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Adventures and boring stuff only vice versa

Boring stuff: My week this past week involved doing homework, sleeping, and being lumpy. Though I did exercise four times, so I wasn't that lumpy. A walking lump maybe.

Adventures: Today M and I did an art trail on one of the islands, and it was great. Cool art, a glass blower who does Venetian glass making techniques with all these amazing patterns in the glass let us watch her make glasses and explained everything while she did it and it was really cool.

We hit up one of our favorite bookstores (The Book Rack in Oak Harbor) and drove and looked at water and looked at sculptures and walked a few trails and it was a wonderful day. Now I am very tired. Photos here: https://flickr.com/photos/27659024@N08/albums/72177720327356511.

Tonight I'm taking one of the kidlets to a paranormal/horror cirque de soleil type thing, so we'll see how that goes. People bending in ways they're not supposed to and doing things I could never do in a million years. Can't be all bad.

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Fic: Drag Me Back to Where I Belong

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dragon

Dragons

Dragons

My Scroll.

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dragons

Dragons

Dragons

My Scroll.

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sunshine_revival

Sunshine Revival Challenge #1

Challenge #1

Journaling Prompt: Light up your journal with activity this month. Talk about your goals for July or for the second half of 2025.
Creative Prompt: Shine a light on your own creativity. Create anything you want (an image, an icon, a story, a poem, or a craft) and share it with your community.. Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

Goals? Oh my! I think I might have given goals some time back. These days, just getting thour8gh the day is good. Living in t****'s America is draining. I would love to get back into writing. It does help with all that existential dread and angst I feel these days. My favorite Big Bang canceled this year. Maybe I'll hunt another one. Anyhow, my rest of the year goals and July goals are to do more fandom things.

I made this:

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Answers to friending meme at sunshine_revival

Basics
Name: alexcat
Age: 65
Location: Southern US
Other blogs/socials: alexcat45 at Tumblr and alexcat45 or alex_writes on Discord

Dreamwidth Stuff
What do you post about? Fandom stuff, fics, life in general(friends)
How often do you post? Whenever I write something usually. I am way too lazy.
What communities, if any, are you involved in? I write some challenge fics for

cap_ironman and

fan_flashworks. I host

fandom50challenge.
What kind of accounts do you like to follow? I like to read about other people's daily lives if they like to share. I like fandom and fic oriented posts as well.

Fandom Stuff
Fandoms: MCU, Sherlock Holmes, Babylon 5, Tolkien - and others.
Favorite Characters: Steve Rogers, Sherlock Holmes, John Sheridan(B5) and Tolkien's elves.
Ships: Steve Rogers/Tony Stark, Steve Rogers/Natasha Romanov, Steve Rogers/Bucky Barnes... you get the drift.
Things you're into but not fannish about: I LOVE Star Wars but am not in the fandom.

I Designed This Meme So I Get To Ask Weird Stuff
Explain your username: Many years ago when I had to come up with a username, I was into CATS with my daughter AND I have been obsessed with Alexander the Great since I was in 3rd grade so... alexcat came about.
Favorite season (it's ok if it's not summer): Fall. It reminds me of buying notebooks and pencils when I was a kid, as well as the county fair, Halloween and my birthday in November. An added bonus is cool weather.
What's your vibe? I am not sure I have a vibe... I am a grumpy old cat so that might be my vibe.
What is your summeriest fandom? (You can interpret this however you like….): This is strange but MCU, probably Nat and Steve... they like the outdoors.
Opening song on your summer mixtape: "Walk This Way" by Aerosmith. I remember hot days at the beach as a teen with Aerosmith playing loudly on the jukebox while we played Eight Ball in the Pier House. We wore short shorts and flirted with silly boys we'd never see again.

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Venting

A former co-worker called me last week. We were...work friends. We never socialized outside of work.
She left the company before I did and moved to Ohio; she'd call me occasionally to talk.

She's one of those people who 1) thinks she's knows everything and 2) makes everything about her. The last time she called before this most recent one was probably 18 months ago. She asked so I was trying to tell her about everything I was going through with my father. Her response was to tell me not to trust doctors and do some woo-woo shit. Then going on about how terrible her life is. Then she started in on how she wanted to move back up here and she needed people to help her.

This time I told her dad had passed. She started with how she knows how hard that is. Her mother died (so did mine). Her brother died (so did mine). Then she started with how the landlord and other tenants were harassing her. Playing loud music ALL THE TIME (except for when she was on he phone with me.) And somehow causing electro-magnetic interference that destroyed her phone and that she could feel and measure. Again she told me how she wanted to move back and needed help. I basically just hmm'd in response to everything she said.

She's called twice more. First early Monday morning (I didn't answer) asking me to call someone in government to help her. How I, in MA, was going to do that, I don't know, considering I only know she lives in Ohio somewhere. And again a half hour ago (didn't answer) telling me she was being evicted. The other tenants were sending electrical shocks through the floor. She needed help to move. She has two kids in their early to mid twenties. Her oldest got married and moved to Finland. The other one lives with her.

I think she thinks I'll say "Hey, no problem. I'll help you move and you can stay with me." Nope. Ain't gonna happen. I can't block her because the phone number she has for me is a landline. Honestly it sounds likes she's in the middle of a mental health crisis. But there's really not much I can do about that.
/venting

Current Mood: cold

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media day #27 ★ this is a post.

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We meet again.

Hello my friends! I have not done this in 80 bazillion years, which is apropos since I haven't done a lot of things in 80 bazillion years. Like, I used to write. I used to have ideas. But I've been going to school (getting my BS in psych) and working and doing the booster club thing, so I've been busy and so brain-full that creativity has been restricted to those things. However I'm in my last quarter of school and I'm on summer break from the job, and hockey season hasn't started yet, so I thought I'd try to get back into the habit of being human and stuff.

I spent the past weekend at my mom's helping her with her annual garage sale. It was fine, and we always have fun, but it's a multi-person garage sale, and one of the ladies that is there (who is a good friend of my mom's) drives me a little bit bonkers because she never. stops. talking. Which I guess is good because it makes me get up and walk around.

I bought a walking pad a while ago and haven't used it, but I'm working on getting back into a rhythm with it. Luckily I have decided to do it during the hottest days of the year so far, because that's how I roll. This would likely not be a thing if we had an air conditioner, but we don't, so there you have it.

My other goals this summer are to do some mini-adventures, rewatch Generation Kill, listen to serial killer podcasts, read a bunch of books, graduate, sleep a lot, and come up with ideas for hockey season. For today, goals are to do some errands, do the walking pad, then do some school stuff. I got a late start because I didn't really sleep at my mom's, so I slept in today which was amazing and I approve of it. We'll see if I can manage adding posting here to the summer goals as well.

And, because I wouldn't be the person I am now without it - I shall shout out two of my bb!hockeys - Carter Bear and Shea Busch who got drafted this year to the Detroit Redwings and the Florida Panthers respectively. So proud of my boys. (my kids are my kids, the kids I work with at school are my kids, and the hockey kids are the boys. It's kind of a system).

Anyway, hi friends! I have been reading about your lives, I promise. I love you all.

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Into a Bar, Slipping in Under the Wire

Since I've been fighting a migraine for the last four days, I didn't think there was anyway I was going to finish my story by the

intoabar challenge deadline.

But somehow, I did!

So, here it is, Illya Kuryakin walks into a bar and meets...Bucky Barnes!

Two of my biggest fandom collide! I couldn't have picked a better pairing myself.

Title: Jazz and Vodka
Author: P.R. Zed
Word count: 8,879

AO3 Link

The assignment let me pull out a fragment I've had kicking around forever with young KGB agent Illya Kuryakin getting pulled in as a last minute replacement for the Winter Soldier's handler. Which turned it into a multi-timeline 8K mini-epic. (When I told him what my word count was looking like, my husband just said "Of course you did.")

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Fic: In Your Hand I Found My Home

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flowers,
gardening

Flowers

From my garden.

( flowers )

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Into a Bar - Progress

Five days to go until the

intoabar deadline, and I've just crossed 7,000 words on my mystery story. Two scenes, a title, and an edit to go, and I may actually finish this sucker on time.

Fingers crossed.

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chris evans,
movie

Materialists

I went to see Materialists this afternoon. Partly to get away from this hideous heat though I was planning on seeing it in any event. It got me thinking that the last time I actually went to the theater to see a movie it was Knives Out. Call it the Evans effect. 😀

I enjoyed it quite a bit. It's a decent rom-com that definitely has something to say about dating and "checking all the boxes."

The acting was good but Dakota Johnson somehow managed to not have much chemistry with either Pedro Pascal or Chris Evans imho.

Chris Evans looks especially soft and huggable in it.