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Wip List!

I thought it was a good time to do another one of these, since I’ve just recently posted a bunch of drafts to AO3, and I figured someone might be interested in seeing what’s left in my draft folder.

Keep an eye out for these:

1. These Happy Golden Years (Agent Carter) – This one is a series I am currently writing about Peggy Carter and her life married to Daniel Sousa. I recently rekindled an obsession with them, gorged myself on fic, and decided to write my very first ‘verse! Some upcoming stories:

a. The Sousas dealing with the aftermath of Jack Thompson’s suicide

b. Peggy being better suited for spy work than motherhood

c. Daniel’s relationship with his family, particularly his father

2. The Uncertainty Principle (Supernatural) – Cowritten with my irl cousin ghoulcoded aka creativewritinggirl. We started this shortly after Destiel became canon on November 5^th, 2020, and we’re planning to release it on the 2^nd anniversary (11/05/2022). It’s currently 26k and is unlikely to surpass 30k. It’s our version of a post-15.19 fixit, where Dean and Cas work out their shit and stop acting like fools (said lovingly).

3. We’re Getting a Little Sick of the Prodigal Son (Breaking Bad) – this is my trans Jesse Pinkman that is *this* close to being finished; I just need to find some way to wrap it up. I kinda love the title, though. :)

4. Pull It Out by the Roots (Supernatural) – My first Wincest! *audience cheers* No, no, not that kind of wincest. I wanted to write something dark about John’s abuse of Dean, and the premise lent itself to this.

5. Grip (Supernatural) – Little ficlet about Dean’s hands and how they go from committing acts of violence to carrying out acts of love <3

Fics that are unlikely to see the light of day soon

1. Untitled Alec Hardy disability fic (Broadchurch) - uh idk I had a #disabilitymoment this summer and drafted a lot of what I was privately calling in my head "cripfics". This is the one I have the most of but I don't really care enough about it to add to it.

2. Untitled Sophie Roy eldest daughter syndrome fic (Succession) - Once season 4 comes out, who knows, I might change my mind!

3. Untitled Yelenat fic (Marvel) – not BW movie-compliant. I wanted to write something about Yelena and Nat’s fractured memories after defecting, and something about their fucked up relationship to each other. They’re sisters they’re besties they’re mother and daughter they’re lovers they’re teacher and student they’re enemies they’re in love.

4. God Bless Your Insides! (Shameless) – trans!Fiona. Also I love this title.

5. In Essence (Supernatural) – My character study thesis fic of the brothers. Also I hate this title.

6. Boxertown (Supernatural) — This was a fic about t4t Deancassie that hit a rut and is now stuck there.

7. Mary, Did You Know (Supernatural) — Another trans!Dean fic, this time with gender troubled Mary. The title is from that Christmas song but I like it :)

8. Trans Potion No. 9 (Supernatural) — Trans siblings Dean and Sam find a magic potion. Humor and feels ensue. This was going to be awesome (if only you could read my drafts!) but alas, it wasn’t in the cards.

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I miss tumblr :(

Quit all social media this summer but now Interview with the Vampire's come out and I wish I could scream about it with someone! Augh!
Then I remembered I had this dreamwidth, so if anyone's listening, here's what's new with me.

Books
Recently read American Gods by Neil Gaiman, re-read Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell, and devoured The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell. Currently working on the sequel to The Sparrow, called Children of God. Personally I think the sequel doesn't fully live up to the original's incredible voice and story, but ymmv. Also just started What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw! by Agatha Christie for a nice little comfort read during meals.

Television
Rewatched Agent Carter, then rewatched the ending scene of Daniel and Peggy at LEAST 15 times. It drives me insaaaaane.
And I watched the first 3 episodes of Interview with the Vampire last night (on AMC I think--that's not where I saw it though) and went off the wall bonkers. Holy shit. As I recounted to a friend: "this show's got everything: gay sex, vampirism as a metaphor for gay sex, pretty accents, pretty actors, THEE confession scene of all time, unreliable narrators, metacommentary, gay sex, sword cane, and most of all, Jacob Anderson's #acting."
Earlier this month, was working through Tennant's seasons of Doctor Who, but it appears I've gotten a little side-tracked.

Movies
Horror for Halloween!
And I wanted to rewatch CA:TWS soon, so lookout for a Stevebucky fic resurgence in my AO3 bookmarks

Music
Red Comes in Many Shades - U.S. Girls
Cigar - Tamino
Dancing in the Moonlight - King Harvest
San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair) - Scott McKenzie
Love is Here to Stay - George Gershwin

Fandom
Reading: I overdosed on Agent Carter fics. See here.
Writing: Going to post a wiplist in a few mins, stay tuned!

That's all, folks.
<3

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fic rec: the hundred year playlist by girlbookwrm

I wanted to write a review of one of my absolute favorite fics that I've ever read. I might keep coming back and adding to this post as I remember more things to write, so...sorry. I'd also like to continue doing these book reviews, so I'll see if this format (some questions about the fic) works well. The questions are things that are important to me in a fic, and like I said, I may add more. Only time will tell!

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Title/Author: The Hundred Year Playlist (read on AO3) by girlbookwrm (dreamwidth, tumblr)
Rating: T/M (the works are standalone, and one out of seven is rated M)
Words: 300k
Hit Count: 58772 (each story's hit counts, added together) (this may not seem like a lot, but buddy. It deserves all the hits in the world.)
Podfic Available: Yes, but only of the first story in the series
Story Summary: Steve and Bucky, start to finish.
My Summary: This fic follows our baby boys from 1924 to 2016 (? I think? It's pre IW) with large amounts of fantastically written pining and sadness.

Will it make you laugh? Will it make you cry?
Hell yes to both. As I mentioned in a previous post, I'm trying to hold off rereading it because I'm going to have to as soon as I start formatting it for print, but as far as I can remember, it has a lovely mix of terribly wonderful humor and wonderfully terrible angst. I was reading the third work in the series, The Terror of Knowing, before I had to go to work, and I was so emotionally choked up that the whole day I was foggy and out of it. My friend thought something bad had happened and I was mourning. It was that painful, guys.

Is it historically accurate?
Yes! It is very well researched and uses the fantastic source of mandarou's Til The End of the Timeline as well as many others.

Are the characters true to form?
Hell yes! A lovely Brooklyn Bucky and Foul Mouthed Steve are present, and they're so well done that I saw and heard the dialogue in my head like a movie.

Is it canon compliant?
Yes, for the most part. At the end there's some divergence due to the nature of the fic.

Anything else?
This is the fic that did several things to me. First, it's the fic that made me ship Stucky, Kind of a big thing that might be hard to pinpoint to one work specifically, but I can say with all honesty and complete certainty that this is the fic that made me switch from "I like Gen Stucky, I don't like people butchering a good bromance, Stucky is kind of a squick for me," to "Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. This is my life now, isn't it." This is also the fic that really cemented in my mind how Bucky Barnes and The Winter Soldier are the same person. Let me explain—before, I got the idea of it (he went from Bucky to brainwashed, and then back to Bucky), but I never really got the concept of his character being both people. This fic took me by the hand, sat me down at the classroom desk, smashed my heart to pieces, and told me I aced the test.

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adventures in fandom 1

Musings of the Moment———
You ever read a really, really great fic and you want to reread it instantly but you force yourself to hold off because if you reread it this soon you'll spoil it for yourself for a while?
Yeah. That's me. And I'm really trying to hold off.
(here's the fic)

Next on the To-Read List———
I'd like to print a book version of THYP, and to do that, I've got to format it for printing. I'm hoping to try using google docs this time instead of MS Word (what I did for WWS). By default, it's on the to-read list, even though I'm trying to save it so I don't ruin it for myself.
I'd like to reread Night War; I actually don't know if I ever finished it. It's 22 chapters and 109k words, and I only recall reading a bit of it.
I've also got cascades on my list, which is 32 chapters, 152k, and has a podfic by @quietnight (yay podfics!). It's been heavily recommended by a lot of people.
Then there's that Becca Barnes fic, which, judging by the tags, is very queer. It's 42k and has a good number of hits. My only problem? I was planning to write one just like it until I discovered it existed.
Another one I need to read is one I saw on a rec list, thought, I probably have marked that one for later, opened it, and found out that I had, indeed, marked it for later. That would be there must have been a moment where we could have said no, and from what I can make out, it's angsty Winter Soldier struggles/recovery for 150k words with a good amount of hits, aka, right up my alley.
Finally, I've had the screenplay for Captain America: The Howling Commandos open as a tab for an unreasonable amount of time. It's by fallingvoices and radialarch, the two authors who wrote US v. Barnes.
If you're failing to see the pattern here, I'll point it out: really long, heavily recc'd Stucky fics that span the years (or are 20th century centric).

--Five for Later: astolat, ain't no grave, Five Rivers, Strays, The man on the bridge.

Pertinent Projects———
I've paid Lulu to print out the three books of NEC and they're set to arrive on or before the 9th! I'm very excited. I'm also getting a CD of the podfic versions of each part of the series, courtesy of a friend-of-a-friend. I finished the custom bookmarks, one for each book, last night. All in all, very ahead of schedule and happy about it!

That's all for now, folks!

xx