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sits down. so i’m thinking of rewriting the entire series, because i feel like i started with the concept and ended up ret-conning so much of it that it doesn’t feel like it was true to what i ultimately wanted it to be. but that means essentially scrapping everything and starting over. thoughts?

i’d probably leave up the originals, just for preservation’s sake.

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If I ever put contradictory information in any of my stories, please know that this is because I am less organized and more ignorant of my own already-established canon than all the people that work on the hundreds of different runs for a single character in the comics.

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Just something that bothers me for some time. If I ever come to a situation where a service dog and it’s owner are bothered by someone who wants to pet the dog, should I step in to help or would it made the situation worse for both owner and dog? I feel like I should help in such a situation but I’m just not sure!

!! Hello!! I can’t speak for every service dog handler, but me personally, it makes me feel so much better when other people step in to ask people to leave us alone!

So I would say yes, if you see a service dog team being bothered, feel free to step in and ask the person to stop bothering the service dog team! Thank you so so much for asking, and for being willing to help service dog teams 💕

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A couple updates:

Hi everybody! As I’m sure you all know, it’s been a while since I’ve posted anything. Life has really been dragging me down, but I’m back to writing! It’s a little slow going, the therapy series is admittedly pretty draining for me, but I’m getting there!

I’m hoping to get some new content up soon, in the next couple of weeks maybe? So stay tuned! I’ve got a few other side series that are a little easier for me so I might post some of that in the meantime while I keep working on the therapy series.

Also, I realize that I don’t use this blog very often anymore, so I was thinking about doing something to change that. I’m thinking about putting smaller notes and facts on here, stuff like descriptions of the gear each team uses, background information that led to some of the stories or plots in the series, etc.

Let me know what you think! And if anyone has headcanons, thoughts, ideas, or anything else, please feel free to send that! I’d love to know what you all think about the series, how you picture the teams in your own mind, anything!

TL;DR: New content should be coming soon, hopefully lining up some posts for this blog, and I’m always curious to hear what you all have to say! Thanks for sticking around 💕💕

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Directors cut on Clint and Lucky & Nat and her service dog? And maybe how they interact? Thank you for your writing it’s amazing!

!! hi, thank you!! sorry for taking a little while to get back to you, mental health (and physical health) have been a mess, but here you go!! (once again, i got long winded, because i don’t know how to stop)

Clint and Lucky (story here):

okay, let’s start with just that Lucky comes from matt fraction’s hawkeye run, and yes, fraction’s hawkeye is my favorite hawkeye, thank you for your time

the “eyes and ears” things is also a reference to my love for clint barton and matt murdock (friendship or otherwise) because disability buddies all the way, yknow?

(speaking of which, disabled ppl are the worst abt disability jokes usually, the chances of me making bad disabled jokes with friends is so high, we’re just absolutely like that)

the circus tricks he teaches lucky!! ok so this was important for a Few Reasons: 1. we’re proving lucky is easy to train and eager to please, 2. we’re showing that clint is clearly capable of helping with owner training, and capable of doing the upkeep on that training, 3. we’re showing some of clint’s backstory already, because of this quote:

“Natasha watches Clint’s expression when Lucky does his tricks, sees the way his eyes don’t always quite match his smile.”

which is super duper important bc we’re already setting up some of that depression and trauma about his past.

this story also establishes a lot of the baseline information that’s going to continue throughout the story: that service dogs are for more than just blind and physically disabled people, that owner training is possible

it also establishes that while a service dog can help in a lot of ways, it can also be stressful: hence the scene at the end with the guy approaching clint to compliment lucky, but clint stiffening when the guy first walks up

Natasha and Lapushka next!! (story here):

ok,, ok so this story is really really important to me, because there’s a few things i try to highlight here: 1. tony has a heart, 2. nat is used to not giving anything away abt herself and to not accepting help, and 3. people who support other people also need support.

first of all, i wanna talk abt tony’s hesitance to pick and train a dog for nat, because this is a Good Thing: it can be *very hard* to choose a good prospect on your own, and there is always a high chance of a dog washing out, even with a professional service dog trainer’s help.

i wanna re-emphasize that for a second, because this is one of the reasons i’m also very passionate about “service animal only” businesses: the amount of training that service animals receive and the amount of necessary characteristics is extensive. this is something that i would need to make an entire post on its own for this, but it’s really important to me.

now, okay, about nat and lapushka because i love them: nat had no real intention of getting a dog for herself, because let’s be honest, self-care and self-love is hard when you’ve spent your entire life as a spy forcing yourself to remain detached from everything.

lapushka is the biggest self-care loving dog, and this is super helpful for nat, bc she can help ease herself into the idea of self-care if she’s “doing it for lapushka’s sake”

i love the idea of nat putting lapushka in pink gear and just going around living her best life. do you know how much i live for the idea of nat and lapushka encouraging younger service dog handlers? reassuring them that they’re doing great? nat has all my heart ok she’s just Good

About Natasha, Clint, Lucky, and Lapushka’s interactions:

they are very much best friends, and lucky and lapushka spend a Lot of time together bc of how often nat and clint hang out.

nat and clint are absolutely chaotic together, and there is nothing more frightening to any of the other heroes than the sight of the two of them whispering things in each other’s ears and grinning.

(matt murdock, for the record, hears a lot of what they’re whispering about when he’s around, and his lips are sealed, but he’s got a lot of pity for the people on the receiving end of nat and clint’s pranks and ideas.)

nat and clint are also very good at reading each other; the hardest part is, they know each other so well that they sometimes don’t want to push more sensitive topics, because they both want each other to be happy, even if talking abt things would be good (but difficult)

lucky and lapushka are equal parts calm/professional and chaotic/adventurous, and they get into just about as much mischief as nat and clint.

lucky and lapushka lay half on top of each other under booths, even if there’s plenty of room for both of them to lay side by side

(ask for my “director’s cut” of scenes/stories/etc from SDfSH)

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I just wanted to tell you that I absolutely love your fics! They're really well written and they're accurate, which is awesome because most service dog fics mess things up. Anyway, just wanted to let you know how much I appreciate your awesome, accurate service dog fics! Thank you, you're the best!

!! aaa thank you so much!!

i definitely do my best to keep things accurate because i’m a very tired disabled who needs a service dog and inaccurate representation makes me really really sad honestly :0

but thank you so so much!! i really really appreciate this, and i’m glad you like the fics!!! 💕💕💕

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Director's commentary on Tony and Diva? Or Rhodey and Valor? Or any of them you want to talk about, I just really love SDfSH and will read pretty much anything about service dogs!

!!!! oh my god Yes I would Love to talk about both of those teams/their stories okay (this got long i am so sorry)

Tony and Diva first (story here):

i made tony and diva the second team to show up in the series because i honestly thought that after the success with clint and lucky, nat would be looking at dogs for Everyone, and bruce was her first thought

but then she started to realize just how bad tony was doing, and started to see Just How Much Energy tony was putting into accommodating lucky and she just “hmm...” (also, if she fucks up with diva’s training a little bit, So Be It, because tony’s a little wild too, they can be wild childs together)

i think JARVIS is programmed to compartmentalize information for the privacy, protection, and security of Everyone in the tower, but i think he’s also a lot more human than an AI should be capable of, yknow? and i think nat would definitely have been able to get him to explain more about tony’s trauma with water.

i think tony was really, really scared to accept diva as his service dog, mostly bc tony doesn’t trust himself with anything (he’s watched himself self destruct in relationships, he can’t bring himself to hurt a dog like that), and so it took him time to trust himself

also he felt like he didn’t deserve a service dog bc it’s “not that bad” (the way the other avengers kept looking at him and diva made him feel bad for weeks), and he was worried about making service dog teams “look bad” because of his own reputation

Rhodey and Valor next!! (story here):

rhodey and valor were originally team three (3) but then nat noticed the trainwreck that is tony, and then bucky showed up and nat was like “well shit”

nat trusts tony a lot more than she lets on re: picking a dog, knowing what rhodey is like, etc, but also at this point she’s still just kinda barely coping with “shit i was wrong abt some things” and that’s wild when ur someone that usually knows exactly what ur doing All The Time

rhodey deserves more credit for literally Everything he has ever done in the MCU, thank u for ur time (iron man 1, 2, and 3? age of ultron? civil war? infinity war and endgame?? like Seriously)

okay, think what u will, but i’m a big proponent of “do what works best for ur disability, not what supposedly looks best,” and i sure as hell don’t think that the leg braces are a constantly feasible option.

like that has to be painful and draining to use constantly, and i definitely think that rhodey using a wheelchair for more day to day life is way more reasonable, yknow?? so u can pry my “rhodey uses a wheelchair” headcanon from my cold dead hands

do u know how much the  “You didn’t have to think of me, but you did. I appreciate that.” line killed me as the writer?? bc first of all, rhodey gets consistently left out of fandom and that makes me So Mad, and second of all, rhodey is so goddamn underappreciated?? both in universe and out of universe??

the other headcanon i have that you can pry from my cold dead hands is that rhodey doesnt feel like he sizes up well against the other avengers even though he is literally A) smarter than most of them, B) literally a fucking badass, C) way more reasonable and understanding than most of them, and D) so goddamn badass for a dude that does not?? have powers?? at all?? like seriously okay

alright this was a Lot i am so sorry but i love them so much aaaaa

(ask for my “director’s cut” of scenes from SDfSH)

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!! omg omg ok so one thing i have Really wanted to talk about is a scene from the second dog play date (story here), and it’s this one:

“It’s perfectly alright,” Loki says, “they’ve been wanting to play with other dogs for quite some time now.”

“I thought you said they were a shapeshifter?” Bruce asks, eyebrows furrowing.

“Well, yes, but whatever form they take is what I refer to them as. Do you have people with fluid genders on this planet?” Bruce nods, so Loki continues. “It’s the same principle. However they want to be seen is how you refer to them.”

okay okay so this scene is really important to me, Slightly Crucial to the idea of ubunye and aelfhun as service dogs, and also very important to me re: diversity and true acceptance of diversity.

because in this scene we see them talking about aelfhun (currently in dog form) as if they are a dog, and this is important to me because it ties into genderfluidity, yknow?

like, for people who identify differently at different times (in other words, want to be seen as one gender sometimes and one or more other genders at different times), this is crucial.

because it’s not that you are ambiguous and just “dressing up” as something, you very much are that something, if that makes sense? so aelfhun, in this section, is that parallel example, that he is currently a dog, not a “shapeshifter pretending to be a dog,” yknow?

this was kind of a long explanation i am So Sorry but thank you for asking!!

(ask for my “director’s cut” of scenes from SDfSH)

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I’m so excited for the in therapy series! I love getting to see my favorite characters struggling like actual humans it makes me feel less alone

!! aa thank you i’m glad you’re excited!! i definitely know where you’re coming from, that’s a huge part of what motivated this entire 'verse, is me wanting to see characters struggle Like Me, yknow?? thank you so much for your message!! <3 <3 <3

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Fanfic Writers: Director’s Cut

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Or, send in a ⭐star⭐  to have the author select a section they’ve been dying to talk about!

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Quick Updates

Hi everybody! I’m tired and I’m a mess and I know I’ve promised y’all content but I’m a regular disappointment so here we are.

First, a retroactive change to one of the handlers’ orientations: Wade Wilson’s orientation is now listed as panromantic/pansexual.

I originally had him as heteroromantic/heterosexual, but as has been pointed out to me at least twice now, he’s canonically pan.

I messed that up when making the original drafts of this series, it was an oversight (and partially something I just pictured for this series’ Wade, not necessarily Wade in general), but I know this will continue to come up as a concern for people that’s been changed.

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Second, I’m going to apologize in advance and say that this series might be on hiatus for a while.

My mental and physical health have taken a nosedive, and I’m barely functioning anymore.

Behind the scenes of this series, I’m an absolute trainwreck on my good days, and lately all I’ve had are bad and worse days.

If I can convince one of the alters to write for this series, I’ll do that, but quite honestly I don’t think any of them are super passionate about writing.

So... yeah. It might be a while before any new updates come. I’m sorry. I wish I could more, but I really don’t think I can.

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I reread SDfSH ALL THE TIME it's my favorite series!! Whenever I feel like reading about service dogs (which is often) I go to SDfSH! Thank you for writing such an awesome series!

!! AAA thank you so much!! Honestly I’m really glad people have liked this series so much, it honestly means the world to me!! <3 <3

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Are you going to write about the heroes's service dog's perspective about what do they think about their owners and talking/barking to other dogs?

Hi there! I definitely am! That’s another series (or multiple series) I’m planning within this ‘verse, both random side stories as well as stories that are retellings of the original series but through the perspective of one or more of the service dogs.

Currently, there’s just the second half of the Thanksgiving chapter that is told from Diva’s point of view, but there will definitely be more stories like that to come! <3 <3

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Hey, so I love your writing so much and I have learned a lot so thank you. I have really bad anxiety, and since it’s summer and I’m on break for high school I barely leave the house if I don’t have to. I can’t do a lot of stuff because of my anxiety and it hurts, but your writing has opened up a whole new perspective. My sister and I both think we’ll get service dogs later on because we don’t have the money now, but how do I survive now knowing that there is something to help but I can’t get it?

Hello again!

I completely understand where you’re coming from. I also have disabling anxiety, and that’s one of the reasons I’ve considered a service dog for myself. When I first found out about service dogs, I was ecstatic, and when I got my service dog candidate almost two years ago, I was beside myself with joy.

If you don’t mind me getting a little personal here, I eventually had to “wash out” my service dog in training, or decide that he wasn’t going to make it as a service dog.

Part of that was just that my physical disability needs have changed, and he can no longer support me fully. But part of it was that people would constantly disregard the “do not pet” patches, and even my verbal requests that they not pet him.

Having a service dog can be incredibly exhausting and nerve wracking some days; and depending on whether you decide to get a dog from an organization or owner train them yourself, it can be difficult, both mentally and emotionally.

With that said, though, I am planning on getting another service dog candidate but can’t currently, so I’m kind of where you are: knowing that there’s something that can help, but not being able to get it.

I guess my biggest advice for that is just to hold on as best as you can in the meantime, knowing that you will eventually get there. Do the things that you can do that make you happy, and when you encounter the things you can’t do, just remember that you will be able to do them someday. It’s only a matter of time.

It’s not super comforting, I know, and I also know there’s going to be days when it feels like everything is just impossible and there’s no way you can keep waiting, but that’s the best advice I can give. If I knew anything that could help more, believe me, I’d share it.

TL;DR: Having a service dog can be anxiety-inducing, but it can definitely still be worth it. In the meantime, just hang in there. It might take a while to get there, but it’s worth the wait.

Best of luck to both you and your sister <3

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Make sure to take breaks for you health!!!! We enjoy your content but you are more important. Do you maybe have a schedule for SDfSH? If not that’s totally cool :)

!! Thank you!! As it stands, I don’t have a schedule for it, as the current series thread I’m working on (the therapy stories) is not even set up for the next story to be posted, let alone any future ones. I really am sorry about that, y’all.

Assuming I can kick my brain back into gear over the next few weeks, I might be able to start making consistent posting dates for every week or every other week, but at the moment that’s really tentative.

I promise I’m working on it, and I’ll try to get these stories out to you all as soon as possible!

In the meantime, I do have a question for all of you: Would you want a set of stories showing the morning and night routines of each team? And if so, would you prefer those stories from the perspective of the handler or the dog?

Thank you all for supporting me and joining me in this series <3

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Are you still working on anything in the SDfSH world?

I am! I’ve got the rest of the “In Therapy” stories coming, a series devoted to what would happen if one (1) handler was left alone with all twenty (20) animals, some random bits and pieces from time to time, and I’m debating whether or not to do a series that shows what the teams do for their morning/night routines!

I’m trying to make sure everything that’s posted to AO3 is tagged with “SDfSH ‘verse”, and I’ve even retroactively tagged all of the other parts of the SDfSH universe with that tag.

It definitely takes me a while to get through stories lately, my health has been all over the place, but I’ve absolutely still got ideas for this ‘verse! <3 <3

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I’m rereading your SDfSH fics :)

!! Hi anon I love you!! You have no idea how much this means to me, I’m still amazed people liked this series enough to read it once, let alone more than once. Thank you so so much <3