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Last time I took the canoe out, we struggled to get the canoe on top of my car. It weighs about 35 kilos, which is not *that* much, specially when split between two people - but it feels like a lot when you are lifting it over your head, and it's heavier every year.

So! I went on Youtube and found some ideas, and today I built a sort of stepped ramp thing that lets me lift the boat a little bit at a time. The ramp is attached with removeable bolts to a frame on top of the car, and the rubber stops allow you to 'walk' the boat in small steps. Then you just lift the 'ramp' and you can push the boat onto the car. I got it up there all on my own!

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alexcat

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alexcat

Title: In a Grain of Sand
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Rating: PG
Length: 392
Content notes: My sweethearts: Steve Rogers/Natasha Romanov
Author notes: The beach trip takes place just before Captain America: The Winter Soldier.
Summary: Steve remembers Natasha.

independence1776

Challenge #6: Top 10 Challenge. The category(ies) you choose are up to you.

Have ten random fanworks I've read/watched/seen recently. I'm cutting this section for length, but it includes Tolkien fic and art and Star Wars art, fic, and a handful of fanfilms.
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Challenge #7: LIST THREE (or more) THINGS YOU LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF. They don’t have to be your favorite things, just things that you think are good. Feel free to expand as much or as little as you want.

1. Creativity.
2. Taking active steps to be who I want to be.
3. Stubbornness.

Challenge 8: Challenge #8: Talk about your creative process.

My writing creative process these days is mostly mental screaming as I'm very much struggling with having the mental energy to write when I have an emotionally exhausting job. Basically, I write nothing for months, get a flash of inspiration, spend two weeks writing a 10k fic, and then go back to not writing.

Challenge 9: Talk about your favorite tropes in media or transformative works. (Feel free to substitute in theme/motif/cliche if "trope" doesn't resonate with you.)

I have always been fond of canon divergent AUs, hurt/comfort and whump, and I have an abiding love of Star Wars-Tolkien crossovers. I adore Maglor wandering in the modern day fanworks. I have a quiet love of rule 63/always-a-woman fics, especially for Maglor in The Silmarillion and Cal Kestis in Star Wars. (The latter pretty much doesn't exist, and it annoys me to no end that the game devs basically said that the reason Cal's not a woman is because they thought it was too unrelatable and no one would play the game.)

Challenge 10: Big Mood (Board) CHOOSE SOMETHING YOU LOVE AND CREATE A MINI MOOD COLLECTION OF THREE (or more) ITEMS THAT EVOKE YOUR FEELINGS ABOUT IT. You don’t have to limit yourself to visual media, or collect the items into a special format like a square (though you can if you’d like).

I'm going with Depa Billaba! She's my favorite minor character in Star Wars, specifically the Kanan comics version (there are three versions, two of which belong to Disney canon). I love her to pieces. In the comics, she carries a green lightsaber, but they also show how she's grown and healed after surviving a traumatic battle. She's drawn with a lot of plants in her chamber in the Jedi Temple. And the third link is for a fanart portrait that really captures her personality and it makes me happy to look at it.

Green and healing
Plants
Fanart portrait

bunn

Yesterday, the rescue came to collect the foster kittens to be neutered, and later they emailled to say that the ops had gone well, but a home had come up, and would it be OK by us if they went straight to their forever home?

I was a bit sad for their mum, Binx, who was clearly unhappy on her own and calling for them, but so it goes for cats. They don’t get to be families for long ( and often don’t want to be).

But! Then the rescue called to say the new home hadn’t worked out and could we have the kittens back? I was delighted. Binx was even more delighted (even if after 20 minutes of wild kitten shenanigans she looked rather less enthusiastic about them).

Right now they are all snuggled up together and she’s feeding them while they all purr. I’m glad they will have at least another weekend together.
I'll try to get some photos tomorrow.

alexcat

Challebge #3 'Write a love letter to fandom. It might be to fandom in general, to a particular fandom, favourite character, anything at all.
Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it

Dear fandom,

I’m supposed to write you a love letter, but I am kinda stumped this year. The political situation in the US and health issues have conspired to come between us. My imagination seems to have dried up and characters that spoke to me for many years seem to have moved on to greener pastures and maybe just left the galaxy all together. Who could blame them?

I’m hoping to get reacquainted and spend a lot of time with you this year. Maybe I can even find all my old fiction friends and tell some more of their stories again OR maybe I could even meet some new people to write about. I do live to tell a love story/

I guess I should also mention how important the real people in fandom are. I’ve lost touch with many of the folks I’ve met in my various fandoms, so it’s also time to make new friends and look up some of the old ones. Fandom friends have kept me same for a long time and sanity is in short supply these days.

What do you say, fandom? Can we do this? I surely hope so.

No one is too old for fairy tales

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