get me off this crazy thing

The Writers Guild of America is on strike starting midnight May 2, pacific time.

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In other news, things are just rockin and rollin over here. I've been meaning to post about Ant-Man and the Wasp Quantumania (which I totally loved) and both The Mandalorian season 3 and The Bad Batch season 2 (which I also loved).


( Ant-Man )

( The Mandalorian )

( The Bad Batch )

Okay I wasn't going to watch the trailer for Spider-Man No Way Home because I actually don't like trailers all that much, but then I knew I wasn't going to be able to avoid it so I did watch it. But this is all to say that ( Read more... )

For weeks I've been meaning to post! Everything is pretty okay on my end, though still in that weird WFH limbo of sameness that I dislike the most from this pandemic. As much as I hated the Trump administration at least it gave me something to push against during this weird time, but now I am just like Tuesday what is Tuesday?

It's not even Tuesday, it's Thursday. What the hecking heck. The weeks are only separated by my horseback riding lessons on Saturdays -- I still work on Saturdays to take the edge off of the workload -- and the fact that I hibernate more than usual on Sundays lol.

Tonight I am going to go see Jungle Cruise and am excite about it. Never enough Dwayne the Rock Johnson in my opinion.

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All right. I've watched some TV recently.

( Hannibal )

( Agents of Shield )

( Leverage: Redemption )

Okay that's enough yammering.

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I went to see Black Widow 3 times in the theaters and I don't regret it at all. It is now among my favorite MCU films, joining The Winter Soldier and Thor Ragnarok.

I also went to see The Green Knight which is a trip. I don't know what the heck I watched. It's beautiful though. And Dev Patel is so handsome in it. Stunning visual film.

I asked this same question but with Steve, after watching Endgame. :D Answer: ( Read more... )

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In other news -- I'm stupid busy at work. I fell off my horse and you can see video of it on instagram and fb. In the last month I've: a) been to a house party with lots of people, b) been to an outside event with lots of people, c) went to my office for the first time and saw people. I got hugged a lot at all these things! So many people! I'm not ready for all this human contact. But it keeps happening.

I also watched all of Hannibal and all of Agents of Shield, but those will have to wait for anther day's post.

The Promise (15300 words) by hafital
Chapters: 6/6
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Captain America (Movies)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Steve Rogers & Thor, Loki & Thor (Marvel), Steve Rogers/Natasha Romanov, Frigga | Freyja & Heimdall (Marvel), Steve Rogers & Sam Wilson, Steve Rogers & Tony Stark, James "Bucky" Barnes/Steve Rogers, Frigga | Freyja & Loki (Marvel)
Characters: Steve Rogers, Thor (Marvel), Loki (Marvel), Natasha Romanov (Marvel), Frigga | Freyja (Marvel), Heimdall (Marvel), Tony Stark, Sam Wilson, Bucky Barnes, Brunnhilde | Valkyrie (Marvel)
Additional Tags: Background Relationships, Time Travel, Alternate Universe - Time Travel, Avengers: Endgame (Movie) Compliant, Canon Divergence - Avengers: Endgame (Movie)
Series: Part 5 of The Lifetimes of Steve Rogers
Summary:

Steve sets off on the last leg of his journey, having made more than one promise along the way--promises to others, and promises to himself. And the most important promise...to come home.

~*~
“Any regrets?” she asked.

There were always a few, the many things he could not change. He’d learned to live with the consequences of his actions. But she wasn’t asking about the big picture or those unalterable moments that were solidified in their past. She was asking about right here, right now. “No,” he said. “What about you?”

She turned to admire the ocean. “How can I regret anything with a view like this?” she asked.

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omg can you believe i finished this thing?! The final word count according to AO3 is almost 150K words say what. horrifying lol. I started writing it er.... maybe in may or june last year, so almost a full year writing this thing. I had no idea what I was getting myself into. When I started out I thought it would be like maybe 30k or something hahahahaha.

I say in the notes, if this story has an endgame it's Steve & Natasha (or Steve/Natasha depending on how you look at it) and the fact that in another timeline it would have coincided with the release of Black Widow would have been really cool. sigh. The world has been very difficult and strange lately.

A big, huge, thank you to slb44 for the beta!

Part 1: The Second Five Years
Part 2: The Infinity Stones
Part 3: The Third Five Years
Part 4: The Alternate Years
Part 5: The Promise

The entire series can be found here: The Lifetimes of Steve Rogers

The Third Five Years (22115 words) by hafital
Chapters: 6/6
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Captain America (Movies)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Steve Rogers & Bruce Banner, Steve Rogers & Clint Barton, Steve Rogers & Tony Stark, Steve Rogers & Thor, Steve Rogers/Natasha Romanov, Steve Rogers & Steve Rogers
Characters: Steve Rogers, Bruce Banner, Clint Barton, Tony Stark, Thor (Marvel), Natasha Romanoff, Brunnhilde | Valkyrie (Marvel)
Additional Tags: Time Travel, Alternate Universe - Time Travel, Fix-It, Avengers: Endgame (Movie) Compliant, Canon Divergence - Avengers: Endgame (Movie)
Series: Part 3 of The Lifetimes of Steve Rogers
Summary:

With Pym particles to spare, Steve goes back to the years after the Snap to try and be the friend he couldn't be the first time around.

~*~

It was the dead of night, but a field of stars gave off luminous light. Steve appeared on the edge of a highway twenty minutes outside of Willowdale, Virginia, shivering in the below freezing temperature. It was colder than usual for Virginia, a by-product of the Snap. The air had that crystal sharp quality to it, like it had frozen along with the hard ground. Weeks old dirty snow had been scrapped up to create banks along the road. There was no one around—no cars, no lights. Nothing but the icy breeze through the bare trees.

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Note: For thems that care, this is my favorite part of the series. :) Is it cool to say you love your own story? And then I struggle with which chapter is my favorite of this part because I love them all, but I cycle around Thor, Natasha, and Clint, but then I fall back on the others too, especially Tony.

Many thank you to slb44 for the beta.

The next part is the big big part. And I have no idea how to tag it lol.

Part 1: The Second Five Years
Part 2: The Infinity Stones
Part 3: The Third Five Years

The giant thing is done! Have posted the first part. Other parts to follow a week apart. :D

Big huge thank you to both slb44 and killabeez!

The Second Five Years (21782 words) by hafital
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Captain America (Movies)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes & Steve Rogers
Characters: Steve Rogers, Bucky Barnes, Sam Wilson, Bruce Banner
Additional Tags: Time Travel, Alternate Universe - Time Travel, Fix-It, Avengers: Endgame (Movie) Compliant
Series: Part 1 of The Lifetimes of Steve Rogers
Summary:

Steve finds a way for Bucky and him to take the time they need before he leaves on his mission to return the Stones. Takes place just after the Battle of Earth.

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But, here they were. Here, at last, despite whatever tomorrow would bring. Steve would take what he could, even if he had to carve it out of time itself.

Pas de Quatre (55045 words) by hafital
Chapters: 3/3
Fandom: Captain America (Movies), The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Steve Rogers/Sam Wilson, Steve Rogers/Natasha Romanov, Steve Rogers/Natasha Romanov/Sam Wilson, James "Bucky" Barnes/Steve Rogers, Steve Rogers & Sam Wilson, Steve Rogers & Natasha Romanov, James "Bucky" Barnes & Steve Rogers, James "Bucky" Barnes & Sam Wilson, James "Bucky" Barnes & The Vision, Steve Rogers & Natasha Romanov & Sam Wilson, Natasha Romanov & Sam Wilson, Steve Rogers & Tony Stark
Characters: Steve Rogers, Natasha Romanov, Sam Wilson, James "Bucky" Barnes, Maria Hill, James Rhodes, Wanda Maximoff, The Vision, Tony Stark
Additional Tags: Slow Build, pre-OT4, First Time, Canon Compliant through Ant Man, very vague spoilers for Captain America 3, Canon-Typical Violence
Summary:

"I guess this is it," he said, looking around at his team, these three who meant more to him than anyone else.

DONE. FINALLY. Now, maybe I can get my life back.

Much love and thank you to killabeez and astolat for beta-ing and smart comments even if I wanted to argue haha. xo

I forgot how time consuming posting a story can be! As if writing it isn't hard enough. OY.

I have now seen all the MCU to date. \o/!!! And now I have to wait forever for all the rest of them. Man, this is worse than a live TV show. lol.

While I have watched all the films more than once and enjoy rewatching the films (because they are comforting, yes) I doubt I will have any desire to rewatch M:AoS, but I did like it a lot more than I thought I would.

( A few thoughts on Marvel's Agents of SHIELD: )

Anyway, I did very much enjoy M:AoS! It's a fun diversion. I want more of the same, with less manpain and boyangst, please.

On a related note, I have been watching How I Met Your Mother on Netflix, and, aside from mostly finding the show charming and amusing for a sitcom, I am further entertained by my head canon that Robin Scherbatsky is a cover for Maria Hill and no one is the wiser. hahaha.

So, this is where we're at:

~ Mom's gall bladder surgery SUCCESS. woo hoo. The surgery itself was a breeze but she was very sick afterward from the drugs for a couple of days, but she was pretty much a new woman 2 weeks after the surgery.

~ I love my mom, but after a more than a month long visit staying with me the entire time, I almost wept with happiness and relief when she finally returned to her home. Seriously, I was giddy with FREEDOM. It's been a couple of weeks now, and I'm still just over the moon when I get to be home for an evening and I get my apartment to myself. lol.

~ While Mom was here, we watched all of Haven on Netflix. I just love their faces. It's not in the least bit like Leverage (and in my opinion Leverage is a more neatly held together show and has a stronger family theme that makes it TOPS in my book) but it hits the exact same happy spot in my heart as Leverage. Could be the threesome thing. Probably. ;)

~ I finally (finally) caved and started an X-Files rematch on Netflix. I blame Tumblr. But, you guys, this is monumental! I watched X-Files first run in college and now I am older than either DD or GA were when they were on the show. It's a total mind boogie. But I have not watched these episodes in the meantime. I have not watched some of these episodes in more than 20 years. OY.

~ So, like, when I first started watching X-Files way back long ago, I watched it fully in the Mulder camp. I mean, that I believed what he believed. I was like poor Mulder, no one believes him! Why is everyone so mean to him! (Although I loved Scully and never minded that she was a "non believer") Now, I'm watching it, especially season 1, and I'm like whoa, Mulder, pull it back some there, not everything is alien related. Except that it kind of is.

~ I find, 20 years later and with the advantage of some age, that Mulder was way too trusting and that Scully was absolutely right to be as skeptical and non-believing as she was. However, the show is written in such a way that Mulder is always right even when he doesn't have the right to be, and that makes Scully, as the skeptic, always wrong, even though she is really always totally right. It's kind of annoying. As the mytharc progresses, though, most of that starts to even out.

~ But in actually, my love for Mulder and Scully (Mulder/Scully!!!), goes deep. Like cellular level deep. Part of my genetic make-up deep.

~ Scully FTW. ILU SCULLY. "Please explain to me the scientific nature of the 'whammy'."

~ The cockroach episode is still the most revolting hour of TV ever.

~ I am also having a lot of fun joining in on the Highlander Rewatch over at killabeez journal. Season 1 should just be renamed the 'Tessa Is Better Than You' tv show.

~ It's like I'm stuck in the 90s! Which is I guess an improvement from that time I was stuck in the 70s.

~ Along with the X-Files rematch and the Highlander rewatch, I am totally enjoying the Marvel Cinematic Universe movies. LOVE LOVE LOVE. Clearly I have a thing for found families! Not certain if this will survive the upcoming films -- this isn't a TV show but it's still very much a "live" fandom where things could still go sideways -- and also it's like years out. Not sure I have the staying power all the way into 2019 or whatever.