I set apart this weekend as time to get back into my own body, time to pay attention to what I was feeling and thinking, as opposed to sublimating everything as I did when my major work project was ongoing. Yesterday I did only those things that felt like they'd bring me comfort – I did my laundry so that I'd have an incredibly comfortable, clean bed in which to sleep. I made chicken noodle soup because it felt nourishing and warm. I read a book; I meditated a little; I did a little yoga.

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Average Avengers Local Chapter 7 of New York City (9160 words) by hetrez

Steve and Tony accidentally start a national do-gooders association and fall in love. Alternate title: Cate falls so in love with Steve Rogers she can't even process it. (devildoll - did you read this? Because OH STEVE.)

Someone at the back of the audience pipes up. "The right thing gets really boring after a while," the guy says, and Steve gets this look on his face, the one that always makes Tony ashamed of eating the last slice of bread without buying a new loaf.

"You’re wrong," he says in his heavy, calm Captain voice. "The right thing is always the scariest, and the weirdest, and the saddest thing you'll ever have to do. If you're bored, it's because you've stopped doing it and you didn't even notice. Write that down. I can repeat myself if you need me to."

Advance warning: contains discussion of bullying and suicide.

Jack-in-the-Box by esteefee - 11k, Holmes/Watson/Mary, picking up after Game of Shadows, and oh, it's so dear. Watson and Mary see quite clearly how Holmes should fit into their married life, and Holmes is so confused and hopeful and bowled over by their affection. meeeeeep! Wonderful!

It amazing to me how, with one small observation, my therapist can both help me see what's staring me right in the face and then dismantle it. It can be an overwhelming process, but I'm always grateful for it, and I'm always so surprised by what I can't see, what I can't grasp about my own experience.

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Confounding by sheafrotherdon
~ 389 words. Comforting Steve/Danny tag to 2x13, tidied up from where I posted it in comments on dogeared's journal this morning.

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I wrote two big Yuletide stories this year, and two treats!

For theravenwrites

Cold Making Warmth (2436 words) by sheafrotherdon
Fandom: The Avengers (2012)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Steve Rogers/Tony Stark
Characters: Steve Rogers, Tony Stark, Darcy Lewis, Clint Barton, Natasha Romanov, Nick Fury, Phil Coulson, Thor, Bruce Banner
Summary:

Steve settles upon the few things he knows for sure: that the days are short, and it's cold, and he doesn't mind looking dumb for making the effort. So screw the protocol, whether it exists or not – he's giving gifts.

For moriann

Pigeonville, USA. (3181 words) by sheafrotherdon
Fandom: The Avengers (2012)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Clint Barton/Phil Coulson
Characters: Phil Coulson, Darcy Lewis, Clint Barton, Tony Stark, Steve Rogers, Pepper Potts, Christine Everhart, Agent Sitwell
Summary:

Day 214 on the campaign trail of Steve Rogers for President. Twenty-sixteen's turning out to be a hell of a year.

For myystic

Make it Right (496 words) by sheafrotherdon
Fandom: The Avengers (2012), Holmes on Homes RPF
Rating: General Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Mike Holmes, Tony Stark, Bruce Banner, Clint Barton, Natasha Romanov, Thor, Steve Rogers
Summary:

The guy waiting in the foyer of Stark Mansion is large. Like, Thor-large. Only it's not Thor, clearly, because Thor is face down on the rug in the den having an intense conversation with a Speak-n-Spell that Clint dragged up from – well, Tony doesn't know where, exactly. The bowels of hell.

For misspamela

The Ballot (621 words) by sheafrotherdon
Fandom: Downton Abbey
Rating: General Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Violet Crawley
Summary:

It was surpassingly difficult to know what one should wear to cast a ballot.

With grateful thanks to dogeared for betaing the two big stories, to esteefee and gyzym for beta duties on Cold Making Warmth, and to gyzym and siriaeve for cheerleading!

I am still wading through the ENORMOUS numbers of Yuletide fics from this year's challenge, and there's not a chance I'll be done before reveals. But that's okay! Fics all through January if my reading pace continues as it has :D That's kind of awesome :D

And a huge thank you to everyone who makes Yuletide what it is - the folks who nominate, and write, and read, and mod, and CODE (I didn't experience a single lag this year, YAY for the servers and everyone who codes behind the scenes to keep them running - you are rock stars). The fest was an increase in my share of joy at a time when thing were/are very difficult, and I am grateful beyond words ♥

December 29 - Chris Evans visits kids at Boston Children's Hospital



[more pictures here]

Below the cut, two things! Alex naked (as far as the eye can see) and JGL and Zooey Deschanel being cutest, singing 'What Are You Doing New Year's Eve' :D Adorbs.

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Come Undone by elandrialore - the huuuurtiest COMFORTIEST Steve/Danny tag to 2x12, omg, I can't even asdjhflkahsdlfladsfasd ♥__________♥

I've been watching Downton Abbey of late - I'm about half way through season two at the moment, and I'm absolutely sucked into the intrigue, not to mention the hats. The soapiness of season two outpaces that of season one by a factor of about a hundred, but I keep watching regardless, in enormous part thanks to Maggie Smith, who is an utter delight. I would watch the Violet Crawley show all day, every day, if I had half a chance.

But I realized today that the show's also stirring up all kinds of aches and wishes where my family's concerned, some tangential to the show, and some not. And so that's what this post is about - my great-grandmother's time in service, and the things we know (and don't) as a result. (There are some spoilers for season two amid the tale.)

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asdjhflasdfaf oh my god, I can't EVEN HANDLE HOW ADORABLE THIS IS: [A Day Out]: Dusty and Dot taking care of their people, and romping, and getting scritches, and I just asdjfhlaksdfladf it's so cute all I can do is fall over. *does so*

omg I got the greatest wee presents (and there's a treat waiting, too! treeeeeat!)

Four People Who Never Fed Steve Rogers a Sandwich (and Two Who Did): in which Bucky, Peggy, Howard, and Tony don't manage to provide sandwiches (despite some people trying; excellent cameo by fondue :D ) and Eric Ripert and Tony Bourdain do. asjkdfhlasdf SANDWICHES. I can't even. bweeeeee

The Diamond Head Detective Agency (ad hoc) in which Dusty and Dot (Alex and Scott's dogs) SOLVE THE MYSTERY of the envelope with the piece of metal and sdjfhlasdfa oh my god, adorable :D :D :D

Thank you, mystery writers!!

The lovely kalakirya has made podfics of the Christmas-related installments of the Farm in Iowa 'verse - The Christmas Shenanigans of Finn McKay, The Baby Jesus' Pom Poms, and Letters to Santa.

You can download all of them over [here]! (The post also has links to the text versions of the stories if you want to revisit.)

Thank you, kalakirya! ♥

[Semaphore] by devildoll, a Steve/Tony Avengers movieverse story that is 39K of AWESOMESAUCE. THIRTY-NINE K. Please run over there and roll around in it like the marvelous catnip that it is: beautiful world-building, a gorgeous treatment of the Tony/Pepper relationship, Tony dialogue to die for, Steve being the most adorable (as is his fate), and Clint Barton being my favorite (sorry, Thor, although you are awesome, also!). Just, CONGRATULATIONS ON ITS EVERYTHING.

\o/

Loki has taken over livejournal.

This explains everything.

(Tony's all, "Seriously? I have to spend part of my day making sure livejournal works? This is my Avengers task of the day? livejournal?"

And Fury's all, "Subject lines. Now, Stark."

And Tony turns toward his work station, grumbling. "He's a devious bastard, I'll give him that must, goddamn icons available by the date they were updated, call that a user interface, my grandmother could . . . okay, come on, he's coded a wormhole into the -- this is my life now, really?")

1) Yuletide: UPLOADED \o/ awww, yeah.

2) [Synopsis of H50 2x13], otherwise known as 'they're really truly trying to kill me.'

3) ( spoilery image from the new Avengers trailer )

. . . you have a blue tshirt in one hand, and a red cardigan in the other, and on asking yourself 'can I wear these together' answer 'well, Captain America does these colors all the time . . . '

*facepalm*