#redrowan

[suzukiblu]

@redrowan replied to your text post: @suzukiblu what about the $5 tier being like a behind the scenes or a cut scene from one of your already written stories?

Solid idea, but I literally never cut scenes. I have done it maybe twice in the past two years and then immediately turned them into full fics of their own, hah. Maybe if I could figure out what kind of behind the scenes stuff people might like to see, though . . . 🤔

[mitsususu]

Not every story has to take place in the 21st century, you know. Below are my Top 5 Favorites: 

“The Bargain” (M, 20k) by GoodbyeBlues

Forced to wed to keep his inheritance, Steve finds himself married to a handsome but gravely wounded soldier. There are a number of issues surrounding this arrangement, but the most prominent one is also the most unexpected of all: Steve's dying husband is no longer dying.

+  Steve’s not the sick one for once! Wonderful mutual pining 

-☆-

“Lover’s Eye” (T, 16k) by RedRowan

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in want of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. Yet for Steven Rogers, painter of miniatures, it is not the company of ladies, but the acquaintance of Captain James Buchanan Barnes, Royal Navy, that captivates his imagination.

+ Painter Steve is captivated by dashing navy officer Bucky 

-☆-

“Most Ardently” (T, 9k) by 74days

Baron Grant, nothing more than a small, sickly country gentleman with no fortune and very little to recommend him, has just poured a glass of claret over Duke Barnes, a wealthy lord with the world at his feet.

+ Bucky is absolutely smitten with Steve and his sisters know it

-☆-

“Family Placement” (E, 88k) by notlucy

Steve Rogers had a train ticket in hand and the chance to begin again after losing everything in Brooklyn - his father, his mother, the comfort and familiarity of home. Going west meant the opportunity to become his own man and stake his claim on the wide, flat prairie.

Then, of course, there was Bucky Barnes.

+ A Little House on the Prairie AU with more gay!

-☆-

Lowlands Away (M, 62k) by littleblackfox

If you were to lever him apart like an oyster shell and scrape a blade under the meat of him, it would reveal a man trying to reach out across an ocean.

This is us, it would whisper. All that is good and bad of us. Who are you?

+  Pirate Steve and merman Bucky sail the high seas

-☆-

*More historical stories in the Medieval AU and Wedding list

[words-writ-in-starlight]

Do you have any recommendations for good Witcher fanfic? I literally devoured all of Astolat's in 3 days and I don't know enough about it to look for more, as my only experience is with the tv show, but the ADHD hyperfocus gremlins have my brain and they won't let go. I've been poking around ao3 but so far nothing has satisfied the gremlins like Astolat.

Oh same hat, huge mood, big worm, whatever meme you want to put here.  Unfortunately I have NOT found a lot of fic that I would recommend as approximating the quality of Astolat’s fic, and this may or may not mean it doesn’t exist, because I have channeled my own obsession through uhhhhhh less advisable channels.  My family did Christmas late, as we were all busy during real Christmas with parents, so my beautiful girlfriend bought me Witcher 3.  And also I got the first (non-short-story) book in the actual Witcher series on Archive.org, which--can I just say?  NOT what I expected in that book!  In a wholly positive way!  I have gotten very suspicious of fantasy novels written by men in the 90′s, and this book was actually stunningly light on sexism and remarkably good.

So, uh.  I’d recommend the first book, actually.  It’s largely set about six months after the end of the first season of the show, I think, as the show is an adaptation of the relevant short stories taking place before the series proper.  That means that the first book involves a lot of Geralt being Ciri’s dad, Triss yelling at a bunch of witchers, Dandelion/Jaskier getting into new and refreshingly self-engineered trouble, and Yennefer being questionably okay with children.

[dresupi]

What is your favorite: Ice cream flavor Cookie Home cooked meal Alcohol Marvel ship Hope you feel better!

Ice Cream: Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough

Home Cooked Meal:  Chicken and Dressing

Alcohol:  Jack Daniels, baby.  I like an Apple Jack.  Which is Jack, Apple Schnapps and cranberry juice.  It tastes legit like a red delicious apple.  <3 

Marvel Ship:  Quicktaser (Darcy/Pietro) is my flagship.  <3  

[drferox]

My dog Khan may have cushings, the final test will be done thursday. If he does have Cushings, what kind of life expectancy am i looking at? His vet says if he does, we caught it fairly early. He is 7, with no other health problems aside from dry eye controlled with drops after eye surgery (a conjunctival pedical graft). He is a large boston terrier, if that is relevant. I do understand you can't give me medical advice, I just want to prepare myself with knowledge in case he tests positive.

It depends entirely on what sort of Cushing’s Syndrome he has. .I’ve discussed Cushings as a good overview, and the two main types in the video below.

Cushings from an adrenal tumor or a pituitary microadenoma have a pretty good prognosis for treatment, but a pituitary macroadenoma, which is relatively rare, will cause neurological symptoms usually within 18 months. Diagnosing that requires a brain scan, but a lot of people choose not to do it and just treat the Cushing’s they can see, as they already decided they would not subject their dog to brain surgery.

[songlordsbug]

redrowan replied to your post: You know, I think the biggest disappointment of my...

I still have my original paperbacks and I can’t wait to share them with my future children. In some ways, I loved this series even more than HP. The idea of slowing entropy a day at a time through our choices is extremely inspiring.

When I went away to college I brought So You Want... with me, which is why I was able to pick it up when I got stressed in the middle of finals. And yeah, HP was very special and formative, but this series always seemed... realer? And the older I get the more I see that all we have are our choices, and they make all the difference.