Tag: kath-ballantyne

1) Why did you choose your URL?

Way back in the heyday of Angelfire, when you chose your URL, you had to choose from a set handful of two-letter combinations and then your chosen handle went on the end. ‘ia’ was one of the options, so I chose that and made my username ‘mshadow’. The 21 is because I like the number 21 and because some websites I’ve created accounts with, iamshadow has already been taken.

2) What is your middle name?

I don’t give out personal information, but I will say that it’s old-fashioned. Like my first name, which a couple of you know, it’s a name people associate more with old ladies than people in their thirties. I was given it because there were people with that name a few generations back on both sides of my family tree.

3) If you could own a fairytale/fictional pet, what would it be?

I used to want a pocket-sized dragon. Common, maybe, but no less awesome for it.

4) Favorite color?

Right now, probably purple, but I have strong loves for peacock blue, duck egg blue, jade green and cool yellow.

5) Favorite song?

I don’t really have one? I have very eclectic tastes and have handfuls of songs I like in many genres. If I had to pick one I come back to a lot, even though I don’t listen to a lot of electronic music, it’d be Massive Attack’s Teardrop. It was on one of my Triple J’s Hottest 100 albums that I bought around the time I left school, and I found it soothing to listen to on repeat while I was writing, many years before I was dignosed autistic and learned that aural stimming was a thing. I still use it sometimes when I get anxious to mellow me out and calm me.

6) What are your top three fandoms?

Right now, Marvel/Avengers is my primary, but I dabble in Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, CSI, Sherlock Holmes, Agatha Christie’s Marple/Poirot, White Collar, Welcome To Night Vale, and Endeavour/Inspector Morse/Lewis.

7) Why do you enjoy tumblr?

I love the fan content, especially the amount of visual media and meta.

8) Tag all 9 of your tumblr crushes (they have to do all 8 questions too who can do this if they like)

No obligation for anyone to do this at all (I rarely do memes myself), but people I love dearly and follow avidly on Tumblr include: @actuallyclintbarton @jabberwockypie @kath-ballantyne @randomyayness @neurowonderful @spiralstreesandcupsoftea @the-wordbutler @literalbookworm and @copperbadge

kath-ballantyne-art:

Bucky knitting a sock

Third in my Bucky knitting series

So I’ve seen head canons of Bucky post Winter Soldier learning to knit but I loved the idea of him learning as a child to make warm things for Steve to wear. Steve was stuck in bed a lot and Bucky would sit watch
and knitting gave him something productive to do that maybe might stop
Steve getting sick next time.

Bucky knitting as a child

Steve covered in hand knits and looking cranky about it

kath-ballantyne-art:

Yesterday I accidentally drew tiny Bucky knitting and when talking to iamshadow21 in bed about it she mentioned Steve covered in knits and all cranky about it.

“Really Bucky, this is getting ridiculous!”

It’s not so much that Bucky knits for him, it’s that at the first sign of cold Bucky wraps him up in hand knits and wont let him take them off. Really, Steve loves that Bucky spends his free time making stuff for him. He just wishes that it wouldn’t make him feel so weak, wishes that he didn’t actually need it.

When they get a bit older Steve gets Bucky to teach him how to knit so he can knit socks and balaclavas for soldiers.

kath-ballantyne:

So I’ve seen head canons of Bucky post Winter Soldier learning to knit but I loved the idea of him learning as a child to make warm things for Steve to wear. Steve was stuck in bed a lot and Bucky would sit watch and knitting gave him something productive to do that maybe might stop Steve getting sick next time.

Knitting was still cheaper than buying clothing at this time. These days it costs me more in yarn than it does to go and buy something in the shop.

I hope to get around to a series of Bucky knitting through out the years. Probably in the war and post Winter Soldier too.

kath-ballantyne-art:

So I couldn’t help but do this. Someone who is better than me at anatomy (& guns & everything) feel free to draw a better version. This just needs to exist. Bucky in nothing but a smile and a Tommy gun.
The speech bubbles are directly from Man Out Of Time.
In the comic Steve was actually drawing Peggy, or at least he was by the time he started an argument about how Captain America was nothing special. This whole group of guys was ready to deck Steve for it and Bucky talked their way out of it.

kath-ballantyne-art:

iamshadow21 and I are looking at working on a fic/art collaboration for Captain America: Man Out Of Time comic so I was trying to get a hang of sketching Steve and Bucky similarish to how they are drawn. Going to have to go with my versions of them anyway so this will do.

I love this comic. I just want to redraw every big of Bucky from the first part. He’s such a little shit, I love him. Massive Steve pouting and sketching away is also one of my favourite bits. Anyway look out for a few more pages to come when I can upload them. and some that are more than just copies of the comic poses too.

If you haven’t read Man Out Of Time by Waid/Molina/Kesel then you really should. It’s fantastic. Warning for all the sad feels though as Cap is mourning Bucky and not taking it too well.