It's Thursday, climate change is real and here, let's get some comics-y superhero-y goodness!
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It's Thursday, climate change is real and here, let's get some comics-y superhero-y goodness!
Poetry time dearest nerdlets!
This poem was first published in the Medium publication The Brain Is A Noodle (TBIAN), for the prompt 'Slow Consumption' set by Lucy Dan (editor of TBIAN)
Forge
I'm ready now...
The UK has declared a national emergency because of the weather.
...And it's because of heat, not snow or floods.
This is climate change in action.
I don't work well in the heat.
I'm a Welsh girl, through and through - the summers of my milennial childhood were predominantly rain, with enough nice days interspersed to make up for it.
And by 'nice days,' I mean temperatures of around 15C-20C, occasionally stretching to 21C, with sunshine.
'“Hey, settle a debate for me,” he says to the poor twenty-something that probably doesn’t get paid enough to deal with Clint.
Sam gives her a sympathetic look. “Clint, man, give it a rest—” he tries, but Clint will not be deterred.'
I was looking for Hawkeye fanfics, and this one popped up instead.
And it's not technically a Hawkeye fic, and it may have Sam and Bucky from The Falcon and The Winter Soldier (TFATWS)/MCU (Marvel movies) - but it's a shared universe, y'know?
OK, you got me. It's SamBucky.
...but the Hawkeye squad are here too!
Kate! Yelena! Clint!
All the sass!
It's Thursday, this is Dora Reads, the UK is Too Hot (I feel like I'm melting,) let's get some comics-y superhero-y goodness!
When I tell people about my various craft projects - weaving, embroidery, cross-stitch - they're always like: 'You must have so much patience!'
But here's the thing - I don't.
I am so impatient. I want things done yesterday, preferrably in triplicate and wrapped with a bow.
No, I don't have any patience...
What I have is the ability to see the progress of the piece - however slow that progress may be.
Seeing it creeping into a mode of 'becoming' lets you know you're on the right track.
'...superheroes are great for preventing the destruction of the earth, but they don’t seem to give a damn about high rise apartments or coffee shops or the disastrous economic catastrophes they leave in their wake.'