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I quite liked “I Can’t Trust My Own Mind”: How the Marvel Cinematic Universe Engages with Trauma" by Alysa Auriemma at The Mary Sue. Between the title and her name comes the tag line: "Let's stop woobifying bodily and mental violations."

It's fairly short, but I think the main points are good: MCU is thinking through varieties of and responses to trauma in its movies, and some fanfic handles it well too.

But don't take my word for it—read it!

A list of Captain America comics we own, mostly for me so that I don't have to dig all through the house again next time I try to remember what we own: ( behind the cut )

I have not done a book entry in far too long. I'm pretty sure I'm missing some here. They tend to get put away and then I can't remember what I read when.

( The Mermaid Chair, Sue Monk Kidd )

( Charles Stross, The Apocalypse Codex )

( Jim Butcher, Grave Peril and Summer Knight )

( Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials (trilogy) )

( Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane )

( Ed Brubaker, Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Captain America: Red Menace )

( Charles Stross, Halting State )

( Nicole Griffith, Hild )

I keep meaning to post and not doing it! I will try to make some shorter posts instead of the kind of longer round-up that I'm not likely to finish.

I discovered that my fanfic site The Mead Hall went down, probably in late November 2012. I have been paying it so little mind that on the rare occasions I have looked in the last 18 months, I have found it not working and made a mental note to talk to Brilliant Husband and then promptly lost the mental note. I have done this at least twice before I realized that it's really down! On the other hand, my ownership of the site expires in July, and I'm not paying for it again, so I'm letting it go. I am in the process of moving my fanfic all to AO3; you can find me here.

I have 18 stories up now. None of my Primeval or Stargate: Atlantis stories have made it yet, but they will be there; if you want a specific story added that I haven't yet put up, just let me know, and I'll put it at the top of my List of Stories to Move!

Also note that I have given up on writing recommendation posts. I just can't manage to do it. I have been saving up Sherlock stories for a rec post, and I just don't think that's ever going to happen, because I've mostly gone off Sherlock except for stories by a few writers, and I cannot find the motivation to make a post for a fandom where I'm hardly doing any reading. Most of what I did mean to rec, I bookmarked on AO3, so you can go to that link above, click to see my profile, and then find my Bookmarks in the left-hand menu.

Moreover, I suddenly fell into Marvel and Captain America fandom. (Okay, more honestly: Winter Soldier fandom, with healthy sides of Captain America, Sam, and Natasha, though the proportions of those vary.) Aware that I can't manage rec posts, I have begun trying to make slightly fuller summaries of stories I'm bookmarking as recommendations so that not only can I remember them when I look back, but friends can decide whether they might want to read each.

On the downside, I realized yesterday that I appear to have tagged fully half the stories I've bookmarked "friendship," and I suspect I'd have tagged a lot more that way if I'd been tagging for people other than just me when I started making bookmarks. And "friendship" actually describes what attracts me to nearly all these stories, so you might not find it a useful tag if you decide to search my bookmarks.

Behind the cut: a brief summary of Where I Am in Fandom, for those who are curious—and to help me remember what I might want to tackle in individual posts. This list may change as I think of something else I want to remember. ( Fandoms )

So I went to see Captain America: The Winter Soldier with Brilliant Husband two or three weeks ago. ( Cut for maundering AND spoilers )