Writing on the Castle Walls

[writingonthecastlewalls]

Unexpectedly unwell. Slight fic delay. Please stand by.

[writingonthecastlewalls]

Chapter 3 is up!

A Season for Family Chapter 3, a castle fanfic | FanFiction

[writingonthecastlewalls]

Chapter 2 is now up. We are still a bit behind, but we will get there.

Moral of the story is never promise two chapters on meal prep Sunday. *dead*

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14303693/2/A-Season-for-Family

[writingonthecastlewalls]

after I post a new fanfic

Me: "Don't get obsessive, don't think about it so much, you only published it late last night, don't worry so much about the response -"

Me, simultaneously: "DID THEY SEE IT DID THEY LIKE IT OH MY GOSH I HOPE THEY LIKED IT I WANT EVERYONE TO LIKE IT OH NO THIS ONE PERSON HASN'T RESPONDED TO IT YET OH GOD THEY HATE IT THEY I'M SURE THAT MUST BE IT-"

[waynesprince]

Castle: “You do realize I’m gonna have to punish you a little first." 

Beckett: ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) "naked punishing?" 

[writingonthecastlewalls]

Since a few of you apparently are still out there (Hi!)

The Saturday chapter of my new story will post on Sunday along with the Sunday addition because I’m mentally and physically exhausted. Thanks for understanding.

[writingonthecastlewalls]

I don’t know if this thing is on, or if anyone is still here, but…if you are:

I did a thing. I haven’t done a thing like this in five years. *runs and hides*

fanfiction.net/s/14303693/1/A…

[katebeckett]

Kate Beckett appreciation → 75/?

[kate--beckett]

#when I see food…

[mooniicorn]

“If autism isn’t caused by environmental factors and is natural why didn’t we ever see it in the past?”

We did, except it wasn’t called autism it was called “Little Jonathan is a r*tarded halfwit who bangs his head on things and can’t speak so we’re taking him into the middle of the cold dark forest and leaving him there to die.”

[iamthethunder]

Or “little Jonathan doesn’t talk but does a good job herding the sheep, contributes to the community in his own way, and is, all around, a decent guy.” That happened a lot, too, especially before the 19th century.

[rosslynpaladin]

Or, backing up FURTHER

and lots of people think this very likely,

“Oh little Sionnat has obviously been taken by the fairies and they’ve left us a Changeling Child who knows too much, and asks strange questions, and uses words she shouldn’t know, and watches everything with her big dark eyes, clearly a Fairy Child and not a Human Like Us.”

The Myth of the Changeling child, a human baby apparently replaced at a young age by a toddler who “suddenly” acts “strange and fey” is an almost textbook depiction of autistic children.

To this day, “autism warrior mommies” talk about autism “stealing” their “sweet normal child” and have this idea of “getting their real baby back” which (in the face of modern science)  indicates how the human psyche actually does deal with finding out their kid acts unlike what they expected.

Given this evidence, and how common we now know autism actually is, the Changeling myth is almost definitely the result of people’s confusion at the development of autistic children.

[vicecommanderhijikata]

Weirdly enough, that legend is now comforting to me.

[neddythestylish]

I think it’s worth noting that many like me, who are diagnosed with ASD now, would probably have been seen as just a bit odd in centuries past. I’m only a little bit autistic; I can pass for neurotypical for short periods if I work really hard at it. I have a lack of talent in social situations, and I’m prone to sensory overload or you might notice me stimming.

But here’s the thing: life is louder, brighter and more intense and confusing than it has ever been. I live on the edge of London and I rarely go into the centre of town because it’s too overwhelming. If I went back in time and lived on a farm somewhere, would anyone even notice there was anything odd about me? No police sirens, no crowded streets that go on for miles and miles, no flickery electric lights. Working on a farm has a clear routine. I’d be a badass at spinning cloth or churning butter because I find endless repetition soothing rather than boring.

I’m not trying to romanticise the past because I know it was hard, dirty work with a constant risk of premature death. I don’t actually want to be a 16th century farmer! What I’m saying is that disability exists in the context of the environment. Our environment isn’t making people autistic in the sense of some chemical causing brain damage. But we have created a modern environment which is hostile to autistic people in many ways, which effectively makes us more disabled. When you make people more disabled, you start to see more people struggling, failing at school because they’re overwhelmed, freaking out at the sound of electric hand dryers and so on. And suddenly it looks like there’s millions more autistic people than existed before.

[grace-and-ace]

“…disability exists in the context of the environment.”

[coldalbion]

Reblog for disability commentary.

[oockitty]

That last paragraph is absolutely important.

[hazeldomain]

“How come nobody ever heard of ‘dyslexia’ until widespread literacy became a thing?”

[writingonthecastlewalls]

Brilliant.

[pollylynn]

JE: “Kate?”

KB: “I’m fine. I just never thought I’d see him again.”

KB: [And now—right now, Javier Esposito—I need you to take your brother to the nearest Costco. Get a pallet of juice boxes and every single episode of Duck Tales ever made. Neither your father nor I wants to see either of you for … let’s call it a month.]

JE: [But … ]

KR: [Mom said RIGHT NOW, Javi, and don’t think you’re getting any of my juice boxes!]

KB: [That’s a good boy, Sweatervest, now both of you: GET GONE.]

images via homeofthenutty

[captainsavre]

KATE BECKETT → first & last each season.

[writingonthecastlewalls]

Love this

[ihazocd]

#McKeeFireFund

Dear friends, As much as I hate to do this, I come to you on my knees. Some of my dearest friends are going through the worst of times right now, and try as I might, I simply cannot do all that is needed to help them myself.

Times were already tough as my best friend Stephanie was in the hospital for nearly three weeks, but things went from bad to worse last week when her husband Erik went home to check on their three cats and found that sometime while no one had been home, a fire had broken out in their house. Though the flames were mostly limited to the kitchen and dining room areas, the damage from smoke and soot are far more extensive. They also lost all three of their beloved pets in the fire.

The entire house is covered in a thick layer of acrid black powder, and according to the insurance adjuster, nearly everything they own will have to be replaced. Only irreplacable items will be able to be cleaned as the cost to do so is very high.

They now find themselves living out of a hotel and having to replace the most bare necessities out of pocket, which is a cost they weren’t prepared for. They have a few articles of clothing each that I have been able to wash, a few personal items that had to be replaced immediately, and very little else. They have already run out of funds to replace the immediate necessities, adding acute financial distress to the trauma of losing everything.

I plan to do some shopping myself today to get them some food items, clothes and a couple toys/activities for their eight-year-old daughter (my niece Ayla) - but I also have limited means and won’t be able to cover even the immediate needs by myself. Because of this, I have created a GoFundMe campaign for them (my idea, not theirs) in hopes that if we pool together as a ‘village’, even if each of us can only spare a couple dollars, we might ease their burden just a little bit. I truly hate to ask anything of anyone as I know that none of us are sitting on a lot of extra funds, and I already owe many of you who are reading this a huge debt of gratitude for being there for me when I needed it three years ago. However, these are people who have been there for me and for others when we have fallen on hard times, and I simply can’t watch them struggle and do nothing - but unfortunately I cannot either relieve their burden on my own.

The GoFundMe campaign I created for Steph, Erik and Ayla can be found here: https://www.gofundme.com/bk323-house-fire-relief-fund. It will remain up until as many needs as possible are met. All funds raised go directly to the family. Please, if you can spare a few bucks, could you help me create a silver lining for them? And if you can’t (and that’s okay), would you please share this, so that maybe someone who can help might see it?

I hate to beg. I really do. Especially when I know you all have expenses of your own, and you all have already done so very much good. I owe each and every one of you my very life. But this isn’t about me, it’s about two wonderful people and an eight-year-old who have lost nearly everything. I know it’s Thursday. I know many of you are waiting on payday even to do your own shopping. But if, once that paycheck goes through, you can find even a couple dollars to contribute, it will go farther than you can imagine in not only helping to ease the family’s financial burden but also in strengthening their morale as their village rallies around them. Alone, what each of us can do is very little, but together, we are a force to be reckoned with.

Thank you and God Bless, Katie

^^ ‘Ground Zero’ ^^

^^Ayla and I at the History Museum last winter ^^

[writingonthecastlewalls]

Please help if you can, and spread the word, even if you can’t.

[kate--beckett]

3x02 // 8x07 123/365 days of caskett

[3cops-and-a-writer]

[writingonthecastlewalls]

Thanks to @musicloveheals for finding ABC’s official description of the final scene from Crossfire!

[writingonthecastlewalls]

Re tumbling to go with that last ask.

[writingonthecastlewalls]

In your opinion did castle and Beckett died in the season finale ? And the seven years later was a dream of what could have been ?

Absolutely not. Several things say otherwise. Dreams don't have timestamps, that was for the audience. Also, the kids have names in the credits. Typically, if the character is a figment and hasn't been given a name on screen, they’d just be ”little girl” and ”little boy 1” and ”little boy two” - but they are Lily, Jake, and Reece. Neat little camera trick too where the shot is tracking through the loft, but then it reverses itself. We were heading one way, but then, reversal of fortune. Cinematography 101. Also? ABC’s official synopsis flat out says they survived and are shown happy with their kids. So that's the studio/network position. Worth noting that even in the rather odd potential season 9 idea that leaked, Castle only thinks she died, shes off working for Rita’s people or similar. And they released two new books in Castle’s name post series, that in to way imply they’re posthumous. Far from it. So there seems no real evidence of killing them off, or intent that it should be taken as such. The read I have of that scene is that yeah, it was a close thing, but then our little reversal. Now, they’ve just been brutally attacked in their home. They bled all across the floor. I’d bet they recovered elsewhere, had the floors redone, among other things. Time passed. Maybe considered selling. But then the kids came. And they don't like the idea of being driven from their home, from the place they’d planned to raise their kids. So, back they go, with some new furniture (or the sofa at least) and some remodeling, and return to their lives. They go forward. PS. I Got this right at finals time, so it took me a week to answer. Sorry.