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I wrote one gift in one fandom and received three in three other fandoms! It probably helped that I went to the Pinch Hit list pretty late.

Borrow the Moonlight (100 words) by LittleRaven
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Angel/Buffy Summers
Characters: Buffy Summers, Angel (BtVS)
Additional Tags: Drabble, Cuddling & Snuggling, Season/Series 02, Slice of Life
Summary: borrow the moonlight / until it is through

Something Fun (429 words) by DesertVixen
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Bridgerton (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Anthony Bridgerton/Kate Sheffield | Kate Sharma, Benedict Bridgerton & Kate Sheffield | Kate Sharma
Characters: Kate Sheffield | Kate Sharma, Benedict Bridgerton
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Canon Compliant, sibling feels
Summary: Kate wants Benedict to do her a favor...

a different beach (346 words) by ropememory
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Wonder Woman - All Media Types, Marvel Cinematic Universe
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Maria Hill (MCU) & Diana (Wonder Woman)
Characters: Maria Hill, Diana (Wonder Woman)
Additional Tags: Crossover, Candy Hearts treat
Summary: Groaning, Maria slowly pushes herself up to standing. She's expecting to feel lightheaded, or maybe a throbbing headache to incapacitate her, but neither happen. Maybe whatever wormhole or experimental time travel tech she fell foul of was nice enough to let her avoid the physical consequences.

They are all delightful in different ways.

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My assignment was an MCU Clintasha fic based around the idea of 'scheduling for sex'.

Setting A Schedule (1059 words) by tielan
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Clint Barton/Natasha Romanov
Characters: Clint Barton, Natasha Romanov, Maria Hill (cameo), Tony Stark (cameo), Jarvis (cameo), Steve Rogers (cameo)
Summary: It's not that they don't sleep in the same bed, it's that nothing comes of it.

There will probably be a sequel. IYKYK.

A Study Of In-Laws (2279 words) by tielan
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Bridgerton (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Violet Bridgerton & Kate Sharma, Hyacinth Bridgerton & Kate Sharma, Eloise Bridgerton & Kate Sharma, Francesca Bridgerton & Kate Sharma, Anthony Bridgerton/Kate Sharma
Characters: Kate Sharma, Violet Bridgerton, Hyacinth Bridgerton, Eloise Bridgerton, Francesca Bridgerton, Anthony Bridgerton
Additional Tags: Family, Found Family, pre-season 3, Kate's Study, Kate & Anthony Week 2024, Kanthony Week 2024
Summary:

Life in the London house is more than merely busy. Kate's study is an oasis of peace.

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( Bridgerton fic idea )

Challenge #11: In your own space, create a fanwork.

Good Enough (1041 words) by tielan
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Maria Hill/Steve Rogers, Clint Barton/Laura Barton (background), Clint Barton/Maria Hill (background)
Characters: Steve Rogers, Maria Hill, Clint Barton, Laura Barton, Natasha Romanov (Marvel)
Additional Tags: Soulmates, Soulmate-Identifying Marks, Bittersweet Ending
Summary: Maybe they can't have what should have been theirs, but they can have each other.

An old snippet I tidied up and polished off for Snowflake 2024. Going back to my 'classic era' fic.

Think I picked this up from badfalcon who picked it up from Tumblr.

1. How many works do you have on ao3?
As at today: 947. By the end of the year it will be at least 950, since I have two sedoretu exchange fics and a yuletide to write.

2. What's your total ao3 word count?
3,067,170 - Three million, sixty-seven thousand, one hundred and seventy words.

3. What fandoms do you write for?
I have 91 fandoms on my dashboard at AO3. Some of those are fandoms with slightly fuzzy edges - eg. the MCU & Avengers, Justice League & Batfam, Cadfael TV & Cadfael Books, etc.

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?
And Baby Makes Eight - MCU, Maria Hill & Avengers
a most pitiful business - Bridgerton, Anthony/Kate
wade into the water, learn to live again - Rogue One, Cassian/Jyn
Battle, A Different Kind - Mulan (1998)
A Woman Of Edges - MCU, Maria Hill/Steve Rogers

It's a bit odd, actually - as little as three years ago, that would have been entirely an MCU top five. For the others to catch up so significantly is pretty big. (Probably helps that Bridgerton is a big fandom with lots of A/K shippers, and Rogue One got a second wind after Andor. No idea why Mulan suddenly hit the bigtime, though. Even with the movie, I wouldn't have expected people to come looking, because I don't think Shang (as Shang) is in the live-action movie.

5. Do you respond to comments?
Yes. Mostly. I've been through periods where I replied to every single comment, and others where I just couldn't face replying. And sometimes if people went through my fics one by one and commented on a slew of them at once, I didn't reply to all their comments because that felt kinda stupid. I did comment to them at least once, though. And I do read all the comments.

6. What's the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?
Oof. So it might be 'Every Breaking Wave' which runs under the premise 'Steve is the Time Traveller's Husband', or it might be 'The Worth Of A Woman' which is the Avengers finally comprehending the cost of the power they so casually wield.

In the case of 'the worth of a woman' I didn't even know how it was going to end until I wrote Clint and Wanda's conversation and suddenly I realised this was not going to have a happy ending.

7. What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?
'Happiest' is a misnomer. The most satisfying ending I wrote was in 'And Baby Makes Eight' - there's a reason it's a favourite.

The fic I'm most satisfied with is the MCU Endgame "divergent fixit" 'the other side of infinity' fic, which is all the things I hoped for from the MCU, and none of which I got. Which is probably why I'm most satisfied with it.

The other one with an 'all ends tied up' and an added 'facing forth into the future' angle is 'To The End Of Love' but by that time fewer randos in the fandom were willing to read Maria/Steve fic, particularly my stuff.

8. Do you get hate on fics?
Not in my comments. I know there's at least one or two people out in fandom who have hateboners for me, and a lot of people who wouldn't piss on my fic if it was burning, etc.

The most memorable - but not necessarily particularly delightful - comment I ever saw about my fic (not on one of my fics, but about one) was "It made me like [pairing]! Now I feel dirty!" Well, it's a tossup for that or, "You ship [pairing]? You must be really shallow!" (That was in a chatroom.)

9. Do you write smut?
Yup. All sorts, although only for specific pairings.

10. Do you write crossovers?
Yep! I have 50 of them, from assorted fandoms. I regularly write for intoabar and the Crossover Exchange, so I have a bunch of stories from those.

I think my favourite crossover is A Sanctuary For All which is a crossover of Caroline Bingley from 'Pride and Prejudice' with Helen Magnus of the television show 'Sanctuary'.

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?
Yes. Back in my SG1 days when I was writing Sam/Jack, some tweenie took one of my fics and tried to pass it off as her own.

Since 2006, nobody's bothered. I write rare pairings so that's no inducement, and I guess I write them characterised uniquely enough that copypasta-ing isn't worth the bother.

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?
Yes. There was someone who was translating several of my fics into Russian a couple of years back.

13. Have you ever co-written a fic?
I think a very long time ago. Back in SG1 land, with Denise, whom nobody but me will remember. (No, not that denise. Another Denise, who was known in SG1 Sam/Jack land, although she was more Sam-focused and gen.)

Not since.

14. What's your all time favourite ship?
That's tricky. My most consuming one was Maria Hill/Steve Rogers. But that came to a bad canon ending for all involved, and while that doesn't have to stop my love of it, it does make it difficult to play with other fans (most of whom were never invested in the first place).

I've created ship fandoms out of pairings (SGA: Elizabeth/Ronon, anyone?) and built followings from writing characters whom nobody else would touch (because all the character's goods weren't displayed out in the shop window, which seems to be the requirement for the fannish favourite.

Okay, I had a sudden thought

, is the significant incidence of spectrum in fandom the reason that "characters with all their goods in the shop window" are so popular? Because that might explain a metric fuckton of fannish favourites whose obsessive appeal is utterly lost to me. I like them as characters, but in small and measured doses, because they're just waaaaaay too much as characters. Like chillies, a little bit goes a long way.

)

15. What's a wip you want to finish but doubt you ever will?
So many of them. But I guess A Practical Acquaintance With Bees is probably the one that I'd like to finish most, and...I just don't have it in me anymore.

16. What are your writing strengths?
Characterisation extrapolation. a.k.a. "uncanonicity of characterisation". Basically, give me a character (female) who doesn't get much time in canon, or whose subtleties are lost on most, and I can expand on their backstory and characterisation in a way that helps others expand their view of the character.

17. What are your writing weaknesses?
A desire to write all the details, particularly in profic.

IDK, maybe my weakness is for minor characters who have great possibility for them which is never elaborated on in canon. To some people, this is apparently a Bad Thing.

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic?
It's usually only a line or two, for emphasis here or there. If I want a conversation in another language to be readable to the main audience, I usually go with italics.

I find a translation/transliteration in the language I want(depending on what's available) and then put a hover-over anchor link with the English translation.

19. First fandom you wrote for?
She-Ra: Princess of Power (the 1980s cartoon version) and M.A.S.K (a kind of supertech/moral theme cartoon show of the 80s) with a literal insertion of myself and my friends walking into these universes. I was 10, it was the 80s, I didn't even know fanfic was a thing, and my teacher made a class assignment for us to write a story.

If I don't count that, then...X-Men: Generation X.

20. Favourite fic you've ever written??
I have too many fics to have a favourite. Also, there are things you sometimes want and othertimes you don't, and I write all over the shop. So it depends on my mood and what I want to go back and feel in the moment.

My giftbox featured two fics.

One MCU: Maria & Betty, one Harry Potter: Harry/Luna.

Go read them!

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And as for gifting other people, I wrote a Discworld fic for facethestrange:

one for sorrow (583 words) by tielan
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Discworld - Terry Pratchett
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Magrat Garlick & Esmerelda Margaret Note Spelling of Lancre & Esmerelda "Granny" Weatherwax
Summary:

Sometimes Esme goes walking in the hills with her mama, up to the cottage where her mama used to live, or across to Granny's house, or even along back trails along the mountains.

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Haven't been terribly inspired lately, tbh. Gonna have to get a move on the ToT exchange, though. It's coming due.

From four different fandoms, no less!

Two are unfinished pieces - one for a ToT fill that never came to pass (I'm bad at the quirky-horror-weird stuff), the other that was a long, long ago longfic crossover for SGA and SG1 that never quite came to fruition.

A Statesman For Sale (432 words) by tielan
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Thor (Movies)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Thor (Marvel), Loki (Marvel), Brunnhilde | Valkyrie (Marvel), Heimdall (Marvel), Hulk (Marvel)
Additional Tags: Humor, Post-Thor: Ragnarok (2017), Pre-Movie: Avengers: Infinity War (2018), Snippets
Series: Part 8 of Unfinished Symphonies
Summary:

Nobody on the Statesman is going to be sold. Not even Loki.

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (2671 words) by tielan
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Stargate Atlantis, Stargate SG-1
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Teyla Emmagan & Ronon Dex, Teyla Emmagan & Kanaan
Characters: Teyla Emmagan
Additional Tags: Alternate Alternate Universe, Pegasus Culture, Pegasus Galaxy, Pegasus Ascendant, Abandoned Work - Unfinished and Discontinued
Series: Part 7 of Unfinished Symphonies
Summary:

Her first thought was that the Hall of Greeting on Earth was a disappointment - none of the wide open space or natural light of the city’s Hall of Greeting; instead she faced an imposing architecture of heavy columns covered in gold and starkly lit by sconce lights in wall niches.

Right now, I'm posting a few things that I started but didn't finish. Mostly because some of them I put a lot of time and energy into and I'd like to see them get a bit of affection. Even if it's only a kudos or two.

And there's the last piece in the 30 Days of OTP, which I'm just trying to work out if I suitably tied everything off. (If you're willing to read it through for me and let me know, I would really appreciate the crit.)

grief has its own timeline (670 words) by tielan
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Stargate SG-1
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Major Character Death
Relationships: Sam Carter & Cassandra Fraiser
Characters: Sam Carter, Cassandra Fraiser
Additional Tags: Season/Series 07, grief and dealing
Summary:

Grief has its own timeline, Janet said, hugging the child Cassie was all those years ago. You're going to miss your parents and you're going to mourn them. And that's okay - that's necessary and expected and even good for you. And I will be here for you through all of it.

staying in the kitchen (274 words) by tielan
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Bridgerton (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Anthony Bridgerton/Kate Sharma
Characters: Anthony Bridgerton, Kate Sharma
Additional Tags: kathonyprompt, heat - Freeform
Summary:

Kate turns out to be better versed in matters of the kitchen than her husband.

Does anyone know what the AO3 notification situation is with posting new stories that are already backdated? I think I once knew but have since forgotten.

I want to say that 2022 wasn't a great year for fic for me.

I mean, I wrote/added to 20 stories, but...IDK. I used to write dozens, possibly even hundreds? I know, I know, old glories, etc.

Forthwith, my 2022 fics, both the ones that were brand new and the ones that were added to:

( 22 fics in 2022 )

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The unexpected fannish addition this year was ( unsurprisingly )

I'm also participating in the '31 Days of Winter' for crazy4orcas whom I first knew in SGA fandom a decade and change ago. Kim died earlier this year after a long battle with cancer, and while she and another fannish friend started this as a '31 Days of Clintasha', I'm afraid I'm going to dilute it with other fandoms/pairings that we shared.

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The plans for 2023 involve:
( wishlist, really )

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( AO3: hits, kudos, recs, and damned statistics )

Man, I'm tired.

wip bigbang

Meeting Halfway: Meeting Halfway
started 49475

Sokovia: Sokovia, Suburbia, and the Senate
started 17500

wisdom: the wisdom to know the difference
started 16500

Halfway insane is what I am, I suspect. At least 7500 to each of these by the 15th July. That's, what, 3 months away? Less?

Is anyone willing to encourage/prompt/kick me on a semi-regular basis for these? Someone who liked one of the stories the first time around and is willing to be a PITA to keep me going?

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Bridgerton
Your standard modern AU, but actually set in London rather than in an American university as seems to happen quite frequently in fic...

a momentary encounter in the morning (1328 words) by tielan
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Bridgerton (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Anthony Bridgerton/Kate Sharma
Characters: Anthony Bridgerton, Kate Sharma
Additional Tags: Modern AU, meet cute, One-Shot, unless I decide to write more, but don't count on it
Summary:

She's on her morning run. He's doing the walk of shame. It's totally destiny.

The 'wedding fic', with the last chapter yet to be written. Should be done sometime today or tomorrow, at least, that's what I hope.

a most pitiful business (5591 words) by tielan
Chapters: 3/4
Fandom: Bridgerton (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Anthony Bridgerton/Kate Sheffield | Kate Sharma, Simon Basset & Anthony Bridgerton
Characters: Anthony Bridgerton, Kate Sheffield | Kate Sharma, cast of thousands - Character
Additional Tags: Post-Season/Series 02, The wedding
Summary:

“At least he's not approaching this time like a man approaches the gallows,” Benedict comments from across the room.

Anthony doesn't point out that the last time he tried to get married, he wanted the whole business over and done with. Traditions? Customs? Rituals? None of those were important; being wedded was what mattered.

This time, it's not just the prospect of being wedded that Anthony wants, but the marriage he intends to make with Kate.

I haven't been reading much in the fandom; as beatrice_otter noted, the fandom tends 'young' and I haven't had the patience to winnow through the stalk and chaff for the wheat.

...with matching icon, as it turns out...

"Which could mean anything," I'd grumbled to John Hugonin that afternoon when I went in to report the week to him. As the current agent to whom I was reporting - and the first one who could make the decision about whether I could graduate to full agent - he was encouraging me to report the things that  I'd been looking at through in my week. At the same time, he was also willing to tell me about the things that he had on his plate which I had the clearance to look at. Moreover, unlike some agents, he asked me to give my thoughts on the situation, what I thought we were looking at, what I thought Crossover should do.

He'd sat back in his office chair, hunching his shoulders a little as he set his elbows on the armrests. "A good Crossover Agent has connections in as many places as possible," he said. "Not just in Crossover, but in other organisations, in companies, and even in governments where possible. We're not limited to any one country or box of alphabet soup, because sooner or later, a good agent will have to deal with all of them."

With hopefully a fifth to come...

fffc is a flashfic community that is running a challenge for their 10th Birthday. I'd never been involved before, but I signed up.

Every week they nominate fandoms (randomly, so far as I can tell) and sort people into teams and then get people to make fanworks for which points are assigned. So far, the two fandoms I could write for have been Star Trek and Batman. Neither of which I have written for a number of years now.

And now I'm 4K deep into a story that was only supposed to be 1K with an adventure and a mystery and I've been writing the bloody thing for four weeks and I am CROSS because I cannot seem to finish it and post it! We just hit Part III, which will hopefully be the solution.

Absent Friends (1013 words) by tielan
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: background Spock/Nyota Uhura
Characters: Nyota Uhura, James T. Kirk, Leonard "Bones" McCoy, Pavel Chekov
Additional Tags: Vignette
Summary:

Maybe it’s the missing faces, lost in the battle against Nero – whole classes of officers, enlisted, cadets dead, spaceflot when they arrived at the engagement zone and discovered themselves already under fire.

Chicken Soup For The Spock (1463 words) by tielan
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Spock/Nyota Uhura, James T. Kirk & Spock, Leonard "Bones" McCoy & Spock
Characters: Spock (Star Trek), Leonard "Bones" McCoy, James T. Kirk, Nyota Uhura
Summary:

Rest. Relaxation. Snuggling. One of these things is less Vulcan than the others.

Dark Knight: Dominion (1559 words) by tielan
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Batman - All Media Types, Justice League - All Media Types
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Diana (Wonder Woman), Bruce Wayne
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Dark


Satisfaction, Success, and the Surgical Removal of Personality (538 words) by tielan
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Batman - All Media Types
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Barbara Gordon, Dick Grayson, Bruce Wayne
Summary:

No dating for the Batman.

I'm half disappointed, half relieved that MCU hasn't come up. I might end up flooding the comm with all the stories that I'd suddenly be motivated to actually write from the sketchy notes/ideas I had for them once upon a time...