Sep. 20th, 2016

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bomberqueen17:

danceswchopstck:

For @bomberqueen17 : I couldn’t figure out how to make a HELLA BI gif just like the one you described in http://ift.tt/1QkNstP, but I hope you’ll like this one! Did I capture the Bucky spirit? ;-)

(Glitter gif makers? Easy to find. Rotating text? Possible. Striped text? Yeeeaaahhhhh, kiiiinda. All three, with stripes in those exact colors? Beyond me.)

THIS IS PERFECT I LOVE IT

I’m reblogging this for Bisexual Awareness Week, because it is the perfect gif and also nobody else has ever made me a flaming gif of anything before and this remains the first fanart I ever got for a fic. :)

The excerpt it’s illustrating was from a bit in Full of Grace where Bucky runs a really popular blog that everyone assumes is run by someone merely claiming to be the Winter Soldier, and he starts doing Q and As after he suddenly gets verified by mysterious means that no one will explain.

q: are you with the Black Widow or are you gay?

a: I spent a really long time looking for a really good graphic to respond to this one with. I eventually had to make one.

[image: animated glitter text, in a pink-purple-blue spectrum, rotating in place, reading “HELLA BI”]

(I admit, I’m posting this partly because I’m a little bummed at the viral post going around about Bucky getting a popular blog, because I wrote that fic last year, y’all.)

Actually here’s the snippet in question about how he got the blog verified.

“That’s it,” Steve said. “I gotta respond to that.”

Natasha had been reading over his shoulder, and she laughed. “I can get you a verified account,” she said.

He gave her a considering look. “You think?”

She laughed again. “How do you think he got the one he has? I did that.”

“Do I want to know how?” Steve asked.

She grinned up at him. “Well,” she said. “I got my verified account the regular way. And so I said, look, this guy is who I say he is.”

“And they okayed that,” Steve said. “Really?”

“Not at all,” she said. “They laughed at me and said it doesn’t work like that. And I said, well, this guy’s legally dead but obviously isn’t, and has no official identity, so what can I do to convince you?”

“Well, what did they say?” Steve asked.

She sat back, stretching her shoulders, and glanced at her phone. “I suggested we meet up in person,” she said.

“How’d it go?” Steve asked.

“Well,” she said. “They were skeptical of a meeting, but agreed to it, and were going on about some bullshit, so James and I just… figured out which of their highest-level employees needed to be in on this meeting, and… set it up.”

“Set it up,” Steve said; she was giving him all her “coy evasive” tells and inviting him to disbelieve her. Sometimes she fell into formulaic mannerisms with him, and his background in performance made him find it pretty reassuring. It was fascinating that she did it so much when no one else was present. It was also fascinating that unlike many people, she didn’t generally use it when she was lying.

“It may have involved abducting two of them and bringing them along on a home invasion of the third’s house,” Natasha said. That was what it was– she was proud of herself.

Steve rubbed his face. “If anyone sees us together in public I don’t know you.”

that’s from chapter 8 of Full of Grace.
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to everyone who’s ever said something kind about my work: you help me get through the day. thank you.
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Chapter 7: The Crossing Must Be Near

There was a moment of palpable shock– well, Finn felt it, anyway, he didn’t know if Kes did– and then Kylo Ren said, low and amused, “Why, Kes Dameron, I never expected– perhaps I should have.”

“You know,” Kes said loudly, “I always figured you had your reasons for what happened and all. And I can even see my way to how somebody’d wanna stab Han Solo in the fucking chest. I just never pegged you for the type?”

“Have you come to save your son?” Kylo Ren asked. “That’s really moving. I hadn’t anticipated that at all.”

“No,” Kes said. “I mean, I’d love to, but that’s not why I’m here, entirely.”

“Why are you here, then?” Kylo Ren asked. “Surely General Organa wasn’t so tactless as to ask you.”

“She didn’t,” Kes said. “But I mean. I got pattern recognition skills, man. I don’t really know you, you were a little kid when I last talked to you so I’m not gonna pretend I can judge anything you done since then. But surely you noticed, like, Leia Organa’s got a pattern with my family, and that pattern is that she gets them killed. So I figured, who am I to fight that kind of destiny?”
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sugarspiceandcursewords replied to your post “I finished chapter 7 more or less a week ago, and I have been trying…”

It works. I mean, I can’t say for certain whether it works in the precise place you currently have it in NWaL, but standalone, it hella works. It prompts me to ask, though: how well did Poe and Ben know each other as kids, in your headcanon? I need to reread Before the Awakening, because my vibe there was that Poe only vaguely knew Leia before that – but I love all the fics where they all have history, because it fits better with Kes and Shara. Just curious about your take.

I’ve never been a “canon can go hang” type, I’ve always been super close to canon in all my other ‘verses. But SW was so new, and the peripheral materials so relatively difficult to access, that I sort of… made stuff up.

And so now people post some great excerpts and rundowns of this extra-movie canon stuff, and it’s just too late for me. I’ve already worked out all this backstory stuff, and I just– I made attempts to leave room for all that, but I just can’t reconcile all of BtA etc. with the choices I’ve made, and some of it strikes me as internally inconsistent and written by people with different priorities than I have so I’m not really in as deep a place of mourning over it as I otherwise might be.

I do regret giving Kes and Poe a fraught relationship, because that *is* overdone; I already regretted it before I got to the exposition part. I kind of tucked it in at the beginning on impulse, purely because I needed a reason Kes hadn’t gotten involved as soon as his son had. It would have made more sense for Kes to have held himself back until after Hosnia, out of a sense of duty to his civilian position and so on, and that wouldn’t have contradicted the canon that, f’rex, Poe left Black One at Kes’s place while he went on his secret mission. 

But I did what I did and I’m seeing it through. (I actually sort of feel like there *wasn’t* much of Kes being an estranged dad until after one of my early snippets on the topic got popular, and that’s actually a major component of the fanon in that respect, but that might be my overinflated ego. I just know when I wrote that bit, I’d only seen Kes as either inexplicably absentee, or as a kind of puttery old man who didn’t do much, or as conveniently dead offscreen somewhere like Shara.)

I also kind of like the idea that Leia and the Dameron-Beys didn’t know each other all that well, but– I came up with this idea pretty early in my entry to the fandom, and I just didn’t know anybody else, and it seemed fun. So I’m seeing that through, too. I think the canon is that Leia interacted with Shara in a professional manner a couple of times, and so did Luke, and Kes worked with Han Solo and impressed him, and that was that. 

I added in anything else. I decided to make a connection between the factions of Space Latinos suggested by the Organa seniors’ actors and, of course, Oscar Isaac, and so I slowly came up with this whole backstory for Kes, and I decided extra tragedy would be cool so I put them on Alderaan etc., and then it was just more satisfying to moosh them together.  

Because then I could give the Poe/Leia dynamic some extra angst, and it gave me all kinds of lazy shortcuts to work with emotions-wise. 

And I just love the idea that Kes and Leia have known each other so long, and as she’s struggling to build the new Republic, Kes is doing exactly what he set out to do, making a new home for the remnant of his people, and making Yavin 4 a wonderful place to live whether or not the Republic infrastructure is there for them. And for him it’s kind of hollow, because almost all of his people are dead, and Leia kind of… feels him, on that one, because her mentors/parents are dead along with all of her people, and this nation-building is not anything like what she thought it would be, and it’s not going well and she just doesn’t have anyone to turn to. And so she comes to stay sometimes, and it’s one of the few places she likes that Han is comfortable, and her weird son is as happy here as he ever is anywhere, because Poe is a little darling and drags him around everywhere. But Leia can’t spend too much time there, because she’s Political, and the reason Yavin 4 is so successful is that it is Not Political, and she can’t bear to risk warping it with her influence. 

And after Shara dies, Kes sort of blames Leia, so she doesn’t come around nearly as much. So Poe doesn’t really know her all that well, not the way an adult would. And so, he was closest with Ben when they were little kids, and knew him less and less well just as shit was getting weirder and weirder in Ben’s head. But in my headcanon, Ben was always weird, and his parents never quite knew what to do with him, and Poe never quite knew what to do with him, but in those early years Poe was so enamored of the Organa-Solos and how important they were that he took his duty to “look after Ben” very, very seriously.
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bomberqueen17:

New phone. It has this feature where it’ll keep the screen on while it detects that you’re looking at it. I turned that on, but it spent all day putting the screen to sleep while I was looking at it. Annoyed, I complained to my dude. He said oh, it can’t see you because you’re bisexual.
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Also: I was at the delightful Air Zoo museum in Michigan yesterday and saw an F-86 with the name “Maj. J. Bolt” painted under the cockpit. I naturally thought you should be informed.

I had to look up the F-86. A swept-wing jetfighter! That’s Bolt to a T! 

One of my big aspirations once I’ve laid The Epic to rest is that I’m going to get to write something lighthearted with Bolt in it being absolutely fucking obscene and darling. I can’t wait. 
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Shirts, dyed. 

My washing machine did a much better job than I would have with a pot and a stick anyway. 
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I had forgotten about this lil griffon necklace. Also, I like this bralette neckline with the lace dress neckline, but I can’t get a good photo of it. #nerdselfie
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thebyrchentwigges:

ploypisut:

I need your help for choosing three patterns do you like from six patterns. I’m going to make notebooks and sell them on etsy shop.💕🐯🕊🍃🌸🍊 #pattern #surfacedesign #ploypisut #surfacepattern

TIGERS because of this Adrienne Rich poem:

Aunt Jennifer’s tigers prance across a screen,
Bright topaz denizens of a world of green.
They do not fear the men beneath the tree;
They pace in sleek chivalric certainty.

Aunt Jennifer’s finger fluttering through her wool
Find even the ivory needle hard to pull.
The massive weight of Uncle’s wedding band
Sits heavily upon Aunt Jennifer’s hand.

When Aunt is dead, her terrified hands will lie
Still ringed with ordeals she was mastered by.
The tigers in the panel that she made
Will go on prancing, proud and unafraid.
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via http://ift.tt/2d6FCsO:lux-obscura replied to your photo “I had forgotten about this lil griffon necklace. Also, I like this…”

Is the necklace Crafty Celts? Also, please to tell where you found a bralette in size “tig-ole-biddies”. Cause I’m suffering without one but. XD

It IS the Crafty Celts! I camped near the dude who runs it at Pennsic, back when I used to go, and pawed at their wares on many occasions before finally treating myself.

The bralette is from Torrid, as is the dress! All of their bralettes are AMAZING. I have either size 2, which fits perfectly then shrinks slightly the first time you wash it, or size 3, which I just bought and haven’t washed yet and it’s a little too big just now; normally I wear a 36J or 38H bra. 

I have been wistfully wishing for a strappy bralette like this in my size for LITERALLY DECADES. I found out about these from @riotsnotdiets, who rocks them beautifully. 

They don’t stock them in stores very much, but they’ll usually have one or two, which was great for me to figure out my size and then ORDER ONE OF EACH ONLINE. I’ve been good and restrained myself to the buy-one-get-one sales and such. But. OMG. I resisted Torrid’s siren call for a long time but how how how how did they figure out how to make cute strappy wire-free bralettes in Big Honkin Titties size when the entire rest of the fashion world was so firmly convinced it Can’t Be Done???? 

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