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Fic writing be like:

Me: you know, sometimes I think I should write some shorter fic. I mean I have these fics that are little more than PWP that are 10k long, do they need to be that long when the plot is mostly just there to justify the porn?

Brain: How about a probably 20k fic of similar plot to porn ratio, with the added benefit of going to special hell?

Me: What? Why?

Brain: here, have a whole AU while we’re at it. Lots of special hell this way.

Me: …damn it, me, you know we have a weakness for plotting out years of characters lives following them deciding to have sex one time.

Brain: and then usually not writing it, just knowing we want to.

Me: aaaarrrggggg

So there are rumblings that the current world situation will lead to lj going away or at least being hidden away. So I think I will finally transfer my back-catalog here over to DW.

Not that this makes a huge difference as I've been posting primarily on DW anyway for a while now (mostly on my review blog admittedly over my anything else blog). But I thought I would say something before I flip the next switch on this process.

Challenge #2

In your own space, set some goals for the coming year. They can be fannish or not, public or private. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

I don’t know that I have a lot of fresh goals for this year. Especially since making a list here is going to be very fandom oriented. But putting some goals into words helped me accomplish a couple of things last year, so maybe it will have some benefit.

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Happy New Year to all, has everyone had a good year? I mean, I didn't and the world is still a mess, but maybe find something good about it?

Yeah, I basically ignored this journal all year, just posting the couple of fics I finished, but I have been posting plenty to tori_reviews and even did a pretty good job sticking with it this year. Well, better than past years, though I'm at a bit of a crossroads over there and not sure what I'm going to focus on next year.

However, to reward myself for sticking with it, I have decided to for once after...going on 15 years of journal-land get myself a paid account and so now I need to go on a search for appropriate icons. I haven't actually looked for new icons in a while, just content to stick with what I picked years ago. I'm kind of looking forward to it. Although I probably will keep the pixy stix as my default, it's kind of my brand.

Also, I will be posting at least in January, as I think I'll try and do Snowflake again. So I'll see you there.

I finished this fic that has been sitting around for ages. Thank you wipbigbang

Story Title: Not a Moment too Soon

Fandom: Agents of SHIELD

Link: On AO3

Rating: PG-13

Word Count: 13,453

Summary: Do not go gentle into that good night ~ Dylan Thomas

Five scenarios where Phil Coulson decided that he wouldn’t just accept his impending death. And one where he didn’t get to choose.
(Set post season 5, all Philinda, partially Infinity War compliant, entirely unconnected possibilities for something to happen in Tahiti that would convince Coulson he wasn’t ready to die after all.)

Warnings: Spoilers for AoS s5 and Infinity War; Infinity War sometimes happens and so losses expected in those sections. Themes of death, illness, and loss. Non-graphic sex

Characters: Phil Coulson, Melinda May, cameos by many AoS characters and Avengers

Pairings: Phil Coulson/Melinda May

Disclaimer: Agents of SHIELD, the Marvel universe, and Tahiti are not mine

When I Started: Well, it would have been post AoS s5 and IW, so summer 2018

How I Lost My Shit: I got the story out but I knew it wasn’t good enough to post, unfortunately I didn’t have a beta reader at the time to help me get it into shape so it stayed in my drafts folder for a while and I eventually forgot about it

How I Finished My Shit: Unfortunately, this wasn’t the fic I had wanted to get done for this year’s WIPBB, but fortunately the challenge gave me the chance to pull this out of mothballs and finally get it ready to share. It took enough editing that I’m glad I didn’t try and do it on my own, but I think I’m happy with the final form.

Notes: So many thanks to the wonderful people who beta read this for me, some on short notice. I Couldn't have done it without you.

Title: Burdened, not Broken
Fandom: Agents of SHIELD
Characters/Pairings: May/Coulson (with brief appearance from Ward)
Rating: NC-17 for smut, but it’s smut with feelings
Word Count: 11278
Summary: Following events with the Berserker Staff, May is struggling with the best way to process her emotions. But she doesn't want to control her feelings where Coulson is concerned. And there's no one she would rather lose control with.
Disclaimer: AoS/the MCU/Marvel characters are not mine
Spoilers/Warnings: While this diverges from canon in 1x08, there are spoilers for things revealed much later in canon (but I don’t think anything past s4; and the big spoiler is s1). There are various backstory traumas discussed (Couslon’s death, events in Bahrain). Extremely-mildly dubious consent (partially discussed)
Author's Notes: Many, many thinks to my beta reader for getting this fic to its final form and me to be willing to put it out there.

Burdened, not Broken

1) Obviously I kind of fell off Snowflake the last few days, I had other things I was working on and the last couple questions didn't seem urgent for me to answer when I had plot bunnies jumping.

2) One could still add to my month of meta prompts...though I am considering bumping it to March and maybe adding a few of my own to the mix so it's a fuller month. So far we have

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I also signed up for trope_bingo and ( here's my card: )

Challenge #11

In your own space, create a fanwork. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

So the best I could do on short notice is getting down a compressed version of my view of how the CW's 'Crisis on Infinite Earths' should have ended for Oliver. Because it makes no sense for him to have been dead at the end of that story. And yes, I used a modified/truncated 1sentence format because the snapshot format really does help me...skip stones across a fic idea without needing to get down in the depths of it. Also, obviously unbeted, not even properly edited by me (if I end up expanding it or something I would need to do both) and basically rushed out and posted before I had time to convince myself it wasn't worth sharing even for this challenge.

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Challenge #9

In your own space, brag about yourself. Tell us what things you've done that you're proud of; the things that make you the wonderful person you are. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

(There probably is an interpretation of this prompt that didn't have to be fandom related, but it went on to talk about fannish things, so that's also where my mind went.)

I will recommend my ongoing review project over at tori_reviews. I'm just getting going on Star Wars: The Clone Wars, but there's also a back catalog of other fandoms, often with more detailed takes that Clone Wars (hee, I had that abbreviated CW but thought that might be confusing since I have reviewed some CW shows before) is getting so far, but it's just starting and I could easily develop more to discuss as it goes. I'd say my Agents of SHIELD reviews have a lot of thoughts in them if you're interested.

And for reccing my own creative work, I'll pick a few of my favorites, but you can look through the whole list of fic and vids if you're so inclined. I'm not going to rec any vids since it's been a long time since I went through them and don't have strong feelings about most anymore; though if you check them out I'd steer towards the later ones, the early ones are pretty rough unless you find you really like my style, especially the attempt at conversation between lyrics and video; it's there in the early ones, but the editing is rougher.

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Challenge #7

In your own space, create your own challenge. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.


The thing I miss most from when fandom was a more active thing, is memes. Mostly fandom memes, but also friending memes, kink memes, challenge memes; all the stuff that circled around and knit the community together. I went back through my lj archives and found a few fandom memes I wouldn't mind resurrecting. But I'm also going to challenge others to do the same thing, since we come from a lot of different fandoms we probably had different memes that made the rounds. So you can reply challenging me do answer these and/or link to your own; or you can answer some of them here with your fandom of choice

( These ended up being more shipping focused that I intended, but that doesn't exactly surprise me )