lilacsigil says I should read Journey Into Mystery, but I remember her crying and crying at the end of that run, and I don't know if I can face whatever the hell happened there.

From:

lurkingcat

Kieron Gillen happened. It's really, really good and there is a hellhound puppy but Loki is not a character for whom happy endings really happen. He always seems to bounce back though. Am thoroughly enjoying Loki: Agent of Asgard because there's all this background stuff going on with story archetypes and whether or not it's possibly to escape your destiny that follows on so very well from JiM.

From:

tree

it's true: the putting-on-of-the-actual-crown is the least unpleasant part! having had it done three times now (on the same bloody tooth! i keep cracking 'em) i feel i am something of an expert. they just pop off the temporary crown, drill a bit to get the glue off, and then stick that bad boy down. for me it rates below having my teeth cleaned on the unpleasant dentistry scale. i hope it will be the same for you.

*pets gently*

From:

st_aurafina

Arrgh, I think it will be better without the endless drilling and "tilt your head left/right/up/down" which kind of prevented me from drifting off into music space like I usually do. But I'm not looking forward to all that anaesthetic. I had to have so many this time.

*hugs back* We survive! My psych has me visualising little air pillows between my teeth as a way to cut back on the clenching/grinding. It's kind of fun.

From:

lark_ascends

So very sorry that you had a panic attack. *hugs you firmly*

That was an interesting article. Sound has been something that has been used for quite a while with helping with SPD - classical music, etc. But it does sound like they are potentially ascribing something that happens in the ear without really understanding what is happening.

From:

st_aurafina

Firm hugs are best hugs! *highfives you*

It's definitely interesting with the middle ear stuff - I hope they investigate further. Needs more data!!

From:

wendelah1

That's such a beautiful photograph.

I'm glad you survived the dental ordeal.

From:

st_aurafina

Thank! *hugs*

From:

realpestilence

Baby Groot was the cutest thing ever-and a very good dancer, too. :D

I wonder what their excuse for screwing Hawkeye and Renner over in the ~next movie will be? I'm sensing a trend here.

From:

st_aurafina

Baby Groot! I haven't even seen the movie, and yet I know that's my favourite part.

I wonder what their excuse for screwing Hawkeye and Renner over in the ~next movie will be?

Thank goodness for fandom. It's a lifesaver.

From:

realpestilence

Sometimes it is. But sometimes fandom takes the characterization from the source and makes it worse, and it's usually for my favorites. I can read Clint fics on A03 for days before I stumble across one that portrays him as smart, much less capable and professional, like in the movie. They don't even necessarily portray him from the comic canon, either, though Fraction's take on him has some followers. If you've read enough C/C fic, you know what I mean. o.0