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I’ve seen a lot of Voyager stuff pop up lately, do you have any Janeway/Chakotay recs?

Mostly I have been glaring at AO3 because there aren’t a lot of Janeway/Chakotay fics that don’t manage to set off a rant about JANEWAY IS NOT FRAGILE, DAMNIT.

I did, however, find a couple, and bookmarked them. (And why, why is it that the people who write pregnancy-fic are the ones most likely to avoid the descriptors “delicate”, “fragile”, or “small” for Janeway?)

I haven’t finished looking, though, and if I find more at some point, I’ll reblog this post with more recs. Both of these are 30-40k range, and I’m working my way down by word-count because I tend to prefer longer stories.

Stellar Entanglement by Oparu (@ussjellyfish)

Chapters: 5/5
Fandom: Star Trek: Voyager
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Chakotay/Kathryn Janeway
Characters: Chakotay, Kathryn Janeway, B’Elanna Torres, Tom Paris, Seven of Nine, Alynna Nechayev, Gretchen Janeway, Phoebe Janeway

Admiral Kathryn Janeway and Captain Chakotay had one night together on Proxima station before he left on a ten month mission to the Yaris nebula. With a plan to meet in Venice when he returns, they both go about their lives, content to wait, without knowing that they’re tied to each other forever by a child neither of them had planned. After spending so much time apart, both by choice and by circumstance, do they know how to be together?

My Notes: There is also background lesbians, Nechayev gets to be more than an ice queen, and Seven of Nine being an awesome trip planner and travel companion.

On Our Way Home by elem

Chapters: 18/18
Fandom: Star Trek: Voyager
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Chakotay/Kathryn Janeway
Characters: Kathryn Janeway, Chakotay (Star Trek)
Additional Tags: Action/Adventure, Babyfic

This is an alternate universe story. It spears off mid-season seven, sometime after Lineage and before Workforce. Kathryn is on a supply mission, dealing with an obnoxious planetary leader. Chakotay decides to take matters into his own hands and a new journey begins.

My Notes: The main part of the story is getting them together and their first child, and the wrap-up of the rest of the journey home at the end is well-done, and it ends with a glimpse of Janeway and Chakotay several years later that is lovely.

Hey, sorry to bother you out of the blue like this, but I noticed you posted some Sorcerer’s Apprentice stories and I don’t know how long it’s been but I’ve recently experienced a resurgence of love for that and I like talking about stuff I love and I was wondering if you still liked that movie and would be willing to discuss fanfics and such because I want to write story but currently have no one to talk to about Sorcerer’s Apprentice ideas.

It’s been a while, but I still love the movie, and I’m always willing to listen to people talk about meta/fic ideas/headcanons. I’m not currently writing in the fandom, because I tend to be migratory, and also because it’s been a year or so of difficulty managing any words at all.

(Also, if you do DW, check out jedibuttercup – also jedibuttercup on AO3 – there’s some fantastic Sorcerer’s Apprentice stuff they’ve done, and also crossovers with it.)

norcumi:

morgynleri:

Thinky thought inspired by others, and by me poking at fic.

I use cold in my imagery of the Dark Side of the Force, but never as apathy*. Maybe because for me, cold is rage at its most dangerous, the all-consuming hateful rage that promises that everything in its path will be dust, no matter how long it takes, and is willing to wait a lifetime to achieve that utter and complete destruction.

The rage of blood feuds and endless cycles of revenge and war and bloodshed. The sort of rage that tears apart reputations, friends, family.

Cold hands, cold laughter, cold spaces. Hate and rage and cultivated arrogance that holds itself above everything. Sidious is cold. Manipulative, horrible, controlling ice.

Cold is terror, too. Terror that never ends, that becomes the core of a person, that can never be soothed. Jorus’etan is that kind of cold. Terror of his past, the terror he inflicts on those he chooses as victims. Pain and neglect and abuse and a refusal to ever be powerless before another.

Not all the Dark Side is cold. Maul is fire burning out of control and reveling in his passion, his anger. Barely and only sometimes tempered by a personal code of honor, like a barely-adequate fire break or a fire burned toward the wildfire to redirect it.

Anakin is fire born of fear, that will burn all around it to ash. That burns him to ash, twice over. Once to leave the ember that hides under the ashes of Vader, and a second time to shatter the ice and chains that are his Master.

And yet, even with them, I’ll use the tactile idea of cold hands, cold skin. Cold that burns, that destroys what it touches.

*I honesty do not get how people could use cold in the sense of apathy or lack of emotion or smothered passions for the Sith. It boggles me. It boggles me lots.

::nods:: The “cold” part makes perfect sense to me, it’s the apathy bit that breaks my brain. 

Also, all of this is lovely, poetic, and made me scree a lot.

Thank you! 🙂

cuzosu-blog
replied to your post “Thinky thought inspired by others, and by me poking at fic. I use cold…”

Yes. This is a very well thought out post – I’m guessing in response to that one that was going rounds that talked about the Dark Side and apathy, etc.? This response is great. I still think it’s missing a bit – passion and the part THAT has to play in all things Dark – but it’s an intelligent set of points, regardless.

… Um, both yes and no.

It’s not exactly a response directly, so much as indirectly via someone else’s post made in response, and I was particularly latching on to words in a particular comment on that post, and how they were used.

It’s about imagery and how words are used in being descriptive about characters and use of the Dark Side rather than a direct exploration of what the Dark Side is and how it plays out with characters. For one, that would be a much longer post which I do not have the spoons to write tonight.

For another, imagery and word use are more important in my head than the mechanics of the Dark Side with where I’m at in the fic, particularly since words and how they’re used are. Plot relavent at the moment.

I may or may not sit down and work out my thoughts on the Dark Side, what it means to me for writing, and how that intersects with my thoughts on particular characters, but that’s going to wait for tomorrow at least.

Help?

morgynleri:

Ok, I have a question for any of my followers who have seen Game of Thrones, because right now, I am having an awful time figuring out who is in the background of one particular still. I want to know who, because my brain has latched onto the person for a face for Idhren, who is a rather important OC in one of my Tolkien AUs.

This is the still in question, I want to know who the guy on the right behind Sean Bean is. And no, going to IMDb hasn’t helped, because I don’t even know what episode it’s from to go poking through the actors listed there, and it doesn’t help if there are no pictures associated with them on IMDb. (The page where I found the image does not help, as it doesn’t say which episode which screen caps come from, and I do not have the spoons to go trying to find somewhere that has screen caps organized by episode.)

@olikard said: I’m no expert on Game of Thrones but it looks like Donald Sumpter. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0838910/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t18

Thank you! And yes, it does. *offers you cookies*

And now I can do art things with my family of OCs, and make it all work! *bounces off to find the drawing pad and pencils*

What do you recommend about how to start crocheting? I want to start but everyone is giving me different hints

I’m sorry I’ve taken so long – I’ve been meaning to add pictures to this, because sometimes images can be easier than words, but I haven’t managed to get my shit together enough to actually extract the pictures from the video (I could not convince the person helping me that no, I really just wanted stills, please stop thinking that video is easy to get all the stills I want from). So, I am going to just post this without pictures, to get it posted and out of my drafts.

I know some people swear by starting by learning the basic stitches – making a chain, learning how to do a gauge swatch, single, half-double, double (double meaning different things in US and UK terminology; I use US terminology), maybe learning something fancier.

Chain stitch is a pain in the ass to learn how to do stitches in, especially if you have any issues with coordination, and I don’t think it’s the best place to start, no matter what any book may say.

I’d suggest starting with learning how to do granny squares. Basic granny squares, with the checkerboard-style holes in them. They’re relatively simple, and most important, they’re forgiving of mistakes, and the biggest concern you’re going to have is tension on your yarn.

Start with a worsted weight cotton yarn – acrylic can be scratchy, and is not always kind to people with allergies, and while cotton is more expensive, it’s something you can give to more people, and it’s kinder on the hands. It takes a #8US/H/5mm hook to crochet with, which is also going to be fairly kind on your hands – shouldn’t be too large for small hands, or too tiny for large hands.

A granny square starts with four chain stitches, a slip stitch, and then you use the center of the circle you’ve just made to make the first round of stitches, and all the rest that aren’t slip stitches go into the spaces, not into a stitch. And granny squares can be made very fancy, once you’ve got the hang of the basics.

There is a book I’m going to recommend for fun-with-granny-squares. 200 Crochet Blocks, by Jan Eaton. (There are a couple variations of it on Amazon, neither of which cover matches mine, and the publisher may have discontinued it, as Interweave doesn’t appear to have it on their store. Recommend checking your local library first, though, if you have the spoons to get out to it.)

It’s not necessarily the greatest book, but it has good pictures in the back for how to do various stitches, and a decent variety of patterns for blocks (which can also be used individually for things around the house) to get you started.

restless-one:

morgynleri:

Iron Man 2

Idris Elba as Tony Stark/Iron Man

Christina Millian as Virginia “Pepper” Potts

Regina King as Jaqueline Rhodes/War Machine

Benedict Wong as Ivan Vanko

George Takei as Nick Fury

Lupita Nyong’o as Natasha Romanov

John Cho as Justin Hammer

Benjamin Bratt as Happy Hogan

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | More still to come

@elegantmess-southernbelle

@hyperrasperry

@annashipper

I have two little problems with this: Two of the actors are already part of the Marvel Universe. Idris Elba is Heimdall in the Thor movies, Benedict Wong is Wong in Dr Strange. So my brain tries to imagine two different roles at once, gets confused and nopes out every time. So maybe someone who isn’t already part of the Marvel Francise? Maybe
Hiroyuki Sanada

or Leon Lai or Wil Johnson? 

Yes, they are already part of the Marvel Universe. That’s why they got recast into other roles, so that they wouldn’t be lost in the shuffle. They’re not the only ones. However, @elegantmess-southernbelle​ and I have already done a majority of the recasting, and right now, the project is mostly waiting on me having enough spoons to slog through getting images and screencaps and putting together the boards.

I would be delighted to reblog other image boards with recastings of different people, as well, if I’m tagged in them, and if you’re up for doing this sort of thing with your own recast, go for it! It’s awesome when other people do diverse recasts of media, and there’s so many different ways to do a recast on the Marvel characters that there’s no way I could possibly do them all.

I do plan to add some extras at the end with the various suggestions other people have made for potential recasts as I’ve posted each of the parts of this project, but it’s going to be another year or two before I get that far.

(And, while it’s spoilers – the recast for Heimdall is Natar Ungalaaq, and we’ve yet to set the recasting of Wong in Doctor Strange. I would be delighted to take suggestions for that recast, though it’s pretty far down the list, and well past, say, recasting the rest of the Howling Commandos.)

lyrakeepsthenight replied to your post:

Horatio is an AWFUL first responder! My brick moment: someone gets shot on show and horatio a. Calls for ambulance, b. Puts pressure on the wound, or c. Puts a hand on the soon to be deceased’s shoulder and says something witty/ profound. IT’S ALWAYS C!!!

Technically, Horatio isn’t typically a first responder – CSI usually come in after the first responders. However, even given that, the man does not seem to have taken a first aid course, and I’d wager that they’re not mandatory for CSIs (in universe. No clue in real life).

And while I can think of an exception to his usual response, it was when Speed was shot, and he first called for paramedics/backup, and then didn’t do anything to try to stop the bleeding. One of his own, so of course he’s going to do what he knows to try to save him, and just that, not anything more.

(This is, of course, something I can utterly ignore when writing AUs, because dude, I can make things make a little more sense in AU fic.)

@theyoungwander replied to your post:

I always thought it was a damn shame she died. There were so many better ways they could have used her. And I am with you on Horatio, he’s pretty, protective and a little too arrogant for my day to day tastes.

He’s got the prettiest damned blue eyes, and I will admit to being quite biased on the subject of red hair. And I do sometimes want to just build him a blanket fort because of his childhood.

However.

Horatio needs to get the fuck over himself, and remember that other people have agency as well, and he needs to give them the room to use that agency, and not smother them because he wants to take care of them or protect them.

And Marisol. She would have been fantastic to see stick around. To see what happens when the shiny newness of the relationship wears off. How do they deal with the fact that her brother and her husband work together, and that her husband is her brother’s boss? What happens with her cancer? Does it stay away, or does it come back? I mean, there’s just so much that could have been explored, and killing her – on her wedding day, no less – is just shoddy writing and cheap cop-out.

Which is probably why one of the first bits I wrote for one of my AUs (Moonlit Miami, dark AU, Horatio is a crime boss instead of the head of the CSI lab, among other changes) is an alternate take on that damned sequence where Marisol lives, not dies.

I’m going to figure out how to keep her alive in the other AU (Loki’s Children – AO3) I have going, although that I have a better idea, if I keep Horatio/Marisol in that. Yeah, go ahead, be a stupid little hit man and attempt to kill Loki’s daughter-in-law. Have fun with the consequences of that.