That Thing About Reveals: Let's Talk Fic

Man, Wife, and Slinky Dress for Space Swap

So for space_swap, I wrote Firefly and quickly realized anew the pain of forging into a new fandom/pairing and trying to sound like it's not your first fic for them. Honestly, I don't think I rose above it, but it was fun to write anyway.

I did the canon review thing and watched "Shindig" and wanted to know more about the slinky dress, so just wrote about Wash, Zoe, and a slinky dress.

Man, Wife, and Slinky Dress (1026 words) by Remember When
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Firefly
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Wash Washburne/Zoe Washburne
Characters: Zoe Washburne, Hoban "Wash" Washburne, Inara Serra, Kaylee Frye, Malcolm Reynolds
Additional Tags: Established Relationship, Dancing, Party, References to Episode: Shindig, Romantic Fluff, dressing up, shameless fluff
Summary:

"You want a slinky dress? I can buy you a slinky dress. Captain! Can I have money for a slinky dress?"

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So for shipswap, I wrote an assignment, a treat for my recipient because I really wanted to write both prompts, and a pinch hit.

Coffee with a Side of Romance for Ship Swap

I have this work in progress for a coffee shop/prostitute AU inspired by my Trope Bingo card for The Unusuals with a sketch that actually makes me want to write more, and their prompt about Beaumont and Walsh's relationship, the casual trust and her being more in control and liking AUs and developing relationship just kind of prompted me to write how the two came together in this little offshoot world of mine where she's still a cop, but Walsh is really just runs the diner.

I had fun with it and recip liked, so yay. Beta'ed by the awesome hiddencait.

Coffee with a Side of Romance (1249 words) by scribblemyname
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Unusuals
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Allison Beaumont/Jason Walsh
Characters: Allison Beaumont, Jason Walsh, Casey Shraeger, Henry Cole
Additional Tags: Developing Relationship, coffee shop AU, Kind of AU, Halfway AU, First Date, opera - Freeform, Friendship, Jason Walsh Can't Cook, Coffee, Fluff, Romantic Fluff
Summary:

Jason can't cook and his coffee is swill, but he looks at her exactly the same as any other competent, able person with a job to do and calls her "Detective."

Sometimes that's exactly what Allison needs.

Safe Space for Ship Swap

So my recipient also liked Clint/Bucky gen or paired as bonding over being snipers and friends with Natasha and this piece and all she prompted about it just kept building up in my percolating muse until this piece spilled out.

I wrote a paragraph to introduce and it wasn't enough. I wrote it again, building on it, and I let his memories and feelings just layer over one on top of the other, and it was poetry and repetition and experimental and I knew perfectly well it wasn't everyone's cuppa, but it was me, all me and what I love about writing and bringing disparate threads together and how Natasha forged this bond between the two men even in absence and how she goes neatly behind Steve's back while never lying and takes care of someone who used to take care of her and there are secrets here and history and it's written between the lines and this is why I write.

:le sigh: I really am a literary writer at heart.

Safe Space (1504 words) by scribblemyname
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Captain America (Movies)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes/Clint Barton, James "Bucky" Barnes & Clint Barton
Characters: James "Bucky" Barnes, Clint Barton
Additional Tags: Developing trust, Friendship, partners, pre-relationship if you squint, Aftermath, Hurt/Comfort, Secret Relationship, First Meetings
Summary:

He comes to the designated safehouse for help. Natalia isn't there but the man who takes care of her is. Clint. His name is Clint.

The Rule Where Falling Asleep Isn't Sleeping

The less said, the better.

No, no, that's not fair. So much was invested in this fic. So much help came for this fic. My recipient liked this fic.

I wrote the last scene at the tail end of Legacy and geckoholic nicely told me, great scene, wrong fic, and she was totally and utterly correct. Then lo and behold, this pinch hit comes through, I pounce, and I say, "I'm going to write the fic for this scene."

And failed spectacularly. I couldn't get it to work because Clint's oblivious and stuck in his own head and failings and the whole thing just didn't want to come together. geckoholic patiently handheld and bounced and then the collection went live, I panicked, tweaked in a couple more changes, and let it go because I had no other choice.

I hope the ending doesn't come out of left field anymore because the story is now officially done.

The Rule Where Falling Asleep Isn't Sleeping (1193 words) by scribblemyname
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Hawkeye (Comics)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Clint Barton/Kate Bishop
Characters: Clint Barton, Kate Bishop
Additional Tags: Friends to more, kisses, Battlefield, Platonic Sleeping, Platonic Cuddling, maybe not so platonic, Romantic Fluff
Summary:

He doesn't want to sleep with her, and falling asleep together totally doesn't count.

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As Real Girls Do for Rarely Written

That last Dottie scene in Agent Carter gave us soooo much insight into Dottie's psyche and I have soooo many Dottie + Peggy headcanon on how Dottie felt about everything, the reality of what kind of creature the Red Room turned out with her that stays hidden under the facade even to them.

I had a title and a snippet:

Who do you want me to be?

She is not human. She is a collection of the pieces of hundreds of other little girls fitted together into whoever she needs to be.

She is Peggy Carter's lipstick, Madame Alianovna's ballet slippers, Irina's piece of bread, and a random assassin's gun.

I can be anyone I want.

I ran with it.

As Real Girls Do (1365 words) by scribblemyname
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Agent Carter (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Dottie Underwood, Peggy Carter, Angie Martinelli
Additional Tags: Post-Series, Red Room, Black Widow Program, Winter Soldier Program, Friendship, Spies and Secret Agents, Character Study
Summary:

She is Peggy Carter's lipstick, Madame Alianovna's ballet slippers, Irina's piece of bread, and a random assassin's gun.

I can be anyone I want.

Updates: That's Life

So part of my vanishing into the ether and being down to the wire and not getting projects done is in the middle of not feeling well and having the sciatic nerve announce its presence grandly (in case I forgot it was there, seriously) was that my work life blew up.

Which is to say, we have a huge project and I was a split asset and couldn't really afford to spend only half my time on it, so tried overtime in the middle of being sick and laid up with sciatica. Not fun.

I am no longer going to be a split asset in the next 2-3 weeks. I'm transitioning from half-content optimizer on one site to all IT software quality assurance (SQA) tester. With a raise. :grins:

Very, very happy.

On the writing front, I apparently now have a fairly tried and true method for writing a fic that will not be written. Find a song. Tracing Trouble is now coming along (and it sprawled!* :wails: ) because I accidentally found a song for it. This thing is huge and heartfelt and delves waaay deeper into Cate's psyche than I'd intended, though I always meant it to dig into how she thinks of and processes family, so fun that.

I'm also hipdeep in reading for hiddencait and guys, she is such a good writer. I LOVE this story and whoever wasn't reading for her before obviously doesn't properly appreciate superhuman abilities fiction because this is awesome.

Ahem.

Back off to work. I really should be working and not fangirling today. :rolls eyes at self:

ETA: *Apparently I wrote 2025 words on my tablet yesterday just listening to song, then sketching out scenes and snippeting. Wow.

In Other Ficcish News, a Promptathon

I am halfway through a fic for lithiumlaughter separately prompted but I lumped it in mentally, but here are the finished fics for stainofmylove's promptathon.

Hawkeye: A Lucky-Eyed View

A drabble that was actually hard to conceptualize at first, then I just decided to make a list and see what happened. Cute and fun and recip liked.

A Lucky-Eyed View (100 words) by WriteItSmall
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Hawkeye (Comics)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Lucky (Hawkeye), Kate Bishop, Clint Barton
Additional Tags: Drabble, Pet, Domestic Fluff
Series: Part 1 of stainofmylove promptathon, Part 68 of Drabbles & Double-Drabbles
Summary:

Four legs are better than two because...

Bourne Legacy: Mend

So there's this theme in The Bourne Legacy of lostness. It's used in different ways and that's part of why it resonated so well at the end of the movie for me when Marta says she was hoping they were lost. She spends so much of the movie a little lost and a lot broken and you can see that there was emotional/personal trauma before the events of the movie, then she went through a lot of trauma in it that isn't really glossed over. She's lost, she doesn't want to know, she shuts down Aaron when he asks her what she thinks they do out there, if she realizes the practical application of her "science."

"We were there for the science," she said.

"You cannot be that naive."

Throughout this movie, she wants to be lost, she doesn't want to look at things, but even in that, it changes from this broken, head-in-the-sand thing to knowing and choosing to turn away for something better and different and becomes healthy. It's fascinating. Thus, this fic.

Mend (475 words) by scribblemyname
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Bourne Legacy (2012)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Aaron Cross/Marta Shearing
Characters: Marta Shearing, Aaron Cross
Additional Tags: Character Study, Lost - Freeform, Science, Developing Relationship
Series: Part 2 of stainofmylove promptathon
Summary:

She knows this glittering thing in his eyes the first time he softens and tells her why it matters so much. She knows the fear, the need to not know or experience.

He's lost.

Hawkeye: My Bruises Are All Older Than You

Hawkeye and Hawkeye and bad date were the prompt. Bad date. Their bad date? It didn't feel right. It niggled and I looked and I got a bad date for Kate and Clint being there for her and there's history with Kate and why she became a hero in the first place and there's history with Clint and why Kate's history is something he didn't handle well in the comics in the past. This resulted.

My Bruises Are All Older Than You (327 words) by WriteItSmall
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Hawkeye (Comics)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Rape/Non-Con
Relationships: Clint Barton/Kate Bishop, Clint Barton & Kate Bishop
Characters: Clint Barton, Kate Bishop
Additional Tags: Mentions of attempted date rape, references to past rape, Hurt/Comfort, Friendship
Series: Part 3 of stainofmylove promptathon
Summary:

He opens his mouth for one bad moment, and she jerks her head up, gaze locking on with something mute and accusatory, and he drops it, knowing.

Hawkeye: Legacy (or What's in Me is in You)

There's this panel in Fraction's run where Clint says what's in him is in Kate, and the prompt was "I'll be reaching for the stars with you; who cares no one else believes," which made me think of how Clint's the first to correct anyone who thinks of Kate as the junior half of their duo. He'll tease, "protege," but she's not junior or lady hawkeye or anything like that. She's Hawkeye just like he is.

Those thoughts just collided and here, have a ficlet.

Legacy (or What's in Me is in You) (237 words) by WriteItSmall
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Hawkeye (Comics)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Clint Barton/Kate Bishop, Clint Barton & Kate Bishop
Characters: Clint Barton, Kate Bishop
Additional Tags: Friendship, partners, Established Relationship
Series: Part 4 of stainofmylove promptathon, Part 2 of Legacy
Summary:

"You're pretty awesome, Hawkeye," he tells her, breathes it out because Clint knows a good thing when he sees one and she's good, she's the best.

MCU: You and Me Both

I was shocked at how much response this Clint/Bobbi piece got. geckoholic did the asking and it was looking for yourself in someone else, and here came this moment when I thought about what Bobbi was looking for in Clint and found. A lot of Bobbi/Hunter feels cropped up and rebounding and rebound sex and secrets and lies and what that means in a spy's spy's world and the fact that MCU Clint seems pretty good at the kind of comfort a spy's spy will accept. So here you go.

You and Me Both (647 words) by scribblemyname
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, Lance Hunter/Bobbi Morse
Characters: Clint Barton, Bobbi Morse
Additional Tags: Rebound Sex, Angst, First Meeting, Post-Divorce, Aftermath
Series: Part 5 of stainofmylove promptathon
Summary:

Bobbi doesn't want to admit it hurts and stings, the words going 'round and 'round in her head.

Bourne Legacy: Here Be Dragons

Marta, Aaron, PTSD, triggers, muscle memory, and sex. That's it in a nutshell. The prompt about off the map inspired both lostness and the feeling of there's no map to their bodies and their relationship when you consider what they came out of, but they make it work and work around the very real "dragons" that haunt them.

Here Be Dragons (733 words) by scribblemyname
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Bourne Legacy (2012)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Aaron Cross/Marta Shearing
Characters: Aaron Cross, Marta Shearing
Additional Tags: PTSD, Characters Working Through Triggers, Developing Relationship, Sex, Muscle Memory, Romance
Series: Part 6 of stainofmylove promptathon
Summary:

They sleep together before they sleep together. They navigate the dragon of her thrashing in the bed and Aaron learning to hush and wake her, not respond with reflexes programmed for war. They slay the dragon of his nightmares, her arms wrapped tenderly around him, her kiss on the back of his neck as he shudders because he cannot touch her there but it is one place he likes to be touched. They soothe the dragons under the skin of her wrists and the skin of his elbows where they were held down and restrained by those who sought to kill them.

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Want a ficlet? Still open for prompts

Remix Redux

Smaller fandoms I am eligible for remixing. Anyone else signing up for any of these? It's highly advised to not sign up for smaller fandoms without bringing friends.

1. The Unusuals: http://archiveofourown.org/users/scribblemyname/works?fandom_id=55668


2. Divergent books: http://archiveofourown.org/users/scribblemyname/works?fandom_id=263316


3. Hawkeye comics: http://archiveofourown.org/users/scribblemyname/works?fandom_id=484757


4. Levereage: http://archiveofourown.org/users/scribblemyname/works?fandom_id=5280

Larger fandoms I'm definitely signing up for:

1. Agents of SHIELD (note to self: write one more drabble)


2. Marvel Cinematic Universe/Avengers Movieverse


3. X-Men Movieverse