iamshadow21 replied to your post:

Ah, well it’s nice to know someone besides me and my other half is reading my rec roundups. Yay for sharing the fic love!

You do rec round-ups? Why didn’t I know this? I LOVE READING RECS. It gets me reading new things, or trying fics I might have skipped past.

Yeah, they’re over on my DW/LJ accounts, because it is too damn easy to lose things over here. I do one every week or two, whenever I think I’ve got enough. It started as a way for me to send recs to my partner without constantly emailing her. They’re not sorted at all, they’re just dumped in chronologically in the order I read them.

I have a big, much older Avengers rec post here, sorted by author, but I haven’t updated it in ages. About half of the recs on that list are on my Pinboard, properly tagged, etc. The plan was to have them all up there, but life got in the way.

I love your recs too! I find a lot of fic that way.

Earth’s Mightiest Heroes Seasons 1 & 2

These are now in my hot little hands! I wanted that edition of the second season, mainly because it showed a complete cast shot, including the girls and POC, and not just the four big white dudes. Then I found out it was a steelbook, which made me happy, and then I got to wondering if there’d been a steelbook season one. Turns out there had been, and I found possibly one of the last places on the internet stocking it (@thenile.com.au). Season one cost me $28.93 with free shipping, and I scored season two for super cheap off a seller on eBay for $11.99 + $3 postage (won’t bother linking to that because all of that seller’s stock is gone.) So I got the entirety of EMH, still brand new in shrink wrap, for under $45. Not bad when you consider I’d been looking seriously at the complete 1 & 2 pack that ranges from $60 – $100, depending on where you get it from.

Only complaints so far – one disc clip per box set was broken, meaning a disc floats free (but hey, that’s nothing outside the norm for buying DVDs), there’s a tiny bend in the top edge of the season one case (but it’s barely noticeable, and it still closes and opens fine) and none of the discs in both season box sets are numbered. They have the name of the episode arc on them instead. So I have to guess what disc I need, or google the episode list. I’m guessing it’s because the discs are the same discs they put in the partial season single disc issues, and there’s no need for numbers if you’re only buying one disc at a time, but it’s a bit of a pain in the arse in a box set.

All in all, I am very happy, and satisfied with my purchase, and unless there’s some super stupid menu system, I’ll probably remain that way. 🙂

jabberwockypie:

capsicle107:

Steggy au + baby names, banter, and revelations

↳For Atwellling for the starspangledexchang e. ilu mara ♥♥♥

*SOB* Why aren’t there more stories where Peggy somehow POOF COMICS LOGIC makes it to the future with Steve!? I think I’ve seen one. ONE.

And she’d be there for him (along with Sam) when Winter Soldier Bucky shows up, too.

Come on, it’s not that hard to make up science stuff! Stan Lee did it all the time! All you have to do is like “Howard Stark did sciencey stuff, the end.”

And she could be friends with Natasha and Maria Hill and the other badass ladies of the MCU.

I mean, come on, we all know – and Steve knows – that she could take him, serum or no serum. (It’s one of the things he finds so attractive about Peggy.)

I demand fic. I demand it NOW.

If that fic wasn’t if this is home by Siria, then you need to read that ASAP. It’s my definitive Steve/Peggy.

motleypatches:

liminal-zone:

littletrenchcoatangel:

this gif becomes like 8000% more gay when you realise steve is surrounded by a world he can finally see in colour but he just keeps staring at bucky

#and it was already pretty gay

This whole “color” issue needs to be mentioned at least 10000% more in fics. And if it’s not mentioned already…it really should be.

Steve Rogers has never seen his Bucky Barnes in color.

Steve Rogers has never and will never get to see his old neighborhood in color.

(Of course when I mean “color” I mean the difference of what he saw pre- and post-serum; there are different types of color-blindness after all, and if the serum sharpens all of Steve’s senses….it’s still dramatic)

One of my favourite fandom head canons of Steve’s vision is from Silverlace_Vine’s Perspective series, where the author describes post-Serum Steve as a tetrochromat. So he literally went from having poor, colourblind vision to being able to see colours and details that most non-enhanced humans just can’t.

creatingmyowndreams:

rekit:

rekit:

The best deodorant you will ever use

Seriously. ¼ teaspoon in each pit and you can sweat your ass off, totally stink-free for like 2 full days. It’s a natural anti-bacterial so those little fuckers won’t multiply and make you smell. Plus it’s cheaper and healthier than any deod you can buy anywhere.

Use equal parts of the following:

-corn starch
-baking soda
-coconut oil
-cocoa butter

With a few drops of whatever essential oil you want, for fragrance. Otherwise it basically just smells like nothing. I use tea tree oil & pine needle oil. Cuz they’re MANLY.

Note – It pretty much turns to liquid if it’s warmer than about 75 degrees. If you want to keep it solid, you can refrigerate it or add a little more corn starch.

Reblogging myself again, cuz I still use this and it’s still awesome

This is what I’ve been using for about a year now and it works wonders.

Not convinced it works? My fiance is literally the smelliest human being I’ve ever met when he’s been sweating all day. I made him some with tea tree oil and he now smells nice and mint-ish as the end of the day, even if he’s been outside working.

Not to mention it’s cheaper, smells better, better for you AND better for the environment to make your own 😀

My partner has chemical sensitivities. I am autistic, and have sensory sensitivities. I also have body odour that doesn’t really respond much to commercial deodorants, and this stuff works amazingly for me.

HOWEVER

Crunchy Betty, who came up with the recipe I use discovered, as I did, that certain people (me included) can have a skin reaction to corn starch. Use tapioca/arrowroot starch instead – it’s less likely to give you an itchy pit rash, and it works just as well.

Crunchy Betty’s recipe – we modified it for ease – we don’t infuse the neutral oils, we just put in a capful of lavender oil for scent/antibacterial properties. We also use olive oil in place of the sunflower oil. It takes all of five minutes to make, and you really don’t need to use much at a time. One batch should keep you going for months.

marypickfords:

But I’m a Cheerleader (1999)

1,2,3,4, I won’t take no anymore. 5,6,7,8 – I want you to be my mate. 1,2,3,4 – you’re the one that I adore. 5,6,7,8 – don’t run from me cause this is fate.

This movie is so fucking important to me. A queer film that doesn’t end in grim tragedy, is funny and camp and sassy, but at the same time takes a serious look at anti-gay ‘cures’, marginalisation of queer youth, racial inequality, identity, and love.

I just saw your Avengers bad fic bingo game and omfg you’ve read fics with Clint living in the vents of Avengers tower?! I’ve never come across that but it sounds hilarious!

actuallyclintbarton:

iamshadow21:

actuallyclintbarton:

actualkatebishop:

actuallyclintbarton:

greaseonmymouth:

oh my god that trope it’s the single most RIDICULOUS trope and i’m not sure where it even originated? because it makes ZERO sense for his character. <.< why the hell would an archer be in the vents all the time? ?? (i’ve probably even written it myself once)

but yes. i’ve seen it more in phil/clint fics and tony/steve fics where phil/clint might be background, than in any other fics, but i don’t know man. i’ve also got no sense for how prevalent it is today, as we made the bingo card about 1½ year ago, and i’ve stopped reading tony/steve since then, and i haven’t read much clint/phil either, i guess maybe a handful? so i don’t know. i’m in no way up to date on the current tropes in the mcu fandom…

CLINT IN THE VENTS! Started as a legitimate character quirk in a fic that I read very shortly after Avengers came out that I can no longer remember. The logic, in the fic, is that that’s where he goes when he’s super stressed or upset or freaked out, because (taking from the backstory in comics) he had an abusive home life, and then a pretty-borderline-abusive/neglectful life in foster care/group homes, and he would hide as a kid in small spaces to feel safe, and he learned from a young age that people don’t often look UP when they’re searching for a kid, and so hiding in the air vents was the perfect mix of those two coping mechanisms, and he still fell back on them sometimes. It wasn’t his NORMAL mode of behavior, and it actually indicated that he was REALLY NOT DOING WELL in some way, and it made sense.

But then OTHER fics started using “Clint in the vents” without giving it as much context, and then they started using it as a casual thing, and then it became this huge fandom trope entirely divorced from the original “kind of shitty bad-mental-place coping mechanism from his abusive childhood” context that was the only reason it had made sense AT ALL.

And that is where the “Clint in the vents” trope came from.

That’s so interesting! I mean I could understand it from a crack fic perspective but as a realistic action for his character it didn’t make sense until you explained it, Mat. If you ever find it again, please send me the link! I’d be really interested in reading it.

Yeah, it’s pretty cool! And I doubt I will ever come across it again, but if I do I will be sure to link you! ^_^

I am about 95% certain that what you’re thinking of is snack_size’s Adaptations series, which according to the notes was written for a kink meme prompt. Also noteworthy, though written some months later, is BobbiMorsed’s do the math, expect the trouble series, which has Clint doing the same thing when just recruited for SHIELD. Both are well worth your time, and both have Clint doing it because he’s fucked-up in some way, grief, hyper-vigilance, history of abuse, etc.

Shadow is amazing with the fic linkage, and Adaptations is indeed the fic I was thinking of! No idea if it’s as good as I remember it, but the context at least makes SENSE, which is all I ask for a ductwork fic at this point.

I hope that it’s as good as you remember! I knew it pretty much immediately, because though it’s been a while since I read it (and though it does have echoes of former Phil/Clint) it’s essentially a Clint/Bruce story, and there is so very little Bruce, let alone with Clint. The other, I haven’t read in AGES, but from memory it’s got a solid big cast and Clint is deftly drawn.

I’m gonna fess up now and confess that I have written Clint-in-the-vents into a story, but he wasn’t living there, he was hiding there so he could snipe new recruits with Nerf darts because he was bored.

I just saw your Avengers bad fic bingo game and omfg you’ve read fics with Clint living in the vents of Avengers tower?! I’ve never come across that but it sounds hilarious!

actuallyclintbarton:

actualkatebishop:

actuallyclintbarton:

greaseonmymouth:

oh my god that trope it’s the single most RIDICULOUS trope and i’m not sure where it even originated? because it makes ZERO sense for his character. <.< why the hell would an archer be in the vents all the time? ?? (i’ve probably even written it myself once)

but yes. i’ve seen it more in phil/clint fics and tony/steve fics where phil/clint might be background, than in any other fics, but i don’t know man. i’ve also got no sense for how prevalent it is today, as we made the bingo card about 1½ year ago, and i’ve stopped reading tony/steve since then, and i haven’t read much clint/phil either, i guess maybe a handful? so i don’t know. i’m in no way up to date on the current tropes in the mcu fandom…

CLINT IN THE VENTS! Started as a legitimate character quirk in a fic that I read very shortly after Avengers came out that I can no longer remember. The logic, in the fic, is that that’s where he goes when he’s super stressed or upset or freaked out, because (taking from the backstory in comics) he had an abusive home life, and then a pretty-borderline-abusive/neglectful life in foster care/group homes, and he would hide as a kid in small spaces to feel safe, and he learned from a young age that people don’t often look UP when they’re searching for a kid, and so hiding in the air vents was the perfect mix of those two coping mechanisms, and he still fell back on them sometimes. It wasn’t his NORMAL mode of behavior, and it actually indicated that he was REALLY NOT DOING WELL in some way, and it made sense.

But then OTHER fics started using “Clint in the vents” without giving it as much context, and then they started using it as a casual thing, and then it became this huge fandom trope entirely divorced from the original “kind of shitty bad-mental-place coping mechanism from his abusive childhood” context that was the only reason it had made sense AT ALL.

And that is where the “Clint in the vents” trope came from.

That’s so interesting! I mean I could understand it from a crack fic perspective but as a realistic action for his character it didn’t make sense until you explained it, Mat. If you ever find it again, please send me the link! I’d be really interested in reading it.

Yeah, it’s pretty cool! And I doubt I will ever come across it again, but if I do I will be sure to link you! ^_^

I am about 95% certain that what you’re thinking of is snack_size’s Adaptations series, which according to the notes was written for a kink meme prompt. Also noteworthy, though written some months later, is BobbiMorsed’s do the math, expect the trouble series, which has Clint doing the same thing when just recruited for SHIELD. Both are well worth your time, and both have Clint doing it because he’s fucked-up in some way, grief, hyper-vigilance, history of abuse, etc.

My main stim is chewing/putting stuff in my mouth. I bite my nails really badly and still suck my thumb at night (even though I’m 17). Can you recommend a stim toy or something else I could chew on instead?

fuckyeahstimming:

Folks, ideas?

I am a chronic nail biter too. I reviewed the Twisty Teether Ball HERE. I found it really good for me to fiddle with and chew on when my nail biting gets really bad, but I also keep my hands occupied in other ways. I’m almost always knitting or doing some other craft, and I have a Tangle Therapy that I take with me places, but that’s not really a chewing substitute, just a fidget toy.