Every time you post about DPM, I mean to ask you whether you live in Texas, or are there Whataburgers out in Parts Foreign (besides the What-a-Burger in Kannapolis, NC, which is a different thing)?

Honestly, this is the thing that made me so made about the fall-off from Civil War to Engdame. It just sucked away all my joy. By the end of Endgame, all I had left in me was a shrug.

oh how i wish that was me. that i’d gotten there, to be able to shrug and just not care. i might be too early in the grieving process, what’s stage 10? worst part me compared to you? cacw was what finally tipped me headfirst into bucky/sebastain standom, i’d only dabbled before. and i frikkin loved cacw initially. until i thought about it and realised i’d been seduced by shiny flippy bikes, but still. so even if i’d discarded cacw as a crapfest a long time before this, and that i was prepared that they’d do bucky dirty and that they’d become so scared of him, i just wasn’t prepared for them going after steve like that. so yeah. im a ways away from a shrug yet. but maybe? someday. 

thanks for the support, it helps, it does. and this blog will be around, there might not be much bucky on it, but that might come back too. maybe i should get a barnes blog instead, be a lot less joyless than this. 

vmohlere replied to your photoset:My first attempt at a daily and monthly spread -...

Hey, what kind of pen is that?

That is a fountain pen that my husband made.  He’s a woodworker, and he makes me the most beautiful pens that I am completely incapable of properly photographing, but I put pictures up there of all 3 pens.

He gets the kit (the metal bits) from Rockler, then he carves the wooden bit on his lathe.  The top one is my favorite - I love the nib.  I love fountain pens, but I don't know all the fiddly details like some fountain pen afficonados?  So all I know is that this nib is the smoothest of all my fountain pens (and I have too many), and the wooden handle is full of love which makes everything better.

daaaaamn yooooou and your accuracyyyyy

I first read it last year, and it helped me so much with so many things I can't even begin to list them. But I will say this one thing: one year ago exactly, I was on a trip to London. For various reasons, I had to spend lots of time alone, so I wandered the city, finding nice spots to sit and read "The Long Road"; I read it in quiet museum corners, in coffee shops, late at night when I was tired from all the walking, and while drinking coffee in the morning (I woke up very early on purpose, to read in my hotel's breakfast area while it was still quiet). These are some of the best and fondest memories of my life: me, wandering London, with your Barnes, your Steve, the Olds, flying Sam and everyone else keeping me company. And now, one year later (and stuck in quarantine) I still remember that--and I think I always will.

Aww thank you, love!! xox

Corn: what’s your favourite Thanksgiving dish?

Stuffing, the way my mom made it, with a LOT of gravy, because, to quote someone’s writing that I adore, “Gravy is so important.”

These days, due to Nutcracker issues, we tend to do a low-key Thanksgiving, and have turkey tacos and make our own guacamole and mango salsa and that is *also* delicious!

Rain: do you prefer bright and sunny, or dark and gloomy weather?

I’m sure it’s very psychologically interesting that I love blustery gloomy weather. I love a good rainstorm, *especially* if I’m at home for the duration, snuggled up with books and tea and cats and cookies. I love that.

We had a day recently that was not too cold and not too hot, and sort of windy and had that Fall feel, and I liked that!

We have an on-going contest in my marriage as to how long we can hold out before turning on the heat, so I wear a lot of sweaters.

Sweater: what’s the comfiest piece of clothing you own?

Being comfortable is very very important to me, because I want to be prepared if I should suddenly have opportunity to nap, so most of what I own is comfy! I’d honestly live in leggings and a huge sweatshirt if I could get away with it. 

But, my sister just gave me a present and here’s what I told my group chat about it:

Especially because it’s been very cold in here, so it’s nice and warm and snuggly!

THANK YOU LOVE!!

Corn Maze: What is your favorite autumn activity?

Well. I will be honest and say Fall is not always a great season for me, but I think I have VERY much enjoyed doing is going apple picking with my family. New England can be very pretty in the fall and I love going out and taking photos, especially around the woods and lake near my house. 

Werewolf: What is your favorite urban legend?

Hmm. I am the biggest baby IN THE WORLD but also I grew up in rural VT so we had... rural legends? The scariest one was that the ghost of the girl who’d been killed on the train trestle bridge still haunted that bridge and would stick your feet to the tracks if you crossed the bridge and a train came along. I did not ever go onto the trestle bridge. 

Black Cat: Are you superstitious?

Ohhh. Well, in true bisexual fashion, I go both ways. I am not hugely superstitious about things like black cats (LOVE THEM BABIES) and the number 13 and things like that. But I put fancy lights on my house to beat back the dark in winter, and I always, always toss salt over my left shoulder. I’m both a skeptic and a believer in the unseen, so it’s complicated. 

xox

They're in the space between Faerie & the mortal world, right? So maybe some kind of work invoking liminality or twilight. I feel like I've seen "in-betweeners" someone where, but maybe a work with that kind of flavor to it?

Ooh, that’s promising. Maybe I could merge that with @amarguerite‘s idea of using Gaelic somehow...

@swamppine​ replied to your post “Naming help”

Is there a less common word used for faries? Something like "fair folk" but one less well known? Or maybe a word for "human" (or "man") if the faires are the one to use it, especially something archaic. If you have more emphasis on there being two separate worlds, some kind of play off of "duo" or "separate"? (I don't really know much of faire lore, but maybe that'll help you brainstorm.)

1) There are less-common words for fairies that i intend to use extensively, but just for fairies, because the Gentry have too much power to be mentioned by name (though I’ve been tempted to go with something like “love children” or “wrong side of the blanket” till I remember that it breaks the “no blood/breeding references” goal). 2) Hmm. Maybe I could work with that...

So, a quick survey of Google hints that Celtic languages tend to have a \dən\ kind of sound (well, with varying vowels) at the start of their word for “human”, which would merge well with “fae” or “fay”, and “faedun” would echo with “fade”, vaguely sound like it might mean “faded” (feeling a bit twilight-ish?), and still invoke the word “fey” (thanks, Tolkien, for introducing me to a connection between “fated to die” and “Faerie”). Ooh, and “dun” has connections to “earth”, which means that it has ties to both places, too.