Alex's This and That

Challenge #13

In your own space, tell us about 3 fandom resources you use or enjoy. (One or two is fine, especially if you're in a smaller fandom!) Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

One is also a pay site but I love it anyway. I has thousands of comic books, news, information and lots more: https://www.marvel.com/

All Babylon 5 fans need to know about The Lurker's Guide to Babylon 5/a> - it has a LOT of info and really good episode guide with stuff from the creator himself.

One for Comic characters of all universes is Comic Vine

Title: Always
Author: alexcat
Fandom: MCU
Pairing(s): Bucky Barnes/Steve Rogers
Rating: Teen and up
Word Count: 579
Summary: Steve will always wait for Bucky.
Author's Notes: Popped this one out this morning for the Snowflake challenge.

In your own space, write a love letter to Fandom in general, to a particular fandom, to a trope, a relationship, a character, creator, episode, or it could be your fandom friends. Share your love and squee as loud as you want to.

Dear Captain America,

I had no idea when I saw you in the theater in 2011 that you would change my life and maybe save it. But when Dr. Erskine opened that box, everything changed.

You see, I was having a bad run. My only child died in a car accident in 2005. In 2008, my mother became ill and then I did, spending 6 weeks in the hospital after almost dying from an ischemic colon and kidney shutdown. I was spent months after with a walker and a wound 12 inches long and 3 inches deep that had to be dressed twice a day, along with a blood clot in my left leg. My mother died in 2009 and my hubby's best friend died in 2010...

You were the most beautiful thing I have ever laid eyes on, even better, you were such a sweetheart. I started poking around and watched Iron Man. Tony Stark knocked my off my feet, too. He was everything you weren't - the two of you were the perfect pair. I watched all the Marvel movies and was hooked on the fandom. I wrote a little Cap/Iron Man lve here and there.

Then in 2016, tRump was elected and i damn near lost the will to go on. I got so depressed that I despaired of everything. And I started writing and writing and writing. I wrote love stories of every sort about you. I wrote fix-its, could have beens and anything else I could think of. I've met one or two new folks becasue of you and Marvel.

Thanks for everything. You saved my life. I will continue giving you all the happily ever afters I can for as long as I can.

Love,
Alex

Challenge #8

In your own space, create a wishlist. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

I looked back at past wish lists and used them somewhat.

2 big wishes for this country and the world -
That the fascists all crawl back in their holes and/or die.
That the pandemic would be over.

Other wishes and ones YOU can grant!
1. Fanart, podfics, remixes of ANY of my stuff. My works on Ao3. I'll check my transformative work policy on my profile - I think I just want a link if you do anything so I can squee at YOUR work.

2. A fandom buddy - in the old days, i had one of those buddies who betaed most of my stuff as I did hers, brainstormed, hung out online and talked on the phone. I love all of my fandom friends new and old but I do miss having a fandom BFF. So if you think you'd like a lot more of my crazy person, come on!


Now I'm gonna post the next challenge then read your wishes!




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Challenge #6

In your own space, rec at least three fanworks that you didn’t create. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

I'm going to rec my last three gifts. I got extraordinary fics this year! I can't say enough about the quality of their works. Go, read them!

Holmistice:
The Adventure of the Cardboard Hoax by pagimag. This is BBC Sherlock and it's the best story I've read in that fandom. It's a wonderful full case and is perfectly in character.

Yuletide:
Fragments by prix. The fandom is PUSH - a movie with Chris Evans and Dakota Fanning when she was a kid. They both have mind powers and are on the run from a controlling government. If you like PUSH, you'll love this.

Cap-Iron Man Holiday Exchange:
A Comedy of Errors by jellybeanforest. This is MCU and is based on Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors. It's a hoot and so well written! You'll see some other Marvel folks there too!

Challenge #4

In your own space, create some goals. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.


Goals! Wow! Getting through the day is hard enough some days but here are some goals for this year:

1. Make some new fandom friends - maybe in the MCU fandom. BUT any fandom friends are also good! If we look compatible, feel free to friend me!

2. Write some longer stories. I have some ideas...

3. Hopefully I can get my scary surgery done this year. I need to lose about 15 more pounds. Argh!

4. Read some books. I write so much that I don't have time for reading.

Challenge #2

In your own space (or their own space) interact with someone new. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. No need to leave a link for this one, but if you’d like to invite others to join the conversation, please do leave one.


I'm issuing an invitation to say hello. If you fell comfy, then you're welcome to ask to stay.

I am;
writer, fan, old lady, political leftist, sarcastic when it suits me, kind, opiniony, and a lot of other things.

Pull up a chair and tell me a little about yourself, ask me a question or just say hi!