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tielan: (don't make me shoot you)
Monday, February 15th, 2021 08:31 am
I got two beautiful little pieces, one in Star Wars fandom, the other in Buffy fandom.
Two Burglaries That Pass in the Night (2310 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016), Star Wars Legends - All Media Types
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Jyn Erso & Mara Jade
Characters: Jyn Erso, Mara Jade
Additional Tags: Crossover, POV Alternating, Pre-Rogue One, A few months BBY
Summary: Jyn's doing the best she can. Mara's doing the Emperor's bidding. For both of them, that means going to a jewelry shop at midnight.
I love the reflection on names and naming, on the necessity of what they're doing, and on their frank honesty to each other - two women whose innocence is a long way behind them.

Let The Silence Find Us
Fanomd: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Faith Lehane & Buffy Summers
Characters: Faith Lehane, Buffy Summers,
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Hurt/Comfort
Summary: For a while, they are quiet, locked away from the world, locked away from each other. This, Faith knows, this is familiar. Two Slayers and not enough world and never the right words.
This one is a character punch: they're both so young (some twenty plus years later) but at the same time, so old for what they've seen. And they don't relate to each other in any kind of way that we'd consider 'normal' or 'proper' but it's the only way they know how.

For my own assignment, I wrote about 3K, then decided it wasn't complete enough and rewrote a much shorter and tighter < 1K ficlet. Then I pulled together a slightly longer story that fit a request that I could fill. I have two other little notes of possibility that I could still fill with something small, but I'd need to have time to do that...and I don't.

Happy V-Day to us all: may we love and be loved, however that represents to us. And may we be gentle with ourselves in what is looking very much like a year of slow recovery. *hugs*
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Snowflake 11: "Lost And Found" MCU: Maria/Steve

tielan: (Default)
Saturday, January 23rd, 2021 11:10 am
Another day, another snowflake.

Snowflake Challenge promotional banner featuring feet in snuggly socks, a mug of hot chocolate, a notebook with 'dreams' written on the cover, and a guitar. Text: Snowflake Challenge 1-31 January

Challenge #11

In your own space, create a fanwork.

As it turns out, I just finished the next story in my Meeting Halfway series - 30 Days of OTP: Maria Hill/Steve Rogers. I started it back in 2012, and at the rate I'm going, I might just have the lot complete by 2022...
Lost and Found (2707 words) by tielan
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Maria Hill/Steve Rogers
Characters: Steve Rogers, Thor (cameo), Natasha Romanov (cameo), Okoye (Marvel), Maria Hill
Additional Tags: Canon Divergence - Avengers: Endgame (Movie), 30 days of OTP
Series: Part 25 of Meeting Halfway
Summary: As it starts to sink in that they've won the Battle of Wakanda, an odd thought pings against Steve's brain: Tony has a daughter.
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works for 2020

tielan: (Default)
Saturday, January 2nd, 2021 08:00 pm
Starting with my YT fic:
Circling To A Close (3249 words) by tielan
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Dragonriders of Pern - Anne McCaffrey
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Mirrim/T'gellan (Dragonriders of Pern)
Characters: Mirrim (Dragonriders of Pern), T'gellan (Dragonriders of Pern), Brekke (Dragonriders of Pern)
Summary:

It's what T'gellan wanted, just not quite the way he hoped.

I was never much into Mirrim/T'gellan before, but have been asked to write it in the past, and found that I had a little more in me for it when my YT recipient mentioned that she was okay with just about any of the untold stories of the weyr. I think I'd like to finish it off with them as weyrmates (I got them to lovers in this story) at some point...

( fics for 2020 )
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fic thingies October-November

tielan: (MCU - Maria/Steve)
Friday, November 13th, 2020 11:45 am
Do I want to do Heart Attack? 10K in 2 weeks (last two weeks of NaNo, pretty much)? I mean, I certainly can, I'm just deciding whether I would and whether it would benefit any of my fics.

I haven't started my YT fic yet. I suppose I should be more worried about it but right now...I'm not stressed. (Maybe I should be? I recall it all being very "OH, I CAN DO THIS!")

--

I've done a number of fic additions or new stories, mostly because I needed something happy-shiny-fun to write and fanfic was it.

I managed fluffy fluffy fluffy for [community profile] shipoween:
Survivors (1916 words) by tielan
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Pacific Rim (Movies)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Raleigh Becket/Mako Mori
Summary:

Sometimes survival is a matter of playing hardball.

TBH, it feels like ages since I wrote PR. But this was a nice, happy-soft-fun snapshot.

And also some Steve/Maria soulmates fic:
First Glimpse Of Hearts (8292 words) by tielan
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Maria Hill/Steve Rogers
Characters: Maria Hill, Steve Rogers, James "Bucky" Barnes (cameo), Shuri (cameo), Nick Fury (cameo), T'Challa (cameo)
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Soulmates, Soulmates, The Angry Goose Of Destiny, Soulmate-Identifying Marks, Alternate History
Series: Part 2 of First Touch
Summary:

A meeting in a garden. A goose attack. And a glimpse of what might be...

The Endgame videos/gifsets for the election stirred a lot of old bitterness up. BLEH.

And another chapter or two of the Psy-Changeling fusion:
The Gathering Clouds (20885 words) by tielan
Chapters: 7/?
Fandom: The Avengers (2012), Marvel Cinematic Universe
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Phil Coulson & Maria Hill, Steve Rogers & Thor, Steve Rogers & Tony Stark, Bruce Banner & Steve Rogers, Maria Hill/Steve Rogers, Steve Rogers & Janet Van Dyne
Characters: Maria Hill, Phil Coulson, Steve Rogers, Thor, Tony Stark, Bruce Banner, Janet Van Dyne, Pepper Potts, Morgan Stark (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Fusion, Psy-Changelings, Alternate Universe - Psychics/Psionics, Alternate Universe - Werecreatures, Drama, Escape, Alternate Universe - Psy-Changeling (Nalini Singh)
Series: Part 1 of Wolf & Arrow: MCU-Psy/Changeling AU
Summary:

Maria had always known that someday that the shambling, soulless creature that returned from Rehabilitation would be her – used one too many times, broken beyond fixing. She’d accepted the eventuality of that end for herself. But for Phil and these children, whose crime was merely to challenge the Psy Council’s preconceptions? No. Not while she had breath.

In which Sam, Nick, Clint, and Natasha make an appearance...

On the writing board is the next installment of the 30 Days Of Your OTP (Steve/Maria), Paved With Good Intentions (Maria/Clint soulmates | Maria/Steve relationship), the next chapter of the wisdom to know the difference (honestly do not know if it will ever be finished), and the fic I'm calling baby's first moebius...

And Yuletide, of course.

I could probably write Paved With Good Intentions in 10K or more. It might end up being seriously more: shit gets REAL in that one. And it would be nice to have a significant drive to finish it. It would be nice to have a significant drive to finish any of these...

Only, there's also the original fiction to write: I was hoping to complete Act II during NaNo. Not even close right now. Need to stop re-editing in my head. Oh, and focus. It was awful focusing last week and this week seems to be ALL THE WORK THINGS.

Anyway. Back to work, I guess...
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fics

tielan: (AVG - agents)
Monday, September 14th, 2020 03:11 pm
Two fics for [community profile] auexchange, two general series updates.

So, my AU Exchange assignment was Black Panther, Shuri-focused. I picked Shuri & M'Baku after the snap, in an AU where Shuri survived and mourned her brother. Wrote the story, finishing up on a Saturday morning...and not half an hour later heard that Chadwick Boseman had died.

I felt awful. Not just for Chadwick's death, but also for my recip who might have been okay with grieving/mourning fic at a time other than in the wake of the man's death... But I didn't have anything to rewrite the story with.

I could touch up a couple of other stories that had been sitting around for months (if not years) and post them, but I didn't have another Black Panther story in me before the deadline. So I submitted the fic and apologised in the note.

It's been generally well-taken. Elegiac, perhaps.

The Coming Future (2561 words) by tielan
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Black Panther (2018), Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: M'Baku & Shuri (Marvel)
Characters: Shuri (Marvel), M'Baku (Marvel), Okoye - cameo
Summary:

In the chaos after the moment - that moment - Shuri has but one thought: to assure herself that T'Challa has survived.



*sigh*

I really did want to write something else - I tried to start on a 'Shuri goes to the realm of the ancestors and speaks with Eric Killmonger, the better to understand him' story, but...couldn't get my wheels in.

What I could do was touch up a few stories that have been lingering around for far too long in the 'not yet done' folder. So I did.

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I have a soft spot for "Stark-Hill siblings" and this has been lingering in one of my folders for forever. There are also multiple half-written scenes from a largely female Avengers core, although I think they were 'all-female Avengers' teams, not 'five women and Steve'.

This is also not the sequel where Tony and Maria meet on the steps of a Boston brownstone that Peggy and Angie are living together in. That has its own storyline that will not likely ever be done.

Another Suitcase In Another Hall (1373 words) by tielan
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Maria Hill & Steve Rogers, Maria Hill & Tony Stark
Characters: Steve Rogers, Tony Stark, Maria Hill
Summary:

The last time Steve saw her was driving off from Central Park with Ms. Potts in a sleek gunmetal grey Lamborghini with the numberplate MAR1A. Then, she was in jeans and a black-t-shirt with a denim jacket over the top – street casual. Now, she’s in a sleeveless dress in deep green that probably cost more than Steve’s ma made in a year back home, and which makes her look every inch the business heiress she is.




Then there's the next in the Meeting Halfway series, which, having stayed mostly in my own lane of fanon, abruptly went straight to canon.

Hell Hath No Fury Like A Hero Scorned (3720 words) by tielan
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Major Character Death
Relationships: Maria Hill/Steve Rogers, Nick Fury & Maria Hill
Additional Tags: 30 Day OTP Challenge, Arguing, Relationship Issues, Avengers: Infinity War Part 1 (Movie) Compliant, Unhappy Ending
Series: Part 24 of Meeting Halfway
Summary:

Hill has no Fury, just a hero scorned...




And finally, the next chapter of the Psy-Changeling AU which I've been slowly herding along for what feels like years.

The Gathering Clouds (14193 words) by tielan
Chapters: 5/?
Fandom: The Avengers (2012), Marvel Cinematic Universe
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Phil Coulson & Maria Hill, Steve Rogers & Thor, Steve Rogers & Tony Stark, Bruce Banner & Steve Rogers, Maria Hill/Steve Rogers, Steve Rogers & Janet Van Dyne
Characters: Maria Hill, Phil Coulson, Steve Rogers, Thor, Tony Stark, Bruce Banner, Janet Van Dyne, Pepper Potts, Morgan Stark (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Fusion, Psy-Changelings, Alternate Universe - Psychics/Psionics, Alternate Universe - Werecreatures, Drama, Escape, Alternate Universe - Psy-Changeling (Nalini Singh)
Series: Part 1 of Wolf & Arrow: MCU-Psy/Changeling AU
Summary:

Maria had always known that someday that the shambling, soulless creature that returned from Rehabilitation would be her – used one too many times, broken beyond fixing. She’d accepted the eventuality of that end for herself. But for Phil and these children, whose crime was merely to challenge the Psy Council’s preconceptions? No. Not while she had breath.



I feel like I haven't been productive at all. I think the previous fic I posted was back in February. And yeah, there are Reasons, but I've had a lot of time and done a lot of writing and I feel like I have't actually achieved all that much at all in all that time.
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things about which I might actually be enthusiastic

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Saturday, August 22nd, 2020 11:21 am
Character Headcanon Meme

I did:
  • Kara Thrace (BSG)
  • Spike (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
  • Dawn Summers (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
  • Maria Hill (MCU)
  • Hermione Granger (Harry Potter)
  • Mako Mori(Pacific Rim)


That was kind of fun.

I'm trying to finish off the next story in the Meeting Halfway series (30 Days of OTP, for Maria/Steve, which I started 8 years ago and haven't yet finished).

I'm also trying to get the next chapter up for the MCU/Psy-Changeling universe up. The scene keeps ballooning out.

--

Have a snippet from the original fic I've been trying to write the last six months. I've been stuck at this segment about halfway through for, oh, around three of those six months.
"What's a callback?"

Green-flecked eyes stared at him like she'd forgotten he was even there. "It's a spell to 'remember' where everything was at a certain point in the past, in a location where magic was recently performed."

"Capturing the echo of the magic performed and how it affected the area." Cal knew the type of spell she was talking about - in Fae it was better known as 'magical memory'. "What's involved in casting a callback spell?"

"For the basic callback in the kit? The ability to cast a spell. Are you offering?"

"Yes." He held up a hand as she stood. "But only after you finish your dinner."

"The longer we wait, the less residue there'll be for performing the callback!"

"There'll be enough." He pointed at the bowl on her desk. "Eat. The faster you eat, the faster we'll get moving."

This time the look she gave him was grumpy, but she ate her meal and ten minutes later, they were walking through doors labelled Security with an additional sign beneath it that indicated, personal glamours may not hold past this point.

"Does that happen very often? The collapse of a personal glamour?"

"More often than you'd think," she said as she walked past the empty security desk towards the closed door behind it, but waved at the clearly-mounted camera in the corner before swiping her card to unlock the door. "People use personal glamours for a lot more than deception."

"Vanity is the usual cause," said the woman who swivelled her chair around from the desk where she'd been working, and rolled it over to the table nearest the door. "And I don't mean the two people with vitiligo who use a glamour; I mean the ones whose glamours are pretty much cosmetic; freckles or nicer shaped eyebrows or an entire makeup routine. Hi, I'm Ani." Her eyes crinkled at the corners as she grinned at Cal. "You really are as pretty as they said you were."

Jenna snorted. "Box kit now, flirt later."

"Work, work, work, this one," Ani grouched, still smiling, but pushed a box across the table top. "You know the deal for a callback spell; you've seen it done often enough. Although who you're going to find to do a spell at this hour, I don't know..." She trailed off as Cal raised a hand.

"He's actually not bad at magic," Jenna said. "For a Fae."

"Well, you're not all bad for Low Fae," she laughed, sliding her arm around his waist and snuggling up to him. And he was young enough and needy enough to take the affection - who'd ever shown him such regard before? - without pointing out how much it stung to be the exception.

He thought he did a better job of hiding his disquiet, but when they were in the elevator, Agent Jourdan turned to him. "I probably shouldn't have said that."

"Said what?"

"Not bad at magic for a Fae. I've gotten enough flak for being shit at magic this high up in Crossover, and you're considerably better than me."

"I..." He hesitated. "You scraped an old wound."

--

Okay, going out in the blowing wind to take osme photos of spring buds and blossoms for a friend who's been stuck indoors for a while and wants some reminders that spring is coming.
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fic snippet: Baby's First Time Travel Moebius [Maria, Nick, Rhodey]

tielan: Maria & Steve walking in sync (MCU - Maria/Steve2)
Thursday, July 23rd, 2020 07:08 pm
I'll be posting a few fic snippets in the next few days. Things I started writing but haven't really been inspired to finish (alas).

( May/December...or Baby's First Time Travel Moebius )
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fic: "Duncker's Candle" [MCU: Maria/Steve]

tielan: Maria & Steve walking in sync (MCU - Maria/Steve2)
Sunday, January 26th, 2020 07:13 am
Challenge 13

In your own space, create a fanwork.

This story was not created for this challenge, but I've had this fic sitting around on my HD for months and opened it up last night (before I saw the Challenge) to take a look. I was contemplating tidying and polishing it up for posting; it didn't need much.

This morning, I looked at the challenge notification email and figured it was a sign.

Forthwith:
Duncker's Candle (5865 words) by tielan
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Maria Hill/Steve Rogers, Maria Hill & Steve Rogers, Steve Rogers & Peggy Carter, Peggy Carter/Peggy Carter's Husband, Peggy Carter/Steve Rogers (unresolved)
Characters: Maria Hill, Steve Rogers
Additional Tags: Developing Friendships, Comfort Sex, Post-Avengers (2012), happy for now
Summary:
Dressed in worn jeans and a casual shirt, Maria Hill looks universes away from the competent aide who moved about the helicarrier control room in the sleek S.H.I.E.L.D uniform, a cool-eyed officer who kept her head in a crisis, and commanded troops with an authoritative snap to her voice. Her hand is tucked in the arm of one of the elderly residents of the hospice, and she's laughing as the old lecher pats her hand with a distinctly proprietary air.

The amusement drops from her face as she recognizes him. "Rogers."

.
This was actually written in the wake of my dissatisfaction with Endgame, and there was a whole other story alongside/behind it. I decided to dedicate my time and energy to other things instead.
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Sing a Joyful Snowflake to the Fans! [Day 7]

tielan: Maria & Steve walking in sync (MCU - Maria/Steve2)
Monday, January 13th, 2020 04:51 pm

Challenge #7

Promote/Rec/Sing the Praises* of Yourself!

I'm good at writing stories for characters and pairings that people probably wouldn't otherwise thinking about and making them believable.

Examples include John/Teyla and Ronon/Elizabeth in SGA, and, of course, Maria/Steve in MCU.

Interestingly, although there are 790 works in the Steve/Maria tag on AO3, 170 of them were either written by me (146 of them), or directly influenced by me - that is, it was written for me as a gift, or someone referenced me in the notes section of the story.

That turns out to be ~21% which I think is pretty good in a collection of just under 800 stories.

My big work for SGA was probably To Serve A Queen - the Black Jewels AU fusion that I wrote, where Elizabeth Weir is the Queen of Atlantis Territory and the expedition members are her court. That fic made my name in SGA fandom, and kicked off the Ronon/Elizabeth pairing - in as much as it got off the ground...

As a matter of fact, in SGA fandom, I actually prefer The Astonishing Persistence Of Memory: Past Time, and A Gambit Of Queens and Bargains Untenable, all of which have a team action focus.

I'm good at fusions into the Black Jewels universes. If you're into BBC Merlin, try Prince Of Camelot: Choice And Destiny, if you're into Rogue One, try Oaths Broken And Remade, if you liked Jupiter Ascending, then Dark Queen Ascending will probably be your jam, and Assembly, Care, and Feeding of A Queen's Court is the story of how the Avengers Assemble in the MCU Black Jewels Universe.

Actually, I do a lot of AUs generally (122 stories out of 870) - everything from werewolves to daemons to Jaegers, and they're all fairly well-commented and well-kudos'd. I think it's because I manage to transplant the characters from one universe to another so they're still recognisable, and with the same key events that made them or changed them, but still it's a whole new world and backstory to explore.

For the most complete AU fusion that I've done yet, I'd try the Fire And Ice: MCU Jaeger AU, which is the story of Maria and Pepper's friendship in an MCU-Pacific Rim fusion, with a few extra stories for other characters in there, too.

However I think the story I'm most proud of in 2019 was the other side of infinity, which was my Infinity War fix-it:
On the other side of the moment, those turned to dust may no longer be 'alive', but they're damn well not helpless. This is the story of how they saved themselves.
It took me the better part of a year to write it, it's one of my longest fics, and I gave a whole lot of minor characters a whole lot of major things to do, reset the storyline, and reset the 2016 election. Because what's the point in rewriting history if you're not going to do it properly?

And, admittedly, I'm biased, but I liked it a lot more than Endgame!

In 2020, I hope that the story I'll be most proud of is the not-yet-complete Paved With Good Intentions which will be a post-Endgame fixit. I have a few of those lying around, but whether they'll get finished is something else.

And if you're here from the Snowflake Challenge, you're more than welcome to go through my body of works and see if anything takes your interest! I'm mostly gen and het, with a little slash and femslash here and there, and usually one or two pairings that I really love, and then a whole heap of others that I'll dabble in. I'm flexible. :)
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my Yuletide story reveal

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Thursday, January 2nd, 2020 01:39 pm
I wrote for [archiveofourown.org profile] Val_creative who asked for Mulan.

the proper order of things (2512 words) by tielan
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Mulan (1998)
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Original Characters, Fa Mulan (Disney), Li Shang


I'm a little surprised how well it did comparative to what I was expecting. Even before reveals, it had about 35 kudos and 8 comments, which was way more than I ever thought it would see.

My initial go-to was the recipient's request for an amnesia fic, and I started something down that path but it didn't work the way I wanted it to go. So I ended up taking the idea of a 3rd party POV of Mulan's escapades, and particularly of her and Shang working together. I tied it into neo-Confucianism, which is a bit like neo-conservativism: women have a proper place, etc. Only the neo-Confucianists tied it into the gods and a philosophical Way That Things Should Be rather than the traditions and rose-coloured glasses of neo-conservatism.

--

As it turns out, the Pern fic was by someone who treated me a Lessa/F'lar Pernfic for Yuletide last year. Awesome. :D

But I was completely and utterly wrong on the Psy-Changeling fic. Never seen that person in my fandom life and they've only got 4 fics on AO3, and are largely in Teen Wolf and Critical Role fandoms.

Anyway, I seriously lucked out this year in Yuletide. xo
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AU Exchange fics

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Tuesday, September 17th, 2019 08:25 am
I picked up a couple of pinch hits for this, but I didn't sign up, so no gift.

Just Slower (3450 words) by tielan
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Steve Rogers, Tony Stark, James "Rhodey" Rhodes, Nebula (Marvel), Carol Danvers, Natasha Romanov (Marvel), Rocket Raccoon, Thor (Marvel), Bruce Banner
Summary:

Within Steve, the sense of rightness settles - the knowledge that these people are here to do what's right, to fight against Thanos' armies and protect Earth - and the universe, too, all the way to the end of the line.



Flight And Fight (2039 words) by tielan
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes & Maria Hill
Characters: James "Bucky" Barnes, Maria Hill
Additional Tags: Friendship, Alternate Universe, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Bucky Didn't Fall From The Train, Bucky Barnes and the 21st Century
Summary:

After New York, S.H.I.E.L.D is somewhere to work while he’s working out who he’s going to be here in the future. And, God, the future is amazing.



I always want to pick up a Captain Hill prompt for a treat (and there was one person in the whole exchange who asked for them), but I don't think I ever have. Partly because I got burned by people telling me that I was baddirtywrong for wanting more Captain Hill fans, and partly because the people asking for it never once liked or commented on any of my fic, so I figured why would they even want something from me?
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manic Monday

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Monday, September 2nd, 2019 08:43 am
Today is going to be rough. I woke up at 3:50am and didn’t quite get back to sleep again. So I started cooking tomato sauce, before pouring the chunked tomatoes into the slow cooker to stew for the next 12 hours. Hopefully will be good when I get home.

Hockey team lost the grand final 0-4 but they were happy – they played really well, and apparently the game was more like a 3-4 game than a 0-4 one. I wouldn’t know, I didn’t end up going because the march/vigil/protest for the Biloela family was right around the same time and I figured that was more important in the long run.

Called the offices of the Prime Minister and the Minister For Immigration this morning, tried the Minister for…whatever the Aussie equiv of Homeland Security is, but accidentally ended up with the same number for the PM’s office. Oops. Going to keep calling every day and encourage others to call, too. While posting quilting and garden and dress and food pics. If people are going to ‘like’ my life on social media, they can put up with reminders that just because our lives are peachy doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try to make life better for others, too.

I need to lose weight again, mostly because my clothing is getting tight and I hate shopping for new stuff. It’ll probably happen while I’m off work. I tend to eat less when I’m at home than when I’m at work. Mostly because I’m so involved in doing things when I’m home that food is not a priority, while work is stultifying enough that I go out and buy food and boredom-eat. My job pays well, it doesn’t really do much for me on the vocational/calling front.

Fourth chapter of the latest installment of my MCU/Pacific Rim AU is up: Five Things (To Prove Drift Compatibility)

I’ve written one [community profile] auexchange pinch-hit and then picked up another. I might also write a treat. However, this means writing the iddy AU that I was hoping to get done for myself will not happen within the timeframe of the exchange. *sadface*

I still have crazy numbers of lemons from a swap several weeks ago, so tonight I’m planning to:
- slice lemons into slices for freezing
- juice lemons for freezing into cubes
- make lemon curd

"Planning to" is the key phrase there...
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fic: the definition of reasonable [MCU, Bucky/Shuri]

tielan: Avengers team (AVG - team)
Tuesday, July 16th, 2019 10:20 am
For those of you still vaguely interested in my fannish stuff:

My assignment for the [community profile] mcu_exchange:

TITLE: the definition of reasonable
TAGS: Bucky/Shuri, not-Infinity War compliant, fluff.
SUMMARY: "Where next?" She lets him lead her out and away before turning to look up at him. And the look growing in her eyes is the wide, bright mischief that promises as much chaos as a litter of leopard cubs let loose in the palace. "I know! Let's sneak into Stark Tower!"

"We are not sneaking into Stark Tower!"
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MCU Exchange

tielan: (AVG - agents)
Monday, July 8th, 2019 07:20 am
Wrote one, received three.

Coffee And Sunglasses
Maria and Laura bonding after Age of Ultron. In which there is axe-throwing.

A Delight Of Discoveries
Maria/Steve after Endgame. The one where Steve courts her and Maria is in denial.

Marching On
Maria after Endgame. Tagged Steve/Maria. The one where Maria picks up Natasha's work and Steve just happens to a part of that.

Thank you if you wrote for me.
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fic:: "the wisdom to know the difference" [MCU, Maria, Maria/Steve]

tielan: Maria & Steve walking in sync (MCU - Maria/Steve2)
Friday, July 5th, 2019 09:12 am
There’s a lot of bits and pieces I’ve been sitting on for the last couple of months; over the last few weeks I did a push to finish as many things as possible.

the wisdom to know the difference (16562 words) by tielan
Chapters: 2/4
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Maria Hill & Natasha Romanov, Maria Hill & Steve Rogers, Maria Hill & Avengers Team, Maria Hill/Steve Rogers
Characters: Maria Hill, Natasha Romanov (Marvel), Steve Rogers, James "Rhodey" Rhodes, Pepper Potts, Thor (Marvel), Rocket Raccoon, Carol Danvers, Okoye (Marvel), Tony Stark, Nebula (Marvel)
Additional Tags: Avengers: Endgame (Movie) Spoilers, Canon Divergence - Avengers: Endgame (Movie), Fix-It, Endgame Fix-It, Maria Hill is a BAMF, One More Person Could Have Saved The World, Work In Progress
Series: Part 1 of The Wisdom To Know The Difference
Summary:

Maria reached out a hand, and her fingers fluttered through dust and ashes....but the pager remained.



Initially, I was hoping to get the entirety of this story out by the end of May, then I figured I might by the end of June. Ahahaha. Yeah, nope. It’ll probably be August before I get the next chapter done, mostly because so many things to write, not half enough time to write them all...
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two MCU fics

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Thursday, July 4th, 2019 07:40 am
For [community profile] intoabar 2018 - they're presently taking sign-ups for the 2019 round.

I got "Maria Hill meets Ares (Wonder Woman)":

The Check And The Balance Unpaid (2108 words) by tielan
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Wonder Woman (2017)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Maria Hill, Patrick Morgan | Ares
Additional Tags: Community: intoabar, Power Dynamics (non-sexual)
Summary:

There was something avid about the earnestly pleasant expression on his face that was...repulsive. Some gleam in his eye, some smugness about the set of his mouth. It reminded her of Loki, back when he’d been imprisoned on the helicarrier – the sense that there was something more winding around and about and through all this. One move on a chessboard and the goal was checkmate.



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And in my Fire And Ice MCU Jaeger AU series, there's another chapter of the friendship between Maria and Pepper:

That’s What Friends Are For (6432 words) by tielan
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Maria Hill & Pepper Potts, Maria Hill/Steve Rogers
Characters: Maria Hill, Pepper Potts, Steve Rogers, Brock Rumlow, Jack Rollins, Original Characters
Additional Tags: Friendship, Drama, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, In Vino Veritas, HYDRA are not nice
Series: Part 6 of Fire And Ice: MCU Jaeger AU
Summary:

Pepper doesn't like Steve Rogers much.



It's actually #6 in the series, but there are 8 stories, so far. Eventually (very eventually) I'll finish the series (at least two more to go, maybe three).

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My [community profile] mcu_exchange assignment will be live this weekend, I don't know if it will be identifiable (probably) but it should be fun.

And the [community profile] auexchange is coming to town again!

I am debating signing up, but...I do love AUs. Yes, I know, I need more exchange assignments like I need a hole in the head. *sigh*

And this job is going to leave me with no time to write the novel I hoped to have done by the end of August.
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fic: The Wisdom To Know The Difference (Part 1 of 3) - MCU, Maria Hill & Avengers

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Thursday, May 9th, 2019 09:42 pm
fic: The Wisdom To Know The Difference

Chapter 1 of 3. Endgame fixit, with the two other chapters plotted out but yet to be written. Chapter 3 is going to be a doozy.

I didn't post it correctly to start with: made it a completed fic in a series instead of a chapter in a story. There'll probably be a few people cross about that.
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ready and braced

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Wednesday, April 17th, 2019 08:41 pm
The Other Side Of Infinity is one epilogue shy of complete. I'll post that on Friday or the weekend. eta: I decided I couldn't be arsed waiting to put it up. Just post it, all done.

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the other side of infinity (84281 words) by tielan
Chapters: 26/26
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Nick Fury & Maria Hill, Maria Hill & Sam Wilson & Bucky Barnes & Wanda Maximoff, Maria Hill & Jane Foster, Peter Quill & Groot & Mantis & Drax, James "Bucky" Barnes & Steve Rogers, James "Rhodey" Rhodes & Tony Stark, Nick Fury & T'Challa, Maria Hill/Steve Rogers, Maria Hill & Sam Wilson
Characters: Maria Hill, Nick Fury, T'Challa, Sam Wilson (Marvel), James "Bucky" Barnes, Peter Parker, Stephen Strange, Jane Foster (Marvel), Loki (Marvel), Brunnhilde | Valkyrie (Marvel), Hela (Marvel), Groot (Marvel), Mantis (Marvel), Drax the Destroyer, Rocket Raccoon, Steve Rogers, Tony Stark, James "Rhodey" Rhodes, Carol Danvers, Hulk (Marvel), Natasha Romanov (Marvel), Clint Barton, Thor (Marvel), Ayo (Marvel)
Additional Tags: Not Avengers: Endgame (Movie) Compliant, Post-Avengers: Infinity War Part 1 (Movie), action-adventure, Canon-Typical Violence, Infinity Gems, Infinity Gauntlet, Sacrifice, Fan theories
Summary:

On the other side of the moment, those turned to dust may no longer be 'alive', but they're damn well not helpless.

This is the story of how they saved themselves.



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And I feel like right now I need a bit of 'flop' space for my brain to recover from writing and rewriting and stressing and ARGH. It won't get much time, for that, though. I bought my ticket for Endgame, next Wednesday 5:20pm. Expect copious ranting around 9pm AEST.

Not going to look at the release. Not going to check out spoilers. On the other hand if the movie is actually about how Maria gets to save the world with all the other Snaptured people...

*crickets chirp*

Yeah, I didn't think so.

Frankly, I just want to make it out of this fandom alive.
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fic: Other Side of Infinity

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Friday, April 5th, 2019 07:42 am
Okay, so I did some rejigging of the way I'm posting the story which is probably going to play merry hell with my subscribers' inboxes. (Sorry.)

Each chapter is a scene change, and there are several scenes in a single story section. I'll be posting the story in sections at a time, though, so there'll be multiple chapters posted every few days.

The posting scenes as chapters is mostly because an entire segment is 12K easy and not everyone has time to read that all at once, but 2K a day might be doable, perhaps?

Entire Work
Part 2
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chocobox fics

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Friday, February 22nd, 2019 08:53 am
For Chocolate Box, I wrote three fics:

For [archiveofourown.org profile] lmizutani:
FANDOM: Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
TITLE: Teach A Girl To Fish And She'll Dream Forever
SUMMARY: Rilla Blythe is the youngest of the Blythe kids, the baby of the family. At least, that’s how Kenneth’s used to thinking of her.
TAGS: Rilla Blythe & Kenneth Ford, Rilla Blythe, Kenneth Ford, friendship, childhood
RATING: G
NOTES: I felt kind of bad about this, because I was assigned to the same recipient as Yuletide, and I'm sure she wanted someone else writing something else. And she got me. :/ It's just a little piece of them developing a childhood friendship - not very deep, but a kind of base on which to build their later relationship.

For [archiveofourown.org profile] millepertuis:
FANDOM: Pacific Rim movies
TITLE: Hypertactile
SUMMARY: Three drifts isn’t enough to scar someone; it shouldn’t have been enough to bond the way they have – or, rather, the way Raleigh has bonded with Mako.
TAGS: Mako/Raleigh, co-sleeping, post-Operation Pitfall
RATING: PG-13
NOTES: A pinch-hit that swung my way, and which I was in an easy position to fulfil. Plus, I have a great fondness for angsting these two out before getting them together.

For [archiveofourown.org profile] Haywire:
FANDOM: Marvel Cinematic Universe
TITLE: Killing Me Softly
SUMMARY: Hangovers were never fun. They were considerably less fun when you’d been pulled up on the carpet of the Director’s office for a 0900 meeting.
TAGS: Maria Hill, Jane Foster, Pepper Potts, Valkyrie (cameo), Wanda (cameo), Natasha (cameo), Melinda May, Girls' Night Out, Karaoke, Fluff
RATING: PG-13
NOTES: A treat I decided to write pretty much yesterday. It's lighthearted and silly and features the all-female Avengers team I introduced in Monstrous Regiment.

They're okay fics, not my most brilliant work, IMO.

In return I received two gifts: one assignment, one treat a few days after reveals.

My gift:
Light As Air by [archiveofourown.org profile] lillypillylies - a Harry/Luna fic with trio friendship that is delightful and perfectly characterised from Hermione and her persisting questions, to Ron and his blunt affection, to Harry needing to stave off a panic that Luna doesn't actually like him after all.

And a treat:
Between the Music And The Rests by [archiveofourown.org profile] scribblemyname | [personal profile] scribblemyname - a Maria/Steve AU where they're IN SPACE and the Avengers are IN SPACE and I want to read the entire IN SPACE novel that must surely come from this. *hint hint*
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