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st_aurafinaI am working an extra day this week and I am sooky about it. But I get to order my lunch today instead of bringing it, which is a nice bribe. I had an amazing burger, so amazing and full of wonders. Like, bacon.
It's so beautiful. I order my lunch, like, maybe twice a year, so I want to remember it.
Tentative yay: I started writing again. It's mostly due to the neighbour dude, who is a great neighbour except for those random days when he gets out the chainsaw. (Not in a massacre-y way, just in a endless drone-y way.) So I put on my headphones and opened a file and wrote, and somehow chainsaw neighbour dude helped me over that initial hump of fear. But not in a massacre-y way. I finished the rewrite on Chapter One of the Winter Soldier NaNo project, yay. Thanks, chainsaw neighbour dude.
A question: Where does Sam live? Are there any clues in the movie? Pic to illustrate, if that is helpful.
[Natasha and Cap standing outside a window, Sam is inside.]
In this one, for instance, is there a balcony? You kind of have to ask because Natasha and Cap are both perfectly capable of standing on the roof at a window that most people wouldn't be using to gain access to a home.
This looks like the suburbs to me? But I have only the vaguest idea of where someone with Sam's salary would live and in what kind of place. Is this an apartment? Is it one of those little stand-alone places that I'd call a townhouse? Is it likely to be close to work? Does Sam have a car? Does he public transport everywhere? How does he get to the place where he jogs? (Does he jog there?)
Ugh so hard to write in the way I like to write when I don't know the place and making up little details will be very obvious! Very happy to make things up about Hogwarts or the TARDIS. Less happy about household details in the DC area.
Sometimes I feel like it's rude to ask these things, when I'm probably only going to mention it in one sentence, but I really appreciate knowing the little details like this. So thank you, if you're one of those awesome people who helped last time with the bus details.
The crochet world lost an artist this week.
Crochet Concupiscence talks about Wink, and how important crochet and creativity were in her mental health journey. I crochet for similar reasons, and I don't know, this feels close to home for me.
If you're on Pinterest, or follow #crochet on Tumblr, you'll be surprised at how many of the steadily reblogged projects are Wink's. (capitaine-crochet has a round-up.) I hope her beautiful work keeps circulating and inspiring people to look for calmness and peace through creativity.
Here, look at Nomi and Amanita. From Sense8. Precious babies. I love them so much.
[Tall blonde woman holding hands with a black woman who has brightly coloured braids in her hair, standing against a wall of graffiti.]
I just watched Ep 4. (The one with the Four Non-Blondes bit, for people who have already finished watching.) Ugh, I never knew how much I wanted an 8-way mindmeld. At the same time, eight characters is a lot to work with. (This is me thinking ahead to when I will inevitably want to write a Sense8 AU with another fandom. Eight characters? Wow. But so interesting.) I need to know more.
I was listening to Kate Bush's 'Cloudbusting' the other day, and realised that I've been listening to this song for nearly thirty years and never actually looked up what the heck it was about. (It's a good forward-moving song, so I put it on a lot of my writing playlists. And also my housework playlist.) Turns out it's about a lot of stuff. A LOT OF STUFF. Like, wow. Mad science and oppressive governments and orgasmic (I think?) energy and actual cloud seeding.
The video was directed by Terry Gilliam and it stars Donald Sutherland standing on a hill, and Kate Bush standing well below him in a pixie wig. I should google more lyrics from the eighties.
Things I have found on etsy:
I would love to be able to use this necklace but at the same time I would hate people coming up close enough to read it. They also have one for pronouns, and you can add pronouns for days when you're feeling different.
[Interchangeable charm necklace, showing different power levels.]
These are cute!
[Bangle made from a book spine, this one is Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens.]
Tiny dinosaur!
[Tiny stegosaurus skeleton under a glass dome]
Air plant octopus!
[Four pastel-coloured ceramic air plant holders shaped like octopus bodies]
This pendant strikes me as very Hannibal. Maybe because he did actually plant a dude in a tree that one time.
[Heart pendant, with leaves and branches sprouting from it.]
Ugh, I could shop forever, and my house would be full of tiny useless but pretty stuff. So much better to share here.
Remainder of linkspams:
- Mini fox terrier proves 'working dog' status to council officers
Ahaha, don't fuck with working dogs. And working dog people. I'm just saying. Unless you want to be given the eye and moved into a pen.
- 8 Grand Yet Forgotten Profane Expressions
For maximum Middleman effect, say these out loud, and add "Dubby!" at the end.
- A Glimpse of What Magazines Like Time, Forbes, GQ & More Would Say About Marvel’s New Black Panther
Ugh, can't we have this movie before Ant Man? Seriously.
OMG, it's nearly home time, again! You know, if I got my act together and posted more than twice a month, these things would be a little less epic.
It's so beautiful. I order my lunch, like, maybe twice a year, so I want to remember it.
Tentative yay: I started writing again. It's mostly due to the neighbour dude, who is a great neighbour except for those random days when he gets out the chainsaw. (Not in a massacre-y way, just in a endless drone-y way.) So I put on my headphones and opened a file and wrote, and somehow chainsaw neighbour dude helped me over that initial hump of fear. But not in a massacre-y way. I finished the rewrite on Chapter One of the Winter Soldier NaNo project, yay. Thanks, chainsaw neighbour dude.
A question: Where does Sam live? Are there any clues in the movie? Pic to illustrate, if that is helpful.
[Natasha and Cap standing outside a window, Sam is inside.]
In this one, for instance, is there a balcony? You kind of have to ask because Natasha and Cap are both perfectly capable of standing on the roof at a window that most people wouldn't be using to gain access to a home.
This looks like the suburbs to me? But I have only the vaguest idea of where someone with Sam's salary would live and in what kind of place. Is this an apartment? Is it one of those little stand-alone places that I'd call a townhouse? Is it likely to be close to work? Does Sam have a car? Does he public transport everywhere? How does he get to the place where he jogs? (Does he jog there?)
Ugh so hard to write in the way I like to write when I don't know the place and making up little details will be very obvious! Very happy to make things up about Hogwarts or the TARDIS. Less happy about household details in the DC area.
Sometimes I feel like it's rude to ask these things, when I'm probably only going to mention it in one sentence, but I really appreciate knowing the little details like this. So thank you, if you're one of those awesome people who helped last time with the bus details.
The crochet world lost an artist this week.
Crochet Concupiscence talks about Wink, and how important crochet and creativity were in her mental health journey. I crochet for similar reasons, and I don't know, this feels close to home for me.
If you're on Pinterest, or follow #crochet on Tumblr, you'll be surprised at how many of the steadily reblogged projects are Wink's. (capitaine-crochet has a round-up.) I hope her beautiful work keeps circulating and inspiring people to look for calmness and peace through creativity.
Here, look at Nomi and Amanita. From Sense8. Precious babies. I love them so much.
[Tall blonde woman holding hands with a black woman who has brightly coloured braids in her hair, standing against a wall of graffiti.]
I just watched Ep 4. (The one with the Four Non-Blondes bit, for people who have already finished watching.) Ugh, I never knew how much I wanted an 8-way mindmeld. At the same time, eight characters is a lot to work with. (This is me thinking ahead to when I will inevitably want to write a Sense8 AU with another fandom. Eight characters? Wow. But so interesting.) I need to know more.
I was listening to Kate Bush's 'Cloudbusting' the other day, and realised that I've been listening to this song for nearly thirty years and never actually looked up what the heck it was about. (It's a good forward-moving song, so I put it on a lot of my writing playlists. And also my housework playlist.) Turns out it's about a lot of stuff. A LOT OF STUFF. Like, wow. Mad science and oppressive governments and orgasmic (I think?) energy and actual cloud seeding.
The video was directed by Terry Gilliam and it stars Donald Sutherland standing on a hill, and Kate Bush standing well below him in a pixie wig. I should google more lyrics from the eighties.
Things I have found on etsy:
I would love to be able to use this necklace but at the same time I would hate people coming up close enough to read it. They also have one for pronouns, and you can add pronouns for days when you're feeling different.
[Interchangeable charm necklace, showing different power levels.]
These are cute!
[Bangle made from a book spine, this one is Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens.]
Tiny dinosaur!
[Tiny stegosaurus skeleton under a glass dome]
Air plant octopus!
[Four pastel-coloured ceramic air plant holders shaped like octopus bodies]
This pendant strikes me as very Hannibal. Maybe because he did actually plant a dude in a tree that one time.
[Heart pendant, with leaves and branches sprouting from it.]
Ugh, I could shop forever, and my house would be full of tiny useless but pretty stuff. So much better to share here.
Remainder of linkspams:
- Mini fox terrier proves 'working dog' status to council officers
Ahaha, don't fuck with working dogs. And working dog people. I'm just saying. Unless you want to be given the eye and moved into a pen.
- 8 Grand Yet Forgotten Profane Expressions
For maximum Middleman effect, say these out loud, and add "Dubby!" at the end.
- A Glimpse of What Magazines Like Time, Forbes, GQ & More Would Say About Marvel’s New Black Panther
Ugh, can't we have this movie before Ant Man? Seriously.
OMG, it's nearly home time, again! You know, if I got my act together and posted more than twice a month, these things would be a little less epic.
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Date: 2015-07-02 08:13 am (UTC)And the fox terrier link is the cutest thing ever. :)
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Date: 2015-07-02 08:46 am (UTC)A ha ha, I saw that too! I think she's supposed to be that kind of Famous Five schoolboy type character, from the way she wears that vest and looks intrepid.
Those glasses of Donald Sutherland - they were everywhere in the eighties!
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Date: 2015-07-02 11:04 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2015-07-02 12:41 pm (UTC)It wouldn't be unusual for him to own a car even if he doesn't take it to work every day, as it's more convenient for trips outside the immediate area, running errands, etc, but it also wouldn't be odd for him not to have one -- if he got rid of it for expenses or environmental reasons. He probably knows how to drive, though.
I think his house is what we'd call detached -- different from a town house, which would be a house attached to/sharing walls with other houses, although just calling it a 'house' could cover either eventuality if you don't want to specify.
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Date: 2015-07-02 05:12 pm (UTC)I feel like given the glimpse we get, he's probably not in Columbia Heights or Mount Pleasant, as they're mostly townhouses. I could see him being somewhere like Petworth (close to the old Walter Reed), or somewhere in Northeast like Brookland, Bloomingdale/Eckington, or the H Street corridor. The bridge chase scene takes place, as far as I can pin down, right around the 395/695 interchange by the Navy Yard, which is actually a sensible route from any of those neighborhoods to Roosevelt Island.
Lots of the houses in that part of town are 1920s/30s construction, not a totally unreasonable size for someone living alone who can afford it, and it's not uncommon to have an elevated back deck (I do, and I'm nearby in Mount Rainier). Plus, much easier to have a car, because street parking isn't impossible and some houses even have driveways.
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Date: 2015-07-02 05:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-08-01 01:08 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-08-01 01:33 am (UTC)I have him and Steve taking a zipcar to the airport, hopefully that's not weird or out of place? Ugh all these small impediments, but it bugs me to get them wrong. I guess they could bus or cab.
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Date: 2015-08-01 01:22 pm (UTC)Not sure about the detached thing to be honest.
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Date: 2015-07-02 12:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-08-01 01:43 am (UTC)*hugs back*
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Date: 2015-07-02 01:54 pm (UTC)And thank you for sharing that heart. It's beautiful. (I'm not familiar enough with Hannibal to make the connection there. I thought of Skyrim.)
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Date: 2015-08-01 01:44 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2015-08-01 01:45 am (UTC)Hee, I love this so much! Love stories about Sam and his probably perfectly normal family.
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Date: 2015-07-03 12:08 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-08-01 01:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-07-03 02:45 am (UTC)That sounds like a pretty big yay to me. :D
I can totally sympathize with wanting to get tiny details right, even if they're not that significant overall. It makes the world you're writing about feel more real.
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Date: 2015-08-01 01:48 am (UTC)Oh, yes, so much! Little details make the thing.
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Date: 2015-07-06 06:57 am (UTC)Pretties are so pretty, esp the octopuses.
Sorry to hear about Wink.
<3
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Date: 2015-08-01 01:47 am (UTC)