Parent–child relationships (Comment posted else-net)

"Some parents get really upset when their kids diverge from their headcanons about them."

A great deal of the difficulty in my relationship with my mother just dissolved away to nothing when I read this sentence.

My mother is gone so this difficulty has been living entirely in my head for ten years. I mean, I still have feelings about her having wanted me to be different, but there's something healing about interpreting her want that way. Because I know that, while headcanons can be very emotionally compelling, they're only in your head. They aren't a Great Truth of the Universe or a Moral Imperative.*

*except a couple of mine :D

Roundup: If I Fits I Fics exchange

If I Fits I Fics is an exchange for cat-themed works.

I was assigned to write about The Secret of Kells.

I really want people to watch this movie.
Here's the trailer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UuUOXfiz9Q
The trailer doesn't really capture the pacing of the film (there are some lovely slow sections), but it captures the variety of animation styles and a bit of my favorite piece of music in it. And there are glimpses of the cat, Pangur Ban.

I couldn't decide which of two ideas I liked better so I wrote them both.

I got two gifts! One was a Loki-as-catboy/Thor fic and the other was Loki-as-cat/Goose (Marvel) fanart. I'm not linking them because you have to be logged in to AO3 to see them. But if you're logged in, you can get to them via the If I Fits I Fics collection or via my gift page — "Got Your Tongue" and "Moving Too Fast."

( What I wrote: )