A Day of Ficcing It

So yesterday, I got tagged for the Daily Count Challenge at 1_million_words. I decided to finish up WIPs because 1) smart and 2) I'm only counting the word count for finished fics. I went for three: the "game if you are" fic for lithiumlaughter on the Ficlet O'Clock, a soulmarks AU for Bobbi/Clint/Natasha I started right after a long Bobbi chat with enigma731, and a Hawkeye Squared hurt/angst fic for geckoholic that did not gel for me, but hey, two out of three not bad.

Secrets (The Unusuals)

The idea here was syllabic dribbles. In short, I was riding along to work one day and had just written this syllabic poem where there were so many syllables to a line instead of so many metrical feet, and I suddenly wanted to write syllabic drabbles of 100 syllables. Then I thought also of dribbles, which are 50 words/syllables, and then I hit lithiumlaughter's prompt and thought, why not? I'll try it here. I was going to write 50 of them, but I exhausted the arc as I wanted to tell it (which is totally non-linear by the way), and so stopped at 30.

Secrets (1231 words) by WriteItSmall
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Unusuals
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Allison Beaumont/Jason Walsh
Characters: Jason Walsh, Allison Beaumont
Additional Tags: Dribble Series, 50-Syllables, Developing Relationship, Established Relationship, Romance, Sex, Angst, Hurt/Comfort
Summary:

30 syllabic dribbles, where a dribble is 50 words and a syllabic dribble is 50 syllables

Prompt by lithiumlaughter:

"You game for this or not?"
"I'm game."

This Is the Way You Play the Game (MCU)

With a hint of comics flavor at the end, so not really sure if it's up a comics/MCU separatist's alley.

So I wrote "Made and Meant" for the be_compromised promptathon and what actually grabbed me that I wanted to write more was the complex soulmark system, again bumping into platonic soulmates and what does that mean anyway?

Then I like soulmarks appearing at birth, but it bothers me if you have a birth soulmark that's based on the personality/activities of a person down the line, how is it so accurately prophetic? So I decided to do something different. What if soulmarks only show up once you've solidified a line of probability for yourself and life? I mean, Natasha would have been a completely different person if she hadn't been raised by the Red Room. What if her soulmark for Clint simply never would have shown up if she or he hadn't become the kind of person right for each other?

Then of course, I OT3'ed it and slapped the focus on Bobbi. And wrote a bedroom scene. I will get the hang of writing those scenes again. I will.

This is the Way You Play the Game (2822 words) by Remember When
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (TV), The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Clint Barton/Bobbi Morse/Natasha Romanov
Characters: Bobbi Morse, Alphonso "Mack" Mackenzie, Clint Barton, Natasha Romanov
Additional Tags: Threesome - F/F/M, Soulmate-Identifying Marks, Platonic Soulmates, Romantic Soulmates, soulmarks AU, First Meetings, First Time, Romance, Sex, Morning After
Summary:

Bobbi's got the heart mark—marks rather, but if she's ever met the matched set, she doesn't know it. They showed up when she decided to become a field agent, right around the time she wondered why she'd had that mark on her hip since high school but never anything more special, more married forever, less on and off the rollercoaster with Hunter.

Because. Reasons. (616)

And then there's the Hawkeyes. I'm having a hard time getting into Clint's head for once, which is unusual for me. I swear, whoever picked his birth date should move it towards mine. Every "signs" post that matches me on the "Cancer" matches him like no tomorrow. :le sigh:

Anyway, I got words. We'll get them into fic shortly.

Another Random Update Post

• So Scribd doesn't just have Marvel comics (if not Hawkeye and Black Widow :grumbles ominously: ), but it also had the first 8 Tortall books. Needing a break this weekend from stress, I read all the ones I hadn't yet. Unfortunately, my immediate foray toward fanfic afterward was disappointing.


• There wasn't a new episode of Nashville this last week. Not happy but at least the season's not over. Just must be patient.


• I got in my noms for ficmountain.


• I have two unrevealed exchange fics done and three assignments open, none of which are due this month.


• Which means, I can focus on trovia's fic. It's been coming, but I kept headbanging on a couple sticking points in plot (the dreaded waterloo), and am now off to knuckle down and get it into an arc for the characters.

Drabbles and a Double Drabble for 1 Million Words

Prompted by this post at 1_million_words

Breeze (Original, Felise)

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Laundry Day (X-Men Movieverse)

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One Color (X-Men Movieverse, Jean/Scott)

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Prompts from this post on 1_million_words:

Filling Spaces (616, Natasha + Liho)

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Bubble Bath (616, Kate + Lucky)

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