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[lauren3210]

So I watched Captain America: The Winter Soldier a few nights ago with my girls, and since then I've spent pretty much every second in a rapidly deepening Stucky fic pit and crying over yet another life ruining ship.

Sometimes I really miss the good old days, where all I cared about was Spike/Buffy and rejoicing because Whedon actually occasionally delivered on his romantic subtext (never forgiving him for not going there with Faith/Buffy though).

I'm thinking that maybe someone should set up an OTP Anonymous. Maybe they could wean me off them with slowly worsening ships until I realise my life is better off without all these soul destroying feelings about fictional couples.

Except... Stucky, man. Stucky.

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[gracerene]

You know, I haven't watched Winter Soldier yet. But I got really into Steve/Tony fic a few months back and I just love them so much, and I'm so worried I'm going to come out of watching Winter Soldier and poor Stony will be thrown over for Stucky.

I don't know if I'm ready!

[lauren3210.livejournal.com]

Oh God it's like the worst ship, the actual worst oh my god. It's like, you know those pairings that have such fucking chemistry that they make the fucking sun look dim in comparison, and it's all just completely hopeless and you want to rip out your heart with your bare hands because you're pretty fucking sure that would be less painful? Because yeah, it's like that, only A HUNDRED TIMES WORSE OH GOD.

Although to be fair, I was more a tony/bruce shipper, so stucky might not hit you as hard as it did me but still, dear god this ship it makes me want to find all the coffee shop AUs and drown myself in them jfc

[gracerene]

Nooo, I'm so not prepared. I do not have time in my life to become obsessed with another ship!

Yeah, I have a feeling that Stony isn't going to give up it's hold on my without a fight. Which means it's going to be that much worse when Stucky starts trying to make a play for my affections.

[lauren3210.livejournal.com]

you'll have to come and tell me when you've watched it. if you end up being anything like me, you'll be needing a few fic recs to help patch up your shattered soul. Or you know, smash it into smaller pieces, I have those too so whatever you're into :)

[gracerene]

Will do! I'm sure I'll want to experiment a bit at the very least with the pairing. And always good to have somebody to go to for recs!

[lauren3210.livejournal.com]

lol I am actually somewhat known for my fic reccing skills amongst my twitter friends for a few pairings we all ship together, and i am pretty sure stucky is gonna end up added to that list so come at me, I can almost guarantee setting you up with some good ones!

[capitu]

Oh, yes, I can see this happening. However, when I finished watching the movie I came (more or less) unharmed. lol

[lauren3210.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was okay the first time I watched too tbh, but then the rewatch happened and suddenly I couldn't bloody breathe whenever they were on screen together. Also it really helps that Sebastian Stan is like the hottest thing to ever walk this earth, with Chris Evans coming in at a very very close second, lol!

[lq-traintracks.livejournal.com]

Maybe they could wean me off them with slowly worsening ships until I realise my life is better off without all these soul destroying feelings about fictional couples.

ROTFLMAO! God, I love this! :-D

Also, totally feel you on both Spike/Buffy and Faith/Buffy (holy GOD, that femslash would have been hhhhhhhhot!) I never shipped hard enough for that show that I wrote it, but I'm still in complete alignment with your beliefs. ::nods::

*fist bump*

Luckily, I don't watch much TV or see many movies, so I keep my painful ships to a minimum and feel very comfortable with where I'm at ship-wise. I highly recommend getting yourself an autistic child who doesn't let you go on dates. No movies that way. ::nods again:: Though, we're looking into respite care, so I may start rabidly shipping out of control someday, too. Though I still sort of doubt it. I'm so moderate by nature.

Thus endeth the navel-gazing ramble.

[lauren3210.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I never got into the fic side of Buffy, but man I would have been so down for some buffy/faith action, like, woah.

Actually, my middle daughter has Aspergers and is deaf, so we don't get to go out much either - she literally cannot handle the stress of anything off schedule and even if she could, there's not many babysitters who can sign, you know? So I feel you a bit there. Luckily though, I do have a husband who knows his computer stuff so trips to the movies aren't often ahem, a necessity, if you know what I mean, lol.

[lq-traintracks.livejournal.com]

Our daughter, though severely autistic and nonverbal, doesn't have a problem with breaking most routines funnily enough. It's more that, because she's completely nonverbal, we haven't been able to bring ourselves to trust anyone else with her care. Which is entirely our problem and something we're working on.

But yay you that you've got the, er, know-how to, er, see movies at home in such an, uh, inventive way. ;-) :-)

By the way, it's awesome to meet another parent with a GIRL on the spectrum! It's so rare. <3

[lauren3210.livejournal.com]

Maddie's can communicate exactly what she wants, so that's never an issue, and tbh, if we were to go out, then our teenager and even our 4y/o could translate for her if necessary, but she just can't handle any break in routine. School is so difficult, because we have to spend the entire week getting her ready for just the two days when she doesn't go, and don't even get me started on holidays. She just has to have everything a certain way, and she doesn't know how to cope with anything going differently (a few weeks ago, I was up all night calming her down after her dad tucked her in with her quilt cover upside down, which was fun). We're working on it though, and she is getting better with it, so we'll have to see.

And yes, it is so rare! I find that even some of her schoolteachers look a bit freaked out by it sometimes, like they can't even imagine a girl on the spectrum. *fist bump*

[lq-traintracks.livejournal.com]

{{{Maddie}}} The blanket incident. And {{{you}}}!

Yeah, Ivy used to not let us wash her pillowcase. We'd have to sneak wash it while she was in the bath. LOL! She's gotten more easygoing about that with time. Our reluctance to use respite care stems more from the vast fear that, having a completely nonverbal and compliant child, there's such horrible potential for abuse. She'd never say or indicate if someone was harming her, and she wouldn't tell them no. We'll have to trust the person very much, and we don't trust easy. Sigh.

<3

[lauren3210.livejournal.com]

Yes, I understand completely about the wariness to trust people, and I'm lucky that one of my closest friends works with children with autism, and so I tend to go to her with any questions I have, and she was really good with helping Maddie get proper care during school hours. But I know a lot of parents in similar situations who just don't feel able to trust newcomers, which is completely understandable. And heartbreaking tbh, that this is the kind of world we live in where that has to be such a big concern. Sigh *hugs you all*