losing your mind // remembering your heart

Jul. 3rd, 2025 07:06 am
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"You are planning to take him down?" The Soldier asked. The question sounded stupid even as he said it aloud. Of course they wanted to take Captain America down. Captain America is a target. The target.

"We already have him," the man said.

The Soldier's heart jolted out of his chest. There were too many emotions in him to describe, too many thoughts in a head so used to the quiet, and it was hard to breathe past the strangling sensation in his body.

"I'll take the job," the Soldier said. There was no thought in it, no logic, no planning. The Soldier knew, with a deep-seated driving need, that he could not say no. He could not leave Captain America alone. But he also could not let Captain America see his face.

The mask never came off. After dragging himself out of the Potomac, the Soldier ran, content to leave HYDRA and the strange man plaguing his thoughts behind.

No plan survives first contact with the enemy. Especially true if that enemy is one Steven Grant Rogers.

Words: 6885, Chapters: 1/2, Language: English

https://archiveofourown.org/works/67124473

Just pretend

Jul. 3rd, 2025 05:27 am
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Bucky Barnes se declara por accidente a una persona que no desea, así que le pide a su compañero de habitación que finja ser su novio.

Words: 483, Chapters: 1/1, Language: Español

https://archiveofourown.org/works/67122589

i've got troubled thoughts and the self-esteem to match

Jul. 3rd, 2025 04:29 am

A Better Ending

Jul. 3rd, 2025 04:11 am
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It was over. Steve was gone. And Bucky… Bucky would just have to find a way to keep moving forward. Alone.
He had barely taken a step when a voice, familiar and warm, cut through the air like a lifeline.
“Hey Buck! where are you going?”
or
Steve never left in End Game and the two get their feelings sorted out

Words: 776, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

https://archiveofourown.org/works/67120879

Aachen

Jul. 3rd, 2025 08:00 am
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I'm on holiday!
I haven't been blogging much on this trip, because it's mostly a trip to see friends and family. But yesterday was all about tourism, and I spent the day in Aachen, Germany, in 36C heat. I came here once before with friend L, when she showed me the place briefly, and I knew I needed to come back. Six years later, here I am.

My favourite thing about Aachen, although I've no idea how true it is, is this quote from Wikivoyage:
"As Aachen is a legally recognised spa, it could call itself Bad Aachen, but refuses to do so, as it then would no longer be first in almost all alphabetical lists."
My second favourite thing about Aachen, and the reason I'm here, is undoubedly the cathedral. It's unique, and beautiful. The central octagonal part dates from the 9th century, while the gothic "extension" is newer. It was built as the seat of Charlemagne (and this is why the octagonal shape - it resembles an Orthodox cathedral and he was making a statement about being equal to the rulers of the eastern empire). The throne that was allegedly his, and almost certainly wasn't, is present in the upper level. But it's not really the history that interests me so much as the look of the thing, with wonderful mosaics on the ceilings and a general sense of opulance that actually - in contrast to most Catholic opulance - manages to look well-designed. I didn't bring my good camera on this trip, but here are some phonecam photos.

Exterior view showing a tall but narrow octagonal section between a larger gothic bit and a tower (which is actually part of the city hall)

Interior, looking down at the octagon. A two-level space with marble walls and an intricate mosaic floor, seats for worshippers.

Tall choir in a gothic style. Stained glass either side, golden reliquaries on stands in the centre.

Blue and gold mosaic ceiling with a hanging lantern. Vaulting between marble-clad columns.

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Weather's cooled down a bit, that's nice

Jul. 5th, 2025 07:29 pm
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Moonpie's foot looks better, we didn't end up having to take her for an x-ray at all.

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We're over the halfway line - Late June 02025

Jul. 2nd, 2025 10:12 pm
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Let's begin this entry with One Hundred reasons Not To Die, which starts with oranges and moves through the ways that communities come together in the face of disasters and help each other. Which stands in stark contrast to the ways that having more wealth than could possibly be earned or expended in one lifetime (at least, not without seriously screwing over everyone and everything you can) has altered the way that the richest think of how they should be allowed to rule without fetters, that their ideas are always the smartest, and the rest of us should be beholden to them for everything so that we can't stop them or tell them no.

Ask most people who go through a university program where there's at least some amount of sport, and they'll tell you that the sports parts of the university are almost always the things that get the most money and what they want the fastest. A non-tenured professor at the University of Colorado in Boulder doesn't make nearly as much as the football head coach, and very little of the money that the football program makes ever finds its way back to the academics, nor does it seem that the football program (or other programs) can be decalred to be self-sufficient and their budget allocations moved over to other places that could desperately use it, like salaries for those doing the teaching. This is the perpetual issue with universities that have well-known athletics programs - they bring in a fair amount of revenue, but a lot of that revenue then gets spent improving the athletics portions and the rest of the university is left to figure out how to get their own funding. (My university was at least fairly explicit that a lot of the revenue from their "revenue-generating" sports is used to ensure scolarships and other materials for the "non-revenue-generating sports," which means that the football program often provides the operating budget for much of the women's sports available at the university, which is not a terrible thing to do with that cash. It also helps that it was a university with a fair number of alumnae who have gone on to prestigious jobs, so there's a lot of regular donations and endowments that they can use for capital and operating expenses. They still don't pay everyone on the teaching side enough, though.)

Harvard University employed someone to find descendants of slaves who had a history with Harvard's founders and prominent people. For doing the job admirably, thoroughly, and well, Harvard fired him, because he was finding far too many people with the associations than what the university wanted to acknowledge. They were willing to peek beneath the hood, but not to fully look at what was found there.

( International Affairs, Domestic Fascism, and the occasional piece of good news )

Out of this post, McSweeney's says "Happy Father's Day, fools" with a post about just what it takes to be a dad.

And the need to remember that you don't know the gender of the person in front of you unless they've told you, which means a lot of habits that people have about gendering people based on things that don't actually say what their gender is need to be unlearned, both in person and in things like describing the contents of photos or other archival content.

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Purrcy; Pride

Jul. 3rd, 2025 12:20 am
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I finished taking the laundry out of this basket & put it down on its side for Purrcy investigation. It was worth snooping in, but not really good for long-term use, he found.

What's that in the sky? he wondered, after several days of rain & thunder-growler attacks.

Purrcy the tuxedo tabby stands in a brown cloth laundry bin lying on its side. He peers out and up at the sunlight coming from the skylight above, his whiskers looking long but rather doubtful.

My back continues to be better, while not being anything like *all* better. Prednisone has the reputation of being Side Effects City, my biggest ones so far are dry mouth making my voice all scratchy, and a certain amount of ADHD/mania type behavior, trouble settling & sleeping. Only 3 more days of tapering to go, though.

Amid all The Horrors ramping up & up, here's something that's given me active joy in the past couple of days: Sir Ian McKellan joining Scissor Sisters onstage at Glastonbury Festival:



My god, he's still got that full Royal Shakespeare voice.

It makes me cry a bit with joy at the end there, seeing Sir Ian being able to lead his people in a public celebration of being out & proud. And to see an old man being *venerated*, for once, admired for achievements but in this case also as a symbol of what people like those in the audience can have with age: a *full* life, a *long* life, a life with everything in it, despite what they may have been told. You don't have to be young to be queer, it's not a phase, it's part of a complete human life.
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Not a GREAT week when it comes to ending sexual violence.

Jul. 2nd, 2025 09:08 pm
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The whole Diddy thing. It doesn't matter how much proof there is.

Brad Pitt, who is known to have struck his wife and his children then perpetuated lawfare on them for years to the point where several of his kids no longer want contact with him, has the number one movie right now. Best opening weekend of his career. Most of the coverage doesn't even mention the violence.

On the anniversary of Tortoise Media publishing allegations of rape and sexual assault against Neil Gaiman, Netflix is dropping season two of The Sandman. Meanwhile, Gaiman is forcing one of his victims into arbitration. Not because she's libling him, but because she broke an NDA. Everything's gone very quiet, which I assume is what he wanted.

Some thoughts from smarter people:

Rebecca Solnit: Cynicism Is the Enemy of Action.

Tarana Burke: Tarana Burke doesn’t define #MeToo’s success by society’s failure.
Some people want to judge the movement on specific outcomes, so when a case is overturned, Burke said, “people are like, ‘Oh the #MeToo movement has failed.’” Instead, she said, such outcomes are proof of the difficulty of the work.

“It’s not about the failure of the movement; it’s the failure of the systems,” Burke explained. “These systems are not designed to help survivors, they’re not designed to give us justice, they’re not designed to end sexual violence.”

“When we bind ourselves to the outcomes of these cases, we are constantly up and down with our disappointment, our highs and lows,” Burke continued. “What they tell us is just how much work we need to change the laws and the policies but most importantly, to change the culture that creates the people who commit, who perpetrate acts of harm.”
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Jul. 2nd, 2025 11:37 pm
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The Old Guard 2 (2025):

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Bring on the Bad Guys: Green Goblin #1

Jul. 2nd, 2025 10:30 pm
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Second day in.

Jul. 2nd, 2025 10:01 pm
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Thinking it'd look more professional, I went with a messenger bag instead of a backpack today. As professional as it may have looked, I'm going to go back to the backpack. So much easier for so many things on so many levels, not the least of which is being able to ride a bike. Yes, I know bike messengers do it all the time. No, I'm not a professional bike messenger, and I'm unwilling to try. Especially if I'm already wearing a nice dress.

There wasn't much time to read at work, mostly because I'd been given an actual task to do: sorting through patient folders and setting aside old records to discard. Not as much fun as it'd have been if I'd had an MP3 player with me, and still satisfying to see the piles start to rise, and space in the drawers start to emerge. Where there's space in a drawer, there's objects to be discovered, and found my second office perk. A stain remover stick's not much, but it's still something I could take home with me. The first thing is a large can of cold brew coffee sitting in my fridge, waiting for a morning I need a jolt beyond all meaning.
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(I can I can) see the future

Jul. 3rd, 2025 02:09 am
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He didn't even know the woman, the woman he knows so intimately now. Roxana, Roxy to her friends, was just the same kind of person he was. Driven by the death of a family member—her father—and given a mission. An Ethos. She didn't care for grand displays of power, chose to keep it familiar, close, to the neighborhood. Wanted to do right by her father and his legacy, and the things he taught her.

They were so similar, at their cores, Peter and her. It was just so unfortunate that Alexander Pierce wasn't even half the people May or Ben were—not even close.

Words: 8556, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

https://archiveofourown.org/works/67117927

"The Witness for the Dead" by Katherine Addison

Jul. 2nd, 2025 06:15 pm
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You know that feeling where you're enjoying inhabiting a book so much you don't want to reach the end? This week I finished The Witness for the Dead by Katherine Addison, and that's how I felt.
 
Witness is a companion novel to Addison's breakout novel, The Goblin Emperor (TGE), which I read for the first time last year and never got around to reviewing. You don't need to have read TGE to enjoy this one at all; Witness focuses on a minor character from TGE and his adventures after the events of that novel. Thara Celehar is a prelate of the god Ulis, and his role in elven society is something like a cross between a priest and a private detective. He has the ability to commune, in a limited fashion, with the dead, and he is employed by the city to provide this service to the people. This may involve reporting a deceased's last thoughts to a mourner, asking a deceased to clarify a point on their will, or seeking answers from a murder victim to bring their killer to justice.

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2 Old 2 Guard

Jul. 2nd, 2025 07:08 pm
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Tl;dr: I liked it a lot.

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Bleeding

Jul. 4th, 2025 05:02 pm
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Ugh

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Pacific Rim: Ganti

NSFW Jul. 2nd, 2025 02:24 pm
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One Day [I Am Gonna Grow Wings]

Jul. 2nd, 2025 08:20 pm
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One day, I am gonna grow wings
A chemical reaction
Hysterical and useless

Bucky Barnes gains his freedom, and something else unexpected. Steve is just trying not to lose his mind while he helps Bucky put his back together, and Sam's just here for the ride.

Words: 4224, Chapters: 1/5, Language: English

https://archiveofourown.org/works/67110253

Take Care of Yourself.

Jul. 2nd, 2025 07:01 pm

A Better Tomorrow

Jul. 2nd, 2025 06:48 pm
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https://archiveofourown.org/works/67108282

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Tapping on the ship gains no response, knocking doesn’t either. Pulling his sleeve down with a brief glance around, Clint uses his long sleeve to wipe some of the dirt & debris off of the windshield.

Clint freezes at what he sees within the ship, a boy sitting behind a console - small and unconscious, red and blue baby blankets swaddled up on his lap. He appears to be unharmed, but Clint can’t help noticing just how young he appears.

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Or, what if Peter Parker was Superman?

Words: 1477, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

https://archiveofourown.org/works/67108282

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