If any of my stories or anything else should disappear off this account you will find backups on my AO3 site

http://archiveofourown.org/users/TheKnittingLady

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Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them — in order that the reader may see what they are made of.

- Kurt Vonnegut, "Eight Rules for Writing Fiction"

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My next story, Girl Of Mysterious Sorrow, is being published privately on LiveJournal. It is a Criminal Minds fanfict, features Spencer Reid, is a romance/suspence story, and is rated M. If you follow the link you'll get the first chapter. If you are interested in reading more PM me

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I never know what to do in these things. But a few people have asked me questions that could stand a public answer.

How old are you? - Over 30.

What do you do for a living? - I am a retired elementary school librarian, and am currently a housewife.

Single or not? - Married to my Marine for 10 years now.

Are you an Aspie? - Yes.

Are you a Christian? - No.

Are you an Atheist? - Not so much anymore. I consider myself as Maltheist these days:

http://www.beliefnet.com/boards/message_list.asp?discussionID=164781http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dystheism

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Maltheism

No true Christian would ever act like that, how dare you? - Yes, they would and yes, they do. Keep reading for links.

How do you know so much about religion? - I am applying to schools for my Master's in Philosophy with a concentration in Theology

How do you know so much about C-PTSD? - I've been in treatment for it

Are you going to finish your stories? - Yes, I will. All of them. I promise.

The people in X story sound a lot like Y family/Z business - As they say, all characters are fictional and any resemblance to anyone, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. I base my original characters off of observations of many, many different people. I also do not own any of the cannon characters in any of my stories, all copyright goes to their creators.

Why The Knitting Lady? - It's my favorite hobby, and I'm studying to get my certification to become a knitting teacher

Are you on Ravelry? - Yes, but since I have much more personal information there I only give that out if you give me yours first. PM me if you want to share.

What are you currently working on? - As of 01/03/13 I'm working on a pair of tabi socks for my husband.

As more questions come up I will try to answer them. If you have any, please PM me.

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By now I'm sure that a number of people have noticed that my bad guys tend to have a lot in common. I've promised references, so here they are:

American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on American by Chris Hedges

Kingdom Coming: the Rise of Christian Nationalisim by Michele Goldberg

Quiverful: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement by Kathryn Joyce, and an online article on the topic

Breaking Their Will: Shedding light on Religious Child Malreatment by Janet Heimlich and the associated blog

Under More Grace Blog by Cindy K.

- Her piece on cultic Christianity, Lifton and brainwashing

- Her entries on a man named Bill Gothard

More on Bill Gothard: Recovering Grace blog

And an article from ReligiousDispatches.org

No Longer Quivering blog by Vvckie G.

Quivering Daughters Blog by Hilary

That Mom's podcast series on Patriocentricity (First episode on June 26, 2010)

Libby Anne's project: Raised Quiverful

A collection of articles on The Purity Culture

On "Babywise"

- The cultic characteristics

- The medical dangers

On the teachings of Michael Pearl

And example of "Church Discipline": How Mars Hill church handles things

An article on how old you should be when you learn about sex

From "The Bohemians"

Hepzibah House Survivors

- Another article about Hepzibah House

dogemperor on DailyKos who covers many of these groups and their connections

If you think this isn't happening in your church...

Steeplejacking: How the Christian Right is hijacking Mainstream Religion by John Dorhauer & Sheldon Culver. And a brief article

More to come...

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Do your stories come with a soundtrack? - Some do:

"One Safe Place"

For Spencer - "One Safe Place" by Marc Cohen

For Elizabeth - "Like a Child" by Jars of Clay

Also "Snow on the Sahara" by Anggun for their trip to the desert

Their first dance - The Very Thought Of You by Harry Connick Jr.

"College Sweethearts" & "The Long Road" & "The Ones Who Storm The Gates of Omelas"

For Spencer and Gwen - "True Companion" by Marc Cohen

"The Art of Courtly Love"

For Emily/OC - "Marco Polo" by Loreena McKennet

For Spencer/OC - "Iris" by The Goo Goo Dolls

Also "The Lady of Shalott" by Alfred Lord Tennyson/Loreena McKennet to get the theme going

"Things Handed Down"

The Things We've Handed Down by Art Garfunkle/Marc Cohen. (Warning, spoiler before Chapter 17)

"Halcyon and on and on"

Halcyon and on and on by Orbital

Breatheby Abney Park

Also:

Mary Magdalene by Leonardo da Vinci

"Out of the Desert"

Spoiler before the ending. Consider yourself warned.

Spencer Reid

Finnick Odair

"The Bohemians"

For Spencer - "I Was Made For You" by Martin Page

For Milly - "Ordinary Day" by Great Big Sea

For Thom - "La Bomba" by Ricky Martin

The cut scenes from "The Bohemians" can be found at:

http://ladywhoknits2.livejournal.com/

Rated MA and warning for just about everything.

"This Time of Darkness"

Theme song - We Found Love by Lindsey Stirling and Ven Tribe

Spencer's Journal can be found at http://ladywhoknits3.livejournal.com/ - Warning for MA content, read at your own risk.

The song and voice Spencer remembered at National Harbor - "Home and the Heartland" performed by Anúna, Soloist - Katie McMahon

The song shared while the Colony was in quarantine - "Lift the Wings" performed by Aine Ui Cheallaigh

The song Kira sings Spencer on the mountainside - "Cloudsong" - performed by Anúna, Soloist - Katie McMahon

"The Letter"

By popular request, meet Susanna, aka Nastya Zhidkova. Although I picture her with much longer hair.

And now that chapter 38 is up, meet Kavi from the National Zoo.

For Susanna & Henry - "Safe and Sound" by Taylor Swift

For Susanna & Spencer - "Come on Get Higher" by Matt Nathanson

And of course Coast to Coast AM. Art Bell isn't the regular host anymore, hasn't been for years, but George is great too.