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Winter Soldier Blanket – more or less complete! My job is done, anyway. Emma is going to outline the star in black, and may yet do radiating lines from the star points to the edge. Knit in 8 ply acrylic with a soft handle and a slight shine. Absolutely winged it with the colourwork star, making it up as I went, then once I switched to the silver rings, I used pi shawl increases. There’s slight ruffling because Emma wanted smooth increases, so I did kfab rather than yarnovers, which would have left eyelet holes. For scale – that is spread on our double bed. Final stitch count was 576. I used seven 100g balls of silver, part of a 100g ball of red, and about 1 ½ 80g balls of black, so the final weight is fucking heavy.

Newly acquired comics – Hawkeye: Blindspot and Captain America: Man Out Of Time. Blindspot is unfortunately a very flimsy-feeling softcover, because the entry on the website I bought it from was wrong and said it was hardback. I got a partial refund, but I kept it, because I couldn’t find a single hardcover available for sale on the internet. Maybe I’ll find one in the future. Man Out Of Time is hardback and lovely, and I’m just happy to own it.

archwrites:

ducttapefae:

Same Dan, same.

I mean, yes, this is true, but I also feel like Peggy has better sense than to volunteer as the guinea pig for an experiment when the previous test subject developed megalomania, noselessness, and terrible case of red cranium. 

Volunteering AFTER Steve successfully beefcaked up without contracting supervillainous side effects is far more sensible — similar to what happens in roboticonography’s amazing fic Flames We Never Lit.

I may be writing an AU where Peggy has always been sick and is actually dying when a newly arrived Erskine offers her the prototype serum to save her life…

jabberwockypie:

When I snap a wooden knitting needle, it MIGHT just be you know, stuff happens.  So I switch to metal for a bit.

When I BEND A METAL NEEDLE IN HALF, I’m probably too stressed out to be knitting.

*headdesk*

I originally purchased a Knitpro Spectra kit with beautiful rainbow acrylic tips. I stress fractured a pair of tips in six days. Fortunately, I was able to negotiate a replacement/upgrade to a Nova kit with nickel/brass tips, which are a bit more hard-wearing. Still, this is how my 3.25 pair looked after I finished the Forest Path Stole commission two days ago.

Particular joys

As an autistic person with major anxiety issues, I do a lot of comfort watching (and watching, and rewatching). I like mysteries, and have a fond affection for Agatha Christie. David Suchet’s Poirot and Geraldine McEwan/Julia McKenzie’s Marple are series I can watch over and over and enjoy just as much every time.

And as a knitter, as someone who knits every day to help control my anxiety, keep my mind active and make a little pin money on the side, it’s a wonderful thing to watch the skill with which both Geraldine McEwan and Julia McKenzie knit.

They’re not just mocking for camera – they’re both wonderfully accomplished knitters who can knit speedily, often without looking at their work, all while delivering a performance. How often is there something made for television or film these days that involves a character doing any kind of handcraft, let alone a fibre art? There are so many of us out there in the modern world who still knit for pleasure and for pasttime and for pocket money. It’s lovely looking at media and admiring characters wearing everything from a jumper to a hat to a woolly scarf, and guessing what might have been lovingly hand knit by someone in the costume department, but actually seeing it knit on screen – that’s a rare joy indeed.

Slow Play – IamShadow21 – What’s Your Number? (2011) [Archive of Our Own]

copperbadge:

iamshadow21:

Fandom: What’s Your Number? (2011)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Ally Darling/Colin Shea, Ally Darling & Daisy Darling
Characters: Ally Darling, Colin Shea, Daisy Darling
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Developing Relationship, Sexual Tension, Sexual Experimentation, Making Out, Kissing, Frottage, Heteronormativity, Heterosexual Sex, Hand Jobs, Sexual Fantasy, Sexual Frustration, Anal Sex, Spanking, Slow Burn, (sort of), Kink Negotiation, Sex Positive, Dom/sub Undertones, Communication, Enthusiastic Consent, Honesty, Pregnancy, but not Ally’s

Summary: Ally had said I need to slow down. She didn’t know that Colin would take her at her word.

Now they’re locked in a teenage holding-pattern game of sexual chicken. They’re either going to die from the sexual tension or eventually have the most explosive sex ever.

Notes: For copperbadge.

This is all Sam’s fault. Sam wrote What’s Your Number? fic (More Than A Little True), which meant I had to watch What’s Your Number?, which means I now watch it on a semi-regular basis whenever I need some adorable naked Chris Evans in my life with a plot that contains terrible messages about sex. So, to try and continue what I think may have been the film makers’ original intentions, I have written a couple of thousand words of post-canon fix-it to mend the awfulness somewhat.

Your fault, Sam. Happy Holidays. 🙂

HAHAHAHA THIS IS AMAZING 😀 

I will slowly convert the entire internet to writing What’s Your Number fanfiction, if only to repair all that is wrong with the movie itself. 

I think it would require the entire internet to fix What’s Your Number?

Slow Play – IamShadow21 – What’s Your Number? (2011) [Archive of Our Own]

Slow Play – IamShadow21 – What’s Your Number? (2011) [Archive of Our Own]

Fandom: What’s Your Number? (2011)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Ally Darling/Colin Shea, Ally Darling & Daisy Darling
Characters: Ally Darling, Colin Shea, Daisy Darling
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Developing Relationship, Sexual Tension, Sexual Experimentation, Making Out, Kissing, Frottage, Heteronormativity, Heterosexual Sex, Hand Jobs, Sexual Fantasy, Sexual Frustration, Anal Sex, Spanking, Slow Burn, (sort of), Kink Negotiation, Sex Positive, Dom/sub Undertones, Communication, Enthusiastic Consent, Honesty, Pregnancy, but not Ally’s

Summary: Ally had said I need to slow down. She didn’t know that Colin would take her at her word.

Now they’re locked in a teenage holding-pattern game of sexual chicken. They’re either going to die from the sexual tension or eventually have the most explosive sex ever.

Notes: For copperbadge.

This is all Sam’s fault. Sam wrote What’s Your Number? fic (More Than A Little True), which meant I had to watch What’s Your Number?, which means I now watch it on a semi-regular basis whenever I need some adorable naked Chris Evans in my life with a plot that contains terrible messages about sex. So, to try and continue what I think may have been the film makers’ original intentions, I have written a couple of thousand words of post-canon fix-it to mend the awfulness somewhat.

Your fault, Sam. Happy Holidays. 🙂

Slow Play – IamShadow21 – What’s Your Number? (2011) [Archive of Our Own]

There’s A History Between Us (and people think it’s mine) – IamShadow21

Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Steve Rogers/Tony Stark
Characters: Tony Stark, Steve Rogers, Clint Barton, Natasha Romanov, Bruce Banner, Peter Parker, Nick Fury, May Parker (Spider-Man), Ben Parker
Additional Tags: Not Iron Man 3 Compliant, Not Marvel Cinematic Universe Phase Two Compliant, Superfamily, Team as Family, Babies, Accidental Baby Acquisition, Kid Peter Parker, Established Relationship, Self-Esteem Issues, Slut Shaming, Team Bonding, Fluff and Angst, Angst with a Happy Ending, Kid Fic, SteveTonyFest, Past Relationship(s), Sexual History, Arguing, Tony Stark Has Issues, Tony Stark-centric, Tony Stark Has A Heart, Making Up, Friendship, Revelations, Movie Night, Avengers Movie Night, Domestic Avengers, Domestic, Domestic Fluff, Not Thor: The Dark World Compliant, Not Captain America: The Winter Soldier Compliant
Summary: A moment is all it takes to open up the box and confirm his suspicion.

“I think you’re right, Cap,” Tony says. “This isn’t my area.”

Notes: Written for superhusbandswithasideoffamily for SteveTonyFest, December ‘14.

Hey there, you said you liked established Steve/Tony and angst with a happy ending. I riffed off your tumblr user name and came up with something ridiculously fluffy, so I’ve tried to write it with some conflict and a whole buttload of self-esteem issues, and hopefully, that’s angsty enough for you to be able to enjoy this. 🙂

This is not Phase Two compliant, and takes place at some unspecified time after The Avengers, when Thor is in Asgard and Coulson remains (apparently, to the team) dead.

Content includes themes of slut-shaming, but it’s mainly self-inflicted and linked to self-esteem and pre-emptive defensiveness than someone actually judging/shaming another person.

There’s A History Between Us (and people think it’s mine) (4582 words) by IamShadow21

There’s A History Between Us (and people think it’s mine) – IamShadow21

kath-ballantyne:

Next month is our 14th anniversary. I’m still stupidly in love & our relationship is better than ever. We look after each other & deal with all the health shit life throws at us both & it’s wonderful.
That said, I don’t remember the last time I got laid or made out with my girl. Maybe it’s time for a bottle of wine & some porn

I think maybe we should give some kind of offering to the period fairy so that our cycles aren’t opposite to each other any more. I suspect she only takes blood, but will try to offer her credit card as an alternative.

Wine and porn are always welcome.