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Abandoned Fills Fest?

[(Anonymous)]

Hey, during the next freeze, could we have something like an Abandoned Fills Fest? Like, maybe encourage people to revisit their favorite fills that have petered out and leave nice comments? Which could maybe nudge some authors with inspiration?

Re: Abandoned Fills Fest?

[(Anonymous)]

Not to knock you idea anon, because I think it's really sweet, but honestly I doubt if any of those authors would notice new comments left on stories they've abandoned on a kinkmeme.

Speaking for myself, I don't check fills I've posted here for comments past the first week.

Accessible Writing Apps?

[(Anonymous)]

So I have nerve damage in my hands and writing is a fucker. Predictive text is a lifesaver, but still a pain.. What apps/programs/etc help you write?predictive text? Dictation app that doesnt throw a fit if you pause to think for more than .3 seconds? Sheer willpower given by writtenkitten? What are your secrets?

Re: Accessible Writing Apps?

[(Anonymous)]

Super late response, but: Dragon NaturallySpeaking and a fuckton of custom vocab. Like, for some reason Dragon can't "hear" Foggy and always misspells it, so I have taught it that FuzzyAvocado is spelled F O G G Y, that kind of thing.

truly an off-topic post about writing software

[(Anonymous)]

this is similar to the above post but i didn't want to hijack that anon's hunt. i'm new-ish to mac and i'm looking for a free writing program, i've no use for microsoft office at this point in time and i'm not looking for anything fancy but i'm struggling to track down an easy-to-use free writer and was wondering if anyone had any advice?

Re: truly an off-topic post about writing software

[(Anonymous)]

never mind, i think i just solved my own problem :-)

Sign-Ups for the Secret Santa Fic Exchange closes on Nov 1st!

[(Anonymous)]

http://archiveofourown.org/collections/DD_SecretSanta_2015/profile

Re: Sign-Ups for the Secret Santa Fic Exchange closes on Nov 1st!

[(Anonymous)]

Today is the last day to sign up! :-D

[(Anonymous)]

I have never done it before so, I was wonderin, do any of you anons ever leave a more concrit-style comment on ao3...? I've never seen it either so maybe is not a thing..?
I was about to do it but then I realized that.. Uhmmm... Better not to? There's a fic whose story and worldbuilding I really like but the writing style is duuuh...

[(Anonymous)]

Well, there's nothing stopping you but etiquette? Like, if the author has asked for concrit, go nuts (but maybe try to balance negative with positive). That's about the only time it happens on AO3.

If they've not... then you could say that you loved the story but think some of the writing would be even better with a beta or something like that. Or you could ask if they'd be willing to take concrit. If they say no, walk away. And if they say yes, try to take it to a private message space if possible.

And don't be mean about it. People often are and that's not at all helpful.

Hope my advice helps!

this is probably the dumbest + most confusing question

[(Anonymous)]

i know very very very little about marvel aside from having watched most of the movies + daredevil and i was wondering, do dc superheroes exist in any way in the marvel universe??

i mean in terms of like, would anyone ever say "___ is your kryptonite" like would foggy ever say that to matt or does the marvel universe have absolutely no reference/knowledge to/of the dc universe?? i mean as far as i'm aware they don't exist as actual people but like do they exist in comic/character form?? could foggy have read superman/batman comics growing up??

Re: this is probably the dumbest + most confusing question

[(Anonymous)]

o.p here: i'm mostly asking because i want to write something inspired by the song "kryptonite" by three doors down but then i was like "would this even make sense in the mcu?? would they know what kryptonite was?? who superman is??"

Lost Prompt!!!

[(Anonymous)]

I'm sure I remember a prompt about Matt and Foggy being in each other's space and fighting then kissing happening?

Am I imagining it?

Re: Lost Prompt!!!

[(Anonymous)]

Hahaha, this is my prompt, gimmie a bit, I 'll find it.

Could Brett be part Irish

[(Anonymous)]

So I'm wondering since Hell's Kitchen was Irish and Mahoney is an Irish surname. What if Foggy didn't find any of Matt's Catholicism odd for a non Catholic because the Mahoney family kept the faith and practices of an Irish ancestor. Or whatever. Basically I'm just thinking Brett could be Irish descent like Matt and wonder how they would play into things of given further character development or thought for stories. P

Re: Could Brett be part Irish

[(Anonymous)]

They made Ben Catholic, so I don't see why not.

(You don't have to be Irish to be Catholic, fyi)

Random Question About College Headcanons

[(Anonymous)]

Just because I'm curious about other people's headcanons, what do people headcanon that Matt or Foggy have their undergraduate degrees in?

There's not only no specific prerequisites for law school, but not all universities even offer a Pre-Law or Legal Studies major. In fact, those paths have actually been shown to be less attractive to law schools, with philosophy, economics and journalism degrees all actually resulting in higher admission rates.

http://www.usnews.com/education/best-graduate-schools/top-law-schools/articles/2012/10/29/future-law-students-should-avoid-prelaw-majors-some-say

So what did they study first?

I personally have a headcanon of Foggy as having gotten a minor in Women's Studies, but as far as majors go I'm not attached to any particular one. I suspect Matt would have been the one of the two of them to have gone the straight Legal Studies, Criminal Justice or Pre-Law route.

Also, while I personally assume that they met in undergrad and not law school, if you do believe that they met when they started law school, which universities do you believe they attended before? Did they both remain in New York City up to that point?

Re: Random Question About College Headcanons

[(Anonymous)]

Someone who refers to women as "luscious co-eds" 100% has a minor in Women's Studies.

Lost prompt/fill

[(Anonymous)]

So this is embarrassing. I started filling a bodyswap prompt where Matt wakes up in Natasha/Black Widow's body, from the Avengers. I lost the prompt. I'm almost done with my other fic and would like to work on it? Does anyone have the link? I can't find it despite searching.

Re: Lost prompt/fill

[(Anonymous)]

http://daredevilkink.dreamwidth.org/3230.html?thread=6155678#cmt6155678

This, right?

[(Anonymous)]

I do most of my writing on my iPhone.

While I poop.

[(Anonymous)]

i'm glad i'm not the only one

Polygraphs often don't work

[(Anonymous)]

Hiya all,

Thought this article might be useful to anyone writing about Matt using heart rate for lying- it's not admissible in court, for a start!
http://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/detection-deception-are-polygraphs-scientifically-accurate

Enjoy :)

Re: Polygraphs often don't work

[(Anonymous)]

Tbh I think that most people already know that is true but because the show and comics handwave it we also choose to handwave it. Also I think Matt has the ability to sense it in people in other ways - heartbeat is shorthand (and it's one I will use to just keep the plot moving) but judging by what he told Foggy he uses other senses along with heartbeat to detect if people are lying.

Fanvids

[(Anonymous)]

So, does anybody have any good BAMF!Matt fanvids? And more importantly, am I the only one who thinks 'You're Gonna Go Far, Kid' would make the perfect Stick fanvid?

This is one of those times I wish I had any video editing skills at all.

Re: Max can not be bb!Foggy

[(Anonymous)]

Because crossover fanfiction aficionados enjoy having characters played by the same actor be secretly the same people (or at least related)? And this is Marvel Universe, where science, magic, or some freaking amalgamation of the two can explain drastic changes in people? (Max received a variant of the supersoldier serum! Kevin was a mutant, whose mutation killed him but allowed him to pass on his intelligence to his best friend! Max was secretly partly alien, which means that his maturation was completely different and he secretly wasn't stupid, just ugly duckling-y! Once he finished his physical growth, his mental growth began!)

Also, the loyalty both characters show towards those who are physically disabled and therefore isolated from those around them indicate a somewhat similar personality and bent, which could well belong to the same person at different stages in his life. Also also, I've had fun with end punctuation in this post. Please don't judge.

Etiquette question about gift exchanges

[(Anonymous)]

So, I've got my assignment for the 2015 Daredevil Secret Santa Gift Exchange, and I'm super-excited. (I'm happy it changed from the first one I got, honestly, because I'm not sure I have the writing chops at all but that one was even more intimidating. Speaking of which, my recipient will be happy that I made something custom for him/her, no matter how substandard, right? It's made WITH LOVE, anon. Even though I don't actually know you.)

But this is the first time I've ever done one of these, and to fill in my back story I was considering incorporating something from a completely unrelated kinkmeme prompt. (One of those really general ones.) Would it be ruder to ignore that that was an inspiration for my backstory, or to give a fic to someone and say, "Oh, yeah, and it fills this prompt, too, so it's kind of like you have to share this gift with someone else...", which is kind of what citing that inspirational prompt in the story itself would do? Should I just link it to the secondary inspiration on its thread here on the kinkmeme, or should I post it on the fills page as well, and if I do either of those, should I wait for a while after the original reveal of the fic, or do it right away?

I mean, I know the recipients of the gift exchange are actually sharing their fics with anyone who wants to read them, and it's not like I'd say it was written for anybody but that person, but I'm kind of kerflummoxed on the etiquette issues, here.

Thoughts, opinions, sage advice from gift exchange veterans who have experienced something like this from either end before?

...and any other etiquette advice on gift exchanges, while we're at it? I may not be the only idiot fumbling my way through some of this, after all...

Re: Etiquette question about gift exchanges

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think it would be rude to mention where your inspiration came from, as long as you're mostly filling what your recipient wants. I can't imagine being offended by that.

Do you ever feel like you somehow inherently stop conversation?

[(Anonymous)]

...like (either in real life or on, say, the Daredevil Kink Meme), there's a really cool conversation going on, so you try to contribute to it, and then not only does no one respond to you but everyone stops talking entirely? Like, they stare at you and then check their watches and leave or you refresh the comments for three hours (or three days) and nobody's talking anymore?

Honestly, it can't possibly be personal hygiene over a kinkmeme.

I don't think I have a persecution complex, and I do understand that it's probably a.) weird hour differences or b.) a thread that was already dying (or c.) just my perception, because of the whole asynchronous aspect of these conversations and my impatience for more). I really just want to know if anyone else ever feels like this.

And also for someone else to resurrect the Halloween thread. Throw some praise to a lovely author, anon! No one ever deserves my comment to be the last word on a subject.

Re: Do you ever feel like you somehow inherently stop conversation?

[(Anonymous)]

Yes to this!

I know it's BS, but it happens to here, during IM or Skype conversations, etc. The moment there's crickets, I start worrying that everyone's left to form a "No Homers" club, but to exclude me.

I feel like I may someday accidentally stumble across a secret kinkmeme or Tumblr chain being like "the nerve of that person!" It's why I get defensive when I see anyone call a person specifically out on this post or anywhere. Because for me, that would be my nightmare.

good dialogue?

[(Anonymous)]

Are there any specific Daredevil fic writers you can think of that have consistently good dialogue? Like in character and well-paced. I've been trying to practice but there's only so many times I can rewatch bits of the show. I figured reading really good fic would be a nice start.

Re: good dialogue?

[(Anonymous)]

Off the top of my head, Asidian and glorious_spoon on Ao3 are both writers I followed to Daredevil from different fandoms, and I've found them to be really great with character portrayal and general fic quality. Just my opinion, though :)

What kind of insurance would Matt have?

[(Anonymous)]

Ugh, somebody help me. Writing hospital fic and I have no clue about the American hospital billing system.

What kind of insurance would Matt, who has a new and barely profiting business, be able to afford (and how would that affect his hospital bill)?

Also, does his disability affect what kind of insurance he can get? Or would it be helpful in some way?

Basically I'm trying to figure out how much of a bill he'll be saddled with after a surgery and 5 days in-patient stay.

(Oh, and also: How does that process even work? Do you have to go to a cashier or something after you've been discharged? Do they put you on some kind of payment plan? If your insurance covers all or some, do you know right away? Or do you have to claim the entire amount and then wait on pins and needles wondering how much the insurance provider is going to cover?)

Re: What kind of insurance would Matt have?

[(Anonymous)]

This can vary a lot. If you want to know a hospital's billing practices then look up a specific hospital in NYC and search for their payment procedures. When I worked at the cancer hospital in my city they had financial coordinators who set up payment plans and worked with each patient to get maximum care for minimum cost.

Also Google search terms such as "insurance options for start up businesses."

I would also recommend looking into charity and disability funds which many hospitals have to help patients in financial distress. Matt would be a shoe-in. This goes double for religious based hospitals who make it their business to alleviate as much discomfort as possible off the patient. My older sister had a sudden baby delivery at the local Catholic hospital and only owed a few hundred dollars at the end of it because the hospital's charity fund covered her costs.

In Matt's case I would say he or Foggy (most likely Foggy) would meet with hospital financial coordinators who would communicate with the insurance company. Once the coordinator nailed down the insurance billing they would set up a payment plan if needed. It also depends on what the surgery is. An appendectomy is one thing but an organ transplant would be a whole other ballgame and without knowing what surgery Matt is having then I can't guesstimate what he would owe.

It's also important to know what insurance is and is not. Tieing the American medical industry to insurance was an attempt by LBJ or Nixon (I honestly can't remember which one) to lower medical costs. By pooling money together in one "place" as it were, they were trying to spread costs out over several people instead of making one person shoulder their imdividual costs by themselves. The result was mixed but it does help lower payments all across the board. A conscientious insurance company (yes, they do exist despite what the American media tells you) would communicate very quickly and swiftly with Matt, telling him his options and paying as much of his bill as they can and offering financial assistance and counseling if he requested it. (This was my personal experience with Anthem, who was very helpful to my mother when she had an emergency gall bladder removal. Financially, everything was resolved in the space of a week, which was when she left the hospital.)

Millions of people go through the system every day with straight forward surgeries and procedures, someone like Matt would be in and out of the hospital fairly quickly without much problem barring sudden onset of a bizarre disease or him suddenly being robbed of every cent he had.

Petition: Karen Can Make Decent Coffee

[(Anonymous)]

I vote that Team Avocado just buy better coffee grounds so that their lovely secretary doesn't make bad coffee in every fic. I submit that making good coffee has nothing to do with skill and everything to do with just not buying shitty grounds.

I vote for Folgers Gourmet Toasted Hazelnut. But I also like Starbucks Dark Roast and Cameron's Vanilla Hazelnut is ok (I bought it on sale because I was very excited about six dollars for a bag of coffee lol.) Starbucks Light Roast is nice too - my ex girlfriend used to drink that. Folgers Original isn't very good and it's also not as cheap as you think it would be. It tastes ok with milk though. Green Mountain Coffee black is the worst coffee I have ever had.

/nonnie who drinks a lot of black coffee and loves Karen

Re: Petition: Karen Can Make Decent Coffee

[(Anonymous)]

This!

I mean, you CAN make bad coffee even with decend grounds (burn it, add too much or not enough water), but it's not that complicated to do it right. I like the Chock Full o'Nuts for something fairly cheap and drinkable, although if I'm feeling fancy I'll get the Eight o'Clock whole bean coffee (if I'm feeling really fancy, I get my brother to steal me some fresh-roasted organic coffee from the fancy place he works, but that's a rare treat).

/also a nonnie who drinks her coffee black

[(Anonymous)]

I need to commiserate with someone.

Who else is fed up with their long fic and fantasizes about abandoning it? x_x

[(Anonymous)]

dont anon. We can help you and give you ideas.

Why is giving Child!Matt a shot that big of a deal?

[(Anonymous)]

Like maybe it's a cultural thing, but my very German grandmother would give me Jägermeister when I had a cough? Also, they use wine at mass. I understand not letting Matt drink a ton, but a nip here and there? It does not seem that bad.

Re: Why is giving Child!Matt a shot that big of a deal?

[(Anonymous)]

I think it is partly a cultural thing. But I think more people are objecting to Jack having Matt stitch him up, and the concomitant shot reads like the set-up for an extremely poor coping mechanism. Like, I'm asking (or demanding) too much of you? Here, what you do is not complain or look for alternatives; just medicate with alcohol and get to it! Now you're a man!

(Also, a sip of wine doesn't have near as much alcohol as a shot of Scotch.)

Tangentially Related

[(Anonymous)]

Punisher (2004) is now streaming on netflix

How do you think Daredevil's punisher will be different? How would you personally make him different? Would you want to see Jon Bernthal torturing a guy with a Popsicle?

Re: Tangentially Related

[(Anonymous)]

I would like to see them focus on Frank's grief and loss. The comics have reduced his murdered family to props and lots of authors just treat his loss as if it doesn't matter and that Frank is "just" a crazy psycho killer who is TEH EBULS.

Frank is a bad, bad man, but there's reason and motive behind what he does: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dEOTB696WZU This psychologist identifies it as "complicated grief." I'd love it if the show actually went into depth on that.

Frank is not in the right but there are logical reasons behind what he does. I don't want him reduced to a mindless killer.

G. K. Chesterton on themes near and dear to Daredevil

[(Anonymous)]

I thought I'd mix it up a bit, and include some quotes from one of my favorite Catholic authors here. Feel free to respond to them and how they completely fail to apply, or to assume that I'm off my meds and ignore them, whichever. All quotes are from Orthodoxy.

The Christian admits that the universe is manifold and even miscellaneous, just as a sane man knows that he is complex. The sane man knows that he has a touch of the beast, a touch of the devil, a touch of the saint, a touch of the citizen. Nay, the really sane man knows that he has a touch of the madman.

For this next one: "Pimlico /ˈpɪmlɨkoʊ/ is a small area within central London in the City of Westminster," according to Wikipedia. So, pretty much an equivalent to, say, Hell's Kitchen.

Let us suppose we are confronted with a desperate thing—say Pimlico. If we think what is really best for Pimlico we shall find the thread of thought leads to the throne of the mystic and the arbitary. It is not enough for a man to disapprove of Pimlico: in that case he will merely cut his throat or move to Chelsea. Nor, certainly, is it enough for a man to approve of Pimlico: for then it will remain Pimlico, which would be awful. The only way out of it seems to be for somebody to love Pimlico: to love it with a transcendental tie and without any earthly reason. If there arose a man who loved Pimlico, then Pimlico would rise into ivory towers and golden pinnacles; Pimlico would attire herself as a woman does when she is loved. For decoration is not given to hide horrible things; but to decorate things already adorable. A mother does not give her child a blue bow because he is so ugly without it. A lover does not give a girl a necklace to hide her neck. If men loved Pimlico as mothers love children, arbitarily, because it is theirs, Pimlico in a year or two might be fairer than Florence. Some readers will say that this is a mere fantasy. I answer that this is the actual history of mankind. This, as a fact, is how cities did grow great. Go back to the darkest roots of civilisation and you will find them knotted round some sacred stone or encircling some sacred well. People first paid honour to a spot and afterwards gained glory for it. Men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her.

And later in the same chapter:

...I read a solemn flippancy by some free thinker: he said that a suicide was only the same as a martyr. The open fallacy of this helped to clear the question. Obviously a suicide is the opposite of a martyr. A martyr is a man who cares so much for something outside him, that he forgets his own personal life. A suicide is a man who cares so little for anything outside him, that he wants to see the last of everything. One wants something to begin: the other wants everything to end. In other words, the martyr is noble, exactly because (however he renounces the world or execrates all humanity) he confesses this ultimate link with life; he sets his heart outside himself: he dies that something may live. The suicide is ignoble because he has not this link with being: he is a mere destroyer; spiritually, he destroys the universe. And then I remembered the stake and the cross-roads, and the queer fact that Christianity had shown this weird harshness to the suicide. For Christianity had shown a wild encouragement of the martyr. Historic Christianity was accused, not entirely without reason, of carrying martyrdom and asceticism to a point, desolate and pessimistic. The early Christian martyrs talked of death with a horrible happiness. They blasphemed the beautiful duties of the body: they smelt the grave afar off like a field of flowers. All this has seemed to many the very poetry of pessimism. Yet there is the stake at the cross-roads to show what Christianity thought of the pessimist.

Re: G. K. Chesterton on themes near and dear to Daredevil

[(Anonymous)]

SA, back again to torment you further.

Here are a couple Chesterton quotes from some of his pieces for the Illustrated London News. (I heard the first one and thought, "Daredevil!" Though I don't know if it applies more to Matt or to Stick.)

The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.

Because the vigilante and the lawyer are not, after all, so very far apart:

Reason is always a kind of brute force; those who appeal to the head rather than the heart, however pallid and polite, are necessarily men of violence. We speak of 'touching' a man's heart, but we can do nothing to his head but hit it.

And one that'll probably perk a few people on here right up:

The first two facts which a healthy boy or girl feels about sex are these: first that it is beautiful and then that it is dangerous.

Stick's War

[(Anonymous)]

What is it??? And why does he want Matt, specifically, for it?

Like, is it a comics thing, or is it just for the MCU/Defender's lead up? Why did Stick single Matt out in the comics anyway?

Re: Stick's War

[(Anonymous)]

I think it's a Hand vs Chaste thing from the comics (something something martial arts, eastern magic, demons). How that will fit in with the show's tone and genre, which is more a crime noir, is a pretty good question. I don't read the comics so I'm not sure why Stick has singled Matt out.

Following posts... I found something cool in chrome extensions

[(Anonymous)]

Ok, so I might be really behind the times and a whole bunch of people already know this... but I'm going to put my discovery out there anyway.

I found a chrome extension that is making my life on DDK so much easier. It is called "Page Monitor" and what it does is check the page you are following for updates. I spend so much time rechecking certain works in progress for updates it is not funny. So, who I can do with this instead is click the extension and choose to follow this page (use the link feature at on the title to only follow that one entry). Of course it will also show as updated when someone makes a comment, but that is great too when you post your own Fills and you want to monitor comments people make along the way. It is so easy to lose things.

Anyway- I hope this didn't sound too much like an commercial. I just thought it was really cool and useful.

:) Cheers.

Re: Following posts... I found something cool in chrome extensions

[(Anonymous)]

thank you anon! I gave up on tracking months ago because I had too many but didn't go looking for some useful tool like this one!
also, I'm using opera and there's also a version for this browser