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Title: Rocket Being Loved by Five (and Rocket Loving One) Author: Kairos Wordcount: 2155 Rating: General Characters: Rocket and the team, no pairings. Notes: I kind of intended to forget about this as soon as I wrote it, but I guess I still like archiving everything here. This one's short and fluffy and was written for a prompt that sounds mostly like the title but not entirely.
There's a lot of backstory to this post, some of which you might already know. You might have even wondered "Why hasn't Kairos, the biggest GotG fan ever, been posting about this?" The answer is that I've mostly moved over to Tumblr for GotG stuff, and obviously that I haven't really been posting to LJ about anything, even though I always mean to.
The backstory in question, if you don't know, is that James Gunn was fired from directing Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.3 because of some offensive tweets that he made years ago. Fans are angry, the cast stood up to defend him, but Disney won't budge and Gunn himself vanished from social media after his initial apology. There's been a lot of misinformation floating around about this, so if you've only heard bits and pieces and you're not sure who's in the right, I'd be happy to dig up some sources for you. For the purposes of the tale below, though, all that needs to be said about my own views is that I desperately want him back; as far as I'm concerned he's the heart and soul of my favorite movies.
I've been working on my NaNoWriMo romance novel. Not much to say about it except that that has been happening.
Art and crafting: Haha I only put watercolors on my list for traditional painting media but I finished an enormous pastel and I'm halfway done with another one so yay me? No luck doing anything digital lately. My tablet is fine but my Mac is in the shop.
Reading: Finished Anna Karenina and The Invisible Man and a book called Fangirl that a friend gave me because I divulged my secret in real life and she was interested. That's my third book this year by a new author, so I finally finished a resolution. Kinda been without poetry, but I did start on a collection by my Least Favorite Honored American Poet (Walt Whitman) before misplacing it, and finished this little book. Currently reading Moby Dick and this book about avian intelligence. The latter was a birthday gift, the former a Kindle classic I've been looking forward to for a while, and it does not disappoint. But you know how sometimes the most exposure you have to a certain classic is through a spoof? This song has been stuck in my head nonstop.
TV and games: I jinxed it when I said Simon was still into Lost so far. I asked him if I could go on without him, and he said yes, and I watched the next episode by myself but there were two shocking deaths at the end of it and I decided it was worth it to wait for him to feel like it again. I haven't really felt much like a Buffy marathon and I think my DVDs are buried in storage anyway. The only thing I've been watching by myself is Brooklyn-99. Except whoa wait, I do have a huge backlog of watched shows, since I haven't posted about TV in ages. Oh well. B-99 is good, I like it.
Other: Writing for CBR basically takes care of my "blogging about media" item; yay loopholes.
Um, hi? I've been so busy with the move (and there were/are computer issues mixed in) that I even skipped my checklist for May, but I'm ready to start returning to LJ now.
Naturally I was also too busy for a lot of my goals. Here's just a general sort of where I'm at.
Original fiction: I've actually made some progress in "Retronym". Starting to feel like it might be a goal I actually achieve this year. The other writing goals on my list, not so much. I put down Camp NaNoWriMo rather than NaNoWriMo because I thought the month of July would be when I had some time to spare this year, but it's looking like that is very much not the case, so I'm switching back to November for the goal. No recent work on the comics or last year's November novel, but I'm not at all giving up on them. Tell you a secret: I landed a freelance job writing for a website, and it's nothing special but it's the first time I'm being paid for writing and I want to take it seriously. Even if that means neglecting my original work for a while.
Art and crafting: Hey, I finished coloring another sketch! And it's a sketch from like a million years ago that I still happened to have a scan of on my hard drive. Here's the WIP and the completed piece.
Chapter Title: But the Fighter Still Remains Author: Kairos Fandom: Netflix MCU mashup Wordcount: This part, 2417 Rating: Teen for language and canon-typical violence Summary: It was supposed to be an ordinary day, but no, she has to save another life.
So, it's been a couple months and I really didn't intend that at all. Even the anticipation stage for Infinity War turned out to be a major distraction from everything else, but I'm not giving up on Kastle; just left them on the back burner for a bit.
Very sorry if anyone's still interested in this story and I left you hanging! I'll try to be better.
Art and crafting: Finished another of the MCU crossover comics and I've got a couple different old sketches I'm coloring digitally. Time for another LJ art post soon, I think.
Reading: Finished 12 Rules for Life, and that's an author I've never read before, so, one checked off there. Also finished Crossroads of Twilight. I can't find Knife of Dreams, guess it's already packed, so the WoT reread will pick up again at some indeterminate time.
TV and games: Did a review of "The Dark Age." Okay, so I managed to get my husband into Lost, almost accidentally. Isn't that great? But it also means I had to wait for him to go back and watch the ones he had missed, and now I have to wait for him to watch any more, so this is going to be slow going. Played a bit further in FFIX but I think I'm done for a while. The PS2 isn't worth moving and replacing it isn't going to be a priority once we settle in.
Other: I don't think I listed it last time but I'm done making all the fanmixes I want to for a while. (Minor regret: I made a GotG mix last year but never put it up on 8tracks, and now I don't have solid evidence that I predicted the song that was playing when the Guardians showed up in Infinity War. I am that cool.) Enough various posts to count for the "one meta a month" resolution, I think.
Title: Meanwhile on the Street Author: Kairos Wordcount: 1180 Characters: MCU Netflix ensemble Summary: What happens to everyone else? The ones who didn't know anything except what they saw on the news? Notes: MAJOR SPOILERS FOR AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR! I have no idea if the Netflix series will address the end of Infinity War at all or if they've just given up on keeping continuity with the movies, but this is my take on [the end]the snap through the perspectives of the five main characters.
Title: Wedding at Sea Author: Kairos Fandom: Avengers/Infinity War/GotG/Iron Man/hell pretty much everything Wordcount: 3074 Pairing: Tony/Pepper, Peter/Gamora Summary: Tony and Pepper have some loose ends to tie up (in a knot) before all hell breaks loose. Assistance comes from an unlikely and frankly dubious source, but don't worry, he's got tunes.
What can I say, I got tired of waiting for Infinity War and I anticipate we're going to need a lot of fix-its so I got a head start. NO SPOILERS. I'm not seeing it until Friday morning.
And if you’re wondering why they’re on this ship Or other plot-based facts Just repeat to yourself, “It’s just a fic I should really just relax.”
Of course this does not take into account the relative likelihood of anyone's survival. I know lots of my favs are safe.
I want to see your list!
Thanos Bucky Barnes/Winter Soldier Iron Man/Tony Stark Captain America/Steve Rogers Loki Maria Hill Wong Clint Barton/Hawkeye Taneleer Tivan/The Collector Okoye M’Baku Nebula James “Rhodey” Rhodes/War Machine Thor Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow Scott Lang/Ant-Man Sam Wilson/Falcon Vision Stephen Strange Drax the Destroyer Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch Peter Parker/Spider-Man T’Challa/Black Panther Shuri Gamora Peter Quill/Star-Lord Groot Mantis Rocket Raccoon
I can never resist these. Give me a show/movie/fandom, and I'll tell you: my favorite female character my favorite male character my favorite book/season/etc. my favorite episode/issue my favorite cast member my favorite ship a character I’d die defending a character I just can’t sympathize with a character I grew to love my anti otp
Tags: fandom, meme Mad-Eye: content The Glue of the World: Blondie - One Way or Another
Original fiction: Worked on "Retronym" somewhat buuuuut...fanfiction. Dammit, fanfiction.
Art and crafting: You know, I've just been having a great, happy-go-lucky, somewhat productive but mostly just fun time with my tablet. I'm finally working on another of those two-panel MCU comic strips, and that Kastle pic counts for my goal of digitally coloring three sketches. No traditional art or crafting this month, but whatever, that can have its turn later.
Reading: Wait for it: I finally finished a book. Yeah. First one this year that I actually finished. And it wasn't even one of the long ones I've been working on all year, or the self-help book (had to return it and now I'm waiting for my next hold on it to come through). It was Summerlong by Peter S. Beagle, which is a name, and there aren't many of these, that will make me grab and read a book without knowing anything else about it. I'm happy to say I can recommend without reservation, although it's not my favorite by him. I also don't want to mention much about the plot, because for me it's a rare pleasure to start reading without knowing anything about what's coming, and this one really rewards you for it. Unlike most of Beagle's other novels (not that I've read them all by any means), this one has a modern setting and for at least half of it there's very little supernatural activity. If I hadn't known better I would have thought there was none coming, and when it does, it keeps you guessing about what the nature of the otherworldly aspect is -- if you know your mythology you might be able to guess, but if not, you'll still enjoy the reveal. Plugging away at Crossroads of Twilight, book 9 of The Wheel of Time.
TV and games: Did one more BtVS review. Started setting up for the next one, but it's not coming out easy and I feel like something's telling me to not bother concentrating on it right now. I started rewatching Lost, yay! Finally! I think I still love it (or love it again, I'm not sure anymore)! Also made some good progress in FFIX.
Other: Reviewed Jessica Jones S2 (which either no one else has watched yet, or no one had anything to add). Probably some other stuff in there too, whatever.
Chapter Title: Pete Castiglione Author: Kairos Fandom: Netflix MCU mashup Wordcount: This part, 2728 Rating: Teen for language and canon-typical violence Summary: As Sgt. Mahoney has observed, Frank and Karen keep bumping up together.
Chapter Title: Jump the Gun Author: Kairos Fandom: Netflix MCU mashup Wordcount: This part, 2666 Rating: Teen for language and canon-typical violence Summary: Matthew Michael Murdock makes many memorable mistakes. Notes: I'm still here; had some stuff going on this week that kept me away from posting this chapter but it wasn't writer's block stuff. I should warn you that this one is all from one character's perspective. Also that the character is Matt. Frank and Karen will be back to fret over each other next week.
Well, when I was a boy My daddy set me on his knee And he told me, He told me many things! And he said, "Son, There's a lot of things in this world That you're gonna have no use for! And when you get blue, And you've lost all your dreams, Then there's nothing like a campfire And a can of beans!"
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05:15 pm December 21st, 1983
((All of this has happened before)) 
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