Story: "Up the Water Spout" Part 15

This story belongs to the series Love Is For Children which includes "Love Is for Children," "Hairpins," "Blended," "Am I Not," "Eggshells," "Dolls and Guys,""Saudades," "Querencia," "Turnabout Is Fair Play," "Touching Moments," "Splash," "Coming Around," "Birthday Girl," "No Winter Lasts Forever," "Hide and Seek," "Kernel Error," "Happy Hour," "Green Eggs and Hulk,""kintsukuroi," and "Little and Broken, but Still Good."

Fandom: The Avengers
Characters: Natasha Romanova, Phil Coulson, Clint Barton, Betty Ross, Bucky Barnes.
Medium: Fiction
Warnings: Mention of human trafficking and nonconsensual drug use. Slightly offstage sexual violence. Dubcon/Noncon.
Summary: Sometimes the Black Widow needs to hunt, and sometimes she needs help settling her personality afterwards. Uncle Phil arranges an extra ageplay session.
Notes: Hurt/comfort. Family. Fluff and angst. BAMF!Black Widow. Black Widow is creepy. Spiders. Coping skills. Asking for help and getting it. Hope. Nonsexual ageplay. Caregiving. Competence. Girl stuff. Toys and games. Gentleness. Trust. #coulsonlives

Begin with Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10, Part 11, Part 12, Part 13, Part 14. Skip to Part 17, Part 18, Part 19, Part 20.

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"Necessary Conversations" is now complete

Part 7 of "Necessary Conversations" is now up, so you can read the whole thing.  Aidan and Hannah talk about his hopes for the children.

Interview of me by Diane Severson Mori

You can now read Part 2 of the interview of me by Diane Severson Mori in Amazing Stories.  Along with the discussion, there are also two audio recordings of my poetry, one by Diane and one by Scott Maitland.

Hard Things

Life is full of things which are hard or tedious or otherwise unpleasant that need doing anyhow. They help make the world go 'round, they improve skills, and they boost your sense of self-respect. But doing them still kinda sucks. It's all the more difficult to do those things when nobody appreciates it. Happily, blogging allows us to share our accomplishments and pat each other on the back.

What are some of the hard things you've done recently?

Today's Yardening: Seeds

Today's yardening work involved planting a handful of persimmon seeds, clearing space to plant cockscomb and assorted wildflower seeds, and laying those down too.  Then I deployed the last bag of American Countryside top soil (which is not actually soil, but rather a blend of fine mulch, compost, and other lovely fluffy stuff) to hold down the seeds.  Finally I sprayed some poison ivy with weedkiller. 

Also I saw the bluejay I've been hearing for a couple weeks.

Looking for Webpage Code

dialecticdreamer is looking for sample webpage code.  If you know of sources for that kind of stuff, please leave a comment.

The New Thor

 ... has an excerpt here.  Look closely at the last panel.  <3

Also, I'm intrigued by the subtle, probably inadvertent, but extremely powerful riff on male!Thor battling depression.  There's a discussion about how every day he struggles with wondering whether he'll be able to pick up the hammer, and how tired he gets, wanting someone to carry it for a while.  It's just not something that comics usually deal with at all, but I like the hints of it in Thor's storyline.