#theredthread

[a-leg-without-fear]

EVERYONE GO SAY HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO @pastafossa RIGHT NOW!!! SHE IS SUCH A WONDERFUL CARBOHYDRATE AND AN AMAZING AUTHOR. I COULDN’T BE MORE LUCKY TO CALL HER MY FRIEND!! 🎉🎉

(reposting the painting i did of matt for pasta because why not)

[audreyrusso]

Joining Audrey for this week's REELTalk - Exec Dir for American Constitutional Rights Union and bestselling author LTC ALLEN WEST will be here! PLUS, Founder of Stand Up America & bestselling author MG PAUL VALLELY will be here! AND, NY Times bestselling author of American Betrayal, DIANA WEST will be here! PLUS, comic relief on what’s hot from brilliant farceur MIKE FINE!  In the words of Benjamin Franklin, "If we do not hang together, we shall surely hang separately." Come hang with us... 

[abbyhaslongshorts]

Memes are my new form of self expression. Also, I will gladly talk about Daredevil or The Red Thread to anyone who will listen and want to discuss 😀

[lifeindetailuk]

(SOLD) Mandala no. 4 - "The Red Thread I" Acrylics and inks on round panel 30cm diameter 

The concept for this mandala comes from an East Asian belief called “The Red Thread” where an invisible red cord is said to be tied between two people that are destined to meet. The cord can stretch and tangle all over the Earth but will never break.

Insta: lifeindetailuk Website: www.lifeindetail.co.uk

[shasharishi]

♥️VALENTINES DAY - THE TRUTH♥️ Before Christianity was mainstream in Rome the emperor Claudius II forbade Christian weddings. St Valentine was a priest and a rebel who married soldiers with their secret loves in clandestine illegal ceremonies. 200 years after St Valentine wrote the first love letter to the blind daughter of the jailer where he was incarcerated until his death, the Catholic Church, in an attempt to eradicate pagan practices, declared February 14th his Saints day. February was the month in which pagans held a fertility ritual (Imbolc) and this was appropriated for Valentine’s Day. So the Catholic Church unwittingly made Valentine’s Day not only about secret love but also sexy sexy sex! And babies. Maybe even ‘illegitimate’ babies or the ‘love child’ of lore… The Forbidden love vibe of this state of affairs caught the imagination of The poet Chaucer in the Middle Ages who kicked off the tradition of courtly love, the rituals of expressing romantic love to a secret beloved. It’s all wildly romantic. So St Valentine is pretty rock and roll really. A rebel, a healer, a secret lover helping couples, like the priest in Romeo and Juliet, to find Union with the forbidden partner of their choice, blessed by a spirituality that was at the time outlawed. What goes around comes around. I think of Valentines Day as a day where any kind of love can be expressed in any way that feels right. Maybe you’ve been waiting for the right moment. Maybe this is it? Just to say the words you’ve been longing to say and they have been longing to hear? There’s still time… #shashaspiritledlife #valentinesday #stvalentinesday #magick #fae #dragonfae #theredthread #secretlovers #forbiddenlove #elopement #thefirstvalentine #reddress #boxingwraps #divinemasculine #divinefeminine #sunworship #liberresh #witchesofinstagram #forestwitch #eclecticwitch #romance #fairytale https://www.instagram.com/p/CZ6h-qdodBa/?utm_medium=tumblr

[flepetit]

Jardinero mi próximo trabajo 🤣🤣 #nowlistening #arabstrap #theredthread #cdcollection #supportyourlocalrecordstore https://www.instagram.com/p/CE7KHeRJKgg/?igshid=d9jfsjy32yj0

[deluxemaninspace]

Frida Johansson and Henrik Oja - The Red Thread

[pastafossa]

For absolutely, totally non-specific reasons, I am now using this mug for my coffee.

I'm sure it means nothing.

[bounpassion]

Thanks to New Siwaj Sawatmaneekul for this beautiful BL serie🧡

Until We Meet Again | Episode 9

[a-leg-without-fear]

I am completely obsessed with the @pastafossa story The Red Thread, and in conjunction I am also obsessed with our best boy Matt Murdock. I decided to do some fanart. Here’s my process!

Started with a base sketch.

Defined the lines with a grey pen.

Decided against all the threads, surrounded drawing in black.

Painted bass colors with cheap acrylics.

Started shading the head.

Finished shading, added title/author name/signature.

Covered painting in mod-podge to protect.

Scanned it into a drawing program to finish it up!

Hope you guys like it!! Go read The Red Thread by @pastafossa for a wonderful time!!

[audreyrusso]

Joining Audrey for this week's REELTalk - Legal Analyst for GAO and author of Red Hot Lies, CHRISTOPHER HORNER will be here! PLUS, bestselling author of Death of the Grown-Up, American Betrayal and The Red Thread, DIANA WEST will be with us! AND, former ICE Special Agent & bestselling author of Agent Under Fire, VICTOR AVILA will be here!  In the words of Benjamin Franklin, "If we do not hang together, we shall surely hang separately." Come hang with us... 

[orlok666]

Amor Veneris Oil on canvas board 01/22/19 Degenerate Art Exhibition 02/16/19 w/ @jack_mutiny at Mutiny Information Cafe (@mutinyinfocafe ) @k.haikara_art #expressionistart #expressionism #expressionist #neoexpressionist #neoexpressionistart #neoexpressionism #degenerateart #entartetekunst #arabstrap #amorveneris #theredthread https://www.instagram.com/p/Bs9gs0blt0u/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=159jl6pypp97m

[1988-fiend]

Total nerd moment coming full circle; moving into my first home and the first keychain I grabbed (within reach) was my Nelson Murdock and Page tag keychain, but it keeps disappearing in my purse (black on black) so I’m trying to decide on its partner in crime (sorry, bad pun) .

So do I add another scale, or go with the Penguin option that I bought specifically because it reminded me of #TheRedThread fanfic by @pastafossa ???

I feel like this would be an enjoyable interaction with the people in the Daredevil community 🥊 😈

[laopcionb]

The red thread they said..

[yutaya]

what was your first Conan fic?

Oh boy, storytime!

So there is a short answer and a LONG answer to this question. 

The Short Answer:

You didn’t ask this for the whole story, you asked because of what I mentioned in my tags: that the first DCMK fic I ever read had a scene where Conan lays out exactly how easy it would have been, after Kaito’s slip up referencing the great magician Kuroba Toichi while in disguise at the lodge on that one case, to just... look up Kuroba Toichi. With the filters from other things Conan had extrapolated, such as likely age range, combined with the kind of closeness to Toichi indicated by Kid’s bringing him up, it would have taken maybe half a day to narrow down the likely identity of the new Kaitou Kid. Conan knew that was all he had to do. And then... he didn’t. He purposefully never looked there, let it remain a mystery.

UNFORTUNATELY, I remembered wrong. My first DCMK fic, while the gateway to a whole new world for me, is not actually the fic that has this scene. :/

There was a little community of DCMK fics I was reading back in the livejournal days (ManyCasesOneTruth LJ community, whatup!!!) and it was one of those that had that scene, but I’m not sure which one. :( If someone reads this monster and happens to know, please tell me so I can reread it. Haha.

Anyway my first Conan fic was Windfall by Ysabet.

The Long Answer: (AKA how Detective Conan changed my life)

The year was 2004. I had finally started watching the Case Closed dub on Adult Swim - videotaping it because I couldn’t stay up to watch it at 1AM - after half a year of being too afraid because the commercials involved dead bodies and it looked scary.

That summer, my family was on vacation, and there was no way for me to watch the episodes that would be piling up on the VHS back at home. I had briefly ventured onto the ff.net page before, but found so many summaries centered around unfamiliar names that I assumed I had to watch more and meet all these fan favorite characters before I’d be able to make heads or tails of any of it. But - I was at ends, and so I decided to give it another shot. A google search brought me to a site called something like The Red Thread, and a list with winners of some fanfiction awards. Best overall for... whatever year it was - 2003? - was Windfall by Ysabet.

Now, the funny thing about Windfall is: not only does it use all the Japanese names that so confused me back then, not only does it center completely around characters I had not met yet and assume knowledge of events and backstory that I didn’t have - it’s also actually the fourth fic in a series. Not that I was aware of that. Character that isn’t in the canon? I assumed it was yet another canon character that I just hadn’t met yet. Everyone else was. Probably the only name I recognized in that fic was “Conan” and he ended up playing such a small part (though I extrapolated that “Ayumi” was “Amy” pretty easily). But it was so good, and I devoured it anyway.

Only 7 chapters of Windfall were posted on TheRedThread. I finished this fic about Kaito, who I didn’t know, and Aoko, who I didn’t know, and Ayumi, who I had seen trapped in a car trunk with a “severed head” in one CC episode but who I had not at all seen grow a friendship with a thief sheltering on her balcony, and I wanted more.

When I got home, I found the wait for Case Closed episodes to air more agonizing than ever. I took to google again, seeking out more information, and somehow, someway, stumbled through my first ever torrent download. I didn’t even know what I was doing. I didn’t know episodes of television could be available online. I couldn’t believe it when I saw a link titled “episodes 1-10″ and just blindly followed whatever instructions I could to see what it was. Downloading Bittorrent, downloading VLC... Imagine my surprise when I finally opened up the show I was looking for but.. in another language. With subtitles!

It all took off from there. I learned all about how most of the cartoons I liked were actually anime from Japan and that when they were dubbed in English the companies often also changed characters’ names and censored stuff and altered large swathes of dialogue to make things more palatable to American audiences. I learned about manga that I could buy in Waldenbooks and that most of them were flipped but some of them weren’t because the original artwork was meant to be read right to left. I learned about, basically, everything that I had been missing out on from the stories I liked, that had been diluted out of the original versions for my consumption.

I started following a Detective Conan fansubber and downloading their latest episodes as soon as they came out, and learned all about “Shinichi” and “Ran”.

I discovered that Windfall was actually part of an entire Wind series, and had a lot more than 7 chapters besides. Fanfiction was my entire introduction to Kaitou Kid and I used to draw fanart based entirely on descriptions in fic and then was super excited when the preview for the next Detective Conan episode  (76!) included Kaito! Kaito Kuroba, the main character in Windfall, my introduction to this entire world! (And my mental image of him from fanfic was a fair ways off - it was elating to see the actual character. I think I immediately drew like 8 different pictures based on that preview, since I had a reference.)

As I mentioned earlier, there was a very small community of Conan fics I was reading back then - probably about 5 or 6 core authors on a Conan fanworks livejournal community (Many Cases One Truth!) who wrote a number of fics that I recall fondly. There was the psychic detective Heiji series by KosagiNoLegion - I LOVED that one. The Shinichi and Kaito find out they’re actually identical cousins fic (Relative Truth, by Becky Tailweaver).  Ysabet‘s entire Wind series, obviously. The most notable BNF was probably Icka M. Chif, who I always remember was once described to “own 3/4 of the Magic Kaito fandom in fic.” To this day I will idly doodle fanart for Billie Jukes’ The Impossible Murder. I could go on for ages about all the now quite old DCMK fic from back in the livejournal days, but... that would take a lot of writing. Haha.

Anyway, the Detective Conan fandom and its explanations about dub names, etc. is the reason I found out about anime and manga and dubbing and censorship and rewrites and how very different the Digimon movies are from The Digimon Movie, and all about 4chan One Piece vs actual One Piece, and is the reason I now always try to watch foreign films in their original languages with subtitles and basically altered the trajectory of my entire life at 13 years old.

(Well, probably not. Probably I would have discovered all of these things anyway, and sooner rather than later. But I didn’t, and Detective Conan will always get the credit for my life.)

[iamspiritwolf]

#theredthread #fate and #destiny #youandme #poetry #poetryisnecessary #poetsofinstagram #spiritwolf https://www.instagram.com/p/BruVcLCHDIG/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=7msowtrp94f1